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BIOGRAPHICAL 
RECORD 


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Salt  Lake  City  and  Vicinity 


Containing    Biographies    of  JVell    Knowfi    Citize?i. 
of   the    Past    and    Present 


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NATIONAL    HISTORICAL    RECORD    CO.,  CHICAGO 

1902 


"Let  the  record  be  made  of  the  men  and  things  of  today,  lest  thev 
pass  out  of  memory  tomorrow  and  are  lost.  Then  perpetuate  them,  not 
upon  wood  or  stone  that  crumbles  to  dust,  but  upon  paper,  chronicled  in 
picture  and  in  words  that  endure  forever." — Kirkland. 


"A  true  delineation  of  the  smallest  man  in  his  scene  of  pilgrimage  through 
life  is  capable  of  interesting  the  greatest  man.  All  men  are  to  an  unspeak- 
able degree  brothers,  each  man's  life  a  strange  emblem  of  every  man's;  and 
human  portraits,  faithfully  drawn,  are,  of  all  pictures,  the  welcomest  on 
human  walls." — Thomas  Carlyle. 


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CITY  AND  COUNTY   BUILDING. 


PREFACE 


In  presenting  this  work  to  the  citizens  of  Salt  Lal<e  City  and  vicinity,  we  do  not  aim  to  per- 
petuate every  feature  worthy  of  perpetuation  in  this  notable  locality ;  such  an  effort  would  be  be- 
yond us  in  a  work  of  this  character,  but  we  have  tried  to  faithfully  portray  some  of  the  leading 
characteristics  of  the  people  who  have  made  Utah  and  especially  this  section  of  it,  famous 
throughout  the  known  world.  Other  States  and  cities  are  renowned  for  their  great  beauty  of  scen- 
ery, unsurpassed  climate  or  wealth  of  mineral  and  agricultural  productions ;  Utah  has  all  these 
and  more — she  came  into  existence  as  the  home  of  the  Mormon  Church,  settled  at  a  time 
when  railroads  were  unknown  to  the  West ;  her  solitudes  undisturbed  by  any  foot  save  that  of 
the  savage  red  man  and  the  wild  beasts  who  had  their  lairs  in  the  mountain  crags  or  roamed  the 
valleys  and  plains  at  will,  far  remote  from  the  outposts  of  civilization.  Since  then  Salt  Lake 
City,  as  the  headquarters  of  the  Church,  situated  near  the  great  lake  whose  name  she  bears,  has 
become  the  Mecca  to  which  the  footsteps  of  many  tourists  turn  every  year.  In  the  early  days 
many  sorrows  and  dissensions  came  to  disturb  the  peace  and  harmony  that  had  long  prevailed 
among  this  people,  but  that  condition  has  long  since  passed,  and  today  the  stranger  may  find 
people  of  every  shade  of  religious  and  political  belief  living  in  the  most  pleasant  relations, 
jealous  only  of  the  well-being  of  the  State  of  which  all  are  justly  proud,  and  as  she  has  grown 
in  wealth  and  importance,  people  from  every  State  and  country  are  realizing  more  and  more 
the  desirability  of  this  city  as  a  permanent  home. 

We  have  endeavored  to  exercise  the  greatest  care  in  the  compilation  of  this  work,  employing 
men  of  wide  experience  in  this  line,  who  have  spent  months  of  conscientious  endeavor  in  se- 
curing reliable  data.  Care  has  been  taken  to  have  it  as  correct  as  possible,  and  we  trust  that  in  'the 
main  it  will  be  found  true  to  facts  and  the  reliable  record  of  the  people  of  this  time  that  we 
have  sought  to  make  it.  We  regret  that  the  work  will  not  contain  biographies  of  all  the 
representative  men  of  this  city  and  vicinity,  but  owing  to  some  of  them  being  absent  from 
home  and  others  not  being  able  to  appreciate  the  value  and  scope  of  such  a  work,  a  few  have 
necessarily  been  omitted.  However,  there  will  be  found  within  these  pages  the  biographies  of  a 
large  majority  of  the  leading  citzens  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  vicinity,  some  of  whom  came  here  in 
early  manhood  from  Eastern  States  and  other  countries,  and  many  are  native  born ;  men  whom 
any  State  might  well  be  proud  to  claim  as  sons. 

Within  a  comparatively  short  period  of  time,  the  last  of  these  worthy  people  will  have 
taken  their  departure  from  this  vale  of  tears,  and  gone  to  that  bourne  from  whence  none  re- 
turn, and,  as  the  years  creep  by,  the  true  merit  of  such  a  work  as  we  present  will  be  better 
appreciated,  as  it  will  contain  much  valuable  biography  that  otherwise  never  would  have  ap- 
peared in  print,  and  been  irretrievably  lost  to  the  world. 


BIOGRAPHICAL 


ON.  HEBER  MANNING  WELLS. 
The  Government  of  the  United  States 
has  been  likened  to  a  monster  machine 
made  up  of  separate  and  semi-inde- 
pendent smaller  mechanisms  upon 
whose  perfect  attunement  depends  the  rythmic  re- 
volving of  the  balance  wheel  of  the  Nation.  The 
organization  of  these  forty-five  smaller  machines, 
which  constitute  the  Nation,  is  similar  to  that  of 
the  whole  broad  organization  which  is  charged 
with  the  general  welfare  of  the  country  and  its 
standing  in  the  congress  of  the  world  powers. 

To  the  chief  executive  of  each  of  these  sev- 
eral States  is  intrusted,  so  far  as  their  own  country 
is  concerned,  powers  that  correspond  to  the 
deities  of  the  Chief  Executive  of  the  Nation. 
The  governors  of  the  new  States,  which  have 
l)ten  carved  out  of  the  great  West,  have  been 
confronted  with  new  and  trying  situations,  and 
novel  questions  have  been  presented  for  determi- 
i.ation.  In  few  States  have  these  conditions  been 
so  complex  or  difficult  as  in  Utah.  From  the 
time  of  its  birth  as  a  State,  in  1896,  down  to 
the  present  writing,  in  1902.  one  man  has  held 
the  helm  and  has  so  well  guided  the  affairs  of  the 
State,  that  he  is  now  among  the  most  popular  and 
efficient  governors  of  the  States  of  the  Union. 
To  a  greater  or  less  degree,  the  growth  and 
prosperity  of  a  State  is  a  reflex  of  the  character 
of  the  man  who  presides  over  its  affairs  and 
guides  its  life.  With  this  as  a  criterion,  it  follows 
that  the  prosperous  growth  of  Utah  and  the  devel- 
opment of  its  resources,  which  have  gone  forward 
with  a  rapid  increase  since  its  acquisition  of  State- 
hood, the  people  of  Utah  made  a  judicious  choice 
when  they  called  Heber  Planning  Wells  to  oc- 
cupy  the  highest  place   in   their  gift.      He  came 


to  the  gubernatorial  chair  fully  equipped  for  the 
duties  of  the  position,  through  his  active  business 
career,  and  the  prominent  part  he  took  in  aiding 
in  the  establishment  and  growth  of  the  industries 
of  Utah,  and  especially  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
his  able  administration  of  the  duties  entrusted  to 
him  has  proved  the  wisdom  of  the  choice. 

It  is  safe  to  say  there  has  never  been  a  native 
son  of  Utah  who  has  been  so  highly  and  univers- 
ally respected  as  Governor  Wells.  The  confi- 
dence, honor  and  esteem  which  the  people  of  this 
State  have  seen  fit  in  their  judgment  to  confer 
upon  him,  has  not  been  unmerited.  His  whole 
life — private,  business  and  official,  from  his  boy- 
hood up,  has  been  honorable,  straightforward 
and  upright,  and  under  his  administration  the 
affairs  of  the  State  have  been  judiciously  and 
economically  handled. 

The  bill  for  the  admission  of  Utah  to  Statehood 
successfully  passed  both  branches  of  Congress 
during  the  session  of  1894.  The  proclamation  of 
admission  was  signed  by  President  Cleveland  Jan- 
nary  4,  1896,  three  months  after  Governor  Wells 
had  been  elected.  His  election  as  first  Governor 
of  the  State  of  Utah  occurred  in  November,  1895, 
for  a  term  of  five  years,  commencing  January  4, 
1896.  He  did  such  efficient  work  during  those 
years  and  so  eminently  satisfactory  w^as  his  en- 
tire administration,  that  demands  for  his  re-elec- 
tion came  from  every  quarter,  regardless  of  party 
affiliation  or  religious  creed,  and  he  was  elected, 
by  a  large  majority,  for  a  term  of  four  years, 
commencing   January    i,    1901. 

Heber  Manning  Wells  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City  on  .August  11,  1859.  He  is  a  son  of  the 
late  President  Daniel  Hanmer  Wells,  one  of  the 
n.ost  noteworthy  men  in  the  history  of  the  Mor- 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


mon  Church  of  the  State  of  Utah,  standing  in 
the  front  ranks  of  the  leaders  of  the  Church 
and  being  closely  identified  with  every  enterprise 
for  the  development  or  advancement  of  the  State 
for  a  period  covering  forty-three  years.  His  bi- 
ographical sketch  will  be  found  in  another  part  of 
this  work.  Governor  Well's  mother  was  Martha 
(Harris)  Wells.  He  finished  his  education  at 
the  University  of  Deseret,  now  the  University  of 
Utah,  and  began  his  business  career  at  the  age 
of  sixteen.  From  the  time  that  he  was  old  enough 
to  take  any  interest  in  politics  at  all,  he  has  been 
strongly  Republican  in  his  views.  His  first  em- 
ployment was  in  the  office  of  the  city  tax  collector, 
where  he  remained  for  five  years,  after  which  he 
served  in  the  capacity  of  deputy  city  recorder 
for  a  period  of  two  years.  In  1883  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  City  Council  to  the  position  of 
citv  recorder,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the 
election  of  Hon.  John  T.  Caine  as  delegate  to 
Congress.  At  the  expiration  of  the  term,  in 
1884,  he  was  elected  to  the  same  position,  being 
re-elected  in  1886  and  again  in  1888.  He  was  de- 
feated for  the  fourth  term,  at  the  election  held 
in  1890,  by  Louis  Hyams. 

On  May  6,  1890,  he  became  cashier  of  the 
State  Bank  of  Utah,  and  held  that  position  until 
after  his  second  election  as  Governor  of  the  State, 
He  is  at  this  time  a  director  in  that  institution ; 
also  a  director  the  Brigham  Young  Trust  Com- 
pany, and  of  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Ma- 
chine Company. 

Governor  Wells  has  been  three  times  married ; 
his  first  wife  was  Mary  Elizabeth  Beatie,  whom 
he  married  January  15,  1880.  She  died  October 
12,  1888,  leaving  two  children — Heber  D.  and 
Mary.  He  was  married  a  second  time  on  Oct- 
ober 15,  1892,  to  Teresa  Clawson,  who  died  July 
II,  1897,  leaving  two  children — Martha  and 
Florence.  He  married  on  June  5,  1901,  Miss 
Emily  Katz. 

In  social  life  the  Governor  is  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution, 
and  also  of  the  Sons  of  the  Pioneers  of  Utah.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  American  Protective  Tar- 
iff League. 

Governor  Wells  public  career  has  been  above 
criticism,  and  his   record  challenges  comparison 


with  that  of  any  governor  Utah  has  ever  had. 
While  he  comes  of  Mormon  parentage,  was  born 
and  raised  in  the  Mormon  Church,  and  her  prin- 
ciples and  doctrine  are  as  dear  to  him  as  his  own 
life,  in  the  many  trying  positions  in  which  he  has 
been  placed  during  the  time  he  has  occupied  the 
gubernatorial  chair  he  has  been  singularly  free 
from  prejudice  towards  all  questions,  and  has 
placed  himself  squarely  on  record  as  desiring  that 
the  Church  shall  stand  true  to  the  promises  made 
at  the  time  of  her  admission  into  the  Union,  with 
regard  to  the  polygamy  question ;  that  that  ques- 
tion should  be  forever  buried,  and  that  out  of  the 
ashes  of  the  dead  past  should  rise  a  State  of  which 
every  citizen  should  be  justly  proud,  and  of  whose 
honor  he  should  be  as  jealous  as  of  his  own. 
He  has  followed  his  convictions  of  right,  regard- 
less of  the  opinions  of  anyone,  and  his  opinions 
and  decisions  have  been  handed  down,  only  after 
deep  and  searching  investigation  of  the  question 
under  advisement.  This  principle  cannot  be  bet- 
ter illustrated  than  by  giving  here  a  few  extracts 
from  a  speech  made  by  the  Governor  in  the  Salt 
Lake  Theatre,  November  5,  1898,  at  the  time 
Brigham  H.  Roberts  was  running  for  Congress. 
Governor  Wells  said,  in  part: 

"I  realize  that  this  is  a  subject  that  should 
not  belong  to  politics,  but  in  view  of  the  pledges 
which  the  people  have  made  here,  and  which  the 
LInited  States  understands,  and  which  I  myself 
have  made,  I  cannot  shut  my  eyes  to  the  con- 
sequences that  will  come  if  Mr.  Roberts  is  elected 
to  Congress.  It  is  unnecessary  to  refer  to  the 
solemn  assurances  of  the  people  on  this  ques- 
tion— we  understand  that  they  ivere  made,  and 
that  Mr.  Roberts,  as  well  as  any  other  speaker, 
has  frequently  expressed  himself  as  astonished 
and  appalled  that  the  sincerity  of  the  people  of 
Utah  should  be  questioned  in  regard  to  their 
abandonment  of  the  old  conditions,  and  their 
acceptance  of  the  new  conditions  imposed  by 
Statehood.  In  my  inaugural  address,  and  at 
other  times,  I  have  given  my  personal  assurance 
that  the  question  of  poligamy,  as  affecting  the 
people  of  Utah,  was  a  dead  issue.  *  *  *  To 
vote  for  the  Democratic  candidate  is  to  vote 
against  Utah,  and  gives  an  open  invitation  to 
Congress  to  renew  the  warfare  against  the  Mor- 


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mon  people.  *  *  *  j  yield  to  no  man  in  my 
love  for  the  people  of  this  State,  and  it  is  be- 
cause of  this  love  that  I  feel  impressed  to  utter 
these  words." 


OSEPH  F.  SMITH.  The  office  of 
President  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  requires  for  its 
proper  discharge  a  man  of  large  under- 
standing, prompt  and  decisive  in  his  ac- 
tions, broad  and  tolerant  of  the  opinions  of  oth- 
ers, and  an  ability  of  a  rare  order.  These  quali- 
ties, so  necessary  for  the  proper  discharge  of  the 
enormous  responsibilities  of  this  important  posi- 
tion, are  happily  blended  in  the  character  of  its 
sixth  president,  Joseph  F.  Smith  who,  upon  the 
death  of  Lorenzo  Snow,  on  October  10,  1901, 
succeeded  to  that  office. 

His  life  has  been  crowded  full  of  stirring 
deeds,  narrow  escapes  from  a  violent  death,  and  a 
conscientious  discharge  of  the  duties  of  the 
Church  with  which  he  was  intrusted.  To  few  of 
the  leading  men,  pioneers  of  Utah,  has  it  been 
the  lot  to  enter  so  fully  into  the  vital  interests 
of  the  community  and  to  discharge  with  such  zeal 
and  fidelity  the  onerous  duties  assigned  to  them, 
as  has  been  the  case  with  President  Smith. 

His  father  and  mother  were  devout  Mormons 
and  among  the  leaders  of  the  Church.  He  was 
horn  at  Far  West,  Caldwell  county,  Missouri, 
on  November  13,  1838,  at  a  time  when  the  feeling 
of  that  State  ran  strongly  against  the  people  of 
the  Church.  His  father,  Hyrum  Smith,  the  sec- 
ond patriarch'  of  the  Church,  and  brother  of  the 
prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  was  one  of  the  men  de- 
livered into  the  hands  of  the  armed  mob  under 
command  of  General  Clarke,  through  the  base 
treachery  of  Colonel  Hinckle,  on  November  1st, 
1838.  They  were  incarcerated  in  jail  and  on  the 
following  day  were  permitted  to  say  farewell 
to  their  families.  Under  a  strong  guard  of  the 
militia,  Hyrum  Smith  was  escorted  to  his  home  at 
Far  West,  and  was  ordered  to  take  leave  of  his 
wife.  Here,  on  the  thirteenth  day  of  that  month, 
was  born  to  her  a  son,  whom  she  named  Joseph 
Fielding  Smith.  Here,  in  the  midst  of  plundering 
and  scenes  of  the  severest  hardships  and  perse- 


cutions, this  future  president  of  this  modern 
Church  had  his  birthplace. 

In  January,  of  the  following  year,  his  mother, 
leaving  her  husband's  four  children,  by  his  de- 
ceased wife,  under  the  care  of  her  sister,  Mercy 
R.  Thompson,  made  the  long  and  hard  journey 
from  Far  West  to  Liberty  Jail,  in  Clay  county, 
taking  with  her  the  new-born  infant.  Here  she 
was  permitted  to  see  her  husband,  who,  without 
trial  or  conviction,  was  confined  in  the  jail,  with 
no  more  specific  charge  against  him  than  that 
he  was  a  "Mormon."  She  was  permitted  to  tarry 
but  a  short  time  with  her  husband,  being  com- 
pelled to  continue  her  flight  from  Missouri,  with 
her  children,  and  seek  refuge  in  Illinois. 

In  such  manner  was  the  infant  days  of  the 
future  President  of  the  Church  spent,  and  it  was 
an  arduous  and  inauspicious  beginning  of  his 
wonderful  career.  It  doubtless  developed  in  him 
his  great  love  for  the  Church  of  his  choice,  for 
which  his  father  and  uncle  suffered  imprisonment 
and  death,  and  for  which  his  mother  underwent 
untold  persecutions. 

The  mother  of  the  President  was  Mary  Field- 
ing, who  was  of  English  ancestry.  She  was  a 
woman  with  a  remarkably  bright  mind,  strong 
character  and  endowed  with  e-xecutive  and  admin- 
istrative ability  of  a  high  order.  To  her  efforts 
and  to  the  principle  she  inculcated  into  his  mind, 
her  son  owes  much  of  his  success  in  his  chosen 
work,  and  the  stamp  she  placed  upon  his  character 
is  a  living  monument  to  her  love  and  purity. 

The  boyhood  days  of  Joseph  were  spent  in 
the  midst  of  the  agitations  against  the  Church  in 
Missouri  and  Illinois,  and  which  reached  a  climax 
in  the  killing  of  his  uncle  and  father  on  June  27, 
1844,  at  Carthage,  Plancock  county,  Illinois. 
Upon  the  abandonment  of  the  city  by  the  Twelve, 
and  when  the  majority  of  the  members  of  the 
Church  had  been  expelled  from  Nauvoo  in  Sep- 
tember, 1846,  his  Spartan  mother  fled  from  the 
city  and  found  a  refuge  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Mississippi  river,  among  the  trees  on  its  banks, 
where  she  remained  without  even  the  shelter  of 
a  wagon  or  a  tent,  during  the  bombardment  of  the 
city  by  the  mob.  Later  she  succeeded  in  ex- 
changing her  property  in  Illinois  for  teams  and 
an  outfit,  and  set  out  for  Winter  Quarters  on  the 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Missouri  River,  where  Council  Bluffs  now  stands, 
that  being  the  first  place  settled.  It  being  on 
the  Indian  reservation,  they  could  only  make  a 
temporary  stop ;  so  they  crossed  and  settled  about 
seven  miles  north  of  where  Omaha  now  stands, 
and  that  place  is  now  called  Florence. 

On  this  trip,  across  the  plains  of  Iowa,  Joseph, 
then  a  lad  of  about  eight  years  of  age,  drove  a 
yoke  of  oxen  and  a  wagon  almost  the  entire 
distance,  and  after  his  arrival  at  Winter  Quarters, 
secured  employment  as  a  herd  boy.  Here,  on 
the  Western  plains,  guarding  cattle  and  living 
in  the  open  air,  he  got  his  first  taste  of  the 
freedom  of  the  West,  and  the  love  for  freedom 
and  justice  that  deepened  in  him  as  the  years 
passed,  received  its  impetus  from  this  free  life  of 
his  youth. 

It  was  here  that  he  built  up  his  wonderful 
constitution  and  laid  the  foundation  of  that  great 
strength  and  endurance  which  has  enabled  him  to 
successfully  undergo  experiences  that  would  be 
ordinarily  fatal  to  most  men.  Notwithstanding 
the  sedentary  occupation  of  his  maturer  years, 
he  still  possesses  an  erect,  robust  and  muscular 
form,  and  enjoys  the  perfect  health  that  comes 
from  a  well  ordered  life. 

He  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  efficacy  of  work  and 
is  a  lover  of  strength.  He  has  expressed  as  one 
of  his  beliefs  that  "Labor  is  the  key  to  true  hap- 
piness of  the  physical  and  spiritual  being."  "If 
a  man  possesses  a  million"  he  believes  that  "his 
children  should  still  be  taught  how  to  labor  with 
their  hands ;  boys  and  girls  should  receive  a  home 
training  which  will  fit  them  to  cope  with  the 
practical  daily  affairs  of  family  life,  even  where 
the  conditions  are  such  that  they  may  not  have  to 
do  this  work  themselves ;  they  will  then  know 
how  to  guide  and  direct  others." 

The  ardent  desire  of  all  the  members  of  the 
Church,  then  gathered  at  Winter  Quarters,  was 
to  secure  the  means  to  enable  them  to  make  the 
trip  to  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  and  begin  the  work 
of  settling  that  country.  With  this  end  in  view, 
efforts  were  made  to  secure  employment  in  Iowa 
and  in  the  neighboring  States ;  the  occupations 
ranged  from  school  teaching  to  farming.  In  the 
fall  of  1847,  Joseph  Smith  drove  a  team,  for  his 
mother,  to   St.  Joseph,  to  secure  provisions   for 


the  journey  to  Utah,  and  in  the  following  spring 
the  trip   was   successfully   accomplished. 

In  the  fall  of  1847,  while  tending  his  mother's 
cattle,  he  underwent  one  of  the  most  thrilling 
experiences  of  his  life.  The  cattle  represented 
their  capital  to  defray  the  cost  of  the  journey 
across  the  plains,  and  so  deeply  was  this  fact  im- 
pressed on  the  mind  of  the  lad,  that  he  viewed 
them  as  a  precious  heritage,  whose  loss  would 
be  irreplacable.  On  the  morning  in  question,  in 
company  with  Thomas  and  Allen  Burdick,  he  set 
out  for  the  usual  duties  of  the  day.  The  valley  in 
which  the  cattle  were  feeding  was  some  distance 
from  the  settlement  and  had  two  entrances,  one 
over  a  plateau  and  the  other  through  a  ravine 
or  small  canyon.  The  boys  were  all  mounted  on 
swift  horses,  Joseph's  bay  mare  being  the  best. 
The  party  separated,  Thomas  and  Joseph  taking 
the  short  route  over  the  plateau  and  Alden  going 
up  the  canyon.  When  the  valley  was  reached,  the 
cattle  were  seen  feeding  by  a  stream  which  divided 
it  in  the  center  and  wound  down  the  canyon  from 
the  direction  of  the  settlement.  Having  the  whole 
day  before  them,  and  their  duties  as  herders 
not  being  arduous,  the  lads  amused  themselves 
with  feats  on  horseback  and  testing  the  swiftness 
of  their  horses.  While  engaged  in  jumping  their 
horses  over  a  little  gully  in  the  upper  part  of  the 
valley,  a  band  of  twenty  or  thirty  Indians  came 
suddenly  into  view  around  a  point  in  the  lower 
part  of  the  valley,  some  distance  below  the  cattle. 
They  were  first  seen  by  Thomas  Burdick  who 
frantically  yelled  "Indians !''  wheeled  his  hors^e, 
for  the  "bench"  and  started  for  home.  Joseph 
started  to  follow  him,  but  remembering  his  cattle 
and  what  they  represented  to  him  and  to  his  brave 
mother,  resolved  to  save  them  if  such  a  thing 
was  possible.  All  thought  of  escape  vanished 
and  determined  to  save  the  cattle  he  headed  the 
horse  for  the  Indians,  in  order  to  get  around 
the  herd  before  the  Indians  reached  it.  One  In- 
dian passed  him  in  the  attempt  to  overtake 
Thomas,  and  Joseph  succeeded  in  reaching  the 
head  of  the  herd  and  in  turning  the  cattle  up  the 
ravine  just  as  the  Indians  arrived.  His  efforts, 
unconsciously  aided  by  the  rush  and  yells  of  the 
Indians,  stampeded  the  herd  up  the  valley,  and 
Joseph,  following  them  on  his  horse,  succeeded, 


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by  keeping  his  horse  at  its  best  pace,  in  remain- 
ing between  the  Indians  and  the  herd.  The  scene 
was  one  of  the  most  thrilHng  in  the  annals  of  the 
fight  of  the  settlers  in  conquering  the  West.  The 
herd  of  stampeded  cattle,  the  boy  herder  and  the 
Indians  racing  at  their  best  speed  straight  for 
the  settlement.  Finally  the  red  men  succeeded 
in  cutting  Joseph  from  the  herd,  to  a  spring, 
whereupon  he  turned  and  going  down  stream  a 
distance,  then  circled  around  the  stream  to  the 
right  and  endeavored  to  rejoin  the  cattle  from  the 
side.  He  had  not  proceeded  far  in  that  direction 
when  other  Indians  appeared.  They  started  for 
him,  overtaking  him  as  he  emerged  from  the 
valley.  He  still  spurred  his  horse,  going  at  full 
speed,  and  while  thus  riding,  two  of  the  naked 
reds  closed  up  behind  him  and  took  him,  with 
the  horses  at  full  speed,  one  by  the  left  arm 
and  the  other  by  the  right  leg,  and  lifting  him 
from  the  saddle,  held  him  for  a  moment  in  the 
air  and  then  suddenly  dropped  him  to  the  ground. 
He  would  undoubtedly  have  been  scalped  but  for 
the  timely  appearance  of  a  company  of  men 
going  to  the  hayfields,  on  the  opposite  side  of 
the  ravine,  which  scared  the  Indians  away,  not, 
however,  before  they  had  secured  the  horses  of 
both  the  boys.  In  the  meantime,  Thomas  had 
given  the  alarm  and  two  relief  parties  were 
hastily  formed  in  the  settlement.  One,  a  posse 
of  horsemen,  under  Hosea  Stout,  who  went  up 
the  canyon  and  found  the  cattle  with  Alden 
Burdick,  the  pursuing  Indians  having  abandoned 
the  chase  from  fright ;  while  the  others  took 
the  bench  route  and  discovered  Joseph  who, 
with  them,  spent  the  day  in  a  fruitless  search 
for  the  Indians  and  the  cattle  supposed  to  have 
been  stolen.  President  Smith,  in  relating  this 
experience,  said :  "I  remember,  on  my  way  home, 
how  I  sat  down  and  wept  for  my  cattle,  and 
how  the  thought  of  meeting  mother,  who  could 
not  now  go  to  the  valley,  wrung  my  soul  with 
anguish."  But  happily  his  bravery  and  fidelity 
to  his  trust,  which  are  indissolubly  woven  with 
his  character  as  a  man,  had  saved  the  herd. 

Joseph  and  his  mother  left  Winter  Quarters 
in  the  spring  of  1848  and  reached  Salt  Lake 
Valley  on  Sept  mber  23,  of  that  year,  Joseph 
driving  two  yoke  of  oxen  with  a  heavily  loaded 


wagon  the  entire  distance  across  the  plains  and 
mountains.  He  performed  all  the  duties  of  a  day 
watchman,  herdsman  and  teamster,  as  well  as  all 
the  other  duties,  shared  by  the  men,  except  night- 
guarding.  Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah,  he  again 
became  a  herder,  with  intervals  of  plowing,  can- 
yon work,  harvesting  and  fencing,  and  during  this 
whole  time  he  never  lost  an  animal  entrusted  to 
his  care,  notwithstanding  the  large  number  of 
wolves  that   then   lived   in   the   valley. 

His  education  was  given  him  by  his  mother, 
who  early  taught  him,  in  the  tent,  in  the  camp 
and  on  the  prairie,  to  read  the  Bible.  He  has 
had  no  other  save  the  sterner  lessons  gathered 
from  the  practical  pages  of  life's  book.  His  op- 
portunities, in  later  life,  have  not  been  unused, 
and  there  are  few  college-bred  men  who  delight 
more  in  books  than  does  President  Smith.  He  is, 
too,  a  good  judge  of  the  matter  and  manner  of 
books.  His  leisure  for  reading  is  limited,  owing 
to  his  constant  employment  in  the  affair  of  the 
Church ;  but  he  enjoys  reading  books  of  history, 
philosophy  and  science,  and  has  taken  special  de- 
light in  reading  the  works  of  Seiss  and  Samuel 
Smiles  who  may  be  said  to  be  his  favorite  au- 
thors. He  is  fond  of  music  and  is  a  great  lover 
of  it,  finding  keen  enjoyment  in  the  music  of  the 
human  voice. 

Four  years  after  his  arrival  in  the  Salt  Lake 
Valley,  his  Spartan  mother  died,  leaving  him 
an  orphan  at  the  age  of  fourteen.  During  the 
next  year  of  his  life  he,  with  other  young  men, 
was  called  on  for  his  first  mission  for  the  Church, 
and  was  assigned  to  the  Sandwich  Islands.  The 
incidents  of  the  journey  to  the  coast  by  horses, 
his  work  in  the  mountains  at  a  shingle  mill  for 
means  to  proceed,  the  embarkment  and  journey 
on  the  Vaquero  for  the  Isilands,  would  more  than 
fill  the  space  allotted  to  this  sketch ;  while  his 
labors  in  the  Maui  conference,  under  President 
F.  A.  Hammond,  his  efforts  to  learn  the  language 
in  the  district  of  Kula,  his  attack  of  sickness — 
the  most  severe  in  his  life,  caused  by  the  Panama 
fever,  and  his  other  labors,  together  with  his 
varied  and  trying  experiences  while  there,  would 
easily  fill  this  volume. 

After  the  successful  completion  of  his  mis- 
sionary work,   he  returned  to  Utah,  arriving  in 


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1858,  and  at  once  joined  the  militia  under  Colonel 
Thomas  Callister,  which  intercepted  the  march 
of  Johnston's  army.  He  served  imder  Colonel 
Callister  until  the  close  of  hostilities,  and  was 
later  Chaplain  of  Colonel  Heber  P.  Kimball's 
regiment,  with  the  rank  of  captain.  He  took 
part  in  many  expeditions  against  the  Indians  and 
was  in  every  sense  a  minute  man  in  the  Utah 
militia. 

He  was  again  called  to  go  on  a  mission  in 
i860,  this  time  to  Great  Britain,  and  he  drove 
a  four  mule  team  across  the  plains  to  provide  for 
his  passage.  On  this  mission  he  served  nearly 
three  years,  returning  in  the  summer  of  1863. 
While  on  this  work  his  intimacy  with  President 
George  Q.  Cannon  began,  which  grew  stronger 
as  their  lives  lengthened,  and  ended  only  in  the 
death  of  President  Cannon.  Upon  his  return  to 
Utah,  President  Brigham  Young  proposed,  at  a 
Priesthood  meeting,  that  Joseph  and  his  cousin, 
Samuel,  each  be  given  a  thousand  dollars  to  begin 
life  on.  President  Smith  realized  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  seventy-five  dollars  in  provisions  and 
merchandise,  but  mainly  a  legacy  of  much  annoy- 
ance from  people  who  entertained  the  current 
belief  that  he  had  thus  acquired  a  small  fortune. 
With  the  bare  exception  of  the  cost  of  his  pas- 
sage and  stage  fare  home,  which  had  been  sent 
him  by  his  aunt,  Mercy  R.  Thompson,  amounting 
to  about  one  hundred  dollars,  he  paid  all  his  ex- 
penses throughout,  as  he  had  done  on  previous 
missions.  President  Smith  has  been  too  busy  and 
devoted  to  his  work  in  the  Church  to  devote  much 
time  to  his  personal  affairs,  and  his  worldly  af- 
fairs bear  strong  testimony  to  his  exclusive 
devotion  to  the  good  of  his  people. 

His  next  work  was  as  a  missionary  to  the 
Sandwich  Islands,  where,  in  the  spring  of  1864, 
he  accompanied  Ezra  T.  Benson  and  Lorenzo 
Snow  and  immediately  set  to  work  to  straighten 
the  tangle  into  which  the  affairs  of  the  Church 
had  got,  through  the  actions  of  Walter  M.  Gib- 
son. In  this  mission  Joseph  Smith  acted  as  prin- 
cipal interpreter  for  the  Apostles.  After  the 
excommunication  of  Gibson  from  the  Church, 
Joseph  Smith  was  left  in  charge  of  the  mission 
there,  with  W.  W.  Ciufif  and  Alma  L.  Smith  as  his 
fellow-laborers.    The  effort  of  the  false  teachings 


of  Gibson  were  such  that  it  was  some  months 
before  the  people  returned  to  the  doctrines  of  the 
Church.  Prominent  among  the  work  accom- 
plished by  Joseph  Smith  and  his  associates  on 
this  mission  was  the  selection  of  the  Laie  plan- 
tation as  a  gathering  place  for  the  Saints,  which 
was  afterward,  on  their  recommendation,  pur- 
chased by  a  committee,  sent  for  that  purpose, 
by  President  Young,  and  it  has  since  demon- 
strated its  value  to  the  mission  and  to  the  Church 
as  well.  Joseph  Smith  returned  to  Utah  from 
this  mission  in  the  winter  of  1864-5. 

It  was  while  absent  on  this  mission  that  Presi- 
dent Snow  so  nearly  lost  his  life  from  drowning. 
The  party  attempted  to  land  from  the  ship  in  an 
unwieldy  boat  across  a  narrow  strip  of  rough 
sea.  Strongly  against  the  advice  of  Joseph  Smith 
they  attempted  the  landing,  leaving  Mr.  Smith 
and  all  their  valuables  on  the  ship.  The  boat  was 
overturned  and  all  were  rescued,  save  President 
Snow,  who  was  apparently  drowned,  but  after 
heroic  treatment  and  the  artificial  renewal  of 
respiration,  was  safely  restored  to  consciousness. 

LTpon  his  return  to  Utah  in  the  winter  of 
1864-5,  President  Smith  was  employed  in  the 
office  of  the  Church  historian,  where  he  remained 
for  a  number  of  years ;  he  was  also  a  clerk  in  the 
endowment  house,  succeeding  Elder  John  V. 
Long  in  that  capacity ;  being  in  charge,  after  the 
death  of  President  Young,  until  it  was  closed. 
He  had  been  ordained  as  an  Apostle  under  the 
hands  of  President  Young,  on  July  i,  1866,  and 
on  October  8,  1867,  he  was  appointed  to  fill  a 
vacancy  in  the  quorum  of  the  Twelve  Apostles. 

In  the  following  year  he  was  sent  with  Apostle 
Wilford  Woodruff  and  Elder  A.  O.  Smoot  to 
Utah  county,  and  served  one  term  in  the  Provo 
city  council. 

He  was  assigned  to  a  second  mission  to  Eng- 
land on  February  28,  1874.  where  he  was  the  pre- 
siding officer  of  the  European  mission,  returning 
to  Utah  in  1875,  after  the  dtath  of  President 
George  A.  Smith.  Upon  his  return  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  preside  over  the  Davis  Stake  until 
the  spring  of  1877,  when  he  left  for  his  third 
mission  to  England,  having  witnessed  the  dedi- 
cation of  the  first  temple  in  the  Rocky  mountains, 
at  St.  George,  April,  1877.    He  arrived  in  Liver- 


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pool  on  May  27,  of  that  year,  wlu're  he  was 
joined  later  by  Apostle  Orson  Pratt,  who  had 
been  sent  to  publish  new  editions  of  the  Book  of 
Mormon  and  the  Doctrine  and  Covenants.  When 
the  news  of  the  death  of  President  Young  ar- 
rived, they  were  released  from  their  work  and 
returned  to  Utah,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  on 
September  27,  1877.  In  August,  of  the  following 
year,  he  was  sent,  with  Apostle  Orson  Pratt,  on  a 
short  mission  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  United 
States,  visiting  noted  places  in  the  history  of  the 
Church  in  Missouri,  New  York,  Ohio  and  Illi- 
nois. It  was  on  this  trip  that  they  had  their 
famous  interview  with  David  Whitmer. 

L^pon  the  organization  of  the  First  Presidency, 
in  October,  1880,  he  was  chosen  second  counsellor 
to  President  John  Taylor,  who  died  July  25, 
1887.  He  was  again  chosen  to  this  position  in 
the  Presidency  under  President  \voodruflf;  and 
again  held  it  under  President  Snow.  Upon  the 
death  of  the  latter  and  the  organization  of  the 
First  Presidency,  he  was  selected  President  of  the 
Church. 

To  attempt  to  make  a  sketch  of  his  services 
in  civil  capacities  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  in  the 
Legislature  would  be  biit  to  repeat  the  history  of 
Salt  Lake  City  and  of  Utah.  His  public  service 
was  marked  with  the  same  zeal  and  fidelity  that 
he  displayed  in  his  Church  work,  and  his  honesty 
of  purpose  and  straightforward  course  has  won 
for  him  the  love,  confidence  and  esteem  of  the 
whole  community.  He  is  a  friend  of  the  people, 
easily  approached,  a  wise  counsellor,  a  man  of 
broad  views,  and,  contrary  to  first  impressions, 
is  a  man  whose  sympathies  are  easily  aroused. 
He  is  a  reflex  of  the  best  character  of  the  Mor- 
mon people — inured  to  hardships,  patient  in 
trial,  God-fearing,  self-sacrificing,  full  of  love 
for  the  human  race,  powerful  in  tnoral,  mental 
and   physical   strength. 

As  a  public  speaker,  his  leading  trait  is  in- 
tense earnestness.  He  impresses  the  hearer  with 
his  message  more  from  the  sincerity  of  its  de- 
livery, and  the  honest  earnestness  of  his  manner, 
than  from  any  learned  exhibition  of  oratory  or 
studied  display  of  logic.  He  touches  the  hearts 
of  the  people  with  the  simple  eloquence  of  one 
who  is  himself  convinced  of  the  truths  presented. 


He  is  a  pillar  of  strength  in  the  Church  of  his 
choice,  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  truths  of  the 
Gospel,  and  the  divine  origin  of  this  work.  His 
whole  life  and  testimony  are  an  inspiration  to 
all  men,  and  the  career  he  has  attained  marks  him 
as  a  man  who  would  have  been  a  leader  in  what- 
ever he  had  undertaken.  Under  his  direction,  the 
Church  has  already  began  to  gather  a  new  im- 
petus, and  the  years  of  the  twentieth  century 
will  undoubtedly  make  great  progress  under  his 
wise  and  able  administration. 

President  Smith  has  an  imposing  physical  ap- 
pearance. Now,  in  his  sixty-third  year,  he  is  tall, 
erect,  well-knit  and  symmetrical  in  build.  He 
has  a  prominent  nose  and  features.  When  speak- 
ing, he  throws  his  full,  clear,  brown  eyes  wide 
open  on  the  listener,  who  may  readily  perceive, 
from  their  penetrating  power,  the  wonderful  men- 
tality of  the  man.  His  large  head  is  crowned 
with  an  abundant  growth  of  hair — in  his  early 
years,  dark ;  but  now,  like  his  full  beard,  tinged 
with  a  liberal  sprinkling  of  grey.  In  conversa- 
tion, one  is  forcibly  impressed  with  the  sudden 
changes  in  appearance  of  his  countenance,  under 
the  different  influences  of  his  mind ;  now  in- 
tensely pleasant,  with  an  enthusiastic  and  child- 
like interest  in  immediate  subjects  and  surround- 
ings ;  now  absent,  the  mobility  of  his  features  set 
in  that  almost  stern,  majesty  of  expression  so 
characteristic  of  his  portraits — so  indicative  of 
the  severity  of  the  conditions  and  environments 
of  his  early  life. 


RESIDENT  JOHN  R.  WINDER, 
First  Counsellor  to  President  Smith, 
prominent  among  the  pioneer  workers 
who  have  so  successfully  reared  a 
State  out  of  the  great  American  wilder- 
ness and  developed  the  natural  resources  that  are 
hidden  in  the  mountains  and  valleys,  is  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  His  work  has  not  been  con- 
fined to  the  Church  of  his  choice,  but  has  in- 
cluded the  labors  incident  to  the  development 
of  the  State.  In  all  the  positions  he  has  held — 
civil,  military  and  ecclesiastical,  he  has  invariably 
performed  the  tasks  allotted  to  him  in  a  manner 
satisfactory   to  his  official  superiors,  and   to  his 


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fellow  citizens  in  general.  From  an  unpromising 
and  inauspicious  beginning,  from  a  life  that,  in 
its  youth,  seemed  to  be  bound  by  the  narrow 
limits  of  his  native  country,  he  has  risen  to  the 
opportunities  that  have  presented  themselves  and 
has  made  for  himself  a  name  that  stands  high 
in  the  annals  of  Utah. 

John  Rex  Winder,  son  of  Richard  and  Sophia 
(Collins)  Winder,  was  born  at  Biddenden,  Kent, 
England,  on  December  ii,  1821.  His  parents 
were  members  of  the  Church  of  England,  and 
their  son  was  baptized  in  that  church  when  but 
an  infant,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen  was  con- 
firmed as  one  of  its  members,  under  the  hands 
of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  His  early 
life  was  spent  in  his  native  town,  and  his  early 
education,  such  as  it  was,  was  derived  through 
his  own  efforts. 

At  the  age  of  twenty  he  went  to  London  and 
obtained  employment  in  a  shoe  store.  He  was 
married  on  November  24th,  1845,  ^"d  two  years 
after,  left  London,  taking  charge  of  an  establish- 
ment in  Liverpool  where  he  arrived  in  August, 
1847,  ^nd  resided  there  for  the  next  six  years. 

So  far,  his  life  had  followed  the  usual  line  of 
the  majority  of  the  Englishmen,  but  the  whole 
trend  of  his  character  and  his  life  was  changed 
in  July,  1848,  when  he  first  became  acquainted 
with  the  teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints.  The  first  meeting  of  the 
Church,  that  he  attended,  was  held  in  a  music  hall 
on  Bold  street,  Liverpool,  conducted  by  Elder 
Orson  Spencer.  After  an  examination  of  the 
principles  of  this  religion,  he  became  convinced 
of  their  truth  and  was  baptized  on  September 
20th,  1848,  by  Elder  Thomas  D.  Brown;  and  on 
October  15th,  following,  his  wife  was  baptized" 
by  Apostle  Orson  Pratt.  Upon  joining  the  Church 
he  was  associated  with  the  Liverpool  branch 
until  February,  1853,  when  he,  with  his  family, 
set  sail  for  America  and  Salt  Lake,  on  the  ship 
Elvira  Owen.  At  this  time  Bishop  Winder  had 
three  children  living  and  one  dead,  two  of  the 
former  being  twin  babies  only  four  months  old. 
Their  trip  across  the  ocean  was  one  filled  with 
hardship  and  horror.  When  but  ten  days  out 
from  Liverpool,  our  subject  was  taken  with  small- 
pox,   which    was    brought   on    board    ship   by    a 


child  who  occupied  the  room  next  to  his.  He 
was  the  first  to  discover  the  disease,  which  soon 
spread,  and  six  of  the  company  were  quaran- 
tined in  a  small  house  built  on  the  deck  for 
their  accommodation.  Through  the  illness  of 
Bishop  Winder  his  wife  was  left  with  no  as- 
sistance in  her  task  of  caring  for  her  twin  babies 
on  board  of  ship.  So  ill  was  the  bishop  that  it  was 
confidently  expected  that  he  would  die  from 
day  to  day,  but  believing  that  he  would  recover 
his  health,  he  successfully  fought  off  the  dis- 
ease and  was  able  to  continue  his  journey.  The 
party  landed  at  New  Orleans  and  went  to  Keo- 
kuk, Iowa,  by  way  of  St.  Louis,  and  here  our 
subject  joined  the  company  under  Joseph  W. 
Young,  and  made  the  long  trip  across  the  plains 
to  Salt  Lake,  arriving  in  the  Valley  on  October 
loth,  1853. 

Shortly  after  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  became  as- 
sociated in  business  with  Samuel  Mullner,  in  the 
manufacture  of  saddles,  boots  and  shoes,  and  in 
conducting  a  tannery,  and  in  1855  he  enlarged  his 
business  interests  and  entered  into  a  partnership, 
in  that  year,  with  William  Jennings,  then  owner 
of  a  meat  market  and  a  tannery,  and  they  also 
carried  on  the  manufacture  of  boots,  shoes,  sad- 
dles and  harness.  This  business  he  continued 
until  July.  1858. 

Prior  to  this  he  had  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
military  life  of  the  Church,  having  joined  the 
Nauvoo  Legion  in  1855.  He  was  Captain  of  the 
Company  of  Lancers  stationed  in  Echo  Canyon 
in  the  fall  and  winter  of  1857-8,  guarding  the 
canyon  and  its  approaches  with  fifty  men,  after 
Johnston's  army  had  gone  into  winter  quarters 
at  Fort  Bridger,  and  General  D.  H.  Wells  and 
Colonel  R.  T.  Burton  had  returned  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  The  tenseness  of  the  situation  having  re- 
laxed. Captain  Winder  was  relieved  of  vidette 
duty  about  Christmas,  by  Major  H.  S.  Beatie, 
who  took  command  of  Camp  Weber.  His  res- 
pite from  military  duty  was,  however,  very  short, 
for  on  March  the  8th,  of  the  following  year,  he 
raised  a  force  of  eighty-five  men  and  accompanied 
General  George  D.  Grant  through  Tooele  county, 
Utah,  on  to  the  great  desert,  pursuing  a  band  of 
Indians  who  had  stolen  a  lot  of  horses  from 
settlers   in   the  valley.     A  blinding  snow   storm 


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was  encountered  on  the  desert  and  the  trail  of 
the  Indians  was  lost,  and  the  pursuers  returned 
to  Salt  Lake.  Shortly  after  his  return  Captain 
Winder  was  called  to  take  chargfe  of  the  defense 
in  Echo  Canyon,  and  he  remained  in  this  duty 
until  peace  was  declared. 

He  dissolved  his  partnership  with  William 
Jennings  and  associated  himself  with  President 
Brigham  Young  and  Feramorze  Little,  and  built 
a  tannery  on  Parley's  Canyon  creek.  W'hile  en- 
gaged in  this  enterprise,  he  purchased  his  present 
home,  "Poplar  Farm,"  and  engaged  in  farming 
and  stock  raising.  The  tannery  business  was  car- 
ried on  successfully  until  the  native  bark  for  tan- 
ning became  scarce,  and  being  unable  to  com- 
pete with  importations,  the  business  was  sus- 
pended. During  the  years  of  1865  to  1867, 
Bishop  Winder  participated  in  the  Black  Hawk 
Indian  War  in  Sanpete  County,  serving  part  of 
the  time  as  an  aide  to  General  Wells,  and  in 
1868  he  served  as  Assistant  Adjutant-General, 
collecting  and  making  up  the  accounts  of  the 
expenses  of  this  work,  amounting  to  one  million, 
one  hundred  and  twenty-one  thousand  and  thirty- 
seven  dollars  and  thirty-eight  cents.  This  claim 
was  submitted  to  Congress  by  Delegate  William 
H.  Hooper,  but  the  expenses  have  never  been 
reimbursed. 

In  addition  to  his  military  services  and  to  his 
business  enterprises  in  the  early  days  of  Utah, 
he  has  also  been  prominent  in  the  administration 
of  its  political  affairs,  and  in  1870  was  appointed 
Assessor  and  Collector  of  Salt  Lake  City,  holding 
that  position  for  fourteen  years.  He  also  served 
three  terms  in  the  City  Council,  covering  a  period 
from  1872  to  1878.  He  resigned  his  position  as 
Assessor  and  Collector  in  1884  and  was  appointed 
Water  Master  of  Salt  Lake  City,  which  position 
he  held  until  April,  1887.  retiring  from  that 
to  enter  upon  his  duties  as  Second  Counsellor  to 
Presiding  Bishop  Preston,  to  which  position  he 
was  called  at  a  General  Confernce  April  6th, 
and  was  set  apart  on  the  25th  of  that  month  by 
President  George  O.  Cannon  and  .Apostle  Ftank- 
lin  D.  Richards. 

When  the  Salt  Lake  Temple  was  approaching 
completion,  in  .April.  1892,  it  was  especially  de- 
sired to  have  the  structure  finished  and  readv  for 


dedication  in  April,  1893,  forty  years  from  the 
time  its  foundation  stones  were  laid.  To  Bishop 
Winder  was  entrusted  the  work  of  completion, 
and  he  discharged  that  duty  with  his  character- 
istic energy  and  zeal.  He  contributed  liberally 
to  the  fund  to  defray  the  heavy  expenses  entailed, 
and  after  the  dedication,  was  appointed  in  May, 
1893,  as  First  Assistant  to  President  Lorenzo 
Snow,  in  charge  of  the  Temple,  which  position  he 
still  holds.  His  great  service  to  the  Church  in 
his  sui)erintendence  of  the  Temple,  won  for  him 
the  marked  recognition  of  all  the  leaders  of  the 
Church. 

In  addition  to  these  prominent  parts  he  has  held 
many  important  ecclesiastical  positions  in  the 
Church.  He  was  ordained  as  a  Seventy  in  1854, 
and  in  the  following  year  became  one  of  the 
Presidents  of  the  Twelve  Quorum  of  Seventies, 
being  ordained  a  High  Priest  on  March  4th,  1872, 
liy  Presiding  Bishop  Edward  Hunter,  and  placed 
in  charge  of  the  Fourteenth  Ward  of  Salt  Lake 
City  during  the  absence  of  Bishop  Thomas  Tay- 
lor, on  missionary  work.  He  subsequently  acted 
as  Bishop  Taylor's  First  Counsellor  in  this  work. 
In  April,  1872,  he  became  a  member  of  the  High 
Council  of  Salt  Lake  Stake. 

His  life  has  been  one  of  strenuous  activity  and 
one  of  stirring  deeds  and  events.  He  was  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of  the  first  regiment  of  cavalry  of 
the  Nauvoo  Legion.  He  has  also  been  United 
States  guager  of  the  internal  revenue  department, 
and  since  1856  a  director  of  the  Deseret  Agri- 
cultural and  Manufacturing  Society,  in  addition 
to  which  he  has  been  president  of  that  organiza- 
tion from  1872  until  his  resignation  in  ryoo.  He 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  political  affairs  of 
the  State  and  was  a  member  of  one  of  the  early 
Constitutional  Conventions.  During  the  old  po- 
litical regime  he  was  for  a  long  time  Chairman 
of  the  Territorial  and  Central  Committee  of  the 
People's  party.  He  was  a  director  in  the  Utah 
Iron  Manufacturing  Company,  and  at  present  is 
a  director  in  the  LUah  Sugar  Company  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  the  more  recently  established 
Ogden  Sugar  Company.  He  is  President  of  the 
Deseret  Investment  Company  and  a  director  of 
the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution,  and 
holds  a  similar  position  in  the  D'eseret  National 


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Bank  and  in  the  Deseret  Savings  Bank.  He  was 
Vice-President  of  the  Pioneer  Electric  Company, 
as  well  as  of  the  Union  Light  and  Power  Com- 
pany. 

Bishop  Winder's  first  wife,  Ellen  (Walters) 
Winder,  died  on  November  7th,  1892.  He  has  had 
three  other  wives,  one  of  whom,  Maria  (Burn- 
ham)  Winder,  is  still  living.  He  is  the  father 
of  twenty-three  children  and  has  sixty-three 
grand  children  and  three  great-grandchildren. 
At  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-one  years.  Bishop 
Winder  is  in  good  health,  active  in  the  perform- 
ance of  duties,  and  enjoys  his  life  and  his  work 
as  much  now  as  he  did  in  the  days  of  his  youth 
and  prime. 

On  October  17th,  1901,  when  Joseph  F. 
Smith  was  elected  President  of  the  Church,  he 
appointed  Bishop  Winder  as  his  First  Counsellor, 
which  appointment  was  confirmed  by  a  special 
General  Conference  which  was  held  on  the  same 
date   of   his    appointment   above   mentioned. 

He  has  made  a  remarkable  career  in  Utah,  and 
his  undertakings  have  been  eminently  success- 
ful. He  is  one  of  the  best  posted  men  upon  the 
affairs  of  the  State  and  upon  the  condition  of  the 
West.  A  good  citizen,  devoted  to  his  religion, 
and  to  the  general  interests  of  the  people  of  his 
Church,  and  to  the  development  of  the  State, 
he  has  won  the  confidence  and  trust  of  the  leaders 
of  the  Church  and  the  love  of  its  members.  His 
uprightness  and  integrity  have  won  for  him 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  the  people  of  the 
West,  and  the  career  that  he  has  made  may  well 
be  an  object  of  pride,  alike  to  the  Church  and 
to  his  posterity. 


RESIDENT  ANTHON  H.  LUND. 
The  cosmopolitan  character  of  the 
United  States  is  perhaps  better  illus- 
trated in  Utah  than  in  any  other  State 
in  the  West.  To  this  State  the  more 
intelligent  emmigrants,  from  Europe,  were  at- 
tracted by  the  teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  under  the  dis- 


cipline of  that  Church  and  the  teaching  of  its 
leaders,  the  foreign  ideas  have  been  submerged 
in  the  great  wave  of  Americanism.  These  peo- 
ple have  taken  their  share  in  the  work  of  develop- 
ing the  unpromising  land  from  a  wilderness  to 
a  state  of  civilization,  and  have  aided  in  the 
growth  of  the  Church  to  which  they  willingly 
gave  their  support.  This  adaptation  is  perhaps 
better  illustrated  in  the  life  and  career  of  Presi- 
dent Lund,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  than  by  the 
life  and  work  of  any  other  foreigner  who  now 
owes  allegiance  to  the  United  States.  Pie  has 
taken  his  full  part  in  all  the  work  incident  to  the 
subjugating  of  the  wild  country,  and  in  building 
up  the  Church  to  its  present  high  standing. 

Anthon  Henrik  Lund  was  born  in  Aalborg, 
Denmark,  May  15,  1844.  When  but  a  little  more 
than  three  years  of  age,  his  mother  died  and  he 
was  reared  under  the  care  of  his  grandmother. 
His  father  was  drafted  into  the  Danish  army  in 
the  fall  of  1847  and  sent  with  the  forces  of  that 
government  to  subdue  the  insurrection  of  the 
people  at  Schleswig.  In  the  following  year, 
Schleswig  and  Holstein  revolted,  and  for  three 
years,  with  the  aid  of  Prussia  and  Germany, 
waged  a  sanguinary  war  against  Denmark. 
Through  all  this  period, our  subject's  father  served 
in  the  Danish  army,  and  when  he  returned  to  his 
home  it  was  to  find  his  son  a  boy  of  seven  years 
of  age.  Shortly  after  his  return  from  the  war, 
his  father  removed  from  his  old  home  to  a  new 
site,  thirty-five  miles  distant,  and  after  much 
pleading,  his  son  was  left  with  his  grandmother 
by  whom  he  was  reared  and  educated. 

Following  the  example  of  all  European  coun- 
tries, Anthon  Lund  was  sent  to  school  at  an  early 
age,  and  at  four  years  entered  a  private  school 
where  the  rudiments  of  his  education  was  begun. 
At  the  age  of  seven  he  entered  the  public  schools 
of  Aalborg,  and  here  he  displayed  such  zeal  and 
aptitude  that  he  was  rapidly  advanced  from  one 
grade  to  another.  While  preparing  himself  for 
graduation  in  the  studies  given  in  this  school, 
he  undertook  the  studies  of  the  English,  German 
and  French  languages.  At  the  age  of  eleven  he 
held  the  first  place  in  school.  His  future  activity 
in  religious  matters  may  be  dated  from  almost 
the  beginning  of  his  life,  for  almost  from  the  time 


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he  could  read,  the  Bible  was  his  favorite  book. 

When  Elder  Erastus  Snow  arrived  in  Den- 
mark in  1850,  upon  his  mission  to  the  Scandinav- 
ian countries,  among  the  early  converts  to  the 
teachings  of  the  church  he  represented,  was  Jens 
Anderson,  the  uncle  of  our  subject,  who  was  a 
respected  and  valued  citizen  of  Cedar  City,  Utah. 
He  died  in  the  spring  of  1901.  His  grandmother 
also  became  a  member  of  the  Church,  being 
baptized  in  1853,  when  Anthon  was  but  nine 
years  of  age,  and  just  before  the  emigration  of 
his  uncle  for  America.  Anthon  was  thus  brought 
into  close  contact  with  the  teachmgs  of 
the  Church,  but  was  deterred  for  some  time  from 
adopting  that  faith.  This  was  due  to  the  opposi- 
tion of  his  relatives  and  to  the  persecution  to 
which  the  members  of  the  Church  were  subjected. 
His  life  at  school  was  made  unpleasant  by  the 
taunts  and  physical  torturing  indulged  in  by  the 
older  boys.  His  industry  in  his  studies,  however, 
never  flagged,  and  he  won  by  his  own  merit  the 
:oveted  position  of  "Dux,"  or  first  place,  in  the 
upper  class,  notwithstanding  the  bitter  opposition 
of  several  of  the  teachers.  Upon  the  completion 
of  his  school  course,  his  relatives  wished  him  to 
take  a  collegiate  course,  but  his  desire  to  become 
a  member  of  the  then  new  Church  overcame  his 
love  for  the  work  of  study,  and  on  May  15,  1856, 
at  the  age  of  twelve  years,  he  was  bsptized  and 
admitted  into  the  membership  by  Elder  Julander, 
and  on  the  i8th  of  that  month  he  was  confirmed 
by  Elder  Peter  Madsen,  a  former  resident  of  the 
Second  Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

W'hen  our  subject  joined  the  Church,  Elder 
C.  D.  Fjelsted  presided  over  the  Aalborg  confer- 
ence, and  Bishop  C.  A.  Madsen,  of  Gunnison, 
was  pastor  over  Aalborg  and  several  other  con- 
ferences. He  and  his  wife,  a  highly  educated 
woman,  rendered  the  young  member  much  valu- 
able assistance  in  his  study  of  English,  and  their 
kindness  resulted  in  a  very  warm  attachment,  on 
the  young  lad's  part,  for  both  Bishop  and  Mrs. 
Madsen.  One  year  after  his  entrance  into  the 
work  of  the  Church  he  was  called  to  its  labors, 
and  at  thirteen  was  teaching  the  emigrants  Eng- 
lish, and  distributing  tracts  and  assisting  the 
Elders  in  holding  meetings.  When  he  made  his 
first    report    at    the    conference.    Elder    Fjelsted 


lifted  him  upon  a  table,  and  in  this  way  he  made 
his  debut  before  an  audience.  This  began  his 
active  work  and  he  traveled  over  the  entire  confer- 
ence, addressing  meetings  and  making  converts. 
At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  was  ordained  an  Elder 
and  appointed  President  of  the  Aalborg  branch, 
and  traveling  elder  in  five  other  branches.  This 
was  a  responsible  position,  and  especially  so  for 
one  so  young,  the  branch  being  large  and  requiring 
constant  and  unremitting  care.  He  continued  his 
missionary  labors  until  the  year  1862  when,  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  he  emigrated  to  Utah  leaving 
Hamburg  on  the  Benjamin  Franklin.  While 
lying  in  tliat  port,  an  epidemic  of  measles  broke 
out  and  spread  over  the  ship,  making  fearful  rav- 
ages among  the  children.  There  was  no  doctor  on 
board  and  the  captain  would  deliver  medicine 
only  upon  the  order  of  a  physician.  At  a  meeting 
of  the  members  of  the  Church,  on  the  ship, 
presided  over  by  Bishop  Madsen,  it  was  agreed  to 
appoint  Elder  Lund,  physician  for  the  company. 
Equipped  with  a  book,  treating  of  the  common 
diseases,  and  the  medicine  chest,  he  creditably 
discharged  all  the  duties  required  of  him  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  passengers  and  the  crew. 

That  year,  four  ships  left  Denmark  with  emi- 
grants for  Utah.  These  met  at  Florence,  near 
Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  some  continued  the 
journey  in  conveyances  furnished  by  Utah  mem- 
bers, and  the  others  were  organized  into  two 
independent  commands  under  Bishop  C.  A.  Mad- 
sen and  Patriarch  O.  N.  Liljenquist.  Elder  Lund 
traveled  across  the  plains  in  the  company  headed 
by  Bishop  Madsen,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City 
on  September  23,  1862,  after  an  overland  journey 
of  seventy-one  days. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  the  valley  Elder  Lund  at 
once  took  hold  of  the  work  before  him  and  has 
ever  since  been  actively  and  prominently  identi- 
fied with  the  work  of  the  Church  and  the  de- 
velopment of  the  State.  He  first  located  at  Fair- 
view,  Sanpete  county,  but  three  months  later  re- 
moved to  Mt.  Pleasant.  Here  he  remained  until 
the  fall  of  1870.  His  first  work  in  Utah  was  at 
farm  labor,  digging  potatoes,  working  on  the 
threshing  machines  and  following  the  routine  of 
farm  work  as  long  as  such  employment  could  be 
had.    He  then  secured  employment  in  a  harness 


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shop  and  later  in  a  shoe  shop.  He  was  never  idle 
a  day,  and  in  a  land  where  work  could  be  had  for 
the  asking  was  always  busy.  He  was  offered  a 
home  in  the  family  of  John  Barton,  whose  chil- 
dren he  taught  in  the  evenings,  and  by  that  fam- 
ily he  was  treated  as  one  of  themselves. 

To  Elder  Lund,  as  to  so  many  others  who 
have  come  to  Utah,  the  first  impressions  and  ex- 
periences of  the  new  country  were  discouraging 
and  depressing.  His  books  were  missed  most, 
and  an  old  hand  book  in  astronomy,  without  maps, 
which  he  happened  to  find,  became  one  of  his  most 
cherished  possessions.  He  studied  it  and  drew  his 
own  maps,  using  the  hearthstone  for  a  table, 
and  was  able  to  locate  the  constellations  of  the 
stars  and  trace  the  planets.  In  this  manner  passed 
his  first  winter  in  Utah. 

In  1864,  the  Church  called  him  to  go  as  a  team- 
ster to  the  Missouri  River,  to  conduct  to  L'tah 
immigrants  who  had  collected  there.  This  mis- 
sion he  performed  with  his  usual  ability  and 
faithfulness. 

When  President  Brigham  Young  called  a  num- 
ber of  young  men  to  come  to  Salt  Lake  City  to 
learn  telegraphy,  Elder  Lund  was  selected  as  one 
of  the  number  to  be  instructed.  During  his  stay 
at  the  capitol  he  became  acquainted  with  Elder 
John  Henry  Smith  and  other  prominent  members 
of  the  Church,  with  whom  he  has  since  been 
intimately  associated  in  Church  work.  Having 
successfully  mastered  telegraphy,  he  returned  ro 
Mt.  Pleasant  and  assumed  charge  of  its  telegraph 
office.  Here  he  also  had  a  photograph  gallery, 
and  when  the  first  co-operative  institution  was 
started  in  that  place,  he  was  made  its  secretary. 
He  was  also  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council. 
Notwithstanding  these  varied  duties,  he  still  found 
time  to  attend  to  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  in 
1865  assisted  in  founding  the  first  Sunday  school 
in  his  city,  which  proved  successful  in  a  high  de- 
gree. 

In  1870,  he  removed  to  Ephraim,  and  in  tne 
same  year  married  Sarah  Ann  Peterson,  daughter 
of  Stake  President  Canute  Peterson,  by  whom 
he  had  nine  children,  seven  of.  whom  are  still  liv- 
ing. In  the  following  year  he  was  called  upon  to 
undertake  his  first  foreign  mission,  being  assigned 
to    assist    Elder    Canute    Peterson    in    Denmark. 


Here  the  latter  was  appointed  president  of  the 
Scandinavian  mission,  and  our  subject  became  the 
business  manager  of  the  central  office  in  Copen- 
hagen. 

Upon  his  return  to  Ephraim,  he  became  in- 
terested in  the  co-operative  store  there  and  in  the 
next  year  was  placed  in  charge  of  its  affairs. 
This  position  he  held  for  nine  years,  and  its  suc- 
cess was  largely  due  to  his  wise  and  able  admin- 
istration. In  1874  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  High  Council  of  Sanpete,  and  when  the 
stake  was  organized  in  1877,  he  became  Stake 
Clerk  and  member  of  the  new  High  Council. 
In  the  following  year  he  was  made  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday  School  at  Ephraim.  He  con- 
tinued to  devote  his  time  and  attention  to  these 
multifarious  duties  until  1883,  when  he  was 
called  upon  to  go  on  another  mission  to  Scan- 
dinavia, succeeding  Elder  C.  D.  Fjeldsted  as 
president  of  that  mission,  and  there  he  remained 
for  two  years  and  three  months. 

During  his  absence  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Territorial  Legislature,  and  upon  his  ar- 
rival in  the  State  at  once  took  his  seat  in  that 
body.  He  was  re-elected  in  1888  and  his  service 
in  the  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  State 
was  marked  by  the  same  courage,  zeal  and  in- 
dustry that  marked  all  his  previous  work. 

The  reform  school  and  the  agricultural  col- 
lege are  the  fruits  of  his  legislative  labors ;  he 
writing  the  bills  for  the  establishment  of  the 
same. 

In  May,  188S  he  was  appointed  Vice-President 
of  the  JNIanti  Temple,  assisting  President  Daniel 
H.  Wells,  and  in  1891  he  succeeded  to  the  presi- 
dency. At  the  organization  of  the  General  Church 
Board  of  Education  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  that  Board.  In  October,  of  the  following  year, 
he  was  called  to  the  office  of  Apostle  in  the 
Church,  and  in  1893  was  sent  to  preside  over  the 
European  mission,  spending  more  than  three  years 
in  that  work.  His  linguistic  ability  was  of  much 
service  to  him  in  his  travels  over  the  various 
mission  fields  and  upon  his  visits  to  conferences, 
and  his  administration  was  highly  successful. 

Upon  the  death  of  Apostle  Abraham  H.  Can- 
non, Apostle  Lund  was  appointed  director  of  the 
Zion   Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution,  and  a 


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few  years  before  had  been  made  a  director  of 
the  Zion"s  Savings  Bank.  His  next  work  for 
the  Church  was  as  a  missionary  to  Palestine 
and  Syria,  where  he  was  entrusted  with  the 
work  of  organizing  the  members  of  the  Church 
and  caring  for  their  welfare  generally.  This 
work  he  completed  satisfactorily  and  returned  to 
Salt  Lake  City  in  the  summer  of  1898. 

In  the  fall  of  1898  he  removed  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home.  Since 
that  time  he  has  continued  his  labors  as  an  Apos- 
tle in  the  various  States.  In  April,  1900.  he 
was  made  superintendent  of  the  Religion 
Classes,  and  in  August  of  that  year  succeeded 
the  late  President  Franklin  D.  Richards  in  the 
important  post  of  Church  Historian. 

On  October  17,  1901,  under  reorganization  of 
the  First  Presidency,  President  Joseph  F.  Smith 
chose  him  as  his  second  counselor,  and  he 
was  sustained  by  the  special  General  Confer- 
ence which  was  held  in  November,  1901.  In 
1902  he  was  appointed  President  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  Latter-Day  Saints  University. 

The  career  which  President  Lund  has  built 
up,  both  in  the  work  of  the  Church  and  of  the 
State,  marks  him  as  one  of  the  remarkable  men 
of  Utah.  To  him,  as  one  of  the  leaders  in  the 
work  of  civilization  and  improvement,  is  due  to 
a  large  extent,  the  present  satisfactory  condi- 
tion of  Utah  and  Salt  Lake  City.  His  sincerity 
in  his  beliefs,  and  his  earnestness  in  his  work, 
have  won  for  him  a  high  place  in  hearts  of  his 
people  and  have  brought  him  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom  he  had  lived 
or  visited.  Throughout  the  State  he  enjoys  a 
wide  popularity,  and  his  broadmindedness  and 
charity  have  made  him  believed  even  by  those 
opposed  to  his  beliefs. 


OX.  ARTHUR  L.  THOMAS,  Ex- 
Governor  of  Utah,  ine  lives  of  its 
citizens  is  the  history  of  any  commu- 
nity which  the  world  reads  closest 
and   draws   its    deductions    from   to   a 

;e  extent.     A  city  may  advertise  its  un- 


surpassed climate,  rugged  mountain  scenery, 
smiling  valleys  surrounding  it  on  every  hand, 
superb  location  and  the  style  and  beauty  of  its 
architecture,  but  the  man  who  anticipates  mov- 
ing his  family  to  that  city  or  making  his  home 
there,  if  he  be  of  the  better  class,  will  ask  what 
of  its  educational  facilities;  its  religious  and 
moral  life  and  its  civil  government.  If  he  place 
his  finger  upon  these,  the  pulse  of  the  city's  life, 
and  find  them  unsound,  it  were  a  waste  of  time 
to  argue  in  favor  of  merely  temporal  advantages. 
There  is  scarcely  a  city  of  any  size  in  the  West 
that  has  not  passed  through  its  stage  of  lawless- 
ness and  misrule,  acquiring  an  unenviable  rep- 
utation that  has  clung  to  it  long  years  after  the 
evils  have  been  remedied,  and  against  which  the 
citizens  have  had  to  fight  valiantly  before  con- 
vincing the  world  that  the  old  conditions  have 
been  utterly  vanquished.  Salt  Lake  City  has 
been  peculiarly  free  from  anything  of  this  na- 
ture; she  has  been  most  fortunate  in  the  class 
of  men  who  have  stood  at  the  helm  and  guided 
not  only  her  affairs,  but  those  of  the  State  at 
large,  and  every  year  sees  the  morals  of  her  life 
purer  and  higher  than  the  last,  with  the  result 
that  the  best  class  of  citizens  in  the  territory 
contiguous  to  Utah  turn  involuntarily  to  Salt 
Lake  City  as  the  place  in  which  to  make  their 
homes  after  accumulating  fortunes  in  mines, 
cattle  or  sheep,  and  she  bids  fair  to  outrival 
all  western  cities  at  no  very  far  distant  day  as 
the  home  of  culture,  refinement  and  wealth. 
Such  a  condition  of  aflfairs  has  only  been  made 
possible  by  the  lives  of  such  men  as  ex-Gov- 
ernor Thomas,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who 
has  spent  over  twenty-three  years  of  his  life  in 
Salt  Lake  City  and  done  as  much,  if  not  more, 
than  almost  any  other  man  for  her  advancement 
and  uplifting.  He  has  always  been  in  public 
life,  and  is  in  close  touch  with  all  the  needs  of 
the  city,  as  well  as  the  State  at  large. 

Governor  Thomas  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, August  27,  1 85 1,  and  is  the  son  of  Henry 
J.  Thomas,  a  native  of  Wales,  who  came  to 
America  as  a  boy,  and  after  reachmg  man's  es- 
tate engaged  in  the  copper  and  iron  business  in 
Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  spent  the 
greater   portion   of    his    life,     and     was   known 


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among  the  Welsn  people  in  America  as  a  prom- 
inent Welsh  scholar.  He  was  a  man  of  consid- 
erable influence  in  Pittsburg,  and  for  ten  years 
occupied  the  position  of  Municipal  Judge.  He 
married  a  Miss  Eleanor  Lloyd,  a  native  of 
Ebensburg,  Pennsylvania,  the  first  exclusively 
Welsh  settlement  to  be  established  in  that  State. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  Pittsburg 
and  received  his  education  from  the  schools  of 
that  city,  and  later  from  a  private  tutor.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  years  he  started  out  to  make 
his  own  way  in  life,  and  in  the  spring  of  1869 
received  the  appointment  of  a  clerkship  in  the 
House  of  Representatives  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
which  position  he  held  continuously  for  a  period 
of  ten  years.  In  the  spring  of  1879  he  was  ap- 
pointed Secretary  of  the  Territory  of  Utah,  and 
filled  that  position  until  1887.  During  these 
years  Governor  Thomas  became  actively  iden- 
tified with  the  life  of  the  Territory,  being  ap- 
pointed in  1881  as  special  agent  to  collect  sta- 
tistics of  the  churches  and  schools  of  the  Terri- 
tory for  the  Government.  He  also  received  that 
same  year  the  appointment  of  Census  Super- 
visor for  Utah.  In  1884  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  committee  to  compile  and  codify 
the  laws  of  the  Territory,  and  in  1886  was  again 
named  by  the  Legislative  Assemblv  for  a  simi- 
lar position,  and  from  1882  to  1887  was  Dis- 
bursing Agent  for  the  Government,  having 
charge  and  control  of  all  monies  expended  by 
the  Utah  Commission.  In  December,  1886,  he 
was  appointed  a  member  of  this  Commission, 
and  remained  in  that  capacity  until  1889,  when 
he  was  appointed  Governor.  In  1888  he  received 
the  appointment  of  member  and  director  of  the 
Deseret  Agricultural  and  Manufacturing  Society, 
which  position  he  held  for  two  years. 

He  received  the  appointment  of  Governor  of 
the  Territory  of  Utah  in  the  spring  of  1889,  his 
term  lasting  four  years.  The  years  covered  by 
Governor  Thomas'  term  of  office  are  among  the 
most  momentous  and  eventful  in  the  history  of 
Utah.  There  was  commenced  the  organization 
of  the  Republican  and  Democratic  parties  in 
Utah,  and  the  new  movement  grew  rapidly  and 
ultimately  embraced  all  the  old  political  divisions. 
There  has  been  no  movement  in  all  the  history  of 


L'tah  more  pregnant  with  significant  and  far- 
reaching  results  than  was  this,  and  it  brought  to- 
gether Mormons  and  Gentiles  in  a  common  bond 
of  sympathy  for  the  political  principles  of  their 
respective  parties.  The  assessed  valuation  of 
property  in  the  Territory  almost  doubled  in  value 
during  that  time,  and  many  important  enterprises 
were  set  on  foot  or  completed.  He  was  chair- 
man of  the  committee  which  accepted  the  plans 
of  the  present  penitentiary  buildings  and  form- 
ally accepted  the  same  when  completed.  So 
thoroughly  was  the  ground  covered  at  that  time 
that  even  to-day  the  State  penitentiary  of  Utah 
ranks  foremost  among  such  institutions  in  this 
western  country,  being  complete  in  every  detail ; 
strong,  commodious,  the  best  of  sanitation  and  a 
model  institution  of  the  kind.  He  was  also  chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Trustees  which  completed 
the  building  of  the  State  Agricultural  College  at 
Logan,  which  has  become  one  of  the  great  insti- 
tutions of  the  West,  and  which  also  built  the 
State  Reform  School  at  Ogden — each  excellent 
for  the  purpose  for  which  it  was  designed.  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  also  proved  himself  the  staunch 
friend  of  education  at  this  time.  In  his  message 
to  the  Legislative  Assembly  he  recommended  the 
enactment  of  a  new  school  law  which  would 
guarantee  an  absolutely  free  system  to  the  State. 
In  connection  with  Professor  Benner  of  Ham- 
mond Hall,  then  a  member  of  the  Legislature, 
and  Counselor  Collett  of  Tooele  county,  Gov- 
ernor Thomas  helped  prepare  the  bill  which  after- 
wards became  a  law,  providing  for  free  schools 
in  Utah,  and  which  bill  he  approved  as  Governor 
after  it  had  passed  both  houses ;  and  the  impetus 
thus  given  to  education  has  resulted  in  a  public 
school  system  which  is  second  to  none  in  the 
entire  western  country.  It  was  also  during  his 
term  of  office  that  the  forming  of  new  polyga- 
mous relations  was  formally  renounced  by  the 
Mormon  Church,  through  a  manifesto  issued  by 
President  Wilford  Woodruff. 

After  retiring  from  the  office  of  Governor, 
Mr.  Thomas  became  President  of  the  Idaho  Irri- 
gation and  Colonization  Company,  and  Manager 
of  the  Utah  Savings  and  Trust  Company  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  which  latter  position  he  resigned  when 
appointed  postmaster. 


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Governor  Thomas  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Republican  State  Committee  for  many  years,  and 
was  Chairman  of  the  Republican  State  Congres- 
sional Convention  held  in  1899.  He  was  also 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  State  Convention 
which  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Saint  Louis  Con- 
vention, which  nominated  William  McKinley  for 
President  in  1896.  Governor  Thomas  received 
the  appointment  of  postmaster  of  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1898,  during  President  McKinley's  first  ad- 
ministration, and  was  re-appointed  by  President 
Roosevelt  in  January,    1902. 

He  was  married  in  the  City  of  Washington, 
D.  C,  in  1873,  to  Helenna  H.  Reinbure.  a  native 
of  Annapolis,  Maryland.  Five  children  have  been 
born  of  this  marriage, — Elbridge  L. ;  Arthur  L., 
Junior,  who  enlisted  for  service  in  the  Spanish- 
American  War  while  still  under  age,  and  whose 
name  heads  the  muster  roll  of  volunteer  soldiers 
from  this  State.  He  was  discharged  from  ser- 
vice on  account  of  incipient  tuberculosis ;  Evelyn 
L.  is  at  home ;  Alexander  R.  is  a  student  in  the 
High  School  and  Captain  of  the  High  School 
Cadets ;  Ellen  is  the  wife  of  Colonel  Samuel  Cul- 
ver Park,  whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  At  the  time  of  her  marriage  Mrs.  Park 
was  one  of  the  reigning  belles  of  Salt  Lake,  and 
had  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  most  beau- 
tiful women  in  this  Western  country. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  man  in  this  State 
stands  higher  in  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  people  than  does  Governor  Thomas.  He  is  a 
man  of  unsullied  honor ;  his  public  career  has 
been  above  reproach  and  no  stain  has  ever  rested 
upon  him  either  in  public  or  private  life.  He  is 
liberal,  broad-minded  and  charitable  towards  all 
men,  courteous,  and  behind  his  unassuming  cpiiet 
manner  hide  all  the  graces  of  a  true  man. 

In  the  business  world  Governor  Thomas  is  the 
owner  of  one  of  the  largest  ranches  in  this  West- 
ern country,  situated  in  the  Boise  Valley,  Idaho. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Utah  Savings  and  Trust 
Company ;  Superintendent  of  the  Maxfield  Min- 
ing Company  and  President  of  the  Cambrain  As- 
sociation of  Salt  Lake  City,  L'tah,  and  of  the 
inter-mountain  country. 


OX.  JAMES  A.  MINER,  Chief  Justice 
(if  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of 
L'tah.  In  taking  a  retrospective  view 
(jf  the  settlement  and  development  of  a 
new  country  and  of  the  men  who  have 
been  closely  identified  with  its  history,  there  are 
many  important  and  vital  points  to  be  taken  into 
consideration,  and  especially  is  this  true  of  a 
State  which  has  proved  so  eminently  successful 
as  has  the  great  State  of  Utah,  which  has  proved 
of  such  vast  importance,  not  only  to  this  inter- 
mountain  region,  but  to  the  whole  country  at 
large ;  its  vast  agricultural  interests ;  its  gigantic 
commercial  enterprises,  and  the  millions  of  dol- 
lars which  have  been  taken  out  of  its  mines  and 
the  untold  millions  yet  hidden  within  the  secret 
receptacle  of  its  boundaries,  all  these  conditions 
go  to  make  up  the  history  of  this  State.  In  all 
these  undertakings  and  conditions  it  requires  the 
co-operation  of  men,  men  of  ability,  integrity  and 
experience  to  develop  and  bring  forth  the  best 
results.  The  history  of  the  past  has  revealed  and 
at  the  present  people  are  ever  reminded  that 
wherever  men  are  associated  together  in  great 
business  enterprises,  in  developing  of  vast  re- 
sources, that  differences  of  opinions  will  arise 
and  questions  will  forever  spring  up  which  of 
necessity  must  be  passed  upon  and  finally  settled 
by  disinterested  parties.  The  forefathers  and 
founders  of  this  great  nation  foresaw  these  con- 
ditions and  wisely  provided  a  plan  whereby  ques- 
tions and  differences  of  opinion  could  be  settled 
by  the  judicial  system.  One  of  the  most  impor- 
tant branches  of  the  Government  of  the  United 
States  is  its  Supreme  Court.  This  also  holds 
true  in  the  government  of  any  State.  The  Su- 
preme Court  and  the  men  who  preside  over  it 
ranks  among  the  highest  in  its  civic  life.  The 
Chief  Justice  of  a  Supreme  Court  of  a  State  must 
of  necessity  be  a  man  of  ability,  integrity  and 
wide  experience,  thoroughly  understanding  hu- 
man nature ;  and  the  great  questions  of  law  which 
he  is  called  to  pass  upon  and  finallv  decide  ac- 
cording to  the  laws  of  this  country.  No  person 
who  has  become  acquainted  and  closely  w^atched 
the  proceedings  and  doings  of  Chief  Justice 
Miner,  both  in  public  and  private  life,  will   for 


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a  moment  question   his  ability,   integrity,   sound 
judgment  and  wide  experience. 

Judge  Miner  has  not  risen  to  the  high  position 
which  he  holds  in  the  State  of  Utah  by  mere 
chance,  but  it  has  taken  years  of  toil,  indomitable 
energy,  and  perseverance  to  fit  him  for  his  high 
calling.  All  of  his  decisions  since  serving  as 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State, 
thoroughly  evince  the  fact  that  each  case  and 
every  phase  and  condition  of  the  case  has  been 
carefully  weighed  and  measured  before  he  has 
finally  rendered  his  decision,  and  thoroughly 
demonstrate  that  a  master  mind  has  had  them 
in  charge,  and  today  Judge  Miner  enjoys  the 
highest  esteem,  respect  and  honor  of  almost  the 
universal  population  of  the  entire  State  of  Utah, 
and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  man  has  ever  occu- 
pied a  similar  position  in  this  or  in  any  other 
State  who  has  lent  greater  dignity  and  whose 
ability  and  straightforwardness  has  tendered  to 
bring  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State  to  the 
high  position  which  it  occupies  today.  Judge 
Miner  is  a  man  who,  by  his  very  make-up  was 
destined  to  make  a  successful  career ;  the  very 
elements  of  success  are  stamped  in  his  whole 
likeness,  and  he  would  have  made  a  success  of 
almost  any  avocation  or  profession  to  which  he 
chose  to  turn  his  attention.  Judge  Miner  is  a 
man  of  dignity  and  his  calling  has  of  necessity 
made  him  somewhat  stern,  yet  he  is  genial,  kind 
and  considerate  of  all  the  interests  of  mankind. 
These  conditions  have  all  tended  to  bring  to  Judge 
Miner  the  successful  career  which  he  has  ac- 
quired, not  only  in  this  , State,  but  wherever  he 
has  resided.  Born  in  Marshall,  Michigan,  in 
1842,  his  early  life  was  spent  on  his  father's 
farm  and  his  education  was  derived  from  the 
common  schools  and  Lyon's  Institute,  working  in 
the  summer  months  on  the  farm  and  attending 
schools  in  the  winter.  He  later  secured  employ- 
ment as  a  school  teacher,  which  he  followed  for 
several  winters,  in  order  to  obtain  sufficient 
money  to  complete  his  education.  From  boyhood 
he  had  determined  to  be  a  lawyer  and  at  an 
early  age  he  made  a  study  of  law  with  General 
Noyes,  of  the  firm  of  Noyes  and  Fitzgerald, 
prominent  lawyers  of  Michigan.  When  the  Civil 
War  broke  out  in  1861,  he  took  a  prominent  part 


in  raising  the  Ninth  ^^lichigan  Infantry  and  en- 
tered the  service,  remaining  in  the  army  until 
the  death  of  his  father,  which  occurred  in  1864, 
at  which  time  he  returned  to  Marshall,  Michigan, 
completed  his  study  of  law  and^  was  soon  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  of  that  State.  During  the  early 
days  of  his  career  as  a  lawyer  he  held  the  office 
of  City  Recorder  and  Circuit  Court  Commis- 
sioner, and  was  also  Prosecuting  Attorney  from 
1876  to  1889,  of  Calhoun  County.  He  was  ac- 
tively engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  throughout 
that  time  in  Marshall  and  Southern  Michigan, 
participating  in  most  of  the  important  cases 
brought  before  the  courts  of  that  region  for 
trial,  earning  for  himself  an  enviable  reputation 
as  a  lawyer  in  that  State. 

He  was  married  in  1870  to  Hattie  E.  Alincr 
of  New  York.  They  have  one  daughter  living, — 
Mabel,  now  Mrs.  McClure  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Judge  Miner  is  a  self-made  man,  attaining  his 
success  by  the  exercise  of  unflinching  application 
and  constant  industry.  He  has  made  for  him- 
self a  reputation  for  charity,  broad-mindedness 
and  liberality  which  has  won  for  him  the  respect 
of  all  classes  of  people  in  the  community  where 
he  has  resided.  In  1889  he  left  his  native  State, 
removing  to  Utah,  and  was  soon  after  appointed 
by  President  Harrison  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Territory,  being  assigned 
to  the  first  judicial  district  at  Ogden,  which  city 
he  continued  to  make  his  residence  until  1894, 
when  he  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City.  Upon 
coming  here  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge 
Ogden  Hiles,  which  continued  one  year,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Miner  and  Hiles. 

In  politics  Judge  Miner  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican  and  a  firm  believer  in  the 
principles  of  that  party,  and  especially  in  the 
defense  of  American  labor  and  its  protection  of 
home  industries.  His  career  on  the  bench  has 
been  a  continuation  of  the  success  which  he 
made  as  a  lawyer,  and  the  ability  he  has  demon- 
strated has  placed  him  in  the  front  ranks  of  the 
jurists  who  have  been  called  to  preside  over  the 
Supreme  Court  of  this  State.  In  private  as  well 
as  public  life  he  has  ever  evinced  his  purity  and 
uprightness.  He  is  a  man  of  great  energy  and 
perseverance.     Outside  of  his  profession  Judge 


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Miner  has  done  a  great  deal  to  develop  and  bring 
to  prominence  not  only  Salt  Lake  City,  but  the 
entire  State  as  well.  His  fine  residence  is  lo- 
cated on  East  Brigham  street,  which  is  consid- 
ered one  of  the  most  desirable  residence  streets 
in  Salt  Lake  City. 


OX.  THOMAS  KEARNS.  The  most 
prominent  man  in  Utah  today,  in  min- 
ing, finance  and  politics,  is  undoubted- 
ly the  present  junior  United  States 
Senator.  Behind  his  successful  leap 
from  poverty  to  wealth  and  from  the  obscurity 
of  a  worker  to  the  position  of  leader  of  the  domi- 
nant political  party  in  Utah,  can  readily  be  seen 
that  lever  of  success — constant  hard  work,  grind- 
ing application  and  unflagging  industry,  and 
coupled  with  his  ability  and  his  career  in  mining 
and  in  politics,  is  his  great  popularity.  Perhaps 
no  man  of  today  enjoys  a  warmer  friendship  of 
so  many  people  than  does  Mr.  Kearns. 

He  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Woodstock,  On- 
tario, in  1862.  His  people  were  Irish  emigrants 
and  his  father  had  settled  in  Canada  and  sup- 
ported his  family  by  farming.  His  son's  early 
life  was  spent  in  working  on  his  father's  farm  in 
Nebraska,  where  the  familv  had  moved  in  the 
early  seventies  and  in  doing  all  the  tasks  belong- 
ing to  farm  life. 

At  the  time  of  the  gold  discoveries  of  the  West 
he  believed  that  the  opportunities  were  greater 
and  the  field  in  which  to  employ  his  ability  prom- 
ised more  results  than  did  the  contracted  sphere 
of  farm  life.  His  first  work  in  the  West  was  in 
freighting  provisions  and  supplies  across  the 
plains  to  the  mountain  camps  which  had  already 
sprung  into  e.xistence  in  the  Black  Hills.  This 
he  followed  until  the  building  of  the  railroads 
suspended  this  method  of  transportation  and  did 
away  with  the  business  of  freighting.  The  many 
friends  whom  he  had  made  among  the  miners  by 
his  scrupulous  honesty,  his  manly  life,  his  gener- 
osity  and   his  amiable   and   obliging   disposition. 


stood  him  in  good  stead  and  he  soon  secured  em- 
ployment as  a  miner.  His  first  work  was  in  the 
Ontario  mine  at  Park  City,  where  he  was  one  of 
the  shift  of  men  employed  in  taking  out  the  ore. 
This  employment  he  regarded  only  as  a  stepping 
stone  to  greater  things  and  all  his  time  at  night 
was  devoted  to  the  study  of  geology,  and  during 
the  day  while  at  work  he  learned  all  he  could  of 
the  practical  working  of  mines.  He  labored  in 
the  Ontario  mine  eight  hours  every  day  and  de- 
voted all  his  remaining  hours  of  daylight  to  pros- 
pecting for  himself,  applying  all  his  savings  of 
his  wao^es  to  that  work.  His  first  efforts  were 
very  unsuccessful  failure  following  failure  with 
monotonous  regularity.  On  many  of  his  pros- 
pecting tours  in  the  mountains  he  was  often  with- 
out food  for  days,  and  for  many  months  he 
labored  sixteen  hours  a  day ;  eight  in  his  shift  in 
the  Ontario  mine  and  eight  tapping  the  moun- 
tains in  his  search  for  wealth.  This  life  con- 
sumed seven  years ;  a  period  marked  by  almost 
constant  failure  and  persistent  effort.  The 
wheels  of  fortune  at  last  began  to  turn  and  the 
prosperity  that  it  brought  carried  in  its  train 
endless  troubles  ;  litigations  over  the  property,  en- 
joinments  by  the  court ;  embarrassment  in  rais- 
ing the  money  for  the  purchase  of  the  land  on 
which  the  mine  was  located  and  all  the  vicissi- 
tudes to  which  miners  are  so  liable.  Had  he  been 
a  man  of  less  determination,  less  confident  of 
his  ability  to  win  in  the  end,  he  would  no  doubt 
have  given  up  the  task.  Under  these  discour- 
aging conditions  the  true  character  of  the  man 
who  was  afterwards  to  lead  his  party  and  repre- 
sent the  State  in  the  United  States  Senate,  was 
made  apparent ;  the  obstacles  he  encountered  only 
strengthened  his  purpose,  and  the  difficulties  to 
be  overcome  lent  him  more  vigor. 

When  the  first  shipment  of  ore  from  his  mine 
returned  to  him  in  the  shape  of  gold  money  his 
first  thought  was  not  to  reward  himself  for  his 
long  and  hard  efforts,  but  were  for  his  aged 
father  and  mother,  then  living  in  straightened 
circumstances  on  a  small  farm  in  Nebraska.  He 
received  twenty  thousand  dollars  in  payment  for 
his  first  ore,  and  his  first  work  with  this  money 
was  to  provide  for  his  parents  a  home  and  a 
competence  for  life.    This  exhibition  of  unselfish- 


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ness  is  but  in  keeping  with  the  man's  life  and  was 
but  the  beginning  of  the  good  work  he  has  done 
throughout  Utah  and  the  West. 

His  experience  as  a  practical  miner  and  of  the 
conditions  of  the  vvorkingman  has  aided  him  in 
doing  much  to  raise  their  standard  and  to  at 
least  give  them  more  comfort.  When  he  became 
a  mine  owner  he  voluntarily  raised  the  wages 
of  all  the  workers,  through  a  desire  to  benefit  as 
large  a  number  of  people  as  possible,  as  well  as 
through  a  desire  to  remember  the  people  whose 
life  he  had  shared  in  his  early  days.  His  work- 
ingmen  hold  him  in  high  esteem  and  the  people 
throughout  the  State  respect  and  admire  him  for 
the  career  he  has  made;  for  the  ability  he  has 
shown  and  for  the  clearness  with  which  he  has 
met  and  decided  all  questions  in  which  the  State 
has  been  a  party.  His  mining  interests  in  Utah 
are  now  very  extensive  and  he  is  without  doubt 
the  most  prominent  mining  man  in  all  the  West- 
ern country.  He  is  owner  of  the  "Mayflower," 
the  first  mine  that  he  located  and  developed, 
and  is  also  part  owner  of  the  "Silver  King" 
mine,  the  largest  mine  in  Utah,  and  perhaps 
the  most  successful  one  in  the  United  States. 

He  believes  thoroughly  in  the  future  prosper- 
ity and  greatness  of  Utah  and  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  has  not  confined  his  attention  to  mining,  but 
with  a  broadness  of  grasp  has  seen  the  great 
good  that  will  redound  to  Utah  from  a  direct 
connection  with  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  is  a  di- 
rector of  the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt 
Lake  Railroad,  being  associated  with  Senator 
Clark  of  Montana  and  Hon.  R.  C.  Kerens  of 
St.  Louis  in  the  work  of  joining  Salt  Lake  City 
and  Southern  California. 

In  politics  Mr.  Kearns  has  always  been  a  Re- 
publican and  prior  to  his  election  to  the  United 
States  Senate,  January,  1901,  had  been  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  work  of  the  party.  His 
election  was  at  first  looked  upon  by  some  as 
doubtful,  but  the  support  he  received  and  the 
stampede  that  followed  clearly  demonstrated  his 
popularity  with  all  classes  throughout  the  State, 
and  his  selection  by  the  legislature  has  proven 
satisfactory  to  Utah.  While  his  Senatorial  career 
is  yet  in  its  infancy  he  has  already  demonstrated 
that  Utah  will  profit  largely  by  his   experience 


and  by  his  work,  both  in  the  upbuilding  of  the 
State  and  of  its  capital  city,  and  by  the  influence 
which  Senator  Kearns  has  upon  federal  legisla- 
tion. Like  a  number  of  prominent  men  who 
have  become  wealthy  through  the  development 
of  the  resources  of  Utah,  the  Senator  believes  in 
disbursing  his  wealth  in  the  State  from  which  it 
was  derived.  His  handsome  home  now  com- 
pleted on  Brigham  street  is  one  of  the  most  pal- 
atial residences  in  the  West  and  promises  to  add 
as  much  to  the  attractiveness  of  Salt  Lake  City 
as  it  does  to  the  comfort  of  the  Senator.  Sen- 
ator Kearns  is  married  (his  wife  was  Miss  Jen- 
nie Judge,  a  native  of  New  York  State)  and  has 
three  children,  two  sons  and  one  daughter,  Ed- 
mund J.,  Thomas  F.  and  Helen  M.  His  wife 
has  been  his  constant,  faithful  companion,  in 
both  hiS'  adversity  and  prosperity.  She  is  especial- 
ly noted  throughout  Utah  for  her  charity  and 
unselfishness.  The  City  of  Salt  Lake  owes  much 
to  her  and  by  the  orphans  of  the  miners  she 
is  looked  upon  as  their  patron  saint.  Through 
her  efforts  and  munificence  alone  was  erected  the 
magnificent  orphanage  to  be  the  refuge  of  the 
children  of  miners.  With  almost  the  first  wealth 
from  her  husband's  wonderful  mines  which  she 
could  devote  to  her  own  personal  uses  she  signed 
a  check  for  fifty  thousand  dollars  and  presented 
it  to  Bishop  Scanlan  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  of  Utah,  for  the  immediate  erection  of 
the  splendid  new  home  for  the  orphaned  little 
ones  of  the  miners.  This  orphanage  is  one  of 
the  finest  and  most  complete  public  buildings  in 
the  State.  It  is  of  modern  construction ;  hand- 
somely finished,  lighted  and  heated  and  ventil- 
ated after  the  most  modern  plans,  and  is  equipped 
with  broad  recreation  halls  and  airy  play  and 
study  rooms.  It  shelters  one  hundred  and  sev- 
enty children  at  present.  These  are  educated  to 
fit  all  the  avocations  of  life  and  as  they  grow 
older  are  given  the  choice  of  a  profession  or  oc- 
cupation and  then  instructed  in  their  choice  so 
that  when  they  start  for  themselves  they  are 
properly  equipped  and  fully  prepared  to  earn  an 
honest  living  and  be  a  success  in  the  occupation 
which  they  have  chosen.  The  establishment  of 
this  institution  redounds  greatly  to  the  credit 
of  Mrs.  Kearns,  inasmuch  as  it  was  founded  by 


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her  efforts  and  with  her  money  long  before  she 
thought  of  expending  money  in  providing  her- 
self with  the  luxuries  that  she  could  so  well  af- 
ford. The  buildings  were  completed  and  dedi- 
cated in  the  spring  of  1901.  At  that  ceremony 
an  audience  composed  of  the  most  prominent 
citizens  of  Salt  Lake  joined  with  the  orphans  in 
praise  of  the  beneficence  of  Mrs.  Kearns.  Mrs. 
Kearns  is  much  loved  and  admired  throughout 
all  the  West  and  holds  a  high  place  in  the  re- 
gard of  all  Utahans.  She  is  a  leader  in  all  char- 
itable works  and  her  genial  and  unassuming 
manners  have  endeared  her  to  all  classes 
throughout  the  State. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  the  West  has  never  been 
represented  in  the  United  States  Senate  by  a 
stronger,  more  level-headed  or  influential  man 
than  Senator  Kearns  has  proven  himself  to  be. 
During  the  short  period  of  his  official  life  in  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States  he  has  by  his  influ- 
ence and  untiring  efforts  caused  Utah  to  be 
recognized  and  honored  to  a  degree  that  sur- 
passes any  new  State  in  the  Union.  Appoint- 
ments have  been  secured  for  citizens  of  this  State 
which  many  older  and  more  prominent  States 
might  well  be  proud  of.  Few  men  in  the  Senate 
stands  closer  to  President  Roosevelt  than  does 
Senator  Kearns,  and  it  is  probably  owing  to  this 
fact  that  he  has  been  able  to  wield  so  strong 
an  influence  for  Utah.  The  splendid  showing 
which  he  has  already  made  may  be  taken  as  a 
forerunner  of  what  will  be  accomplished  for  the 
good  of  the  State  during  his  term  in  the  Senate ; 
and  while  it  is  true  that  he  has  gained  the  favor 
and  good  will  of  not  only  the  President,  but  also 
of  many  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  coun- 
try, he  has  at  the  same  time  lost  no  friends  in 
his  own  State.  Beyond  a  doubt  he  today  stands 
as  close  to  the  hearts  of  the  masses  in  Utah  as 
does  any  other  man  in  public  life.  In  securing 
the  raising  of  Fort  Douglas  to  a  regimental  post 
and  the  appropriation  of  over  seven  hundred  and 
forty  thousand  dollars  for  improvements,  Sen- 
ator Kearns  has  rendered  Salt  Lake  City  a  ser- 
vice which  can  only  be  measured  and  appre- 
ciated as  the  years  go  by. 

In  presenting  this  sketch  the  writer  has  not 
attempted  to  give  a  full  biographical  outline  of 


the  life  of  Senator  Kearns,  as  that  would  be  im- 
possible in  a  work  of  this  kind,  but  to  present 
such  facts  as  will  enable  the  reader  to  have  a 
better  idea  of  the  main  points  in  his  life;  and 
it  is  believed  that  in  the  presentation  it  will  prove 
an  inspiration  to  not  only  the  yoimg  and  rising 
generation,  but  to  those  who  are  more  mature 
in  years,  fully  demonstrating  what  may  be  ac- 
complished by  the  exercise  of  a  level  head  and 
good  business  judgment,  coupled  with  determin- 
ation, perseverance,  and  indomitable  will  power. 


rOGE  GEORGE  W.  BARTCH.  As  the 
wealth  of  a  people  increases  and  the  de- 
\elopment  of  the  resources  of  the  State 
progresses,  able  men  are  demanded  to 
adjudicate  controversies  and  to  intelli- 
gently and  impartially  construe  the  laws.  These 
conditions  have  arisen  in  Utah,  and  among  the 
men  selected  to  comprise  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  State,  few  have  met  the  demand  as  well  and 
none  better  than  had  the  Honorable  George  \V. 
Bartch. 

Born  on  his  father's  farm  in  Sullivan  County, 
Pennsylvania,  the  son  of  the  Reverend  John  G. 
Bartch,  an  Evangelical  clergyman,  and  of  Mary 
Madgeline  (Stiner)  Bartch,  he  was  left  an  or- 
phan at  an  early  age,  his  mother  dying  while  he 
was  yet  an  infant  and  his  father  when  he  was 
but  eight  years  of  age. 

The  Bartch  family  were  among  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Pennsylvania  and  were  of  English-Ger- 
man extraction.  The  Reverend  John  G.  Bartch, 
the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  well 
and  favorably  known  throughout  Pennsylvania 
as  an  ardent  preacher  and  a  consistent  Christian. 
Owing  to  the  death  of  both  his  parents  so  early 
in  his  life,  their  son  has  found  great  difficulty  in 
learning  much  of  their  early  history. 

Almost  from  the  time  he  learned  to  work,  our 
subject  followed  his  father  around  the  farm 
and  was  his  constant  companion  until  the  latter's 
death.  Young  as  he  was,  this  intercourse  had  a 
marked  influence  upon  the  boy's  mind,  and  the 
principles  inculcated  during  that  time  and  later 
from  a  study  of  his  father's  life,  were  undoubt- 
edly the  foundation  upon  which  he  has  built  a 


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reputation  for  unimpeachable  integrity  and  a 
successful  career. 

Upon  the  death  of  his  father,  he  lived  with  an 
older  brother  on  a  farm  in  Sullivan  County,  and 
there  spent  his  boyhood  days.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  received  in  the  common  schools  of  Sul- 
livan County,  which  he  attended  in  the  winter, 
spending  the  summer  in  work  on  the  farm.  He 
later  entered  the  State  Normal  School  at  Blooms- 
burg,  Pennsylvania,  graduating  from  that  insti- 
tution in  the  spring  of  1871  with  the  degree  of 
Master  of  Science.  Finding  that  the  contracted 
sphere  of  farm  life  did  not  afford  him  sufficient 
opportunity  for  the  exercise  of  his  ability,  he 
started  out  in  life  at  the  age  of  sixteen.  His 
first  work  was  as  a  school  teacher  in  the  county 
schools,  which  he  continued  to  follow  for  two 
years.  The  ability  he  displayed  in  this  capacity 
won  for  him  the  position  of  Superintendent  of 
the  city  schools  of  Shenandoah,  Pennsylvania, 
which  he  retained  for  ten  years.  In  addition  to 
his  duties  as  principal,  he  taught  Latin  and  Greek 
until  a  professor  was  furnished  for  those 
branches.  Besides  his  study  of  languages,  he 
also  devoted  considerable  time  and  attention  to 
the  study  of  philosophy  and  mental  science.  Un- 
der his  direction  the  schools  of  Senandoah  made 
great  strides  in  progress  and  so  satisfactory  had 
his  work  been  that  it  was  with  some  difficulty 
that  the  Board  consented  to  accept  his  resigna- 
tion. The  reputation  which  he  had  built  up  as 
an  educator  during  this  tenure  of  office  made 
him  well  and  favorably  known  to  all  the  leading 
colleges  and  educators  of  Pennsylvania,  and  he 
still  enjoys  many  warm  friendships  he  made 
in  those  days  in  that  State. 

During  the  entire  time  he  was  engaged  in  di- 
recting the  school  work  and  even  before,  his 
mind  had  been  set  on  following  the  law  as 
a  profession  and  as  his  lifework.  All  the 
time  he  could  spare  from  his  duties  were  given 
to  this  study,  and  when  he  resigned  his  position 
it  was  with  the  view  of  entering  upon  the  prac- 
tice of  his  chosen  profession.  Judge  Bartch  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Pennsylvania  and  prac- 
ticed in  his  native  State  until  1886,  residing  there 
during  the  Molly  Maguire  troubles  and  living  in 
the  very  thick  of  that  disturbance. 


In  the  fall  of  1886,  this  future  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Utah  removed  to  Colorado  and 
located  at  Cannon  City,  where  he  soon  built  up 
a  good  practice  and  was  joined  by  his  family. 
Here  he  continued  to  reside  for  two  years  and 
in  the  spring  of  1888  moved  to  Utah  and  settled 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  Here  his  ability  and  knowl- 
edge soon  won  for  him  a  prominent  place  at 
the  bar,  as  well  as  a  lucrative  practice.  His  en- 
tire time  since  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City,  with 
the  exception  of  the  terms  he  served  on  the 
Bench,  has  been  devoted  to  his  professional 
labors. 

In  President  Harrison's  term  of  office  he  was 
appointed  Probate  Judge  of  Salt  Lake  County. 
He  was  later  appointed  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Utah  by  President  Harrison, 
being  associated  with  Judge  Blackburn,  who  was 
then  a  member  of  that  court.  This  position  he 
continued  to  fill  with  his  usual  ability  and  effi- 
cieny  until  Utah  was  admitted  to  the  Union  in 
1896.  When  the  elections  to  fill  the  offices  of 
the  new  State  were  held.  Judge  Bartch  was 
elected  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  for  a  term 
of  five  years,  the  last  two  years  of  which  he  was 
Chief  Justice,  and  in  the  election  of  1900  was 
re-elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  to  that  posi- 
tion by  a  large  majority. 

His  work  on  the  Bench  has  stamped  him  as 
one  of  the  ablest  judges  who  have  served  Utah, 
and  among  the  men  who  have  been  chosen  to 
fill  that  responsible  position,  few  have  given  the 
general  satisfaction  that  Judge  Bartch  has  given 
to  the  people  of  the  State.  Just  as  in  other 
walks  of  life,  his  success  has  been  built  upon 
constant  hard  work,  close  study,  and  the  power 
to  think  and  to  grasp  the  salient  points  of  a  con- 
troversy. In  all  the  cases  he  has  decided,  his 
decisions  have  been  reached  only  after  a  careful 
and  painstaking  review  of  all  the  facts.  It  is  his 
policy  never  to  take  anything  for  granted,  but 
to  make  himself  personally  familiar  with  all  the 
details  of  the  case  in  hand. 

Judge  Bartch  was  married  in  Bloomsburg, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1871  to  Miss  Amanda  A.  Guild, 
daughter  of  Aaron  D.  and  Sarah  A.  Guild,  and 
has  three  children,  Minnie  Alice,  Rae  and  Olive 
Amanda.     Judge  Bartch's  wife  comes  from  one 


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of  the  old  Pennsylvania  families  and  were  among 
the  first  settlers  of  that  State.  His  father-in-law 
was  a  farmer  of  means  and  prosperous  business. 

For  the  past  thirty  years  Judge  and  Mrs. 
Bartch  have  been  members  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  and  have  always  aided  in  its  work  and 
taken  prominent  parts  in  its  development  in  Utah. 

In  political  affairs,  the  Judge  has  ever  been 
a  staunch  Republican  and  has  consistently  fol- 
lowed the  fortunes  of  that  party  throughout  his 
career.  During  the  lifetime  of  the  late  President 
McKinley,  he  enjoyed  the  warm  personal  friend- 
ship of  that  distinguished  statesman. 

From  an  unpropitious  beginning,  Judge  Bartck 
has  erected  a  career  that  stands  high,  not  only 
in  Utah,  but  in  the  United  States.  His  success- 
ful career  as  a  lawyer  and  as  a  judge  mark  him 
as  one  of  the  most  successful  men  of  the  West. 
Thrown  on  his  own  resources  at  an  early  age 
by  the  death  of  his  parents,  he  has,  by  the  dint 
of  continuous  hard  work  and  application,  erected 
a  career  that  may  well  be  a  source  of  pride  to 
his  posterity  in  the  years  to  come.  A  command- 
ing presence,  coupled  with  a  judicial  cast  of 
mind,  a  genial  and  pleasant  manner  and  a  warm 
heart  has  won  for  him  a  host  of  good  friends 
throughout  Utah  and  made  him  one  of  the  most 
popular  men  in  the  State. 


RAXKLIX  S.  RICHARDS  is  a  name 
that  must  ever  point  out  one  of  the 
brightest  stars  that  has  yet  dawned 
upon  the  horizon  of  the  legal  world  of 
the  West.  Perhaps  no  profession  af- 
fords a  wider  field  for  individual  attainment  than 
does  the  law,  and  this  fact  has  attracted  to  it 
multitudes  of  young  men  from  every  clime  since 
it  became  reduced  to  a  recognized  science  and  in- 
creasing civilization  demanded  a  finer  discrimina- 
tion between  justice  and  injustice.  The  man  who 
rises  above  the  mediocre  in  his  profession  must 
possess  not  only  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
law ;  he  must  have  a  logical  and  resourceful 
mind,  be  a  reader  of  human  nature,  and  have  a 
peculiar  fitness  not  alone  to  so  plead  at  the  bar 
and  so  sway  the  minds  of  the  jury  as  to  procure 
for  his  client  the  desired  verdict :  he  must  pos- 


sess that  indefinable  something  called  eloquence ; 
that  power  over  the  minds  and  hearts  of  those 
with  whom  he  is  associated  that  shall  make  them 
bend  to  his  will  as  the  mighty  tree  bends  be- 
fore the  gale  that  sweeps  over  prairie  and  plain ; 
that  winning  personality  that  invests  every  other 
being  with  a  part  of  itself,  and  makes  his  mind 
and  his  will  theirs.  Such  a  man  will  rise  to  the 
highest  mountain  peaks  of  fame  and  leadership, 
be  his  environment  what  it  may.  Such  a  mind 
and  such  a  personality  can  no  more  be  kept  in 
obscurity  than  can  the  first  bright,  beautiful 
rays  of  the  morning  sun ;  and  as  those  rays  grow 
more  bright  and  beautiful  as  the  orb  ascends  the 
heavens,  so  will  the  career  of  such  a  man  shed 
increasing  light  and  increasing  beneficence  upon 
the  world  about  him,  penetrating  ever  farther  and 
farther,  and  bringing  blessings  and  joy  to  man- 
kind generations  after  the  man  himself  shall  have 
passed  from  earth's  scenes.  Such  a  man  as  we 
have  described  is  to  be  found  in  the  person  of 
Franklin  S.  Richards,  whose  name  heads  this  arti- 
cle. 

Mr.  Richards  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
June  20,  1849,  two  years  after  the  first  pioneer  set 
his  foot  in  Salt  Lake  Valley  and  here  began  the 
erection  of  his  home,  seeking  nothing  better  than 
that  he  be  allowed  to  worship  according  to  the 
dictates  of  his  own  conscience.  Among  those 
worthy  people  were  President  Franklin  D.  and 
Jane  (Snyder)  Richards,  parents  of  our  subject, 
a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 
1  ne  mother  had  come  childless  into  this  then  un- 
inviting wilderness,  carrying  with  her  the  bitter 
memory  of  two  little  graves  where  she  had  laid 
her  loved  children  after  the  exodus  of  the  Mor- 
mons from  Nauvoo,  and  when  our  subject  was 
born,  not  only  his  frail  life,  but  that  of  the  mother, 
hung  in  the  balance  for  many  days.  The  long 
and  wearisome  journey  across  the  plains,  the 
hardships  endured  not  only  on  that  journey  and 
later,  but  at  the  time  of  the  exodus ;  the  breaking 
of  the  mother  heart  as  she  saw  her  little  ones 
pass  out  into  that  bourne  whence  none  ever  re- 
turn, all  tended  to  break  down  her  health  and 
sap  her  vitality,  and  the  house  in  which  the  babe 
was  born  was  a  crude  structure  consisting  of 
one  barren  adobe  room,  the  roof  thatched  with 


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rushes  and  covered  over  with  earth ;  but  rude  as 
it  was,  it  was  better  than  the  shelter  that  most 
of  those  early  pioneers  had  secured,  as  building 
a  place  of  shelter  became  almost  a  second  con- 
sideration in  the  face  of  the  failure  of  the  first 
crops  and  the  fast  diminishing  supply  of  food. 
As  a  result  of  a  terrific  storm  which  swept  the 
valley  Mrs.  Richards  went  through  a  severe  sick- 
ness, in  which  her  life  was  for  a  time  despaired 
of,  but  her  fine  constitution  carried  her  safely 
back  to  health  and  she  was  spared  to  her  family 
for  many  years.  Inheriting  from  both  parents 
intellectuality,  perseverence  and  the  power  of  con- 
centration, he  early  gave  evidence  of  possessing 
a  mind  of  an  unusual  order,  and  he  was  given 
every  advantage  in  the  way  of  an  education  that 
the  schools  which  then  existed  afforded,  his  par- 
ents taking  special  pains  to  instruct  him  person- 
ally. So  apt  a  pupil  did  he  prove  that  at  the 
age  of  seventeen,  upon  the  departure  of  his  father 
to  a  mission  to  Europe,  he  was  capable  of  taking 
entire  charge  of  a  large  and  select  school  which 
he  taught  for  the  following  three  years,  thus 
assisting  in  the  support  of  the  family.  During 
this  time  he  continued  his  own  studies  under  pri- 
vate tutors. 

On  December  i8,  1868,  when  but  nineteen 
years  of  age,  Mr.  Richards  entered  the  marriage 
relation  with  Miss  Emily  S.  Tanner,  a  daughter 
of  Nathan  and  Rachel  Tanner  of  this  city.  Sev- 
eral children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage, 
which  has  proved  one  of  exceptional  happiness, 
and  Mrs.  Richards  is  one  of  the  notable  women 
of  Utah. 

Early  in  the  following  year  Apostle  Franklin 
D.  Richards  was  appointed  to  preside  over  the 
Weber  Stake  of  Zion  and  it  became  necessary 
for  him  to  remove  to  Ogden,  which  he  did,  our 
subject  and  his  young  wife,  as  a  part  of  the  fam- 
ily, going  with  him.  Mr.  Richards  had  a  pas- 
sion for  the  study  of  medicine  and  was  fitting 
himself  to  follow  that  profession,  but  the  condi- 
tions which  he  found  to  e.xist  in  Ogden  pro- 
foundly impressed  him  with  the  necessity  for  a 
good  legal  adviser  and  practitioner  among  the 
people  of  that  district,  and  after  much  deep  con- 
sideration and  study  of  the  case  he  abandoned 
his  determination  to  study  medicine  and  turned 


his  attention  to  the  study  of  the  law.  The  situa- 
tion demanded  that  he  devote  his  whole  energy 
to  the  perfecting  of  himself  in  this  direction,  as 
there  was  no  resident  lawyer  in  Ogden  and  but 
few  established  legal  forms ;  the  railroad  had  ar- 
rived and  the  public  lands  were  coming  into  the 
market.  Mr.  Richards  was  appointed  clerk  of 
the  P'robate  Court  and  subsequently  elected 
County  Recorder,  and  during  this  time  spent 
much  time  and  thought  upon  the  difficult  and 
important  task  of  formulating  methods  and  de- 
vising a  way  in  which  to  keep  the  public  records 
in  a  more  systematic  manner  than  they  were  then 
kept.  The  improvements  he  made  in  this  direc- 
tion brought  him  the  special  commendation  of 
President  Brigham  Young.  He  held  the  offices 
of  Clerk  and  Recorder  for  nine  years,  at  the 
end  of  which  time  he  retired,  declining  re- 
election that  was  tendered  him.  He  had  con- 
tinued the  study  of  law  during  these  years,  " — - 
ing  special  attention  to  the  subject  of  constitu- 
tional law,  and  on  the  i6th  of  June,  1874,  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  of  the  Third  District  Cou'-* 
at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  on  the  afternoon  of  the 
same  day  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  Territory,  his  name  being  presented  by  the 
veteran  attorney,  Frank  Tilford.  Mr.  Richards' 
first  case  in  court  was  that  of  a  man  charged 
with  murder,  and  although  the  opposing  coun- 
sel were  able  and  eloquent  attorneys,  Mr.  Rich- 
ards' handling  of  the  case  astonished  even  the 
most  enthusiastic  of  his  friends  and  won  the 
discharge  of  his  client.  His  signal  success 
brought  him  into  immediate  recognition  and 
prominence  in  legal  circles,  and  the  star  that 
then  began  to  ascend  li^s  since  continued  to 
grace  the  legal  world  with  ever-increasing  lustre. 
In  the  spring  of  1877  he  was  called  in  com- 
pany with  Apostle  Joseph  F.  Smith  to  go  to  Eu- 
rope on  a  mission  for  the  Mormon  Church.  They 
arrived  in  Liverpool  on  the  27th  of  May  and  the 
English  climate  being  at  that  season  too  severe 
for  his  delicate  health  he  availed  himself  of  an 
opportunity  to  travel  on  the  continent  for  a  time, 
and  during  the  period  of  recreation  visited 
France,  Italy,  Switzerland,  Germany  and  other 
countries,  and  returned  to  London  much  re- 
freshed  and   benefited   by    the   change.      He   re- 


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mained  in  the  work  in  London  for  a  time  and 
then  went  to  the  south  coast,  where  his  health 
again  became  affected  by  the  humid  atmosphere, 
and  it  was  deemed  advisable  for  him  to  return 
home,  which  he  did  in  the  fall  of  1877,  in  com- 
pany with  Apostles  Orson  Pratt  and  Joseph  F. 
Smith. 

Mr.  Richards  attained  special  prominence  as 
an  attorney  for  the  Church  during  the  adminis- 
tration of  President  John  Taylor,  successor  to 
Brigham  Young.  His  first  work  of  note  was  in 
connection  with  the  estate  of  Brigham  Young. 
Air.  Richards  had  as  a  law  partner  at  that  time 
Judge  Rufus  K.  Williams,  formerly  Chief  Justice 
of  Kentucky,  and  was  the  senior  member  of  the 
firm.  This  firm  was  dissolved  in  1881,  Mr.  Rich- 
ards' arduous  duties  as  church  attorney  and  his 
study  of  the  constitutional  law  absorbing  all  his 
spare  time,  and  he  preferring  to  follow  this 
course  rather  than  that  of  a  general  law  practice. 
He  was  admitted  in  the  spring  of  1881  to  prac- 
tice before  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

The  following  year  he  represented  Weber 
County  in  the  Constitutional  Convention,  in 
which  he  took  a  very  active  part,  and  was  elected 
one  of  the  delegates  to  present  the  Constitution 
to  Congress,  his  associates  being  Hons.  John  T. 
Caine  and  D.  H.  Peerv.  This  was  after  the  pass- 
ing of  the  Edmunds  act,  and  Mr.  Richards  posi- 
tion as  church  attorney  brought  him  into  consid- 
erable prominence  in  Washington,  where  he  made 
the  acquaintance  of  the  most  noted  men  of  that 
day.  During  this  time  Judge  Jeremiah  S.  Black 
made  a  special  trip  to  Washington  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  for  the  pur- 
pose of  conferring  with  Mr.  Richards  regarding 
the  condition  of  affairs  in  Utah,  and  it  was  dur- 
ing this  and  suosequent  conferences  and  the  study 
of  the  questions  involved  that  the  world  was 
given  Judge  Black's  great  constitutional  argu- 
ment upon  "Federal  Jurisdiction  in  the  Terri- 
tories," delivered  during  the  following  winter 
before  the  Judiciary  Committee  of  the  House  of 
Representatives.  The  frequent  conferences  be- 
tween our  subject  and  Judge  Black  resulted  in 
close  friendship  which  was  only  severed  by  the 
death  of  the  judge. 


At  a  somewhat  later  period  Air.  Richards  and 
his  brother,  Charles  C,  successfully  defended 
their  father  in  the  noted  mandamus  proceedings 
brought  against  him  as  Probate  Judge  of  Weber 
County,  by  James  N.  Kimball,  and  which  case 
was  brought  to  a  satisfactory  termination. 

Mr.  Richards'  next  trip  to  Washington  was  in 
the  fall  of  1882,  when  in  company  with  Messrs. 
Caine,  Peery  and  ex-Delegate  Cannon,  in  the  in- 
terests of  statehood.  During  his  sojourn  in 
Washington  he  was  admitted  to  practice  before 
the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  upon  motion  of  Judge  Black,  the  date 
of  his  admission  being  January  30,  1883.  Judge 
Black  died  the  following  August,  deeply 
mourned,  not  only  by  his  chosen  friend,  but  also 
by  the  people  whose  cause  he  had  so  ably  de- 
fended, and  in  October  of  that  year  Mr.  Richards 
once  more  made  a  trip  East,  this  time  witn  Hon. 
George  Q.  Cannon  and  Delegate  Caine,  for  the 
purpose  of  engaging  counsel  to  assist  them  in 
pleading  the  cause  of  the  Mormon  people.  As 
a  result  of  this  visit  Senator  \'est  of  Missouri 
was  retained.  He  again  visited  the  Capuol  with 
Moses  Thatcher  in  the  same  cause  in  1884,  but 
was  obliged  to  return  home  to  take  his  seat  in 
the  legislature,  having  been  elected  to  represent 
the  counties  of  Weber  and  Box  Elder,  being 
elected  President  of  the  Council.  He  was  also 
appointed  as  City  Attorney  for  Salt  Lake  in  that 
year  and  moved  his  residence  from  Ogden  to  this 
city,  after  an  absence  of  fifteen  years.  He  was 
re-elected  to  this  office  from  term  to  term  until 
1890,  when  the  municipal  government  changed 
hands.  During  the  period  commonly  called  the 
"Crusade,"  in  which  the  violators  of  the  Ed- 
munds act  were  vigorously  prosecuted,  Mr.  Rich- 
ards gave  his  whole  time  to  the  defense  of  the 
church  and  the  Mormon  people,  his  most  note- 
worthy cases  being  that  of  Rudger  Clawson,  the 
first  man  to  be  tried  for  poligamy  before  Judge 
Zane,  and  the  case  commonly  referred  to  as  Mur- 
phy vs.  Ramsey,  involving  the  rights  of  thou- 
sands of  citizens  disinfranchised  by  the  rulings 
of  the  Utah  Commission ;  also  the  case  of  the 
L'nited  States  vs.  Lorenzo  Snow,  in  vvhich  the 
questions  of  "constructive  cohabitation"  and  "se- 
gregation" came  up  for  adjudication;  the  vital 


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point  in  this  case  being  whether  or  not  a  man 
accused  of  breaking  the  Edmunds  law  could 
legally  be  punished  three  times  for  one  alleged 
offense.  These  cases  were  all  carried  to  Wash- 
ington, where  Mr.  Richards^  was  assisted  in  some 
of  them  by  such  eminent  legal  lights  as  Watne 
McVeigh,  Senator  Vest  and  George  Ticknor 
Curtis,  who  appeared  with  him  several  times  be- 
fore the  Court  of  Last  Resort.  As  a  result  of 
Mr.  Richards'  labors  Apostle  Snow  was  released 
on  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus. 

At  that  time  nearly  all  the  leaders  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  were  living  in  exile,  as  under  the 
law  then  existing  a  man  could  be  convicted  of 
unlawful  cohabitation  and  sentenced  upon  an  in- 
definite number  of  counts.  Mr.  Richards  had 
been  earnestly  and  persistently  laboring  for  a 
period  of  more  than  two  years  to  have  this  law 
modified  and  was  finally  successful.  It  was  one 
of  the  greatest  victories  ever  won  in  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  in  favor  of  the  Mor- 
mon people,  and  one  in  which  the  greatest  grati- 
tude was  shown  Mr.  Richards  by  the  leaders  of 
the  church.  The  result  of  this  decison  was  that 
nearly  all  of  these  men  came  forward  and  sub- 
mitted to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Court  and  in 
many  cases  pleaded  guilty  and  went  to  the  peni- 
tentiary, willing  to  suffer  the  penalty  and  pay 
their  fines,  knowing  that  the  reign  of  terror  which 
had  existed  among  the  Mormon  people  was 
broken  and  that  they  could  only  be  tried  and 
made  to  pay  the  penalty  imposed  by  the  law  once 
for  an  offense.  Under  these  happy  conditions 
the  people  returned  to  their  homes  and  once  more 
resumed  their  accustomed  labors,  feeling  secure 
that  the  justice  of  the  law  would  protect  them. 

Mr.  Richards  also  appeared  in  behalf  of  the 
church  at  the  time  of  the  confiscation  of  the 
church  property  under  the  Edmunds-Tucker  act, 
having  associated  with  him  such  eminent  lawyers 
as  Hon.  James  O.  Broadhead  and  Senator  Joseph 
E.  McDonald,  the  opposing  counsel  being  chosen 
from  among  the  brightest  legal  lights  of  the 
United  States.  In  fact,  he  represented  nearly  all 
the  cases  of  note  at  that  time.  At  the  close  of 
the  crusade,  when  both  Mormons  and  Gentiles 
agreed  to  bury  the  hatchet,  wipe  out  old  party 
lines  and  become  Democrats  and  Republicans,  in 


the  new  era  then  opening  upon  Utah,  no  one  was 
more  active  in  bringing  about  the  changed  con- 
ditions that  have  since  prevailed.  He  cast  his 
lot  with  the  Democratic  party  and  has  since  been 
one  of  its  most  staunch  defenders  and  supporters. 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  in  1894,  representing  the  Fourth 
Precinct  of  Salt  Lake  City,  in  which  he  resides. 
He  took  a  prominent  part  in  this  convention  and 
won  laurels  by  his  learned  and  logical  address 
in  behalf  of  woman  suffrage,  which  after  a  spir- 
ited and  protracted  debate  was  incorporated  into 
the  State  Constitution.  His  cherished  dream — 
Statehood  for  Utah — being  realized,  Mr.  Rich- 
ards retired  to  some  extent  from  active  politics 
and  once  more  devoted  himself  to  his  profession. 
His  son,  Joseph  T.,  had  been  associated  with 
him  for  some  years  under  the  firm  name  of  Rich- 
ards and  Richards,  and  this  partnership  was  dis- 
solved in  the  beginning  of  1898,  and  Mr.  Rich- 
ards formed  another  partnership  with  Hon.  C.  S. 
Varian.  This  firm  has  come  to  the  front  as  one 
of  the  leading  law  firms  of  the  city.  They  are 
frequently  retained  in  big  cases  involving  ques- 
tions of  constitutional  and  mining  law,  as  well 
as  having  a  large  general  law  practice,  and  some 
of  the  most  important  cases  tried  in  the  State 
since  the  formation  of  this  partnership  have  been 
won  by  this  firm.  Mr.  Richards  also  still  retains 
the  position  of  attorney  for  the  church. 

Mr.  Richards  is  one  of  the  most  cultured  of 
men ;  studious,  thoughtful,  and  to  the  stranger 
a  trifle  distant  at  first,  but  this  apparent  coldness 
comes  more  from  a  naturally  reserved  nature 
than  from  any  desire  to  be  formal,  as  he  is  to 
those  who  know  him  one  of  the  most  genial  and 
kindly  of  men ;  a  great  lover  of  home  and  family. 
When  aroused  he  is  most  enthusiastic  and  has 
the  power  of  infusing  that  enthusiasm  into  those 
he  wishes  to  impress.  He  is  full  of  energy  and 
action,  a  hard  worker,  and  whatever  he  has  in 
hand  he  goes  at  it  in  a  whole-souled  manner, 
putting  his  best  energies  into  the  task  until  it 
is  completed.  While  he  is  and  has  always  been 
a  strong  and  devoted  follower  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  yet  he  is  a  man  of  very  broad  and  liberal 
mind,  charitable  and  allowing  every  man  the 
privilege  of  living  according  to  the  dictates  of 


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his  own  conscience,  and  no  man  of  this  day  stands 
any  higher  in  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the 
people,  not  only  of  the  city  and  State,  but 
throughout  the  whole  Union  wherever  he  is 
known,  than  does  Franklin  S.  Richards,  and  he 
has  won  the  lasting  friendship  of  the  people  of 
this  land  whose  friendship  is  most  worth  having, 
irrespective  of  religious  dogma.  While  his  great- 
est work  has  been  in  the  interests  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  he  is  first,  last  and  always  the  friend 
of  the  people  and  of  the  State,  and  stands  ever 
ready  to  lend  his  aid  to  any  enterprise  or  scheme 
for  the  uplifting  of  the  one  or  the  advancement 
of  the  other. 


\TTHEW  H.  WALKER.  So 
closely  interwoven  with  the  begin- 
ning and  development  of  the  pros- 
perity of  Utah,  and  of  the  building 
up  of  Salt  Lake  City  is  the  life  of 
the  Walker  family,  in  L'tah,  that  any  attempt  to 
write  a  sketch  of  their  lives  must  of  necessity 
include  a  greater  part  of  the  history  of  the  rise 
of  Salt  Lake  City  to  its  present  important  posi- 
tion. They  were  among  the  first  pioneers  to  come 
to  this  Territory  when  it  was  a  vast  wilderness 
and  formed  a  part  of  the  great  American  desert. 
They  participated  largely  in  the  work  of  settle- 
ment, and  have  aided  greatly  in  transforming 
the  desert  into  a  prosperous  and  growing  busi- 
ness community.  No  member  of  the  family  has 
taken  a  greater  part  in  the  industrial  development 
of  Salt  Lake  than  has  Matthew  H.  Walker,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  He  is  President  of  the 
Walker  Brothers  Dry  Goods  Company,  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  successful  establishments  of 
that  kind  in  Utah,  and  is  also  President  of 
Walker  Brothers  Bank,  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  solid  financial  institutions  in  the  inter-moun- 
tain region.  He  was  also  President  of  the  Union 
Insurance  Agency,  which  has  been  consolidated 
with  the  Sherman,  Wilson  Insurance  Company, 
and  is  one  of  the  largest  individual  owners  of 
real  estate  in  Salt  Lake  City,  in  addition  to  which 
he  holds  large  interests  in  mining  properties  and 
in  other  investments  throughout  the  State. 
He  was  born  in  Yorkshire,  near  Leeds,  Eng- 


land, on  January  the  i6th,  1845.  When  he  was 
but  an  infant  his  family  emigrated  to  America, 
and  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  ocean  a  babe  in  arms. 
His  father,  Matthew,  had  been  a  prominent  man 
in  England,  and  was  largely  interested  in  com- 
mercial undertakings  and  in  railroad  projects.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight,  soon  after  reach- 
ing Saint  Louis,  where  the  family  had  settled 
upon  their  arrival  in  America.  His  wife,  and  the 
mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Mercy 
(Long)  Walker,  was  also  a  native  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  and  upon  the  death  of  her  husband, 
she,  with  her  four  sons,  left  Saint  Louis  in  1852 
and  crossed  the  great  American  plains  by  ox 
teams  to  Utah.  This  journey  was  unusually  hard 
and  arduous,  owing  to  the  fact  that  they  lost  a 
large  part  of  their  cattle,  and  were  forced  to  part 
with  the  remainder  to  the  Indians,  for  ponies  and 
equipment  in  order  to  enable  them  to  continue 
their  journey.  The  wagon  train  with  which  they 
started  across  the  plains  was  left  at  Green  River, 
Wyoming,  and  the  Walker  family  journeyed  from 
that  point  alone  to  the  Salt  Lake  Valley,  arriving 
here  in  September,  1852.  Their  journey  across 
the  plains  occupied  a  period  of  four  months.  The 
oldest  son  was  then  but  sixteen  years  of  age, 
and  Matthew,  our  subject,  was  but  seven  when 
he  arrived  in  Salt  Lake.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  in  1859,  ^^  the  age  of  thirteen,  he  with 
his  three  elder  brothers,  embarked  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  under  the  name  of  Walker 
Brothers.  Prior  to  the  establishment  of  their 
business,  they  had  secure'd  employment  as  clerks 
in  stores  in  Camp  Flood  and  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
Their  business  was  first  located  at  a  site  north 
of  where  the  building  of  the  Walker  Brothers 
Bank  now  stands.  Later,  they  purchased  the 
property  on  the  east  side  of  Main  street,  opposite 
and  later  acquired  the  property  upon  which  the 
Walker  Brothers  Bank  building  now  stands,  at 
the  northwest  corner  of  Main  and  Second  South 
streets.  Their  mercantile  business  at  first  occu- 
pied all  of  the  front  of  the  building,  facing  on 
Main  street,  and  the  banking  business,  which  was 
then  but  a  side  issue,  was  carried  on  in  the  rear 
of  the  building.  Their  banking  business  grad- 
ually grew  as  the  years  passed,  due  to  a  great 


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extent  to  a  custom  of  their  customers  leaving 
money  with  them  for  safe  keeping.  _  The  increase 
in  the  banking  business  led  them  to  establish  the 
Union  National  Bank,  which  was  a  very  success- 
ful venture,  but  it  was  later  merged  with  the 
Walker  Brothers  Bank.  They  erected  at  the 
southwest  corner  of  Main  and  Third  South 
streets,  in  1891,  the  new  home  of  the  Walker 
Brothers  Dry  Goods  Company,  a  substantial 
three-story  brick  building,  which  is  among  the 
best  buildings  in  the  city,  and  compares  credit- 
ably with  establishments  of  cities  much  larger 
than  Salt  Lake.  This  store,  in  addition  to  dry 
goods,  is  in  reality  a  department  store  in  which 
everything  pertaining  to  clothing  or  dry  goods 
is  kept  for  sale.  This  establishment  alone  gives 
employment  to  about  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  people,  and  their  other  industries  in  the  city 
swells  the  number  of  their  employees  to  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty. 

S.  S.  Walker  was  a  member  of  the  firm  until 
his  death  in  1887.  Joseph  R.,  another  brother, 
was  also  a  member  of  the  firm  until  his  death  in 
1901.  D.  F.  Walker,  for  years  a  member  of  the 
firm,  is  now  living  at  San  Mateo,  California. 

Our  subject  married  in  1865  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Carson.  She  died  in  1896,  and  his  present 
wife  was  Mrs.  Angelena  Hague,  a  native  of  Lon- 
don, England,  who  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  when 
but  a  young  girl,  and  has  spent  her  life  in  LTtah. 
Mr.  Walker  has  one  son,  J.  H.  Walker,  by  his 
first  wife,  and  who  is  now  Assistant  Cashier  in 
the  Walker  Brothers  Bank.  By  his  second  wife 
he  has  one  daughter,  four  years  old. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Walker  is  a  member  of 
the  Republican  party  but  he  has  been  so  en- 
grossed in  business  afifairs  that  he  has  not  had 
time  to  participate  actively  in  this  work.  He  is 
X  member  of  the  School  Board  of  Salt  Lake.  In 
fraternal  life  he  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Masonic  order. 

Mr.  Walker  has  acquired  his.  present  high 
standing  in  financial  and  business  circles  through 
no  lucky  chance,  but  by  constant,  hard  work, 
careful  management  and  application  to  the  work 
in  hand.  His  unimpeachable  integrity  has  won 
for  him  a  high  reputation  in  the  business  world, 
and  he  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all 


with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact.  He  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Salt  Lake  City  and  has  a  handsome  home 
on  South  Main  street. 


L'DGE  THOMAS  MARSHALL.  Few 
members  of  the  Bar  of  Utah  have  ac- 
quired as  high  a  reputation  for  in- 
tegrity, ability  and  learning  in  their 
[profession,  as  has  Judge  Thomas  Mar- 
shal. There  have  been  many  lirilliant  careers 
in  the  West,  and  many  which  have  shone 
with  the  light  of  great  ability  and  the  suc- 
cessful development  of  prosperous  industries, 
but  among  the  ranks  of  the  men  whose  life 
work  has  been  crowned  with  success,  there  are 
none  who  hold  a  higher  position  than  does  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Judge  Thomas  Marshall  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington, Mason  County,  Kentucky,  August  25th, 
1834.  His  is  a  son  of  Colonel  Charles  A.  Mar- 
shall and  Phoebe  Paxton  Marshall,  one  of  the 
oldest  and  most  prominent  families  in  Kentucky, 
and  they  number  among  their  ancestors  some  of 
the  most  prominent  men  that  America  has  ever 
produced.  Judge  Marshall's  father  inherited  a 
large  property  from  his  father,  and  in  the  afifairs 
of  the  State  and  the  L^nion  took  an  active  part. 
He  was  twice  commissioned  under  Garfield 
during  the  Civil  War.  He  was  a  nephew 
of  Chief  Justice  John  Marshall,  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  men  who  have  ever  sat  upon  the 
bench  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  LTnited 
States.  Thomas  Marshall,  his  son,  was  prepared 
for  college  under  the  tuition  of  Doctor  Lewis 
Marshall,  at  the  latter's  home,  known  as  "Buck's 
Pond,"  in  Woodford  County,  Kentucky.  Dr. 
Marshall  was  the  father  of  Thomas  F.  Marshall, 
the  distinguished  orator;  A.  K.  Marshall,  who 
succeeded  Clay  in  the  Ashland  district ;  Edward 
C.  Marshall,  member  of  Congress  and  Attorney 
General  of  California ;  Judge  William  Marshall, 
brother-in-law  of  General  Robert  E.  Lee  and 
member  of  Congress  from  Maryland.  After  four 
years  study  under  Dr.  Marshall,  Thomas  was 
sent  to  Kenyon  College,  Gambler,  Ohio,  where 
he  completed  his  studies.  He  also  took  a  course 
of  law  and  studied  under  Judge  Thomas  A.  Mar- 


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shall,  then  occupying  a  position  on  the  Supreme 
Bench  of  Kentuck}'.  Upon  the  completion  of  his 
studies  Thomas  Marshall  went  to  St.  Louis  and 
there  established  himself  in  the  practice  of  law, 
being  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  that  State  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one.  Here  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship under  the  name  of  Williams,  Barrett  & 
^Marshall.  Here  he  remained  until  the  spring  of 
1866,  when  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has 
since  made  Utah  his  residence.  Shortly  after 
his  arrival  here  he  became  attorney  for  the  Holli- 
day  Overland  Mail  and  Express  Company.  His 
ability  was  soon  recognized  by  other  corporations 
and  in  1869  he  became  the  attorney  for  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  Railroad  Company,  and  has  been  since 
that  time  attorney  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Com- 
pany and  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany. He  has  also  been  President  of  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  Railroad  Company  and  is  now  a  di- 
rector and  served  as  an  officer  of  the  Territorial 
Government  in  1888,  as  a  member  of  the  Terri- 
torial Council.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  1872. 
His  ability  and  industry  have  brought  him  great 
success  in  his  chosen  profession  and  the  enjoy- 
ment of  a  lucrative  practice. 

Judge  Marshall  married  November  27th.  1855, 
the  daughter  of  the  Honorable  James  M.  Hughes, 
ex-member  of  Congress  for  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri at  large.  He  was  also  President  of  the 
State  Bank  'of  Missouri.  He  died  in  1861  at  Jef- 
ferson City  while  a  candidate  for  the  L^nited 
States  Senate.  He  has  one  daughter,  the  wife 
of  D.  R.  Gray,  who  is  the  agent  of  the  Harriman 
railroads  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Judge  Marshall 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Masons  in  Utah  for 
over  forty  years,  being  a  Chapter  Mason.  He 
joined  the  Masons  in  early  life  and  has  always 
been  an  active  worker  in  its  development  in  the 
West.  Judge  Marshall  has  achieved  for  himself 
a  high  position,  not  only  in  the  ranks  of  the  legal 
profession  of  Utah,  but  in  all  walks  of  Hfe.  His 
work  as  a  lawyer  has  stamped  him  as  a  worthy 
descendant  of  the  greatest  Chief  Justice,  and 
perhaps  the  greatest  lawyer  that  the  United 
States  has  ever  produced.  He  is  well  known 
throughout  Utah  and  the  West  and  enjoys  the 
warm  friendship  of  a  l^rge  circle  of  friends. 


roSTLE  JOHN  HENRY  SMITH. 
i'lie  development  of  LUah  from  a  wild 
and  apparently  barren  land  to  a  pros- 
]i<.rous  and  growing  State  of  the 
Union  within  the  short  space  of  half 
a  century  is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  chapters 
in  the  growth  of  the  United  States.  The  diffi- 
culties which  confronted  the  pioneers,  the  priva- 
tions and  hardships  they  were  forced  to  endure, 
and  their  conflicts  with  both  wild  and  civilized 
man  makes  their  triumph  all  the  more  marked. 
One  of  the  more  prominent  of  these  pioneers  and 
who  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  the  interests 
of  the  State  and  the  church  to  which  it  owes  its 
beginnings,  is  John  Henry  Smith.  He  has  been 
foremost  in  the  work  of  making  Utah  a  prosper- 
ous and  self-sustaining  community  and  to  his  ef- 
forts much  of  its  present  reputation  is  due.  Pass- 
ing safely  through  the  ordeal  of  the  early  settle- 
ment of  the  frontier,  he  has  now  reached  a  posi- 
tion which  marks  him  as  one  of  the  leaders  of 
the  State,  and  his  prominence  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints 
has  been  the  result  of  his  ability  and  zeal. 

John  Henry  Smith  was  born  at  Carbunca, 
Iowa,  September  18,  1848.  He  is  the  son  of  the 
late  President  Smith  and  Sarah  Ann  (Libbay) 
Smith.  His  parents  had  been  driven  from  Illinois 
and  Missouri  with  the  rest  of  the  members  of 
the  church  and  it  was  while  they  were  at  Car- 
bunca, now  Council  Bluflfs,  that  their  son  was 
born.  His  father,  the  late  President  George  A. 
Smith,  had  accompanied  President  Brigham 
Young  and  the  first  company  of  pioneers  to  the 
Great  Salt  Lake  \'alley  the  year  before,  and  with 
some  of  them  had  also  returned  to  the  Missouri 
river.  Upon  his  arrival  there  he  proceeded  to 
make  preparations  for  the  removal  of  his  family 
to  the  new  headciuarters  of  the  church,  but  it  was 
not  until  the  summer  of  1849  'hat  the  family 
began  their  journey  westward  from  the  Missouri 
river;  and  John  Henry  was  just  past  one  year 
of  age  when  the  family  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
Here,  on  June  12,  1851,  his  mother  died  of  con- 
sumption, and  after  her  death,  he  was  placed  un- 
der the  care  of  his  mother's  sister,  Hannah 
Maria,  who  was  also  one  of  his  father's  wives, 
and  to  her  he  owed  much  of  his  future  growth 
and  education. 


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Owing  to  the  frequent  and  prolonged  absences 
of  his  father  from  home,  the  lad  was  almost  ex- 
clusively under  the  tuition  of  his  aunt.  His 
father's  family  became  widely  separated  soon 
after  their  arrival  in  Utah,  some  residing  in  Salt 
Lake  City  and  others  in  Parowan,  while  his 
wives  Lucy  and  Hannah  were,  during  the  sum- 
mer of  1852,  removed  to  Provo,  in  which  town 
the  lad  spent  his  early  life. 

The  days  of  his  boyhood  passed  in  a  similar 
manner  to  that  of  other  sons  of  the  pioneers,  and 
one  of  his  first  occupations  was  in  herding  cattle 
on  the  Provo  bench  and  along  the  "bottoms"  on 
the  shores  of  Utah  Lake.  He  was  a  large  and 
powerful  boy,  and  was  always  considered  a  gen- 
ial, good-natured  companion  by  his  friends.  For 
several  years  after  the  first  settlement  of  Provo 
the  Indians  were  exceedingly  troublesome,  and 
though  but  a  boy,  John  Henry  participated  in 
many  adventures,  at  one  time  being  shot  at,  but 
fortunately  escaping  without  injury.  When  he 
was  fourteen  years  of  age  he  had  a  narrow  es- 
cape from  drowning  in  the  Provo  River  during 
the  high-water  season,  and  remained  so  long  a 
time  below  the  water,  that  his  life  was  despaired 
but  his  remarkable  vitality  stood  him  in  good 
stead,  and  when  he  finally  came  to  the  surface 
was  soon  resuscitated. 

As  he  advanced  in  years,  he  removed  to  Salt 
Lake  City  and  attended  the  schools  that  were 
then  in  existence.  The  educational  conditions 
in  Utah  then  were  necessarily  crude  and  imper- 
fect and  his  education  was  received  more  from 
his  experiences  in  life  and  from  the  teachings 
of  his  foster-mother  than  from  books. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  married  his  first 
wife.  Miss  Sarah  Farr,  daughter  of  the  Honor- 
able Loren  Farr,  of  Ogden  and  she  has  ever  been 
a  true  and  devoted  helpmeet  to  her  husband. 
Ten  years  later  he  married  Miss  Josephine 
Groesbeck,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Groesbeck,  an 
Elder  in  the  Church. 

Upon  his  marriage  to  Miss  Farr,  the  young 
couple  removed  to  Provo,  where  John  Henry 
Smith  was  employed  as  a  telegrapher.  While 
residing  there  he  was  chosen  as  a  counsellor  to 
Bishop  W.  A.  Follett,  of  the  Fourth  Ward  of 
that  town.     When   the   transcontinental   railway 


was  nearing  completion  he  left  Provo  and  en- 
tered the  service  of  Bensin,  Farr  &  West,  and 
assisted  them  in  completing  two  hundred  miles 
of  line  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad,  which 
they  had  contracted  to  build.  Upon  the  com- 
pletion of  this  work.  Governor  Leland  Stanford, 
of  California,  offered  the  young  man  a  good 
position  in  Sacramento,  but  as  his  father  desired 
him  to  return  to  Salt  Lake  City,  he  declined  the 
offer. 

He  was  his  father's  frequent  companion  on 
his  travels  throughout  the  Territory,  and  from 
these  journeys  he  derived  much  of  his  acquaint- 
ance with  the  prominent  men  of  the  community. 
This  privilege  also  afiforded  him  an  opportunity 
to  acquire  an  education  which  could  not  be  ob- 
tained from  books,  and  how  eagerly  he  grasped 
it  is  shown  in  the  fulness  of  his  character  and 
life. 

At  the  session  of  the  Territorial  Legislature 
of  1872,  John  Henry  Smith  was  appointed  assis- 
tant clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  and 
from  this  time  dated  the  beginning  of  his  career 
in  civil  matters.  In  the  same  year  he  was 
chosen  assistant  clerk  of  the  constitutional  con- 
vention. 

In  May,  1874,  he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Europe  by  President  Brigham  Young. 
He  left  Utah  on  June  29  of  that  year  and  ar- 
rived in  New  York  on  July  4,  and  before  sailing 
paid  a  short  visit  to  his  mother's  brothers,  then 
residents  of  New  Hampshire.  He  arrived  in 
Liverpool,  England,  on  July  26  and  reported  to 
his  cousin,  Joseph  F.  Smith,  then  president  of 
the  European  mission.  By  him  he  was  assigned 
to  the  duty  of  a  travelling  Elder  in  the  Birming- 
ham Conference,  under  the  direction  of  Elder 
Richard  V.  Morris.  While  engaged  on  this 
work,  he  visited  most  of  the  conferences  of  Great 
Britain,  and  also  accompanied  President  Joseph 
F.  Smith,  Elder  F.  M.  Lyman  and  other  high 
officers  of  the  mission  to  Denmark,  Germany, 
Switzerland  and  France.  After  the  lapse  of  a 
year  he  was  called  to  Utah  by  the  sickness  of 
his  father,  and  reached  Salt  Lake  City  in  time  to 
spend  fifteen  days  at  his  father's  bedside  previous 
to  his  death  on  September  i,   1875. 

He    again    took    up    the    active    work    of    the 


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Church  in  Utah,  and  on  November  22,  1875, 
was  appointed  Bishop  of  the  Seventeenth  Ward 
for  Salt  Lake  City,  which  position  he  filled  with 
efficiency  and  zeal  for  five  years.  During  this 
period  he  was  also  employed  by  the  LUah  Cen- 
tral Railway  Company. 

At  the  general  conference  of  the  Church  in 
October,  1880,  the  First  Presidency  of  the 
Church  was  reorganized  and  Elders  Francis  M. 
Lyman  and  John  Henry  Smith  were  called  to 
fill  vacancies  in  the  quorum  of  the  Twelve  Apos- 
tles, being  ordained  on  the  27th  day  of  that 
r'-'onth. 

In  the  first  months  of  1882,  when  the  Ed- 
munds-Tucker anti-polygamy  bill  was  before 
Congress,  Apostles  John  Henry  Smith  and  Mo- 
ses Thatcher  were  sent  to  Washington  to  as- 
sist George  Q.  Cannon,  the  delegate  from  Utah, 
in  preventing  the  passage  of  this  act,  but  their 
labors  were  unsuccessful.  Upon  three  subse- 
quent occasions.  Apostle  Smith  has  visited 
Washington  in  the  interest  of  the  people  of  Utah. 
In  1892  he  went  to  the  capital  to  aid  in  securing 
the  admission  of  Utah  as  a  State,  and  in  the 
early  part  of  1900  he  again  visited  that  city  in  the 
endeavor  to  modify  the  sentiments  of  the  leading 
men  of  the  country  and  their  attitude  in  regard 
to  the  members  of  the  Church. 

He  was  again  called  to  go  on  a  mission  to 
England  by  President  John  Taylor,  this  time. 
October,  1882,  to  act  as  president  of  the  Euro- 
pean mission.  While  there  he  visited  the  var- 
ious conferences  in  England  and  travelled  exten- 
sively in  France  and  Italy,  being  absent  from 
home  a  period  of  twenty-nine  months.  Upon  his 
return  he  found  the  whole  State  in  a  turmoil, 
due  to  the  arrests  and  prosecutions  then  being 
made  under  authority  of  the  Edmunds-Tucker 
act.  He  was  arrested  upon  the  prevailing 
charge — unlawful  cohabitation — but  was  dis- 
charged on  account  of  the  lack  of  evidence. 

In  addition  to  his  duties  in  the  work  of  de- 
veloping the  Church,  Apostle  Smith  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  political  affairs  of  the  State. 
In  February,  1876,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Salt 
Lake  City  Council  and  served  for  six  years  as  a 
Councilman.  In  August,  1881,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Territorial  Legislature. 


Upon  the  division  of  the  People's  party  and 
the  Liberals  upon  national  political  lines,  he  was 
one  of  the  first  to  advocate  the  principles  of  the 
Republican  party  and  has  ever  since  been  an 
active  worker  in  that  party.  He  was  president 
of  the  convention  that  formed  the  constitution 
under  which  Utah  was  admitted  into  the  Union 
as  a  State. 

Since  his  call  to  the  Apostleship,  Elder  Smith 
has  devoted  practically  all  of  his  time  to  public 
duties.  Except  when  absent  from  the  country 
on  missions,  he  has  travelled  almost  constantly 
among  the  stakes  of  the  Church,  attending  con- 
ferences, instructing  and  encouraging  the  mem- 
bers, organizing  and  setting  in  orders  the  stakes 
and  wards.  He  has  visited  every  stake  of  the 
Church  in  Utah,  many  of  them  several  times, 
including  those  in  Old  Mexico  and  dififerent 
States  and  Territories  of  the  United  States  and 
Canada.  He  also  made  a  tour  of  the  Southern 
States  Mission  in  1899,  doing  considerable 
preaching  both  there  and  on  his  way.' 

He  has  been  a  delegate  to  several  of  the  ses- 
sions of  the  Trans-Mississippi  and  Irrigation 
Congress,  and  upon  the  adjournment  of  the  last 
one  held  in  Houston,  Texas,  April,  1900,  he  in 
company  with  President  George  Q.  Cannon  and 
others,  made  an  extensive  trip  through  Mexico. 

In  1901,  at  the  session  of  the  Trans-Missis- 
sippi Commercial  Congress  held  at  Cripple 
Creek,  Colorado,  Mr.  Smith  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  Congress  and  presided  over  its  de- 
liberations. 

So  closely  had  his  time  been  devoted  to  pub- 
lic affairs  and  to  the  affairs  of  the  Church,  that 
he  has  not  had  time  to  devote  to  any  extensive 
personal  business  enterprises.  He  is,  however, 
connected  with  a  number  of  the  leading  institu- 
tions of  the  State,  as  an  officer  and  director,  in 
which  positions  he  has  exhibited  the  same  ability 
and  enterprise  that  has  marked  his  whole  life. 

By  nature  and  training  he  is  admirably  equip- 
ped for  public  duties.  He  has  a  thorough  know- 
ledge of  human  nature  and  an  extensive  ac- 
quaintance with  prominent  men  not  only  in  Utah 
but  in  the  whole  country  as  well.  These  quali- 
fications, together  with  his  faculty  for  making 
and   holding   friends,   has   fitted  him  admirably 


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for  the  positions  and  labors  that  have  fallen  to 
him  to  perform. 

His  easy,  natural  and  unassuming  manner  are 
the  outward  signs  of  his  straightforward  char- 
acter, and  bespeak  the  possession  of  courage  of 
the  highest  type.  These  qualities  have  im- 
pressed all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact 
with  his  sincerity,  no  matter  how  opposed  they 
may  have  been  to  his  views.  His  happy  disposition 
has  always  enabled  him  to  take  the  most  cheer- 
ful view  of  conditions,  no  matter  how  discourag- 
ing their  aspect.  He  is  quick  to  discern  and  ap- 
preciate the  good  qualities  of  others,  is  ever 
thoughtful  of  their  welfare,  and  is  broad  minded 
in  his  views.  He  possesses  the  same  good  quali- 
ties of  heart  as  of  mind,  and  is  liberal  almost  to 
a  fault. 

By  his  continuous  upright  course  in  life  he 
has  established  a  reputation  for  integrity  and 
honesty,  and  has  gained  the  confidence  and  es- 
teem of  all  the  people  of  the  State. 

As  a  public  speaker,  Apostle  Smith  is  con- 
vincing, forceful  and  eloquent,  with  the  elo- 
quence that  comes  from  sincere  earnestness. 
In  his  private  conversation  he  exhibits  the  same 
force  and  is  always  an  interesting  and  entertain- 
ing talker.  Perhaps  the  greatest  secret  of  his 
career  and  which  has  aided  him  so  much  in  his 
successful  life  is  his  great  magnetism,  the  magnet- 
ism of  pure  love  for  humanity.  His  career  and  life 
have  been  such  as  to  make  it  a  treasured  mem- 
ory to  his  posterity  and  to  the  Church  of  his 
choice.  When  the  history  of  the  rise  and  de- 
velopment of  Utah  shall  be  written,  his  name 
will  stand  high  in  the  ranks  of  the  men  who 
have  accomplished  great  deeds  and  who  have 
built  up  a  commonwealth   from  a   desert. 


PRENZO  Sx\OW.  So  closely  inter- 
woven with  the  growth  and  progress 
Mt  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints  is  the  life  of  its 
fifth  President,  who  has  just  died 
at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-seven,  that 
a  sketch  of  his  life  is  necessarily  a  his- 
tory of  the  Church.  Few  men,  and  especially 
leaders  in  great  movements  or  in  great  organiza- 


tions, have  displayed  so  much  wisdom,  integrity 
and  honesty  of  purpose  as  did  this  great  leader 
of  this  modern  religion.  Throughout  a  long 
life  of  activity,  controlling  great  interests  and 
guiding  them  to  prosperity,  developing  the  work 
of  the  Church  of  his  choice,  and  with  it  the  State 
wherein  its  headquarters  were  located,  he  left 
behind  him,  not  a  fortune  in  worldly  goods  but 
a  reputation  for  honesty,  singlemindedness  and 
integrity  that  will  make  his  name  live  in  the 
annals  of  American  history  and  one  that  may 
well  be  a  legacy  of  pride  to  his  posterity  and 
to  his  Church. 

Lorenzo  Snow  was  born  in  Alantua,  Portage 
county,  Ohio,  April  3,  1814.  He  was  the  eldest 
son  of  Oliver  Snow  and  Rosetta  L.  Pettibone 
Snow.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Massachusetts 
and  his  mother  was  born  in  Connecticut  In 
Ohio,  the  Snow  family  were  well  to  do,  the  father 
being  a  prosperous  farmer,  and  it  was  on  this 
farm  that  Lorenzo  was  reared.  Here  he  had 
his  first  lessons  in  responsibility,  while  yet  a  boy. 
Owing  to  the  frequent  and  continued  absences 
of  his  father  from  the  farm,  the  direction  of  the 
work  and  the  care  of  the  property  fell  upon 
his  shoulders,  and  from  this  beginning  was  devel- 
oped the  talent  for  management  and  organization 
which  brought  him  success  in  later  years.  In- 
heriting a  love  of  knowledge,  deep  patriotism 
and  a  sincere  belief  in  the  existence  of  a  Supreme 
Being  from  his  parents,  his  environment  was 
such  that  his  desire  for  knowledge,  his  love  of 
the  right  and  justice,  and  his  patriotism  for  his 
country  were  deepened  and  widened  as  he  grew 
to  manhood's  estate.  Like  so  many  of  the  young 
men,  born  and  reared  in  what  was  then  the  out- 
posts of  civilization,  his  ambition  was  to  follow 
the  military  profession,  and  he  later  held  a  com- 
mission as  ensign,  from  the  Governor  of  Ohio,  in 
the  militia  of  that  State,  and  his  aptitude  was  such 
that  he  was  afterwards  promoted  to  the  grade  of 
lieutenant. 

His  early  education  was  derived  from  the 
schools  that  then  existed  in  Ohio,  and  at  tlie  age 
of  twenty-one  he  secured  admission  to  Oberlin 
College,  at  that  time  an  institution  dominated 
by  the  Presbyterian  belief.  This  privilege  he 
secured  through  the  efforts  of  an  intimate  friend 


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who  was  connected  with  the  college.  Although 
he  had  been  reared  in  the  Baptist  faith,  to  which 
his  parents  belonged,  he  had  not  espoused  any 
religion  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  nor  had  the 
teachings  of  the  Presbyterian  church  convinced 
his  mind  while  he  remained  at  the  college. 

In  June,  1836,  one  year  after  his  entrance  to 
college,  he  made  a  visit  to  his  sister,  Eliza  R. 
Snow,  the  poetess,  at  Kirtland,  Ohio,  who  had 
recently  been  converted  to  the  faith  of  the  Latter 
Day  Saints.  This  town  was  then  the  headquarters 
of  the  Church,  and  while  there  he  entered  the 
Hebrew  school  established  by  the  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith.  While  in  that  institution  he  became  con- 
verted to  the  faith  of  the  Church,  and  was  bap- 
tized and  admitted  to  its  membership  by  Elder 
John  F.  Bovnton,  then  one  of  the  Twelve  Apos- 
tles. 

Early  in  1837,  just  a  year  after  his  entrance 
into  the  faith,  he  was  promoted  to  be  an  Elder  in 
the  Church,  and  took  the  field  in  Ohio,  and 
preached  among  his  relatives  and  friends  until 
his  removal  to  Missouri  in  the  following  year, 
to  which  State  the  members  of  the  Church  were 
then  migrating.  Here  he  was  accompanied  by 
his  parents,  who  had  also  embraced  the  faith  of 
their  son.  Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Missouri, 
he  left  on  a  mission  to  Kentucky,  and  was  absent 
in  that  field  when  the  members  of  the  Church 
were  forced  to  leave  Missouri  and  settle  in  Illi- 
nois. He  completed  his  work  in  Kentucky  and 
joined  the  colony  at  Nauvoo  on  the  first  day  of 
May,  1840. 

From  the  time  of  his  entrance  into  the  Church, 
his  ability  and  zeal  were  of  such  an  order  that  he 
was  assigned  important  and  responsible  tasks. 
Upon  joining  the  colony  at  Nauvoo,  he  was  desig- 
nated for  missionary  work  in  Europe  and  left  in 
the  month  of  May,  1840,  for  England.  Shortly 
after  his  arrival  in  that  country,  he  was  made 
President  of  the  London  Conference,  and  while 
holding  that  position  presented  two  copies  of  the 
Book  of  Mormon,  handsomely  bound  and  speci- 
ally prepared  for  that  purpose,  to  Queen  Victoria 
and  the  Prince  Consort.  This  he  was  enabled  to 
do  through  the  courtesy  of  Sir  Henry  Wheatley. 
He  completed  the  work  of  this  mission  in  1843 
and  returned  to  the  United   States  at  the  head 


of  a  large  company  of  emigrants,  whom  he  con- 
ducted safely  to  the  headquarters  at  Xauvoo. 

A  short  time  after  his  return  to  the  United 
States,  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  taught  him  the 
principle  of  celestial  marriage,  or  marriage  for 
a  time  and  eternity,  including  plurality  of  wives. 
In  accordance  with  this  principle,  the  Prophet 
had  married  Eliza  Snow,  sister  of  our  subject, 
and  our  subject  wedded  two  wives  simultan- 
eously and  subsequently  increased  the  number  to 
four.  While  at  Nauvoo  he  was  a  school  teacher 
and  a  captain  in  the  militia,  the  organization  being 
known  as  the  Nauvoo  Legion.  Later  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  committee  of  the  Church 
to  explore  California  and  Oregon  with  a  view  to 
locating  a  home  for  the  organization  beyond 
the  Rocky  Mountains.  Owing  to  the  unsettled 
conditions  then  prevailing  in  Illinois,  and  which 
terminated  in  the  killing  of  the  Prophet,  this  ex- 
pedition never  left  that  State.  In  addition  to  his 
duties  in  the  Church.  Lorenzo  Snow  took  an 
active  part  in  the  presidential  campaign  of  1844, 
in  which  year  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  was  a  can- 
didate for  that  office.  The  future  President  of 
the  Church  left  Nauvoo  in  the  emigration  which 
took  place  in  1846,  and  in  the  move  from  the 
^Missouri  river  to  Salt  Lake  in  1848,  was  a  cap- 
tain in  charge  of  one  hundred  wagons  in  the  band 
of  pioneers  led  by  President  Brigham  Young. 

He  was  ordained  an  Apostle  of  the  Church 
on  February  12,  1849,  by  the  First  Presidency 
of  the  Church,  then  comprising  Brigham  Young, 
Heber  C.  Kimball  and  Willard  Richards,  who 
were  assisted  in  this  service  by  Apostles  Parley 
P.  Pratt  and  John  Taylor.  In  October,  of  the 
same  year,  he  was  again  designated  for  mission- 
ary service  in  Europe,  being  charged  with  the 
establishment  of  a  mission  in  Italy.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  missionaries  sent  from  the  new  home 
of  the  Church  in  Utah  and  made  his  way  across 
the  plains,  then  inhabited  by  hostile  Indians,  to 
New  York,  and  reached  Italy  via  England.  The 
mission  was  successfully  started  in  Italy,  its  es- 
tablishment being  made  on  a  snow-covered  moun- 
tain, by  Apostle  Snow  and  three  Elders  of  the 
Church,  on  November  25.  1850.  This  mountain 
overlooked  the  Valley  of  Piedmont,  and  the  first 
converts  were  made  among  the  Waldenses.     The 


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missionar\-  work  met  with  great  success  and  was 
extended  into  Switzerland  and  into  the  neijjhbor- 
ing  countries  with  satisfactory  resuhs.  While 
sojourning  in  Italy,  Apostle  Snow  had  the  Book 
of  Mormon  translated  and  published  in  Italian, 
together  with  several  pamphlets  he  had  written 
on  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  these  were  widely 
disseminated  throughout  Europe.  In  addition  to 
his  missionary  labors,  he  found  time  to  write 
valuable  descriptive  letters  of  Italy  and  the  work 
of  the  missionaries  for  the  information  of  the 
Church  in  Utah.  Besides  establishing  success- 
fully the  mission  work  of  the  Church  in  Italy 
and  Switzerland,  he  sent  Elders  to  Calcutta  and 
Bombay  to  found  a  mission  in  India  and  also 
arranged  for  a  missionary  to  work  on  the  Island 
of  Malta.  After  these  arrangements  were  com- 
pleted, he  started  for  India,  but  owing  to  an  ac- 
cident to  the  ship  in  which  he  sailed,  only  reached 
Malta.  Owing  to  the  lapse  of  time  and  to 
the  fact  that  he  was  under  orders  to  return  to 
Utah  to  participate  in  the  laying  of  the  corner 
stones  of  the  Salt  Lake  Temple,  he  was  forced  to 
abandon  his  voyage,  and  returned  to  Utah  by 
way  of  Gibraltar,  Portsmouth,  London,  Liver- 
pool, New  York  and  St.  Louis,  arriving  in  Salt 
Lake  City  in  July,  1852. 

L^pon  his  return  to  LTtah  he  at  once  took  up 
the  work  of  building  up  the  State  and  founded 
Brigham  City,  in  what  is  now  Box  Elder  county. 
Here  a  small  settlement  had  already  been  formed 
but,  owing  to  the  want  of  a  master  hand  to  guide 
it,  was  in  an  unprosperous  and  languishing  con- 
dition. To  this  place  Apostle  Snow  came,  with 
a  company  of  fifty  families,  in  the  fall  of  1853, 
and  was  elected  President  of  the  Box  Elder 
Stake,  which  office  he  held  until  August,  1877, 
to  take  up  the  office  of  the  First  Presidency  of 
the  Church.  His  eldest  son.  Oliver  G.  Snow, 
succeeded  him  as  President  of  the  Box  Elder 
Stake.  While  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
Apostle  Snow  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  of 
the  Territory  in  1852,  and  upon  his  removal  to 
Box  Elder,  represented  that  county  and  the 
county  of  Weber,  in  the  Legislature.  His 
whole  term  of  service  in  the  Legislature  covered 
a  period  of  thirty  years,  during  twelve  of  which 
he  was  the  presiding  officer  of  that  body.- 


He  continued  to  reside  in  the  State  of  Utah, 
devoting  his  time  and  attention  to  the  work  of 
his  Church  and  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  indus- 
tries of  the  State  until  1864,  when  he  was  sent 
by  the  Church  to  adjust  the  affairs  of  the  mission 
in  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  which  had  become  badly 
tangled  and  demoralized  through  the  work  of  an 
imposter.  While  there.  Apostle  Snow  met  with 
an  almost  fatal  accident,  and  his  rescue  from 
death  by  drowning  is  easily  one  of  the  most  mar- 
velous escapes  from  that  form  of  death.  In  com- 
pany with  Apostle  Ezra  1'.  Benson,  Elder  Joseph 
F.  Smith  and  the  remainder  of  the  party  sent  to 
Hawaii,  he  sailed  from  Honolulu  to  the  island 
of  Maui  and  the  ship  cast  anchor  about  a  mile 
outside  of  the  harbor  of  Lahaina  on  March  31, 
1864.  The  entrance  to  the  harbor  was  between 
two  coral  reefs,  a  narrow  passage  of  rough  water, 
and  in  attempting  to  land  in  the  ship's  small 
boat,  all  of  the  passengers  were  capsized  into  the 
surf.  All  got  through  safely  to  land  except  Apos- 
tle Snow  and  the  captain  of  the  ship.  The  bodies 
of  these  two  men  were  taken  from  the  surf, 
apparently  lifeless,  but  after  persistent  efforts, 
they  were  finally  resuscitated.  Both  men  were 
rolled  upon  barrels  until  all  the  water  they  had 
swallowed  was  ejected,  but  even  after  this  heroic 
treatment  Apostle  Snow  failed  to  return  to  con- 
sciousness, and  it  was  not  until  respiration  was 
resumed  by  the  efforts  of  his  fellow  missionaries, 
who  placed  their  mouths  to  his  and  inflated  his 
lungs  with  their  breath,  inhaling  and  exhaling  the 
air  in  imitation  of  natural  respiration,  that  he  be- 
came conscious.  His  work  in  the  islands  was 
prosecuted  successfully  and  the  entire  mission 
was  soon  enabled  to  return  to  Utah,  leaving  the 
affairs  of  the  Church  in  Hawaii  in  a  very  satis- 
factory condition. 

Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States,  Apostle 
Snow  immediately  undertook  the  organization 
of  the  Brigham  City  Mercantile  and  Manufactur- 
ing Association,  first  known  as  the  United  Order 
of  Brigham  City.  This  institution  was  started 
on  its  career  with  but  four  stockholders,  of  whom 
the  Apostle  was  one,  and  with  a  capital  that  did 
not  exceed  three  thousand  dollars.  The  dividends 
of  the  association,  amounting  to  twenty-five  per 
cent  annually,  were  paid  in  merchandise,  and  as 


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the  enterprise  prospered  under  his  direction,  ad- 
ditonal  capital  stock  was  secured  and  the  names 
of  new  stockholders  added  to  the  original  list, 
This  prosperity  continued  to  such  an  extent  that 
the  company  soon  had  a  surplus  capital,  and 
succeeded  in  uniting  the  interests  of  all  the  peo- 
ple and  secured  their  patronage.  This  success 
was  followed  by  the  establishment  of  a  number 
of  home  industries,  amounting  to  over  twenty, 
each  paying  dividends  in  the  articles  manufac- 
tured. These  industries  provided  employment 
for  several  hundred  people ;  new  and  commodi- 
ous buildings  for  the  various  departments  of  the 
association  were  erected,  and  for  twenty  years 
an  era  of  prosperity  dwelt  over  the  region  domi- 
nated by  this  organization.  Its  prosperous  career 
was  checked  and  finally  ended  by  a  combination  of 
unfortunate  events — fire,  vexatious  law  suits,  op- 
pressive and  illegal  taxation  which  fell  on  the 
order  with  such  force  as  to  crush  its  business 
life.  Its  success  during  the  twenty  years  that 
Apostle  Snow  directed  its  energies  stands  as  a 
practical  demonstration  of  his  power  of  manage- 
ment, genius,  industrial  thrift  and  capacity  for 
organization. 

The  progress  of  events  in  Utah  were  rudely 
shaken  and  much  disturbance  caused  by  the  cru- 
sade against  polygamy  under  the  provisions  of 
the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act  in  1884.  Many  of  the 
prominent  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  were  arrested, 
prosecuted,  fined  and  imprisoned  under  this 
law,  for  what  they  regarded  as  the  right- 
ful exercise  of  their  own  religion.  This 
prosecution  reached  its  height  in  the  next 
year,  and  on  November  20,  1885,  Apostle  Snow 
was  arrested  at  his  home  by  a  force  of  United 
States  deputy  marshals,  who  had  marched  north 
from  Ogden  in  the  night  and  surrounded  his 
home,  at  Brieham  City,  before  dawn.  Most  of 
his  wives  were,  like  himself,  well  advanced  in 
years,  and  while  he  acknowledged  them  and  pro- 
vided for  their  support,  he  was  in  reality  living 
with  but  one  wife,  and  to  all  intents  and  pur- 
poses was  complying  with  the  demands  of  the 
law.  After  his  arrest  and  before  his  trial,  his 
friends  endeavored  to  secure  his  consent  to  efforts 
looking  to  his  rescue  from  what  they  regarded 


as  persecution,  but  with  the  calm  fortitude  and 
belief  of  legality  in  his  actions,  which  had  always 
characterized  him  throughout  his  life,  he  declined 
their  offers  of  assistance  and  submitted  to  what 
he  considered  a  persecution  for  the  exercise  of 
his  religion.  He  was  tried  and  convicted  three 
times  for  one  alleged  offense — that  of  living  with 
and  acknowledging  a  plurality  of  wives — and  in 
addition  to  being  heavily  fined,  was  imprisoned 
in  the  penitentiary  for  eleven  months.  While 
serving  this  term  of  imprisonment,  he  and  his 
fellow  members  of  the  Church  who  had  been  con- 
victed of  violations  of  the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act, 
were  offered  amnesty  provided  they  would  prom- 
ise to  obey  the  provisions  of  this  law,  but  feeling 
that  it  struck  at  the  base  of  their  religion,  the  offer 
was  declined.  At  the  expiration  of  eleven  months, 
Apostle  Snow  was  released  from  the  penitentiary 
by  virtue  of  a  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  LTnited  States  which  declared  illegal  the 
practice  of  multiplying  indictments  according  to 
the  days,  months  or  years  during  which  polyga- 
mous relations  might  have  been  maintained,  and 
under  which  a  triple  sentence  had  been  imposed 
upon  him  by  the  courts  of  Utah.  The  peculiar 
circumstances  surrounding  his  conviction,  and 
the  fact  that  his  incarceration  was  viewed  not  as 
a  punishment,  but  as  a  persecution,  served  only 
to  increase  the  admiration,  love  and  respect  of 
his  people,  and  upon  his  release  from  prison 
they  welcomed  him,  not  as  a  returned  criminal, 
but  as  a  martyr  to  his  principles  and  to  his  con- 
ception of  the  right. 

Upon  the  accession  of  Wilford  Woodruff  to 
the  Presidency  of  the  Church  on  April  6,  1889, 
Apostle  Snow,  by  virtue  of  his  long  service,  was 
the  senior  in  the  Quorum  of  the  Twelve  Apostles, 
the  council  next  in  authority  to  the  First  Presi- 
dency, and  on  the  same  day  he  was  sustained 
as  president  of  that  council  by  the  representatives 
of  the  Church.  He  continued  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  this  position  for  over  nine  years,  and  on 
September  13,  1898,  eleven  days  after  the  death 
of  President  Woodruff,  Apostle  Snow  succeeded 
him  in  the  Presidency  of  the  Church,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  until  his  death  on  October  10,  1901. 
His  first  action  as  President  was  to  choose  his 
companion   counsellors   in   the  First   Presidency, 


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and  his  choice  was  George  Q.  Cannon,  since  de- 
ceased, and  Joseph  F.  Smith,  who  succeeded  to 
the  Presidency  on  the  death  of  President  Snow. 
When  President  Snow  took  the  office  of  the 
First  Presidency,  the  affairs  of  the  Church  were 
in  anything  but  a  satisfactory  condition.  Owing 
to  the  rigid  prosecutions  under  the  Edmunds- 
Tucker  Act,  during  the  decade  of  the  eighties, 
much  of  the  property  of  the  Church  had  been 
confiscated  and  a  large  and  growing  debt  had 
been  incurred  and  the  financial  life  of  the  Church 
was  threatened.  With  his  usual  energy  and 
ability  he  applied  himself  to  the  alleviation  of  the 
troubles  that  harassed  the  Church,  and  as  trustee- 
in-trust,  authorized  the  issue  in  bonds  to  the 
amount  of  a  million  dollars.  These  were  readily 
taken  up,  largely  by  capitalists  in  Utah,  and  from 
the  proceeds  thus  derived,  the  most  pressing  debts 
of  the  Church  were  cancelled  and  the  rate  of  in- 
terest on  its  borrowed  money  was  materially  re- 
duced. As  soon  as  the  financial  pressure  was 
relieved  and  the  most  pressing  debts  settled. 
President  Snow  turned  his  attention  to  a  method 
of  securing  a  future  assured  income  for  the 
Church  from  its  members.  He  decided  to  revive 
the  law  of  tithings  and  to  secure  a  better  ob- 
servance of  it  from  the  members  of  the  Church. 
The  success  of  this  work  has  resulted  in  the 
increased  wealth  of  the  Church  and  in  marking 
his  administration  of  the  Presidency  as  one  of  the 
most  notable  in  its  history.  This  movement  was 
inaugurated  at  St.  George,  in  the  extreme  south- 
ern portion  of  the  State,  in  May,  1899,  where 
President  Snow,  accompanied  by  a  large  party, 
proclaimed  as  the  word  of  the  Lord  to 
the  members  of  the  Church  that  if  they 
expected  to  see  a  continuance  of  peace  and 
prosperity  upon  the  land,  the  divine  law 
of  tithings  and  offerings  must  be  obeyed.  He 
promised  full  forgiveness  for  past  omissions  and 
neglect  and  predicted  that  Heaven  would  shower 
its  blessings  upon  them  more  abundantly  than 
ever  if  the  future  witnesseth  a  faithful  observance 
of  this  law.  If  the  law  was  neglected  and  diso- 
beyed, he  predicted  the  visitation  of  calamities 
and  the  scourging  of  the  people  for  their  diso- 
bedience. He  stated  that  tithing  must  be  paid, 
not  because  it  would  free  the  Church  from  debt, 


but  because  it  was  the  word  of  the  Lord  and 
must  be  obeyed.  The  President  was  followed  by 
other  speakers  who  gave  the  same  counsel  and 
the  echoes  of  this  successful  start  echoed  through- 
out the  whole  region.  This  great  wave  of  reform 
swept  northward  from  St.  George  and  resulted 
in  the  gathering  of  large  and  enthusiastic  meet- 
ings at  all  the  principal  places  north  and  south  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  indeed,  wherever  there  was  a 
settlement  of  the  people  of  the  Church.  In  addition 
to  the  immediate  satisfactory  response  to  this  ap- 
peal, President  Snow,  who  had  always  held  the 
admiration  and  love  of  his  people  in  a  marked  de- 
gree, received  increased  prestige  and  a  greater 
love  and  respect  from  the  people  of  the  Church. 
Tithes  and  olTerings  were  made  with  such  dis- 
patch and  such  promptitude  that  the  material 
conditon  of  the  Church  was  greatly  improved, 
and  an  era  of  prosperity  ushered  in,  greater  than 
that  enjoyed  by  the  Church  for  years.  Many 
other  improvements  and  changes  were  made  by 
the  new  President  and,  throughout  his  term,  the 
Church  progressed,  both  in  power  and  wealth, 
to  a  marked  degree. 

In  his  work  as  President  of  the  Church,  Lor- 
enzo Snow  exhibited  such  a  rare  order  of  ability 
and  such  a  comprehension  of  methods  to  success- 
fully overcome  difficulties,  that  his  term  of  office 
marks  him  not  only  as  one  of  the  great  leaders 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  but  as  one  of  the  great  pioneer  captains 
in  the  development  of  the  West.  He  possessed 
a  mentality  of  rare  breadth,  being  a  natural  finan- 
cier, and  yet  a  man  with  a  spiritually-inclined 
mind,  a  poetic  temperament  and  literary  tastes. 
His  religion  never  made  him  sanctimonious,  nor 
fanatical  or  bigoted.  His  broad  and  charitable 
mind  made  it  impossible  for  him  to  persecute 
any  man  for  his  opinions,  or  interfere  with  his 
religious  worship,  even  when  he  disapproved  of 
them.  Throughout  his  life  he  was  an  exemplary 
Christian,  pious,  zealous  and  devoted  to  the  cause 
to  which  he  gave  his  life-work.  Possessing  a 
firm  will,  prompt  and  fearless  in  decision  and 
execution,  jealous  of  his  own  rights  and  there- 
fore considerate  of  the  rights  of  others,  his  bal- 
ance and  integrity  prevented  him  from  doing  any 
tyrannical  acts,  and  enabled  him  to  judge  with 


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rare  impartiality.  Spirited  and  independent,  he 
was  not  combative  in  his  disposition,  but  once 
convinced  of  the  correctness  of  his  position, 
held  to  it  with  all  his  inflexibility  and  tenacity 
of  purpose  that  made  his  career  a  success. 

Throughout  the  entire  West,  both  as  a  leader 
of  the  Church  and  as  a  man  aiding  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  country,  no  one  enjoyed  a 
greater  esteem  and  popularity  than  did  he.  From 
his  very  youth  his  life  was  filled  with  stirring 
events,  commencing  as  a  missionary  of  the  new 
religion,  preaching  its  doctrines  in  hostile  com- 
munities, taking  part  in  the  compulsory  emigra- 
tion of  the  Church  from  civilization  to  the  wil- 
derness and  building  up,  in  the  great  American 
Desert,  a  self-sustaining  and  prosperous  com- 
munity ;  building  up  and  perfecting  the  Church 
of  his  choice,  and  with  it  the  State  of  which  it 
was  the  genesis,  he  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of 
eighty-seven,  respected  by  all  the  people  and 
loved  and  revered  by  the  people  whom  he  so 
ably  served  and  led.  By  his  death,  Utah  suf- 
fered a  great  loss  and  one  that  made  a  wide  gap 
in  the  leaders  of  the  State.  At  his  funeral  not 
only  was  the  Church  and  its  members  repre- 
sented, but  representatives  from  the  entire  State, 
irrespective  of  religion  or  belief,  attended  his  fun- 
eral, and  the  services  at  the  Tabernacle  were 
participated  in  by  a  gathering  that  completely 
filled  that  commodious  structure.  The  funeral 
procession  from  the  Tabernacle  to  the  railroad 
station,  was  composed  of  upwards  of  twenty  thou- 
sand people,  and  the  streets  were  lined  with  citi- 
zens who  paid  the  last  marks  of  respect  to  his 
wonderful  character  and  clear  life.  The  inter- 
ment was  made  at  Brigham  City,  the  town  with 
which  he  had  been  so  intimately  associated,  both 
as  its  founder  and  builder.  In  the  history  of  the 
West,  and  especially  in  that  of  the  State  of  Utah, 
whether  as  the  leader  of  the  Church  or  as  a  leader 
in  the  development  of  the  industries  and  resources 
of  the  intermountain  region,  President  Snow's 
large  part  rightly  entitles  him  to  a  high  place 
and  to  the  gratitude,  not  only  to  the  future  mem- 
bers of  the  Church,  but  of  the  citizens  of  the  entire 
State  as  well. 


UDGE  ORLANDO  W.  POWERS. 
Undoubtedly  one  of  the  ablest  and  most 
profound  jurists  who  has  ever  sat  upon 
the  bench  or  appeared  before  the  bar  of 
l^tah  during  the  past  half  century  is  to 
be  found  in  the  person  of  Judge  Orlando  W. 
Powers,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  and  a  member 
of  the  law  firm  of  Powers,  Straup  &  Lippman. 
As  an  orator,  a  public  speaker  or  a  pleader  be- 
fore the  bar,  Judge  Powers  is  without  a  peer 
in  this  Western  country,  and  it  may  be  ques- 
tioned whether  his  equal  in  this  respect  is  to  be 
found  in  the  United  States.  His  eloquence  is 
at  all  times  matchless ;  his  wit  spontaneous ;  his 
vision  clear  and  far-reaching  and  his  diction  su- 
perb. While  the  bar  of  Salt  Lake  City  com- 
prises some  of  the  brightest  legal  minds  to  be 
found  in  the  entire  inter-mountain  region,  Judge 
Powers  easily  towers  above  them  all  and  is  the 
acknowledged  leader  of  the  bar  in  this  Western 
country.  He  is  deeply  versed  in  all  the  intrica- 
cies and  questions  of  law,  and  it  is  through  this 
wide  knowledge,  added  to  his  wonderful  per- 
sonality, holding  his  listeners  spell-bound  under 
the  power  of  his  eloquence,  that  much  of  his  un- 
equalled success  as  a  lawyer  has  been  attained 
and  many  noted  cases  won.  All  through  his 
professional  career  Judge  Powers  has  devoted 
much  of  his  time  to  politics  and  been  a  promi- 
nent figure  in  many  notable  political  gatherings. 
During  his  speeches  before  the  political  bodies 
he  holds  the  close  attention  of  his  audience  from 
the  beginning  to  the  close  of  his  speech,  and  in 
his  flights  of  oratory  plays  upon  emotions  of  his 
hearers  as  the  master  musician  plays  upon  the  in- 
strument, causing  their  wills  to  bend  before  the 
strength  and  majesty  of  his  will  as  the  reeds  bend 
before  the  breeze.  The  heights  to  which  he  has  at- 
tained in  public  life  may  best  be  told  in  the  fol- 
lowing epitome  of  his  life: 

Judge  Powers  sprang  from  a  family  whose 
name  of  Powers,  or  Power,  is  from  the  old 
Korman  name  le  Poer,  and  who  trace  their  line- 
age in  England  back  to  the  time  of  William  the 
Conqueror,  one  of  whose  officers  bore  that  name 
at  the  Battle  of  Hastings.  From  that  time 
down  the  name  has  held  an  honorable  place  in 
the  history  of  England.     A  curious  incident   is 


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related  of  Richard  le  Poer,  High  Sheriff  of 
Gloucestershire  in  1187,  in  that  "he  was  killed 
while  defending  the  Lord's  Day."  When  King 
Henry  the  Second  invaded  Ireland  for  conquest 
in  1171,  a  chief  command  was  given  to  Sir  Roger 
le  Poer,  an  English  Knight,  and  large  tracts  of 
land  bestowed  upon  him  by  the  crown,  in  recog- 
nition of  distinguished  services  rendered.  The 
British  Parliament  has  had  many  members  from 
his  descendents,  and  among  those  whose  line- 
age is  traced  to  the  ancient  family  is  Waiter 
Power,  of  Essex,  England,  who  emigrated  to 
America  in  1654,  landed  at  Salem,  Massachu- 
setts, and  settled  at  Littleton,  Middlesex  county, 
Massachusetts.  He  was  an  ancestor  of  David 
Powers,  born  March  4,  1753,  who  was  the  great- 
grandfather of  our  subject.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Arnerican  Revolution  and  one  of  the 
earliest  settlers  of  Croydon,  New  Hampshire. 
His  son.  Captain  Peter  Powers,  was  born  there 
February  7,  1787,  and  married  Lois  Sanger 
Cooper.  They  emigrated  to  New  York  State 
and  settled  in  Cayuga  county,  afterward  remov- 
ing to  Pultneyville,  Wayne  county.  New  York. 
Among  their  children  was  Josiah  Woodworth 
Powers,  born  December  7,  1817,  who  in  1842 
married  Julia  Wilson  Stoddard,  who  died  in  Jan- 
uary, 1891.  Josiah  Woodworth  Powers  died  in 
the  year  1900.  They  were  the  parents  of  Judge 
Orlando  W.  Powers,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Among  the  most  noted  members  of  this  family 
in  America  may  be  mentioned  Hiram  Powers, 
sculptor,  and  Abigail  Powers  Fillmore,  the  wife 
of  Millard  Fillmore,  formerly  President  of  the 
United  States,  and  of  whom  it  is  said  that  "she 
presided  over  the  great  and  constant  hospitali- 
ties incident  to  the  position  of  mistress  of  the 
White  House  with  a  grace  and  dignity  excelled 
by  none  of  her  predecessors  since  the  days  of 
Mrs.  Madison."  Mrs.  Fillmore  was  a  second 
cousin  of  Judge  Powers. 

Orlando  W.  Powers  was  born  June  16.  1850, 
at  Pultneyville,  Wayne  county,  New  York,  a 
little  hamlet  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Ontario,  six- 
teen miles  north  of  Palmyra,  New  York.  There 
his  early  boyhood  was  passed,  his  father  being  a 
farmer  of  moderate  circumstances.  He  received 
his  principal  education  in  the  district  school,  at- 


tending school  winters  and  working  on  the  farm 
during  the  summer  months.  He  later  attended 
the  Sodus  Academy  for  two  terms,  and  also 
spent  two  terms  in  the  Marion  Collegiate  Insti- 
tute of  Wayne  county,  New  York.  His  parents 
were  not  able  to  give  him  an  elaborate  education, 
although  his  mother,  a  naturally  ambitious  and 
intellectual  woman,  closely  economized  and 
hoarded  her  earnings  that  she  might  devote  them 
to  the  education  of  her  three  children.  At  the  age 
of  eighteen  years  our  subject  was  given  the  choice 
of  attending  the  law  school  of  Michigan  LTni- 
versity  at  Ann  Arbor  and  perfecting  himself  for 
the  legal  profession,  or  taking  a  literary  course 
at  Cornell  University.  He  at  that  time  had  fully 
determined  to  become  a  lawyer,  and  from  a  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  had  obtained  a  copy  of  the  Re- 
vised Statutes  of  New  York,  which  his  father 
was  horrified  to  find  him  reading  one  day  in  the 
corner  of  a  rail  fence,  when  he  was  supposed  to 
be  hoeing  corn.  Shortly  after  this  he  was  called 
to  try  his  first  case,  which  he  won  and  for  which 
he  received  five  dollars,  four  of  which  he  invested 
in  "Metcalf  on  Contracts,"  which  was  the  nuc- 
leus of  his  law  library. 

He  entered  the  law  school  of  Michigan  L'ni- 
versity  in  the  fall  of  1869,  and  graduated  in 
the  spring  of  1871,  in  the  same  class  with 
Governor  Charles  S.  Thomas,  of  Denver,  Col- 
orado. He  then  returned  home  and  worked 
on  the  farm  for  a  time  and  secured  other  em- 
ployment in  order  to  obtain,  the  means  with 
which  to  start  into  practice.  He  attained  his 
majority  in  the  fall  of  1872  and  was  nominated 
on  the  Democratic  ticket  for  the  Legislature, 
but  the  district  being  overwhelmingly  Republi- 
can, was  defeated  by  Hon.  L.  T.  Yoemans,  a 
brother-in-law  of  ex-President  Grover  Cleve- 
land. He  moved  to  Kalamazoo,  Michigan,  the 
following  spring,  reaching  there  with  less  than 
one  hundred  dollars,  never  having  had  any  ex- 
perience in  a  law  office  and  with  no  practical  ex- 
perience at  the  bar.  He  obtained  the  position  of 
clerk  in  the  ofifice  of  May  &  Buck,  the  former 
being  a  noted  orator  and  at  one  time  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of  Michigan.  For  the  first 
three  months  he  received  his  board  and  permis- 


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sion  to  sleep  in  a  back  room  of  the  office ;  at 
the  end  of  that  time  he  was  given  a  salary  of  ten 
dollars  a  month,  in  addition  to  his  board  and 
lodging,  being  required,  however,  to  put  five 
hundred  dollars  worth  of  law  books  into  the 
firm,  which  he  procured  by  borrowing  the  money 
from  Hon.  T.  G.  Yoemans,  the  father  of  his 
late  opponent  for  the  Legislature  of  New  York. 
The  Hon.  George  M.  Buck,  the  junior  member 
of  the  finn,  was  at  that  time  prosecuting  attor- 
ney for  Kalamazoo  county,  and  he  delegated  to 
Mr.  Powers  the  trial  of  many  minor  criminal 
cases  in  Justice  courts,  which  proved  of  incalcul- 
able benefit  to  him. 

His  work  in  the  field  of  politics  began  in  1874 
when  he  took  the  stump  for  the  Democratic 
party  of  his  county,  and  during  the  remainder  of 
his  residence  in  Michigan  he  took  an  active  part 
in  politics,  being  a  member  of  every  Democratic 
State  Convention,  and  as  a  member  of  commit- 
tees on  resolutions  assisted  in  preparing  many  of 
the  party  platforms.  He  evolved  and  carried 
through  the  plan  whereby  the  Democratic  and 
Greenback  parties  united,  which  resulted  in  the 
election  of  many  Democratic  Congressmen  and 
other  officials,  and  which  for  many  years  placed 
Michigan  in  the  column  of  doubtful  States. 
During  this  time  he  enjoyed  a  large  law  prac- 
tice, but  found  time  to  act  for  many  years  as 
County  Chairman  for  the  Democrats  of  Kala- 
mazoo county,  and  also  directed  several  hard- 
fought  municipal  campaigns.  In  1875  the  law 
firm  of  May  &  Buck  dissolved,  Governor  May 
moving  to  Detroit,  and  Mr.  Buck  becoming 
Judge  of  Probate  for  Kalamazoo  county.  Air. 
Powers  succeeded  to  the  business  of  the  firm, 
associating  with  him  Willam  H.  Daniels,  a 
bright  young  lawyer.  Mr.  Powers  was  elected 
City  Attorney  of  Kalamazoo  in  the  spring  of 
1876,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  was  nominated 
for  County  Prosecuting  Attorney,  but  did  not 
receive  the  election,  although  he  ran  twelve 
hundred  votes  ahead  of  his  ticket.  That  same 
year  he  stumped  the  State  in  the  interest  of 
Samuel  J.  Tilden  for  President,  and  also  took 
part  in  the  campaign  in  Indiana,  speaking  in  the 
northern  part  of  that  State  with  Governor  Hend- 
ricks and  Hon.  Daniel  W.  Vorhees.     A  strong 


friendship  grew  up  between  Mr.  Powers  and 
Governor  Hendricks,  and  thereafter  he  was  a 
staunch  supporter  of  the  great  Indiana  states- 
man. 

From  1878  to  1880  he  was  actively  engaged 
in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  being  connected 
with  some  of  the  largest  cases  of  that  section 
of  the  State.  In  1880  he  was  urged  to  allow  his 
name  to  be  used  as  a  candidate  for  Congressman 
from  the  old  fourth  district  of  Michigan,  which 
had  almost  uniformly  been  represented  by  a 
Republican.  He  absolutely  refused  to  have  his 
name  used  and  also  refused  to  attend  the  con- 
vention. However,  his  name  was  put  up  against 
that  of  Doctor  Foster  Pratt,  of  Kalamazoo  and 
on  the  first  ballot  he  received  fifty-seven  votes 
against  Doctor  Pratt's  three.  He  protested 
vigorously  against  running,  but  was  finally  over- 
powered by  the  arguments  of  his  friends  and 
finally  accepted  the  nomination,  be^ng  defeated 
at  the  polls  by  Hon.  Julius  Caesar  Burrows, 
afterward  elected  Senator  from  Michigan.  How- 
ever, the  result  of  the  campaign  left  a  bitterness 
of  feeling  existng  between  the  older  element 
of  the  party,  which  had  desired  the  nomination 
of  Doctor  Pratt,  which  feeling  continued  and 
was  a  factor  in  the  bitter  fight  afterwards  waged 
against  Mr.  Powers'  confirmation  as  Associate 
Justice  of  Utah,  when  his  name  was  pending 
before  the  United  States  Senate. 

In  1882  he  wrote  a  law  book  upon  Chancery 
Practice  and  Pleading,  adapted  to  the  Courts  of 
Michigan.  The  volume  consists  of  eight  hun- 
dred and  forty-nine  pages  and  three  hundred  and 
five  practical  forms.  It  met  with  a  large  sale 
and  is  today  a  recognized  authority  upon  the  sub- 
ject of  which  it  treats.  In  1884,  at  the  re- 
quest of  the  Richmond  Backus  Company,  pub- 
lishers of  law  books,  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  he 
wrote  a  work  of  four  hundred  and  thirty-six 
pages,  entitled  "Powers'  Practice,"  treating  of 
the  subject  of  practice  in  the  Supreme  Court 
O!'  the  State  of  Michigan.  This  also  met  with 
u  good  reception  from  bench  and  bar. 

In  the  same  year,  1884,  he  was  elected  as  a 
delegate  at  large  to  represent  the  State  at  the 
Democratic  National  Convention  at  Chicago, 
and  while  his  candidacy   for  the  place  was  op- 


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posed  by  the  element  which  had  become  dis- 
satisfied with  his  nomination  for  Congress,  he 
received  more  than  a  two-thirds  majority.  The 
Michigan  delegation  that  year  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  convention ;  it  was  divided  as  to 
its  Presidential  choice,  part  favoring  Grover 
Cleveland  and  part,  under  the  leadership  of  Mr. 
Powers  desiring  the  nomination  of  Thomas  A. 
Hendricks.  The  New  York  delegation  was 
bound  by  the  unit  rule  to  vote  as  a  body  for  'Sir. 
Cleveland,  although  there  was  a  strong  minority 
led  by  Hon.  John  Kelly,  of  Tammany  Hall  who 
was  opposed  to  him.  .^.n  effort  was  made  to 
abrogate  the  unit  rule  and  Mr.  Powers  took  the 
floor  and  spoke  upon  that  side  of  the  question. 
He  was  the  member  from  Michigan  upon  the 
important  committee  of  Permanent  Organiza- 
tion and  Order  of  Business.  Prior  to  the  ballot 
for  the  Presidential  nomination,  Mr.  Powers  with 
several  meipbers  of  the  Michigan  delegation,  had 
been  active  in  working  up  a  sentiment  in  favor 
of  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Hendricks,  who  was 
present  as  a  delegate  from  Indiana,  and  chair- 
man of  that  delegation.  The  Michigan  delega- 
tion, however,  decided  to  cast  their  vote  upon  the 
first  ballot  for  Mr.  Cleveland,  agreeing  that  if 
there  were  an  opportunity  to  nominate  IMr. 
Hendricks,  the  Cleveland  men  in  return  for  the 
united  support  of  the  Hendricks  men  on  the  first 
ballot,  would  cast  their  votes  for  the  latter.  The 
first  ballot  was  taken  in  the  evening,  and  while 
Mr.  Cleveland  was  strongly  in  the  lead,  he  did 
not  have  the  necessary  two-thirds  vote.  Im- 
mediately after  the  adjournment  of  the  conven- 
tion a  private  meeting  was  held  in  a  room  at  the 
Palmer  House,  at  which  the  more  prominent 
leaders  of  the  opposition  to  Mr.  Cleveland  were 
present ;  among  them  being  Samuel  J.  Randall, 
Benjamin  F.  Butler,  John  Kelly,  Daniel  W. 
Voorhees,  Thomas  A.  Hendricks,  Allen  G. 
Thurman,  Senator  Bayard,  General  Mansur, 
Mr.  Powers,  and  others.  It  was  the  sentiment 
of  this  meeting  that  if  Mr.  Cleveland  was  to  be 
defeated  the  opposition  would  have  to  center 
upon  Governor  Hendricks  as  its  candidate,  and 
upon  this  being  known,  Mr.  Hendricks  left  the 
meeting.  General  Butler  proposed  that  upon 
the    first    ballot    of    the    following    morning   the 


forces  should  be  held  in  line  for  the  same  candi- 
dates for  whom  they  had  voted  on  the  first  ballot 
in  opposition  to  Mr.  Cleveland,  and  that  upon  the 
next  ballot  they  should  all  concentrate  upon  Mr. 
Hendricks.  While  this  plan  was.  being  discussed 
John  Kelly,  of  New  York,  called  attention  to  Mr. 
Powers  being  the  original  Hendricks  man  in  the 
convention,  and  invited  him  to  give  his  opinion 
of  the  plan.  Mr.  Powers  favored  springing  the 
name  of  Air.  Hendricks  upon  the  next  ballot, 
calling  attention  to  the  fact  that  upon  the  first 
ballot  there  had  been  one  vote  cast  for  him, 
which  had  brought  forth  much  applause,  and 
there  was  danger  of  a  stampede  in  attempting  to 
hold  the  lines  as  they  had  been  on  the  previous 
ballot.  As  the  time  for  notninating  candidates 
bad  closed.  General  Butler  desired  to  know  how 
Mr.  Powers  would  place  the  name  of  Mr.  Hen- 
dricks before  the  convention.  "I  would  arise  to 
a  question  of  privilege,"  said  Mr.  Powers,  "and 
upon  the  chair  requesting  that  the  question  be 
stated  I  would  say  that  I  arose  to  the  question 
of  the  highest  privilege,  that  of  placing  in  nom- 
ination the  next  President  of  the  United  States, 
Thomas  A.  Hendricks."  However,  it  was  de- 
termined to  hold  the  opposition  in  line  as  it  had 
been  the  night  before,  without  any  change  on  the 
next  ballot.  General  Butler  agreed  to  see  the 
delegate  from  Illinois  and  have  him  refrain  from 
voting  for  Mr.  Hendricks.  It  was  also  arranged 
that  just  prior  to  the  opening  of  the  third  bal- 
lot Mr.  Powers  should  present  the  name  of  Mr. 
Hendricks,  as  he  had  suggested,  and  that  Ala- 
bama would  lead  off  with  her  vote  for  Hen- 
dricks, which  would  be  the  signal  for  all  the  op- 
position to  concentrate  upon  his  name.  When 
the  second  ballot  was  taken  everything  pro- 
ceeded as  intended,  there  being  no  change  in  the 
vote  until  the  State  of  Illinois  was  reached,  when 
the  same  man  who  had  voted  for  Hendricks  the 
night  before  again  cast  a  ballot  in  his  favor. 
The  announcement  was  made  by  General  John 
C.  Black,  Chairman  for  Illinois,  in  these  words, 
"Illinois  cast  one  vote  for  Thomas  A.  Hen- 
dricks." Thereupon  started  what  is  known  in 
political  history  as  the  "Hendricks  stampede," 
being  the  most  remarkable  demonstration  that 
has  ever  taken  place  in  any  political  convention. 


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For  forty-five  minutes  the  building  rang  with 
shouts,  cheers  and  cries  for  Hendricks,  in  the 
midst  of  which  Mr.  Hendricks  escaped  from  the 
building.  During  the  entire  time  of  the  demon- 
stration Gen.  Black  remained  upon  his  feet, 
awaiting  an  opportunity  to  state  the  balance  of 
the  vote  from  Illinois.  The  State  of  Pennsylvania 
withdrew  from  the  convention  for  consultation 
in  the  midst  of  the  tumult,  and  other  States  fol- 
lowed suit  but  the  States  that  had  already  voted 
could  not,  under  the  rule,  change  their  votes  in 
favor  of  Mr.  Hendricks,  and  it  was  perceived  by 
his  friends  that  the  Butler  plan  was  doomed  to 
failure.  As  the  demonstration  ceased,  General 
Black  completed  his  sentence  by  saying,  "and 
thirty-eight  votes  for  Grover  Cleveland."  In- 
diana cast  her  vote  for  Hendricks,  as  did  a  part 
of  Michigan,  but  before  the  call  of  the  States 
was  completed,  it  was  seen  that  Mr.  Cleveland 
would  be  the  nominee,  and  changes  were  made 
in  his  favor,  giving  him  more  than  the  necessary 
two-thirds  vote.  Mr.  Powers  dined  that  day 
with  Governor  Hendricks,  and  calling  the  atten- 
tion of  Mr.  Hendricks  to  his  sorrow  that  the 
fight  had  resulted  as  it  had,  the  Governor  re- 
plied that  from  the  noise  and  the  demonstra- 
tion he  believed  that  if  the  galleries  could  have 
voted  he  would  have  been  the  Democratic  nom- 
inee. Mr.  Hendricks  then  departed  for  Indiana, 
and  that  afternoon  when  the  convention  assem- 
bled to  nominate  a  Vice-President,  Daniel  Man- 
ning, of  New  York,  urged  Mr.  Powers  to  place 
Governor  Hendricks  in  nomination,  which  he 
declined  to  do,  insisting  that  he  should  have  had 
the  first  place.  Hendricks,  however,  was  nomi- 
nated and  became  \'ice-President  of  the  United 
States  under  Mr.  Cleveland's  administration. 

In  the  spring  of  1885  the  Democrats  again  car- 
ried Kalamazoo,  and  Mr.  Powers  was  again 
elected  City  Attorney.  A  contest  arose  over 
the  appointment  of  Post  Master  for  the  city,  the 
candidates  being  Doctor  Pratt  on  the  one  side 
and  the  editor  of  the  Democratic  paper  on  the 
other.  Hon.  Don  M.  Dickinson,  of  Detroit,  was 
just  coming  into  prominence  in  national  politics, 
and  Mr.  Powers  went  to  Washington  in  the  in- 
terests of  his  friend,  the  editor,  and  procured  the 
services  of  Mr.  Dickinson.     A  day  or  two  after 


his  return  to  Kalamazoo  he  received  a  dispatch 
from  Mr.  Dickinson  which  read :  "Will  you  ac- 
cept position  of  Associate  Justice  of  Utah?  An- 
swer quick."  Mr  Powers  had  no  thought  of  any 
such  appointment,  but  upon  receipt  of  the  tele- 
gram mimediately  went  to  the  telegraph  oflSce 
and  wrote  the  reply,  "Yes."  That  was  in  April 
and  in  due  time  the  appointment  was  made.  In 
May  of  that  year  Mr.  Powers  came  to  Utah, 
took  the  oath  of  office  and  entered  upon  his  du- 
ties as  Associate  Justice  of  Utah  and  Judge  of 
the  First  Judicial  District,  with  headquarters  at 
Ogden.  His  experience  on  the  bench  was  not  of 
the  most  pleasant  nature ;  the  laws  against  un- 
lawful co-habitation  and  bigamy  were  then  being 
enforced  with  great  vigor,  and  before  he  had 
time  to  become  acquainted  with  the  people  or  be- 
come familiar  with  his  new  position,  cases  in- 
volving the  violation  of  this  law  were  brought 
on  for  trial  in  his  court,  and  at  the  June  term 
of  the  Supreme  Court  that  year  there  came  up 
for  review  the  cases  of  Angus  M.  Cannon  and 
A.  Milton  Musser,  convicted  of  unlawful  co- 
habitation, which  were  affirmed.  Mr.  Powers, 
however,  dissenting  from  the  opinion  of  the 
court. 

In  the  fall  there  came  on  for  trial  before  him 
tne  celebrated  mining  case  of  the  Eureka  Hill 
Mining  Company  against  the  Bullion-Beck  and 
Champion  IMining  company,  the  trial  of  which 
consumed  seventy-five  days,  and  involved  new 
and  intricate  questions  of  mining  law.  It  was 
during  the  trial  of  this  case  that  opposition  began 
to  the  confirmation  of  Mr.  Powers  as  Judge, 
by  the  Senate,  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the  case, 
those  who  were  disappointed  with  his  decision 
gave  aid  and  encouragement  to  the  dissatisfied 
members  of  his  party  who  were  opposing  him  in 
the  East,  while  the  political  enemies  of  Mr.  Dick- 
inson joined  in  fighting  Mr.  Powers,  hoping 
thereby  to  destroy  the  influence  of  Mr.  Dickinson 
with  the  President.  The  contest  continued  from 
October  until  April  of  the  succeeding  year,  with 
great  vigor  and  bitterness.  Mr.  Powers  remained 
in  Utah,  daily  attending  to  his  duties  upon  the 
bench,  but  in  his  efforts  to  cope  with  his  ene- 
mies, he  exhausted  his  finances  and  in  April, 
1886,  telegraphed  the  President  requesting  him 


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either  to  withdraw  his  name  from  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Senate,  or  accept  his  resignation  as 
Judge.  The  President  chose  to  pursue  the  for- 
mer course,  instructing  Mr.  Powers  to  continue 
in  the  performance  of  his  duties  until  his  suc- 
cessor was  appointed.  The  name  of  Hon.  Henry 
P.  Henderson,  of  Mason,  Michigan,  was  sub- 
mitted to  Mr.  Powers  in  June,  with  the  query 
as  to  whether  his  appointment  would  be  perfectly 
satisfactory  to  Mr.  Powers,  who  replied  in  the 
affirmative.  Judge  Henderson  was  appointed  and 
Mr.  Powers  was  relieved  of  his  duties  as  Judge 
on  August  i6th,  and  returned  to  Michigan,  where 
he  became  editor  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Daily 
Democrat,  returning  to  Utah  in  September,  1887, 
and  has  since  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Judge  Powers  was  married  on  October  26, 
1887,  to  Anna  Whipple,  daughter  of  George 
Whipple,  an  old  resident  and  merchant  of  Bur- 
lington, Iowa.  Two  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage — Don  Whipple,  died  in  1889,  and 
Roger  Woodworth  is  now  eleven  years  of  age. 
From  1888  to  1892  Judge  Powers  filled  the 
position  of  Chairman  of  the  Liberal  State  Com- 
mittees, and  conducted  some  of  the  most  vigor- 
ously contested  campaigns  ever  conducted  in 
LTtah.  It  was  during  this  period  that  the  famous 
"Registration  train"  was  run  by  the  Liberal 
party  in  the  campaign  of  1890.  The  laws  in 
Utah  were  such  that  a  man  could  register  by 
taking  the  required  oath  before  a  notary  public 
in  any  section  of  the  country,  and  sending  that 
vote  to  the  registration  officer,  whose  duty  it  was 
to  put  the  voter  upon  the  list.  The  Rio  Grande 
Western  was  at  that  time  broad-gauging  its 
track  and  employed  several  hundred  men.  As 
the  need  of  completing  the  improvements  speed- 
ily was  urgent  and  the  company  fearful  that 
they  would  not  return  to  work  if  allowed  to  come 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  felt  unwilling  to  allow  them 
to  do  so.  Mr.  Powers  consulted  leading  attorneys 
who  assured  him  that  it  would  be  proper  for  a 
registration  officer  to  register  any  bona  fide  vot- 
ers, residents  of  Salt  Lake  City,  who  were  work- 
ing for  the  railroad  company,  wherever  they 
might  be  found  within  the  State,  and  it  was  his 
purpose  to  advertise  that  this  would  be  done,  in 


order  to  allow  both  sides  an  opportunity  to  reg- 
ister. However,  during  his  absence  on  law  busi- 
ness in  Provo,  a  special  train  was  hired  and 
started  from  Salt  Lake  City  at  midnight,  in  a 
clandestine  manner,  to  register  voters,  the  train 
containing  registration  officers.  Mr.  Powers  be- 
came very  indignant  upon  learning  what  had 
been  done,  and  when  the  registration  officers  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake,  told  them  that  if  they  placed 
upon  the  registration  list  any  names  secured  in 
this  manner,  he  would  challenge  them  at  the 
proper  time  and,  as  a  result,  none  were  placed 
upon  the  list.  This  episode  created  much  adverse 
comment,  and  Judge  Po\vers,  as  Chairman  of  the 
Committee,  was  held  responsible,  which  respon- 
bility  he  accepted.  Upon  the  other  hand,  the 
managers  of  the  People's  Party  had  secured  In- 
spector Bonfield,  of  Chicago,  to  come  secretly  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  with  a  number  of  assistants  and 
detectives,  to  aid  in  the  campaign.  Mr.  Powers 
caused  the  Bonfield  matter  to  be  exposed  just 
prior  to  the  election,  which  also  caused  intense 
excitement.  The  Liberal  ticket  won  by  a  major- 
ity of  eight  hundred  and  forty. 

Anticipating  the  division  upon  political  lines. 
Judge  Powers  organized  the  Tuscarora  Society, 
a  Democratic  organization,  which  grew  to  a  mem- 
bership of  eleven  hundred,  and  became  a  strong 
political  factor.  At  the  National  Convention  in 
Chicago,  in  1892,  this  society  ran  a  special  train, 
containing  a  drum  corps  and  about  sixty  mem- 
bers of  the  organization,  to  Chicago ;  where  they 
became  the  feature  of  the  convention.  Judge 
Powers,  with  Fred  J.  Kiesel,  attended  the  con- 
vention as  delegates  from  Utah,  representing  the 
Gentile  wing  of  the  Democratic  party.  Their 
right  to  sit  as  delegates  was  contested  by  Judge 
Henderson  and  Hon.  John  T.  Caine,  represent- 
atives of  the  newly-formed  democratic  party  of 
Utah ;  the  latter  being  seated. 

In  1892  Judge  Powers  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Legislature  of  Utah,  and  served  during 
the  session  of  1893.  In  1895  he  was  unanimously 
elected  Chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Cen- 
tral Committee,  and  waged  a  vigorous  campaign, 
being  re-elected  to  the  same  office  in  1896,  the 
State  that  year  giving  a  very  heavy  democratic 
majority.     At  the  request  of  the  National  Com- 


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mittee,  he  stumped  the  States  of  Illinois,  Iowa, 
Nebraska  and  Wyoming  in  1896,  part  of  the 
time  speaking  with  Mr.  Bryan  from  the  latter's 
special  train.  He  was  Chairman  of  the  Utah 
delegation  to  the  Convention  held  in  Chicago 
that  year.  He  submitted  the  plan  for  the  organiz- 
ation of  silver  delegates,  which  was  later  adopted 
in  the  convention  and  which  proved  so  effective, 
surprising  the  gold  delegates  by  its  completeness. 
He  also  placed  in  nomination  the  name  of  Hon. 
John  W.  Daniel,  of  Virginia,  for  Vice-President, 
making  a  speech  that  was  highly  complimented. 

In  December  of  that  year  he  resigned  as  Chair- 
man of  the  Democratic  State  Committee  and  an- 
nounced himself  as  a  candidate  for  the  United 
States  Senate,  withdrawing,  however,  in  favor 
of  Hon.  Moses  Thatcher,  before  the  balloting 
commenced,  the  conditions  at  that  time  impressing 
Judge  Powers  that  it  was  his  duty  to  do  so. 
Nevertheless,  during  the  whole  fight,  he  was  voted 
for  by  Senator  Mattie  Hughes  Cannon.  In  1898 
he  again  became  a  candidate  for  United  States 
Senator,  and  was  one  of  the  leading  candidates 
during  the  whole  session,  which  resulted  in  no 
election  of  a  Senator  from  Utah. 

On  August  26,  1899,  an  attempt  was  made  by 
an  ex-convict,  commonly  called  John  Y.  Smith, 
to  take  the  life  of  Judge  Powers  by  an  infernal 
machine  loaded  with  giantpowder  and  fulminating 
caps.  The  contrivance  was  ingeniously  con- 
structed, but  by  one  of  those  fortunate  mental 
warnings,  which  baffle  description,  but  which  are 
sometimes  experienced.  Judge  Powers  did  not 
open  the  box,  but  turned  it  over  to  the  police 
who  discovered  its  dangerous  character.  The 
Governor  of  Utah  offered  a  reward  of  five  hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  arrest  and  conviction  of  the 
perpetrator,  and  he  was  secured  while  endeavor- 
ing to  escape.  His  trial  was  had  in  December, 
1899,  and  he  was  convicted  of  assault  with  in- 
tent to  murder.  The  day  after  his  conviction 
he  ended  his  life  by  taking  morphine  with  suicidal 
intent,  .^fter  his  conviction  he  confessed  his  con- 
nection with  the  effort  to  take  Judge  Power's 
life,  but  alleged  that  he  had  an  associate.  He 
also  stated  that  his  true  name  was  Louis  James, 
and  that  he  was  a  cousin  of  the  notorious  Jesse 
Tames.    After  his  death  he  was  identified  bv  one 


who  knew  him   in   childhood  as  being  what  he 
claimed  to  be,  Louis  James. 

It  is  safe  to  say  that  during  the  long  period 
of  time  in  which  Judge  Powers  has  practiced  his 
profession,  and  among  the  large  and  noted  cases, 
both  civil  and  criminal,  which  he  has  conducted, 
not  only  in  Utah  but  in  the  State  of  Michigan, 
that  he  has  met  with  more  uniform  success  than 
any  other  attorney,  either  East  or  West;  in  fact, 
it  is  very  seldom  that  he  ever  loses  a  big  case. 
His  long  and  most  honorable  career  in  Utah  has 
brought  him  prominently  before  the  people  and 
won  him  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  admirers. 
Personally,  he  is  one  of  the  most  genial,  pleasant 
gentlemen  one  would  wish  to  meet,  and  is  in 
large  demand  where  there  is  any  occasion  for 
speech-making. 


ANIEL  H.  WELLS,  Deceased.  In 
taking  a  retrospective  view  of  Utah 
during  the  past  half-century,  and  of  the 
men  who  have  been  closely  identified 
with  it  through  its  period  of  direst 
trouble  and  hardship,  the  name  of  Daniel  H. 
Wells  stands  out  in  bold  relief,  and  while  he  has 
passed  from  earth's  scenes,  his  influence  still 
lives  and  will  continue  to  live  for  generations 
yet  to  come. 

Daniel  Hanmer  Wells  was  born  at  Trenton, 
Oneida  County,  New  York,  October  27,  1814, 
and  was  the  only  son  of  Daniel  and  Catherine 
(Chapin)  Wells.  Our  subject's  mother  was  Mr. 
Well's  second  wife,  by  whom  he  also  had  one 
daughter,  Catherine  Chapin  Wells.  Mr.  Wells 
had  five  daughters  by  his  first  wife,  all  of  whom 
are  now  dead.  He  was  born  at  Weathersfield, 
Connecticut,  and  was  descended  through  Joshua ; 
Joseph,  Robert  and  John  from  Thomas  Wells, 
the  first  .\merican  progenitor,  who  settled  at 
Hartford  in  1660,  and  became  the  fourth  governor 
of  Connecticut,  and  was  several  times  elected  al- 
ternately to  the  office  of  Governor  and  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of  that  colony. 

Catherine  Chapin  was  the  daughter  of  David 
Chapin,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  connected 
with  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  distinguished 
New   England    families.      He    served    under   the 


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immediate  command  of  Washington,  and  during 
the  greater  part  of  the  war  for  Independence. 
He  died  at  the  great  age  of  ninety-si.x,  and  is 
buried  at  Havana,  New  York. 

When  our  subject  was  but  twelve  years  of 
age  his  father  died  and  it  became  necessary  for 
him  to  aid  in  supporting  the  family.  He  worked 
on  a  farm  until  eighteen  years  of  age,  when,  the 
estate  being  settled  and  he  and  his  sister  each  re- 
ceiving a  small  competence,  he  moved  with  his 
mother  and  sister  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  and  again 
took  up  farming,  devoting  the  winter  to  teaching. 
From  there,  they  moved  to  Hancock  county, 
Illinois,  settling  near  Commerce,  afterward  known 
as  Nauvoo.  Here  he  again  took  up  farming  and 
supported  his  mother  and  sister  until  they  both 
married.  He  accumulated  a  large  amount  of 
land  in  Illinois,  and  became  a  successful  farmer. 
His  life  of  sober  industry  and  his  keen  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  the  community  in  whch  he  lived, 
made  him  very  popular,  and  before  he  had 
reached  his  majority  he  was  elected  to  offices  of 
honor  and  trust,  being  first  a  constable  and  then 
justice  of  the  peace  and  was  an  officer  in  the 
first  military  organization  of  Hancock  county. 
He  was  a  Whig,  in  politics,  and  prominent  in  the 
political  conventions  of  the  period.  As  "Squire 
Wells"  he  became  noted  as  a  man  of  strict  in- 
tegrity, with  a  high  sense  of  justice  and  impar- 
tiality. 

In  1839,  when  the  Latter  Day  Saints,  fleeing 
from  Missouri,  settled  at  Commerce,  he  aided 
in  securing  for  them  a  cordial  welcome.  He 
owned  eighty  acres  of  land  on  the  bluff,  which 
he  platted  and  sold  them  at  low  figures  and  on 
long  time  payments,  and  the  chief  part  of  the 
city  and  the  Mormon  Temple  was  built  on  land 
that  had  belonged  to  him.  He  became  a  warm 
friend  to  Joseph  Smith,  and  when  the  opposition 
to  the  Mormons  reached  its  height  he  espoused 
the  cause  of  these  people,  although  at  that  time 
not  a  member  of  the  Church,  which  he  joined 
August  9,  1846,  six  weeks  before  the  battle  en- 
sued in  which  the  Mormons  were  driven  from 
the  State.  He  was  among  the  last  to  leave  the 
city.  One  of  the  balls  from  the  cannon  reaching 
the  Iowa  side  of  the  river,  Mr.  Wells  sent  it  to 
the  governor  of  that  State  as  a  souvenir  with  the 


laconic  message  that  his  State  was  being  invaded. 

After  settling  up  his  affairs  in  Illinois,  which 
involved  the  greatest  sacrifice  of  his  life — separa- 
tion from  his  wife  and  only  son — Squire  Wells 
started  for  the  West  and  came  to  Utah  in  1848, 
acting  as  Aide-de-camp  to  President  Brigham 
Young  on  the  second  journey  of  the  pioneers. 
When  Salt  Lake  City  was  laid  out  he  drew  a  lot 
in  the  Eighth  Ward,  but  President  Young  desir- 
ing him  to  live  nearer  Church  headquarters,  he 
moved  to  a  site  near  the  Eagle  Gate,  where  he 
remained  for  a  number  of  years,  and  afterwards 
moved  to  the  site  now  occupied  by  the  Zion's 
Savings  Bank,  also  acquiring  valuable  land  in 
Salt  Lake  and  Utah  counties.  He  took  the  same 
interest  in  the  affairs  of  this  State  that  he  had  in 
Illinois  and  held  many  high  positions,  being  a 
member  of  the  first  Legislative  Council,  State 
Attorney-General,  Major-General  of  the  Nauvoo 
Legion,  the  State  Militia,  and  on  March  7,  1855, 
received  from  President  Brigham  Young  the 
commission  of  Lieutenant-General  of  the  Legion. 
He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  Indian  troubles 
in  L^tah  and  Sanpete  counties,  being  in  the  bat- 
tles at  Provo,  Battle  Creek  and  Payson.  He 
was  also  in  command  of  the  Echo  Canyon  expedi- 
tion at  the  time  of  the  Johnston  army  troubles 
and  figured  largely  in  all  the  exciting  experiences 
of  those  early  days. 

From  1866  to  1876  he  was  mayor  of  the  city 
of  Salt  Lake,  and  during  that  time  carried  on  a 
perpetual  warfare  against  crime,  the  city  being 
conspicuously  free  from  vice  during  that  time. 
He  became  the  firm  friend  and  supporter  of  edu- 
cation and  was  one  of  the  first  regents  of  the 
University  of  Deseret,  being  its  Chancellor  from 
1869  to  1878.  Mr.  Wells  also  took  an  active  in- 
terest in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  resources  of  the  State,  and  developed 
the  first  coal  mines  in  Summit  county,  and  for 
many  years  operated  the  lumber  mills  in  the  Big 
Cottonwood  Canyon.  He  also  managed  the  suc- 
cessful manufacture  of  nails,  and  in  1872  es- 
tablished the  Gas  Works  of  Salt  Lake  City,  to  the 
success  of  which  he  pledged  his  entire  property. 
He  was  always  a  large  employer  of  men  and 
thousands  can  testify  to  his  generous  treatment 
of  those  who  worked  for  him.     While  Superin- 


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tendent  of  Public  Works  he  assisted  many  poor 
families  in  getting  work  and  becoming  independ- 
ent. 

In  the  Church,  President  Wells  held  the  offices 
of  Elder,  High  Priest  and  Apostle.  He  was 
appointed  Second  Counselor  to  President  Young 
on  January  4,  1857,  and  in  company  with  Presi- 
dent Young  and  Heber  C.  Kimball  visited  the 
Saints  throughout  the  State,  aiding  in  locating 
and  organizing  many  settlements,  frequently  hav- 
ing entire  charge  of  affairs  in  the  absence  of 
President  Young.  His  position  as  one  of  the 
First  Presidency  he  occupied  until  the  death  of 
President  Young,  August  29.  1877.  Then,  the 
Twelve  Apostles  succeeding  to  the  Presidency,  he 
was  appointed  as  Counselor  to  that  Quorum, 
and  held  the  place  until  his  death.  In  1864  he 
w-as  sent  on  a  mission  to  Europe,  returning  in 
1865,  and  in  1868  took  charge  of  the  Endow- 
ment house,  where  he  ministered  in  the  ordi- 
nances for  the  living  and  the  dead  for  many 
years. 

On  May  3,  1879,  he  was  sent  to  the  penitenti- 
ary for  contempt  of  court  in  the  Miles  polygamy 
case,  for  refusing  to  disclose  the  rites  of  the  En- 
dowment house.  Being  interrogated  by  the  pros- 
ecution in  relation  to  clothing  worn  in  those 
ceremonies,  he  made  the  following  answer:  "I 
decline  to  answer  that  question  because  I  am 
under  moral  and  sacred  obligations  not  to  answer, 
and  it  is  interwoven  in  my  character  never  to 
betray  a  friend,  a  brother,  my  country,  my  God  or 
my  religion."  He  was  sentenced  to  a  fine  of 
one  hundred  dollars  and  imprisonment  for  two 
days.  He  paid  the  penalty  and  on  May  6th  was 
escorted  from  the  penitentiary  by  a  procession 
hastily,  but  thoroughly  organized,  of  over  ten 
thousand  people,  carrying  banners,  mottos,  flags 
and  signs  of  rejoicing,  being  one  of  the  most 
remarkable  demonstrations  of  respect  ever  wit- 
nessed in  this  country. 

In  the  summer  of  1876  he  was  placed  in 
charge  of  a  company  to  visit  the  newly  started 
settlements  in  Arizona,  and  in  crossinp'  the  Colo- 
rado river  narrowly  escaped  drowning,  the  boat 
capsizing  and  the  whole  outfit  being  swept  away. 
Bishop  Roundy,  who  was  one  of  his  companions, 
was  drowned.     He  again  went  on  a  mission  to 


Europe  in  1884,  presiding  over  the  European  mis- 
sion and  visiting  the  churches  throughout  the 
British  Isles ;  also  Scandinavia.  Germany  and 
Switzerland,  remaining  about  three  years,  and  on 
his  return  to  the  United  States  visited  his  rela- 
tives in  the  East,  reaching  home  in  July,  1887. 
When  the  Manti  Temple  was  dedicated  he  was 
appointed  to  take  charge,  in  which  work  he  was 
engaged  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  March  ^4 
1891. 

Daniel  H.  Wells  was  the  husband  of  seven 
wives,  six  of  whom  survived  him,  by  whom  he 
had  thirty-seven  children,  of  whom  twelve  sons 
and  twelve  daughters  are  living,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  left  twenty-five  living  grandchildren. 

.Mr.  Wells  was  a  man  of  unassuming  manners, 
kind  and  hospitable,  and  his  faith  in  his  Church 
and  the  doctrines  it  expounded  was  unbounded. 
The  funeral  services  were  held  in  the  Tabernacle, 
and  although  the  weather  was  extremely  incle- 
ment, thousands  of  people  attended  the  services, 
which  were  of  a.  most  solemn  and  impressive 
character. 


LSOX  I.  SXYDER.  It  isn't  the 
performance  or  execution  of  some 
great  thing  in  life  that  makes  a  man 
a  success  or  a  valuable  citizen  in  the 
community  in  which  he  lives ;  on  the 
other  hand,  it  is  the  careful,  vigilant  and  close 
attention  to  the  most  minute  details  of  everyday 
life  that  forms  the  elements  of  success.  Among 
the  men  who  have  achieved  success  by  close  and 
careful  attention  to  business,  should  be  mentioned 
the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Wilson  I.  Snyder  was  born  twelve  miles  south 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  on  the  Jordan  river,  in  1856. 
He  was  the  son  of  George  G.  Snyder,  who  was 
born  in  Watertown,  Jefferson  county,  New  York, 
in  1819.  His  early  life  was  spent  on  a  farm,  and 
after  attaining  his  majority,  he  engaged  in  the 
potash  industry  in  New  York  and  Canada.  In 
1844  he  left  his  native  State  and  went  West, 
passing  through  Chicago,  which  was  then  but  a 
small,  straggling  village,  and  was  here  offered 
a  large  tract  of  land  where  the  most  valuable 
property  in  Chicago  now  stands,   for  a  yoke  of 


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oxen,  which  he  refused  to  accept.  He  moved  on 
to  Missouri  and  settled  in  Jefferson  county.  His 
father,  Isaac,  was  a  son  of  Jacob  Snyder,  the 
family  originally  coming  from  Germany  and  set- 
tling in  Pennsylvania,  being  among  the  earliest 
settlers  of  that  State.  George  G.  Snyder's  mother 
was  Louisa  (Comstock)  Snyder,  whose  family 
were  of  English  extraction,  the  first  member  of 
the  family  having  come  over  to  America  in  the 
Mayftozver,  The  Comstock  family  settled  in  cen- 
tral New  York.  Peter  Comstock  established  the 
first  express  route  from  Rochester  to  the  Hudson 
river,  which  later  formed  the  nucleus  of  the 
Adams  Express  Company.  Our  subject's  mother, 
Elsie  (Jacob)  Snyder,  was  a  daughter  of  Norton 
Jacob,  who  belonged  to  an  old  English  family 
which  came  from  the  vicinity  of  Ipswich.  Nor- 
ton Jacob  was  a  carpenter,  joiner  and  millwright 
and  was  considered  one  the  best  mechanics  of  his 
time.  He  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  history  of  the 
country,  marrying  his  wife  in  New  York  and 
emigrating  thither  and  living  in  Utah  until  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Glenwood, 
Sevier  county,  in  1882.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
Mr.  Jacob  was  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
The  first  member  of  the  Jacob  family  also  came 
over  in  the  Mayflower,  and  settled  in  Massachu- 
setts, where  some  branch  of  the  family  has  con- 
tinued to  reside,  ever  since,  in  the  old  town  of 
Sheffield,  Berkshire  county.  Norton  Jacob  was 
the  first  to  leave  that  section  of  the  country,  and 
came  to  what  was  then  considered  the  far  West, 
to  Jamestown,  New  York. 

During  the  time  of  the  gold  excitement  in  Cali- 
fornia in  1849,  our  subject's  father  left  Missouri 
for  the  gold  fields  of  that  section,  going  by  way 
of  Salt  Lake  City  and  spending  the  winter  in  the 
Salt  Lake  Valley.  In  the  autumn  of  1850  he 
landed  in  Sacramento  and  later  moved  to  Dia- 
mond Springs,  where  he  built  and  successfully 
run  a  hotel  for  four  years.  He  amassed  consid- 
erable wealth  in  the  gold  fields  of  California,  and 
determined  to  return  East,  and  on  his  return 
stopped  again  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Having  early 
joined  the  Mormon  Church,  and  having  many 
friends  and  associates  in  this  valley,  he  changed 
his  mind  and  concluded  to  locate  in  this  section. 
He  successfully  carried  on  business  in  this  and 


Davis  county  for  a  number  of  years.  He  later 
moved  to  Cache  county,  where  lie  located  and 
successfully  operated  the  first  saw  mill  ever  built 
in  that  section.  In  1864  he  moved  to  Summit 
county,  where  he  engaged  in  the  stock  and  ranch 
business,  freighting,  livery,  merchandising,  and 
mining  business ;  he  being  among  the  first  to 
settle  in  Park  City,  and  laying  out  a  portion  of 
that  town.  JNIr.  Snyder  served  on  two  missions 
to  England  and  the  Eastern  States  for  his 
Church,  and  was  also  Probate  Judge  of  Summit 
county  for  six  years.  He  spent  the  balance  of  his 
life  in  Park  City,  and  died  there  in  1887.  His 
wife  died  in  March,   1891. 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  Salt 
Lake  City  and  Summit  county,  .where  his  father 
owned  a  ranch  six  miles  north  of  Park  City.  He 
received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of 
Wanship  and  by  private  instruction,  his  father 
employing  a  college  professor  of  prominence,  from 
England,  on  one  occasion  for  more  than  a  year,  to 
instruct  his  children  in  the  higher  branches  of 
their  education,  the  schools  that  then  existed  in 
this  secjiion  of  the  country,  affording  but  meagre 
facilities.  At  about  seventeen  or  eighteen  years  of 
age,  in  the  latter  part  of  1874,  he  commenced 
the  study  of  law  in  the  otnce  of  Judge  Jabez  G. 
Sutherland,  at  that  time  one  of  the  most  noted 
mining  attorneys  in  the  State.  He  later  studied 
under  the  direction  of  Judge  E.  F.  Dunne.  On 
October  21,  1878,  Mr.  Snyder  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  and  the  same  year  opened  his  office  in  Park 
City,  where  he  continued  to  practice  successfully 
until  about  one  year  ago,  when  he  settled  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  still  retaining  his  branch  office  in  Park 
City,  under  the  firm  name  of  Snyder,  Westerfelt 
&  Snyder.  Mr.  Snyder's  whole  life  has  been 
closely  identified  with  the  mining  interests  of 
Utah,  and  his  practice  has  been  largely  with 
corporations  and  mining  companies.  He  is  the 
author  of  a  work  on  mining  law,  and  also  of  an 
article  on  mines  and  mining  in  an  encyclopaedia 
of  law.  He  is  considered  one  of  the  ablest  at- 
torneys in  this  State. 

Mr.  Snyder  was  married  in  1877,  in  Pleasant 
Grove,  Utah,  to  Miss  Lythia  Brown,  daughter  of 
Bishop  John  Brown,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  this 
State.      Thev    have    had    two    children,    one   of 


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whom  is  living — Miss  Cora  Helen  Snyder.  His 
first  wife  died  in  1881,  and  he  married  again  to 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Wells  Arrick),  a  native  of  Shef- 
field, England,  who  came  to  America  early  in 
life  and  was  raised  and  educated  in  this  country. 

In  political  life,  Mr.  Snyder  has  been  a  republi- 
can ever  since  the  organization  of  that  party  in 
this  State.  He  has  been  active  in  the  work  of 
his  party  and  is  well-known  in  public  life,  having 
filled  the  office  of  County  Attorney  of  Summit 
county.  City  Attorney  of  Park  City,  school  trustee 
and  a  number  of  other  minor  offices.  In  1896 
he  was  a  candidate  on  the  republican  ticket  for 
the  office  of  District  Judge,  but  the  party,  that 
year,  w'as  unsuccessful.  In  social  life,  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Masons,  Odd  Fellows,  Knights 
of  Pythias,  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen, 
and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

While  Mr.  Snyder  has  been  actively  engaged 
in  his  law  practice,  yet  this  has  not  consumed  all 
of  his  time,  for  he  is  prominently  identified  with 
the  mining  interests  of  this  State,  being  one  of  the 
original  organizers  of  the  Ajax  mine  and  the 
California  mine,  and  is  still  identified  w^ith  the 
latter  mine,  being  the  president  of  that  company. 
He  is  also  largely  interested  in  other  mining 
properties  throughout  this  intermountain  region. 


OX.  CHARLES  S.  ZANE.  In  pre- 
senting to  the  readers  of  this  volume 
the  life  and  career  of  Charles  S.  Zane, 
cx-Chief  Justice  of  Utah,  we  are  per- 
petuating the  name  of  one  of  the  most 
learned,  renowned  and  popular  men  who  ever 
graced  the  bench  or  bar  of  this  State.  For  a 
period  of  more  than  twenty-six  years,  Judge  Zane 
has  been  prominently  associated  with  the  legal  life 
of  the  States  of  Illinois  and  Utah,  and  during  this 
time  has  won  a  constantly  increasing  reputation 
for  breadth  of  knowledge  and  keenness  of  intel- 
lectual faculties.  In  the  many  positions  of  honor 
to  which  he  has  been  called  he  has  proved  him- 
self a  man  of  superior  ability,  in  whose  ■  hands 
large  responsibilities  may  safely  be  entrusted,  and 
by  his  unbiased  and  just  decisions  while  on  the 
bench  of  Utah,  won  the  esteem  and  good  will  of 
hundreds  of  people  whom,  in  his  official  capacity, 


he  was  compelled  to  pronounce  guilty  of  a  viola- 
tion of  the  laws  of  the  United  States  during  the 
Territorial  existence  of  Utah,  and  sentence  to  fine 
and  imprisonment ;  as  well  as  the  hearty  admira- 
tion and  support  of  his  colleagues  and  the  better 
class  of  citizens  in  the  territory. 

Charles  S.  Zane  was  born  in  Cumberland 
county.  New  Jersey,  Alarch  2,  1831.  He  traces 
his  lineage  in  this  country  back  to  Robert  Zane,  a 
Quaker,  who  came  from  England  with  a  com- 
pany of  people  of  his  faith,  and  settled  at  Salem, 
Gloucester  county.  New  Jersey,  in  1672.  The 
family  continued  to  reside  in  this  county  for  a 
number  of  generations.  A  descendant  of  this 
family  emigrated  to  the  western  part  of  Virginia 
prior  to  the  Revolution,  and  numerous  members 
of  the  family  are  to  be  found  in  that  State  today. 
One  of  this  family  was  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee of  Feill  in  the  \'irginia  House  of  Bur- 
gesses, of  which  Patrick  Henry  was  chairman, 
and  which  drafted  the  resolutions  of  resistance 
to  the  English  Government.  The  Virginia  branch 
of  the  family  took  a  large  part  in  the  settlement 
of  the  State  of  Ohio.  The  well-known  exploit  of 
Elizabeth  Zane  at  the  blockhouse  of  Zanesville, 
is  still  remembered  among  the  cherished  tra- 
ditions of  the  Muskingum  Valley.  The  New 
Jersey  branch  of  the  family  continued  Quakers 
until  within  the  present  century.  The  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Andrew  Zane,  was  born 
and  bred,  during  his  early  life,  in  Gloucester 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  -there  married  Mary 
Franklin,  a  distant  relative  of  the  philosopher, 
Benjamin  Franklin.  They  later  moved  to  Cum- 
berland county  where  there  was  no  Quaker  com- 
munity, and  there  identified  themselves  with  the 
Methodist  church,  and  while  attaching  but  little 
importance  to  sectarian  differences,  they  always 
clung  to  the  simplicity  of  speech  and  dress  of  the 
Friends.  Andrew  Zane  was  a  thrifty  farmer, 
of  correct  and  religious  life,  industrious  habits 
and  excellent  judgment. 

Our  subject  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm, 
where  he  worked  in  the  summer  and  attended  the 
country  school  in  the  winter.  However,  the 
school-masters  of  that  district  were  very  illiterate 
men  at  the  time  our  subject  was  in  school,  and  his 
progress  during  this  period   was  not  rapid.     In 


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the  fall  of  1848  he  went  to  Philadelphia  where  he 
engaged  as  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  store,  but  this 
life  proving  uncongenial,  returned  home  the  fol- 
lowing spring.  Here  he  hauled  the  stone  with 
which  the  light  house  was  constructed  at  East 
Point,  on  the  Delaware  Bay.  He  returned  to 
Philadelphia  that  fall  and  acquired  an  interest 
in  a  livery  business,  selling  his  interest  the  follow- 
ing March  and  starting  for  Illinois.  The  means 
of  locomotion  in  those  days  were  very  crude  and 
it  took  all  day  to  traverse  the  same  distance  that 
is  now  traversed  in  two  hours.  This  journey 
consumed  two  weeks,  but  was  filled  with  many 
interesting  and  amusing  incidents,  which  served 
to  break  the  monotony  and  fatigue  incident  to  the 
trip.  Arriving  in  Springfield  he  took  the  stage 
for  his  brother's  farm,  which  lay  in  the  same 
neighborhood  in  which  the  Reverend  Peter  Cart- 
wright  resided.  Mr.  Cartwright  was  a  Kentuck- 
ian  by  birth  and  a  prominent  figure  in  that  part 
of  the  country.  He  had  served  as  Chaplain  of  a 
regiment  in  General  Jackson's  army  and  took  part 
in  the  Battle  of  New  Orleans.  On  the  eve  of  this 
battle,  General  Jackson  called  his  Chaplains  to- 
gether and  instructed  them  to  preach  a  strong 
sermon  to  the  soldiers,  telling  them  the  Lord 
would  take  their  souls  straight  to  Heaven  if  they 
fell  in  battle;  to  which  Mr.  Cartw-right  replied 
that  he  could  not  go  that  far,  but  would  say  to 
them  as  forcibly  as  he  could  that  he  believed  their 
country's  cause  was  the  cause  of  God,  and  that 
he  believed  those  who  died  fighting  would  be 
given  credit  for  their  bravery  and  sacrifice  on  the 
day  of  judgment.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  con- 
victions and  usually  spoke  with  much  earnest- 
ness. 

During  that  year  our  subject  engaged  in  brick- 
makmg  and  farm  work  and  during  the  next 
winter,  in  company  with  another  man,  cut  di^wn 
trees  and  split  posts  and  rails  with  which  he 
fenced  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  prairie  land 
the  following  spring.  During  the  winter  he  had 
frozen  one  of  his  feet  quite  seriously.  He  spent 
the  summer  of  1852  breaking  the  prairie  land 
with  four  yoke  of  oxen  and  a  large  plow.  In 
September  of  that  year  he  entered  McKendree 
College,  prosecuting  his  studies  under  great  dis- 
advantage on  account  of  his  lack  of  preparation. 


Dr.  Akers  had  been  elected  president  of  this  col- 
lege, although  he  did  not  enter  upon  his  duties 
until  late  in  the  term.  He  preached  his  first  and 
second  sermon  at  the  college.  His  first  discourse 
was  purely  chronological,  consisting  of  a  state- 
ment of  dates  and  events  as  found  in  the  Bible. 
After  he  had  consumed  more  than  two  hours, 
he  stated  that  he  believed  that  the  remainder  of 
his  discourse  would  be  more  intersting,  and  that 
on  the  next  Sunday  he  would  resume.  The  dis- 
course had  been  very  dry,  but  the  next  Sunday  he 
was  very  eloquent.  His  appearance  and  manner 
when  speaking,  indicated  great  clearness  and 
force.  Like  Cartwright  he  was  a  man  of  pro- 
found convictions ;  neither  appeared  to  be 
troubled  with  a  doubt  or  fear ;  they  were  about 
the  same  age ;  belonged  to  the  Methodist  Church, 
and  lived  the  most  of  their  lives  in  the  central  part 
of  Illinois.  Cartwright  was  a  thrifty  farmer,  as 
well  as  an  able  divine.  Akers  was  a  student,  and 
much  the  more  learned,  taking  but  little  interest 
in  the  acquisition  of  wealth ;  he  was  an  ardent 
opponent  to  slavery  and  never  hesitated  to  de- 
nounce it  on  proper  occasion,  regarding  it  as 
opposed  to  the  teachings  of  the  Bible.  Years 
before  the  Civil  War  he  preached  at  a  camp- 
meeting  near  Springfield  and  took  occasion  to 
condemn  slavery  in  strong  language.  He  said 
that  it  was  opposed  to  both  civil  and  religious 
liberty  and  predicted  that  sooner  or  later  it  would 
go  down  in  blood.  Mr.  Lincoln,  who  had  a 
very  high  regard  for  Mr.  Akers,  had  gone  out  to 
hear  the  sermon,  and  on  the  way  home  referred 
to  the  sermon  and  expressed  the  opinion  that  the 
prediction  might  come  to  pass ;  that  this  nation 
could  not  stand,  permanently,  part  slave  and  part 
free.  During  the  time  Judge  Zane  attended  this 
college,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Philosophian  So- 
ciety, in  which  he  took  an  active  part,  and  has 
always  been  very  sensible  of  the  advantages  re- 
ceived from  this  source.  He  taught  school  for 
about  a  year  after  leaving  college  and  then  en- 
tered the  office  of  James  C.  Conkling,  in  Spring- 
field, in  the  year  1856.  Here  he  made  the  ac- 
quaintance of  Mr.  Lincoln  and  his  law  partner, 
]\Ir.  Herndon,  and  these  three  men  had  much  to  do 
with  the  moulding  of  the  character  and  career 
of  our  subject.     Mr.  Lincoln  he  considered  the 


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greatest  man  he  ever  met,  which  opinion  he  still 
holds,  and  cannot  say  too  much  in  praise  of 
him.  He  was  in  his  company  the  day  the  re- 
turns came  in  when  he  was  nominated  for  Presi- 
dent, and  the  remembrance  of  this  occasion  is 
one  of  the  choicest  in  his  repertoire.  He  suc- 
ceeded Mr.  Lincoln  as  a  partner  of  Mr.  Herndon, 
under  the  style  of  Herndon  &  Zane,  which  con- 
tinued for  eight  years ;  at  the  end  of  that  time, 
Mr.  Herndon  turned  his  attention  to  farming 
and  in  1870  Judge  Zane  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Cullom,  Zane  &  Marcy.  His  connection 
with  this  firm  ceased  in  1873,  upon  his  election, 
in  June,  of  that  year,  to  the  office  of  Judge  of 
the  Judicial  Circuit,  composed  of  the  counties  of 
Sangamon  and  Macoupin,  but  during  the  term 
the  counties  of  ^Montgomery,  Christian,  Shelly 
and  Fayette  were  added  with  two  more  judges. 
At  the  expiration  of  the  first  term  he  was  re- 
elected for  another  term  of  six  years,  and  on 
July  2,  1884,  President  Arthur  appointed  him 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Ter- 
ritory of  L^tah,  and  he  qualified  as  such  on  the 
I  St  day  of  September  following. 

During  his  service  of  eleven  years  and  six 
months  on  the  bench  in  Illinois  Judge  Zane  had 
a  number  of  cases  that  attracted  widespread 
interest,  among  which  may  be  mentioned  that 
instituted  by  the  Attorney-General  of  the  State 
against  the  Chicago  and  Alton  Railroad  Com- 
pany to  recover  certain  penalties  for  violations 
of  a  recent  act  of  the  legislature  fi.xing  maximum 
freight  rates  and  passenger  tariffs.  While  the 
case  was  pending  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  United 
States  for  the  southern  district  of  Illinois  issued 
a  writ  commanding  Judge  Zane's  clerk  to  certify 
all  the  papers  in  the  case  to  that  court.  Judge 
Zane  was  at  the  time  engaged  in  the  trial  of  a 
case,  but  on  examination  of  the  writ  instructed 
his  clerk  not  to  certify  the  papers  without  further 
orders.  The  late  Judge  Beckwith  and  other  at- 
torneys on  behalf  of  the  defendant  then  moved 
the  court  to  order  the  clerk  to  certify  the  papers, 
and  afterwards  the  late  Milton  Hay,  Henry  S. 
Green  and  others  for  the  defendant  and  the  late 
John  M.  Palmer  and  John  A.  McClernand  on 
behalf  of  the  State,  argued  the  motion  at  length 
and   submitted   it.     After    consideration    Judge 


Zane  denied  the  motion  and  directed  the  clerk 
not  to  certify  the  papers.  The  attorneys  for  the 
defendant  then  applied  to  the  Circuit  Court  of 
the  United  States  for  a  mandate  requiring  the 
State  Court  to  certify  the  papers  to  that  court, 
and  the  motion  was  set  down  for  argument. 
Upon  the  hearing  Justice  David  Davis  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  Judge 
Drummond  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court, 
and  Judge  Treat  of  the  United  States  District 
Court,  sat,  and  the  Attorney  General  of  the  State 
and  others  appeared  for  the  State,  the  application 
being  argued  at  great  length.  The  court  filed  a 
written  opinion  concurred  in  by  all  the  judges 
denying  the  application.  The  case  came  before 
the  State  Court  again  when  the  defendant's  coun- 
sel insisted  that  the  charter  of  the  corporation 
was  a  contract  between  the  State  and  the  corpora- 
tion, and  that  the  latter  thereby  was  given  the 
power  to  fix  its  own  rates,  and  the  Section  Ten, 
of  Article  One,  on  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  forbidding  the  passage  of  any  law  by  a 
State  impairing  the  obligations  of  contracts. 
Judge  Zane  held  that  the  defendant  had  appro- 
priated the  use  of  its  road  and  rolling  stock  to 
the  common  use  of  the  people  that  might  have 
occasion  to  travel  upon  its  road,  or  ship  their 
goods  over  it ;  that  for  such  use  they  had  the 
right  to  charge  a  reasonable  compensation  and  no 
more ;  that  the  defendant  had  devoted  its  property 
to  a  public  use  for  a  reasonable  compensation 
and  that  the  Legislature  possessed  the  power  to 
protect  the  public  by  fixing  such  reasonable 
charges ;  and  to  forbid  unjust  discrimination,  and 
to  enforce  such  provisions  by  imposing  reasonable 
penalties  for  their  violation.  He  held  the  law 
vaHd.  These  principles  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States  soon  after  held  in  a  case 
brought  before  it. 

In  1870  the  people  of  Illinois  adopted  a  new 
constitution  which  fixed  a  limit  to  municipal  in- 
debtedness, and  upon  a  bill  presented  by  a  tax 
payer  the  City  of  Springfield  was  enjoined  from 
increasing  its  indebtedness  in  violation  of  this 
provision,  which  injunction  was  affirmed  by  the 
Supreme  Court.  During  this  same  term  of  office 
the  Attorney  General  of  the  State  of  Illinois  pre- 
sented to  Judge  Zane  a  bill  praying  for  an  in- 


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junction  restraining  the  Saint  Louis  Bridge  Com- 
pany, the  Wiggins  Ferry  Company,  the  Madison 
County  Ferry  Company,  and  the  Chicago  and  Al- 
ton Railroad  Company  from  executing  a  contract 
between  them  by  which  all  the  defendants  except 
the  bridge  company  should  cease  to  use  their  re- 
spective ferries  to  transport  persons  or  property 
across  the  Mississippi  river  between  the  cities  of 
Saint  Louis  and  East  Saint  Louis,  in  Illinois,  in 
consideration  that  the  bridge  company  would  dis- 
tribute each  of  the  other  defendants  a  certain  per 
cent,  of  the  net  earnings  of  the  bridge.  The  ap- 
plication was  opposed  by  defendants  and  argued 
at  great  length  by  eminent  lawyers.  The  re- 
spective defendants  held  charters  under  the  laws 
of  Illinois  and  also  under  the  laws  of  Missouri. 
Among  other  things  the  court  held  in  substance : 

1.  That  the  consideration  upon  which  the 
franchises  were  granted  to  the  ferry  companies 
were  the  benefits  to  the  public  from  their  exer- 
cise. 

2.  They  could  not  by  contract  render  them- 
selves incapable  of  performing  the  duties  their 
charters  imposed :  they  could  not  see  the  privi- 
leges conferred  to  defeat  the  ends  of  their  crea- 
tion. 

3.  The  contract  was  a  combination  to  prevent 
lawful  competition  and  against  public  policy. 

4.  That  its  execution  should  be  enjoined  and 
the  writ  should  therefore  issue  as  prayed. 

A  few  days  before  starting  for  Utah  a  banquet 
was  tendered  Judge  Zane  by  members  of  the  San- 
gamon County  Bar  and  business  men  of  the  city, 
which  was  also  attended  by  lawyers  from  other 
parts  of  the  circuit.  The  expressions  of  good 
will  and  good  feeling  manifested  at  this  time  was 
a  source  of  much  gratification  to  Judge  Zane. 
LIpon  reaching  Ogden  on  the  afternoon  of  August 
23,  1884,  he  was  met  by  members  of  the  bar  and 
others  who  welcomed  him  to  the  city  and  Terri- 
tory with  expressions  of  pleasure  and  friendship, 
and  this  reception  was  repeated  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  arrived  that  same  evening,  and 
was  met  by  Governor  Murray,  judges  and  other 
officials,  members  of  the  bar  and  citizens  who  es- 
corted him  to  his  hotel,  and  during  the  evening 
gave  every  evidence  of  a  cordial  welcome.  Dur- 
ing his  thirty-four  years'  residence  in  Illinois  he 


had  become  more  or  less  familiar  with  the  doc- 
trines and  teachings  of  the  Mormons,  and  yet 
was  not  sufficiently  acquainted  with  their  prac- 
tices to  feel  that  he  was  thoroughly  in  touch  with 
the  great  questions  agitating  the  Territory  at 
that  time.  He  found  that  while  an  Act  of  Con- 
gress had  been  in  force  since  July  8,  1862,  declar- 
ing any  person  having  a  husband  or  wife  living 
and  vtndivorced,  who  should  marry  any  other  per- 
son, whether  single  or  married,  in  a  Territory  of 
the  LTnited  States,  guilty  of  bigamy,  and  punish- 
able by  fine  and  imprisonment,  only  one  person 
had  in  the  twenty-two  years  in  which  the  law  had 
been  in  force,  been  convicted  of  its  violation.  He 
also  found  laws  defining  and  fixing  the  punish- 
ment for  poligamy  and  unlawful  co-habitation, 
termed  by  the  law  a  misdemeanor;  also  a  law 
providing  that  either  of  these  practices  should 
be  sufficient  cause  of  challenge  against  any  per- 
son called  as  a  juror  or  talesman  in  such  case. 
Or  if  he  should  believe  such  practices  to  be  right, 
he  might  be  challenged.  This  law  had  been  in 
force  two  and  a  half  years  before  Judge  Zane 
opened  his  first  case  in  Utah  in  September,  1884, 
and  no  conviction  had  been  had  vmder  it.  There 
was  also  a  law  in  force  which  required  the  clerk 
of  the  District  Court  and  the  Probate  Judge  to 
select  alternately  names  and  prepare  a  jury  list 
in  January  of  each  year,  from  which  grand  and 
petit  jurors  should  be  drawn  from  which  a  list 
should  be  made. 

Lender  such  circumstances  Judge  Zane  opened 
the  Third  Judicial  District  Court  which  he  held 
by  virtue  of  his  office  as  Chief  Justice  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  Territory.  Believing  that 
poligamy  and  unlawful  cohabitation  cases  would 
come  before  the  grand  jury  to  be  selected,  and 
also  before  the  petit  jurors,  the  court  informed 
the  Assistant  District  Attorney  that  it  would  chal- 
lenge on  its  own  motion  all  persons  presented 
for  jury  duty  who  might  believe  it  right  for  a 
man  to  have  living  and  undivorced  more  than  one 
wife,  or  to  cohabit  with  more  than  one  woman 
as  such.  The  Assistant  District  Attorney  said 
he  would  interpose  a  challenge  to  any  such  pro- 
posed juror  who  upon  examination  should  dis- 
close such  a  belief,  and  the  result  was  the  court 
sustained  challenges  because  of  such  a  belief  to 


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59 


all  of  the  jurors  except  eight  whose  names  were 
on  the  jury  list  and  in  the  box.  Fifteen  jurors 
constituted  a  grand  jury  and  but  eight  were 
found  competent.  The  courts  of  the  Territory 
had  held  that  men  could  not  be  summoned  to  at- 
tend as  jurors  whose  names  were  not  on  the  lists 
made  in  January,  and  while  the  Assistant  District 
Attorney  said  it  was  his  opinion  and  the  opinion 
of  the  District  Attorney  as  well,  that  a  venire 
could  not  issue  to  summon  men  whose  names 
were  not  on  the  list  and  in  the  box  to  serve  as 
jurors,  he  would  make  the  motion  for  such  open 
venire,  as  it  was  termed,  in  order  to  bring  the 
matter  before  the  court  for  its  decision.  The 
point  was  argued  at  considerable  length  and  sub- 
mitted. The  court  held  that  the  names  on  the 
list  being  exhausted  and  no  statutory  method 
provided  by  which  a  jury  could  be  obtained,  the 
court  had  the  power  to  provide  a  jury;  that  the 
law  fixed  terms  of  court  and  the  duty  to  hold 
them  was  express,  and  therefore  the  power  to  do 
that  without  which  it  could  not  proceed  to  try 
cases  was  implied,  and  the  open  venire  was  issued 
and  a  jury  obtained  in  that  way.  The  ruling  was 
afterwards  brought  before  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  Territory,  and  afterwards  before  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  and  affirmed  by  both. 
In  his  charge  to  the  jury  Judge  Zane  admonished 
them  that  they  should  be  fearless  and  impartial  in 
their  investigations ;  calling  their  attention  es- 
pecially to  the  crime  of  poligamy,  and  instructed 
them  that  when  the  evidence  was  sufficient  it  was 
their  duty  to  indict,  regardless  of  the  position 
of  the  individual  pecuniarily,  religiously,  political- 
ly, socially,  or  otherwise.  Among  the  cases  that 
came  up  were  those  of  Elder  Rudger  Clawson, 
and  Bishops  Hamilton  and  Mc]\Iurrin,  besides 
scores  of  others,  all  of  whom  were  sentenced  and 
fined,  and  all  of  whom  later  expressed  the  utmost 
good  will  towards  the  judge,  saying  they  believed 
he  had  only  done  his  duty  as  he  saw  it.  On 
September  24,  1890,  President  Wilford  Woodruff 
issued  his  manifesto  declaring  it  to  be  his  advice 
that  the  practice  be  abandoned  and  that  hence- 
forth no  poligamous  marriages  be  entered  into. 
This  manifesto  was  adopted  as  authoritative  and 
binding  by  the  Semi- Annual  Conference  on  Octo- 
ber 6,  1890. 


After  the  State  of  Utah  had  been  admitted  to 
the  Union  Judge  Zane's  name  was  placed  in  nomi- 
nation, without  his  solicitation,  as  a  candidate  for 
the  office  of  Supreme  Judge,  receiving  the  largest 
majority  of  any  one  elected,  and  as  fully  two- 
thirds  of  the  voters  were  Mormons,  this  fact 
alone  proves  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was 
held  at  that  time,  as  today.  Lack  of  space  pre- 
vents the  writer  going  further  into  the  details  of 
the  cases  tried  or  the  able  opinions  handed  down 
by  Judge  Zane,  which  opinions  and  findings  were 
when  appealed  sustained  by  the  higher  courts. 
He  served  three  years  as  Chief  Justice  of  the 
State  of  Utah,  and  was  renominated  by  the  Re- 
publican State  Convention  in  1898;  but  as  he  had 
during  the  presidential  canvass  of  1896  expressed 
himself  opposed  to  the  free  and  unlimited  coinage 
of  silver  at  16  to  i,  and  had  also  expressed  a  pref- 
erence for  William  McKinley  for  President,  he 
failed  of  re-election.  He  returned  to  private  prac- 
tice in  Salt  Lake  City  in  January,  1899,  in  which 
he  still  continues. 

Judge  Zane  married  Margaret  D.  Maxey,  of 
Springfield,  Illinois,  April  6,  1859.  Nine  children 
were  born  of  this  marriage,  six  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing— Mary  Farnetta,  wife  of  William  H.  Hinc- 
kle,  of  Chicago,  an  officer  of  the  Illinois  Trust 
and  Savings  Bank,  in  the  Trust  Department; 
Charles  W.  served  as  Assistant  District  Attorney 
of  Utah,  and  died  at  San  Antonio,  Texas,  Sep- 
tember, 1889;  John  'SI.  was  reporter  of  decisions 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Utah,  and  was  Assistant 
United  States  District  Attorney  of  Utah,  and  is 
now  practicing  law  in  Chicago,  a  partner  in  the 
firm  of  Shope,  Mathis,  Zane  &  Weber;  Mar- 
garet, wife  of  Dr.  J.  S.  Witcher;  Oliver  W.,  a 
resident  of  Los  Angeles,  California;  Franklin  A., 
also  a  resident  of  Chicago,  connected  with  the 
Illinois  Trust  and  Savings  Bank;  Agnes  M.,  at 
home. 

As  a  private  citizen.  Judge  Zane  is  a  gentleman 
of  most  winning  personality,  kindly,  courteous, 
and  aflfable.  He  numbers  his  friends  by  the  le- 
gion, not  only  in  Utah  but  throughout  the  East, 
where  he  is  widely  known,  as  well  as  in  the 
States  adjoining  Utah.  He  is  popular  with  all 
classes,  and  has  had  a  most  honorable  career 
upon  which  no  stairl  or  blemish  has  ever  rested. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


AMES  CHIPMAN.  In  the  work  of  de- 
veloping the  resources  of  Utah  and  plac- 
ing the  State  upon  its  present  high 
plane  of  prosperity,  there  has  neces- 
sarily been  a  demand  for  financiers ;  men 
of  ability  to  judge  and  control,  and  with  fore- 
sight to  understand  the  trend  of  events  and  pro- 
vide for  the  wants  of  the  future.  In  the  pioneers 
who  came  to  Utah  in  1847,  ""'^'^  o^  ability  were 
not  wanting,  in  fact  almost  every  line  of  busi- 
ness was  represented  by  those  early  colonists. 
Among  these  early  settlers,  and  one  who  has 
contributed  largely  to  the  success  which  has  fol- 
lowed the  development  of  the  State,  and  who 
by  his  able  management  has  made  the  Utah 
National  Bank,  over  which  he  presides,  one  of 
the  soundest  institutions  in  the  West,  is  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

James  Chipman  was  born  in  Carroll  Count}', 
Missouri,  and  came  to  Utah  with  his  parents  in 
1847.  His  father,  Stephen,  a  native  of  Canada, 
was  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  in  the  United 
States,  and  was  one  of  the  early  workers  in  be- 
half of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints.  LTpon  his  removal  to  Utah  he  par- 
ticipated actively  in  the  development  of  the 
Church  and  assisted  in  the  erection  of  the  Salt 
Lake  temple.  His  wife,  Amanda  Washburn,  and 
the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  also  a  native 
of  Canada,  but  came  to  Missouri  and  later  to 
Utah  with  her  husband.  The  early  life  of  their 
son  James  was  spent  at  Mill  Creek,  near  Salt 
Lake  City,  where  he  attended  school  and  gleaned 
such  information  from  them  as  the  nature  of 
the  schools  afforded.  His  education  was,  how- 
ever, largely  derived  from  the  great  book  of 
human  experience  and  from  the  daily  lessons 
taught  by  the  efforts  of  the  pioneers  to  subdue 
and  control  the  unpromising  natural  conditions. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  Mr.  Chipman  started  out 
for  himself  as  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser,  and 
later  engaged  in  freighting  goods  across  the 
mountains  with  mule  teams.  In  this  work  he 
made  three  trips  from  Alontana  to  Los  Angeles, 
each  round  trip  consuming  an  entire  season.  The 
route  that  he  followed  from  Salt  Lake  City  to 
the  Coast  is  virtually  the  same  as  that  over  which 
the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  &  Salt  Lake  Rail- 


road will  be  built.  These  trips  were  made  in 
the  years   1866  to  1869. 

When  the  railroads  began  to  enter  the  great 
Western  country,  Mr.  Chipman,  seeing  greater 
opportunities  for  the  exercise  of  his  talents  in 
that  work,  turned  his  attention  to  railroad  con- 
tracting. He  assisted  in  building  the  Union 
I'acific  and  the  Rio  Grande  Western  Railroads, 
and  in  addition  to  the  contracts  which  he  had, 
he  also  established  and  successfully  conducted 
a  general  mercantile  business.  This  business 
he  continued  to  conduct  until  1890,  when  he  es- 
tablished the  mercantile  business  at  American 
Fork,  and  in  connection  with  this  enterprise  also 
established  a  bank  at  that  place.  These  have 
both  been  prosperous  ventures  and  are  in  a 
healthy  condition  at  the  present  time.  Notwith- 
standing his  wide  and  varied  interests,  Mr.  Chip- 
man  has  ,continued  to  give  his  time  to  the  de- 
velopment of  these  industries,  and  is  still  the 
owner  of  the  bank  which  he  established  there. 
The  Utah  National  Bank,  of  which  he  is  now 
President,  was  established  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1890,  and  Mr.  Chipman  was  elected  its  Presi- 
dent in  1898.  His  position  as  a  financier  and 
one  of  the  leaders  of  the  business  community,  is 
such  that  he  is  necessarily  interested  in  the  de- 
velopment of  all  the  resources  of  the  State.  He 
has  large  interests  in  many  mining  properties 
throughout  Utah.  He  has  also  given  consider- 
able attention  to  stock  raising  and  is  identified 
with  that  industry  in  Utah.  He  is  the  Manager 
of  the  Uncle  Sam  Mining  Company,  whose  prop- 
erty is  located  in  the  Tintic  district,  and  has  in- 
terests in  a  large  number  of  other  mining  com- 
panies throughout  the  State. 

Mr.  Chipman  is  deeply  interested  in  all  mat- 
ters affecting  the  education  of  the  yoiuhs  of 
LTtah,  and  to  him  is  due  in  a  large  degree  the 
credit  for  the  establishment  of  the  first  public 
schools  in  the  Territory. 

He  was  married  in  1859  to  Miss  Sarah  A. 
Green,  daughter  of  Alphonso  and  Betsey  Green, 
who  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Utah.  She 
died,  leaving  four  children,  and  he  married  his 
second  wife  in  1863.  She  was  Selina  Huntsman, 
daughter  of  John  Huntsman,  a  citizen  of  Utah, 
and  by  this  wife  he  has  ten  children.  His  chil- 
dren are:     Bessie,  James.  Jr.,  who  is  in  charge 


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of  the  bank  at  American  Fork ;  Alphonso,  Stephen 
L.,  who  is  manager  of  the  mercantile  house  at 
American  Fork,  of  which  his  father  is  President, 
and  he  is  also  President  of  the  Alpine  Stake 
of  Utah ;  Sarah  A.,  Washburn,  Milissa,  Lunnie, 
William,  May,  Delia,  Oscar,  Alva,  and  Emmit. 

In  politics  Mr.  Chipman  is  a  Republican,  and 
while  he  has  devoted  most  of  his  time  and  at- 
tention to  the  ramifications  of  his  business  in- 
terests, he  was  called  upon  by  his  party  to  serve 
as  State  Treasurer  for  the  term  beginning  1896. 
This  was  the  first  term  of  this  office,  it  having 
been  made  with  the  admission  of  the  State  into 
the  Union. 

The  position  which  Mr.  Chipman  has  attained, 
marks  him  as  one  of  the  ablest  financiers  of  the 
West,  and  one  of  the  most  substantial  business 
men  of  Utah.  His  success  is  entirely  due  to  his 
own  efforts.  Self-educated  and  self-made,  he  has 
built  up  his  fortune  and  his  career  by  his  own 
pluck  and  industry.  His  integrity  and  honesty 
have  brought  him  the  confidence  and  respect  of 
the  entire  State,  and  few  men  are  possessed  of 
more  warm  and  loyal  friends  than  he.  The  ca- 
reer that  he  has  made  may  well  be  an  object  of 
pride  to  his  posterity  and  stands  forth  as  an  il- 
lustration of  what  a  man  of  energy  and  ability 
can  attain. 


(  )i^ERT  TAYLOR  BURTON.  In  the 
settlement  of  Utah  and  its  development 
from  a  wilderness,  few  men  have  taken 
a  more  active  part  in  the  work,  and 
few  have  aided  more  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
who  now  holds  the  office  of  First  Counsellor  to 
William  B.  Preston,  Presiding  Bishop  of  that 
church.  He  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  to  this 
State,  and  has  participated  actively  in  the  stir- 
ring deeds  and  stirring  times  of  the  early  days 
of  Utah.  He  took  part,  not  only  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  latent  resources,  but  was  active  in  the 
protection  of  the  settlements  against  the  depre- 
dations of  the  Indians,  and  was  a  leader  in  the 
forces  which  defended  the  Mormon  Church 
against  the  approach  of  the  United  States  troops. 
He  is  now  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  church  of 


his  choice  and  has  won  the  confidence  and  es- 
teem, not  only  of  its  leaders,  but  of  the  people  as 
well.  By  his  life  of  industry  he  has  achieved 
a  prominent  position  in  the  affairs  of  the  State, 
and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  the 
people. 

Robert  Taylor  Burton  was  born  in  Amherst- 
burg,  Canada  West,  October  25,  1821.  He  was 
a  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Shipley)  Burton, 
natives  of  England,  who  emigrated  to  America 
in  181 7,  sailing  from  Hull,  Yorkshire,  England, 
and  settled  in  Poultneyville,  Wayne  County,  New 
York,  where  they  continued  to  reside  for  two  or 
three  years.  They  moved  from  New  York  to  Can- 
ada and  remained  in  that  country  until  1828, 
when  they  again  returned  to  the  United  States 
and  took  up  their  residence  in  Lucas  County, 
Ohio.  Not  content  with  their  home  in  this  State, 
they  emigrated  to  the  West  and  settled  at  Adrian, 
Michigan,  and  later  returned  to  their  former  home 
in  Canada.  While  residents  of  Canada,  in  1837, 
they  were  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  by  two  missionaries  who  visited  that 
country.  At  the  time  of  the  baptism  of  his  par- 
ents into  this  religion,  Robert  T.  Burton  was  ab- 
sent in  Ohio,  visiting  relatives  and  attending 
school  during  the  winter  of  1837-38.  In  the  lat- 
ter year  he  returned  to  Canada  at  the  request  of 
his  parents  and  reached  there  in  September,  and 
was  baptized  into  the  church  by  Elder  Henrv 
Cook,  on  October  23,  1838.  A  few  days  after 
his  baptism  his  family  left  Canada  and  went  to 
Knoxville,  Illinois,  where  they  remained  a  little 
over  a  year.  They  then  joined  the  Mormon 
people  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  in  the  spring  of  1840, 
and  here  the  Burton  family  remained  until  Feb- 
ruary of  1846. 

Upon  his  entrance  into  the  church  Bishop  Bur- 
ton took  an  active  part  in  its  affairs,  and  in  June, 
1843,  being  then  an  Elder,  he  left  Nauvoo  in  com- 
pany with  Elder  N.  V.  Jones,  to  go  as  a  mis- 
sionary to  the  States  of  Illinois,  Michigan  and 
Ohio,  where  he  remained  for  a  year,  returning 
to  Nauvoo  a  few  days  prior  to  the  killing  of  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith  and  his  brother  Hyrum. 
L^pon  his  return  to  Nauvoo,  Bishop  Burton  en- 
listed in  Captain  Gleason's  cavalry  company  of 
the  Nauvoo  Legion,  and  was  on  guard  in  the  city 


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at  the  time  Prophet  Smith  was  killed.  For  some 
time  after  that  sad  occurrence  he  was  active  in 
his  efforts  to  protect  the  lives  and  property  of  the 
members  of  the  church  from  mob  violence  and 
robbery.  About  this  time  he  also  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Nauvoo  Brass  Band,  and  the  Nauvoo 
choir.  Bishop  Burton  was  again  sent  on  a  mis- 
sion in  January,  1845,  with  Elder  Samuel  W. 
Richards,  to  some  of  the  central  counties  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  with  a  view  to  allaying  the  pre- 
judice that  had  arisen  in  the  minds  of  the  people 
of  that  locality  against  the  Mormon  Church. 

Mr.  Burton  was  married  in  December  of  this 
year  to  Maria  S.  Haven,  President  Brigham 
Young  performing  the  ceremony,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing spring,  the  members  of  the  church  being 
driven  from  Illinois,  he  left  with  the  first  com- 
pany who  crossed  the  Mississippi  and  encamped 
on  the  west  bank.  The  hurried  departure  and 
increasing  bitterness  of  the  mob  forced  the  people 
to  leave  with  but  few  provisions  for  the  ensuing 
winter.  The  snow  was  about  eighteen  inches 
deep,  and  the  weather  intensely  cold ;  so  cold,  in 
fact,  that  it  was  possible  for  the  people  to  cross 
the  river  on  ice  and  secure  provisions  preparatory 
for  the  journey  towards  the  Rocky  Mountains. 
This  company  arrived  at  Council  Bluffs  in  June, 
and  here  the  main  body  camped.  Robert  Burton, 
however,  with  his  aged  parents,  moved  a  distance 
of  forty  or  fifty  miles  down  the  Missouri  river 
and  there  made  a  temporary  home.  Owing  to 
the  trying  circumstances  and  the  hardships  and 
exposure  which  they  underwent,  many  of  the  peo- 
ple succumbed  and  were  buried  by  the  wayside. 
Among  this  number  was  the  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, who  fell  sick,  died  and  was  buried  in  a  lonely 
grave  near  her  temporary  home  on  the  Missouri 
river. 

In  the  preparations  for  the  journey  towards  the 
Salt  Lake  Valley  the  Burton  family  formed  a  por- 
tion of  the  company  organized  by  President  Brig- 
ham  Young,  and  in  May,  1848,  they  set  out  upon 
their  perilous  journey  across  the  plains,  arriving 
in  Salt  Lake  Valley  on  September  23rd  of  that 
year.  The  ensuing  winter  they  spent  in  the  Old 
Fort  and  in  the  spring  the  family  removed  to  the 
residence  which  they  erected  at  the  corner  of  Sec- 
ond West  and  First  South  streets.  Salt  Lake  City, 


where  they  have  resided  ever  since.  The  same 
activity  that  Bishop  Burton  had  displayed  in  the 
East  in  the  affairs  oi  the  church  was  continued 
in  Utah,  and  in  the  fall  of  1849,  upon  the  organ- 
ization of  a  Territorial  militia,  Robert  Burton 
enlisted  in  its  service.  This  company  was  called 
in  the  following  year  into  active  service,  by  the 
Governor,  to  defend  the  settlers  against  the  hos- 
tile Indians,  and  in  this  expedition  the  Bishop 
saw  his  first  active  service  in  Utah.  The  cavalry 
to  which  he  belonged  took  an  important  part  in 
the  engagement  with  the  Walker  Indians,  which 
lasted  for  three  days.  In  September,  1850,  the 
company  was  ordered  north  to  operate  against 
the  Shoshone  Indians,  and  in  November  of  the 
same  year  went  to  Utah  county  again  to  restrict 
the  operations  of  a  remnant  of  the  tribe  against 
whom  they  had  fought  the  previous  spring,  and 
while  on  this  latter  campaign,  the  Bishop  was 
elected  Lieutenant  of  the  company.  In  June, 
185 1,  he  accompanied  another  expedition  against 
the  Indians  on  the  Western  desert,  and  although 
suffering  much  from  thirst,  the  company  was 
victorious  in  the  battle  fought  in  the  desert  west 
of  Skull  Valley.  In  the  spring  of  1852  he  headed 
a  small  company  to  the  Green  River,  to  protect 
settlers  from  the  depredations  of  the  Indians  and 
renegade  whites,  and  the  following  year  was 
elected  Captain  of  Company  A,  later  receiving  a 
commission  as  Major-Colonel  and  finally  Major- 
General.  His  active  work  did  not  stop  with  this, 
but  in  October,  1856,  he  was  a  member  of  a  com- 
pany who  went  five  or  six  hundred  miles  east 
of  Salt  Lake  to  rescue  some  hand  cart  companies 
that  were  in  great  distress,  the  emigrants  being 
stranded  on  the  Platte  river.  The  weather  was 
extremely  cold  and  the  snow  deep.  The  emi- 
grants had  almost  exhausted  their  supply  of  pro- 
visions and  in  consequence  were  reduced  to  one- 
quarter  rations  until  relief  came  to  them  from 
Salt  Lake,  prior  to  which  they  suffered  untold 
hardships  and  many  of  the  members  died  from 
hunger  and  cold.  In  August  15,  1858,  Colonel 
Burton  was  ordered  to  take  a  company  and  assist 
the  emigrants  in  their  passage  across  the  plains, 
and  at  the  same  time  observe  the  movements  of 
the  approaching  forces  of  the  United  States, 
which  were  said  to  be  headed  for  Utah,  with  the 


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express  purpose  of  exterminating  the  Mormons, 
and  the  remainder  of  this  year  was  spent  in  that 
work.  In  1862  our  subject  was  sent  by  Governor 
Fuller  to  protect  the  United  States  mail  between 
Fort  Bridger  and  the  Platte  river,  where  stations 
had  been  burned,  mail  sacks  cut  open  and  stock 
driven  off  by  the  hostile  Indians  and  white  out- 
laws. The  same  application  and  ability  which  he 
had  brought  to  other  tasks,  Colonel  Burton  ap- 
plied to  this  duty,  discharging  it  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  the  government  and  of  the  author- 
ities. In  all  of  the  stirring  times  of  the  settle- 
ment of  Utah,  and  in  its  military  history.  General 
Burton  stands  as  one  of  the  principal  men  in  the 
perfecting  of  the  organization  of  the  militia  and 
in  its  operations  throughout  Utah.  Since  the  dis- 
banding of  the  Nauvoo  Legion,  Bishop  Burton 
has  been  very  prominent  in  the  ecclesiastical  his- 
tory of  the  church,  and  as  First  Counsellor  to  the 
Presiding  Bishop  of  the  church. 

In  addition  to  his  military  duties  and  to  his 
work  in  behalf  of  the  church,  General  Burton  also 
took  a  live  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  State,  and 
in  1852  was  elected  Constable  of  Salt  Lake  City 
and  in  the  following  year  was  appointed  Deputy 
United  States  Alarshall,  and  sheriff,  collector  and 
assessor  of  Salt  Lake  county  in  1854,  and  Deputy 
Territorial  Marshal  in  1861.  So  well  had  he  dis- 
charged these  duties  that  in  the  following  year 
President  Abraham  Lincoln  appointed  him  to  the 
position  of  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue,  which 
position  he  continued  to  hold  until  1869.  In 
addition  to  these  positions  he  also  served  Salt 
Lake  City  as  a  member  of  the  Council  from  1856 
to  1873.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Regents  in  the  Deseret  university  from  1875 
to  1878.  His  ability  in  the  legislature  led  to  his 
appointment  in  1876  on  a  committee  with  Hon- 
orable A.  O.  Smoot  and  Honorable  S.  S.  Smith, 
to  arrange,  compile  and  publish  all  of  the  laws 
of  the  Territory  then  in  force. 

He  early  saw  the  advantages  that  would  ac- 
crue to  Utah  from  the  establishment  and  devel- 
opment of  home  manufactures,  and  was  asso- 
ciated with  Bishop  A.  O.  Smoot  and  Bishop  John 
Sharp  in  the  erection  and  successful  operation 
of  the  Wasatch  Woolen  Mills,  located  in  the 
southeast  portion  of  Salt  Lake  City. 


In  addition  to  the  missions  heretofore  men- 
tioned which  Bishop  Burton  performed  for  the 
Church,  he  has  also  been  on  missions  in  the  East- 
ern States  and  to  England.  During  the  latter 
mission  he  visited  most  of  the  important  cities 
of  Europe,  and  upon  his  return  to  England  was 
chosen  President  of  the  London  Conference.  In 
1859  Elder  Burton  was  appointed  Counsellor  to 
Bishop  Cunningham,  of  the  Fifteenth  Ward  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  in  1867  was  appointed  Bishop 
of  that  Ward,  serving  in  that  position  until  1877, 
when  he  was  called  to  fill  the  position  of  Coun- 
sellor to  Presiding  Bishop  Edward  Hunter.  Upon 
the  death  of  the  latter  he  was  appointed  First 
Counsellor  to  Presiding  Bishop  William  B. 
Preston,  which  position  he  continues  to  fill. 


AMES  H.  MOYLE.  Few  of  the  native 
sons  of  Utah  have  participated  more 
actively  in  the  administration  of  the  af- 
fairs of  the  State  or  attained  higher 
places  in  the  standing  of  its  leading  men, 
at  the  bar  or  in  political  life,  than  has  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  From  a  poor  boy,  struggling 
with  adverse  conditions,  he  has  now  risen  to 
be  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  State, 
and  one  who  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  all  his   fellow  citizens. 

James  H.  Moyle  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
September  the  17th,  1858,  and  was  the  eldest 
son  of  James  Moyle,  a  native  of  Cornwall,  Eng- 
land. His  father  spent  his  early  life  in  Corn- 
wall and  in  Devonshire,  coming  to  Utah  at  the 
age  of  seventeen.  He  became  a  convert  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Lat- 
ter Day  Saints  in  England,  and  left  his  family 
and  all  his  prospects  m  that  country  to  follow 
the  religion  of  his  choice.  He  was  a  stone  cutter 
and  builder,  and  his  ability  was  soon  recognized 
upon  his  arrival  in  Utah.  He  assisted  in  build- 
ing many  of  the  old  stone  houses  and  business 
buildings.  He  superintended  most  of  the  heavy 
stone  work  on  the  bridges  of  the  Western  Di- 
vision of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad.  He  was 
superintendent  of  the  stone  work  on  the  Temple 
and  for  a  number  of  years  was  in  charge  of 
that  work,  dying  about  the  time  the  stone  work 


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was  completed.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the 
affairs  of  his  Church.  He  occupied  many  minor 
offices  and  in  later  life  was  a  member  of  the  High 
Council.  His  struggles  to  gain  a  foothold  in  the 
new  country  were  similar  to  those  experienced 
bv  the  early  pioneers.  His  journey  from  the 
eastern  coast  of  the  United  States  and  across 
the  great  plains  was  a  long  and  toilsome  trip, 
occupying  many  months  in  its  completion.  The 
company  with  which  he  traveled  suffered  from 
the  ravages  of  cholera  and  many  of  its  members 
died  on  an  island  in  the  ^Mississippi  river  from 
tl-iis  disease,  Mr.  Moyle  remaining  with  the 
stricken  people  throughout  the  entire  time.  He 
was  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  Utah 
and  the  West,  and  died  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him.  He  was  recognized  a:;  a  man  of  un- 
impeachable integrity.  His  father,  John  R. 
Moyle,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  came  to 
Utah  a  few  years  after  his  son,  and  settled  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  later  moving  to  Alpine,  Utah 
county,  where  he  engaged  in  the  business  of 
farming.  He  was  by  trade  a  stone  cutter.  He 
spent  the  balance  of  his  life  in  Utah  county, 
where  he  resided  until  his  death.  His  wife, 
Philipa  (Beer)  Moyle,  was  also  a  native  of  Dev- 
onshire, and  had  two  brothers  serving  in  the 
British  army  as  commissioned  officers,  and  her 
father  was  a  prosperous  contractor,  holding  many 
large  contracts  for  work  for  the  British  Govern- 
ment. The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
Elizabeth  (Wood)  Moyle,  was  one  of  the  early 
pioneers  of  Utah  and  one  of  the  first  members 
of  the  Church.  She  was  born  in  Brown  county, 
Illinois,  and  came  to  Utah  at  the  age  of  nine 
years,  and  is  still  living.  She  came  in  1849  from 
Nauvoo  and  was  at  winter  quarters  during  the 
winter  of  1848.  Her  father,  Daniel  Wood,  was 
one  of  the  prominent  men  of  Utah  and  of  the 
Church,  having  joined  it  in  Mew  York  and  leav- 
ing with  the  members  when  they  were  expelled 
from  Nauvoo.  He  came  from  one  of  the  old 
American  families  and  was  a  well-to-do  farmer, 
owning  his  own  home  in  Illinois.  He  was  one  of 
the  best  equipped  of  the  pioneers  who  came  to 
this  region  and  was  Captain  of  the  fifty  wagons 
in  the  wagon  train  in  which  he  crossed  the 
plains.     Woods   Cross,   Utah,   was   named   after 


him.  He  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  later 
moved  to  Sessions  settlement,  arriving  there  a 
few  months  after  Mrs.  Sessions.  It  was  then 
so  dry  and  parched  that  the  two  settlers  doubted 
if  they  would  have  water  enough  for  their  fam- 
ilies. This  land  is  now  well  watered  under  the 
e-xcellent  system  of  irrigation  which  prevails  in 
Utah,  and  also  by  artesian  wells.  At  this  time 
the  locality  is  densely  populated,  is  considered 
the  best  market  garden  district  in  the  State,  the 
choice  lands  selling  at  from  two  hundred  to  five 
hundred  dollars  per  acre,  which  is  now  known  as 
Bountiful,  in  Davis  county.  He  was  a  wealthy 
farmer  and  owned  a  large  and  prosperous  farm 
in  that  region.  His  wife,  Mary  ( Snyder)  Wood, 
was  a  member  of  one  of  the  prominent  and 
prosperous  families  of  the  East.  They  had  first 
settled  in  Canada,  but  upon  their  conversion  to 
the  Mormon  Church,  left  their  comfortable  home, 
and  she,  with  her  family,  journeyed  to  the  Far 
West  to  participate  in  the  work  of  the  Church 
which  she  believed  to  be  the  true  religion.  They 
knew  all  the  hardships  and  trials  suffered  by 
the  pioneers  and  came  out  of  the  ordeal  un- 
smirched.  Both  she  and  her  husband  were  re- 
spected residents  of  the  community  in  which  they 
settled,  and  died  beloved  and  honored  by  all  who 
knew  them,  Mr.  Wood  having  lived  to  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-two.  He  raised  a  large 
family. 

Our  subject,  James  H.  Moyle,  spent  his  early 
life  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  received  his  early 
education  in  the  schools  that  then  existed  in  the 
Territory,  and  later  entered  the  Deseret  Uni- 
versity at  the  age  of  thirteen,  and  graduated  in 
1879.  He  was  still  in  school  when  he  was  sent 
to  North  Carolina  on  a  mission  for  the  Church, 
where  he  remained  two  years  and  four  months, 
during  two  years  of  which  he  was  President  of 
the  North  Carolina  Conference.  Upon  his  re- 
turn to  LHah  in  1881,  he  resumed  his  studies 
and  in  the  following  vear  entered  the  literary  de- 
partment of  the  University  of  Michigan,  and 
in  1883  entered  the  law  department  and  contin- 
ued his  course  of  studies  in  both  departments  in 
the  school  of  political  science  for  the  ensuing  two 
vears.  He  graduated  in  1885  and  was  admitted 
to  practice  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  Mich- 


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igan  in  that  year.  He  returned  to  Utah  in  the 
fall  of  1885  and  was  made  Assistant  City  At- 
torney of  this  city  and  also  Deputy  County  At- 
torney of  Salt  Lake  County.  In  the  fall  of  the 
next  year  he  was  elected  County  Attorney,  and 
also  served  for  two  years  as  Assistant  City  At- 
torne}-.  He  was  County  Attorney  for  four  years, 
from  1896  to  1900,  and  during  his  tenure  of  of- 
fice was  elected  to  the  legislature  in  1888,  where 
he  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Educa- 
tion, and  while  in  that  important  position  was 
able  to  aid  in  securing  many  of  the  institutions 
which  has  redounded  so  much  to  Utah's  credit. 
He  was  active  in  securing  the  passage  of  the 
bill  for  the  establishment  of  a  Deaf  and  Dumb 
School ;  in  establishing  the  Agricultural  College 
at  Logan,  and  also  in  establishing  the  State  Re- 
form School  at  Ogden.  He  secured  for  the  uni- 
versity the  largest  appropriations  which  up  to 
that  time  had  been  made  by  the  State  for  its 
maintenance,  the  amount  appropriated  being  dou- 
ble the  previous  nonnal  appropriation ;  and  large 
sums  for  the  equipment  of  the  university.  His 
work  here  was  of  such  a  character  that  he  took 
a  leading  position  in  the  direction  of  this  in- 
stitution and  was  the  Chairman  of  the  Commit- 
tee sent  by  the  Governor  to  the  East  to  investi- 
gate and  examine  the  various  reformatories  of 
the  United  States,  and  as  a  result  of  these  in- 
vestigations the  Reform  School  at  Ogden  was 
shortly  afterwards  erected.  He  served  for  one 
term  as  President  and  several  terms  as  Trus- 
tee of  this  institution.  He  was  also  a  director 
of  the  Deseret  Agricultural  and  Manufacturing 
Society  for  four  years.  He  practically  retired 
from  active  political  life  in  1890,  and  for  the 
decade  following  refused  to  hold  office  or  to  be 
considered  in  any  manner  a  candidate  for  any 
position  in  the  gift  of  the  people.  He  has  always 
been  an  ardent  Democrat  and  participated  ac- 
tively in  its  work  in  this  State.  Prior  to  the 
organization  of  this  party  he  was  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  People's  Party  and  assisted  in 
conducting  the  memorable  campaign  of  1890,  the 
last  campaign  conducted  on  the  old  lines.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  men  who  believed  in  the 
disbanding  of  the  People's  Party  and  a  separa- 
tion of  the  people  upon  the  lines  of  the  two  Na- 


tional political  parties,  and  upon  the  disbfindment 
of  this  old  party  and  the  organization  of  the 
Democratic  party  he  became  one  of  its  leaders, 
and  has  participated  actively  in  all  of  its  cam- 
paigns, having  served  on  all  of  its  committees, 
including  that  of  the  City,  County  and  State. 
In  1898  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Democratic 
State  Committee  and  the  successful  campaign 
conducted  by  it  in  that  year  was  largely  due  to 
his  able  and  efficient  management.  He  con- 
ducted the  campaign  of  the  special  election  the 
following  April  when  W.  H.  King  was  elected 
to  Congress  to  succeed  B.  H.  Roberts.  He  was 
a  candidate  for  the  Governorship  of  Utah  on  the 
Democratic  ticket  in  1900,  but  was  defeated  with 
his  party. 

His  ability  and  learning  has  brought  him  a 
lucrative  practice  in  his  chosen  profession  and 
he  is  now  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  lead- 
ers of  the  bar  of  Utah.  Upon  his  return  to 
Utah  after  his  graduation  from  college,  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  the  Hon.  Franklin 
S.  Richards,  which  continued  for  a  number  of 
years.  This  partnership  was  dissolved  and  he 
continued  for  a  time  by  himself,  later  forming 
a  partnership  with  John  M.  Zane  and  George  P. 
Costigan,  the  firm  being  Moyle,  Zane  &  Costi- 
gan.  This  firm  was  dissolved  by  the  removal  of 
Mr.  Zane  to  Chicago  in  1898,  and  by  Mr.  Costi- 
gan going  to  New  York  and  entering  upon  the 
practice  of  law  there,  since  which  time  Mr.  Moyle 
has  engaged  in  practice  by  himself. 

He  was  married  in  1887  to  ^liss  Alice  E.  Din- 
woody,  daughter  of  Henry  Dinwoody,  and  by 
this  marriage  has  had  six  children,  five  sons  and 
one  daughter:  Henry  D.,  James  H.,  now  dead; 
Walter  G.,  Gilbert  D.,  Alice  E.,  and  James  D. 

Mr.  Moyle  has  been  a  life-long  member  of  the 
Church.  He  was  made  an  Elder  at  the  early  age 
of  sixteen,  and  in  the  following  year  was  made 
one  of  the  Seventies.  He  is  essentially  a  self- 
made  man  and  one  of  whom  L'tah  can  justly  be 
proud.  He  has  made  his  own  way  in  the  world 
and  the  success  he  has  achieved  has  been  due  to 
his  own  efforts.  He  learned  the  trade  of  stone- 
cutting  and  worked  at  that  for  five  summers 
when  a  boy.  He  is  substantially  identified  with 
the  business  interests  of  the  State,  including  live 


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stock,  banking  and  mining.  He  is  a  director  of 
the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  ^Machine  Company, 
a  director  of  the  Utah  Commercial  and  Savings 
Bank,  and  also  of  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Com- 
pany, which  is  the  largest  live  stock  company  in 
the  State.  He  is  well  known  throughout  the 
State  by  his  political  achievements  and  few  men 
are  held  in  higher  repute  or  are  more  popular 
with  the  citizens  of  Utah. 


UDGE  CHARLES  C.  GOODWIN. 
Utah  was  settled  fifty  years  ago  by  the 
pioneers  who  were  members  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  who,  in  coming  to  what 
was  then  considered  a  far-off  land  in 
the  Rocky  Mountains,  came  with  the  idea  of 
founding  a  settlement  where  they  could  worship 
in  their  own  way,  and  follow  a  life  of  agriculture. 
The  great  mineral  resources  of  Utah  were  then 
unknown,  and  the  policy  of  the  Church  was  to 
direct  the  energies  of  the  members  to  agricul- 
ture, rather  than  to  mining.  This  was  done  with 
a  view  to  preventing  the  immigration  of  other 
than  members  of  the  Church.  The  steady  growth 
of  the  Mormon  Church  and  the  influence  which 
it  began  to  wield,  apparently  would  have  made 
this  policy  a  success,  had  it  not  been  for  the  char- 
acter of  the  citizens  of  the  United  States,  who 
from  the  very  time  of  the  first  settlers  landing 
on  the  Atlantic  coast,  have  driven  their  way  west- 
ward, wherever  the  opportunities  seemed  to  war- 
rant their  entrance.  The  policy  of  seclusion 
which  President  Brigham  Young  attempted  to 
enforce,  was  ordained  to  failure,  by  the  very  na- 
ture of  the  people  against  whom  it  was  intended 
to  be  enforced.  The  conflict  which  arose  be- 
tween the  civil  and  military  forces  of  the  United 
States  on  the  one  side,  and  the  Mormon  Church 
on  the  other,  are  matters  of  recent  history.  The 
times  of  trouble  which  existed  when  the  first 
mineral  wealth  was  unclosed,  and  the  Mormon 
Church  feeling  itself  threatened,  endeavored  to 
prevent  the  emigration  of  the  miners,  was  by  a 
great  many  people  denounced  as  un-American, 
and  in  the  efforts  to  broaden  Utah  and  force 
her  to  recognize  the  citizens  of  other  portions 
of  the  country  as  being  entitled  to  be  recognized 


as  her  own,  the  Salt  Lake  Tribune  has  ever 
stood  foremost  as  the  champion  of  freedom  of 
ingress  to  the  mountains  and  plains  of  Utah, 
and  to  the  development  and  working  of  her  great 
mineral  deposits.  It  can  safely  be  said  that  no 
man  has  taken  a  more  active  part  nor  done  so 
much  to  aid  in  the  development  of  Utah's  re- 
sources, and  especially  the  development  of  the 
mines,  than  has  Charles  C.  Goodwin,  who  for 
over  twenty  years  was  the  leading  editorial  writer 
on  the  Tribune,  and  by  his  fearless  courage,  in- 
dependent spirit,  and  thoroughly  American  style, 
has  made  it  possible  to  bring  to  Utah  the  wealth 
of  the  East.  He  continued  at  his  post  amid  all 
the  stormy  days  of  the  emigration  of  the  Gen- 
tiles, with  a  courage  and  devotion  to  his  duty 
that  has  seldom  been  excelled,  and  which  won 
for  him  the  plaudits  of  all  the  people,  irrespective 
of  religion  or  politics.  Upon  the  transferring  of 
this  newspaper  property  in  October,  1901,  Judge 
Goodwin  retired  from  the  service  of  the  paper, 
taking  with  him  the  heartfelt  love  and  friend- 
ship of  all  the  people  whose  lives  he  had  so 
zealously  cared  for  and  to  whom  he  had  freely 
given  during  the  past  twenty  years  the  best  ef- 
forts  of   his   life. 

Charles  C.  Goodwin  was  born  in  Riga,  near 
Rochester,  in  the  western  portion  of  New  York, 
and  spent  his  early  life  on  his  father's  farm  in 
that  State.  His  father  had  been  a  successful 
tiller  of  the  soil  and  prior  to  engaging  in  the 
agricultural  business  had  been  a  distinguished 
scout  in  the  War  of  1812,  under  Generals  Brown 
and  Scott.  His  father,  the  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary War,  under  the  direct  command  of 
General  George  Washington.  The  Goodwin 
family  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  eastern  part 
of  the  United  States,  and  from  the  very  begin- 
ning of  the  settlement  of  the  country  have  taken 
a  prominent,  aggressive  and  important  part  in 
its  history.  The  mother  of  Judge  Goodwin  was 
Dollie  (Watkins)  Goodwin,  a  native  of  Berk- 
shire, Midland  county,  Massachusetts,  and  was 
a  member  of  one  of  the  old  Colonial  families 
and  early  settlers  of  New  England.  She  died 
when  her  son  was  thirteen  years  of  age. 

Judge  Goodwin's  earlv  education  was  derived 


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from  Riga  academy,  Alexander  academy,  and 
Clover  Street  seminary,  established  by  his  un- 
cle, Isaac  Moore,  near  Rochester.  Having  faith 
in  the  greater  opportunities  afforded  by  the  West 
and  being  equipped  with  the  determined  spirit 
that  conquered  all  obstacles,  he  removed  from 
the  East  and  settled  in  Marysville,  California, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  es- 
tablishing a  saw  mill  in  the  mountains.  In  this 
he  continued  for  five  years,  when  his  entire  plant 
and  capital  was  consumed  by  a  disastrous  fire. 
Undaunted  by  these  reverses,  he  at  once  turned 
his  attention  to  teaching  school  and  while  em- 
ployed in  that  occupation  in  Marysville,  studied 
law  under  the  guidance  of  his  brother,  who  was 
a  prominent  lawyer  of  California,  who  later 
served  as  a  Judge  for  several  years,  and  was  the 
esteemed  contemporary  of  Judges  Field,  Terry, 
Mesick  and  Brian,  and  was  among  the  most  dis- 
tinguished jurists  California  has  ever  called  to 
its   Bench. 

Upon  the  completion  of  his  studies  under  his 
brother,  Judge  Goodwin  went  to  Plumas  county, 
California,  in  1859,  to  settle  up  some  business 
affairs  for  a  friend  of  his  brother,  and  the  next 
year  removed  to  Nevada,  where  he  was  admitted 
to  practice  before  all  the  courts  of  that  State. 
His  next  enterprise  \yas  in  connection  with  Mr. 
Levi  Hite,  in  building  a  quartz  mill  on  Carson 
river.  This  was  just  started  when  it  was  swept 
away  by  the  most  disastrous  flood  that  has  ever 
occurred  in  the  West,  drowning  a  great  number 
of  people,  and  destroying  the  mill  and  the  prop- 
erty. The  battery  and  other  portions  of  the  mill 
were  picked  up  three-quarters  of  a  mile  away. 
Then  Judge  Goodwin  removed  to  Washoe  county 
on  the  admission  of  the  State  into  the  Union. 
He  was  elected  one  of  the  first  District  Judges 
and  held  that  office  for  over  three  years.  He 
then  removed  to  Hamilton,  White  Pine  county, 
Nevada,  as  editor  of  the  Inland  Empire,  remain- 
ing in  charge  of  it  for  six  months.  He  then 
removed  to  Eureka,  Nevada,  and  leased  a  fur- 
nace which  had  been  but  partly  finished.  He 
completed  the  buildings,  bought  ore  and  coal  and 
successfully  operated  it.  He  later  bought  it  and 
built  a  second  furnace ;  bought  the  Jackson  mine 
and   conducted   mine  and    furnace   for   about  a 


year  and  a  half,  when  he  sold  out  and  for  a  few 
months  moved  to  California. 

He  was  in  California  but  a  short  time  when 
he  was  requested  to  return  to  Virginia  City, 
Nevada,  and  become  associated  with  the  late 
R.  M.  Daggett  on  the  Territorial  Enterprise. 
Mr.  Daggett  was  elected  to  Congress  from  Ne- 
vada in  1876,  and  Judge  Goodwin  was  placed 
in  entire  charge  of  the  paper,  which  was  the 
leading  journal  of  that  State.  This  work  he  con- 
tinued until  1880,  when  he  removed  to  Utah. 
His  first  enterprise  in  this  State  was  the  pur- 
chase of  several  small  mines  in  the  Lincoln  dis- 
trict, near  Minersville,  in  Beaver  county.  On 
these  properties  he  sank  a  shaft  fifty  feet  deep, 
when  he  encountered  such  a  volume  of  water  as 
to  make  any  further  development  impracticable. 
There  was  no  chance  to  tunnel,  nor  was  Judge 
Goodwin  equipped  with  the  finances  needed  for 
the  purchase  of  machinery  to  pump  out  the 
water  which  had  filled  the  shafts.  He  was  first 
struck  by  these  mines  on  account  of  their  sim- 
ilarity to  the  Eureka  mines  of  Nevada. 

During  this  time  he  had  been  requested  by 
the  owners  of  the  Tribune  to  assist  in  the  work 
of  getting  out  that  paper,  and  in  May,  1880,  he 
became  connected  with  it  as  its  chief  editor,  and 
continued  in  that  position  for  over  twenty  years. 
The  Salt  Lake  Tribune  then  held  a  position  in 
the  world  of  newspapers  of  the  United  States 
which  was  peculiar  to  itself.  In  the  very  heart 
of  the  Mormon  movement,  and  opposed  to  ec- 
clesiastical rule,  determined  in  its  efforts  to  cre- 
ate in  the  hearts  and  minds  of  all  the  people  here 
a  love  for  the  American  country  and  the  Amer- 
ican institutions,  it  fought  with  vigor  and  de- 
termination the  policy  of  the  Church  to  ob- 
struct emigration  and  to  prevent  the  develop- 
ment of  the  mines  and  other  resources  of  this 
State.  It  was  ably  supported  in  this  work  by 
the  continued  and  generous  aid  of  the  people 
who  believed  in  the  right  of  any  American  to 
enter  any  territory  belonging  to  the  United 
States  and  to  occupy  it  in  accordance  with  the 
law,  and  in  a  similar  manner  as  they  might  in 
any  other  portion.  Throughout  the  State  their 
following,  though  small,  was  devoted  and  faith- 
ful and  in  the  adjoining  States  of  Nevada  and 


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Idaho  it  held  the  respect  and  patronage  of  the 
greater  part  of  the  citizens.  So  thoroughly  im- 
bued was  Judge  Goodwin  to  create  for  Utah  a 
standing  of  the  first  rank  in  the  United  States, 
that  when  the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act  was  so 
vigorously  enforced  in  the  early  eighties  he  wrote 
the  petition  for  amnesty  for  the  Mormons,  upon 
the  declaration  of  the  President  of  the  Church 
that  hereafter  their  religion  would  not  tolerate 
polygamy.  The  time  which  has  elapsed  since 
then,  together  with  the  aptitude  of  the  Ameri- 
can people  to  adapt  themselves  to  any  and  all 
circumstances,  has  brought  this  bitter  and  un- 
American  feeling  to  a  close,  and  today  the  cit- 
izens of  Utah  are  as  deeply  interested  in  the 
welfare  of  the  United  States  and  of  their  State, 
as  are  the  citizens  of  any  other  community.  This 
work,  stupendous  in  its  nature,  tremendous  in 
the  results  which  it  has  achieved,  has  been  ably 
directed  and  conducted  throughout  Utah  by  men 
of  the  stamp  of  Judge  Goodwin,  and  among  the 
leaders,  who  by  their  fearless  attitude  have  aided 
so  much  in  this  work,  he  deserves  the  first  place. 

He  was  married  in  California  to  Miss  Alice 
Maynard.  By  this  marriage  Judge  Goodwin  has 
one  son,  James  Todman  Goodwin,  who  has  been 
associated  with  his  father  on  the  Tribune  and  is 
now  a  member  of  the  Salt  Lake  Stock  and  Min- 
ing Exchange,  carrying  on  the  business  of 
broker;  and  a  daughter,  Alice  Ellen,  now  six- 
teen years  of  age. 

To  say  that  Judge  Goodwin  has  been  promi- 
nent in  political  life  in  Utah  and  Nevada  as  well, 
is  perhaps  unnecessary,  for  with  the  political 
affairs  in  both  of  these  States  he  has  been  so 
closely  identified  as  to  make  his  life  the  very 
warp  and  woof  of  the  political  fabric  of  Utah. 
While  in  Nevada  he  was  a  candidate  for  Con- 
gress in  1872,  but  was  defeated.  In  Utah  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
which  framed  the  Constitution  under  which  this 
State  was  admitted  to  the  Union. 

The  career  which  Judge  Goodwin  has  built 
up  stands  without  a  parallel  today.  He  is  easiK 
the  foremost  newspaper  man  who  has  ever  been 
in  the  life  of  the  Western  country.  Depend- 
ing entirely  upon  his  own  efforts,  he  has  by  his 
industry,  honesty,  straightforwardness  and  fear- 


lessness created  for  himself  a  name  that  will  live 
through  the  generations  to  come  and  be  a  source 
of  pride  to  his  posterity,  as  well  as  to  all  the 
mining  men  of  the  State.  He  has  been  an  in- 
defatigable worker  in  his  business,  and  in  his 
career  of  over  fifty  years  has  worked  day  and 
night,  and  for  twenty-seven  years  has  hardly  had 
a  holiday,  working  Sundays  and  holidays,  in  the 
effort  to  keep  pace  with  the  gigantic  perform- 
ance which  confronted  him.  Although  a  strong 
and  ardent  advocate  of  the  principles  of  freedom 
of  intercourse  between  American  States,  and  one 
of  the  most  vigorous  holders  of  the  right  of  the 
American  people  to  settle  where  they  desire,  so 
long  as  they  conform  to  the  laws  of  the  country, 
and  having  been  in  past  years  opposed  to  the 
policy  of  the  Mormon  Church,  there  is  now  no 
man,  irrespective  of  religious  or  political  be- 
lief, who  stands  as  high  in  the  popularity,  es- 
teem and  confidence  of  the  people  of  the  State 
as  does  Judge  Goodwin. 


L'DGE  WILLIAM  C.  HALL.  Amons 
the  men  whom  Utah  has  called  to  pre- 
side over  her  Courts,  to  administer  jus- 
tice and  interpret  the  law,  none  has 
been  more  successful  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duties  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
He  is  one  of  the  leading  jurists  of  the  State,  and 
the  position  he  has  won  for  himself  by  his  fear- 
less and  able  administration,  secures  for  him  a 
high  place  in  the  legal  circles  of  the  West. 

He  was  born  in  Pendleton  county,  Kentucky, 
in  1842,  spending  his  early  life  on  a  farm  in 
Kentucky.  He  attended  Shelby  College,  and 
when  the  Civil  War  of  Secession  broke  out,  he 
became  an  adherent  of  the  Southern  cause,  join- 
ing the  army  of  Virginia,  and  serving  later  with 
General  John  Morgan  until  the  latter's  capture. 
He  then  served  with  General  Joe  Wheeler  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  After  the  cessation  of  hos- 
tilities, he  returned  to  his  home  and  studied  law 
with  John  W.  Stephenson,  who  was  later  Gov- 
ernor, and  LInited  States  Senator  from  Ken- 
tucky. 

Our  subject  started  in  the  practice  of  the  law 
in   1868,  going  to  Lexington,  Missouri,  in  that 


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year,  and  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1872.  At  that 
time  Utah  had  not  begun  to  feel  that  impetus 
which  has  resulted  from  the  development  of  its 
mineral  and  other  resources,  and  the  hardships 
incident  to  the  early  settlement  had  not  yet  been 
abandoned.  He  at  once  began  the  practice  of 
law,  and  followed  that  profession  until  elected 
a  judge  for  the  Third  Judicial  District  of  Utah, 
taking  his  seat  on  the  bench  on  January  2,  1901. 
He  has  been  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  the  State 
and  in  its  Territorial  days  he  was  Secretary  of 
the  Territory  during  President  Cleveland's  ad- 
ministration, and  also  a  member  of  the  Terri- 
torial legislature.  He  was  City  Attorney  for 
Salt  Lake  City  for  two  terms. 

Judge  Hall  was  married  twelve  years  ago  to 
Miss  Marion  T.  Thornton,  a  native  of  Missis- 
sippi, and  by  this  marriage  they  have  three  chil- 
dren, two  sons :  William  T.  and  James  A.,  and 
one  daughter,  Marion  C.  Judge  Hall's  father, 
Thomas  G.  Hall,  was  a  farmer  and  spent  his  life 
in  Kentucky.  He  participated  in  the  War  of 
1812,  and  served  in  Canada,  being  in  the  battle 
in  which  Tecumseh  was  killed.  He  took  an  active 
part  in  the  affairs  of  the  State  and  served  sev- 
eral terms  in  the  legislature  in  Kentucky.  The 
Hall  family  is  one  of  the  old  families  of  Vir- 
ginia and  were  among  the  prominent  settlers  of 
Kentucky.  They  were  originally  natives  of  Eng- 
land. Judge  Hall  is  the  second  son  of  his  father, 
the  family  numbering  seven  children,  of  which 
six  were  sons.  Judge  Hall's  grandmother  was 
Isabelle  Graves,  a  member  of  the  Graves  family, 
residents  of  Georgetown,  Kentucky.  The  mother 
of  our  subject,  Salina  (McCarthy)  Hall,  was  a 
member  of  one  of  the  early  pioneer  families  of 
Kentucky.  Her  father,  Reuben  jMcCarlhy,  was 
a  surveyor  bv  profession  and  served  as  a  Major 
in  the  War  of  1812. 

In  political  life  Judge  Hall  has  always  been  a 
Democrat. 

The  Judge  is  also  largely  interested  in  the  de- 
velopment of  mining  properties  in  Utah  and  his 
investments  have  proved  eminently  successful. 

Judge  Hall  presides  over  the  Chancery  De- 
I'artment,  and  has  ably  administered  the  duties 
of  his  office.  He  was  a  prominent  attorney  in 
LTtah  before  his  election  to  the  bench,  and  has 


taken  an  active  part  in  the  development  of  both 
the  City  and  State.  He  has  witnessed  all  the 
great  strides  that  Utah  has  made  towards  its 
present  prosperous  condition.  While  a  member 
of  the  legislature  he  was  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee to  whom  was  referred  the  House  and 
Council  bills  for  common  schools ;  the  commit- 
tee reporting  a  substitute  for  both  bills  which 
became  a  law,  by  means  of  which  the  common 
schools  were  provided  with  sufficient  funds  to 
erect  large  and  handsome  buildings  and  to  enter 
upon  the  era  of  growth  and  prosperity  which  ob- 
tains in  the  State.  His  impartiality  has  won 
for  him  a  reputation  of  being  a  just  Judge  and 
his  genial  and  considerate  manner  has  made  for 
liim  a  legion  of  friends  throughout  the  State. 


RESIDING  BISHOP  WILLIAM 
r.OWKER  PRESTOX.  Among  the 
ninre  important  offices  in  the  Church 
'if  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
is  the  office  of  Presiding  Bishop.  This 
office  calls  for  an  e.xercise  of  administrative  and 
executive  ability  of  a  rare  order,  and  its  respon- 
sibilities are  of  such  a  nature  that  an  able  man 
is  required  to  properly  fulfill  the  duties.  These 
conditions  have  all  been  met  in  the  person  of  tlie 
present  Presiding  Bishop,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

William  Bowker  Preston,  the  son  of  Christ- 
opher and  Martha  ^litchell  (Claytor)  Preston, 
was  born  in  Franklin  county,  Virginia,  Novem- 
ber 24th.  1830.  His  early  days  were  spent  on 
his  father's  plantation,  doing  the  work  incident 
to  that  industry,  and  from  six  to  eighteen  years 
of  age  he  attended  school  in  the  winter  months, 
working  on  the  plantation  in  the  summer.  He 
continued  at  this  work  until  he  reached  the  age 
of  nineteen,  when  he  went  to  Stewartsville.  Bed- 
ford count}-,  \'irginia,  where  he  secured  a  jiosi- 
tion  as  salesman  and  bookkeeper,  and  later  occu- 
pied a  similar  position  in  a  mercantile  establish- 
ment at  Lynchburg,  Virginia. 

The  marvelous  discoveries  of  gold  in  Cali- 
fornia and  the  tales  poured  into  the  ears  of  the 
eastern  people  of  the  richness  of  the  country  and 
the  ease  with  which  wealth  was  acquired,  fired 


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him  with  an  ambition  to  visit  that  country,  and 
in  1852,  having  gained  the  consent  of  his  pa- 
rents, he  took  the  steamer  at  New  York  for 
Aspinwall,  and  crossing  the  Isthmus  of  Darien, 
arrived  at  San  Francisco.  Instead  of  turning 
his  attention  to  gold  mining,  then  the  universal 
rule  of  action  with  all  new-comers,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  farming  and  stock  raising,  set- 
tling in  Yolo  county,  thirty  miles  west  of  Sacra- 
mento. 

His  parents  had  been  devoted  members  of  the 
Methodist  Church,  and  in  his  childhood  their 
son  attended  regularly  the  meetings  and  Sunday 
School.  Upon  his  arrival  in  California  he  be- 
came acquainted  with  Hezekiah  Thatcher  and 
his  family,  who  had  moved  from  Utah  to  Cali- 
fornia. Convinced  by  the  teachings  of  the 
Church  to  which  Mr.  Thatcher  belonged,  he 
was  baptized  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  by  Elder  Henry  G. 
Boyle,  in  1857.  Shortly  after.  Elder  George  Q. 
Cannon,  then  President  of  the  California  Mis- 
sion, ordained  him  an  Elder.  Soon  after  his 
ordination  he  was  sent  on  a  mission  to  labor  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  State,  in  which  work 
he  was  engaged  when  the  Elders  were  called  to 
return  to  Utah  in  the  fall  of  1857.  Elder  Pres- 
ton, who  came  with  other  members  of  the 
Church,  started  overland  from  California  by  the 
southern  route  via  Los  Angeles  and  San  Ber- 
nardino, arriving  in  Salt  Lake  in  January,  1858. 

Shortly  after  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Harriett  Ann  Thatcher, 
daughter  of  Hezekiah  and  Allie  (Kitchen) 
Thatcher,  the  ceremony  being  performed  on 
February  24th,  1858.  After  a  short  stay  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  he  and  his  wife  went  to  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  State,  settling  for  a  short  time 
at  Payson,  but  being  unable  to  obtain  sufficient 
land  in  that  vicinity  for  his  purposes,  he  re- 
solved to  seek  other  fields.  In  the  fall  of  1859 
the  Thatcher  and  the  Preston  families  moved 
into  Cache  valley  and  assisted  in  locating  and 
building  the  town  of  Logan.  Here  he  selected 
a  site  on  the  north  side  of  Logan  river,  over- 
looking the  valley,  and  at  once  set  to  work  tak- 
ing up  government  land  and  building  the  neces- 
sary houses.     In  November,  1859,  Apostles  Or- 


son Hyde  and  Ezra  T.  Benson  came  into  Cache 
valley  for  the  purpose  of  organizing  Wards  and 
Elder  Preston  was  chosen  Bishop  of  Logan,  be- 
ing ordained  by  Orson  Hyde,  Ezra  T.  Benson 
and  Peter  Maughan.  Throughout  the  ensuing 
five  years  our  subject's  time  and  attention  was 
given  to  the  building  up  of  the  City  of  Logan, 
laying  out  farms  for  the  settlers,  building  the 
Logan  and  Hyde  Park  canal,  and  protecting  the 
settlers  from  the  depredations  of  the  Indians. 
He  was  called  in  1863  and  1864  to  make  two 
trips  to  the  Missouri  river  and  conduct  to  Utah 
the  emigrants  gathered  there.  He  was  Captain 
of  both  companies,  each  consisting  of  fifty  rx 
teams.  He  successfully  performed  these  tasks, 
and  upon  his  return  to  Utah  was  elected  to  serve 
as  a  member  of  the  Territorial  legislature. 

In  April,  1865,  Bishop  Preston  was  called  to 
go  on  a  mission  to  Europe  and  take  charge  of  a 
company  of  missionaries  as  far  as  New  York. 
Upon  his  arrival  there  he  visited  his  father  and 
mother  in  Virginia,  whom  he  had  not  seen  for 
thirteen  years,  and  then  proceeded  on  his  way  to 
Europe.  Here  most  of  his  missionary  labor  was 
confined  to  the  business  management  of  the  Brit^ 
ish  Mission,  under  the  Presidency  of  Elders 
Brigham  Young.  Junior,  and  Franklin  D.  Rich- 
ards. After  an  absence  of  thee  years  and  eight 
months  on  this  mission,  he  returned  home. 

In  addition  to  his  work  in  the  Church, 
Bishop  Preston  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
civil  affairs  of  Utah,  and  in  addition  to  the 
terms  which  he  served  in  the  Legislature,  al- 
ready mentioned,  served  in  that  body  from 
1872  to  1882,  covering  five  terms.  His  work 
in  the  development  of  Logan  and  in  bringing 
it  to  its  then  satisfactory  condition,  was  re- 
alized by  the  citizens,  who,  in  1870,  elected 
him  Mayor,  and  in  this  office  he  served  for 
twelve  years ;  nor  did  this  end  his  connection 
with  public  affairs,  for  when  the  convention  to 
adopt  a  Constitution  for  the  State  was  called  in 
1895,  he  was  elected  a  member  of  it. 

Although  he  had  started  in  the  West  as  a 
farmer  and  stock  raiser,  he  showed  his  ability 
to  do  well  whatever  he  undertook,  and  in  1872 
he  engaged  in  railroad  building,  assisting  John 
W.  Young  in  building  that  portion  of  the  Union 


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Pacific  which  runs  through  Echo  Canyon.  Early 
in  the  same  year  he  was  actively  engaged  in 
constructing  the  Utah  Northern  Railroad,  which 
two  years  later  was  completed  as  far  as  Frank- 
lin, Idaho.  He  was  Vice-President  and  Gen- 
eral Superintendent  of  that  company  until  it 
passed  into  the  control  of  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
way. 

Bishop  Preston  was  appointed  as  Counsellor 
in  President  Moses  Thatcher,  of  the  Cache  Stake, 
in  1877,  and  this  position  he  occupied  until  the 
latter  was  called  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  Quorum 
of  the  Twelve  Apostles.  Bishop  Preston  was 
then  called  to  be  President  of  the  Cache  Stake, 
and  in  this  position  he  continued  until  April  6th, 
1884,  when  at  a  General  Conference  of  the 
Church,  held  at  Salt  Lake  City,  he  was  chosen 
Presiding  Bishop  of  the  Church,  which  position 
he  has  since  filled. 

Bishop  Preston  has  also  found  time,  notwith- 
standing his  duties  in  the  Church,  to  take  an 
active  interest  in  the  education  and  material  de- 
velopment of  Utah.  For  many  years  he  has 
been  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  and 
one  of  the  directors  of  the  Brigham  Young  Col- 
lege at  Logan,  in  which  institution  he  is  greatly 
interested.  He  has  also  been  Vice-President  of 
the  State  Bank  of  Utah  since  its  organization ; 
President  of  the  Provo  Woolen  ]\Iills  Company ; 
President  of  the  Nevada  Land  and  Live  Stock 
Company;  Vice-President  of  the  Rexburg  JMill- 
ing  Companies,  and  President  of  the  Central 
Mill  and  Elevator  Company  of  Logan.  His  life 
since  coming  to  this  city  has  been  an  active  one, 
his  time  and  attention  being  given  not  only  to 
the  work  of  the  Church,  but  to  all  movements 
having  for  their  object  the  betterment  of  the  re- 
ligious, civil,  financial  and  political  standing  of 
the  members  of  the  Church  and  of  the  people 
of  the  State. 

His  career  marks  him  as  one  of  the  leaders 
of  Utah,  and  one  who  by  his  life  of  industry 
and  application  has  made  himself  a  name  that 
occupies  a  high  position  in  the  history  of  the  de- 
velopment of  the  Church  and  in  the  prosperity  of 
Utah.  His  wide  travels  throughout  the  West, 
and  his  responsible  duties,  have  given  him  a 
great   fund  of  knowledge  of  the  needs   of    the 


country,  and  his  sincere  manner  and  warm  heart 
have  endeared  him  to  the  people  with  whom  he 
has  come  in  contact. 


ILLIAM  HUNTINGTON  TIB- 
BALS.  Whoever  labors  for  the 
advancement  of  his  community,  as- 
sisting in  the  development  of  its 
financial,  commercial,  agricultural 
or  educational  interests,  promotes  the  welfare  of 
his  fellow-citizens  and  aids  in  the  progress  of 
the  place,  and  is  entitled  to  rank  among  its  pub- 
lic spirited,  progressive  citizens.  Such  names 
and  such  men  add  to  the  importance  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  they  reside  and  add  to  its  pros- 
perity. Their  intelligence  is  a  power  for  good 
in  local  affairs,  and  their  keen  intellectual  facul- 
ties promote  not  only  their  own  individual  suc- 
cess, but  that  of  their  fellow-citizens  as  well. 
It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  one  of  the  great- 
est industries  of  this  whole  inter-mountain  region 
is  its  mineral  wealth,  which  until  a  few  years 
ago  was  scarcely  known  and  wholly  undeveloped. 
This  great  industry  during  the  past  decade  has 
done  more  to  increase  the  commercial  wealth  of 
Utah  and  bring  the  State  prominently  before 
the  great  financiers  of  the  outside  world,  and  thus 
secure  the  assistance  of  moneyed  men  of  the 
country  in  the  developing  of  the  vast  mineral 
wealth  of  the  State,  than  has  any  other  one  thing 
within  the  confines  of  Utah. 

Among  the  men  of  Salt  Lake  City  who  have 
taken  a  prominent  and  active  part  in  the  de- 
velopment 01  its  mines,  and  who  has  been  alive 
to  every  issue  and  enterprise  for  the  building  up 
and  advancement  of  the  State,  William  H.  Tib- 
bals,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  deserving  of 
special  mention,  and  any  State  may  well  be  proud 
in  securing  such  men  as  citizens. 

Mr.  Tibbals  was  born  in  Union,  New  Jersey, 
December  22,  1848.  His  father  was  Elisha  Tib- 
bals, a  Baptist  clergyman  of  Milford,  Connecti- 
cut, of  which  place  Mr.  Thomas  Tibbals  and  his 
wife  were  pioneers.  A  memorial  stone  in  the 
pioneer  bridge  at  Milford  commemorates  Thomas 
Tibbals.  In  1854,  Elisha  Tibbals  and  family 
moved  to  Lagrange,  Ohio.  He  was  pastor  of 
the  Baptist  church  at  this  place  and  at  Penfield 


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for  several  years.  In  i860  he  moved  to  a  farm  in 
North  Royalton,  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
spent  his  youth, and  where  he  lived  until  1875, 
with  the  exception  of  one  year  spent  in  New  York 
City.  He  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  in  Oberlin  College,  where  he  took 
the  classical  course  and  graduated  in  1875,  hav- 
ing had  to  work  his  way  through  the  entire 
course.  He  engaged  in  teaching  and  was  Super- 
intendent of  the  public  schools  of  Escanaba, 
Michigan,  for  four  years.  He  was  also  Super- 
intendent of  the  schools  of  Peshtigo,  Wiscon- 
sin, and  for  two  years  Associate  Principal  of  the 
Ohio  Central  Normal  School,  and  Superintend- 
ent of  the  public  schools  at  Worthington,  Ohio. 
He  was  for  one  year  Principal  of  the  Seminary 
at  Poland,  Ohio,  where  President  McKinley  was 
at  one  time  a  student.  He  was  also  Professor 
of  Philosophy  and  Literature  in  Park  College,  at 
Parkville,  Missouri,  for  six  years,  and  in  1889 
received  the  degree  of  Ph.  D.  from  Gale  College, 
Wisconsin,  for  special  work  in  psychology.  He 
came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1892  and  was  for  sev- 
eral years  on  the  faculty  of  Salt  Lake  college, 
which  was  under  the  care  of  the  Congregational 
Educational  Society.  In  1897  he  left  the  profes- 
sion of  teaching  to  engage  in  mining,  in  which  he 
has  been  successful,  and  has  extensive  interests 
in  the  Tintic  district  and  in  Beaver  county,  this 
State;  also  in  Idaho  and  Oregon. 

On  July  24,  1877,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Helen  M.  Guild,  of  Dover,  Ohio.  Three  chil- 
dren were  born  of  this  marriage :  Arthur  Burn- 
ell,  Mildred  M.,  and  William  Howard.  The  eld- 
est died  at  the  age  of  seven  years.  They  have 
a  pleasant  home  on  the  corner  of  Third  and  "O" 
streets. 

Politically  he  is  a  staunch  Republican. 

Mr.  Tibbals  has  done  a  considerable  amount 
of  writing  since  his  graduation,  having  been  cor- 
respondent for  a  number  of  daily  and  weekly 
papers,  as  well  as  writing  articles  for  literary 
magazines  and  educational  papers.  He  was  at 
one  time  literary  editor  of  the  Commoinvealth 
Magazine.  Mr.  Tibbals  has  also  written  and 
published  a  number  of  poems,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  and  a  leading  officer  of  the  West- 
ern Authors  and  Artists  Club  of  Kansas  Citv. 


I\IOS  MILTON  MUSSER.  The 
early  history  of  the  State  of  Utah  and 
that  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints  must  be  for  all 
time  inseparably  linked  together. 
When  the  early  pioneers  gave  up  home,  fortune 
and  friends  and  came  to  this  then  wild  and  un- 
developed country  and  here  founded  homes,  it 
was  that  they  might  live  undisturbed  in  the  prac- 
tice of  the  religion  which  they  had  adopted,  the 
teachings  of  which  they  believed  to  be  true ;  and 
as  the  years  passed  and  out  of  the  wilderness 
sprang  up  the  State  which  today  ranks  as  one 
of  the  leading  ones  of  the  Union,  the  under- 
lying principle  with  this  people  remained  the 
same — to  make  it  the  bone  and  sinew  of  the 
Mormon  religion ;  the  fountain  head,  from  which 
should  flow  out  branches  into  all  the  world,  un- 
til it  should  become  the  dominant  religion  of 
this  age.  To  this  end  many  noble  lives  were 
laid  upon  the  altar  of  Church  and  State,  and 
many  of  the  brightest  minds  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century  directed  the  affairs  of  the  Church  and 
assisted  in  the  development  and  growth  of  the 
State.  Among  these  men  there  were  none  more 
able  or  better  fitted  for  the  peculiar  work  he 
performed  in  the  upbuilding  of  these  two  great 
institutions  than  was  Amos  Milton  Musser,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  whose  name  will  go  down 
to  history  as  one  of  the  staunchest  defenders 
the  Mormon  religion  has  ever  had. 

Mr.  Musser  was  born  in  Donegal  township, 
Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  May  20.  1830, 
and  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Ann  (Barr)  Mus- 
ser. His  father  died  when  he  was  about  two 
years  of  age,  leaving  his  widow  with  a  family 
of  four  children  to  support.  A  few  years  later 
Mrs.  Musser  married  Abraham  Bitner  and  the 
family  moved  to  Illinois,  settling  near  Quincy. 
However,  Mr.  Bitner's  health  failed  and  they  re- 
turned to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  died.  During 
her  second  widowhood  Mrs.  Bitner  heard  the 
doctrines  of  Mormonism  preached  by  Elders  in 
her  neighborhood  and  became  a  convert  to  their 
teachings.  In  1846  she  moved  to  Nauvoo  with 
her  children,  arriving  there  only  to  find  the  Mor- 
mons had  been  driven  out  of  the  State,  the  few 
who    remained    being   too   poor   to   procure   the 


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means  to  take  them  out  of  the  city.  Mrs.  Bit- 
ner  and  her  children  were  driven  with  these  peo- 
ple across  the  Mississippi  river  into  Iowa  by  the 
mob,  and  our  subject,  who  was  then  sixteen  years 
of  age,  took  part  in  the  trouble,  being  within  a 
few  feet  of  Captain  William  Anderson  and  his 
son  Augustus  when  they  were  killed  by  the  mob. 
Our  subject  being  the  oldest  living  son,  it  fell 
to  him  to  assist  in  the  support  of  the  familv,  and 
his  education  was  necessarily  somewhat  ne- 
glected ;  however,  he  improved  every  opportun- 
ity to  acquire  knowledge,  and  having  a  bright 
mind  and  a  very  retentive  memory,  was  able  to 
obtain  a  fairly  good  education.  Upon  reaching 
Iowa,  where  young  Musser  obtained  employ- 
ment in  a  store  as  a  clerk,  remaining  there  un- 
til 185 1,  in  the  spring  of  which  year  he  started 
for  Utah.  He  had  been  a  nominal  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church  for  some  years,  but  had 
never  been  baptized.  This  ceremony  was  per- 
formed at  Kanesville,  Iowa,  on  May  24,  185 1, 
by  Elder  James  Allred  and  confirmed  by  Apostle 
Orson  Hyde.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  that 
fall  and  soon  after  reaching  here  accepted  a  posi- 
tion as  scribe  in  the  General  Tithing  Office, 
which  was  obtained  through  the  kindness  of  Pres- 
ident Brigham  Young.  The  following  year  he 
was  called  to  go  upon  a  mission  to  Hindoostan, 
being  blessed  and  set  apart  for  the  work  by 
Joseph  Young,  Lorenzo  Snow  and  Wilford 
Woodruff,  on  October  16,  1852.  He  arrived  in 
Calcutta  in  the  following  spring  and  labored 
there  about  eight  months,  when  in  company  with 
Elder  Truman  Leonard  he  joined  Elder  Hugh 
Findlay  in  Bombay,  and  was  sent  from  there 
to  Kurrachee,  Scinde,  where  he  remained  until 
summoned  home  by  President  Young.  He  sailed 
from  India  early  in  1856,  but  reached  London 
too  late  to  accompany  the  season's  immigration 
to  Utah,  and  remained  in  England  until  the 
spring  of  1857,  laboring  principally  in  Wales. 
He  reached  home  that  fall,  after  an  absence  of 
five  years,  and  having  circumscribed  the  globe. 
This  long  mission  was  performed  literally  "with- 
out purse  or  scrip,"  this  being  the  manner  in 
which  Mormon  Elders  were  directed  to  travel. 
Elder  Musser  never  had  occasion  to  ask  for  aid 
in  any  manner,  food,  clothing,  lodging  and  means 


of  transportation  being  freely  offered  as  occa- 
sion required. 

Upon  his  return  home  he  again  entered  the 
Tithing  Office,  remaining  there  a  year,  when  he 
was  given  an  appointment  by  the  First  Presi- 
dency as  Traveling  Bishop  of  the  Church,  which 
position  he  held  without  intermission  from  1858 
to  1876,  it  being  his  duty  to  visit  the  dififerent 
Stakes  and  Wards  and  attend  to  all  matters  per- 
taining to  the  collecting,  forwarding  and  report- 
ing of  the  tithes;  having  charge  of  all  church 
moneys  and  look  after  the  Perpetual  Emigration 
Fund,  as  well  as  attend  to  all  other  Church  busi- 
ness under  the  direction  of  the  First  Presidency 
and  the  Presiding  Bishopric.  He  had  over  three 
hundred  Wards  under  his  charge,  in  this  and 
neighboring  States. 

In  April,  1873,  he  was  appointed  assistant  trus- 
tee-in-trust to  President  George  A.  Smith,  Trus- 
tee-in-trust for  the  Church,  filling  this  position 
for  three  years,  when  he  was  again  assigned  to 
missionary  work,  this  time  to  the  Eastern  States, 
laboring  principally  in  Pennsylvania,  where  he 
re-visited  the  scenes  of  his  boyhood  and  preached 
as  opportunity  offered.  During  this  time  he  pub- 
lished a  number  of  pamphlets  bearing  upon  the 
belief  and  practices  of  the  Church,  which  called 
out  the  hearty  approval  of  the  heads  of  the 
Church,  and  Mr.  Musser  received  a  personal  let- 
ter from  Apostle  Orson  Hyde  commending  his 
work.  Upon  again  returning  to  Utah  he  was 
for  a  time  employed  in  the  President's  office 
and  was  later  given  an  appointment  in  the  His- 
torian's office,  with  a  special  commission  from 
the  First  Presidency  to  keep  a  record  of  all  the 
persecutive  acts,  and  the  names  of  the  perpetrat- 
ors of  those  acts  against  the  Church.  That  he 
faithfully  performed  this  duty,  the  well-kept  rec- 
ords of  his  office  testify.  He  has  also  written 
much  for  the  public  press  and  is  the  author  of 
several  valuable  works,  many  of  which  were  is- 
sued in  pamphlet  form.  One  of  his  publica- 
tions, "Fruits  of  Mormonism,"  has  a  wide  cir- 
culation and  has  been  an  invaluable  aid  to  many 
of  the  missionaries. 

Mr.  Musser's  life  has  been  devoted  largely  also 
to  the  upbuilding  and  advancement  of  the  in- 
terests of  the   State,  and  when  not  engaged  in 


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the  work  of  the  Church  he  has  given  his  atten- 
tion as  well  as  his  means  to  the  furthering  of 
many  projects  tending  to  the  development  of  the 
resources  of  this  country.  In  1866  the  Deseret 
Telegraph  line  was  opened  between  Salt  Lake 
City  and  Ogden  and  the  following  year  the  Des- 
eret Telegraph  Company  was  incorporated,  our 
subject  being  one  of  the  promoters  and  incor- 
porators, and  was  placed  in  charge  as  general 
superintendent.  He  held  this  position  for  over 
nine  years,  being  at  the  same  time  one  of  the 
directors,  and  under  his  management  the  busi- 
ness grew  to  large  proportions,  having  a  num- 
ber of  branches,  and  the  gross  receipts  grew  from 
a  little  over  eight  thousand  dollars  in  1868  to 
over  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  in  1873.  A 
few  years  after  retiring  from  the  management 
of  this  company  Bishop  Musser  introduced  the 
telephone  into  Salt  Lake  City,  and  also  the  phon- 
ograph. Among  the  other  institutions  with 
which  he  has  been  connected  may  be  mentioned 
the  Zion's  Savings  Bank  and  Trust  Company 
and  the  State  Bank  of  Utah,  in  both  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  incorporators ;  The  Great 
Western  Iron  Company,  the  Utah  Eastern,  Salt 
Lake  and  Fort  Douglas;  and  the  Juab,  Sanpete 
and  Sevier  Valley  Railroads ;  a  director,  secre- 
tary, treasurer  and  general  traveling  agent  of  the 
Deseret  Agricultural  and  Manufacturing  Soci- 
ety ;  director,  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  L^ tab 
Silk  Association,  and  President  of  the  Utah  Bean 
Association.  He  also  held  for  many  years  prior 
to  Statehood  the  office  of  Fish  and  Game  Com- 
missioner, and  did  much  towards  supplying  the 
streams  with  choice  fish.  In  fact,  there  were  few- 
enterprises  for  the  public  good  in  the  earlier 
days  of  the  history  of  this  State  with  which  he 
was  not  actively  connected,  and  he  has  ever  been 
one  of  the  most  public  spirited  and  broad-minded 
of  men. 

Mr.  Musser  has  been  and  is  still  a  staunch 
believer  in  the  doctrine  of  plural  marriages  and 
had  four  wives  sealed  to  him,  in  the  following 
order:  Ann  Leaver,  by  President  Erigham 
Young,  January  9,  1858;  Mary  Elizabeth  White, 
by  President  Heber  C.  Kimball,  October  i,  1864; 
Belinda  Pratt,  by  President  Brigham  Young,  Sep- 
tember 4,  1872,  and  Annie  Seegmiller,  bv  Presi- 


dent Daniel  H.  Wells,  January  30,  1874.  He 
has  been  the  father  of  twenty  sons  and  fifteen 
daughters. 

After  the  passage  by  Congress  of  the  anti- 
polygamy  law  of  1862  Elder  Musser  volunteered 
as  a  subject  to  test  the  constitutionality  of  the 
law,  but  the  case  of  Elder  George  Reynolds  was 
chosen  instead.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  anti- 
polygamy  crusade  under  the  Edmunds-Tucker 
act  Elder  Musser  was  among  those  arrested  for 
violation  of  that  law,  his  case  coming  to  trial 
on  April  30,  1885.  He  was  found  guilty  and 
sentenced  to  a  fine  of  three  hundred  dollars  and 
imprisonment  for  six  months.  He  submitted  a 
letter  of  protest  to  Judge  Zane,  defending  his 
action,  which  letter,  together  with  the  substance 
of  the  reply  made  by  Judge  Zane  have  been  pre- 
served in  the  Church  records,  and  contribute 
much  valuable  information  regarding  the  grounds 
upon  which  these  fines  and  imprisonments  were 
made. 

Mr.  Musser's  time  for  the  past  few  years  has 
been  largely  devoted  to  the  work  of  the  His- 
torian's Office,  in  which  he  has  spent  a  great 
part  of  his  life.  He  is  one  of  the  best  known 
men  of  Utah,  and  a  typical  Westerner,  self- 
educated  and  self-made ;  energetic,  wide  awake 
and  alive  to  the  needs  of  the  Church  and  State. 
He  is  a  man  of  broad  intellect,  keen  sympathies, 
hospitable,  and  there  is  no  man  in  the  State 
who  is  better  known  or  more  beloved  by  the 
people  at  large  than  Amos   Milton  Musser. 


PWARD  H.  ANDERSON.  One  of  the 
most  important  State  offices  in  the  gift 
of  the  President  of  the  United  States 
is  that  of  Surveyor  General.  When 
Judge  Jacob  B.  Blair,  who  so  ably  filled 
the  office,  died  in  February,  1901,  speculation 
was  rife  as  to  who  would  be  appointed  his  suc- 
cessor. The  plum  fell  to  Mr.  Edward  H.  Ander- 
son, the  present  incumbent  of  the  office.  The 
appointment  was  made  by  President  McKinley 
on  February  13.  The  State  Legislature  was  in 
session  at  the  time,  and  Mr.  Anderson  was  sitting 
in  the  lower  house  as  a  member  from  Weber 
county.     He  kept  his  seat  until  the  adjournment 


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sine  die  of  the  Legislature,  when  he  entered  upon 
his  new  duties  as  Surveyor  General  of  the  State 
of  Utah. 

Edward  H'.  Anderson  was  born  in  Sweden  in 
1858.  When  he  was  but  six  years  of  age  his 
parents  emigrated  to  the  United  States.  They 
came  direct  to  Utah  and  later  settled  on  a  farm 
in  Weber  county,  where  they  still  live  at  Hunts- 
ville,  and  where  the  father,  Nels  Anderson,  is  an 
elder  of  the  Mormon  Church.  Nels  Anderson's 
wife  was  Nellie  Pehrson,  who  died  December  17, 
1901,  and  Surveyor-General  Anderson  is  their 
adopted  child.  His  boyhood  was  spent  on  his 
father's  farm.  He  obtained  his  schooling  in  the 
district  schools,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  entered 
the  Normal  Department  of  the  University  of 
Utah,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1877.  Thus 
at  the  age  of  twenty  he  became  a  school  teacher 
in  Weber  county.  Three  years  later  he  became 
a  newspaper  man  and  later  was  manager  and 
editor  of  theOgden  Herald  and  Standard.  For 
ten  years  he  assumed  the  responsibilities  of  this 
position.  Then  for  nine  years  he  was  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  for  Weber  county.  During 
the  years  1889  and  1890  Mr.  Anderson  was  editor 
of  The  Contributor,  organ  of  the  Young  Men's 
Mutual  Improvement  Associations. 

For  the  next  two  years  Mr.  Anderson  was  on 
a  mission  for  the  Mormon  Church,  presiding  over 
the  missions  in  Denmark.  During  this  time  he 
acted  as  emigration  agent  and  published  the 
Scandinavian  Star  in  two  languages — Swedish 
and  Danish.  He  sent  over  to  America  in  this 
time  about  a  thousand  converts  to  the  Mormon 
faith.  After  his  return  to  Ogden  he  wrote  two 
works :  "The  Life  of  Brigham  Young,"  and  "A 
Brief  History  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latterday '  Saints,"  which  were  published  by 
George  Q.  Cannon  &  Sons. 

At  the  city  election  of  November,  1893,  Mr. 
Anderson  was  elected  Recorder  of  Ogden  City 
on  the  Republican  ticket,  an  office  to  which  he 
was  twice  re-elected.  In  1899  he  declined  re- 
nomination  to  become  the  editor  of  the  Improve- 
ment Era,  organ  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual 
Improvement  Associations. 

In  the  following  November  he  was  elected  on 
the  Republican  ticket  as  a  member  of  the  House 


of  Representatives  of  the  State  Legislature  from 
Weber  county,  and  served  in  the  House  during 
the  session  of  1901.  Then  came  his  elevation  to 
the  office  of  Surveyor  General,  which  position 
Mr.  Anderson  has  filled  from  the  start  with 
credit  to  himself  and  his  State. 

Edward  H.  Anderson  was  married  in  Ogden 
in  1882  to  Miss  Jane  S.  Ballantyne,  a  daughter 
of  Richard  Ballantyne,  the  founder  of  the  Sun- 
day school  in  the  State.  She  is  a  woman  of 
strong  character  and  excellent  ability.  Mr.  Bal- 
lantyne was  a  pioneer  of  1848,  and  died  in  1898 
after  a  life  of  prominence  in  the  Mormon  Church. 
He  was  a  native  of  Scotland  and  had  become  a 
Mormon  in  the  land  of  his  birth.  He  was  both 
a  farmer  and  a  man  of  business.  He  was  a  mer- 
chant and  for  a  time  was  manager  of  the  leading 
paper  at  Ogden.  He  married  Miss  Mary  Pearce, 
a  native  of  England,  who  came  here  in  the  early 
territorial  days  and  is  still  living.  Mr.  Ballan- 
tyne was  a  High  Counselor  and  a  Bishop  of  Eden 
Ward  in  Ogden  Valley. 

Mr.  Anderson  has  seven  children,  six  sons  and 
one  daughter — Edward  H.,  David  B.,  Hugo  E., 
Virgil  B.,  Howard  B.,  Leland  B.  and  Jane.  He 
has  himself  held  high  ecclesiastical  positions  and 
has  been  a  member  of  the  High  Council,  Stake 
Clerk  and  President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual 
Improvement  Associations  of  which  organization 
he  is  now  a  member  of  the  general  board.  His 
personality  is  pleasing.  He  is  genial  and  kind. 
He  has  always  been  an  active  business  man,  and 
has  participated  in  all  the  political  campaigns  of 
the  State  since  he  was  old  enough  to  take  any 
interest  in  politics.  Since  his  appointment  to  the 
office  of  Surveyor  General  he  has  moved  his  fam- 
ily from  Ogden  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  they 
now  make  their  home. 


OX.  CHARLES  W.  PENROSE.  In 
reviewing  the  history  of  any  State  or 
community,  there  are  always  a  few 
names  which  stand  out  in  bold  relief 
on  account  of  their  owners  possessing 
superior  ability  along  the  line  of  business  or  in 
a  professional  or  literary  way.     Such  names  and 


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such  men  increase  the  importance  of  a  city  or 
State,  and  add  to  its  prosperity.  Their  intelli- 
gence is  a  power  for  good  in  local  affairs,  and 
their  keen  intellectual  faculties  promote  not  only 
their  individual  success,  but  that  of  their  fellow- 
citizens  as  well.  Among  the  men  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  one  who  has  become  eminent  as  a 
writer,  orator  and  business  man,  and  whose  views 
and  opinions  wield  a  powerful  influence  in  the 
legislative  halls  and  through  that  powerful  ad- 
junct of  human  thought  and  human  action — the 
daily  paper — is  Charles  W.  Penrose,  who  stands 
without  a  peer  in  this  whole  inter-mountain  re- 
gion. The  best  efforts  of  his  life  have  been  given 
to  the  upbuilding  of  Utah,  and  in  fact  this  whole 
Rocky  Mountain  country.  So  closely  has  his 
life  and  efforts  been  linked  with  the  history  and 
development  of  L'tah  that  it  has  become  a  part 
and  parcel  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Penrose  has  been  at  the  head  of  that  great 
paper,  the  Deseret  Neivs,  for  many  years  as  Edi- 
tor-in-Chief, and  under  his  splendid  management 
the  paper  has  grown  to  be  one  of  the  most  pow- 
erful daily  papers  of  this  whole  region.  There 
is  no  man  in  Utah  who  is  more  thoroughly  ac- 
quainted by  actual  experience  with  all  the  hard- 
ships and  difficulties  incident  to  crossing  the  great 
American  desert  by  ox  teams  and  settling  in  a 
new  and  undeveloped  country,  than  is  Mr.  Pen- 
rose. He  is  a  native  of  England,  and  was  born 
in  London,  February  4,  1832.  His  boyhood  days 
and  early  life  were  spent  in  his  native  city,  where 
his  scholastic  education  was  received.  His  father 
was  Richard  Penrose,  and  his  mother  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Matilda  Sims.  They  were  both 
natives  of  England.  The  senior  Mr.  Penrose 
died  when  our  subject  was  a  small  boy,  which 
necessitated  his  making  his  own  way  in  the 
world.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  became  im- 
pressed with  the  doctrines  and  principles  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  cast  his  lot  with  the  for- 
tunes of  that  faith,  and  from  that  day  to  this  lie 
has  ever  been  a  faithful  worker  and  brilliant  ex- 
pounder of  the  doctrines  and  principles  which  it 
advocates.  He  must  have  possessed  superior 
ability  as  a  speaker  and  teacher,  even  at  that  age, 
for  soon  after  he  had  united  with  the  Church  he 
was   called   and    set   apart   by   the   heads   of   the 


Church  to  serve  as  its  missionary  in  his  native 
land,  and  ten  years  of  his  early  life  were  spent 
in  that  direction  and  in  the  interests  of  the  Church 
in  England.  s 

In  1861  he  came  to  America,  crossing  the  At- 
lantic Ocean  in  an  old  sailing  vessel,  and  the 
great  American  desert  by  ox  team  to  Utah.  He 
first  took  up  his  residence  in  Farmington,  Davis 
county,  and  later  settled  in  Logan,  in  the  Cache 
\^alley,  where  for  a  time  he  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business.  In  the  early  part  of  1865  he 
was  again  called  to  serve  on  a  mission  in  Great 
Britain,  laboring  three  and  a  half  years,  during 
which  time  he  had  charge  of  several  different 
Conferences.  Besides  his  many  other  duties,  he 
wrote  a  great  deal  for  the  Millennial  Star,  the 
Church  organ  in  England.  He  also  took  an  act- 
ive part  in  assisting  in  the  emigration  of  the 
Church  people  to  this  country. 

On  his  return  to  Utah,  he  again  entered  the 
mercantile  business  in  Logan,  in  which  he  con- 
tinued until  he  took  charge  of  the  Ogden  Junction, 
a  daily  paper,  which  he  assisted  in  establishing, 
and  which  he  successfully  conducted  for  seven 
years.  During  his  residence  in  Ogden,  he  served 
in  the  City  Council  for  seven  years,  and  was  also 
High  Counselor  of  the  Stake  of  Zion  in  that 
county.  He  also  served  one  term  in  the  Terri- 
torial Legislature,  from  Weber  county.  In  the 
fall  of  1877  he  located  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  en- 
tered the  editorial  department  of  the  Deseret 
News,  and  served  in  that  department  for  a  num- 
ber of  years. 

In  1884  he  was  again  called  to  serve  on  a  mis- 
sion to  the  British  Isles,  traveling  in  the  interests 
of  his  Church  in  Scandinavia,  Germany,  France 
and  many  other  of  the  European  countries,  at  the 
same  time  doing  a  great  deal  of  writing  for  the 
Deseret  News.  On  his  return  home  he  was  per- 
suaded to  go  to  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1887-S8. 
in  the  interests  of  Statehood.  He  spent  two 
winters  in  the  National  Capital,  using  his  best 
efforts  and  influence  to  secure  Statehood  for 
L'tah,  and  while  his  work  and  influence  did  not 
result  at  that  time  in  securing  the  admission  of 
Utah  as  a  State,  yet  it  did  later  on,  when  in  1896 
the  State  was  admitted.  From  1892  to  1894  he 
had  editorial  charge  of  the  Salt  Lake  Herald,  and 


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through  his  able  and  efficient  management  the 
paper  was  put  on  a  solid  footing. 

After  severing  his  connection  with  the  Her- 
ald, he  was  appointed  assistant  Church  His- 
torian, which  position  he  ably  filled  up  to 
January,  1899,  when  he  took  hold  of  the 
Dcscret  News  as  Editor-in-Chief.  Under  his 
able  management  the  Neivs  is,  year  by  year, 
increasing  in  circulation,  until  today  it  has 
no  peer  in  this  whole  inter-mountain  region. 
It  has  been  under  the  present  management  that 
the  new  Dcserct  Nezvs  building  has  been  con- 
structed. The  structure  is  a  splendid  six-story 
building,  located  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Alain 
and  South  Temple  streets.  It  is  built  of  red  sand- 
stone, a  product  of  Utah,  and  is  conceded  by 
all  the  handsomest,  most  substantial  and  finest 
business  block  in  the  city  or  State,  being  thor- 
oughly fireproof. 

Mr.  Penrose  has  been  thrice  married,  and  bv 
two  of  his  wives  is  the  father  of  twenty-eight 
children,  and  at  the  present  date  is  grandfather 
of  thirty-seven  and  greatgrandfather  of  one. 

In  political  aflfairs,  Mr.  Penrose  has  been  a 
staunch  Democrat  ever  since  that  party  was  or- 
ganized in  this  State.  In  1882-84  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Legislature  from  Salt  Lake 
county.  However,  on  account  of  the  position  he 
fills  with  the  Descret  Nez^'s.  he  takes  no  active  part 
in  politics,  as  the  News  has  always  been  a  strong 
Independent  paper.  Before  the  two  national  par- 
ties were  organized  in  this  State,  Mr.  Penrose 
took  an  active  and  prominent  part  in  the  original 
People's  Party,  having  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Territorial  Constitutional  Committee  from  1872 
to  1882,  and  in  fact  has  been  alive  to  every  issue, 
political,  business  or  ecclesiastical,  which  has 
been  for  the  building  up  of  the  great  State  of 
Utah.  He  has  passed  through  all  the  different 
branches  of  Priesthood  in  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter-day  Saints,  and  is  at  the  present 
time,  and  has  been  for  vears  past,  one  of  the 
Presidents  of  The  Salt  Lake  Stake  of  Zion,  be- 
ing First  Counselor  to  President  Angus  M.  Can- 
non. 

Air.  Penrose  has  indeed  led  an  active  life  from 
the  time  he  was  a  boy  up  to  the  present  time. 
His  life  has  been  an  aggressive  one;  scarcely  a 


moment  has  been  spent  in  idleness.  He  has  trav- 
eled in  every  part  of  the  State  in  the  interests  of 
the  Church — and  the  same  may  be  said  of  his 
active  political  career. 

By  his  long  and  most  honorable  service  in  this 
State  he  has  won  and  retained  the  respect  and 
confidence  of  all  classes  and  creeds,  among  the 
people  of  this  whole  country,  and  whether  in  pri- 
vate, public  or  business  life,  he  is  ever  a  most 
courteous  and  pleasant  gentleman. 


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UX.  DE  GRAY  DIXON.  Among  the 
many  brilliant  examples  of  what  untir- 
ing energy,  undaunted  pluck,  industry 
and  ability  have  achieved  in  Utah,  the 
career  of  the  present  State  Treasurer 
lim  to  a  place  in  the  front  ranks.  Begin- 
ning his  life  work  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  employed 
on  the  brickwork  of  the  walls  of  the  State  In- 
sane Asylum  at  Prove,  he  is  now,  by  virtue  of 
his  office  as  State  Treasurer,  one  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  that  institution. 

John  De  Grey  Di.xon  is  the  son  of  Henry  Al- 
dous  Dixon  and  Sarah  (De  Grey)  Dixon,  tie 
was  born  in  Salt  Lake  Citj-,  July  16,  1867,  and 
when  three  years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to 
Provo,  with  which  town  he  has  ever  since  been 
identified,  both  in  business  and  in  politics. 

His  father,  Henry  Aldous  Dixon,  was  born 
in  Grahamstown,  South  Africa,  of  English  par- 
ents, and  came  to  L^tah  in  1856,  being  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  this  State.  Upon  his  arrival  he 
secured  employment  as  bookkeeper  in  different 
institutions  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  as  secre- 
tary of  the  Provo  Woolen  Mills,  being  the  first 
secretary  of  that  establishment,  and  in  this  em- 
ployment he  remained  for  several  years.  He  also 
served  a  number  of  other  firms  in  a  similar  ca- 
pacity, and  was  connected  with  the  Zion  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution  and  with  the  H. 
Dinwoodey  Furniture  Company  in  Salt  Lake 
City. 

While  in  South  .\frica,  Mr.  Dixon  became  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter- 
day  Saints,  and  upon  his  arrival  in  L'tah  at  once 
took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  Church, 
and   in   the   development   of  the   new  Territory. 


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After  a  residence  here  of  about  three  years,  the 
Church  called  him  to  go  as  a  missionary  to  South 
Africa  and  England,  and  in  that  service  he  spent 
four  years  in  those  countries.  Upon  his  return 
to  Utah,  he  again  took  up  his  work  in  the  Church. 
At  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  about 
eighteen  years  since,  he  was  in  charge  of  the 
Provo  branch  of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercan- 
tile Institution. 

Sarah  De  Grey  Dixon,  wife  of  Henry  Aldous 
Dixon,  and  mother  of  John  De  Grey  Dixon,  was 
born  in  Dudley,  England.  Upon  the  death  of 
her  father,  she  accompanied  her  mother  and  sis- 
ters to  America,  crossing  the  plains  in  the  same 
wagon  train  in  which  her  future  husband  traveled. 
A  few  years  later  she  married  Henry  Aldous 
Dixon,  and  at  the  time  of  this  writing  still  lives 
in  Provo,  Utah  county. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  John  De  Grey 
Dixon,  was  three  years  old,  his  parents  removed 
to  Provo  from  Salt  Lake  City,  and  in  the  former 
city  he  spent  his  boyhood  days.  He  was  a  short 
time  an  attendant  of  the  public  schools,  and  en- 
tered the  Academy  at  its  commencement  and  re- 
mained with  it  until  entering  the  normal  de- 
partment of  the  Brigham  Young  Academy  at 
Provo ;  but,  owing  to  the  departure  of  his  father 
to  England  on  a  second  mission  for  the  Church, 
was  forced  to  end  his  studies  and  earn  his  own 
livelihood.  From  this  inauspicious  beginning, 
by  his  own  merit  and  through  the  exercise  of  un- 
stinted hard  work,  application  and  industry,  he 
has  erected  a  career  that  stands  high  in  the  his- 
tory of  Utah. 

His  first  work  was  in  the  bricklaying  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  a  period  of  four  years, 
during  which  time  he  was  employed  in  erecting 
the  walls  of  the  State  Insane  Asylum  at  Provo ; 
the  Tabernacle,  bank,  theater  and  other  promi- 
nent buildings.  This,  however,  did  not  monopo- 
lize his  entire  attention,  for,  at  the  same  time, 
he  kept  the  books  of  his  employers,  who  were  en- 
gaged in  various  other  enterprises,  requiring  the 
keeping  of  six  entirely  separate  sets  of  books. 

Later  he  was  appointed  secretary  of  the  school 
district,  and  successfully  administered  the  duties 
of  that  position  for  six  years.  He  was  also  clerk 
a  short  time  to  A.  O.  Smoot,  who,  in  addition  to 


being  President  of  the  Utah  County  Stake  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  was 
also  president  of  the  bank  and  president  of  the 
Provo  Woolen  Mills.  Mr.  Dixon,  at  the  instance 
of  Mr.  Smoot,  became  bookkeeper  of  the  Provo 
Lumber  and  Building  Company,  and  this  latter 
position  he  held  for  four  years.  While  in  the 
service  of  this  firm,  he  was  appointed  to  serve 
a  portion  of  a  term  in  the  City  Council  of  Provo, 
and  was  later  elected  to  serve  a  complete  term, 
and  the  ticket  on  which  he  was  nominated  and 
elected  was  the  last  put  forward  by  the  old  Peo- 
ple's Party.  This  was  the  beginning  of  his  po- 
litical career,  and  his  popularity  in  later  con- 
tests was  foreshadowed  by  the  fact  that  he,  with 
but  one  exception,  was  the  only  Republican  mem- 
ber of  the  Council.  His  entire  service  in  the 
City  Council  of  Provo  extended  over  two  terms. 
He  was  elected  by  the  party  in  favor  of  the  instal- 
lation of  the  waterworks  and  in  improving  the 
conditions  of  the  city.  During  his  tenure  of  of- 
fice he  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  these  improve- 
ments, and  aided  largely  in  giving  Provo  its  sys- 
tem of  waterworks,  which  were  secured  at  a  cost 
of  $125,000,  and,  in  addition  to  the  improvement 
of  the  health  and  sanitary  conditions  of  the  city, 
are  finer  and  better  than  those  of  any  city  of  the 
same  size  in  the  entire  country. 

In  the  spring  of  1890,  Mr.  Dixon  resigned  from 
the  service  of  the  Provo  Lumber  and  Building 
Company  and  entered  into  a  partnership  with 
Taylor  Brothers,  in  the  furniture  business,  stove 
and  cookery  business.  This  new  firm  was  lo- 
cated at  Provo,  and  was  so  successful  that  in  the 
following  year  it  was  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  Territory  and  its  scope  of  business  greatly 
enlarged.  Air.  Dixon  was  elected  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  new  corporation,  and  has  contin- 
ued to  hold  these  positions  since  that  time.  Until 
his  election  as  State  Treasurer,  his  entire  time  and 
attention  were  given  to  the  business  of  this  com- 
pany, in  which  he  was  also  a  director,  with  the 
exception  of  two  years — 1896  and  1897 — when 
the  Church  called  him  to  take  up  its  missionary 
work  in  the  Southern  States.  A  portion  of  this 
time  was  spent  in  the  field  in  Virginia,  and  the 
remainder  in  the  Church's  head  office  at  Chat- 
tanooga, Tennessee.     Upon  his  return  from  this 


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successful  mission,  Mr.  Dixon  resumed  his  po- 
sition as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company 
which  he  had  left  at  the  call  of  the  Church,  and 
continued  to  devote  his  time  to  its  needs  until 
nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket  and  elected 
State  Treasurer  in  the  fall  of  1900.  His  popu- 
larity and  strength  had  increased  with  his  years, 
so  that  in  this  contest  his  majority  was  2,000. 
He  carried  his  own  county  by  a  majority  of  820 
votes,  the  average  majority  being  about  three 
h'.mdred.  In  addition  to  this  service  and  the 
terms  in  the  City  Council  of  Provo,  Mr.  Dixon 
was  nominated  and  elected  City  Recorder  of 
Provo,  and  served  one  term,  covering  the  years 
1894  to  1896.  Two  years  later  he  was  nominated 
on  the  Republican  ticket  for  County  Clerk,  and 
after  a  vigorous  campaign  was  defeated  by  the 
bare  margin  of  eighty-eight  votes.  The  strength 
he  developed  in  this  contest  practically  led  to  his 
nomination  and  subsequent  election  as  State 
Treasurer  in  1900. 

Throughout  his  political  career,  Mr.  Dixon  has 
always  been  a  Republican,  since  the  organization 
of  the  party  in  Utah.  When  that  party  was  first 
formed  in  this  State,  he  was  one  of  its  most  ar- 
dent supporters,  and  is  numbered  among  its 
prominent  members,  both  as  a  worker  and  as  a 
counselor. 

In  the  church  of  his  choice,  he  has  taken  an 
active  and  prominent  part,  and  is  now  one  of  the 
High  Priests.  At  the  time  of  his  election  to  the 
office  of  State  Treasurer,  he  was  President  of  the 
Utah  County  Stake,  before  its  separation  into 
the  three  divisions  which  now  compose  it.  He 
has,  in  addition,  always  taken  a  leading  and  prom- 
inent position  in  the  work  of  the  Young  Men's 
Mutual  Improvement  Association,  and  aided  ma- 
terially in  the  development  of  that  organization. 
I'tsides  his  work  in  the  Church  and  his  duties 
Z'S  State  Treasurer,  he  is  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  State  Insane  Asylum  at  Provo 
and  a  director  of  the  Utah  National  Bank  in  Salt 
Lake  City. 

Mr.  Dixon  was  married  in  the  temple  at  Manti 
to  Sarah  Lewis,  daughter  of  Bishop  William  J. 
Lewis,  Bishop  of  the  Provo  Third  Ward,  and 
has  five  children,  four  sons — Henry  Aldous,  John 
\\'illiam,   who   died    at    the    age   of  twenty-one 


months ;  Stanley  Lewis,  Rulon  Sterling — and  one 
daughter — Maude. 

The  position  which  Mr.  Di.xon  has  achieved 
has  been  the  result  of  constant  hard  work,  un- 
flinching application  and  untiring  industry. 
He  is  a  self-made  man,  and  has  won  his  place 
by  his  own  merit  and  ability.  His  genial  and 
pleasant  manner  has  added  greatly  to  his  popu- 
larity, and  he  is  held  in  high  regard  by  all  the 
citizens  of  Utah. 


D.  WOOD.  The  settlement  of  the  West 
and  its  reclamation  from  a  wilderness 
has  been  the  theme  of  many  writers, 
whose  tales  of  adventure,  hardships  en- 
dured, difficulties  successfully  sur- 
mounted, and  wealth  acquired  from  the  wonder- 
ful deposits  of  valuable  minerals  or  from  the  suc- 
cessful management  of  vast  ranches  stocked  with 
uncounted  herds  of  cattle,  have  charmed  all  minds 
in  the  enjoyment  of  the  picturesque  fiction 
founded  on  fact.  This  great  work  of  civilization 
was  not  conducted  like  a  victorious  army  return- 
ing with  banners  flying  and  drums  beating,  but 
with  the  plodding,  ceaseless  work  of  an  army  of 
pioneers  working  on  the  same  general  plan,  actu- 
ated by  the  same  necessity  of  forcing  adverse  nat- 
ural conditions  to  serve  their  ends  and  hewing 
their  way  to  the  setting  sun  in  spite  of  all  ob- 
stacles ;  blazing  their  path  with  their  life  blood 
and  oftentimes  marking  their  final  battle  with  a 
bleaching  pile  of  bones  in  the  desert  wilderness. 
It  was  essentially  a  battle  of  life  in  which  the 
fittest  survived,  and  called  for  an  exhibition  of 
courage  of  the  highest  type,  unshaken  faith  in 
their  own  ability  to  succeed  and  endurance  of  a 
type  that  almost  passes  human  understanding. 
Through  all  these  trials  successfully  passed  J.  D. 
Wood,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  by  his  side, 
aiding,  comforting,  rejoicing  in  his  successes  and 
sympathizing  in  his  failures,  was  his  worthy  wife, 
an  ideal  helpmeet,  to  whom  he  freely  accords  her 
rightful  share  of  the  credit  for  his  successful 
career.  Self-educated,  sen-made,  learning  deeply 
and  well  from  the  daily  book  of  life's  experiences 
and  deriving  knowledge  from  any  and  all  sources, 
no  matter  how  humble,  he  is  now  in  the  foremost 


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ranks  of  the  wealthy  men  of  Idaho  and  Utah, 
and  his  fame  has  spread  all  over  the  West  as 
"the  sheep  king  of  Idaho."  Hand  in  hand  with 
his  accession  of  wealth  and  power  has  gone  his 
interest  in  the  development  of  the  West,  and  the 
present  prosperous  condition  of  the  mining  and 
commercial  resources  of  Utah  and  of  Idaho  as 
well,  bears  the  stamp  of  his  influence  and  abil- 
ity. 

He  was  born  in  Mercer  county,  Missouri,  in 
1841,  and  spent  his  early  life  on  his  father's  farm 
in  that  State,  deriving  what  education  he  could 
from  the  crude  district  schools  that  then  existed 
in  Missouri.  His  father  was  a  farmer,  and  fol- 
lowed surveying  with  considerable  success,  and 
his  mother  was  a  native  of  Tennessee.  Her  father 
was  a  lawyer  of  considerable  prominence  in  that 
State,  and  a  man  of  influence  in  his  community. 
He  mysteriously  disappeared  while  crossing  the 
Missouri  river  with  a  large  sum  of  money.  He 
had  compiled  the  laws  of  Arkansas,  to  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  Legislature,  and  after  drawing  his 
salary  started  on  horseback  from  l^ittle  Rock  for 
the  Missouri  river,  and  was  never  afterwards 
heard  from.     He  was  then  seventy  years  of  age. 

Our  subject  early  started  upon  his  business 
career,  buying  and  shipping  live  stock  from  IMis- 
souri  to  Chicago  and  other  centers  of  Illinois,  in 
which  business  he  remained  until  his  departure 
for  Montana,  in  1864.  At  that  time  the  discov- 
ery of  valuable  minerals  in  the  West  was  en- 
gaging the  minds  of  the  enterprising  young  men 
of  the  country,  and,  believing  in  the  greater  pos- 
sibilities of  the  new  country,  Mr.  Wood  disposed 
of  his  business  and  started  for  the  new  fields.  He 
arrived  at  Virginia  City,  August  30,  1864,  and 
at  once  engaged  in  placer  mining  in  the  Alder 
Gulch,  and  in  the  following  spring  to  Blackfoot, 
Montana,  where  he  again  engaged  in  min- 
ing. The  latter  part  of  1865  and  the  year  1866 
he  spent  at  Deer  Lodge,  in  that  State,  famous  at 
that  time  for  its  placer  mines.  Here  he  again 
carried  on  mining  operations  until  his  removal  to 
bear  Town,  Montana,  and  devoted  his  time  to  the 
prosecution  of  this  industry  until  his  removal  to 
Leesburg,  Idaho,  in  1866.  He  remained  in  the 
latter  place  until  1878,  being  actively  connected 
with  all  the  industries  of  that  State  and  partici- 


pating in  the  building  up  of  that  town.  He  next 
removed  to  what  is  now  Custer  and  Fremont 
counties,  where  he  engaged  in  placer  and  quartz 
mining,  and  devoted  considerable  attention  to  the 
smelter  business.  His  success  paved  the  way 
for  greater  enterprises  and  enlarged  his  field  of 
operations,  and  realizing  the  opportunities  af- 
forded by  the  commercial  needs  of  Idaho  and 
Utah,  and  by  the  extensive  operations  in  the  cat- 
tle business,  he  engaged  in  stock  raising  in  Idaho, 
and  established  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Company, 
now  the  largest  live  stock  company  in  that 
State.  He  later  established  the  Wood  Gro- 
cery and  Produce  Company  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
This  latter  establishment  has  grown  to  the  satis- 
factory prosperity  it  now  enjoys  through  the 
able  management  of  Mr.  Wood  and  his  connec- 
tions, he  being  president  of  the  company  and 
owning  the  majority  of  its  stock.  Since  his  en- 
trance into  the  commercial  life  of  Utah,  he  has 
made  Salt  Lake  City  his  headquarters,  and  has 
in  the  course  of  his  residence  in  Utah  become 
largely  interested  in  many  mining  properties  in 
dii?erent  parts  of  the  State.  He  is  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Inter-Mountain  Ice  Company,  the 
largest  establishment  of  its  kind  in  the  inter- 
mountain  district,  and  which  has  grown  to  be 
one  of  the  prosperous  industries  o^^  Salt  Lake 
City.  In  Idaho  his  enterprises  have  been  as  large 
as  in  Utah,  and  the  Wood  Live  Stock  Company 
of  that  State  is  the  largest  in  Idaho,  there  be- 
ing over  one  hundred  thousand  head  of  sheep 
on  his  ranches.  Besides  being  the  principal 
owner  of  this  company,  the  Wood  Grocer  Com- 
pany and  the  Inter-Mountain  Ice  Company  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  he  is  also  largely  interested  in 
the  principal  mine  of  Utah,  the  Daily  West,  be- 
ing vice-president  of  the  company  which  oper- 
ates that  valuable  property,  which  now  pays  sixty 
thousand  dollars  a  month  in  dividends  to  its 
stockholders.  He  is  also  a  director  and  officer 
in  many  other  smaller  mines,  and  in  all  his  in- 
vestments has  been  so  successful  as  to  suggest 
the  possession  of  Midas'  magic  touch. 

Throughout  the  days  of  the  early  settlement  of 
the  West,  Mr.  Wood  was  active  in  the  work,  and 
participated  in  many  of  the  troubles  with  the 
Indians  and  outlaws  and  renegade  whites.     Dur- 


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ing  1877  he  was  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness, shipping  goods  into  Idaho  from  the  Mis- 
souri river.  On  the  journey  across  the  great 
American  plains  the  wagon  trains  were  often  at- 
tacked by  the  Indians  and  outlaws ;  the  team- 
sters and  guards  killed,  the  wagons  looted  of 
their  contents  and  the  teams  stolen.  During 
1875-77  there  was  an  insurrection  of  Joseph  in 
Idaho,  and  the  Indians  captured  one  of  Mr. 
Wood's  wagon  trains,  murdering  the  drivers  and 
stealing  and  burning  the  entire  train  and  con- 
tents as  it  passed  Birch  creek  on  its  way  to  Idaho. 
Mr.  Wood,  Ex-Senator  Shoup  and  two  of  his 
associates  secured  horses  and  saddles  and  fol- 
lowed the  trail  of  the  outlaws  for  five  days.  The 
following  year  word  reached  him  that  a  train 
was  about  to  be  attacked  by  the  Indians,  and  Mr. 
Wood  and  five  men,  after  a  forced  march  with- 
out resting  day  or  night,  arrived  on  the  scene 
the  night  before  the  attack.  In  the  morning  the 
Indians  opened  fire,  and  in  the  first  battle  Shoup's 
partner,  McCaleb,  was  killed.  The  rest  of  the 
party  successfully  repulsed  the  attack,  and  mak- 
i;ig  breastworks  of  the  contents  of  the  train,  suc- 
cessfully withstood  numerous  attacks  and  finally 
drove  the  Indians  off.  These  Indians  were  later 
captured  by  Colonel  Miles,  now  Lieutenant-Gen- 
eral  and  commanding  the  Army  of  the  United 
States.  Upon  another  occasion  in  these  trouble- 
some days  of  1864,  Mr.  Wood  was  in  charge  of 
the  herd  from  the  Missouri  river,  which  trip 
lasted  sixty-four  days  and  nights,  and  during  this 
time  they  had  several  skirmishes  with  Indians, 
who  captured  their  mules  and  horses.  Nothing 
daunted,  Mr.  Wood  alone  followed  the  band  for 
two  days  and  nights,  finally  taking  the  horses  and 
mules  which  they  had  stolen.  The  enormous  de- 
mand for  provisions  and  the  necessaries  of  life, 
then  so  scarce  in  the  West,  made  the  contents 
of  these  wagon  trains  worth  their  weight  in 
gold.  Flour  was  readily  bartered  for  one  hun- 
dred and  ten  dollars  a  sack,  potatoes  were  held 
at  forty  cents  a  pound  and  tobacco  brought  seven 
and  a  half  dollars  a  pound,  and  matches  were 
quoted  at  one  dollar  a  box.  Few  men  have  par- 
ticipated so  actively  in  the  work  of  civilization 
now  so  well  accomplished  in  the  West  as  has 
Mr.  Wood.. and  few  have  more  ably  carried  to 


completion  tasks  which  seemed  impossible  than 
has  he.  Through  all  these  trials  he  exhibited 
the  same  indomitable  will,  undaunted  courage 
and  energy  that  has  brought  him  such  success  in 
his  present  career. 

Mr.  Wood  was  married  at  Challis,  Idaho,  in 
1S82  to  Mrs.  Catherine  E.  Murphy,  who  had  two 
sons  by  her  former  husbands.  These  two  boys 
were  educated  by  Mr.  Wood,  and  are  now  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  business  enterprises  with 
him,  one  of  them  being  the  manager  of  the  Wood 
Live  Stock  Company  in  Idaho  and  the  other  giv- 
ing his  attention  to  business  interests  of  Mr. 
Wood  in  Utah.  They  are  both  married  and  have 
already  demonstrated  by  their  ability  that  they 
will  achieve  success  in  their  callings  and  be 
among  the  leading  men  of  their  respective  com- 
munities. 

Mrs.  Wood  was  born  in  Vienna,  Austria,  com- 
ing to  the  LTnited  States  at  the  age  of  eighteen, 
and  was  married  to  her  first  husband,  Frank 
Hagenbarth,  in  Denver,  Colorado,  in  1864. 
Throughout  1865  she  was  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  but  early  in  1866  moved  to  Montana,  and 
in  the  fall  of  that  year  went  from  there  to 
Idaho.  In  1867  her  husband  died,  leaving  her  to 
continue  her  fight  in  the  world  and  to  provide 
for  her  two  children.  Nothing  daunted  bj''  the 
tremendous  odds,  she  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  she  successfully  conducted  a  hotel.  Here 
she  met  her  second  husband,  and  they  were  mar- 
ried in  1868.  Her  marked  business  ability  led 
her  to  retain  her  hotel  business,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  she  moved  to  Challis,  Idaho,  where  she 
successfully  conducted  a  similar  business,  mean- 
while maintaining  her  eldest  son  in  school  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  Since  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Wood 
she  has  been  an  ideal  wife,  and  has  taken  an  act- 
ive interest  in  his  success  and  has  done  her  share 
of  the  work  in  his  various  enterprises.  When 
Mr.  Wood  first  started  in  the  stock-raising  busi- 
ness, Mrs.  Wood  accompanied  the  men  to  the 
ranch  and  did  the  cooking  for  twenty-five  men. 
Throughout  her  life,  with  her  husband,  she  has 
been  a  constant  aid  and  support  to  him,  and  to 
her  freely  he  ascribes  a  large  part  of  the  success 
which  has  come  to  him. 

In  political  life,  Mr.  Wood  followed  the  tenets 


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of  the  Democratic  party  until  the  first  administra- 
tion of  President  Cleveland,  and  left  the  party 
at  that  time  owing  to  its  adherence  to  free  trade, 
which  almost  prostrated  the  wool  business  of 
the  Western  States.  Since  that  time  he  has 
thrown  his  influence  on  the  Republican  side,  and 
has  been  a  staunch  adherent  of  that  party.  Mr. 
Wood  joined  the  Masonic  lodge  in  Idaho  in  1876, 
and  has  attained  the  ranks  of  Knights-Templar. 
He  now  holds  his  membership  in  Salt  Lake 
City. 

Mr.  and  ]\Irs.  Wood  hav;  one  daughter,  Cas- 
sandra, at  this  time  a  student  in  the  public 
schools. 

The  present  prominent  position  which  Mr. 
Wood  occupies  in  the  financial  world  as  well  as 
the  commercial  and  mining  circles  of  Utah,  has 
been  the  result  of  his  own  industry  and  applica- 
tion, and  today  no  man  enjoys  a  higher  confi- 
dence and  esteem  of  his  fellow-men  than  does 
he.  His  magnificent  home  on  Brigham  street  is 
one  of  the  finest  residences  in  this  region. 


EBER  C.  KIMBALL.  Next  in  impor- 
tance to  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  and 
President  Brigham  Young  in  the  lead- 
ership of  the  Mormon  Church,  stands 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Heber  C. 
Kimball,  one  of  the  Apostles  and  the  founder  of 
the  British  mission  of  the  Mormon  Church.  He 
was  one  of  the  early  converts  to  the  doctrines  of 
that  Church,  and  by  his  influence  and  personality, 
by  his  strenuous  life  and  by  the  accomplishment 
of  almost  impossible  tasks,  made  for  himself  a 
name  that  shines  forth  like  a  bright  star  in  the 
illustrious  work  of  the  leaders  of  Mormonism. 
Whatever  may  be  opinions  as  to  the  merits  of 
this  religion,  or  as  to  the  course  which  they  have 
pursued,  there  can  be  no  question  but  that  the 
men  who  have  guided  and  directed  its  efforts 
and  built  it  from  its  beginning  of  fifty  years  ago 
to  its  present  populous  and  powerful  position, 
are  among  the  men  who  have  brought  Utah 
to  its  present  standing.  Their  leadership  has 
been  marked  by  the  highest  type  of  execu- 
tive and  administrative  ability,  and  their  suc- 
cess in  encountering  and  overcoming  difficulties 
ties,  entitles  them  to  a  high  place  in  the  ranks 


of  those  who  have  conquered  the  West.  The 
faith  which  they  held  in  their  religion  imbued 
them  with  great  endurance  and  perseverance, 
and  sustained  them  in  any  and  all  adverse  con- 
ditions. As  a  leader  in  the  Church,  Heber  C. 
Kimball  was  without  doubt  one  of  its  most  prom- 
inent men,  and  in  the  development  of  Utah  and 
the  bringing  together  of  the  right  people  for 
the  proper  development  of  the  different  parts  of 
the  State,  he  was  especially  distinguished.  He 
was  one  of  the  early  members  of  the  Church,  and 
was  through  all  the  trials  with  the  members  in 
Illinois  and  Missouri,  and  in  W'inter  Quarters 
near  Council  Bluffs,  and  later  made  the  terri- 
ble journey  across  the  great  American  plains. 
His  life  here  was  one  constant  battle  with  na- 
ture and  savage  man,  in  the  effort  to  bring  forth 
from  the  wilderness  sustenance  for  his  family. 
The  trials  that  the  pioneers  underwent  he  shared 
to  the  fullest  extent ;  the  lack  of  food,  the  loss 
by  the  depredations  of  the  Indians,  the  drought, 
and  the  visitation  of  plagues  of  insects  he  suc- 
cessfully combatted  and  rounded  out  a  wonder- 
ful career  in  the  new  home  of  the  Church.  At 
his  death,  so  prominent  had  be  become  that  serv- 
ices were  held  in  all  the  Alormon  churches 
throughout  the  State,  and  as  a  mark  of  esteem 
the  City  Council  of  Salt  Lake  ordered  all  the  city 
buildings  closed  and  work  suspended  during  the 
obsequies. 

Heber  Chase  Kimball  was  born  in  Sheldon, 
Franklin  county,  Vermont,  ten  miles  from  Lake 
Champlain,  June  14,  1801.  He  was  a  native  of 
the  same  region  from  which  came  Ethan  Allen, 
the  hero  of  Ticonderoga,  and  in  later  years 
Joseph  Smith  and  Brigham  Young.  He  was  the 
fourth  child  and  second  son  in  the  family  of  Sol- 
omon Farnham  Kimball,  a  native  of  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  had  been  born  in  1770.  His 
father  was  a  man  of  "good  moral  character,"  and 
although  professing  no  religion,  taught  his  chil- 
dren the  principles  of  right  and  wrong  and  the 
observance  of  the  Golden  Rule.  His  wife,  Anna 
(Spaulding)  Kimball,  the  mother  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  was  a  strict  Presbyterian,  and 
reared  her  children  accordmg  to  the  doctrines  of 
that  church.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Speedy   Spaulding,   and   was  born   in   Plainfield, 


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New  Hampshire,  on  the  banks  of  the  Connecti- 
cut river.  The  Kimball  family  were  of  Engflish 
descent. 

Our  subject's  fourth  crreat-f^randfather  and 
brother  came  from  England  to  America  in  1634, 
settling  in  Massachusetts.  In  America,  our  sub- 
ject's ancestors  and  those  of  the  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith  were  related  by  marriage.  Heber  Chase 
Kimball  was  named  after  Judge  Chase,  of  Massa- 
chusetts, by  whom  his  father  had  been  reared 
from  a  boy,  and  who  chanced  to  visit  his  former 
protege  a  short  time  after  his  son  was  born.  The 
christening  was  proposed  by  the  Judge,  and  he 
suggested  the  name  of  Heber  Chase  Kimball 
for  the  infant.  Judge  Chase,  though  learned 
in  the  law,  was  also  equipped  with  a  trade  upon 
which  he  could  fall  back  in  case  of  adversity  or 
in  case  that  the  necessity  arose  that  he  should 
earn  his  own  living.  He  was  by  trade  a  black- 
smith, and  taught  our  subject's  father  that  trade, 
and  when  the  latter  was  married  assisted  him  to 
establish  his  smithy  hi  the  town  of  Sheldon.  At 
the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War  our  subject's 
father  was  thirteen  years  of  age.  He  often  re- 
hearsed to  his  children  the  scenes  through  which 
he  passed  in  those  trying  times  throughout  his 
boyhood.  He  was  later  a  captain  of  a  militia  com- 
pany in  Sheldon,  and  was  also  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  clearing  land,  turning  the  wood  into  coal 
and  ashes,  and  also  had  a  forge  and  trip  ham- 
mer and  manufactured  wrought  iron.  He  was 
engaged  in  this  work  down  to  the  time  of  the 
second  war  with  England,  and  as  a  result  of  the 
embargo  imposed  by  President  Madison,  the 
property  of  the  Kimballs  was  entirely  lost, '  in- 
vested as  it  was  in  salts,  potash  and  pearlash, 
which,  with  the  abandonment  of  commerce  be- 
tween the  United  States  and  England,  threw  this 
property  on  the  owner's  hands  and  rendered  it 
valueless. 

The  Kimball  family  continued  to  reside  in 
Sheldon  until  February,  181 1.  when  they  re- 
moved from  \'ermont  and  settled  in  West  Bloom- 
field,  Ontario  county,  New  York,  five  hundred 
miles  from  their  former  home,  and  here  our  sub- 
ject's father  again  took  up  the  occupations  of 
farming  and  blacksmithing,  and  also  engaged  in 
building.      He   received   considerable   aid    in   his 


new  venture  from  Judge  Towsley,  of  Scipio,  Cay- 
uga county,  by  whom  he  had  been  employed  for 
several  months  as  foreman  in  the  blacksmith 
s;hop.  The  building  operations  proved  success- 
ful, and  the  attention  to  it  and  the  blacksmith 
business  made  Mr.  Kimball  one  of  the  most 
prominent  men  of  the  country,  employing  eight 
forges  in  the  work  and  supplying  the  country 
with  agricultural  and  mechanical  tools  for  a  dis- 
tance of  fifty  or  sixty  miles  from  his  headquar- 
ters. They  continued  to  live  in  West  Bloom- 
field  throughout  the  War  of  1812.  Their  home 
was  on  the  turnpike,  between  Albany  and  Buf- 
falo, over  which  the  troops  passed  to  and  from 
the  seat  of  action.  The  times  were  flourishing, 
business  and  money  were  plenty,  and  as  almost 
every  man  in  business  became  a  banker,  issuing 
"shin  plasters"  from  one  cent  up  to  five  dollars, 
the  inevitable  result  was  a  deflection  of  the 
currency  and  the  consequent  bankruptcy  of  the 
people.  Air.  Kimball  lost  the  greater  nortion  of 
his.  property  through  this  speculation,  and  was 
forced  to  move  from  his  home.  He  removed  to 
a  site  two  and  a  half  miles  east,  'half  way  be- 
tween East  and  West  Bloomfield,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  farm  near  a  small  lake  called  "Stew- 
art's Pond,"  and  here  again  established  himself 
in  the  blacksmithing  business,  erecting  a  large 
tavern,  barn  and  other  buildings,  and  set  out  an 
orchard  of  various,  kinds  of  fruit  trees.  This 
was  in  1816,  which  year  was  known  as  the  cold 
season,  that  being  the  first  time  that  the  black 
spots  were  seen  on  the  sun.  The  coldness  of  the 
season  ruined  to  a  great  extent  the  crops,  and 
in  the  following  year  the  family  were  in  dire 
distress,  subsisting  for  over  three  weeks  on  milk 
weeds,  which  they  boiled  and  ate  without  salt, 
and  without  bread. 

The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  spent 
in  these  unpropitious  and  adverse  circumstances, 
sharing  alike  with  his  father  and  the  family  in 
prosperity  and  in  adversity.  His  schooling  ex- 
tended from  his  fifth  to  his  fourteenth  year,  and 
was  of  the  quality  usually  found  in  the  primi- 
tive village  schools  of  that  day.  His  education 
was  necessarily  very  limited,  but  he  was  not  an 
ardent  lover  of  books,  nor  were  the  educational 
facilities  of  such  a  nature  as  to  recommend  them 


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to  a  young  and  growing  mind.  He  derived  more 
of  his  knowledge  from  the  lessons  that  his  daily 
life  taught  him  and  from  his  observations  of  na- 
ture. At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  started  to  work 
in  his  father's  blacksmith  shop,  and  continued  at 
that  business  until  nineteen  years  old,  when  his 
father,  having  met  with  further  reverses,  he  was 
again  thrown  upon  his  own  resources  and  was 
forced  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world.  He 
has  been  described  as  a  man  of  "singular  nature, 
composed  as  it  was  of  courage  and  timidity ;  of 
weakness  and  of  strength ;  uniting  a  penchant 
for  mirth  with  a  proneness  to  melancholy,  and 
blending  the  lion-like  qualities  of  the  leader  with 
the  bashful  and  lamb-like  simplicity  of  a  child." 
After  the  closing  of  his  father's  shop,  his  eldest 
brother,  Charles,  offered  him  a  position  as  an 
apprentice  in  the  potters  trade,  and  with  him  he 
continued  until  he  was  twenty-one,  living  in  Men- 
don,  Monroe  county.  New  York,  six  miles  north 
of  Bloomfield,  where  his  brother's  pottery  busi- 
ness was  established.  Here  our  subject  com- 
pleted his  trade  and  began  work  as  a  journey- 
man, and  six  monbhs  later  purchased  his  broth- 
er's business  and  successfully  conducted  it  for 
upwards  of  ten  years. 

Our  subject  met  his  first  wife  while  engaged 
in  the  pottery  business,  and  on  November  7,  1822, 
they  were  married.  Vilate  Murray,  his  wife,  was 
a  daughter  and  the  youngest  child  of  Roswell  and 
Susannah  Murray.  She  was  a  native  of  New 
York,  having  been  born  on  June  i,  1806,  in  Flor- 
ida, Montgomery  county,  New  York,  and  at  the 
time  of  her  marriage  was  in  her  seventeenth 
year.  She  proved  to  be  an  ideal  wife  and  help- 
meet to  her  husband,  and  throughout  the  vicis- 
situdes and  triumphs  of  his  life  was  his  com- 
forter and  consoler.  At  the  time  of  his  first 
marriage  our  subject  had  just  passed  his  ma- 
jority. He  followed  the  example  of  his  sires 
and  enlisted  in  the  Independent  Horse  Company 
of  the  New  York  State  Militia,  under  the  com- 
mand of  Captain  Sawyer,  of  East  Bloomfield, 
and  with  this  organization  he  remained  for  four- 
teen years.  In  1823  he  was  admitted  into  the 
ranks  of  the  Masonic  order,  being  a  member  of 
it  at  Victor,  and  in  the  following  year,  with  five 
of  his  fellow  Masons,  petitioned  the  Chapter  at 


Canandiagua,  then  the  county  seat  of  Ontario 
county,  for  the  degrees  up  to  the  Royal  Arch. 
This  petition  was  favorably  considered,  but  be- 
fore any  action  was  had  upon  it,  the  Morgan  anti- 
Masonic  riot  occurred,  and  the  Masonic  hall,  the 
meeting  place  of  the  Chapter,  was  burned  by  the 
mob  and  all  the  records  consumed. 

Our  subject  continued  his  prosperous  career, 
working  at  pottery  in  the  summer  and  attend- 
ing his  forge  in  the  winter  months.  He  pur- 
chased land,  erected  a  house,  planted  orchards, 
and  was  in  every  way  prosperous.  In  the  spring 
of  1825  he  was  able  to  give  his  father  a  home 
with  him  in  Alendon.  His  mother  had  died  in 
February,  1824,  at  West  Bloomfield,  of  con- 
sumption, her  husband  surviving  her  but  little 
over  a  year,  when  he  too  came  to  his  death  by 
the  same  disease.  Our  subject  had  now  arrived 
at  the  turning  point  of  his  career.  He  was  a 
man  fully  fitted  for  the  duties  and  responsibili- 
ties that  fell  on  the  heads  of  families  and  to  a 
respectable  citizen  of  a  new  and  growing  com- 
munity. His  education  was  but  limited,  and  his 
scholastic  training  of  the  meagerest  description ; 
unlettered  and  untaught,  save  in  the  universal 
university  of  experience,  learning  deeply  and 
well  from  the  every-day  events  of  life,  he  made 
himself  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  West  and 
of  the  United  States,  by  his  indefatigable  appli- 
cation to  the  little  things  of  life.  He  had  been 
reared  in  a  God-fearing  and  religious  family, 
but  had  never  embraced  the  faith  of  his  mother 
or  attended  the  meetings  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  as  a  member.  During  his  residence  in 
Mendon  he  attended  the  Baptist  Church  and  was 
baptized  into  membership  by  Elder  Elijah  Wea- 
ver. He.  however,  did  not  continue  his  member- 
ship in  this  church.  It  was  here  that  he  formed 
his  intimate  friendship  with  his  life-long  col- 
league, Brigham  Young,  which  was  only  severed 
by  death.  The  Youngs,  at  this  time,  in  religious 
life  were  members  of  the  Reformed  Methodists, 
but  being  in  poor  circumstances,  they  were  looked 
down  upon  by  the  prosperous  members  of  the 
flourishing  church  to  which  they  belonged.  They 
were  natives  of  Vermont,  and  had  moved  to  New 
York,  but  had  suffered  greatly  from  sickness, 
sorrow  and  affliction.     Their  condition  appealed 


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strongly  to  the  sympathy  and  Icrve  of  our  subject 
and  his  wife,  and  led  to  the  formation  of  the 
friendship  of  the  families  which  lasted  through- 
out their  life  time. 

The  first  introduction  that  both  Heber  C.  Kim- 
ball and  Brigham  Young  had  to  Mormonism  was 
in  1831,  when,  in  the  winter  of  that  year,  five 
elders  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  came  from  Pennsylvania  to  Victor, 
five  miles  distant  from  Mendon,  and  preached 
the  doctrines  of  their  church.  Their  first  meet- 
ing was  attended  by  our  subject,  and  so  strong 
was  his  belief  that  he  was  immediately  converted 
to  their  teachings.  His  entrance  into  the  Mor- 
mon Church  took  place  in  the  following  year. 
In  January,  1832,  he  and  a  party  of  which  Trig- 
ham  Young  was  a  member,  visited  the  branch  of 
the  Alormon  Church  in  Columbia,  Bradford 
county,  Pennsylvania,  and  shortly  after  their  re- 
turn were  baptized  into  the  church  by  one  of  the 
missionaries  from  Pennsylvania.  This  baptism 
of  our  subject  took  place  April  15,  1832,  Brig- 
ham  Young  having  been  baptized  the  day  before, 
and  two  weeks  after  her  husband  had  been  bap- 
tized his  wife,  \'ilate  Kimball,  was  baptized  and 
made  a  member  of  the  church  by  Joseph  Young. 
The  baptizing  of  these  members  was  followed  by 
the  forming  of  a  branch  of  the  Church  at  ]\Ien- 
don,  and  its  growth  caused  an  uprising  of  the 
people  against  them,  and  was  in  reality  the  be- 
ginning of  the  future  persecution  of  the  mem- 
bers of  this  church.  In  the  following  Septem- 
ber, Brigham  Young's  wife,  Aliriam,  died,  and 
the  two  little  daughters  she  left  behind  were 
cared  for  by  Vilate  Kimball  until  they  removed 
from  Mendon.  In  the  meantime  our  subject  had 
been  ordained  an  Elder,  under  the  hands  of 
Joseph  Young,  and  began  his  active  work  in  the 
ministry  of  the  Church.  He  visited  many  places 
in  Xew  York,  baptizing  new  members  and  build- 
ing up  branches  of  the  Church,  and  labored 
throughout  that  State  until  the  latter  part  of  Oc- 
tober, 1832,  when  he,  in  company  with  Brigham 
and  Joseph  Young,  arrived  at  Kirtland  after  a 
journey  of  three  hundred  miles  by  team.  Here 
they  met  the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1833  Elder  Kimball  disposed  of  all  his 
property  in  Mendon  and  settled  his  affairs  pre- 


paratory to  his  migration  to  the  West.  He  was 
the  only  one  of  his  father's  family  to  become 
convinced  by  the  teachings  of  the  Mormons,  and 
his  action  resulted  in  many  petty  persecutions, 
his  departure  being  hindered  and  delayed  by  a 
number  of  vexatious  and  unjust  law  suits. 

His  family  at  this  time  consisted  of  his  wife 
and  two  children,  William  Henry  and  Helen 
Marr.  He  had  two  children  dead,  Judith  Marvin, 
an  elder  daughter,  and  Roswell  Heber,  a  younger 
son.  Brigham  Young  and  his  two  motherless 
daughters  traveled  in  the  same  wagon  with  the 
Kimball  family  to  Kirtland,  and  upon  their  ar- 
rival there  late  in  October,  they  first  occupied  a 
house  belonging  to  Elijah  Smith,  but  the  indus- 
try of  our  subject  soon  provided  a  home  of  his 
own,  which  he  continued  to  share  with  Brigham 
Young  until  the  latter  procured  a  house  for  him- 
self. The  opposition  which  this  new  Church  had 
incurred  was  augmented  upon  the  arrival  of 
these  new  members,  and  throughout  Ofiio  and 
in  Missouri  the  public  temper  was  violently  stir- 
red against  them.  The  members  of  the  Church 
in  Jackson  county,  Missouri,  suflfered  great  per- 
secutions, about  twelve  hundred  members  being 
driven  from  their  homes,  their  houses  plundered 
and  burned  and  some  of  the  people  killed.  The 
uprising  at  Kirtland  had  but  begun  to  be  organ- 
ized, and  as  yet  no  active  demonstrations  had 
been  made  against  them. 

The  next  work  which  our  subject  undertook 
for  the  Church  was  in  the  expedition  which  left 
Kirtland  early  in  ]\Iay,  1834,  to  recover  the  prop- 
erty of  the  members  of  the  Church  in  Jackson 
county,  Alissouri,  from  whence  they  had  been 
driven  by  the  uprising  of  the  people  of  that  Sate. 
This  company  numbered  about  one  hundred,  and 
were  divided  into  companies  of  twelve  each,  and 
captains  appointed  for  each  of  the  sub-divisions. 
After  a  long  and  arduous  trip  across  forests  and 
prairies,  they  arrived  in  Missouri  with  a  con- 
siderably augmented  command.  The  camp  here 
was  attacked  with  the  dreadful  scourge  of  chol- 
era, sixty-eight  of  the  members  suffering  that 
disease,  and  fourteen  of  them  dying.  On  the 
30th  of  June  of  that  year  Elder  Kimball  started 
for  home,  and  arrived  in  Kirtland  on  July  26th, 
where  he  found  his  family  in  good  health  and 


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prosperous  circumstances.  From  that  time  on 
our  subject  was  actively  engaged  in  tlie  work 
of  building  up  the  Church's  membership  and  in 
erecting  suitable  buildings  in  Kirtland,  until  June 
13,  1837,  when  he  was  unanimously  chosen  to  be 
the  head  of  the  missionary  party  sent  to  labor  in 
Great  Britain.  This  was  the  foundation  of  the 
work  which  has  been  carried  on  in  that  kingdom 
by  the  Church,  and  which  has  grown  to  such  pro- 
portions that  at  present  they  have  large  offices 
in  Liverpool,  London,  and  in  fact  in  all  impor- 
tant centers  throughout  that  kingdom.  The  work 
which  Elder  Kimball  did  there  in  overcoming  the 
opposition,  in  making"  converts,  in  building  up 
the  tolerance  of  feeling  and  in  securing  emi- 
grants for  America,  has  never  been  duplicated 
by  any  other  man  in  any  work,  no  matter  of 
what  nature.  His  success  there  was  but  a  con- 
tinuation of  his  work  in  America,  and  marked 
him  as  one  of  the  leading  men  of  this  new  re- 
ligion. He  traveled  extensively  all  over  England, 
preaching  and  establishing  missions  wherever  he 
went,  and  encouraging  new  members  and  giving 
aid  and  sustenance  to  his  associates  in  the  work. 
He  converted  and  baptized  eighteen  hundred  peo- 
ple into  the  Church  during  eight  months'  labors, 
and  on  his  second  mission  baptized  one  thousand 
people.  He  returned  to  the  United  States  in 
1838,  and  arrived  in  New  York  in  May  of  that 
year.  After  a  short  stay  in  the  East,  he  con- 
tinued his  journey  to  Kirtland,  arriving  there  on 
May  22nd,  a  little  less  than  a  year  from  the  time 
he  departed  for  Europe.  He  remained  there  but 
a  short  tiiTK,  and  on  July  ist  of  that  year  com- 
menced his  journey  with  his  family  and  about 
forry  others,  to  the  Missouri  river,  arriving  at 
P'ar  West  on  July  25th,  and  in  August  of  the 
following  year  the  opposition  of  the  people  of 
ll'.al  State  to  the  Mormons  was  fully  demon- 
strated by  the  attempt  to  prevent  them  from  vot- 
ing at  the  election.  From  this  time  on  they  were 
persecuted  and  oppressed  in  every  conceivable 
manner,  and  their  lives  were  constantly  in  dan- 
ger. The  fall  and  winter  of  1838  was  one  of  the 
darkest  in  the  history  of  this  Church.  On  the 
one  hand  was  the  violent  spirit  of  the  public,  and 
in  the  ranks  of  the  Church  dissensions  occurred, 
which  threatened  to  overthrow  it. 


On  November  1st  of  that  year  Far  West  was 
surrounded  by  a  force  of  seven  thousand,  claim- 
ing to  be  the  regular  militia  of  Missouri,  and  the 
work  which  the  members  of  the  Church  had  done 
and  the  property  which  they  had  improved  was 
lost  entirely  to  them,  and  shortly  after  they  were 
forced  to  leave  Missouri  and  take  up  their 
residence  in  Winter  Quarters,  now  known  as 
Florence,  Nebraska.  The  times  which  followed 
are  too  well  known  to  be  introduced  into  this 
work,  and  forms  too  important  a  chapter  in  the 
history  of  the  LTnited  States  to  have  failed  to 
hold  the  attention  of  every  person  who  is  at  all 
familiar  with  the  history  of  this  country. 
Throughout  all  these  troublesome  times  our  sub- 
ject was  ever  at  the  head  and  front  of  the  move- 
ment, looking  after  the  protection  of  his  people, 
and  caring  for  their  interests.  After  the  killing 
of  the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  and  his  brother, 
Hyrum,  the  leadership  of  the  Church  devolved 
upon  Brigham  Young,  who  chose  for  his  right- 
hand  man  Heber  C.  Kimball.  The  settlement  at 
Nauvoo  was  abandoned,  and  the  members  of  the 
Church,  under  Trigham  Young  and  Heber  C. 
Kimball,  were  led  to  the  West. 

At  this  time  a  call  for  the  Mormon  battalion 
was  made,  and  Brigham  Young  and  our  subject 
were  among  the  prominent  recruiting  sergeants. 
The  subsequent  journey  across  the  plains  to  Salt 
Lake  and  the  trials  which  the  first  pioneers  passed 
through,  forms  a  chapter  in  the  history  of  the 
West  which  is  a  familiar  one  to  all  of  the  pres- 
ent generation.  Throughout  this  time,  aiding 
in  the  development  of  the  agricultural  resources, 
assisting  in  the  establishment  of  mercantile  pur- 
suits and  aiding  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  Churcn 
to  which  he  had  chosen  to  devote  his  life,  our 
subject  was  always  prominent.  Shortly  after  his 
arrival  here,  the  First  Presidency  was  re-organ- 
ized, and  Heber  C.  Kimball  was  elected  one  of 
its  members.  He  also  held  the  office  of  Chief 
Justice  and  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Deseret,  later 
the  Territory  of  Utah,  and  now  the  State.  He 
was  also  a  prominent  member  of  the  militia,  and 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  building  of  the  Salt 
i-,ake  Temple,  laying  the  corner  stone  of  that 
edifice.  During  the  famine  of  1856  he  was  looked 
upon  by  his  people  as  a  second  Prophet,  and  by 


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his  advice  and  counsel  saved  many  of  his  peo- 
ple from,  death  by  starvation  by  saving  up  thou- 
sands of  bushels  of  grain  and  distributing  it 
among  them.  This  year  witnessed  the  great 
"Hand  Cart"  expedition,  and  the  loss  of  a  large 
number  of  members  of  that  party  and  the  exer- 
tions made  by  President  Kimball  and  his  sons  in 
their  behalf  is  well  known. 

Throughout  his  daily  life  and  until  his  death 
on  June  22.  1868,  he  was  one  of  the  trusted 
members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter- 
day  Saints,  and  one  who  was  looked  upon  as 
one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  State.  He  was 
a  thorough  and  sincere  believer  in  the  doctrines 
of  the  Church  and  the  principle  of  plural  mar- 
riage. He  had  sixty-five  children,  and  his  de- 
scendents  now  number  over  five  hundred.  His 
wife,  Vilate,  whom  he  had  cherished  and  loved 
from  the  very,  time  of  their  marriage  in  1822, 
down  to  her  death,  one  year  before  his  own,  was 
ever  a  loyal  and  devoted  helpmeet,  and  one  who 
by  her  aid  and  counsel  was  a  pillar  of  strength 
to  him.  At  the  death  of  President  Kimball  his 
funeral  was  one  of  the  largest  that  has  ever  been 
held  in  Utah,  and  the  universal  respect  shown 
to  his  memory  by  the  closing  of  the  municipal 
offices  of  Salt  Lake,  the  gatherinsr  of  the  mem- 
bers in  their  meeting  houses  to  hold  funeral  serv- 
ices throughout  the  State,  marked  his  demise  as 
a  loss  from  which  the  Church  would  undoubtedly 
suffer  heavily,  and  his  life  as  one  which  could  but 
be  illy  spared.  The  life  which  President  Kim- 
ball lived  in  Utah  marked  him  as  one  of  the  lead- 
ing members  of  the  Church,  and  also  as  one  of 
the  most  prominent  men.  The  example  which  he 
set  and  the  work  he  accomplished  has  been  a 
shining  light  for  the  guidance  of  his  posteritv ; 
and  several  of  his  sons  are  now  among  the  in- 
fluential men  in  this  city  and  prominent  in  the  af- 
fairs of  the  Church. 


OLONEL  WILLIAM  MONTAGUE 
Ferry.  Among  the  many  prominent 
mining  men  in  Utah,  who  are  devel- 
iiping  the  mineral  resources  of  the 
State,  there  are  none  who  occupy  a 
higher  rank  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch.     He 


has  had  a  remarkable  career.  A  gallant  soldier, 
serving  with  distinction  throughout  the  Civil 
War,  a  respected  citizen  of  his  native  State,  and 
a  leader  of  people,  he  came  to  Utah  and  has 
thrown  his  whole  heart  and  soul  into  the  work 
of  building  up  the  State.  His  mining  operations 
have  been  eminently  successful,  and  he  was  one 
of  the  owners  of  the  famous  Quincv  mine  at 
Park  City. 

Colonel  Ferry  was  born  at  Michilimackinac, 
}ilichigan,  on  July  8,  1824.  He  was  the  eldest 
son  of  Rev.  William  M.  Ferry,  a  prominent 
Presbyterian  clergyman  of  Michigan,  who  es- 
tablished in  1820  and  for  several  years  main- 
tained a  mission  at  Mackinaw.  The  mother  of 
our  subject  was  Amanda  (White)  Ferry.  The 
family  remained  at  the  birthplace  of  their  son 
until  1834,  when  they  removed  to  Grand  Haven, 
Michigan,  and  Colonel  Ferry  is  now  the  oldest 
living  white  settler  of  Ottawa  county,  Michigan, 
and  made  his  home  there  until  he  removed  to 
Utah  in  1878.  He  early  started  in  life  to  earn  his 
own  living,  acquiring  the  trade  of  a  machinist 
and  engineer,  and  successfully  established  the 
Ottawa  Iron  Works.  He  attained  a  wide  repu- 
tation as  an  inventor  and  accomplished  draughts- 
man. So  prominent  had  he  become  in  the  af- 
fairs of  his  native  State  that  in  1856  he  was 
elected  one  of  the  regents  of  the  University  of 
Michigan. 

L'pon  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  in 
1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Fourteenth 
Michigan  Volunteers,  and  served  with  the  Union 
forces  throughout  the  war.  Shortly  after  his 
enlistment  he  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln 
a  Captain  and  Commissary  in  the  subsistance  de- 
partment. His  position  brought  him  into  close 
contact  with  the  shortcomings  of  the  army  ra- 
tions, and  early  in  1862  he  made  a  report  to  Gen- 
eral W.  S.  Rosecrans,  presenting  in  a  forcible 
manner  the  lamentable  condition  of  the  army,  in 
the  field  and  in  the  hospitals,  owing  to  the  fail- 
ure of  the  regular  army  rations  to  provide  for 
the  sick  and  the  wounded.  He  also  vigorously 
condemned  the  (sutler)  system  as  a  scheme  to 
rob  the  soldiers.  This  rep>ort  was  approved  by 
General  Rosecrans,  but  owing  to  the  army  sys- 
tem he  was  powerless  to  institute  a  remedy,  and 


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the  General  assured  Captain  Ferry  that  anyone 
attempting  such  an  innovation  would  be,  without 
doubt,  "cashiered"  and  summarily  dismissed 
from  the  service.  So  great  was  his  sympathy  for 
the  wounded,  the  sick  and  the  dying,  that  Cap- 
tain Ferry  assumed  the  responsibility  himself 
and  ordered  from  the  Xorth  and  paid  for  with 
Government  funds,  by  commuting  the  ration, 
which  in  lieu  of  the  regular  army  rations,  the 
sick  in  the  camp  and  the  hospitals  could  receive 
food  suitable  to  the  regaining  of  their  health  and 
to  the  maintenance  of  their  comfort.  His  first 
monthly  report  which  he  submitted  to  the  War 
Department  in  \\'ashington,  in  which  this  innova- 
tion was  included,  was  emphatically  and  abso- 
lutely condemned.  Captain  Ferry,  nothing 
daunted,  replied,  stating  the  need  of  such  action 
and  asked  for  leniency  until  the  results  demon- 
strated the  adequacy  of  this  radical  change,  prov- 
ing at  the  same  time,  that  by  this  system  of 
commutation  the  exp'enses  to  the  Government 
would  be  limited  to  the  cost  of  the  existing  army 
rations.  This  argument  proved  effective  and,  al- 
though his  action  did  not  then  receive  formal 
sanction,  he  was  permitted  to  continue  in  the 
course  he  had  adopted. 

In  1863  Captain  Ferry  was  assigned  to  duty 
on  the  staff  of  General  James  B.  McPherson, 
commanding  the  Seventeenth  Army  Corps  of  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee,  and  during  the  siege 
of  Vicksburg,  in  which  ninety  thousand  men  par- 
ticipated on  the  Federal  side,  and  the  Confed- 
erate forces  amounted  to  about  the  same,  the 
surrounding  country  having  been  entirely  de- 
vastated, he  was  ordered  by  General  Grant  to 
provide  at  Vicksburg  as  he  had  at  Corinth  the 
year  before  and  make  such  additions  and  changes 
in  the  rations  as  was  necessary  for  the  health  of 
the  army.  This  system  of  commutation  of  ra- 
tions introduced  by  Captain  Ferry  has  now  been 
included  in  the  regulations  of  the  army  and  has 
received  the  formal  approval  of  Congress.  Cap- 
tain Ferry  being  specially  recognized  as  the  origi- 
nator of  the  system.  The  "sutler"  system  was 
abolished  and  at  the  present  time  any  member 
of  the  United  States  army,  or  their  families,  may 
now,  by  requisition,  receive  any  form  of  food  in 
lieu  of  the  regular  ration,  in  whole  or  in  part. 


Upon  the  cessation  of  hostilities.  Colonel 
Ferry  was  mustered  out  of  service  and  again 
took  up^  his  residence  at  Grand  Haven,  Michigan. 
In  politics  he  had  been  a  consistent  Democrat,  of 
the  Jacksonian  type,  and  in  1870  was  the  candi- 
date of  that  party  for  Congress.  He  was  also 
Secretary  of  the  National  Democratic  Conven- 
tion held  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  of  which 
James  Lyon,  of  Virginia,  was  President,  and 
which  nominated  Charles  O'Conor  for  President 
and  John  Q.  Adams  for  Vice-President.  In  this 
same  year  Colonel  Ferry  was  the  Democratic  can- 
didate for  Governor  of  [Michigan,  but  did  not 
succeed  in  his  election.  In  1873  Governor  Bag- 
ley  appointed  him  one  of  the  members  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention  to  form  a  new  Con- 
stitution for  Michigan.  Three  years  later  our 
subject  was  elected  Mayor  of  Grand  Haven  and 
in  1878  he  removed  to  Utah  and  at  once  took  an 
active  interest  in  the  development  of  the  mining 
properties  of  the   State. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  became  an  active 
member  of  the  old  Liberal  party  and  in  1888  was 
chosen  to  represent  Utah  on  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee,  for  the  four  years  ending  in 
1892.  The  Liberal  party  not  making  any  nomi- 
nations to  the  Fiftieth  Congress,  he  was  nomi- 
nated for  that  office  on  the  Democratic  ticket, 
but  was  defeated  by  John  T.  Caine,  the  candidate 
of  the  People's  party.  His  ability  and  wide  ex- 
perience had  brought  him  a  national  reputation, 
and  President  Harrison  appointed  him  one  of  the 
alternate  commissioners  from  Utah  to  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition  held  in  Chicago 
in  1893.  He  is  also  interested  in  educational 
work  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  educational 
work  in  Michigan,  and  the  same  interest  for  that 
work  in  Lftah,  and  is  an  ardent  advocate  of  the 
public  schools.  He  is  now  Vice-President  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Westminster  Col- 
lege of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  known  in  literary 
circles  as  a  writer  of  political  and  historical 
events  in  Michigan,  and  has  contributed  largely 
to  the  current  literature  of  the  day.  His  style 
is  terse  almost  to  the  point  of  brevity,  smooth, 
comprehensive  and  vigorous. 

Colonel  Ferry  was  married  October  29,  1851, 
in  Michigan.     His  wife,  Jeannette  Hollister,  was 


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born  in  Romeo,  Michigan,  and  educated  in  the 
preparatory  school  for  the  Michigan  University, 
but  it  not  being  a  co-educational  school  at  that 
time,  she  was  not  admitted  to  the  university,  and 
graduated  from  a  seminary  in  Rochester,  New 
York.  She  came  to  Grand  Rapids  in  1849  ^"d 
took  a  position  as  principal  of  the  girl's  depart- 
ment of  Saint  Mark's  College  in  that  city.  She 
has  always  been  active  and  influential  in  social, 
literary  and  religious  efforts,  and  was  selected 
as  President  of  the  Industrial  Christian  Home  of 
Utah,  which  position  she  held  for  seven  years. 
She  is  now  \'ice-President  for  Utah  on  the 
Northwestern  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  and 
of  the  Women's  Board  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  for  Home  Missions.  Colonel  and  Mrs. 
Ferry  are  both  members  of  the  Presb}-terian 
Church.  They  have  done  much  to  aid  in  its 
development  in  this  State. 

Colonel  Ferry  is  one  of  the  prominent  men  in 
Park  City,  and  is  as  well  known  in  Salt  Lake 
City  as  he  is  in  the  former  place.  His  genial 
and  pleasant  manner  has  endeared  him  to  all 
with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact. 


\JOR  EDMUND  WILKES. 
Among  the  men  who  have  aided 
in  the  development  of  the  West, 
few  have  taken  as  active  a  part 
as  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He 
has  been  identified  with  all  the  enterprises  that 
have  brought  the  West  to  its  present  standing. 
His  work  ranges  from  the  location  and  develop- 
ment of  mines  to  the  building  of  railroads,  and 
to  the  establishment  of  industries  allied  to  these 
enterprises.  He  is  now  one  of  the  leading  civil 
engineers  of  Utah  and  his  fame  has  spread  all 
over  the  W^est. 

Edmund  Wilkes  was  born  in  New  York  City 
in  1832  and  spent  his  early  life  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  receiving  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
that  city  and  in  Philadelphia.  At  the  early  age 
of  fourteen  he  began  his  life  work  in  civil  en- 
gineering and  secured  employment  in  railroad 
work.  He  later  studied  in  the  schools  of  Cam- 
bridge and  in  1847  went  to  the  Hudson  River 
Railroad  Company,  now  a  part  of  the  New  York 
Central ;  from  thence  to  Central  Ohio,  where  he 


assisted  in  building  the  line  from  Zanesville  to 
Wheeling.  He  was  later  made  Engineer  and 
Superintendent  of  the  Central  Ohio  division  of 
the  Baltimore  and  Ohio.  This  position  he  filled 
from  1854  to  1858.  He  relinquished  this  position 
and  accepted  the  superintendency  of  the  North 
Carolina  railroad  in  that  State.  Here  he  re- 
mained until  1870,  when  he  entered  the  service 
of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Railroad.  So  closely 
had  Mr.  Wilkes  been  identified  with  the  South, 
and  so  thoroughly  had  he  become  imbued  with 
its  principles,  that  during  the  Civil  War  his 
sympathy  and  aid  were  given  to  that  section 
in  that  memorable  fight. 

In  1871  he  came  to  Utah  and  took  charge  of 
the  "Howland  &  Aspinwall"  interests  in  this  city, 
and  since  that  time  has  been  a  resident  of  Utah. 
During  this  time  he  has  assisted  in  the  building 
of  all  the  roads  that  entered  the  western  country, 
making  the  preliminary  as  well  as  the  final  sur- 
vey of, some  of  their  lines.  His  business  has  not 
been  confined  to  Utah,  but  he  has  made  surveys 
for  railroads  throughout  the  entire  West,  and  is 
more  closely  identified  with  the  history  of  the 
establishment  and  growth  of  the  country  and  its 
railroads  than  perhaps  any  other  man  now  liv- 
ing in  the  West. 

Mr.  Wilkes  was  married  in  1854  in  Ohio,  to 
Miss  Bessie  Van  Buren,  a  lineal  descendant  of 
President  \'an  Buren,  and  a  member  of  one 
of  the  oldest  families  of  the  United  States. 
They  have  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters: 
Of  these  children,  Charles  is  established  in 
business  in  Salt  Lake  City;  Gilbert  was  a 
Captain  in  the  L^nited  States  Navy,  but  died 
from  exposure  in  Cuba  about  one  year  ago, 
and  Bessie  (Wilkes)  Styer  is  the  wife  of  a 
Captain  in  the  army.  Mr.  Wilkes  has  now 
seven  grandchildren.  The  Wilkes  family  have 
always  been  prominent  in  the  history  of  the 
United  States,  Mr.  Wilkes'  father,  Charles,  hav- 
ing been  Admiral  in  the  L^nited  States  Navy  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War,  and  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished officers  of  the  navy.  He  was  a  boy 
during  the  existence  of  the  War  of  1812  with 
Great  Britain,  and  witnessed  all  the  scenes  of  that 
conflict,  and  it  was  from  these  experiences  and 
from  his  experience  in  the  Alexican  War  that  he 


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acquired  his  love  for  a  naval  career.  He  also 
commanded  the  United  States  Exploration  Ex- 
pedition around  the  world.  The  grandfather  of 
our  subject  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  and  did  valiant  service  for  his  country  in 
that  conflict.  Mr.  Wilkes'  mother,  Jane  (Ren- 
wick)  Wilkes,  is  also  descended  from  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  families  of  this  country.  Her 
father  and  mother  were  of  Scotch  descent  and 
belonged  to  a  family  distinguished  alike  for  its 
scientific  and  literary  attainments. 

In  addition  to  his  work  as  a  civil  engineer  in 
the  building  of  railroads,  and  in  the  development 
of  mines,  Mr.  Wilkes  has  also  devoted  consider- 
able attention  to  the  upbuilding  of  Salt  Lake 
City.  He  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  Mount 
Olivet  Cemetery  in  this  city  and  in  addition  to 
planning  its  grounds,  is  also  trustee  of  the  com- 
pany which  governs  it.  When  the  Episcopal 
Church  founded  Saint  Mark's  Hospital,  Mr. 
Wilkes  had  much  to  do  in  starting  this.  Both 
he  and  his  wife  are  prominent  niembers  of  this 
Church  and  have  aided  in  the  work  of  its  de- 
velopment in  Utah. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Wilkes  has  never  taken 
an  active  part,  but  believes  in  the  principles  of 
the  Democratic  party.  In  social  life  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  is  also  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Knights  Templar. 

The  successful  career  which  Mr.  Wilkes  has 
made  in  Utah  is  but  the  continuation  of  his 
career  in  the  East.  Coming  here  when  the  State 
had  but  begun  to  feel  the  impetus  given  it  by 
the  influx  of  immigration  and  capital  from  the 
East,  he  has  participated  in  its  development  from 
practically  a  struggling  border  settlement  to  one 
of  the  most  prosperous  States  in  the  West.  His 
hand  has  ever  been  one  of  the  number  that 
guided  the  industrial  and  commercial  develop- 
ment of  Utah,  and  indeed  the  whole  West,  to  its 
present  prosperous  State.  Endowed  with  a 
splendid  physique  and  a  commanding  presence, 
outward  tokens  of  his  strength  of  will  and  de- 
termined character,  Mr.  Wilkes  has  by  his  genial 
manner  gathered  to  himself  the  friendship  of  all 
with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  and  is  today,  in 
addition  to  standine  at  the  head  of  his  profes- 
sion, one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  the  West. 


ILLIA:\I  F.  ARMSTRONG,  the 
president  of  the  Utah  Commercial 
and  Savings  Bank,  was  born  in 
this  city  in  1870.  He  is  the  eldest 
living  son  of  Francis  Armstrong, 
a  native  of  England,  who,  when  a  boy,  emi- 
grated to  Canada  and  spent  his  early  life  there, 
receiving  his  education  in  the  regular  schools  of 
that  country.  His  father  was  a  machinist,  and 
followed  that  trade  during  his  life  in  Canada. 
His  son,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  one  of  the  first  pioneers  who  came  to  Utah, 
reaching  here  in  1856.  He  secured  employ- 
ment upon  his  arrival  in  Utah  in  a  flour  mill, 
then  operated  by  Mr.  Mousley,  and  later  by  Far- 
amorz  Little.  He  later  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business,  and  formed  a  company  known  as  Tay- 
lor, Romney  &  Armstrong  Co.,  which  was  after- 
wards incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  Ter- 
ritory. He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  polit- 
ical affairs  of  the  State,  served  as  Mayor  of  the 
city,  and  was  also  a  County  Commissioner.  His 
wife,  Isabella  (Siddoway)  Armstrong,  the 
mother  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  England, 
and  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Her  father, 
Robert  Siddoway,  was  a  shipbuilder,  and  upon 
his  removal  to  the  United  States  was  employed 
in  bridge  building,  being  employed  in  the  con- 
struction of  a  number  of  the  bridges  of  the  rail- 
roads entering  Utah.  He  was  later  engaged  in 
farming  and  in  the  lumber  business  in  Idaho, 
but  continued  to  make  his  home  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  He  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church.  His  daughter,  our  subject's 
mother,  still  lives  in  Salt  Lake  City,  residing  at 
No.  667  East  First  South  street.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  later  attended  the  Deseret  L'niversity.  Upon 
the  completion  of  his  education  he  entered  the 
stock  business  in  Idaho,  as  manager  of  the  Ros- 
coe  Stock  Company,  and  became  later  interested 
in  the  development  of  L'tah,  and  especial!)'  of 
its  financial  institutions.  He  was  made  teller  of 
the  bank  of  which  he  is  now  president,  suc- 
ceeding to  this  place  on  the  death  of  his  father 
in  1899,  who  then  held  that  office,  having  held  it 
from  its  organization. 

Mr.  Armstrong  was  married  in   1894  to  Miss 


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Edith  Movie,  daughter  of  J.  H.  Moyle.  and  by 
this  marriage  they  have  five  children — Edith, 
Margaret,  Isabel!,  Francis,  and  James. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Armstrong  has  always 
been  a  Democrat,  and  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  the  work  of  that  party,  but  owing  to  his  wide 
business  interests,  has  never  been  an  applicant 
for  public  office,  nor  does  he  desire  any  posi- 
tion in  public  life.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Seventies.  He  is  largely  inter- 
ested in  all  of  the  more  important  commercial 
enterprises  of  Utah,  and  is  vice-president  of  the 
Taylor-Romney-Armstrong  Company,  and  a  di- 
rector of  the  Salt  Lake  Livery  and  Transfer 
Company.  Besides  these,  he  is  a  director  in 
the  Western  Loan  and  Savings  Company,  and 
president  of  the  Blackfoot  Stock  Company  of 
Idaho.  The  bank  of  which  he  is  now  president 
is  one  of  the  sound  financial  institutions  of  Utah, 
and  during  Mr.  Armstrong's  connection  with  it 
has  increased  largely  in  popularity,  and  has 
grown  into  the  confidence  of  the  people. 
Although  but  a  young  man,  he  has  al- 
ready demonstrated  by  the  successful  man- 
agement of  the  business  enterprises  in  which 
he  is  the  directing  spirit  that  he  is  en- 
titled to  a  prominent  position  in  the  business 
world  of  the  West.  He  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  trusT  of  the  leaders  of  his  church,  and  his 
integrity  and  honesty,  together  with  his  ability 
and  industry,  have  won  for  him  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  all  the  people  of  the  State. 


RAXKLIN  DEWEY  RICHARDS.  It 
has  been  said  that  men's  lives  are  prac- 
tically alike ;  that  their  careers  may  be 
summed  up  in  the  words  "born,  mar- 
ried and  died,"  and  in  one  sense  this 
is  true,  yet  after  all  it  is  the  filling  in  of  these 
skeleton  mountain-peaks  that  constitutes  the  in- 
dividuality of  the  man,  and  the  one  thing  that 
truly  counts  in  this  world  is  character,  and  the 
character  that  is  of  the  most  value  to  humanity 
is  of  that  stamp  which  is  born  where  the  storm 
and  battle  of  life  rages  fiercest.  The  truly  great 
men  of  our  age,  the  men  of  achievement,   have 


not  been  found  among  the  sons  of  men  of  afflu- 
ence, surrounded  with  every  luxury  and  the 
means  of  carrying  to  perfection  large  plans  for 
the  advancement  of  the  world  and  the  uplifting 
of  humanity ;  in  this  busy,  rushing  epoch  we  are 
prone  to  look  at  the  effect  and  forget  the  cause, 
but  when  we  pause  long  enough  to  inquire  into 
the  secret  of  the  successful  careers  of  our  great 
men.  we  realize  that  in  the  beginning  great  pri- 
vations, sufferings,  persecutions  and  pressing 
need  were  the  spurs  with  which  their  ambitions 
were  encouraged  and  quickened,  and  that  the 
brilliant  life  we  now  gaze  upon,  the  wonderful 
achievement,  are  not  the  growth  of  a  day  nor 
a  year,  but  are  the  accumulations  of  years  of 
earnest,  patient  endeavor,  gathering  here  a  little 
and  there  a  little,  until  we,  gazing  up  the  whole, 
can  only  wonder  and  admire  that  which  is  so  far 
beyond  our  grasp,  and  hundreds  and  thousands 
are  benefited  by  that  life,  without  realizing 
whence  the  help  comes.  Perhaps  no  man  in  the 
history  of  the  Mormon  Church  has  given  himself 
more  wholly  for  the  people  and  to  the  people 
than  did  Franklin  Dewey  Richards,  and  while  he 
has  passed  from  earth's  scenes  and  the  place  that 
once  knew  him  shall  know  him  no  more,  yet, 
through  his  life  of  self-sacrifice  and  ceaseless 
ministration  to  others  his  influence  yet  lives,  and 
will  live  and  be  felt  by  generations  yet  to  come. 

Apostle  Richards  was  born  in  Richmond,  Berk- 
shire county,  Massachusetts,  April  2,  1821,  and 
was  the  son  of  Phineas  Richards,  a  cousin  of 
President  Brigham  Young.  During  the  summer 
of  1836  Brigham  Young,  then  one  of  the  Twelve 
Apostles  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  his  brother 
Joseph  came  to  the  town  of  Richmond  as  mis- 
sionaries and  the  Richards  family  became  in- 
tensely interested  in  the  teachings  and  doctrines 
of  the  new  sect,  studying  the  Book  of  Mormon 
and  attending  the  preaching  services  of  the  two 
brothers.  As  a  result  of  this  trip  the  father  and 
mother  of  our  subject,  as  well  as  himself  and 
two  uncles.  Willard  and  Levi  Richards,  were 
converted,  although  our  subject  was  not  baptized 
until  two  years  later,  when  his  father  on  the 
3rd  of  June,  1838,  performed  that  ceremony.  His 
brother  George  and  his  two  uncles  had  at  that 
time  joined  the  Mormon  colony  in  Ohio  and  at 


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the  time  of  our  subject's  baptism  were  migrating 
from  the  latter  State  to  Missouri. 

In  the  fall  of  1838  he  bade  farewell  to  such  of 
his  kindred  as  yet  remained  in  Massachusetts, 
and  started  for  Far  West,  Missouri,  only  to 
arrive  upon  the  scene  after  the  fearful  battle 
had  been  waged  in  which  many  of  the  Mormons 
lost  their  lives.  Among  the  slain  was  his  brother 
George,  although  he  was  not  aware  of  that  fact 
as  he  stood  gazing  with  heavy  heart  upon  the 
ruins  of  what  had  been  the  headquarters  of  the 
people  with  whom  his  life  was  henceforth  to  be 
cast.  He  joined  the  remnant  of  the  Church  the 
following  May  in  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  there  first 
met  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  At  Xauvoo,  in 
April,  1840,  he  was  ordained  a  Seventy  and  sent 
upon  a  mission  to  Northern  Indiana,  where  he 
made  a  number  of  converts.  At  the  town  of  La 
Porte  he  met  the  family  of  Isaac  Snyder,  who  had 
been  converted  to  Mormonism,  in  Canada,  and 
had  come  that  far  on  their  journey  towards  Nau- 
voo.  Owing  to  the  unhealthy  climate  and  the 
arduousness  of  his  duties.  Air.  Richards  was 
stricken  with  a  severe  illness  at  this  place  and 
the  Snyders  offered  him  the  hospitality  of  their 
home  and  gave  him  every  care  and  attention  until 
he  had  regained  his  health. 

During  this  time  a  strong  attachment  sprang 
up  between  our  subject  and  the  youngest  daugh- 
ter of  the  family,  Jane  Snyder,  which  resulted 
in  their  marriage  in  Xauvoo  December  18,  1842. 
Two  years  later,  in  1844,  Mr.  Richards  was  or- 
dained a  High  Priest  and  called  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Europe.  At  that  time  the  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith  was  a  candidate  for  the  Presidency  of  the 
L^nited  States,  and  on  his  journey  to  the  sea- 
board Mr.  Richards  acted  in  a  semi-political  ca- 
pacity in  the  interests  of  the  Prophet.  He  con- 
tinued his  journey  and  was  about  to  embark 
when  he  was  recalled  to  Nauvoo  by  the  terrible 
tidings  of  the  death  of  Joseph  Smith  in  the  jail 
at  Carthage.  Soon  after  his  return  Mr.  Rich- 
ards filled  a  special  mission  to  Michigan,  during 
which  time  he  raised  means  for  the  completion 
of  the  Temple  at  Nauvoo,  on  which  he  labored 
with  his  own  hands,  doing  much  of  the  carpen- 
tering and  painting.  At  the  time  of  the  exodus 
from  Illinois  he   was  aa;ain  called  on  a  mission 


to  Europe,  and  left  Nauvoo  early  in  July,  sail- 
ing from  New  York  in  the  latter  part  of  Sep- 
tember. Mrs.  Richards  began  the  long  journey 
across  the  plains  with  the  Saints  and  before 
reaching  ]\Iount  Pisgah  gave  birth  to  her  second 
child,  a  son,  named  Isaac  Phineas,  only  a  short 
time  after  her  husband  had  started  on  his  mis- 
sion, and  the  news  of  the  birth  and  death  of  his 
first  son  reached  the  young  husband  just  as  he 
was  on  the  eve  of  sailing.  During  his  absence 
in  the  mission  field  his  only  remaining  child,  a 
lovely  little  daughter,  Wealthy,  also  died,  as  did 
his  brother  Joseph  W. ;  the  latter  in  Pueblo,  Colo- 
rado, while  On  his  way  to  California  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Mormon  battalion. 

Mr.  Richards  landed  at  Liverpool  and  was  at 
once  appointed  to  preside  over  the  Church  in 
Scotland.  He  was  for  a  brief  time  President  of 
the  European  mission,  and  upon  the  arrival  of 
President  Orson  Spencer,  who  succeeded  Presi- 
dent Orson  Hyde  in  the  work,  Mr.  Richards  was 
chosen  as  his  Counselor,  and  subsequently  lab- 
ored in  the  Bath,  Bristol  and  Trowbridge  Con- 
ferences, which  he  reorganized  as  the  South  Con- 
ference. In  company  with  his  brother  Samuel, 
who  had  been  his  co-laborer  on  his  mission,  he 
brought  a  company  of  converts  across  the  ocean, 
sailing  from  Liverpool  on  February  20,  1848,  and 
joined  his  wife,  who  was  waiting  for  him  at  win- 
ter quarters,  and  they  crossed  the  plains  in  com- 
pany with  Presidents  Brigham  Young,  Heber  C. 
Kimball  and  Willard  Richards,  the  newly  created 
First  Presidency,  who  led  the  main  body  of  the 
Church  to  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  that  season.  Dur- 
ing this  trip  Mr.  Richards  had  charge  of  fifty 
wagons. 

They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  October  19th,  1848, 
and  the  following  October  he  started  again  on  a 
mission  to  Europe,  having  been  ordained  an 
Apostle  on  February  12th  of  that  year.  Upon 
reaching  Liverpool  he  relieved  President  Orson 
Pratt,  who  was  in  charge  of  afifairs  at  that  point 
and  established  a  Perpetual  Emigrating  Fund  in 
Europe,  which  prior  to  leaving  home  he  had 
helped  to  institute  in  Utah,  and  in  1852  for- 
warded to  Utah  the  first  company  of  Saints  to 
emigrate  under  its  auspices.  He  and  his  brother 
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during^  this  period  and  under  their  efficient  and 
energetic  supervision  and  labors  Mormonism  rose 
to  the  zenith  of  its  prosperity  in  the  British  Isles. 
It  had  previously  numbered  forty  thousand  con- 
verts in  that  country,  and  between  the  summers 
of  1850  and  1852  the  stupendous  number  of  six- 
teen thousand  baptisms  were  recorded.  They 
also  perfected  the  organization  of  the  confer- 
ences, missions  and  pastorates ;  issued  new  edi- 
tions of  the  Hymn  Book  and  Voice  of  Warning ; 
compiled  the  Pearl  of  Great  Price ;  the  Book  of 
Mormon  was  stereotyped  and  the  business  of  the 
Liverpool  office  doubled.  They  were  also  instru- 
mental in  changing  the  Millennial  Star  from  a 
semi-monthly  to  a  weekly  edition,  and  marking 
out  the  route  of  the  emigrants  so  they  would 
land  at  New  York  instead  of  at  New  Orleans, 
as  formerly,  thus  avoiding  much  sickness  and 
mortality  among  the  passengers. 

Apostle  Richards  returned  to  Utah  in  1852, 
in  time  to  attend  the  special  conference  held  at 
Salt  Lake  City  on  the  28th  and  29th  of  August, 
at  which  the  doctrine  of  plural  marriage  (which 
had  long  since  been  accepted  and  obeyed  by  our 
subject)  was  first  publicly  promulgated.  The 
two  following  winters  he  spent  in  the  Legisla- 
ture. Early  in  1853  he  participated  in  dedicating 
the  Salt  Lake  Temple  grounds  and  laying  the 
corner-stones  of  that  edifice.  In  the  ensuing  sum- 
mer and  fall  he  made  two  trips  to  Iron  county 
to  establish  the  iron  works  projected  by  Presi- 
dent Brigham  Young;  a  part  of  which  arrange- 
ments had  been  completed  by  himself  and  Apos- 
tle Erastus  Snow  while  in  Europe.  During  the 
winter  of  1853-54  he  was  again  requested  by 
the  Presidency  to  prepare  for  work  abroad,  being 
appointed  to  preside  over  all  the  conferences  and 
all  the  affairs  of  the  Church  in  the  British 
Islands  and  adjacent  countries,  which  meant  that 
he  was  expected  to  direct  the  affairs  of  the 
Church  in  the  East  Indies,  Africa,  Australia  and 
New  Zealand,  as  well  as  in  Great  Britain  and  on 
the  continent  of  Europe.  Prior  to  his  departure 
his  uncle.  President  Willard  Richards,  died,  and 
from  that  time  Franklin  Dewey  Richards  was 
looked  upon  as  the  head  of  the  Richards  family. 

During  this  trip  he  organized  the  Saxon  mis- 
sion and  had  the  honor  of  baptizing  Doctor  Karl 


G.  Alaeser,  one  of  the  most  notable  converts  that 
the  European  mission  ever  produced.  His  bio- 
graphical sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 
In  1855  he  leased  the  present  headquarters  of 
the  Church,  No.  42  Islington,  Liverpool,  and 
entered  into  a  shipping  contract  for  the  Mormon 
emigration,  which  proved  most  satisfactory.  Be- 
tween 1854  and  1856  eight  thousand  emigrants 
left  Liverpool  under  his  direction.  He  was  re- 
leased on  July  26,  1856,  by  President  Orson 
Pratt,  who  eulogized  his  work  in  the  columns 
of  the  Millenial  Star  in  the  following  language: 
"A  rapid  extension  of  the  work  of  the  gathering 
has  been  a  prominent  feature  of  his  administra- 
tion, the  last  great  act  of  which — the  introduc- 
tion of  practicing  the  law  of  tithing  among  the 
Saints  in  Europe — is  a  fitting  close  to  his  ex- 
tensive and  important  labors.  We  receive  the 
work  from  the  hands  of  President  Richards  with 
great  satisfaction  and  pleasure  on  account  of  the 
healthy  and  flourishing  condition  in  which  we 
find  it." 

He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  on  the  4th  of  October 
and  the  following  winter  was  again  spent  in 
the  Legislature,  and  he  was  re-elected  a  regent 
of  the  University  of  Deseret,  which  has  since 
become  known  as  the  University  of  Utah.  In 
1857  he  was  elected  and  commissioned  a  Briga- 
dier-General in  the  Utah  militia  and  participated 
in  the  Johnston  army  troubles.  For  a  number  of 
years  thereafter  he  engaged  in  agricultural  and 
milling  pursuits  on  his  own  account,  his  spare 
time  being  given  to  the  public  in  ecclesiastical, 
political,  military  and  educational  pursuits. 

In  1866  he  was  once  more  called  upon  a  Euro- 
pean mission,  and  prior  to  succeeding  Brigham 
Young  Jr.  in  the  Presidency  at  Liverpool,  made 
an  extended  tour  through  the  conferences  and 
missions  of  Europe.  The  work  again  received 
a  strong  impetus  from  his  presence  and  he  once 
more  met  with  signal  success,  baptizing  thirty- 
four  hundred  and  fifty-seven  converts  during  the 
next  twelve  months,  and  emigrating  in  that 
length  of  time  over  twenty-three  hundred  con- 
verts to  Utah.  He  also  at  this  time  inaugurated 
the  change  by  which  steamships  were  substituted 
for  sailing  vessels  in  the  Church  emigration.  On 
his  return  from  this  mission  he  took  up  his  resi- 


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dence  in  Og^den,  under  the  advice  of  President 
Young,  and  acted  for  several  years  as  President 
of  the  Weber  Stake  of  Zion.  He  was  at  Ogden 
two  months  before  the  meeting  of  the  two  rail- 
roads at  Promontory. 

■  In  February  of  that  year  he  was  elected  Pro- 
bate Judge  of  Weber  county,  which  position  he 
held  until  September  25,  1883.  In  January,  1870, 
he  with  others  started  the  Ogden  Junction,  of 
which  publication  he  was  for  a  time  the  editor. 
Judge  Richards'  court  had  both  original  and  ap- 
pellate jurisdiction  m  common  law  and  chancery 
cases  until  the  Poland  law  in  1874,  limited  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  Probate  Courts  in  Utah.  A 
striking  feature  of  his  tenure  of  office  was  the 
fact  that  his  decisions  when  appealed  from  invar- 
iably stood  unreversed  by  the  higher  tribunals. 

In  April,  1884,  he  was  made  assistant  to  the 
Church  Historian,  Apostle  Wilford  Woodrufif, 
whom  he  succeeded  in  1889  as  Historian  and 
General  Church  Recorder.  During  the  greater 
part  of  the  anti-polygamy  crusade,  1884  to  1890, 
he  was  one  of  the  very  few  among  the  Mormon 
leaders  who  were  not  compelled  to  go  into  re- 
tirement, and  during  most  of  that  period  he  pre- 
sided at  the  general  conferences  of  the  Church 
and  gave  advice  and  direction  to  the  Saints  as 
the  visible  representative  of  the  absent  Presi- 
dency. 

The  beginning  of  the  end  came  in  August, 
1899,  when  his  health  failed  and  he  was  compelled 
to  take,  altough  too  late,  the  rest  he  had  hitherto 
denied  himself.  A  trip  to  California  proved  of 
only  temporary  benefit  and  his  spirit  passed  away 
on  December  9th  of  that  year. 

Apostle  Richards  died  as  he  had  lived,  a  poor 
man.  His  entire  life  had  been  literally  given  to 
the  promulgation  of  the  doctrines  and  practices 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  he  had  never  taken 
time  nor  sought  to  acquire  wealth.  He  was  most 
liberal  and  charitable  in  his  belief  and  practice, 
patient  under  trials,  preferring  his  neighbor  be- 
fore himself,  and  winning  the  love  and  devotion 
of  thousands  of  the  members  of  his  own  church, 
as  well  as  the  respect  and  confidence  of  those 
outside  the  fold,  who  while  they  were  not  in  sym- 
patliy  with  his  religious  views,  honored  him  for 
his  staunch  adherence  to  the  principles  which  he 


believed  to  be  right,  and  for  his  upright  charac- 
ter and  unimpeachable  integrity  during  his  official 
and  public  life. 


EORGE  D.  PYPER.  Among  the 
prominent  and  successful  self-made 
young  men  of  Utah,  one  whose  entire 
fe  has  been  spent  within  the  con- 
fines of  this  State,  and  who  has  not 
only  been  identified  with  the  history  of  Salt 
Lake  City  since  his  birth,  but  who  has  also  taken 
an  active  and  prominent  part  in  many  enter- 
prises for  its  development  and  improvement, 
special  mention  belongs  to  George  D.  Pyper,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Pyper  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  i860, 
and  is  the  son  of  Alexander  Crookshank  and 
Christiana  (Dollinger)  Pyper.  The  father  was 
born  in  Scotland  and  came  to  America  as  a 
young  man,  spending  the  latter  part  of  his  life 
in  Utah  and  arising  to  positions  of  prom- 
inence and  influence  in  both  Church  and  State. 
A  full  biographical  sketch  of  his  interesting  ca- 
reer will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Mrs. 
Pyper  was  a  native  of  New  York  State.  She 
came  to  L'tah  in  1859  ^"cl  's  still  living  in  this 
city. 

Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  the  place  of 
his  birth,  and  received  his  education  from  the 
schools  of  the  city  and  Deseret  University, 
which  later  became  the  University  of  Utah.  He 
started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  life  at  the 
tender  age  of  fourteen  years  as  cash  boy  in  the 
grocery  department  of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mer- 
cantile Institution,  during  the  period  his  father 
was  superintendent  of  that  department  in  the 
Constitution  building,  and  attended  night  school 
while  so  employed.  He  remained  in  this  place 
three  years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  received 
the  appointment  of  clerk  of  the  police  court, 
which  position  he  held  continuously  for  fifteen 
years,  during  which  time  he  attended  the  Uni- 
versity and  night  schools,  and  thus  completed 
his  education.  He  was  later  appointed  police 
judge  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  occupied  that  of- 
fice four  years,  his  term  expiring  in  1890.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  interested  in  many  differ- 


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ent  enterprises,  among  them  beinsr  Secretary  of 
the  State  Fair  Association,  manager  of  the 
theater  and  manager  of  the  Home  Fire  insur- 
ance Company,  of  which  Heber  J.  Grant  is  pres- 
ident. Air.  Pyper  has  for  years  been  the  close 
friend  and  business  associate  of  Mr.  Grant,  and 
was  for  a  number  of  years  his  private  secretary. 
He  is  also  manager  and  secretary  of  the  Juve- 
nile Instructor,  one  of  the  leading  church  mag- 
azines published  by  the  Mormon  Church  in  this 
country.  This  magazine  puts  out  some  ten 
thousand  copies  every  number. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Emaretta  Whitney, 
daughter  of  Horace  K.  and  Mary  (Cravath) 
Whitney.  By  this  marriage  they  have  one  son— - 
George  W.  —  and  one  daughter — Emaretta 
Pyper. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Pyper  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Democratic  party  all  the  way  through. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
City  Council,  and  was  during  that  time  the 
youngest  official  in  the   State. 

Mr.  Pyper  is  a  faithful  and  consistent  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  taking  an  active  part  in 
its  work,  and  is  at  this  time  a  member  of  the 
Seventies.  Three  years  ago  he  spent  some  time 
in  missionary  work  in  the  Eastern  States,  in 
company  with  Hon.  B.  H.  Roberts,  and  has  also 
taken  a  lively  interest  in  home  missions.  Per- 
sonally he  is  of  a  most  genial  and  kindly  dis- 
position, courteous  and  a  thorough  gentleman. 
He  enjoys  a  large  circle  of  friends,  not  only 
among  the  people  of  his  own  faith,  but  among 
all  classes,  both  in  business  and  social  circles. 


AMES  JACK.  In  the  administration  of 
affairs  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latterday  Saints,  men  of  brain  and 
ability  are  required  to  properly  care  for 
its  enormous  interests.  To  the  position 
of  Cashier  and  Chief  Clerk  of  the  Trustees  in 
Trust  for  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter- 
day  Saints  has  been  called  a  man  who  by  his 
work  has  proven  himself  to  be  not  only  a  zealous 
worker  for  the  interests  of  the  Church,  but  one 


who  has  taken  a  great  interest  and  a  prominent 
part  in  the  development  of  the  State.  The  present 
satisfactory  financial  condition  of  the  Church  and 
the  growth  of  the  State  in  which  it  make.s  its 
headcjuarters,  are  due  in  a  large  measure  to  the 
able  manner  in  which  he  has  administered  all  the 
tasks  allotted  to  him. 

James  Jack,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  in  Scotland,  in  1829,  and  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  country.  His  early  life  was 
spent  on  his  father's  farm  and  finding  that  work 
uncongenial,  he  secured  employment  in  a  dry 
goods  establishment  in  Perth,  Scotland,  which  he 
retained  until  he  came  to  the  United  States  in 
the  fall  of  1853,  arriving  at  Salt  Lake  in  that 
year.  His  father,  John  Jack,  was  a  successful 
farmer  in  Scotland,  and  followed  that  avocation 
until  his  death  in  the  eighties.  The  mother  of 
our  subject  was  Martha  (Cowper)  Jack,  also  a 
native  of  Scotland. 

L'pon  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  secured  employ- 
ment in  building  the  city  walls,  and  at  this  em- 
ployment he  remained  until  1856,  when  he  entered 
the  Church  offices  as  a  clerk  and  has  held  that 
position  for  over  forty  years,  and  is  now  Cashier 
of  the  Church  and  Chief  Officer  in  Trust.  To 
these  offices  he  was  appointed  in  1861  and  has 
held  them  ever  since.  His  service  of  over  forty 
years  in  this  line  of  church  work  is  a  remarkable 
tribute  to  his  financial  ability  and  integrity.  He 
has  been  a  life-long  member  of  the  Church  and 
is  one  of  its  most  valued  officers. 

Mr.  Jack  married  in  Scotland  Miss  Jemina 
Innis,  a  native  of  that  country,  and  they  have  had 
eight  children,  of  which  number  five  are  living — 
James,  who  died  at  two  years  of  age ;  Jemina, 
who  is  now  the  wife  of  M.  H.  Weight,  Mayor  of 
Pasadena,  California ;  John,  who  died  at  eight 
years  of  age ;  William,  who  has  since  married 
and  is  Superintendent  of  the  salt  works  in  Salt 
Lake  City ;  Jessie,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen ; 
Rollo,  who  is  married  and  resides  in  this  city; 
Jane,  at  home  with  her  parents ;  and  Joseph.  Mr. 
Jack  became  a  member  of  the  Church  in  1851 
and  has  been  an  active  worker  in  its  development 
ever  since.  He  has  also  taken  a  large  interest  in 
the  affairs  of  Utah  and  is  now  Vice-President 
of  the  Salt  Lake  and  Los  Angeles  Railroad,  and 


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in  addition  to  his  large  holdings  of  stock  in  the 
Inland  Crystal  Salt  Company,  is  also  a  director 
in  that  company ;  also  a  director  in  the  Grass 
Creek  Coal  Company  and  the  Saltair  Beach 
Company.  In  addition  to  these  offices  he  has 
been  Treasurer  in  the  following  companies :  The 
Utah  Central  Railroad  Company;  Salt  Lake  City 
Railroad  Company ;  Salt  Lake  City  Gas  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  one  of  the  original  in- 
corporators ;  Deseret  News  Company,  and  the 
Salt  Lake  Theater  Company.  He  was  one  of 
the  original  incorporators  of  the  Utah  Sugar 
Company  and  was  a  director  in  said  company 
until  about  six  months  ago,  when  the  company 
sold  out  a  half  interest.  He  was  Treasurer  of 
Utah  Territory  for  twenty  years  and  during  that 
time  handled  and  was  responsible  for  millions  of 
the  people's  money.  At  each  session  of  the 
Legislative  Assembly  during  that  period  a  com- 
mittee of  five  members  were  appointed,  three 
from  the  House  and  two  from  the  Council,  to 
audit  the  accounts  and  examine  the  vouchers,  and 
in  every  instance  Mr.  Jack's  accounts  were  found 
to  be  entirely  correct,  and  so  reported  to  the 
Legislature.     Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 

The  fidelity  with  which  j\Ir.  Jack  has  dis- 
charged his  duties,  both  in  ecclesiastical  and  civil 
affairs,  has  brought  to  him  a  wide  reputation  for 
integrity,  honesty  and  ability.  His  long  service 
in  the  Church  has  made  him  one  of  its  oldest 
members,  in  point  of  service.  When  he  arrived 
in  Utah  he  took  hold  of  the  first  thing  that  pre- 
sented itself  and  went  to  work  on  the  building 
of  the  city  wall,  and  used  that  as  a  stepping 
stone  in  his  career.  He  is  well  and  favorably 
known  throughout  the  entire  Western  country 
and  has  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  those 
with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact. 


^X.  BRIGHAM  H.  ROBERTS.  Few 
men  in  the  Mormon  Church,  and  especi- 
ally among  its  leaders,  have  won  their 
position  through  as  great  exhibition  of 
hard  work,  constant  application  and  un- 
tiring energy  as  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 


Coming  to  Utah,  as  he  did,  a  young  and  poor 
boy,  he  has  won  his  way  from  the  ranks  of  arti- 
sans and  mechanics  to  the  high  place  he  now  holds 
in  the  office  of  the  Church,  and  so  won  the 
favor  of  the  people  of  the  State  that  he  was 
elected  to  represent  them  in  the  Congress  of 
the  United  States.  His  life  is  one  that  has  been 
filled  with  the  hardest  work  that  man  can  do, 
and  at  the  same  time  he  has  risen  above  his  work 
and  fitted  himself  for  higher  things  by  constant 
study  and  by  the  ability  to  learn  deeply  and  well 
from  any  and  all  sources,  no  matter  how  humble. 
He  is  now  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  Church 
who  represents  well  the  progressive  spirit  of 
Utah.  He  is  identified  in  every  way  with  the 
growth  of  the  State,  with  the  prosperity  of  Salt 
Lake  City  and  with  the  development  of  the  Church 
of  his  choice. 

He  was  born  in  Warrington,  Lancashire,  Eng- 
land, on  March  13,  1857.  When  he  was  nine 
years  old  his  widowed  mother  emigrated  to  this 
country  and  settled  in  L^tah.  His  parents  had 
become  converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  ]\Iormon 
Church  in  England,  and  upon  the  family's  ar- 
rival in  Salt  Lake  Valley,  continued  to  be  faithful 
and  consistent  members  of  that  religion,  rearing 
the  children  in  the  same  principles  that  they  had 
accepted  in  the  old  world.  They  settled  in  Davis 
county  and  in  that  section  of  the  country  the  son 
spent  his  boyhood  days.  Throughout  his  younger 
years  he  worked  as  a  farm  hand,  and  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  was  apprenticed  to  the  blacksmith 
trade  and  worked  in  Centerville,  and  for  some 
years  in  the  mining  camps  of  Utah.  His  educa- 
tion, such  as  it  was,  was  derived,  during  his 
early  days,  from  the  district  schools  of  Davis 
county,  and  he  later  attended  the  Deseret  Univer- 
sity, graduating  from  its  normal  department  in 
1878.  He  then  combined  school  teaching  with 
his  trade  and  worked  at  that  until  he  became 
associated  with  the  Salt  Lake  Herald,  of  which 
paper  he  was,  for  a  time,  editor-in-chief. 

He  was  reared  in  the  Mormon  faith  and,  in 
1880,  was  called  to  go  upon  his  first  mission  and 
represent  the  Church  in  the  Northwestern  States 
of  the  Union,  and  more  especially  in  Iowa.  He 
travelled  in  that  region  for  about  eleven  months, 
working  in  the  interests  of  the  Church,  preach- 


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insT  and  building  up  its  organizations.  He  then 
was  called  to  the  Southern  States  and  remained 
in  that  field  until  June,  1882,  organizing  mis- 
sions and  doing  all  the  work  that  falls  to  the  lot 
of  a  missionary  of  this  Church.  He  returned  to 
Utah  and  took  up  school  teaching  again,  which 
he  followed  until  February,  1883,  when  he  was 
called  to  return  to  the  mission  field  of  the  Church 
in  the  Southern  States  as  the  Associate  President 
of  that  mission,  which  at  that  time  comprised  the 
territory  covered  by  eleven  States.  He  was  as- 
sociated with  John  Morgan,  the  president  of  that 
mission,  and  later,  for  two  years,  held  the  presi- 
dency himself.  He  was  a  firm  believer  in  the 
principles  of  his  religion,  including  the  marriage 
law  of  his  Church,  which  he  obeyed,  and  for  which 
he  was  arrested  in  1886.  The  Edmunds-Tucker 
Act  being  vigorously  enforced,  it  was  considered 
advisable  by  his  friends  and  his  bondsmen  for  him 
to  leave  the  jurisdiction  of  the  United  States,  and 
in  accordance  with  the  policy  of  the  leaders  of  the 
Church,  and  to  avoid  a  conflict  with  the  laws  or 
any  adjudication  of  his  case  at  that  time,  he  went 
to  England  and  from  1886  to  1888  was  employed 
in  that  country  as  assistant  editor  of  the  Millen- 
nial Star,  the  principal  Mormon  publication  in 
Europe.  While  abroad  he  traveled  extensively 
throughout  the  British  Dominions  and  took  an 
active  interest  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  in  that  land.  He  returned  to  Utah 
in  the  late  fall  of  1888,  and  at  the 
conference,  which  was  held  after  his  re- 
turn, was  chosen  one  of  the  Seven  Presi- 
dents of  the  Seventies,  which  position  he  still 
continues  to  fill.  This  is  one  of  the  principal 
governing  bodies  of  the  Church,  and  has  in  charge 
the  propagation  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Church 
and  the  guidance  of  its  missionary  eflforts.  In 
the  following  spring  he  surrendered  himself  to  the 
United  States  courts  and  was  tried,  convicted  and 
sentenced  to  prison  for  four  months  in  the  spring 
of  1889,  for  the  practice  of  plural  marriage,  taught 
as  one  of  the  basic  principles  of  his  religion,  but 
which  was  held  by  the  United  States  courts  to  be 
in  violation  of  the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act.  In  1889 
he  and  John  Morgan  were  called  to  go  on  a  spe- 
cial mission  in  the  Eastern  States  to  endeavor  to 
stem  the  growing  tide  of  the  popular  prejudice 


against  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  to  aid  in  disabusing  the  minds  of  the  peo- 
ple of  the  misrepresentations  against  the  Mormon 
people.  While  absent  upon  this  work  he  secured 
space  in  the  papers  of  New  York  and  Chicago, 
and  ably  represented  the  Mormon  side  of  the 
controversy.  Throughout  the  succeeding  three 
years  he  was  engaged  in  local  missionary  work 
for  the  Church  in  Utah,  and  visited  the  Mormon 
settlements  throughout  Idaho,  Utah,  Wyoming, 
Arizona,  and  as  far  south  as  Mexico  and,  in  fact, 
traveled  extensively  throughout  the  entire  inter- 
mountain  region.  During  this  time  he  was  act- 
ively engaged  in  literary  pursuits,  chiefly  of  a 
theological  character,  writing  able  papers  on  the 
doctrines  of  tne  Mormons.  In  1893  he  was  sent, 
with  Apostle  F.  M.  Lyman,  to  California  to  open 
a  mission  in  the  southern  part  of  that  State,  which 
was  a  very  successful  undertaking.  He  has  al- 
ways taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  politics  of 
L'tah,  and  throughout  the  life  of  the  People's 
Party  was  one  of  its  prominent  members.  When 
the  people  of  Utah  divided  upon  National  political 
lines,  he  allied  himself  with  the  Democratic  party 
and  has  since  been  an  active  participant  in  its 
campaigns.  In  the  campaign  of  1894  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion, which  formed  the  organic  law  of  the  State. 
In  the  first  State  election,  held  in  1895,  he  was  the 
Democratic  nominee  for  representative  to  Con- 
gress, but  went  down  to  defeat  with  his  party. 
He  was  again  its  chosen  candidate  in  1898  and  af- 
ter a  vigorous  campaign,  marked  by  acrimonious 
accusations  and  violent  opposition,  he  was  elected 
by  a  pluralitv  of  nearly  six  thousand  over  his 
Republican  opponent,  having  a  clear  majority  of 
three  thousand  over  all  the  other  candidates 
in  the  field.  The  fact  that  he  had  been  tried  and 
convicted  for  the  violation  of  the  anti-polygamy 
law,  and  for  the  reason  that  he  regarded  his  re- 
lations to  the  wives  that  he  had  married  as  involv- 
ing moral  obligations  which  he  could  not  set 
aside,  caused  him  to  be  made  the  object  of  great 
personal  hostilities  on  the  part  of  the  press  of  the 
entire  country.  When  his  name  was  called  at  the 
opening  of  Congress,  objection  was  made  to  his 
being  seated,  and  after  a  vigorous  test,  Congress 
finally  voted  to  deny  him  his  seat,  on  the  ground 


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that  the  constitution  accorded  each  House  the 
right  to  judge  of  the  qualifications  of  its  own 
members.  This  action  was  looked  upon  as  being 
unconstitutional  by  a  large  part  of  the  Demo- 
cratic membership  of  the  House,  who.  without 
reeard  to  sectionalism  or  religious  feelings,  sup- 
ported Mr.  Roberts  in  his  contention  that  his  cer- 
tificate of  election,  signed  by  the  Governor,  should 
be  recognized  by  the  House  of  Representatives. 
So  large  was  the  Republican  majority  and  so 
strong  had  the  popular  prejudice  become  against 
Mr.  Roberts,  that  the  action  of  the  House  was 
but  in  accord  with  the  popular  feeling,  and  he  was 
denied  his  seat,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  his 
election  had  been  certified  to  by  the  Governor  of 
the  State,  and  that  the  constitution  required  that 
he  should  be  seated  as  Utah's  representative. 

Upwn  his  return  from  his  unsuccessful  attempt 
to  take  his  seat,  he  again  actively  engaeed  in  the 
work  of  the  Church,  and  at  present  is  editing  and 
compiling  a  documentary  history  of  the  Mormon 
Church.  This  is  a  very  large  work,  and  when 
completed  will  consist  of  from  five  to  seven  vol- 
umes. He  has  already  written  many  other  val- 
uable Mormon  works,  notably,  his  "New  Wit- 
ness for  God,"  "The  Gospel,"  "Outlines  of  Ec- 
clesiastical History,"  "The  Missouri  Persecut- 
tions"  and  "The  Rise  and  Fall  of  Nauvoo." 

These  works  may  be  said  to  cover  the  entire 
history  of  the  Mormon  Church  from  the  discov- 
ery of  the  plates  of  Moroni,  to  the  emigration 
of  the  members  of  the  Church  to  the  West,  as 
well  as  the  doctrines  of  the  Church. 

The  career  which  ]\Ir.  Roberts  has  made  for 
himself  stamps  him  as  one  of  the  ablest  men  of 
Utah.  He  is  noted  for  his  oratorical  ability  and 
for  his  sound  reasoning,  as  well  as  for  his  ability 
as  a  writer  and  a  thinker.  He  is-  one  of  the  lead- 
ing men  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  has  done 
much  to  bring  it  to  its  present  high  state  of 
efficient  prosperity.  His  popularity  throughout 
the  State  was  shown  by  the  immense  majority  he 
received  in  his  candidacy  for  Congress.  He  has 
grown  with  the  State,  and  from  a  poor  boy  has 
now  reached  the  position  of  one  of  its  leaders. 
The  credit  for  his  success  is  entirely  due  to  him- 
self and  to  his  untiring  energy  and  the  close  appli- 
cation which  he  has  brought  to  the  work  in  hand. 


TLLIAM  C.  SPENCE.  The  wide 
field  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latterday  Saints,  covering  as 
it  does  the  entire  globe,  requires 
in  the  administration  of  its  efforts 
anil  the  guidance  of  its  development,  a  careful 
man,  of  rare  executive  ability  to  properly  dis- 
charge the  responsible  tasks  which  necessarily 
are  involved  in  the  magnitude  of  the  work.  Their 
large  corps  of  missionaries,  numbering  two  thou- 
sand, now  in  the  field  in  various  parts  of  the 
world,  makes  it  absolutely  necessary  that  the  man 
in  charge  of  the  transportation  affairs  should  be 
thoroughly  experienced  in  all  matters  relating  to 
travel,  by  land  or  water.  This  position  is  at 
present  filled  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and 
so  well  has  he  performed  his  duties  that  he  is 
looked  upon  as  one  of  the  invaluable  officers 
of  this  great  organization. 

W.  C.  Spence  was  born  in  London,  England, 
on  December  3,  185 1,  and  spent  his  early  life  in 
London,  attending  the  schools  of  that  city.  He 
became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  emigrated  to  Utah  in  1864.  Upon 
his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  he  attended  the 
public  schools  then  in  existence,  and  later  en- 
tered Morgan  Business  college,  which  at  that 
time  was  one  of  the  prominent  educational  insti- 
tutions of  Utah.  Upon  leaving  college  he  se- 
cured employment  in  various  capacities  and,  in 
October.  1872.  was  appointed  a  clerk  in  the  head 
office  of  the  Church.  Since  1881  he  has  been  in 
charge  of  all  transportation  matters  pertaining 
to  the  Church.  In  addition  to  the  position  he 
holds  in  the  Church,  in  its  financial  adminis- 
tration, he  is  also  an  active  participant  in  its 
ecclesiastical  work,  and  at  present  holds  the  rank 
of    Elder. 

He  was  married,  in  1876,  to  Miss  Cynthia  A. 
Eklredge.  who  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  the 
ceremony  being  performed  by  President  Joseph 
F.  Smith.  Her  family  were  among  the  first  pion- 
eers to  come  to  Utah,  arriving  in  the  Salt  Lake 
Valley  in  1847.  Her  father,  Elnathan  Eldredge, 
was  a  prominent  man  in  Massachusetts  prior  to 
his  removal  to  Utah  and  upon  coming  to  this 
State  took  an  active  interest  not  only  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  Church,  but  also  in  the  upbuild- 


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ing  of  the  State.  Both  he  and  his  wife.  Ruth  Eld- 
redge,  were  natives  of  Boston,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  was  prominent  both  in  civil  affairs 
and  the  affairs  of  the  Church,  and  remained  a 
consistent  and  faithful  member  of  the  Church 
until  his  death,  thirty  years  ago.  He  was  also 
Water  Master  of  the  City  and  ably  discharged 
the  duties  of  that  office.  While  living  in  Massa- 
chusetts he  was  engaged  in  the  maritime  busi- 
ness and  was  an  experienced  navigator,  owning 
several  ships  and  making  successful  voyages. 
John  Spence,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a 
native  of  Scotland,  being  born  at  Deerness,  Scot- 
land, and  he  had  also  followed  the  sea.  He 
followed  the  sea  for  many  years,  and  was  chief 
officer  of  several  sailing  vessels  and  made  a 
number  of  trips  around  the  world.  His  wife 
and  daughter  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  fall 
of  1866.  The  parents  are  now  both  deceased. 
Marjorie  (Lisk)  Spence,  the  mother  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  was  a  native  of  Scotland, 
having  been  born  in  the  Shetland  Islands.  She 
later  moved  to  London  and  was  there  married 
to  Mr.  Spence.  By  his  marriage  to  Miss  Eld- 
redge,  Mr.  Spence  has  a  family  of  five  children 
living — Luella  M.,  at  present  studying  music 
under  Professor  McLellan ;  J.  Leslie,  employed 
in  the  office  of  the  Auditor  of  the  Oregon  Short 
Line ;  Genevive,  died  at  the  age  of  fourteen ; 
Florence,  Ruth  and  Willard. 

In  the  political  affairs  of  the  City  and  State, 
Mr.  Spence  has  taken  an  active  interest  and  owes 
allegiance  to  the  Republican  party,  and  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  City  Council  in  the 
election  which  occurred  in  November,  1901. 


OLONEL  JOHN  W.  DONNELLAN. 
The  Civil  War  of  the  United  States, 
Ijctwen  the  North  and  the  South, 
which  lasted  for  four  years,  from  1861 
to  1865,  called  for  an  exhibition  of 
undaunted  courage,  endurance  and  steadfastness 
of  principles  that  has  never  been  excelled  by  any 
crisis  in  the  life  of  any  nation  inhabiting  the 
world.  Through  this  fiery  ordeal  men's  souls 
were  tried  to  the  limit  and  those  who  rose  in  it 


to  command  troops  and  emerged  from  the  trial 
with  credit,  have  proved  themselves  in  life,  since 
the  close  of  that  conflict,  to  be  of  the  material 
from  which  master  minds  are  made.  There  has 
been  no  war  in  the  history  of  the  world  which 
was  fought  with  greater  vigor  and  greater  de- 
termination on  both  sides,  than  was  this  memor- 
able struggle.  The  armies  on  both  sides  were 
composed  of  the  same  race  of  men,  with  the  same 
predominant  characteristics,  and  who  fought  with 
the  same  dogged  persistence  and  unyielding  na- 
ture. The  ranks  of  the  North  were  recruited  from 
all  the  country  north  of  "Mason  and  Dixon's 
Line,"  and  from  the  Western  territory.  The  men 
from  the  \\'est  who  engaged  in  that  fight  were 
pre-eminently  fitted  for  the  onerous  tasks  which 
devolved  upon  them.  Their  pioneer  life  in  the 
West  had  inured  them  to  hardships  of  every  kind, 
and  given  them  the  spirit  to  successfully  with- 
stand the  determined  opposition  of  the  South. 
The  record,  which  they  made  in  that  war,  stands 
untouched  by  any  other  nation,  and  the  heroic  ac- 
tions and  long  and  sometimes  fatal  suffering  in 
prison,  and  the  beginning  of  life  anew  after  the 
close  of  hostilities,  was  the  lot  of  most  of  the  men 
who  gave  their  lives  to  the  service  of  the  country 
and  fought  for  the  principles  which  they  con- 
sidered right. 

Few  men  have  had  a  more  remarkable  career, 
or  one  which  has  been  marked  with  greater  cour- 
age and  endurance  and  the  power  to  rise  above 
almost  predominant  adverse  circumstances  and 
compel  them  to  serve  as  stepping  stones  in  the 
building  up  of  their  career  than  has  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  the  present  cashier  of  the  Commercial 
National  Bank  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Colonel  Don- 
nellan  has  participated  in  the  active  work  of  set- 
tling and  civilizing  the  entire  West  and  especially 
the  Rocky  Mountain  region.  He  has  been  largely 
identified  with  the  mineral  resources  of  Colorado, 
Wyoming  and  Utah  and,  in  addition  to  this,  has 
aided  largely  in  the  establishment  and  growth  of 
many  of  the  most  prominent  enterprises  of  the 
inter-mountain  region.  Notwithstanding  his  ar- 
duous services  throughout  the  Civil  War  and  the 
suffering  which  he  has  endured  from  the  wounds 
he  received  then,  he  has  fought  on,  in  spite  of 
physical   suffering,   and   has   carved   for   himself 


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such  a  career  as  makes  him  one  of  the  leaders 
among  the  captains  of  the  industrial  forces  of 
this  region. 

He  was  born  in  Ireland,  June  9,  1841,  but 
when  very  young  his  parents  emigrated  to  the 
United  States  and  settled  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
where  their  son  spent  his  boyhood  days  and  re- 
ceived his  education  from  the  schools  in  that 
city.  He  was  early  at  work  upon  his  business 
career,  and  at  the  age  of  tw'elve  had  already 
started  to  earn  his  own  living.  At  the  age  of  six- 
teen he  came  to  Colorado,  crossing  the  plains  by 
the  only  transportation  then  afforded — the  ox 
teams,  and  arrived  in  Denver  on  July  10,  1859. 
He  is  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Colorado,  and 
was  one  of  the  first  to  engage  in  mining  in  that 
State,  working  in  the  Tarryall  mines  of  Park 
county,  which  were  among  the  first  placer  mines 
to  be  operated  in  that  country.  He  was  engaged 
in  this  employment  at  the  outbreak  of  hostilities 
in  1 861,  and  was  one  of  the  forty  young  men  of 
that  section  who  offered  their  services  to  the 
Union.  He  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  enlisted 
in  Company  C,  of  the  Eighty-third  Ohio  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  participated  actively  in  all  the 
engagements  in  which  that  regiment  took  part. 
He  took  part  in  the  defense  of  Cincinnati  against 
the  Confederate  invasion  and,  after  that  was  suc- 
cessfully repulsed,  his  regiment  was  with  General 
Sherman  at  Memphis  and  also  with  him  when  the 
first  attack  was  made  upon  Vicksburg  in  Decem- 
ber, 1862.  Here  they  were  repulsed  and  the  regi- 
ment was  sent  up  the  Arkansas  River.  In  the 
battle  at  Arkansas  Post,  January,  1863,  Colonel 
Donnellan  was  severely  wounded,  and  for  nearly 
a  year  and  a-half  was  in  the  hospital  on  detached 
service.  At  the  latter  date  he  was  ordered  before 
the  Board  of  army  officers  to  examine  candidates 
for  promotion,  and  was  promoted  from  a  private 
to  Lieutenant-Colonel,  by  President  Lincoln,  and 
assigned  to  the  Twenty-seventh  United  States 
Colored  Infantry,  which  was  one  of  the  two  col- 
ored regiments  from  Ohio,  the  other  being  desig- 
nated as  the  Fifth  United  States  Colored  Infantry 
regiment.  At  the  head  of  his  regiment  he  was 
under  General  Grant.  At  the  battle  of  Hatch's 
Run,  near  Petersburg,  which  took  place  October 
27,  1864,  he  was  again  severely  wounded,  while 


leading  his  regiment,  but  was  able  to  be  in  com- 
mand again  after  the  lapse  of  sixty  days.  He 
then  participated  in  the  battle  of  Fort  Fisher  and 
capture  of  Wilmington,  and  was  also  in  the  latter 
campaign,  headed  by  General  Sherman,  through 
the  Carolinas.  Our  subject  participated  in  the 
last  battle  of  the  war,  at  Bentonville,  North  Caro- 
lina, March  21,  1864,  where  the  L^nion  forces, 
under  General  Sherman,  and  the  Confederate 
forces,  under  General  Johnston,  met  in  battle  and 
practically  ended  the  war  by  the  victory  of  the 
North.  After  the  cessation  of  hostilities.  Colonel 
Donnellan  was  assigned  one  of  the  military  com- 
manders to  occupy  the  country  and  he  was  sta- 
tioned in  the  region  tributary  to  \\'ilmington, 
North  Carolina,  where  he  had  his  headquarters 
and  where  he  remained  until  the  civil  authorities 
were  again  placed  in  control  of  the  city.  After 
leaving  Wilmington,  he  was  in  command  at  Fay- 
etteville,  that  State,  until  ordered  to  be  mustered 
out  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  in  1865,  after  having 
served  throughout  the  whole  four  years  of  this 
war,  with  brilliancy  and  credit.  In  the  fall  of  that 
year,  Mr.  Donnellan  left  the  East  and  returned  to 
Denver,  arriving  in  the  latter  city  on  May  10, 
1866.  He  returned  to  the  mining  camp  which  he 
had  left  to  enter  the  army,  but  was  so  troubled 
with  the  wounds  which  he  had  received  that  he 
had  to  leave  the  mountains.  He,  however,  nothing 
daunted,  returned  in  the  following  year,  but  finally 
had  to  give  up  his  mining  business  and  then  went 
into  railroad  work.  He  moved  from  Denver  to 
Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  in  1867,  and  there  estab- 
lished a  hardware  and  lumber  business.  In  1868 
he  went  into  the  bank  of  Rogers  &  Company,  and 
in  September  of  that  year,  established  the  banking 
house  of  H.  J.  Rogers  &  Company  at  Laramie, 
Wyoming,  the  Colonel  being  the  "company." 

He  continued  in  Wyoming  until  1872,  when  his 
wounds  again  began  to  trouble  him,  and  his  suf- 
fering was  so  great  that  his  recovery  was  de- 
spaired of  and  his  chances  for  life  considered  very 
slim.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of 
Wyoming  during  his  residence  there,  and  in  1869 
was  Treasurer  of  the  Territory.  When  he  recov- 
ered from  his  illness,  caused  by  his  wounds,  he 
removed  to  Denver  and  remained  there  for  four 
years,  returning  to  Laramie,  Wyoming,  in  1876, 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


when  he  was  elected  Probate  Judge,  and  was  also 
made  ex-Officio  County  Treasurer.  He  has  been  a 
Republican  all  his  life,  and  two  years  later  was 
re-elected  to  the  office  of  Probate  Judge  and 
Treasurer.  After  the  expiration  of  his  term  of 
office  in  1880,  he  organized  the  Laramie  National 
Bank  and  was  its  cashier  and  manager  until  he 
came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1889.  He  remained  in 
Wyoming  until  his  health  was  again  impaired,  as 
the  result  of  his  wounds,  and  he  then  removed  to 
Salt  Lake  City  in  1889,  where  he  assisted  in  the 
organization  of  the  Commercial  National  Bank, 
of  which  he  has  ever  since  been  cashier  and  mana- 
ger, making  his  home  in  this  city.  He  has  taken 
a  very  prominent  part  in  all  the  affairs  of  the 
State,  and  for  six  years  was  a  regent  of  the  L'ni- 
versity  of  Utah,  and  for  the  last  six  months  of  his 
term  was  Chancellor.  He  served  as  president  of 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce  during  its  existence, 
and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  influential 
and  able  business  men  in  the  entire  inter-mountain 
region. 

Colonel  Donnellan  married,  in  Denver,  to  the 
daughter  of  Colonel  James  McNasser  and  Mary 
McNasser.  Col.  McNasser  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent and  influential  men  of  that  city.  By  this  mar- 
riage he  has  four  children — John  Tilton,  at  pres- 
ent in  California ;  Kenneth,  Olive  and  Edna.  Col. 
Donnellan  is  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  and 
was  the  first  department  commander  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  for  the  Department  of 
Colorado  and  Wyoming.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Society  of  Pioneers  of  Colorado,  the  member- 
ship of  which  is  limited  to  the  people  who  came 
to  Colorado  between  1859  and  1861. 

Colonel  Donnellan  is  not  only  one  of  the  most 
successful  business  men  of  the  West,  and  one  of 
the  most  influential  men  in  Salt  Lake  City,  but  he 
has  made  a  remarkable  career.  His  brilliant  war 
record  has  been  fully  equalled  by  the  record  he 
has  made  in  commercial  life.  The  wounds  he 
received  in  action  at  the  head  of  his  regiment 
were  enough  to  ordinarily  bar  any  man  from 
active  participation  in  business  life,  but  notwith- 
standing this  serious  drawback,  and  the  illness 
which  has  resulted  from  these  old  hurts.  Colonel 
Donnellan  has,  with  persistency  and  rare  energy, 
applied  himself  to  his  business,  so  that  he  now 


enjoys  one  of  the  leading  positions  of  the  West. 
He  is  one  of  the  most  genial  men  and  one  of 
the  most  popular  in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  position 
which  he  has  won  for  himself  has  been  the  result 
of  his  own  efforts  and  has  come  to  him  through 
the  exercise  of  rare  persistency  and  an  application 
of  an  unusual  degree.  He  started  in  life  at  the 
early  age  of  twelve  years,  and  with  the  inde- 
pendence and  adaptability  for  which  his  race  is 
noted,  has  climbed,  rung  by  rung,  to  the  highest 
point  of  the  ladder  of  commercial  enterprise  and  at 
the  same  time  has  brought  with  him  the  friendship 
of  everj-  person  with  whom  he  has  come  in  con- 
tact ;  and  today  there  is  no  more  popular  man 
throughout  the  West,  not  only  with  his  own  busi- 
ness associates,  but  with  the  entire  rank  and  file  of 
the  citizens  of  Utah,  than  is  Colonel  Donnellan. 


EORGE  N.  DOW.  In  the  administra- 
tion of  the  affairs  of  L^tah,  there  are 
many  difficult  and  exacting  duties 
which  demand  rare  tact  and  executive 
ability  of  a  high  order  in  their  dis- 
charge. Chief  among  these  is  the  office  of  War- 
den of  the  State  Penitentiary,  which  is  success- 
fully administered  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
George  N.  Dow,  the  son  of  Gilman  and 
Sarah  E.  (Currier)  Dow,  both  natives  of  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  in  that  State  in  1839.  Gil- 
man  Dow  was  engaged  in  farming  in  New 
Hampshire  and  held  office  in  the  militia  of  that 
State.  He  died  when  our  subject  was  but  ten 
years  of  age. 

The  boyhood  days  of  his  son,  George  N.  Dow, 
were  spent  on  the  farm.  His  father's  death  re- 
quired the  lad,  when  but  twelve  years  of  age,  to 
begin  life  and  earn  his  own  living.  Finding  op- 
portunities in  the  New  England  States  less  num- 
erous and  less  promising,  he  emigrated  to  Ten- 
nessee and,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  began  his  career 
in  railroading.  He  secured  employement  on  the 
Louisville  &  Nashville  railroad,  of  which  D.  W. 
C.  Rowland  was  then  general  manager,  and  rose 
from  brakeman  through  the  intermediate  steps  of 
baggage  master  and  freight  master,  to  be  a  pas- 
senger conductor. 
In  few  things  has  the  progress  of  the  last  half 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


of  the  nineteenth  century  been  so  marked  as  in 
that  of  transportation.  At  the  time  Mr.  Dow 
started  railroading,  the  old  wood-burning  engines 
were  at  the  height  of  their  popularity,  telegraph 
orders  were  in  their  infancy,  the  roads  consisted 
mainly  of  but  single  tracks,  and  both  equipment 
and  tracks  were  crude  and  had  not  yet  begun  to 
reach  the  position  now  accorded  them  in  the 
ranks  of  the  railroads  of  the  world.  The  con- 
ductor of  a  train  was  a  position  requiring 
a  far  greater  exercise  of  ability  and  knowl- 
edge than  is  now  the  case  in  the  per- 
fected system  of  transportation  throughout  the 
country.  Mr.  Dow  remained  in  the  railroad  busi- 
ness for  fifteen  years,  spending  that  time  in  the 
service  of  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  railroad  in 
Tennessee,  Kentucky,  and  Alabama.  During  the 
Civil  War  he  was  engaged  in  the  running  of  trains 
for  this  company.  He  ran  trains  between  Louis- 
ville, Kentucky,  and  Xashville,  Tennessee,  and 
took  the  last  train  across  the  river  before  the 
burning  of  the  bridges  by  the  Confederate  forces. 
He  was  in  Nashville  when  the  Federal  troops  suc- 
cessfully carried  Fort  Donnelson  and  went  out 
with  the  engineer  regiment  which  was  engaged  in 
restoring  the  tracks  and  bridges  destroyed  by  the 
Confederates.  Later  he  returned  to  his  position 
of  conductor  and  was  in  charge  of  the  first  train 
attacked  by  the  guerrillas  in  the  fighting  which 
followed  the  termination  of  hostilities.  This  train 
he  successfully  defended  and  ran  it  through  with 
but  the  loss  of  one  man. 

In  1862,  he  returned  to  the  East  and  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Lawrence,  Massachu- 
setts, but  at  the  urgent  request  of  Mr.  Rowland, 
the  general  manager  of  the  Louisville  and  Nash- 
ville railroad,  soon  returned  to  the  service  of  that 
company,  transferring  his  grocery  business  to  his 
brother.  For  the  next  six  years  he  ran  trains  be- 
tween Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  Nashville,  Ten- 
nessee. His  health  giving  away  under  the  strain 
of  the  work,  he  again  left  the  service  of  the  rail- 
road and  returned  to  his  home  in  the  East,  where 
he  remained  until  1882^  when  he  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City. 

LTpon  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  was  made  warden 
of  the  then  United  States  Penitentiary,  which 
consisted    of    two    old    adobe    houses.      The    en- 


tire grounds  of  the  institution,  at  the  time  he  as- 
sumed charge,  covered  but  one  acre,  surrounded 
by  walls  of  adobe.  The  capacity  of  the  prison 
was  greatly  overtaxed,  there  being  thirty  pris- 
oners in  each  building,  added  to  which  the  sys- 
tem was  crude  and  the  accommodations  insuffi- 
cient. This  position  he  held  for  four  years,  and 
when  the  administration  changed  in  1886,  he  re- 
signed his  office.  During  his  incumbency,  the 
work  of  improving  and  enlarging  the  penitentiary 
and  making  its  accommodations  sufficient  for  the 
demands  made  upon  it,  were  begun.  The  adobe 
houses  gave  way  to  structures  of  stone,  commen- 
surate with  the  dignity  of  the  State,  and  the 
grounds  were  greatly  enlarged  and  improved. 
It  was  during  this  period  that  the  Edmunds- 
Tucker  Act  was  so  vigorously  enforced  and  so 
many  of  the  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latterday  Saints,  including  the  Presi- 
dent of  that  Church,  were  sentenced  to  the  peni- 
tentiary for  the  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this 
law.  Mr.  Dow,  by  virtue  of  his  position  as 
warden,  was  brought  into  close  contact  with 
these  people,  and  he  bears  testimony  to  the  will- 
ingness with  which  they  met  conditions  in  the 
penitentiary,  and  to  their  obedience  to  its  rules. 
This  is  all  the  more  remarkable  from  the  fact 
that  Mr.  Dow  is  not  a  member  of  that  Church, 
and  from  the  fact  that  these  imprisonments  were 
regarded  as  persecutions  for  the  following  of  their 
religious  beliefs  by  the  men  who  were  imprisoned. 

Upon  his  resignation  of  the  wardenship,  Mr. 
Dow  engaged  in  the  sheep  industry  on  a  large 
scale  and  also  became  interested  in  mining  opera- 
tions, in  both  of  which  industries  he  is  at  present 
identified. 

When  Utah  was  admitted  into  the  L^nion  in 
1896,  he  was  reappointed  warden  of  the  peniten- 
tiary and  has  continued  to  discharge  the  duties  of 
that  position  ever  since.  He  again  took  up  the 
work  of  improving  the  facilities  of  that  insti- 
tution and  in  providing  the  State  with  a  peniten- 
tiary corresponding  to  its  needs  and  dignity.  All 
the  improvements  which  have  ben  made  since 
that  time  have  been  under  his  personal  direction, 
and  the  development  of  the  system  of  discipline 
and  of  the  humane  treatment  of  the  prisoners 
have  been  his  own  work. 


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103 


Mr.  Dow  was  married  in  Massachusetts  to  Miss 
Alice  I.  Shetler,  a  native  of  \'ermont,  and  has  two 
children — one  son,  George,  who  is  employed  in  the 
penitentiary,  and  a  daughter,  Florence. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Dow  has  always  taken  an  active 
part  and  believes  in  the  principles  of  the  Republi- 
can party.  He  has  been  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Masons  for  a  number  of  years  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  order. 

A  genial  manner  and  a  kindly  nature,  coupled 
with  his  industry  and  tact,  has  made  Mr.  Dow 
one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  State,  and  has 
brought  him   wide  and  lasting  popularity. 


AJOR  GEORGE  M.  DOWNEY. 
Among  the  bankers  and  business 
men  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  Utah, 
few  are  more  highly  respected 
or  hold  a  higher  position  in  the 
cunlidcnce  of  their  fellow-men,  than  does  the  pres- 
ent President  of  the  Commercial  National  Bank 
of  this  city,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who,  in 
addition  to  his  banking  business,  is  also  largely 
interested  in  many  of  the  more  important  enter- 
prises of  this  city  and  in  the  general  welfare  of 
the  State. 

Major  George  M.  Downey  was  born  at  West- 
ernport,  Alleghany  county,  Maryland,  December 
25,  1841,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  Mary- 
land and  Virginia,  receiving  his  early  education 
in  the  academies  of  those  States. 

When  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age  the  Civil 
War  broke  out,  and  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
United  States  as  First  Lieutenant  in  the  Four- 
teenth L'nited  States  Infantry,  and  served 
throughout  that  war  in  the  Fifth  Army  Corps  of 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  was  present  and 
participated  in  many  of  the  large  battles  that  his 
corps  was  engaged  in  during  that  conflict,  being 
present  at  the  battles  of  Mannassas,  Antietam, 
South  Mountain,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellors- 
ville  and  Gettysburg,  besides  numerous  other  en- 
gagements. For  his  gallant  and  meritorious  ser- 
vice in  the  the  last  two  battles,  he  was  brevetted 
captain  and  major  by  President  Lincoln.  Upon 
'the  close  of  hostilities  he  remained  in  the  army  and 
was  sent  to  the  frontier  of  the  West,  and  for  nine- 
teen vears  served  on  the  Pacific  coast  from  the 


Mexican  line  on  the  south  to  the  British  boundary 
orr  the  north,  participating  in  numerous  engage- 
ments with  the  then  hostile  Indian  tribes.  He  also 
served  five  years  in  Arizona,  making  his  service 
of  active  military  life  cover  a  period  of  twenty- 
eight  years,  during  which  time  he  had  many  nar- 
row escapes  from  death.  He  was  retired  from  the 
active  list  of  the  army  in  1888  for  disabilities  in- 
curred in  his  long  service,  being  placed  on  the 
retired  list  with  the  rank  of  Captain  and  Brevet 
Major  in  the  regular  army. 

L'pon  his  retirement  he  made  his  home  at  Salt 
Lake  City  and  became  identified  with  the  Com- 
mercial National  Bank  as  its  president,  which  po- 
sition he  still  holds. 

In  the  political  life  of  the  State  he  has  always 
been  a  staunch  adherent  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  while  he  has  never  sought  office,  has  served 
on  the  Board  of  Public  Works  of  this  city,  and 
held  the  office  of  School  Trustee,  together  with 
a  number  of  offices  of  minor  importance. 

Major  Downey  was  married  in  1865  to  Miss 
Lizzie  M.  Faber,  of  Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania,  a 
lady  of  refinement  and  culture.  They  have  one 
son,  Major  George  Faber  Downey,  at  present  a 
paymaster  in  the  United  States  Army,  who 
served  throughout  the  Spanish- American  War  in 
that  capacity  in  the  Philippine  Islands. 

In  addition  to  the  presidency  of  the  bank  over 
which  he  presides.  Major  Downey  is  also  con- 
nected with  a  number  of  other  financial  enter- 
prises in  Utah,  prominent  among  them  being  the 
Rocky  Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Company,  of 
which  he  is  vice-president,  and  he  is  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Commercial  Block  Association.  The 
Commercial  National  Bank,  of  which  he  is  presi- 
dent, is  one  of  the  strong  and  solid  financial  in- 
stitutions of  this  State.  Its  home  is  in  the  Com- 
mercial Block,  situated  on  East  Second  South 
Street,  in  the  very  heart  of  the  business  center 
of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Major  Downey,  in  addition  to  being  a  thorough 
business  man,  is  a  genial  and  pleasant  gentleman, 
and  his  sincere  and  modest  manner  has  made  him 
one  of  the  most  popular  men  of  Utah.  His  home 
is  on  East  South  Temple  street,  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  one  of  the  finest  residence  portions  of  this 
citv. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


EORGE  Y.  WALLACE,  president  of 
the  Rocky  Alountain  Bell  Telephone 
Company.  Year  by  year  the  term 
"Magnificent  distances,"  as  applied  to 
the  West,  loses  its  significance  as  we 
watch  the  network  of  wires  that  are  rapidly 
spreading  out  over  the  entire  country,  radiating 
from  a  common  center,  Salt  Lake  City,  and  con- 
necting that  point  with  almost  every  town  of  any 
importance  in  the  inter-mountain  region,  as  well 
as  Pacific  coast  points.  While  it  is  true  that  no 
branch  of  industry  responds  more  quickly  in 
times  of  prosperity  than  the  telephone  business, 
which  may  in  a  manner  be  called  the  pulse  of 
the  business  life  in  any  community,  yet  the  stu- 
pendous task  of  building  lines  over  the  rugged 
mountains,  across  the  turbulent  streams  and 
through  the  tortuous  valleys  of  this  western 
country,  is  one  that  might  well  discourage  the 
most  sanguine  person.  However,  the  directorate 
of  the  Rocky  Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Com- 
pany is  composed  of  men  who  do  not  hesitate  at 
difficulties,  a^d  realizing  the  untold  benefits  that 
might  accriie  to  the  widely  scattered  people  of 
this  region  through  the  use  of  the  telephone,  as 
well  as  readily  grasping  the  financial  possibili- 
ties of  such  an  undertaking,  the  company  has, 
during  the  past  few  years,  expended  enormous 
sums  of  money  and  erected  many  thousand  miles 
of  lines,  their  territory  at  this  time  covering  the 
States  of  Utah,  Wyoming,  Idaho  and  Montana. 
It  has  been  the  aim  of  the  heads  of  this  concern 
to  keep  abreast  of,  if  not  ahead  of,  the  advance- 
ment in  other  industrial  lines,  hence  their  equip- 
ment is  of  the  very  latest  and  best  pattern,  and 
their   service  very   nearly   perfect. 

The  Rocky  Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Com- 
pany was  incorporated  in  1883,  at  which  time 
it  absorbed  four  other  local  companies — one  in 
Montana,  one  in  Wyoming,  one  in  Ogden  and 
one  in  Park  City.  At  that  time  there  were  be- 
tween fifty  and  sixty  telephones  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  eight  or  ten  in  each  of  the  other  places. 
The  growth  of  the  business  may  be  gathered 
from  the  following  figures:  In  1883  there  were 
three  hundred  and  fifty  subscribers  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  as  against  over  three  thousand  at  this  time ; 
sixty-six    in    Butte,    Montana,    where    they   now 


have  about  fifteen  hundred ;  one  hundred  and 
twenty  in  Ogden,  now  over  seven  hundred.  The 
statement  rendered  by  the  company  for  the  year 
ending  December  showed  nine  thousand  one  hun- 
dred and  five  exchange  subscribers,  being  an  in- 
crease of  three  thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty- 
two  for  the  year,  which  was  made  possible  in  a 
large  measure  by  the  extensive  improvements 
and  new  territory  covered  by  the  company  in 
1901.  In  1883  the  mileage  covered  by  their 
lines  was  four  hundred  and  ninety-four  miles, 
as  against  ten  thousand  si.x  hundred  and  sixty- 
two  at  this  time.  Their  exchanges  have  in- 
creased from  twelve  to  sixty,  and  at  this  time 
the  company  gives  employment  to  over  four  hun- 
dred people,  and  when  the  new  building  in  course 
ot  erection  in  Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  is  completed, 
will  own  a  handsome  home  in  each  of  the  four 
States.  The  present  beautiful  and  commodious 
quarters  of  the  company  in  Salt  Lake  City,  lo- 
cated at  No.  56  South  State  street,  were  erected 
in  1895. 

The  gentlemen  interested  in  this  concern  are 
among  Salt  Lake  City's  most  prominent  and  sub- 
stantial business  men,  almost  all  of  them  men  of 
large  wealth  and  closely  associated  with  the  lead- 
ing business  enterprises  of  the  State.  Biograph- 
ical sketches  of  a  number  of  them  appear  else- 
where in  this  work.  The  officers  are :  George 
Y.  Wallace,  president ;  George  M.  Downey,  vice- 
president  ;  W.  S.  McCornick,  treasurer ;  H.  C. 
Hill,  secretary.  The  directorate  includes  Messrs. 
Wallace,  McCornick  and  Hill,  together  with 
Thomas  Marshall,  Alonzo  Burt,  C.  W.  Clark, 
James  Ivers  and  C.  J.  French. 

George  Y.  Wallace,  the  president,  was  born  in 
Ohio,  south  of  Cleveland,  where  he  received  his 
scholastic  education  and  grew  to  the  age  of 
eighteen  years,  when,  in  1863,  he  started  West 
and  settled  in  Omaha,  Nebraska,  and  there  for 
nine  years  was  engaged  in  the  hardware  busi- 
ness. Not  being  entirely  satisfied  with  his  en- 
vironments, Mr.  Wallace  disposed  of  his  busi- 
ness in  1872  and  came  to  Utah,  locating  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  which  has  since  been  his  home.  For 
the  next  ten  or  eleven  years  he  was  associated 
with  many  of  the  business  enterprises  of  the  city, 
and  in   1883,  when  the  above  company  was  in- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


105 


corporated,  he  became  a  member  of  the  board, 
and  a  few  years  later  was  elected  president,  and 
has  since  filled  that  position.  He  at  once  set 
himself  to  the  task  of  placing  the  company  upon 
a  sound  financial  basis,  in  which  he  has  met  with 
unqualified  success,  and  has  had  the  satisfaction 
of  seeing  the  business  pay  the  stockholders  a 
dividend  of  six  per  cent  since  1887.  He  has 
been  ably  seconded  in  his  efforts  by  the  highly 
efficient  services  of  the  general  manager,  David 
S.  Murray,  who  has  been  with  the  company  for 
many  years.  Mr.  Murray  came  to  Utah  as  a 
boy,  dying  with  consumption,  and  here  found 
renewed  health,  and  is  today  one  of  the  finest 
specimens  of  strong  manhood  to  be  found  in  the 
West.  He  began  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder 
with  this  company  and  worked  his  way  up,  be- 
ing promoted  from  one  position  to  another  until 
he  has  now  reached  one  of  the  most  responsi- 
ble positions  in  the  concern — that  of  manager 
over  the  entire  system  of  the  company,  and  many 
of  the  improvements  and  extensions  of  the  past 
few  years  have  been  made  at  his  suggestion.  Mr. 
Murray  is  a  shrewd  business  man,  liberal  and 
progressive  in  his  ideals,  and  it  is  his  desire  to 
give  the  company's  subscribers  a  thoroughly  up- 
to-date  and  modern  system,  in  which  he  has  the 
hearty  support  of  the  president  and  other  offi- 
cers. He  stands  in  the  front  ranks  of  the  busi- 
ness men  of  this  country,  and  is  held  in  the 
highest  esteem  by  all  with  whom  he  is  associ- 
ated, both  in  business  and  private  life. 

Mr.  Wallace  is  one  of  Salt  Lake  City's  repre- 
sentative business  men,  giving  his  time  to  his 
duties  as  president  of  this  company,  and  believes 
in  progression  and  keeping  abreast  of  the  times. 
His  career  in  this  city  has  been  marked  by  hon- 
orable business  methods,  and  an  evident  desire 
to  give  the  people  their  full  money's  worth.  He 
has  won  and  retained  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  connected  in  a 
business  way,  and  enjoys  a  wide  circle  of  friends 
throughout  the  entire  inter-mountain  region. 


n^^^^^^^^ 


ILLIAM  JENNINGS.  Few  men 
during  their  lives  have  partici- 
pated more  actively  in  the  work 
of  building  up  Salt  Lake  City  and 
in  developing  it  from  a  straggling 
western  mountain  town  to  a  city  of  metropoli- 
tan importance  than  has  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  the  late  William  Jennings.  He  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  who  came  to  Utah  and  devoted 
his  energies  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  State.  The 
work  which  he  accomplished  during  his  life  will 
last  throughout  many  generations  yet  to  come, 
and  the  name  he  made  and  the  place  he  won  in 
the  annals  of  Utah  forms  an  important  part  of 
its  historical  record.  To  write  a  sketch  of  Utah 
or  attempt  to  portray  the  development  of  Salt 
Lake  City  without  any  mention  of  the  part  which 
Mr.  Jennings  played  in  its  development,  would 
be  almost  impossible,  inasmuch  as  his  life  work 
formed  a  very  part  of  the  growth  period  of  Salt 
Lake  City. 

Mr.  Jennings  was  born  in  Birmingham,  En- 
gland, and  he  spent  twenty-six  years  of  his  life 
in  that  country.  He  was  educated  in  England 
and  was  provided  with  a  good  education.  He 
emigrated  to  New  York,  and  later  moved  to 
Saint  Joseph,  Missouri,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  cattle  business,  becoming  identified  with  the 
growth  of  the  western  part  of  the  United  States. 
He  was  very  successful  in  these  industries,  and 
became  interested  in  the  building  up  of  the  far 
West,  which  at  that  time  was  but  beginning  to 
attract   attention. 

While  at  Saint  Joseph,  he  met  and  married 
his  first  wife.  He  came  to  Utah  in  1852,  just 
five  years  after  the  first  white  man  had  set- 
tled upon  the  land.  He  found  the  Territory  but 
a  barren  wilderness,  with  here  and  there  a  small 
spot  watered  by  artificial  means  and  forced  to 
yield  a  sustenance  to  the  hardy  farmer.  The 
industrial  life  of  Utah  had  not  yet  begun,  and 
Mr.  Jennings  established  the  first  tannery  here. 
This  was  the  beginning  of  his  connection  with 
the  business  life  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  from 
that  time  on  his  life  was  devoted  to  the  expan- 
sion of  its  business  interests  and  to  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources.  From  tanning  he  turned 
his  attention   to  the   manufacture  of  cloth,  and 


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was  among  the  first  to  establish  mills  for  that 
purpose  in  the  State.  He  demonstrated  his  ver- 
satility by  successfully  carrying  on  mining  op- 
erations and  at  the  same  time  establishing  a 
bank.  He  was  a  self-made  man,  and  one  who 
owed  his  success  in  life  to  the  energy  and  ability 
with  which  he  overcame  every  difficulty  that 
seemed  to  impede  his  progress.  He  was  success- 
ful in  all  that  he  undertook — mainly  because  he 
brought  to  his  business  the  untiring  application 
and  activity  that  is  always  the  fore-runner  of 
success.  He  was  prominently  identified  with  the 
Deseret  National  Bank,  first  as  stockholder  and 
director,  and  afterwards  as  vice-president  and 
director.  He  was  one  of  the  originators  of  the 
Co-operative  Mercantile  business,  later  known 
as  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution, 
and  assisted  in  organizing  it  and  in  gathering  to 
it  the  nucleus  of  the  vast  business  which  it  now 
enjoys.  He  was  also  in  business  in  the  Eagle 
Emporium  Building,  in  which  the  Co-operative 
Mercantile  business  was  first  established,  and 
which  was  later  merged  into  the  Zion  Co-opera- 
tive Mercantile  Institution.  In  mining  busi- 
ness he  was  very  active,  and  was  one  of  the 
first  pioneers  to  realize  the  possibilities  of  the 
vast  mineral  deposits  hidden  in  the  Park  City 
districts.  He  did  not  confine  his  mining  opera- 
tions to  Utah,  but  was  also  interested  in  prop- 
erties in  Grand  Gulch,  in  Arizona.  He  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
rose  by  his  merit  to  be  an  Elder  in  that  organi- 
zation. He  was  prominently  identified  with  all 
the  work  which  it  undertook,  and  assisted  in 
the  building  of  the  Temple  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  resided  here  until  his  death,  on  January  4, 
1896. 

Mr.  Jennings  was  vice-president  and  director 
and  one  of  the  builders  of  the  Utah  Central  Rail- 
road, and  also  held  the  same  offices  for  the  Utah 
Southern  Railway. 

He  was  married  in  1855  to  Miss  Priscilla 
Paul,  a  native  of  Cornwall,  England.  She  was 
a  member  of  one  of  the  old  families  in  England, 
and  was  educated  in  Liverpool,  spending  her  life 
in  that  land  until  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  she 
came  with  her  parents  to  Utah,   in   1854.     Her 


father,  William  Goyne  Paul,  and  her  mother, 
Elizabeth  Paul,  were  natives  of  England.  Her 
father  was  an  architect  and  builder  in  England, 
and  followed  the  same  business  upon  his  arrival 
in  Utah.  He  erected  the  building  known  as  the 
"Emporium  Block,"  where  the  Utah  National 
Bank  now  stands,  and  which  still  belongs  to  Mrs. 
Jennings.  He  also  built  the  old  "Devon,"  near 
the  depot,  and  erected  that  when  every  piece  of 
lumber  had  to  be  brought  into  the  State  in  wag- 
ons. So  scarce  was  this  material  that  even  parts 
of  some  of  the  wagons  were  used  to  form  parts 
of  the  walls.  Mrs.  Jennings'  parents  had  both 
become  members  of  the  Mormon  Church  in 
England  before  coming  here,  and  throup''OUt 
their  lives  were  faithful  followers  of  the  reli- 
gion which  they  had  adopted.  Before  his  con- 
version to  the  doctrines  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  Mr.  Paul  had  been 
a  local  Methodist  Episcopal  preacher.  Mr.  Jen- 
nings was  the  father  of  twenty-six  children, 
thirteen  of  whom  are  living.  Airs.  Jennings  has 
seven  children  living  —  six  sons  and  one 
daughter — Frank  W.,  Joseph  A.,  James  E., 
Harry  L.,  Walter  T.,  Harold  P.,  and  Priscilla 
Jennings,  wife  of  William  W.  Wright. 

Mrs.  Jennings  has  participated  actively  in  the 
business  aflfairs  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  taken 
an  active  interest  in  the  enterprises  in  which 
her  husband  was  concerned.  Sb-^  and  her  hus- 
band were  devoted  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  Mrs.  Jennings  today  is  one  of  the 
prominent  women  of  the  State,  and  takes  an 
active  part  in  the  Church  work.  She  is  promi- 
nent in  the  Temple  work  and  in  the  Relief  So- 
ciety of  this  church  is  vice-president  of  the  Stake 
Council  of  Women.  Throughout  her  life  she 
has  been  a  staunch  and  devoted  member  of  this 
church,  and  the  position  she  has  won  for  herself 
has  been  the  result  of  her  merit.  She  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  the  leaders  of  the 
Church.  She  is  noted  for  her  charitable  work 
and  for  her  kindness.  She  is  also  thoroughly 
familiar  with  the  affairs  of  the  business  world, 
and  holds  a  high  standing  in  the  respect  and  con- 
fidence of  the  business  community  of  the  city 
and  of  L'tah  as  well. 


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107 


W.  CHISHOL^I.  A  State  may 
possess  untold  natural  advantages 
of  mineral  wealth,  fertility  of  soil, 
deposits  of  valuable  building  ma- 
terial, and,  in  fact,  all  the  re- 
sources that  go  to  make  up  a  prosperous  com- 
munity, but  so  long  as  they  remain  unavailable 
through  lack  of  development,  their  value  to  a 
people  is  but  limited.  To  properly  utilize  these 
advantages  requires  the  mind  of  a  master,  one 
who,  by  his  grasp  and  by  his  ability  to 
turn  unfavorable  conditions  into  prosperity, 
makes  it  possible  to  use  to  the  fullest 
extent  what  nature  has  so  amply  provided. 
These  conditions  have  arisen  in  Utah,  and 
perhaps  no  man  has  participated  more  in 
their  proper  use,  in  providing  financial  assist- 
ance and  in  organizing  and  developing  compa- 
nies for  the  successful  working  of  these  re- 
sources than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

W.  W.  Chisholm  was  born  in  Hazel  Green, 
Grant  county,  Wisconsin,  June  26,  1842,  and 
there  spent  his  early  life.  His  education  was 
obtained  from  the  public  schools  and  from  the 
Sisters'  schools.  He  started  out  for  himself 
early  in  life,  and  in  1858  undertook  to  learn  the 
printing  business,  which  he  followed  until  1868. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  was  in  Chicago,  and 
followed  his  trade  in  that  city.  The  possibili- 
ties aflforded  by  the  W'est  claimed  his  attention, 
and  in  1864  he  came  to  Virginia  City,  Montana, 
where  he  expected  to  find  his  father,  who  had 
preceded  him,  but  did  not  find  him  there,  and 
came  across  the  desert  by  teams  to  Salt  Lake  in 
the  fall  of  1864.  Upon  his  arrival  here  he  found 
that  his  father  had  located  a  mining  claim  in 
Bingham  Canyon,  which  was  among  the  first 
mining  properties  to  be  located  in  that  region. 
Mr.  Chisholm  spent  the  winter  and  spring  of 
1865  in  the  Canyon  of  Bingham.  He  and  his 
father,  realizing  the  value  of  the  mineral  de- 
posits in  that  region,  secured  a  great  many  dif- 
ferent claims,  which  they  afterwards  disposed  of 
to  a  considerable  advantage.  During  the  spring 
and  summer  of  1865  he  worked  with  his  father 
in  the  claims  in  Bingham,  and  in  the  fall  he 
returned  to  Elgin,  Illinois,  where  he  remained 
until   1869.     During  this  period  he  secured  em- 


ployment as  a  printer  on  a  number  of  Chicago 
papers,  working  in  that  city  from  1865  to  i868. 

When  the  last  spike  was  driven  on  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad,  he  returned  to  Utah.  His  in- 
terest in  mining,  which  he  had  formed  while  at 
Bingham  in  1865,  and  the  property  which  he 
had  secured,  brought  him  again  to  Utah.  His 
father  had  located  the  "Emma"  mine  in  1868,  on 
the  Little  Cottonwood,  and  upon  his  son's  re- 
turn in  1869  they  developed  this  property  and 
finally  sold  it  at  a  considerable  profit.  They 
also  had  large  interests  in  the  Centennial  Eu- 
reka mine,  in  the  Tintic  district,  and  after  de- 
veloping that  property  for  some  years,  disposed 
of  their  holdings  at  a  large  profit.  His  father 
removed  to  California  in  1883,  and  spent  the  re- 
maining years  of  his  life  there,  dying  in  1891. 
His  mother,  Sarah  (Van  \^alkenburg)  Chis- 
holm, died  in  Elgin,  Illinois,  in  1878.  In  addi- 
tion to  their  interests  in  Utah,  they  also  became 
interested  in  mining  properties  in  Nevada  and 
owned  considerable  property  in  the  Kinsley  dis- 
trict in  that  State.  In  addition  to  his  mining 
business,  Mr.  Chisholm  was  one  of  the  founders, 
and  has  since  been  a  director  of,  the  Bank  of 
Commerce,  a  successful  financial  institution  of 
this  city,  and  is  also  a  director  of  the  Western 
Arms  and  Sporting  Goods  Company,  one  of  the 
largest  firms  of  that  character  in  the  West. 

He  married  in  1876  to  Miss  N.  Jeanette  Ken- 
dall, a  native  of  Illinois. 

In  political  affairs,  Mr.  Chisholm,  up  to  the 
time  of  the  silver  agitation,  was  an  active  Re- 
publican, but,  believing  that  the  interests  of  the 
mineral  States  would  be  better  protected  by  the 
Democrats,  he  transferred  his  allegiance  to  the 
latter  party,  and  has  been  an  active  member  of 
it  since  that  time.  In  social  matters  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  a  member  of 
the  Blue  Lodge  Chapter,  and  has  attained  the 
rank  of  Knights-Templar. 

Air.  Chisholm's  career  marks  him  as  one  of 
the  leading  men  of  Utah,  both  in  business  circles 
and  in  the  development  of  Mining  properties. 
He  is  practically  a  self-made,  self-educated  man. 
He  was  forced  to  stop  at  the  age  of  twelve  years 
and  earn  his  own  living,  and  has  since  provided 
for  himself.     His  honesty  and  industry,  together 


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with  his  unflagging  devotion  to  his  work,  have 
been  the  corner  stone  upon  which  he  has  reared 
his  fortune.  He  is  now  one  of  the  weaUhiest 
men  in  Utah,  and  his  career  stands  liigh  in  the 
annals  of  what  men  have  been  able  to  accomplish 
in  this  State.  He  is  well  and  popularly  known 
throughout  Utah  and  the  West,  and  numbers  his 
friends  by  the  legion. 


)SEPH  NELSON.  The  rapid  increase 
in  the  industries  of  the  L^nited  States  has 
created  a  wide  demand  for  men  and 
women  who  are  properly  equipped  to 
undertake  the  management  of  commer- 
cial enterprises.  There  has  been  a  constant  and 
growing  need  for  young  men  and  women  equip- 
ped with  an  education  that  would  fit  them  to 
participate  intelligently  in  business  affairs.  The 
need  of  an  education  of  this  kind  has  been  felt 
ever  since  the  beginning  of  the  independence  of 
the  United  States,  and  among  the  first  to  recog- 
nize the  necessity  for  this  training  was  Benja- 
min Franklin,  who  advocated  the  amending  of 
the  college  courses  in  order  to  fit  the  young  men 
and  women  for  business  life  without  undergoing 
an  apprenticeship  after  the  close  of  their  col- 
lege career.  In  no  part  of  the  country  has  this 
demand  been  more  apparent  than  in  the  West. 
The  rapid  development  of  this  region  and  the 
establishing  and  widening  of  its  commercial  en- 
terprises has  called  for  a  constant  and  stead) 
supply  of  men  and  women  to  aid  in  the  devel- 
opment of  these  establishments  and  economically 
and  efficiently  discharge  their  work.  Especially 
in  Salt  Lake  has  this  demand  existed,  and  in 
supplying  people  to  fill  this  demand,  there  has 
been  no  more  prominent  institution  than  the 
Salt  Lake  Business  College,  of  which  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  is  president.  Salt  Lake  City 
is  exceptionally  located  for  such  a  school.  It  is 
almost  in  the  center  of  the  inter-mountain  region, 
and  is  the  very  heart  of  the  commercial  activity 
of  the  inter-West.  There  are  few  enterprises 
throughout  the  inter-mountain  region  that  do 
not  have  headquarters  in  this  city.  The  factory, 
machine  shops,  mercantile  establishments,  banks, 
railways  and  telegraph  headquarters  are  in  con- 


stant need  of  the  services  of  properly  equipped 
people.  The  Salt  Lake  Business  College  en- 
joys the  confidence  of  the  entire  business  world 
of  Utah,  and,  in  fact,  of  all  the  territory  tribu- 
tary to  this  city.  There  is  scarcely  an  establish- 
ment here  now  which  does  not  number  among 
its  most  trusted  employes  the  students  of  this 
college.  Its  pupils,  upon  graduation,  readily 
find  employment,  and  many  who  have  attended 
its  sessions  and  graduated  from  this  institution 
are  now  in  positions  of  responsibility  and  trust  in 
many  important  establishments  in  the  State.  Its 
prominence  in  the  ranks  of  educational  institu- 
tions and  the  readiness  with  which  its  graduates 
find  positions,  is  a  tribute  to  the  efficient  and 
progressive  management  of  its  president,  who 
has  done  so  much  to  aid  in  the  development  of 
the  commercial  resources  of  the  State  by  giving 
to  these  establishments  competent  people  who  are 
trained  in  its  methods. 

Mr.  Nelson  was  born  in  JMoroni,  Sanpete 
county,  LItah,  in  1861,  and  spent  his  boyhood 
days  on  his  father's  farm  and  in  working  in  the 
canyons  timbering.  He  attended  the  schools  of 
his  county,  and  later  entered  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo,  where  he  spent  seven  years 
— five  years  as  a  student  and  two  years  as  a 
teacher.  In  September  of  1888  he  was  given 
charge  of  the  mathematical  department  in  the 
Latter  Day  Saints'  College.  He  remained  in  this 
latter  institution  for  thirteen  years,  ten  years  of 
which  he  was  in  the  mathematical  department. 
He  successfully  undertook  the  establishment  of 
a  commercial  school  in  that  institution,  and  in 
February,  1900,  bought  out  the  owners  of  the 
present  Salt  Lake  Business  College,  since  which 
time  he  has  brought  it  to  its  present  high  state 
of  efficiency.  His  father,  J.  C.  Nelson,  was  born 
in  Denmark,  and  later  moved  to  Germany  in 
1850,  and  spent  the  ensuing  five  years  there.  He 
then  emigrated  to  America,  and  spent  two  years 
in  the  Eastern  States,  coming  to  Utah  and 
settling  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  later  moved 
to  Sanpete  county,  when  the  first  settlement 
of  that  region  was  begun,  and  took  up  farming, 
and  also  mechanical  work.  He  was  later  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  was  for  a 
number  of  years  superintendent  of  the  Co-opera- 


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109 


live  Store  in  Moroni.  He  joined  the  Mormon 
Church  before  he  came  to  America,  and  spent 
his  while  life  in  that  church,  and  has  partici- 
pated actively  in  its  work.  His  wife,  Annie 
Mary  (Anderson)  Nelson,  and  the  mother  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  also  a  native  of  Den- 
mark, who  emigrated  to  America.  She  met  Mr. 
Nelson  on  the  trip  across  the  plains,  and  they 
were  married  upon  their  arrival  in  Utah.  Their 
son's  life  has  been  spent  almost  entirely  within 
the  confines  of  this  State.  Like  all  boys  in  pion- 
eer life,  he  was  forced  to  aid  in  supplying  the 
general  wants  of  the  family,  and  from  ten  to 
twelve  years  of  age  was  engaged  in  freighting 
supplies  to  the  mines.  From  that  time  until  he 
was  twenty  years  of  age  he  was  engaged  in  get- 
ting out  saw  timber  from  the  mountains  and  in 
hauling  lumber.  While  the  business!  college 
which  Mr.  Nelson  now  operates  is  the  only 
strictly  business  college  of  any  importance  in 
Utah,  it  was  founded  in  1889,  by  Mr.  N.  B. 
Johnston  and  Mr.  J.  W.  Jameson.  The  school 
was  started  in  some  small  rooms  over  the  Utah 
National  Bank,  where  its  sessions  were  con- 
ducted. In  the  following  year  Mr.  G.  W.  Popp, 
who  had  been  in  business  college  work  in  San 
Francisco,  became  financially  interested  in  the 
school,  and  was  identified  with  it  from  that  time 
until  June,  1900.  The  success  with  which  this 
school  met  the  demand  for  its  graduates  in  the 
business  world  made  it  imperative  that  they  se- 
cure larger  and  better  accommodations,  and  the 
entire  top  floor  of  the  Commerce  Block  was  se- 
cured for  its  home,  and  here  they  remained  until 
July,  1891.  In  1891  Mr.  Jameson  severed  his 
connection  with  the  school,  and  until  1899  the 
institution  was  under  the  supervision  and  con- 
trol of  Messrs.  Johnston  and  Popp.  Throughout 
this  decade  the  growth  of  the  school  was  very 
marked,  and  it  soon  won  for  itself  a  foremost 
position  among  the  business  colleges  of  the  West. 
The  thoroughness  of  its  work  and  the  efficiency 
of  the  students  was  soon  recognized  by  the  lead- 
ing business  men,  with  whom  the  graduates  of 
this  school  were  in  high  favor,  and  readily  se- 
cured employment. 

In  1895  the  school  was  incorporated  under  the 
laws  of  Utah,  and  was  given  a  charter  and  seal, 


Mr.  Johnston  being  made  president.  Four  years 
later  William  Johnston  purchased  a  one-third  in- 
terest in  the  stock,  and  became  equally  interested 
with  the  proprietors,  N.  B.  Johnston  and  G.  W. 
Popp.  In  January,  1900,  Mr.  Nelson  purchased 
the  entire  school.  He  had  for  fourteen  years 
previous  been  identified  with  the  Latter  Day 
Saints'  College,  and  had  by  sheer  force  and 
against  heavy  odds  and  strong  opposition  built 
up  the  business  department  of  that  school  from 
a  class  of  thirty-six  students  in  a  single  room,  to 
an  enrollment  of  over  three  hundred,  with  the 
best  quarters  obtainable  in  the  city.  The  growth 
of  the  school  during  1900  was  little  short  of  phe- 
nomenal, and  became  so  great  that  a  further  ex- 
pansion was  absolutely  imperative.  After  a 
thorough  examination  of  the  available  quarters 
in  the  city  it  was  finally  determined  to  remove 
from  the  Commerce  Block  to  the  top  floor  of 
the  Templeton  building.  This  change  was  ef- 
fected m  the  early  part  of  July,  1901,  without 
the  loss  of  a  single  session  of  the  school.  The 
quarters  were  thoroughly  cleaned  and  renovated, 
remodeled  and  refitted,  so  that  today  they  are 
the  most  commodious  and  finest  school  rooms  in 
the  city.  The  Templeton  building,  in  which  the 
school  is  now  located,  is  at  the  corner  of  Main 
and  South  Temple  streets,  overlooking  the  Tem- 
ple Block.  This  building  was  originally  erected 
to  serve  as  a  hotel,  but  was  far  in  advance  of  the 
conditions  in  the  West,  and  the  hotel  business 
proved  unsuccessful.  The  top  floor  is  now  en- 
tirely occupied  by  the  college,  and  many  improve- 
ments have  been  made  in  it.  Some  of  the  rooms 
formerly  separated  by  lath  and  plaster  walls 
were  merged  into  one  by  the  substitution  of  glass 
partitions  for  the  lath  and  plaster.  While  this 
serves  to  obstruct  the  sound,  it  increases  the 
light  and  makes  the  room  much  more  commo- 
dious and  comfortable.  The  entire  school  was 
fitted  with  furniture  of  the  latest  design  and  pat- 
tern; the  large  lecture  hall,  used  for  the  assem- 
bling of  students  and  for  the  largest  classes,  was 
entirely  refitted  with  new  quarter  sawed  oak 
desks  of  the  latest  and  best  designs.  The  building 
is  equipped  with  a  thoroughly  modern  elevator 
service,  telephone  connections,  electric  light  and 
city  water  service,  and  is  heated  by  steam.      The 


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ventilation  is  as  nearly  perfect  as  it  is  possible 
to  get  it,  and  fire  escapes,  connected  with  every 
room,  reduce  the  danger  from  fire  to  a  mini- 
mum. Some  idea  of  the  growth  of  this  school 
may  be  had  from  the  fact  that  during  the  last 
year  the  enrollment  has  reached  the  high  figure 
of  four  hundred  and  forty-three  students.  The 
curriculum  of  the  school  is  very  extensive,  and 
comprises  a  commercial,  a  shorthand,  an  English 
and  a  penmanship  course,  and  under  these  gen- 
eral heads  are  taught  most  subjects  that  relate 
to  business. 

Mr.  Nelson  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1893  to  Miss  Lenora  Smith,  daughter  of  Presi- 
dent Joseph  Smith,  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints.  By  this  marriage  he  has 
four  children — Joseph  S.,  George  S.,  Alvin  S. 
and  Alice. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Nelson  is  a  believer  in  the 
Republican  principles,  but  has  devoted  his  en- 
tire time  and  attention  to  educational  matters 
and  to  the  building  up  of  that  work  in  Utah. 
This  has  so  engrossed  his  time  that  he  has  not 
participated  actively  in  the  work  of  that  party, 
and  he  has  never  been  a  candidate  for  public 
office.  He,  like  his  parents,  is  a  member  of  the 
Mormon   Church. 

The  work  which  Mr.  Nelson  has  done  in  af- 
fording a  business  education  to  niany  of  the 
young  people  of  Utah  has  made  him  one  of  the 
most  prominent  educators  in  the  West.  His 
school  is  now  easily  in  the  lead  of  the  commer- 
cial colleges  of  the  West,  and  the  confidence  of 
the  leading  business  men  whurh  it  enjoys  makes 
a  diploma  from  it  a  valuable  assistant  for  one 
starting  upon  a  business  career. 


O.  WHITTEMORE.  When  the  rail- 
road from  Salt  Lake  City  to  Los 
Angeles,  California,  shall  have  been 
completed  and  put  into  operation,  it 
will  supply  a  monument  to  the  untir- 
ing perseverance  of  the  men  whose  project  it  or- 
iginally was  to  connect  the  Pacific  coast  with  this 
city,  and  thus  open  up  to  settlement  and  develop- 
ment the  southern  part  of  Utah,  as  well  as  the 
portion   of  Nevada  travelled  by  the   line  of  the 


road.  Mr.  Whittemore  has  been  identified  with 
this  project  from  the  time  it  was  first  suggested 
to  connect  these  two  points,  and  the  building  of 
the  San  Pedro,  Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Rail- 
road is  the  direct  outcome  of  the  eflforts  of  the 
men  with  whom  he  has  been  associated  for  the 
past  four  or  five  years.  He  was  one  of  the  orig- 
inal promoters  and  organizers  of  the  company. 
He  has,  ever  since  his  birth,  been  a  resident  of 
this  State,  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
development  of  the  city  and  in  the  upbuilding  of 
the  prosperity  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Whittemore  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
June  29,  1862.  His  father,  Joseph  Whittemore, 
was  one  of  the  early  pioneers,  coming  from 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  to  Utah  in  the  early  fifties, 
and  living  here  about  twenty  years,  dying  in  1876. 
Mr.  \\'hittemore's  maternal  grandfather,  Joseph 
Busby,  came  to  Utah  with  the  second  company  of 
pioneers  that  reached  here  in  1848.  Mr.  Busby 
was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  being  iden- 
tified with  it  throughout  the  larger  part  of  his 
life,  until  he  differed  from  the  policy  laid  down 
by  the  leaders  of  the  Church,  when  he  severed 
his  relations  with  that  institution.  He  was  one 
of  the  oldest  members  and  was  prominent  in  the 
building  up  of  its  work.  Mr.  Whittemore's 
forefathers   were  natives  of  England. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  the  city  of 
Salt  Lake  and  received  his  education  at  St.  Mark's 
School.  He  later  took  up  the  study  of  law  and 
entered  Columbia  University  in  New  York,  fin- 
ishing his  course  of  study  at  that  institution  in 
1884.  He  returned  to  Utah  that  year  and  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  and  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  that  work  ever  since.  He  served  as 
Assistant  City  Attorney  in  1882,  and  in  1886  he 
was,  for  a  short  time,  in  the  office  of  United 
States  District  Attorney  Dickson.  He  was  elected 
in  1894  as  County  Attorney  for  Salt  Lake  county 
and  occupied  that  position  until  the  end  of  the 
year  1896.  In  June,  1898,  he  was  appointed 
United  States  District  Attorney,  by  President 
McKinley,  which  position  he  has  held  ever  since. 
He  is  now  the  general  attorney  for  the  San  Pedro, 
Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Railroad  company, 
of  which  he  was  one  of  the  incorporators. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Mr.  Whittemore  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1885,  to  Miss  Sarah  L.  Brown,  and  by  this 
marriage  has  three  children — June ;  Joseph  R., 
and  Leigh. 

In  political  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Republi- 
can party  in  Utah,  and  has  been  a  member  of  that 
organization  since  its  formation  in  this  State. 
Notwithstanding  the  agitation  which  the  cam- 
paign of  1896  produced  in  the  State,  owing  to  the 
advocacy  of  free  silver,  and  especially  in  the 
mineral  producing  regions,  Mr.  Whittemore  was 
one  of  the  few  political  leaders  who  stood  firmly 
for  the  RepubHcan  party  and  its  principles.  He 
is  one  of  the  trusted  and  valued  leaders  of  his 
party  and  has  won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  party  leaders  throughout  the  United  States. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Alta  Club  and  also  belongs 
to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Odd  Fellows 
lodges.  His  prior  service  as  County  Attorney, 
and  in  the  term  of  office  that  he  has  held  as 
United  States  District  Attorney,  has  made  him 
one  of  the  best  known  and  popular  men  in  the 
State,  and  has  won  for  him  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom  he  has  come 
in  contact. 


ARLOW  FERGUSON,  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Ferguson  and 
Cannon.  Among  the  well-known  and 
able  attorneys  of  Salt  Lake  City  the 
career  of  Barlow  Ferguson  is  one  that 
mav  well  furnish  both  diversion  and  instruc- 
tion to  the  reader  of  these  pages.  A  native  son 
of  Utah,  born  and  reared  amid  the  inspiring 
associations  to  be  found  in  this  western  coun- 
try, where  the  very  air  makes  one's  pulse  beat 
quicker  and  the  brain  clearer,  he  early  took  up 
the  study  of  the  law  and  began  active  practice 
in  his  young  manhood,  practicing  alone  for  some 
time,  and  forming  his  present  partnership  about 
1892.  He  is  alert  and  wide-awake,  level-headed 
and  his  uniform  success  in  handling  big  cases 
has  brought  him  a  large  volume  of  valuable  bus- 
iness, and  he  is  at  this  time  attorney  for  the 
leading  mercantile  and  manufacturing  estab- 
lisliments  of  this  State. 


Mr.  Ferguson  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  De- 
cember 5,  1859,  and  is  the  son  of  James  and 
Lucy  (Nutting)  Ferguson.  The  father  was 
born  in  Belfast.  Ireland,  February  23,  1828,  re- 
maining there  until  thirteen  years  of  age,  when 
he  went  to  Liverpool,  and  there  remained  until 
he  reached  manhood.  He  was  a  self-taught 
man,  never  having  attended  school  after  he  was 
nine  years  of  age.  In  Liverpool  he  first  heard 
the  doctrines  of  Mormonism  preached,  and  be- 
ing convinced  of  the  truth  of  that  religion,  was 
baptized  into  the  Church  and  came  to  America 
in  1847,  ^t  the  age  of  nineteen  years.  He  was 
among  those  who  started  for  Utah  in  1847.  He 
was  Adjutant-General  of  the  Utah  MiHtia,  and 
upon  the  call  coming  for  volunteers  for  the  war 
against  Mexico,  was  one  of  the  first  to  volunteer 
his  services,  and  became  a  Sergeant-Major  in 
the  ^Mormon  Battalion.  He  made  the  entire  trip 
across  the  deserts  of  Colorado  and  Mexico  with 
his  company,  suffering  untold  privations  and 
hardships,  and  when  the  company  was  divided 
in  New  Mexico,  was  among  those  who  went  on 
to  California  to  the  relief  of  General  Kearney. 
He  came  to  Salt  Lake  with  his  company  in  1849. 
He  took  up  the  study  of  the  law,  practicing  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1863.  He  was  also 
prominently  identified  with  the  newspaper  life 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  establishing  the  Mountaineer, 
having  associated  with  him  Seth  M.  Blair,  and 
continued  to  publish  that  paper  up  to  a  few 
years  previous  to  his  demise.  Locally  he  had 
quite  a  reputation  as  an  actor  in  the  early  days 
of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  took  a  leading  part  in 
all  the  affairs  of  the  city  during  his  life  time, 
and  was  well  known  and  highly  esteemed.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years.  He  mar- 
ried in  San  Francisco  to  Miss  Lucy  Nutting,  the 
mother  of  our  subject.  She  was  the  mother  of 
five  children.  Mrs.  Ferguson,  then  Miss  Nut- 
ting, at  her  home  in  Hatfield,  Massachusetts, 
joined  the  Mormon  Church  in  1846.  Then  a 
lone  girl  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  left  her  par- 
ents, relatives  and  friends,  took  passage  on  the 
ship  Brooklyn,  a  sailing  vessel,  and  after  a  six- 
months'  perilous  voyage  rounded  Cape  Horn, 
touched  at  Honolulu  and  landed  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, then  a  town  of  only  two  hundred  people. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


It  was  tliere  she  met  and  married  Mr.  Ferguson. 
Her  first  child,  JuHa,  now  the  wife  of  C.  H. 
Brown,  of  Liberty,  Idaho,  was  born  in  the  Old 
Fort,  now  the  Sixth  Ward  Square,  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  Mrs.  Ferguson  was  a  strong  and  vigor- 
ous minded  woman,  and  endured  all  the  hard- 
ships incident  to  the  early  times  here  in  Utah 
with  a  light  heart,  having  to  the  end  the  greatest 
faith  in  her  religion,  which  enabled  her  to  en- 
dure these  hardships  without  a  murmur.  After 
her  marriage  Mrs.  Ferguson  made  the  trip  from 
San  Francisco  to  Salt  Lake  City  on  horseback. 
She  died  in  this  city  in  1895. 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  Lehi,  and  later  in  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo,  from  which  institution  he 
graduated  in  1880.  After  his  graduation  he 
started  out  in  Park  City  to  make  his  own  way  in 
life,  beginning  by  cutting  cord  wood,  teaching 
school  and  anything  that  came  to  hand.  He  had 
always  had  a  strong  predilection  for  the  study 
of  the  law,  and  all  his  spare  time  was  devoted  to 
study  along  this  line.  He  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice before  the  Supreme  Court  in  1886,  and 
opened  his  office  in  Salt  Lake  City,  practicing 
by  himself  and  building  up  a  fine  business. 
About  1892  he  formed  a  partnership  with  John 
M.  Cannon  under  the  firm  name  of  Ferguson  and 
Cannon,  and  this  firm  has  rapidly  come  to  the 
front  as  among  the  best  practitioners  in  the 
State. 

Mr.  Ferguson  was  married  in  1885  to  Miss 
Rachel  Tanner,  daughter  of  Sidney  and  Rachel 
(Neyman)  Tanner,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1850. 
Five  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage, 
four  of  whom  are  living — Ratie,  James  Barlow, 
Blaine  and  Keith. 

In  politics  Mr.  Ferguson  is  a  Republican  and 
has  been  quite  an  active  worker  for  his  party. 
He  held  the  office  of  County  Attorney  for  Beaver 
county  and  was  at  one  time  Assistant  City  and 
County  Attorney  for  Salt  Lake  county. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in 
which  he  is  an  Elder.  He  is  at  this  time  attor- 
ney for  the  Utah  Sugar  Company  and  Zion's 
Savings  Bank  and  Trust  Company,  and  also  for 
the  Bear  River  Water  Company,  the  State  Bank 
of  Utah  and  the  Salt  Lake  Theater. 


In  social  life  Mr.  Ferguson  numbers  many 
warm  friends,  being  possessed  of  most  gentle- 
manly and  unassuming  manners,  and  is  quite 
unspoiled  by  the  honors  that  have  come  to  him 
and  which  have  been  won  by  his  own  undaunted 
pluck,  perseverance  and  splendid  energy. 


OHX  I\I.  CAXXOX.  The  history  of  the 
men  who  have  built  up  Salt  Lake  City 
and  developed  the  resources  of  Utah, 
contains  many  striking  examples  of  what 
a  man  can  do  under  adverse  circum- 
stances by  the  exercise  of  determination,  appli- 
cation and  industry,  and  prominent  among  these 
records  stands  the  life  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  the  son  of  President  Angus  M.  Cannon, 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  whose  sketch  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  work. 

John  M.  Cannon  was  born  in  St  George, 
Washington  county,  Utah,  on  September  24th, 
1865,  and  lived  there  until  four  years  of  age, 
when  his  parents  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  he  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his  father's 
farm  in  this  county.  He  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  of  Salt  Lake  county  and  later 
entered  the  Deseret  University,  now  known  as 
the  University  of  Utah.  Notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  his  education  fitted  him  for  work  re- 
quiring a  considerable  expenditure  of  mental 
eiifort,  he  decided  to  learn  a  trade  in  order,  that 
should  he  fail  in  his  higher  work,  he  would  have 
the  means  of  earning  a  livlihood.  With  this  end 
in  view  he  took  up  the  carpenter  business,  suc- 
cessfully learned  that  trade  and  followed  it  until 
he  was  twenty-one.  Shortly  after  reaching  his 
majority,  he  started  in  business  for  himself  and 
began  to  operate  extensively  in  real  estate  in 
L'tah.  He  did  not  confine  his  efforts  to  thi...  par- 
ticular line,  but  branched  out  into  the  various 
enterprises  that  offered.  He  continued  In  ac- 
tive business  life  until  September,  1888,  when  he 
went  to  the  University  of  Michigan  and  entered 
the  law  department  of  that  institution  from 
which  he  graduated  in  June,  iqoo.  He  at 
once    returned    to     Salt     Lake     City    and   im- 


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mediately  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  and  has  been  actively  engaged 
in  that  work  ever  since.  He  at  once 
formed  a  partnership,  which  has  continued 
until  this  time,  known  as  Ferguson  and  Cannon. 
Since  his  return  to  Utah  he  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  all  the  work  incident  to  its  develop- 
ment, and  is  at  present  associated  with  his  father 
in  the  development  of  many  mining  properties. 
In  his  practice  he  makes  a  specialty  of  civil  cases, 
paying  particular  attention  to  corporation  law. 
He  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  Forest  Dale  and 
actively  engaged  in  the  building  up  of  that  sub- 
urb to  this  city. 

Mr.  Cannon  was  married  on  July  18,  1893,  to 
Miss  Zina  Bennion.  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Bennion.  By  this  marriage  he  has  five  chiklren — ■ 
Blanche,  Zina  Lenera,  John  B.,  Milton  B.  and 
Paul. 

In  political  life  Air.  Cannon  is  an  ardent  Demo- 
crat, and  has  followed  the  fortunes  of  that  party 
with  unfaltering  devotion  since  its  organization 
in  Utah.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Church  of  his  choice,  being  a  member  of  the 
High  Council  of  the  Granite  Stake.  He  has 
become  one  of  the  best  known  lawyers  in  Utah 
and  enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative  practice,  and 
has  won  for  himself  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  all  the  members  of  the   Bar. 


OHX  Sn'EL  SMITH  in  many  respects 
is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  men  living 
ill  Utah.  He  has  been  an  honored  citi- 
zen of  this  State  for  over  half  a  century 
and  is  now  past  his  ninety-second  mile- 
stone on  life's  journey,  and  still  an  active  busi- 
ness man,  which  is  a  record  that  but  few  men  can 
equal ;  and  now  in  his  declining  years  he  can  look 
back  and  feel  that  he  has  performed  his  part  in 
life's  work  faithfully  and  well.  In  Davis  county, 
where  the  most  of  his  life  nas  been  spent,  he 
numbers  his  friends  by  the  score. 

John  S.  Smith  was  born  in  Worcestershire, 
England,  March  10,  1809,  and  is  the  son  of 
William  and  Mary   (Sivel)    Smith,  both  natives 


of  England,  the  father  being  born  in  Hereford- 
shire, and  the  mother  in  Worcestershire.  The 
Sivels  were  prominent  people  in  England ;  our 
subject's  maternal  grandfather,  Thomas  Sivel, 
was  a  leading  stockman  of  that  country ;  our 
subject's  parents  lived  and  died  in  England. 

The  first  fifteen  years  of  Mr.  Smith's  life  were 
spent  on  his  father's  farm,  near  the  place  of 
his  birth.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  went  to  Wor- 
cestershire and  served  an  apprenticeship  of  five 
years  and  three  months,  learning  to  be  a  carpen- 
ter, wood-worker  and  wagon-maker.  After  he 
had  served  his  apprenticeship  he  followed  his 
trade  for  three  years  and  then  returned  to  farm 
life. 

He  married  Aliss  Jane  Wadley,  of  Gloucester- 
shire, England,  and  of  this  marriage  eleven 
children  were  born,  eight  of  whom  grew  to  ma- 
turity, and  one  of  the  eight  dying  after  reach- 
ing maturity.  Two  of  the  children  were  born  in 
England,  where  they  died.  Of  the  children,  Wil- 
liam C.  lives  near  his  father,  in  Kaysville,  where 
he  owns  a  beautiful  home;  Ellen  S.  is  the  widow 
of  John  Q.  Knowlton ;  Elizabeth  W.  is  single 
and  lives  with  her  father;  Eliza  N.  is  the  wife  of 
George  V.  Stevenson,  whose  biographical  sketch 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume ;  Harriet  E. 
is  the  wife  of  Jesse  M.  Smith,  President  of  the 
W'ool  Growers'  Association  of  Utah,  whose  bi- 
ographical sketch  also  appears  in  this  work ; 
Annie  is  the  wife  of  N.  Brown,  of  Draper,  and 
George  M.  is  a  cattle  and  sheep  man  and  makes 
his  home  in  Idaho.  William  C.  is  also  a  heavy 
sheep  owner  and  cattle  man,  and  is  also  engaged 
in  general  merchandise. 

Mr.  Smith  became  converted  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Mormon  Church  in  England  and  was 
baptized  in  that  country  in  1840.  The  following 
year  he  emigrated,  with  his  family,  to  America, 
settling  in  Kirkland,  Ohio,  where  they  remained 
for  sixteen  months  and  then  moved  to  Nauvoo, 
Illinois,  remaining  there  until  the  exodus  of  the 
Mormon  people  in  1846.  Our  subject  was  in 
Nauvoo  at  the  time  of  the  killing  of  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith,  and  passed  all  through  the  suf- 
ferings and  hardships  which  the  Mormons  were 
subjected  to  in  those  days.  From  Nauvoo,  the 
family  went  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  remaining 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


there  until  1850,  when  they  started  for  Utah 
under  command  of  Captain  Wilham  Snow,  arriv- 
ing' in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  5,  1850.  They 
remained  in  the  city  until  March  of  the  following 
year,  when  they  went  to  Draper,  remaining  there 
until  the  time  of  the  Salmon  river  colonization 
in  1856.  In  that  year  he  bought  what  was  known 
as  the  old  Kay  place,  after  whom  the  settlement 
of  Kaysville  was  named,  and  moved  there  in 
1857,  making  it  his  home  from  that  time  to  the 
present.  iMr.  Smith  owns  two  hundred  acres  of 
finely  improved  land  on  his  home  place,  which 
is  well  improved,  with  a  substantial  brick  house, 
good  outbuildings,  etc.,  and  in  addition  to  the 
home  place  owns  two  hundred  acres  of  range 
land.  He  started  in  the  sheep  business  the  year  he 
came  to  Kaysville,  and  continued  in  that  and  the 
cattle  raising  business  until  quite  recently,  when 
he  sold  his  sheep  interests.  His  wife  died  in 
Kaysville,  May  22,  1888,  and  since  that  time  his 
daughters  have  kept  house  for  him. 

Mr.  Smith  has  never  affiliated  with  any  politi- 
cal party,  preferring  to  use  his  own  judgment 
in  those  matters,  and  while  he  has  been  active  in 
all  things  pertaining  to  the  growth  and  advance- 
ment of  his  county  and  State,  he  has  never  been 
an  office  seeker  or  taken  any  active  part  in  politi- 
cal affairs.  In  Nauvoo  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Nauvoo  Legion,  and  after  coming  to  Utah  par- 
ticipated in  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  under 
Philemon  Merrill.  His  children  are  all  members 
of  the  Mormon  Church  and  active  in  its  work. 
William  C.  has  been  called  on  colonization  work 
a  number  of  times,  and  George  served  two  years 
on  a  mission  to  the  Southern  States.  Elizabeth 
has  presided  for  a  number  of  years  over  the 
Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association 
of  Davis  Stake.  Mr.  Smith's  sons  also  spent  a 
considerable  time  hauling  rock  for  the  Temple 
at  Salt  Lake  City.  For  a  number  of  years,  our 
subject  was  counsel  to  the  Bishop  of  his  ward,  and 
in  1896  was  ordained  a  Patriarch.  Although 
ninety-two  years  of  age,  Mr.  Smith  is  in  almost 
perfect  health ;  with  the  exception  of  a  slight  de- 
fect in  his  hearing  his  faculties  being  as  clear  to- 
day as  when  a  young  man,  and  is  never  so  happy 
as  when  actively  looking  after  his  large  business 
interests. 


LBERT  S.  REISER.  The  western 
portion  of  the  United  States  has,  dur- 
ing the  last  quarter  of  a  century,  af- 
forded many  opportunities  for  the 
exercise  of  ability  by  young  men,  and 
in  no  State  in  this  region  is  this  more  true  than 
of  Utah.  It  has  been  ready  to  recognize  ability 
in  young  men,  and  has  always  afforded  them  an 
opportunity  to  demonstrate  their  fitness  to  oc- 
cupy positions  of  honor  and  trust.  In  Salt  Lake 
City  this  is  especially  true,  and  today  the  respon- 
sible position  of  City  Auditor  is  occupied  by  a 
man  who  has  but  just  passed  the  thirtieth  mile 
stone  in  his  life's  journey.  He  is  now  serving 
his  second  term  in  that  office,  having  served  with 
such  distinction  during  his  first  term  that  he  was 
re-elected  by  a  large  majority  in  the  election 
which  took  place  in  1901.  His  administration 
of  his  office  has  brought  him  prominently  be- 
fore the  people  of  the  city  and  county,  and  to- 
day there  is  no  public  official  who  stands  higher 
in  the  confidence  of  the  business  world  and  in 
the  esteem  of  the  people  than  does  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

Albert  S.  Reiser  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1871,  and  has  spent  his  life  within  the  boun- 
daries of  Utah.  His  father,  Henry  Reiser,  was 
a  native  of  Switzerland,  and  spent  his  early  life 
in  the  land  of  his  nativity,  emigrating  to  Utah 
in  i860.  L^pon  his  arrival  here  he  engaged  in 
the  jewelry  business,  and  has  successfully  fol- 
lowed that  all  his  life.  He  became  a  convert  to 
the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  Switz- 
erland, and  throughout  his  life  in  Utah  has  been 
a  consistent  and  devoted  follower  of  that  faith. 
He  came  from  a  well-known  family  in  Switz- 
erland, who  have  been  for  generations  an  in- 
fluential and  widely-known  mountaineer  family. 
His  wife,  Magdalene  (Schneider)  Reiser,  and 
the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
also  a  native  of  Switzerland,  who  also  joined 
the  Church  in  her  native  land  and  came  to  Utah, 
where  she  was  married. 

Their  son,  Albert  S.,  was  educated  in  the  pri- 
vate schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  attended 
the  Deseret  University  ,now  the  University  of 
Utah.  Upon  the  completion  of  his  education, 
he  engaged   in  the  jewelry   business,    which   he 


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successfully  followed  for  some  time.  His  next 
work  was  in  the  postoffice  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  he  served  for  two  years  under  Postmas- 
ters Nash  and  Barratt.  He  has  always  taken 
an  active  interest  in  political  affairs,  and  is  a 
staunch  Republican.  In  1896  he  was  made  Dep- 
uty City  Recorder,  and  the  reputation  he  made 
in  that  office  for  efficiency,  and  the  splendid  man- 
ner in  which  its  duties  were  administered, 
brought  him  the  nomination  of  City  Auditor  in 
1899,  on  the  Republican  ticket.  In  the  election 
which  ensued  he  was  elected,  and  was  re-elected 
in  1 90 1,  receiving  a  larger  number  of  votes  than 
any  candidate  for  any  office  voted  for  at  that 
election. 

]Mr.  Reiser  was  married  to  Aliss  Nellie  Hamer, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Hamer,  in  1895.  Like  his 
parents,  Mr.  Reiser  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  takes  an  active  part  in  its  welfar'' 
He  is  one  of  the  most  popular  officials  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  has  made  a  reputation  for  integ- 
rity and  ability  that  gives  him  a  high  rank  in 
the  political  life  of  Utah.  His  genial  and  pleas- 
ant manner  has  won  for  him  the  friendship  of 
all  the  people  with  whom  he  has  come  in  con- 
tact, and  today  there  is  no  more  popular  man 
in  this  citv  than  he. 


ORACE  DRAKE.  Prominent  among 
the  families  which  came  with  the  pion- 
eers to  Utah  in  1847,  was  that  of  Hor- 
ace Drake,  of  Centerville.  The  Drakes 
come  of  good  old  fighting  stock.  Hor- 
ace's mother's  father,  John  Perkins,  went  through 
the  Revolutionary  war  and  fought  and  bled  for 
his  countr}'  in  the  famous  battle  of  Bunker  Hill^ 
and  his  father,  Daniel  Drake,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  181 2,  when  the  United  States  a  second  time 
asserted  the  martial  supremacy  over  the  mother 
country. 

Horace  Drake  was  born  in  Hartford,  Trumbull 
county,  Ohio,  on  April  19,  1826.  He  is  a  son  of 
Daniel  and  Patience  (Perkins)  Drake.  Both 
father  and  mother  were  natives  of  Vermont,  his 
mother's  home  being  at  the  foot  of  the  Green 
mountains.  After  their  marriage  in  Vermont 
thev  moved  to  New  York  State  where  all  of  their 


eleven  children,  except  Horace,  the  youngest, 
were  born.  Mrs.  Drake  was  a  widow  when  she 
married  Daniel  Drake.  Her  first  husband  was  a 
well-known  scythe  manufacturer  of  Vermont,  and 
the  celebrated  "Taft"  scythe  was  manufactured 
under  his  name  for  many  years  after  his  death. 

The  Drakes  came  to  Illinois  in  1835  and 
settled  in  Hancock  county  ,  within  sixteen 
miles  of  Carthage.  Here  they  all  embraced  the 
Mormon  faith,  and  received  baptism  on  April 
8,  1841.  They  lived  near  Carthage  until  1846, 
and  were  there  during  the  terrible  riot  when 
the  Mormons  were  persecuted,  their  houses 
burned,  their  property  destroyed  or  confiscated, 
and  their  prophet,  Jaseph  Smith,  killed.  After 
this,  they  were  driven  out  of  Illinois,  from  the 
homes  that  they  had  built,  and  were  forced  to 
abandon  the  temple  they  had  spent  years  in  erect- 
ing in  the  beautiful  city  of  Nauvoo.  Crossing  the 
Mississippi,  at  Fort  Madison,  to  Council  Bluffs, 
the  Drakes  betook  themselves  to  Running  Water 
Fork,  near  the  Missouri,  where  they  took  up 
winter  quarters.  In  the  spring  of  '47  they  fitted 
out  wagons  with  ox  teams  at  Council  Bluffs,  and 
the  father  and  mother  with  Horace  and  one  of  his 
brothers,  Orson  P.,  came  West  with  the  pioneers 
to  Utah.  The  rest  of  the  family  came  on  the 
following  year.  Horace  made  an  application, 
to  go  with  the  Mormon  battalion,  but  an  ac- 
cident to  his  right  arm  which  caused  a  stiffening 
of  the  elbow  from  anchylosis  of  the  joint,  pre- 
vented his  acceptance.  He  and  one  of  his  brothers 
had  made  some  drums  while  they  were  at  Nau- 
voo, and  were  eagerly  learning  to  beat  the  tattoo 
so  that  they  could  go  as  drummers  with  the  bat- 
talion, but  as  Horace's  accident  prevented  his  en- 
listment, his  father  would  not  allow  the  other 
boy  to  go.  After  coming  to  Utah,  these  two 
made  the  first  musical  instruments  that  were 
ever  made  in  the  territory.  These  were  a  couple 
of  violins  on  which,  for  many  a  year,  they  played 
at  Ogden  and  other  places  in  the  Valley. 

The  Drake  family  crossed  the  plains  in  a 
train  in  which  a  hundred  wagons  were  under 
the  command  of  Daniel  Spencer,  fifty  under  Ira 
Eldredge  and  ten  under  George  Boyce.  The  first 
winter,  they  passed  in  the  old  Salt  Lake  Fort. 
In  i8so,  the  elder  Drake  went  to  Ogden,  where 


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he  died  in  December  of  the  following  year.  ]Mrs. 
Drake  died  in  i860. 

On  October  3,  1850,  Mr.  Drake  was  married 
at  Salt  Lake  City,  by  President  Brigham  Young, 
to  Diana  E.  Holbrook,  a  daughter  of  Chandler 
and  Unice  (Dunning)  Holbrook.  Her  father  and 
mother  had  both  been  born  and  raised  in  Genesee 
county,  New  York,  and  came  of  that  good  old 
Puritan  stock  of  which  New  York  has  so  many 
sons  and  daughters.  The  Holbrooks  were  among 
the  first  to  embrace  the  teachings  of  Joseph 
Smith,  and  Chandler  never  lost  an  opporunity 
to  spread  the  teachings  he  had  imbibed  from  the 
Prophet.  He  had  a  most  profound  belief  in  these 
doctrines  which  he  cherished  during  his  whole 
life.  It  was  such  men  as  Chandler  Holbrook 
that  were  foremost  among  those  who  laid  the 
foundation  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  L'tah, 
which  lives  and  waxes  stronger  each  year.  He 
was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  education.  He 
had  charge  of  the  survey  of  what  was  then 
called  Dixey  county,  in  Southern  Utah.  Horace's 
wife  was  with  the  last  party  of  women  who  went 
up  to  Zion,  at  Kirkland,  Ohio,  and  the  only  one 
of  that  party  who  is  living  today.  The  Drakes 
had  twelve  children,  only  three  of  whom  are 
living  today.  They  were  Horace  L.,  dead;  Cyrus 
H.,  dead;  Unice  D.,  dead;  Samuel,  deceased; 
Jedediah,  deceased ;  Joseph,  dead ;  Rosetta,  died 
at  14  years ;  Hyrum ;  Alice  E.,  now  Mrs.  S.  F. 
Worsley,  of  Idaho;  Daniel  C,  deceased;  James 
A.,  dead,  and  Edith  L.,  who  lives  at  home  with 
her  parents,  and  is  an  amiable,  accomplished  and 
well  educated  young  lady,  much  attached  to  her 
home  and  her  parents. 

After  living  for  forty  years  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Mr.  Drake  went  to  Centerville  in  1887,  where  he 
now  has  three  hundred  and  thirty-seven  acres  of 
land  which  cost  him  $18,000.  His  is  one  of  the 
best  farms  in  L^tah,  and  was  once  owned  by 
Brigham  Young's  family.  Judge  Le  Grande 
Young  improved  it  by  building  on  it  a  fine,  large 
adobe  house,  and  perhaps  the  most  costly  rock 
barn  in  the  State.  It  is  built  of  stone,  inlaid  with 
mortar,  and  is  an  immensely  massive  structure. 
The  farm  has  a  gradual  slope  from  the  mountains 
to  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  and  contains  magnificent 
orchards.     Hyrum.  one  of  the  sons,  has  a  small 


lot  and  a  fine  brick  house  on  this  farm,  which  his 
father  assisted  him  in  building.  Mr.  Drake  also 
owns  some  fine  building  property  in  Center- 
ville, where  he  proposes  to  build  a  home,  some 
day,  in  proximity  to  the  tneeting  house.  Cimeran 
H.  Pickering,  a  child  of  his  oldest  daughter,  is 
being  raised  at  his  home. 

During  the  trouble  with  Johnston's  army,  Hor- 
ace Drake  was  among  the  first  to  enlist  in  the 
Mormon  ranks,  and  on  the  first  night  that  they 
were  out  a  terriffic  snow  storm  raged  in  the 
canyon  all  night.  Drake's  lame  arm  became 
helpless  from  the  cold  and  exposure,  and  the 
colonel,  noticing  his  condition,  ordered  him  home. 
He  pleaded  hard  to  stay  but  was  not  allowed. 
Horace  Dtake  and  all  of  his  family  are  staunch 
supporters  of  the  Mormon  Church.  He,  himself, 
has  passed  through  the  priesthood  and  been  or- 
dained a  member  of  the  Seventies,  being  the 
senior  counsel  of  the  tenth  quorum.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Nauvoo  Legion,  and  was  present 
when  Joseph  .Smith  blessed  the  legion,  a  blessing 
which  he  has  cherished  the  memory  of  through 
all  his  life. 

Mr.  Drake  still  holds  his  commission  as  drum 
major  in  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Nauvoo 
Legion,  and  among  his  most  treasured  posses- 
sions are  the  flag,  flag-staiT  and  drum  which 
formed  part  of  his  accoutrements.  The  drum  ac- 
companied the  Mormon  battalion  across  the  des- 
erts to  California,  and  the  flag  and  staff  were 
made  in  Utah.  These  relics  were  all  on  exhibition 
in  Salt  Lake  City  during  the  Jubilee  celebration 
held  in  that  city  in  July,  1897. 


KORGE  C.  LAMBERT.  The  settle- 
ment of  the  West  and  the  development 
of  its  resources  have  been  carried  on 
by  many  men  who  have  taken  up  the 
uncompleted  tasks  where  their  prede- 
cessors left  off,  and  have  carried  the  work  on 
a  little  farther.  In  the  extreme  Western  States 
there  has  been  more  or  less  spasmodic  effort 
towards  industrial  development,  but  in  the  entire 
West  the  States  have  grown  not  only  by  reason  of 
the  efforts  of  the  men,  but  by  reason  of  their 
position.     This  is  especially  true  of  L^tah  and  of 


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117 


Salt  Lake  City,  the  position  of  the  latter  being 
such  as  to  make  it  one  of  the  most  important  dis- 
tribution centers  throughout  the  West.  It  is  the 
center  of  the  mining  field  of  Utah,  into  which 
is  paid  the  money  received  for  the  ores,  and  from 
which  is  shipped  the  supplies  needed  not  only  foi" 
mining,  but  for  the  life  of  the  region  covered  by 
four  ^tates.  The  wide  range  of  the  industries 
of  the  present  day  civilization  has  brou'ght  into 
being  many  enterprises  which  have  grown  with 
the  advance  of  years  to  be  almost  indispensable. 
There  is  perhaps  no  greater  industry  nor  one 
which  is  more  closely  associated  with  the  people, 
and  without  which  business  could  hardly  be  car- 
ried on,  than  the  newspaper.  The  newspaper  of 
today  is  essentially  the  product  of  American  civil- 
ization, and  is  one  of  the  features  of  American 
life.  In  its  making  there  is  required  the  co- 
operation of  a  good  many  people  and  the  use  of 
a  varied  supply  of  material.  The  work  of  supply- 
ing paper,  ink  and,  in  fact,  all  printers'  supplies, 
has  grown  to  be  one  of  the  prominent  industries 
of  the  country,  and  in  LTtah  the  largest  firm  which 
conducts  this  business,  and  by  its  honesty  and  in- 
tegrity has  won  a  high  position  in  the  commercial 
world,  is  the  Lambert  Paper  Company,  over  which 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  presides  as  President. 
George  C.  Lambert  was  born  in  Winter  Quar- 
ters, now  Florence,  Nebraska,  April  11,  1848, 
while  his  parents  were  enrounte  to  Utah.  The 
Lambert  family  had  been  driven  from  Illinois 
and  Missouri  to  Nebraska,  and  wintered  in  the 
latter  State.  While  there  their  team  animals  were 
stolen  by  the  Indians  and  they  were  prevented 
from  pursuing  their  journey  until  1849.  M''- 
Lambert's  father,  Charles  Lambert,  returned  to 
Missouri,  after  the  birth  of  George  C,  and  came 
to  L^tah  the  following  year,  arriving  here  in 
1849.  ''"d  was  among  the  early  pioneers  in  the 
development  of  this  State.  His  mother,  Mary 
Alice  (Cannon)  Lambert,  was  a  sister  of  George 
Q.  Cannon.  Mr.  Lambert's  father  was  a  builder 
and  mason,  and  after  his  arrival  in  Utah  combined 
that  pursuit,  with  farming  and  bridge  build- 
ing during  the  balance  of  his  life.  The 
Lambert  family  were  through  all  the  trials 
of  the  Mormon  Church  in  Nauvoo,  and  were 
among  the  last  members  of  that  Church  who  were 


driven  from  that  city  and  from  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois. While  coming  to  Utah,  in  crossing  the  river 
at  Omaha,  which  at  that  time  was  frozen  over, 
the  wagon  containing  the  worldly  effects  of  the 
family  broke  through  the  ice  and  sank  to  the 
bottom  of  the  river,  while  Mrs.  Lambert  with  four 
children  clinging  to  her  skirts,  witnessed  the  dis- 
aster from  the  bank  of  the  river.  At  the  time 
that  this  occurred  j\lr.  Lambert  was  absent  in 
Missouri. 

The  career  that  Mr.  Lambert  has  made  in 
L^tah  stamps  him  as  one  of  its  most  remarkable 
men.  not  only  in  the  business  world,  but  also 
among  its  citizens  of  interest.  He  has  built  his 
present  business  from  a  small  beginning  to  one  of 
the  largest  establishments  in  Utah,  and,  in  fact, 
throughout  the  West.  He  has  spent  practically 
his  whole  life  in  this  State  and  has  aided  in 
its  development  as  well  as  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  of  his  choice.  While  he  was  not  born  in 
Utah,  he  came  here  as  an  infant  and  is  surely  en- 
titled to  consider  himself  as  one  of  the  people  of 
this  State  with  which  he  has  been  identified  all  his 
life.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent  on  his  father's 
farm,  in  freighting,  and  in  doing  all  the  work 
that  the  boys  of  the  pioneers  of  those  days  were 
called  upon  to  do.  In  1866  he  took  part  in  the 
expedition  in  the  southern  part  of  Utah,  where 
the  troops  were  called  to  guard  the  settlers  from 
the  depredations  of  the  Indians.  He  received 
such  educational  advantages  as  the  ward  schools 
of  those  days  afforded,  and  attended  one  term. 
He  later  attended  the  Union  x^cademy,  which  was 
the  genesis  of  the  University  of  Utah. 

In  January,  1867,  he  engaged  in  the  printing 
business  in  the  Deseret  Nczvs  office  and  has 
worked  in  all  the  departments — from  type-setting 
to  business  manager  and  editor.  He  continued 
with  the  Deseret  Neivs  for  a  number  of  years 
and  subsequently  was  in  partnership  with  his 
uncle,  George  Q.  Cannon,  in  the  publication  of 
the  Juvenile  Instructor,  and  numerous  books,  of 
which  business  he  had  the  entire  management. 
He  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  to  Eu- 
rope, by  his  Church,  in  October,  1882,  and 
in  Liverpool  he  edited  the  Millennial  Star  and 
the  Journal  of  Discourses.  These  were  English 
publications    of   the    Mormon    Church,    for    dis- 


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tribution  in  Europe.  Mr.  Lambert  served  two 
and  a  quarter  years  on  that  mission  and,  while 
abroad,  visited  England,  Ireland,  Wales,  Den- 
mark, Sweden  and  France.  He  returned  to  Utah 
at  the  close  of  his  work  and  again  took  up  his 
position  on  the  Deseret  News,  being  first  engaged 
in  the  editorial  department,  where  he  remained 
until  May,  1886. 

The  prosecutions,  by  the  L'nited  States  Govern- 
ment, for  violation  of  the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act, 
were  just  commencing  when  he  returned  from 
Europe,  and  Mr.  Lambert,  being  a  strong  be- 
liever in  the  Mormon  principles,  and  especially  in 
the  doctrine  of  plural  marriages,  had  married 
two  wives,  with  whom  he  lived.  He  was  ar- 
rested, tried  and  convicted  for  a  violation  of  this 
law,  and  sentenced  to  the  penitentiary  for  six 
months,  serving  that  sentence  in  company  with 
President  Snow  and  other  prominent  members 
of  the  Church.  While  serving  his  sentence,  he 
was  more  or  less  of  a  privileged  character,  owing 
to  his  being  a  journalist,  and  was  permitted  to 
read  the  newspapers,  an  exception  which  was 
not  made  for  any  other  of  the  Mormons  during 
his  incarceration.  During  his  six  months'  impris- 
onment for  what  he  considered  not  an  offense 
against  the  Government,  but  a  persecution  on 
account  of  his  religious  belief,  Mr.  Lambert  was 
approached  by  the  Territorial  Governor  and  of- 
fered amnesty  if  he  would  forego  the  practice  of 
polygamy.  This  was  offered  to  all  the  prisoners 
who  w-ere  incarcerated  for  this  offense,  but  so 
strong  was  their  belief  in  their  right  to 
follow  the  teachings  and  doctrines  of  their 
religion,  that  they  refused  this  offer,  which  also 
included  the  cancellation  of  their  sentences.  Mr. 
Lambert  was  chosen  by  the  prisoners  to  write 
the  reply  to  the  Governor's  offer,  declining  his 
proposition,  which  reply  was  signed  by  all  the 
Mormon  prisoners. 

After  his  release  from  the  penitentiary,  Mr. 
Lambert  continued  his  activity  in  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  has  been  one  of  its  prominent  mem- 
bers ever  since,  aiding  in  its  development  and 
guiding  its  work.  He  has  always  been  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  industries  of  Utah, 
and  has  seen  Salt  Lake  City  grow  from 
a     small,    straggling     village     to     its     present 


importance.  For  more  than  twenty-five  years 
he  has  been  in  the  newspaper  business,  and 
in  addition  to  it,  he  is  also  the  owner 
of  considerable  real  estate  in  this  city  and 
county.  The  Lambert  Paper  Company,  of  which 
he  is  president,  was  originally  established  bv  him 
in  1893.  This  incorporation  was  the  outgrowth 
of  the  business  established  by  Mr.  Lambert, 
twenty-five  years  before.  It  has  grown  to  its 
present  proportions  and  its  high  standard  of  pros- 
perity under  his  able  management.  In  1897  it 
was  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Utah  with 
a  capital  stock  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 
Mr.  Lambert  was  chosen  as  its  president  and 
manager,  which  positions  he  has  held  ever  since. 
His  son,  George  C.  Lambert,  Junior,  was  elected 
secretary  and  treasurer,  and  still  holds  those 
positions,  while  James  N.,  the  second  son,  is  vice- 
president  of  the  company.  The  establishment  of 
the  company  is  on  West  South  Temple  street, 
in  a  spacious,  three-story  brick  building.  The 
firm  now  devotes  its  entire  time  to  the  wholesale 
business,  which  extends  throughout  other  inter- 
mountain  States  as  well  as  Utah.  There  are 
employed,  in  the  different  departments  of  the 
house,  twelve  men ;  and  three  traveling  salesmen 
to  cover  the  territory  tributary  to  Salt  Lake. 
Their  stock  consists  of  paper  of  every  description : 
Stationery,  printers'  supplies,  plain  and  printed 
wrapping  paper;  paper  boxes  and  cutters,  twine, 
oyster  and  ice  cream  pails,  candy  boxes,  pie 
plates,  and  in  fact  everything  made  or  used  in 
paper.  The  firm  is  one  of  the  sound  financial 
establishments  of  Utah,  and  has  won  an  enviable 
reputation  for  integrity  and  honesty.  Mr.  Lam- 
bert has  made  for  himself  a  splendid  career  in  the 
business  life  of  Utah,  having  been  prominently 
identified  with  various  institutions.  He  was 
formerly  manager  and  part  owner  of  the  Granite 
Paper  Mills,  until  the  latter  burned  down  in 
April,  1893. 

Mr.  Lambert  married  his  first  wife.  Miss  Mary 
Alice  Needham,  in  May,  1871,  and  by  her  had 
nine  children,  six  of  whom  are  still  living.  His 
second  wife  was  Miss  Rosina  M.  Cannon,  an 
adopted  daughter  of  George  Q.  Cannon,  and  by 
her  he  had  five  children,  of  whom  four  are  living. 

In  addition   to   the  commercial   enterprises   in 


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which  Mr.  Lambert  has  been'  identified,  he  has 
also  taken  an  active  part  in  the  development  of 
the  agricultural  resources  of  this  State.  He  is 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Irrigation  Congress 
of  Utah,  also  of  the  Utah  and  Salt  Lake  Canal 
Company,  one  of  the  largest  canals  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region ;  he  is  also  the  owner  of  three 
fine  farms  in  the  outlying  districts  of  Salt  Lake 
county,  and  also  owns  a  dairy  located  just  south 
of  the  city.  Few  men  have  taken  a  more  active 
part  in  the  development  of  Utah  and  in  building 
up  its  resources  than  has  Mr.  Lambert.  He  is 
essentially  a  self-made  man,  and  has  gained  his 
education,  not  so  much  from  books  as  from  the 
experiences  of  his  daily  life.  He  has  made  a 
record  which  entitles  him  to  a  foremost  place  in 
the  annals  of  Utah,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of 
the  most  substantial  and  influential  of  its  citizens. 
His  leadership  in  the  work  of  the  Church  has 
secured  for  him  the  confidence  and  trust  of  its 
members,  and  his  strict  integrity  and  honesty 
have  also  won  for  him  the  respect  and  esteem  of 
all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated  in  business. 
His  active  life  has  brought  him  into  close  contact 
with  all  the  people  of  the  inter-mountain  region, 
and  he  numbers  his  friends  by  the  legion. 


AXIEL  HARRINGTON  was  born  in 
American  Fork,  Utah  county,  Utah, 
March  15,  i860.  He  has  spent  his 
whole  life  within  the  confines  of  this 
State  and  has  devoted  his  time  to  the 
practice  of  the  law,  in  which  he  has  achieved  a 
successful  career,  standing  now  in  the  foremost 
ranks  of  that  profession  in  this  State. 

He  is  a  son  of  the  late  L.  E.  Harrington,  a 
native  of  New  York  State,  who  came  to  L^tah  in 
1847,  being  one  of  the  first  pioneers  who  under- 
took the  settlement  of  this  wild  region.  He  set- 
tled in  Utah  county  and  was  for  thirty  years 
in  the  Territorial  Legislature,  representing  thai 
district,  most  of  that  time  as  chairman  of  the 
judiciary  committee.  So  highly  esteemed  was  he 
by  his  fellow-citizens  that  for  twelve  consecutive 
terms  he  filled  the  office  of  mayor  of  that  town. 
He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus   Christ  of  Latter  Day   Saints,   and   was  a 


Bishop  of  the  Ward  in  which  he  lived.  He  was  a 
leading  man  of  that  section  of  the  country  and  did 
much  during  his  life  to  promote  its  interests  and 
aided  in  every  way  in  his  power  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources.  He  died  in  1883,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-seven,  loved  and  respected  by  all 
who  knew  him.  His  wife,  Mary  (Jones)  Har- 
rington, the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
died  when  her  son  was  but  an  infant.  Daniel 
Harrington's  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  a  man- 
ner similar  to  those  of  other  pioneers.  He  as- 
sisted his  father  in  the  latter's  business  and  at- 
tended the  district  schools  at  American  Fork. 
He  later  entered  the  Brigham  Young  academy 
at  Provo,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and  graduated 
from  that  institution  two  years  later.  L'pon  leav- 
ing that  institution  he  took  up  the  work  of  teach- 
ing, and  was  principal  of  the  schools  of  Richfield, 
Sevier  county,  and  superintendent  of  the  schools 
of  Sevier  county  for  some  years. 

Air.  Harrington  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah, 
in  1887,  when  he  became  associated  with  John 
W.  Young,  who  was  then  building  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  railroads  then  entering  the  Park  City 
region.  In  1890  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar; 
immediately  thereafter,  in  order  to  acquire  the 
most  advanced  methods  of  study,  he  entered  the 
law  department  of  Michigan  University  at  Ann 
Arbor,  and  graduated  there  with  the  degree  of 
L.  L.  B.,  in  1901.  In  1895  he  filled  the  office  ot 
Assistant  District  /Attorney  in  Salt  Lake  City  and 
continued  in  that  office  until  the  admission  of 
Utah  into  the  Union  as  a  State.  His  practice  has 
grown  with  the  years,  and  he  now  enjoys  a  large 
general  practice.  He  has,  however,  devoted  con- 
siderable attention  to  criminal  law,  and  is  equally 
as  ready  in  the  criminal  as  in  the  civil  courts. 

He  has  been  an  active  worker  in  politics,  and 
has  participated  in  all  the  campaigns  of  the  Re- 
publican party  since  its  formation  in  the  State. 
In  1 89 1  he  was  nominated  from  the  Second  Pre- 
cinct, Salt  Lake  City,  on  that  ticket  for  the  State 
Legislature,  but  at  the  election  the  party  did  not 
prevail.  In  the  various  campaigns  in  which  he 
has  participated  he  has  been  one  of  the  leaders 
of  the  Republican  party,  serving  on  the  various 
committees  charged  with  the  conduct  of  the  cam- 
paigns.   To  him  the  credit  is  due  in  a  large  part 


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of  the  campaign  clulis  which  were  scattered 
throughout  the  State,  and  which  were  of  such  ma- 
terial advantage  and  Ijenefit  to  the  RepubHcan 
party. 

He  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  to  ]\Iiss  Leonora 
Taylor,  daughter  of  President  John  Taylor,  of 
the  Mormon  Church.  They  have  six  children- 
Jennie;  Daniel,  Jr.;  Florence;  John  T. ;  Russell, 
and  Mary. 

Mr.  Harrington  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  has  risen  to  a  prominent  position  in 
its  affairs,  being  now  one  of  the  Seventies.  His 
ability  as  a  lawyer  has  brought  him  prominently 
before  the  people  of  the  State,  and  the  reputa- 
tion which  he  has  made  has  been  strengtiiened  by 
his  genial  and  pleasant  manner.  He  is  one  of 
the  most  popular  attorneys  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  numbers  his  friends  throughout  the  State  by 
the  legion. 


RS.  MARY  DONAHUE,  ncc 
Moody.  The  development  of  the 
mining  resources  of  Utah  and  the 
uilding  up  of  towns  at  its  mining 
centers  has  not  been  ttie  exclusive 
work  of  men,  but  in  this  field  there  have  been 
women  who  have  gained  not  only  wealth  by 
their  operations,  but  also  a  wide  reputation  for 
their  business  ability,  and  among  the  most  prom- 
inent of  these,  and  especially  in  the  Tintic  min- 
ing district  of  Utah,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mrs.  Donahue  was  born  in  Grimes  county, 
Texas,  and  came  to  Utah  when  quite  young,  be- 
ing educated  in  the  schools  of  Utah.  She  re- 
mained here  until  1862,  when  her  people  moved 
to  Utah.  Her  father.  Bishop  John  Moody, 
had  become  a  convert  to  the  Mormon  Church 
in  Texas,  and  moved  to  Utah  in  1861,  and  in 
the  following  year  was  joined  by  his  family. 
Upon  his  removal  to  this  State  he  engaged  in 
general  business  life,  and  later  moved  to  Saint 
George,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  machin- 
ery and  mercantile  business.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  all  the  commercial  life  of  the 
State.  He  lived  at  Saint  George  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  and  then  removed  to  Arizona,  where 
he  spent  the  balance  of  his  life.    He  was  a  mem- 


ber of  the  Territorial  Legislature,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  all  the  work  which  fell  to  the  lot 
of  the  early  settlers  of  this  State.  He  lived  to 
be  sixty  years  of  age,  and  died  in  Arizona,  in 
which  Territory  he  carried  on  a  flour  mill  and 
mercantile  business.  Throughout  his  life  he  was 
a  faithful  and  devoted  member  of  the  church  of 
his  choice.  His  family  had  been  early  settlers 
of  Texas,  and  his  father  had  been  prominent  in 
the  early  business  of  that  State,  both  in  its  po- 
litical life  and  in  its  settlement  and  develop- 
ment. They  settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Houston 
Texas,  and  there  is  now  a  street  in  that  city 
which  is  named  for  him.  Mrs.  Donahue's  mother 
Margaret  (Anglin)  Moody,  was  also  a  native 
of  Texas,  where  her  father,  Elisha  Anglin,  was 
one  of  the  early  settlers  and  operated  a  stock 
raising  and  cattle  business.  Mrs.  Donahue  be- 
came interested  in  the  mining  properties  of 
Utah  about  eleven  years  since,  becoming  identi- 
fied with  the  famous  Mammoth  mine  in  the 
Tintic  district,  which  had  been  first  developed 
by  the  Crismons,  and  was  later  sold  by  them  to 
the  Mclntyres,  brothers  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Our  subject  is  also  largely  identified 
with  the  commercial  life  of  Tintic,  and  has  one 
of  the  largest  establishments  for  the  furnishing 
of  supplies  for  the  miners  in  that  district.  This 
is  one  of  the  famous  mines  of  Utah,  and  one 
which  has  proved  as  profitable  as  any  mine 
which  has  ever  been  developed  in  this  State.  It 
is  now  one  of  the  deepest  in  the  Tintic  mining 
district,  and  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  prop- 
erties in  that  portion  of  the  State. 

Mrs.  Donahue  has  three  sons — Robert  Morris, 
William  J.  and  Monroe  S.  The  first  is  estab- 
lished in  business  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  Wil- 
liam and  Monroe  are  associated  with  their 
mother  in  the  business  in  the  Tintic  mining  dis- 
trict. Besides  the  general  mercantile  business 
which  Mrs.  Donahue  successfully  carries  on,  and 
the  interests  which  she  has  in  the  Mammoth 
mine,  she  is  also  identified  with  other  industries 
in  this  State.  Her  experience  in  mining,  to- 
gether with  the  time  she  has  spent  in  the  mercan- 
tile business,  has  made  her  not  only  an  experi- 
enced mining  expert,  but  also  one  of  the  best 
business   women   of  Utah.     Although   her  busi- 


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ness  is  located  in  Tintic,  she  makes  her  home  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  splendid  home  which  she 
occupies  is  located  at  No.  141  South  Second 
East  street,  the  plans  of  which  she  designed,  su- 
perintending its  erection,  as  well  as  furnishing 
it.  Her  father  and  mother  were  both  identified 
with  the  Mormon  Church,  and  were  consistent 
members  of  that  faith  throughout  their  lives. 

Mrs.  Donahue  is  not  a  member  of  any  church, 
but  believes  in  helping  them  in  their  work  and 
in  doing  the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  num- 
ber of  people  who  are  deserving  of  charity  or 
need  help.  Neither  in  Tintic  nor  in  Salt  Lake 
City  has  there  ever  been  a  man  sent  nungry  from 
her  house,  and  an  appeal  for  aid  tails  upon  will- 
ing ears  when  addressed  to  her. 


RIN  HATCH.  The  opportunities  of 
lite  all  do  not  realize.  It  is,  therefore, 
especially  helpful  to  study  the  life  of  a 
successful  man;  one  who  has  started 
without  means  and  worked  his  own 
way  steadily  to  a  position  of  influence  and  finan- 
cial success.  Such  a  man  is  Orin  Hatch,  of 
Woods  Cross,  Davis  county,  now  living  a  retired 
life. 

Mr.  Hatch  was  bom  May  9,  1830.  in  Cat- 
taraugus county.  New  York,  and  is  the  son  of  Ira 
Stearns  and  Welthy  (Bradford)  Hatch.  His 
father  was  born  in  the  State  of  Vermont,  and  his 
mother  in  Maine.  They  were  married  in  New 
York  State  where  seven  children  were  born  and 
grew  to  maturity,  our  subject  being  the  third  of 
six  boys  and  one  girl.  In  1841  they  moved  from 
New  York  State  and  settled  in  Hancock  county, 
Illinois,  where  the  mother  died  in  the  fall  of  1842. 
The  senior  Mr.  Hatch  was  an  intimate  friend  and 
associate  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  and  was 
a  strong  believer  in  the  doctrines  which  he  ad- 
vocated, and  which  he  faithfully  followed  all  the 
balance  of  his  life.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Nauvoo  Legion  and  participated  in  all  the 
early  troubles  of  the  Church  in  that  sec- 
tion. He  was  present  at  the  last  public 
speech  which  the  Prophet  ever  made.  In 
1846,  at  the  time  of  the  exodus  of  the 
Mormon     people,     thcv     accompanied     them    to 


Winter  Quarters  and  when  the  Government  called 
for  five  hundred  men  from  the  ranks  of  the  Mor- 
mon people  our  subject  and  his  brother  were 
among  the  first  to  respond  to  this  call,  and  en- 
listed in  Company  C,  of  the  Mormon  battalion. 
They  took  up  the  march  and  traveled  to  Leaven- 
worth, Kansas.  Here  they  were  supplied  with  a 
new  outfit,  provisions,  etc.,  and  continued  the 
march  to  Santa  Fe.  This  was  a  memorable  trip 
from  the  fact  that  so  many  of  the  soldiers  suf- 
fered greatly  from  ague,  among  this  number 
being  our  subject.  The  same  characteristics,  how- 
ever, that  ever  followed  him  through  life,  were 
exemplified  on  that  march,  and  rather  than  give 
up  he  stuck  to  it  and  participated  in  the  whole  of 
the  march  until  they  were  discharged  from  Gov- 
ernment service,  which  took  place  in  Los  Angeles, 
California.  Here  he  remained  for  some  time 
with  the  balance  of  his  company,  having  secured 
work  from  Captain  Sutter,  who  was  at  that  time 
constructing  a  dam  and  here  the  first  gold  was 
discovered.  On  account  of  the  scarcity  of  vege- 
tables in  that  country  at  that  time  .=curvy  broke 
out  and  our  subject  was  a  great  sufiferer  from 
that  plague  as  well,  at  a  time  wnen  he  was 
living  in  the  vicinity  of  Sacramento. 

In  1848,  Mr.  Hatch  and  his  brother,  Meltior, 
who  had  accompanied  him  through  all  this  jour- 
ney, returned  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  from  Salt 
Lake  City  went  back  to  Iowa,  where  their  father 
had  been  engaged  in  farming  during  these  two 
years.  They  spent  the  winter  of  1848-49  in  Mis- 
souri. In  the  following  year,  1849,  '1'^  whole 
family  returned  to  LItah  by  ox  teams,  our  subject 
and  his  father  at  that  time  owning  four  ox 
teams.  The  company  was  commanded  by  Cap- 
tain Enoch  Reese,  who  had  charge  of  fifty 
wagons.  When  part  way  on  the  journey,  the  cat- 
tle were  stampeded  by  fright,  and  from  that  time 
they  traveled  in  smaller  companies.  They  arrived 
in  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  autumn  ot  that  year, 
and  moved  almost  immediately  to  Bountiful, 
where  the  senior  Mr.  Hatch  made  his  home  for 
the  balance  of  his  life.  He  died  in  Bountiful  in 
1869.  From  the  time  of  settling  in  Utah,  our  sub- 
ject made  his  own  way.  In  1850,  he  went  to  the 
gold  fields  in  California,  at  Placerville,  where  he 
remained  for  two  years,  this  proving  a  successful 


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venture.  Upon  his  return  to  Utah  he  was  called 
by  the  heads  of  the  Church,  to  assist  in  colonizing 
the  Green  River  country,  where  he  spent  the 
greater  portion  of  one  year. 

On  November  lo,  1855.  he  married  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Perry,  daughter  of  John  and  Grace  Ann 
(Williams)  Perry,  both  natives  of  England, 
where  Mrs.  Hatch  was  born  in  1836.  The  Perry 
family  came  to  America  in  1840  and  settled  at 
Nauvoo,  where  they  lived  until  the  exodus  of  the 
Mormon  people,  which  occurred  in  1846.  Both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  were  members  of  the  United 
Brethren  Church,  in  England.  Mr.  Perry  was 
called  on  a  mission  to  England,  and  had  reached 
Atchison,  Kansas,  on  his  way  home,  when  he  was 
taken  sick,  and  died  in  1855.  His  wife  died  in 
1870.  They  were  among  the  first  families  to  settle 
in  Bountiful.  Of  this  marriage  thirteen  children 
were  born,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  A 
recent  photograph  of  the  whole  family  was 
taken  by  one  of  the  leading  artists  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  which  is  beyond  a  doubt  one  of  the  finest 
family  groups  ever  taken  in  the  State.  The  sons 
are  all  fine-looking,  manly  young  men,  and  the 
very  picture  of  health,  and  the  daughters  are 
beautiful  women.  They  are:  Orin  P.,  John  E., 
Grace  Ann,  now  Mrs.  William  Moss ;  Amelia  A., 
now  Mrs.  David  Jackson,  of  Rich  county,  Utah ; 
Joseph  E.,  living  in  the  Bear  River  country ; 
James  E.,  Alice,  now  Mrs.  James  Jackson,  of  Rich 
county,  L'tah ;  Chloe  A.,  now  Mrs.  Andrew 
Grant;  Ezra  T.,  Wilder  T.,  in  the  Big  Horn 
country ;  Myra,  now  Mrs.  Mann,  of  the  Big  Horn 
country ;  Algie,  now  Mrs.  Grant ;  Jabez  B.  He 
later  married  Maria  Thompson,  daughter  of 
Elizabeth  and  William  Thompson,  and  by  this 
marriage  eight  children  were  bom,  of  whom  two 
died — William  T.,  Orvil,  Daniel,  Dav'd,  who  died 
in  infancy ;  W^alter,  Lizzie,  George,  and  Ella  who 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years.  Mr  Hatch  has 
successfully  followed  farming  and  stock  raising, 
both  cattle  and  sheep,  the  greater  portion  of  his 
life  in  Utah.  His  home  place  consists  of  one 
hundred  acres  of  splendid  land  under  a  good 
state  of  cultivation,  and  has  a  fine  residence  and 
outbuildings.  Desides  this,  his  wife  owns  another 
fine  place  of  thirty-seven  acres,  also  well  im- 
proved. 


In  politics,  Mr.  Hatch  has  always  been  inde- 
pendent, preferring  to  support  the  best  man  for 
office.  He  was  baptized  by  one  of  the  Mormon 
Elders,  at  about  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  has 
always  been  a  faithful  and  consistent  member  of 
that  Church  throughout  his  life.  His  wife  was 
baptized  in  the  Mississippi  river  when  only  eight 
years  of  age ;  she  was  present  and  saw  the  bodies 
ot  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  and  his  brother 
Hyrum  after  their  death.  Mr.  Hatch  has  assisted 
in  the  colonization  of  the  Carson  valley  and  also 
of  Arizona.  He  has  served  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years  as  teacher  of  his  Ward,  and  has  passed 
through  all  the  offices  of  the  priesthood.  He 
was  ordained  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents  of  the 
Seventy-fourth  Quorum  of  Seventies,  later  a 
High  Priest  and  Ordained  Patriarch  by  Apos- 
tle Teasdale  in  1808. 


1 

<iIIX  R.  WINDER,  JR.,  the  son  of 
1  'resident  John  R.  Winder,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  men  in  the  history  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  in  Utah,  whose  biograph- 
ical sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work,  and 
Ellen  (Walters)  Winder,  a  native  of  near  Tren- 
ton, Devonshire,  England.  She  died  here  in  1893. 
John  R.  Winder,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Liverpool, 
England,  September  19,  1848,  and  came  to  LTtah 
with  his  parents  when  but  a  child  of  five  years, 
in  October,  1853.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  obtained  his  educa- 
tion from  the  schools  that  then  existed,  spend- 
ing part  of  the  time  on  a  farm.  During  one  of 
the  Conferences  of  the  Church  in  Salt  Lake  City 
the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  was 
in  need  of  some  extra  hands  to  handle  the  busi- 
ness for  a  short  time,  and  our  subject  persuaded 
his  father  to  allow  him  to  work  there  for  only  a 
few  weeks.  The  weeks  lengthened  into  months, 
and  the  months  into  years,  Mr.  Winder  being 
promoted  from  one  position  to  another,  work- 
ing principally  in  the  boot,  shoe  and  leather  de- 
partment, and  a  portion  of  the  time  traveling 
through  the  inter-mountain  region  in  the  inter- 
est of  the  establishment,  until  he  spent  thirteen 
years   in   the   service   of   that   institution,    having 


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entered  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years.  Upon 
severing  his  connection  with  that  estabhshment, 
Air.  Winder  bought  a  one-third  interest  in  the 
hardware  establishment  of  P.  \V.  Madsen  & 
Company,  and  had  charge  of  the  business  for 
about  nine  years.  The  business  was  later  in- 
corporated under  the  name  of  the  Utah  Stove 
&  Hardware  Company,  of  which  company  ]\Ir. 
Winder  was  for  many  years  secretary,  treasurer 
and  general  manager,  and  is  at  this  time  vice- 
president.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  Utah 
Commercial  and  Savings  Bank,  in  which  he  is 
one  of  the  directors  and  a  member  of  the  execu- 
tive committee,  and  is  a  large  stockholder.  He 
has  some  large  real  estate  holdings  in  the  city, 
owming  some  fine  terraces  on  First,  South  and 
Third  East  streets. 

Mr.  Winder  is  a  single  man.  In  political  life 
he  has  always  been  identified  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  but  has  never  sought  or  held  public 
office.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
He  has  served  on  one  mission  to  the  Southern 
States,  where  he  remained  for  about  eight 
months,  laboring  in  that  field  in  1875. 

Mr.  Winder's  entire  life  has  been  given  to  the 
advancement  and  development  of  the  city  of 
Salt  Lake.  He  has  devoted  his  time,  energy-  and 
means  to  this  cause,  and  is  today  one  of  the 
staunch  business  men  of  the  city,  standing  high 
not  only  in  the  commercial  world,  but  in  the 
esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated 
through  a  long  and  honorable  career. 


OLOXEL  EDWARD  S.  FERRY. 
I'rominent  among  the  young  meir.- 
liers  of  the  bar  of  L'tah,  and  one  who 
promises  by  the  work  he  has  already 
accomplished  to  be  one  of  the  lead- 
ers in  his  profession  in  the  fulness  of  his  y-ears, 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  at  present  a  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Richards  &  Ferry. 

Edward  S.  Ferry  is  the  son  of  Edward  and 
Clara  Mrginia  (White)  Ferry,  natives  of  Mich- 
igan. His  father  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
and  best  known  mining  men  in  the  West.  He 
was  born  near  Grand  Haven,  Alichigan,  and 
spent    his   boyhood   days   in    that   city,    receiving 


his  early  education  in  its  schools,  and  later  en- 
tered Beloit  College,  while  still  a  young  man. 
Upon  leaving  college,  he  embarked  in  the  lum 
ber  and  banking  business,  which  he  successfully 
followed  for  a  number  of  years.  For  a  lon^ 
time  he  was  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Grand  Haven,  one  of  the  soundest 
financial  establishments  in  the  State  of  Michi- 
gan. He  took  an  active  part  in  the  politics  cf 
his  native  State,  together  with  other  members 
of  his  family,  and  his  brother  served  a  number 
of  terms  in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States. 

-Air.  Ferry  came  to  Utah  in  1870,  and  wai 
one  of  the  first  men  to  take  hold  of  the  grea. 
Sdver  King  mine,  and  began  the  developmen: 
that  has  led  to  its  present  prosperity  and  valuc^ 
and  has  been  active  in  its  management  since 
that  time.  He  was  also  interested  in  the  Anchor 
mine,  and  it  was  largely  through  his  efforts  that 
this  mine  was  developed.  This  was  the  firsc 
mine  to  attract  attention  to  the  vast  mineral 
deposit  in  the  Park  City  district,  and  even  in  the 
early  history  of  the  mining  industry  of  Utah, 
Mr.  Ferry  had  unlimited  confidence  in  the  ulti- 
mate growth  of  that  section  and  in  the  wealth 
that  lay  hidden  beneath  its  surface.  So  strong  was 
his  faith  in  the  future  of  this  district  that  he  in- 
vested almost  all  the  money  he  had  in  mining 
properties  there,  and  in  the  generations  yet  to 
come  his  name  will  be  remembered  for  the  great 
work  he  has  accomplished  for  the  mining  in- 
terests of  the  State  of  Utah. 

Throughout  his  entire  life  :\Ir.  Ferry  had 
been  a  believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Republi- 
can party,  and  his  record  as  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  of  Utah  will  long  stand  as  a  mon- 
ument to  his  ability  and  to  the  faithful  manne' 
in  which  he  discharged  the  duties  entrusted  to 
him  by  his  fellow  citizens.  It  was  while  en- 
gaged in  this  duty,  being  re-elected  several  times, 
and  caring  for  his  vast  mining  enterprises,  that 
his  health  gave  way.  The  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, Clara  Virginia  (White)  Ferry,  was  also 
a  native  of  Michigan,  and  a  member  of  one  of 
the  oldest  families  of  Western  Michigan. 

Edward  S.  Ferry,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  Grand  Haven,  Michigan,  in  1872, 
and  spent  his  early  life  in  that  State.     He  \va= 


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educated  in  the  district  schools  of  Michigan 
and  in  the  MiUtary  Academy  at  Orchard  Lake, 
and  later  entered  Olivet  College.  He  gradu- 
ated from  the  law  department  of  the  State  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  in  1896.  In  1895  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Michigan.  He  removed 
to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1896,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Utah,  and  practiced  law  in  the  firm  of  Brown 
and  Henderson  for  three  years,  at  which  time 
the  present  firm  of  Richards  &  Ferry  was 
formed.  This  firm  enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative 
business,  devoting  most  of  its  attention  to  cor- 
opration  and  mining  cases 

Mr.  Ferry  married  Miss  Mabel  Edie,  a  nativ° 
of  Michigan.  He  is  on  the  staff  of  Governo- 
Wells,  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 


V  )RACE  W.  HENDERSON.  The  clos- 
ing years  of  the  nineteenth  century  and 
the  opening  of  the  twentieth  century 
must  go  down  to  history  as  an  age  of 
young  men ;  a  period  when  the  man  in 
the  flush  of  young  manhood,  strong  and  vigor- 
ous, both  mentally  and  physically,  pushed  to  the 
wall  the  man  of  years  who  put  forth  his  long 
experience  as  a  claim  for  the  positions  of  re- 
sponsibility and  trust — positions  that  a  few  years 
ago  were  considered  beyond  the  reach  of  the 
man  whose  head  was  not  frosted  with  the  snows 
of  many  winters,  and  the  venerable  appearance 
of  the  men  who  occupied  those  positions  invested 
them  with  a  certain  degree  of  respect,  if  not  awe. 
However,  within  the  past  decade  a  great  change 
has  come  over  the  entire  country  in  this  respect, 
and  newspapers  are  everywhere  calling  atten- 
tion to  the  number  of  young  men  in  high  posi- 
tions. These  young  giants,  with  their  better 
educational  equipment,  coming  from  genera- 
tions of  men  who  had  to  fight  hard  to  win  not 
only  a  place  in  their  immediate  world,  but  to 
bring  the  voung  nation  of  which  they  were  a 
part  to  the  foremost  place  which  she  now  occu- 
pies among  other  nations  of  the  world,  these 
men  accept  as  their  own  positions  and  responsi- 
bilities which  their  fathers,  at  their  age,  would 
not  have  dared  to  fill.     This  condition  of  affairs 


is  especially  noticeable  in  this  western  country, 
and  more  especially  in  railroad  circles,  the  head 
of  almost  every  department  in  the  railroad  of- 
fices in  Salt  Lake  City  being  comj>aratively 
young  men,  and  among  these  gentlemen  Horace 
W.  Henderson,  the  subject  of  this  article,  is 
worthy  of  special  notice. 

Mr.  Henderson  is  an  American.  He  was  born 
in  Amherst,  Massachusetts,  in  1865.  While  he 
w^as  yet  a  young  boy  his  parents  moved  to  Illi- 
nois and  settled  in  Lake  Forest,  one  of  the  sub- 
urbs of  Chicago,  where  our  subject  attended  the 
common  schools  and  completed  his  education  in 
the  Lake  Forest  University.  He  began  his  rail- 
road career  when  but  fifteen  years  old,  at  which 
time  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Union  Pacific 
railroad,  going  to  Denver  in  1881  and  remaining 
there  five  years,  in  the  supply  department.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  he  was  promoted  and  sent 
to  Laramie,  Wyoming,  where  he  entered  the  of- 
fice of  the  Superintendent.  He  remained  at  Lar- 
amie until  the  division  headquarters  were  trans- 
ferred to  Cheyenne,  when  he  was  given  a  posi- 
tion as  chief  clerk  in  the  otnce  of  the  superin- 
tendent of  that  divsion,  remaining  tli«re  until 
September,  1890.  He  later  spent  six  years  in 
Omaha,  serving  under  different  superintendents, 
and  in  1896  was  transferred  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
being  given  the  position  of  local  freight  agent, 
which  position  he  has  continued  to  fill  with  en- 
tire satisfaction  to  his  superiors,  as  well  as  the 
patrons  of  his  road,  among  whom  he  has  made 
many  warm  friends  by  his  efficient  and  obliging 
service.  Mr.  Henderson  has  about  seventy  men 
under  him  in  his  department. 

Mr.  Henderson's  father.  Doctor  Thomas  Hen- 
derson, was  a  physician  and  surgeon  of  consid- 
erable note.  He  served  throughout  the  entire 
Civil  War  in  the  capacity  of  Assistant  Surgeon, 
and  ir.  private  life  practiced  in  Illinois,  where  he 
built  up  a  large  practice,  later  moving  to  Denver, 
Colorado,  making  his  home  there  and  practicing 
his  profession  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  that 
city. 

Mr  Henderson  married  in  Omaha,  in  1893, 
to  Miss  Nina  M.  Godwin,  a  native  of  Illinois. 
They  have  no  children. 

In    politics    Air.    Henderson     is     independent, 


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never  having  affiliated  with  any  pohtical  party, 
preferring-  to  use  his  own  judgment  in  voting, 
but  at  the  last  national  election  voted  the  Re- 
publican ticket. 

During  the  time  they  have  been  in  the  city 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henderson  have  made  a  large  cir- 
cle of  friends,  and  Mr.  Henderson's  career  as  a 
business  man  has  been  such  as  to  elicit  only 
words  of  praise  from  those  associated  with  him 
He  began  to  make  his  own  way  in  life  at  an 
early  age,  and  the  success  that  has  rightfully 
come  to  him  has  been  won  through  his  own  per- 
severing spirit  and  a  determination  to  succeed. 
His  transactions  have  been  found  to  be  uni- 
formly honorable  and  upright,  and  he  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  the  entire  community. 


I.EXAXDER  McMASTER.  The 
very  spirit  which  induced  the  pioneers 
to  settle  in  Utah  and  to  battle  with 
the  adverse  conditions  until  they  hac 
luilt  a  prosperous  city  out  of  the 
wilikmess,  has  to  a  large  measure  descendcG 
to  their  children,  and  their  sons  are  now  taking 
the  same  prominent  part  in  the  affairs  of  tlic 
State  that  their  sires  did  in  the  early  days. 
Among  the  prominent  men,  both  in  the  ecclesi- 
astical work  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  in  the 
political  life  of  Salt  Lake  City,  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  who  has  won  his  present  position 
as  a  lawyer  by  the  sheer  force  of  his  own  meri! 
and  ability,  and  by  his  application  to  his  work- 
and  his  studies,  wdiich  at  times  seemed  almost 
beyond  the  power  of  human  strength  to  com- 
plete. He  is  now  one  of  the  leading  attorneys 
of  the  city,  and  enjoys  a  wide  and  lucrative  prac- 
tice. He  also  holds  a  high  place  in  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  and  is  one  of  the  leading  men  in 
its  Sunday  school  work. 

Mr.  McMaster  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  Cit> 
on  the  I2th  day  of  August,  1857,  and  has  prac- 
tically spent  his  entire  life  within  the  confines 
of  Utah.  He  is  the  son  of  William  Athol  Mc- 
Master, a  native  of  Scotland,  who  came  to  Utah 
in  1853,  crossing  the  great  plains  of  America 
from  the  Mississippi  river  with  a  yoke  of  oxen 


and  yoke  of  cows  instead  of  the  customary  two 
yoke  of  oxen.  He  was  a  rope  manufacturer  in 
his  native  land,  and  upon  his  arrival  in  Uta'- 
was  also  engaged  in  the  same  business,  being 
the  first  rope  maker  to  engage  in  that  busines? 
in  the  Territory.  This  business  he  built  up  tc 
a  very  satisfactory  condition,  and  continued  t:- 
follow  that  employment  until  the  railroad  era. 
When  the  railroads  were  completed  through  the 
West  the  demand  for  rope  fell  off,  and  he  left 
that  business  to  establish  a  general  mercantile 
business,  which  he  continued  to  follow  until  hi? 
death  in  1886.  He  had  joined  the  Mormon 
Church  in  Scotland,  and  was  the  first  Sundav 
school  Superintendent  of  the  Eleventh  Wara 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  for  many  years  was  Coun- 
cellor  to  the  Bishop  of  that  Ward,  besides  hold- 
ing minor  positions  in  the  Church.  He  was  act- 
ive in  the  work  of  the  Church,  whose  doctrir.es 
he  espoused,  and  filled  several  missions,  ona 
to  Great  Britain  to  labor  in  that  country  for  the 
Church.  He  was  prominent  in  the  civil  affairs 
')f  Utah,  as  well  as  in  the  ecclesiastical  affairs 
of  the  Church,  and  was  Captain  in  the  L^tah 
militia,  and  assisted  in  making  all  of  the  im- 
provements then  under  way  in  Salt  Lake  Citv, 
aiding  in  the  erection  of  the  Temple  and  in  the 
different  buildings  belonging  to  the  Church.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  73.  honored  and  respected  by 
all  whoi  knew  him.  His  forefathers  for  many 
generations  back  were  natives  of  Scotland. 

Our  subject's  mother,  Margaret  D.  (Fergu- 
son) McMaster,  was  also  a  native  of  Scotland, 
who  came  to  Utah  with  the  early  pioneers  and 
lived  in  Salt  Lake  City  until  her  death  in  1896. 

Our  subject,  Alexander  McMaster,  spent  his 
early  life  in  Salt  Lake  City,  receiving  his  early 
education  in  the  schools  that  then  existed,  and 
afterwards  attended  for  two  years  the  sessions 
of  the  Deseret  University.  He  early  started  out 
on  his  own  career,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
was  apprenticed  to  the  printing  trade,  being  em- 
ployed on  the  Deseret  Nezi's.  He  followed  that 
business  continuously  for  a  period  of  twenty 
years,  and  served  in  all  the  dififerent  capacities, 
from  the  composing  department  to  the  editorial 
staff,  and  was  thoroughly  conversant  with  all 
the  details  of  newspaper  work.     It  had  been  his 


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ambition  while  a  boy  learning  the  printing  busi- 
ness, to  follow  the  law  as  a  profession,  and  as 
he  grew  older,  in  addition  to  his  emplo3'ment 
on  the  Deseret  News,  he  attended  the  University, 
doing  his  work  on  the  newspaper  after  the  ses- 
sions of  the  school  were  over.  While  engaged 
on  the  paper  he  studied  law,  and  for  four  years 
before  severing  his  connection  with  it  employed 
all  his  spare  time  in  that  study.  He  then  took 
a  course  in  law  in  the  Sprague  Correspondence 
School  of  Law,  and  after  two  years'  work  in 
that  institution,  received  his  diploma  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  this  State 
and  to  the  Federal  Courts.  Upon  his  admission 
to  the  bar  he  left  the  service  of  the  Deseret  Nezcs 
and  established  himself  as  a  lawyer,  and  for  the 
following  four  years  was  Justice  of  the  Peace 
for  the  Fifth  Precinct,  Salt  Lake  City.  He  has 
also  taken  an  active  part  in  the  church  in  which 
he  was  reared,  and  served  on  a  mission  to  the 
Southern  States  for  two  years,  during  1888  and 
1889,  most  of  the  time  serving  as  president  of 
the  West  Virginia  Conference. 

Mr.  McMaster  was  married  in  1883,  to  Miss 
Laura  Mitchell,  daughter  of  F.  A.  Mitchell,  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Utah,  and  one  of  its  first 
merchants.  He  was  among  the  first  to  engage 
in  a  mercantile  enterprise  in  this  State,  and  suc- 
cessfully conducted  a  general  merchandise  store 
in  connection  with  the  Godbe  Drug  Company. 
By  this  marriage  Mr.  McMaster  has  four  chil- 
dren— Lucile,  Alexander,  Junior;  Frank,  and 
Frances  L. 

Prior  to  the  segregation  of  the  people  of  Utah 
upon  national  political  lines,  and  the  formation 
of  the  Democratic  and  Republican  parties  in  this 
State,  Mr.  McMaster  was  a  member  of  the  Peo- 
ple's Party,  and  took  an  active  interest  in  its 
welfare.  Upon  the  dissolution  of  the  old  po- 
litical regime  and  the  alignment  upon  political 
issues,  he  became  associated  with  the  Democratic 
party,  aad  has  followed  its  fortunes  unwaver- 
ingly since  that  time.  In  the  affairs  of  his 
church  he  is  prominent  in  the  Sunday  School  of 
the  Eleventh  Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City,  which  is 
one  of  the  largest  Sunday  Schools  in  the  State. 
He  has  given  great  care  and  considerable  time 
and  attention  to  this  work,  and  is  counted  among 


the  foremost  Sunday  school  workers  of  the  ]\Ior- 
mon  Church. 

He  formed,  January  I,  1901,  a  partnership 
with  Mr.  H.  J.  Dininny,  the  firm  being  known 
as  Dininny  &  McMaster,  and  it  now  enjoys  a 
lucrative  law  practice.  The  success  which  Mr. 
McMaster  has  achieved  has  been  the  result  of 
his  own  work  from  a  poor  boy  of  fourteen.  Self- 
made,  self-educated,  deriving  his  knowledge  of 
the  aflfairs  of  life  and  securing  his  law  education 
by  his  own  efforts,  he  has  now  risen  to  a  promi- 
nent place  in  the  legal  world  of  Utah.  He  is 
held  in  high  regard  by  the  people  of  the  State, 
and  his  work  in  the  Church  has  won  for  him 
the  confidence  and  trust  of  all  its  leaders. 


RKSIDEXT  JOSEPH  W.  McMUR- 
RIN.  The  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints  has  many  able  men 
to  direct  its  affairs  and  guard  its 
interests.  The  development  of  this 
remarkable  organization  has  been  due  in  a 
large  measure  to  the  ability  and  zeal  which 
these  men  have  displayed  in  discharging  the 
tasks  allotted  to  them.  Prominent  among 
them,  a  L'tahn  born  and  bred,  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  He  is  pre-eminently  a  man  of  the 
West,  and  the  success  which  he  has  achieved 
has  been  due  to  the  blessings  of  God  and  his  own 
industry  and  determination  to  overcome  all  dif- 
ficulties that  presented  themselves. 
■  Joseph  W^  McMurrin  was  born  in  Tooele  City, 
Tooele  county,  Utah,  September  5,  1858.  He  is 
the  son  of  Joseph  and  Margaret  (Leaing)  Mc- 
Murrin, who  were  among  the  first  pioneers  to 
settle  in  the  West.  They  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1856  and  settled  in  Tooele  City,  Utah, 
in  that  year.  When  their  son  was  very  young 
they  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  it  is  there 
he  has  spent  his  life.  His  father,  Joseph,  was 
a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  his  mother 
was  born  in  Edinburgh.  The  early  life  of  the 
father  of  our  subject  was  spent  in  Scotland,  and 
he  received  his  education  in  the  regular  schools 
of  Glasgow.  He  learned  the  trade  of  a  cooper, 
and    followed   that   vocation,   both    there   and    in 


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Utah.  The  grandfather  of  President  McMurrin 
was  also  a  cooper  in  Scotland,  and  upon  his 
death,  his  son,  the  father  of  our  subject,  pur- 
chased the  business  and  aided  his  mother  in  sup- 
porting the  family.  Upon  emigrating  to  the 
United  States,  his  share  in  the  business  was 
transferred  to  his  brother,  William.  He  brought 
with  him,  in  addition  to  his  wife  and  three  chil- 
dren, his  mother,  his  mother-in-law,  and  one  of 
his  sisters.  They  had  all  become  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  Scotland,  and  soon  after 
their  conversion  emigrated  to  the  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley, crossing  the  great  American  plains  by  ox 
teams.  Their  journey  from  what  was  then  the 
outpost  of  civilization  to  Utah,  was  an  arduous 
and  dangerous  one.  They  crossed  the  mountains 
in  the  depths  of  winter,  and  owing  to  the  deep 
snow,  lost  all  their  cattle  and  a  considerable  por- 
tion of  their  provisions.  All  would  have  per- 
ished of  cold  had  not  assistance  been  sent  from 
Salt  Lake  City;  as  it  was,  many  of  the  emi- 
grating Saints  died  before  help  arrived. 

When  the  family  moved  from  Tooele  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  they  made  their  home  at  a  site  oppo- 
site where  our  subject  now  lives.  His  father 
was  First  Counselor  to  Bishop  E.  F.  Sheets, 
of  the  Eighth  Ward.  He  took  an  active  inter- 
est in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  participated 
in  the  erection  of  the  Temple,  being  among  the 
first  to  begin  work  on  that  structure.  Through- 
out his  life  he  was  a  devoted  member  of  the 
church  of  his  choice,  and  rendered  faithful  and 
willing  service  to  it  in  its  work.  So  strong  was 
his  faith  in  the  teachings  of  the  church  to  which 
he  had  been  converted  that  he  sold  all  his  belong- 
ings and  left  his  home  in  Scotland,  and  gave  up 
a  prosperous  business  to  share  in  the  work  of 
building  up  and  developing  this  new  religion. 
He  enjoyed  a  lucrative  trade  in  Scotland,  and 
the  same  industry  and  ability  which  he  displayed 
there,  brought  him  success  in  Utah.  A  man  of 
sterling  integrity,  true  to  God  and  man  and  to 
every  trust  reposed  in  him,  he  was  beloved  by 
all  who  knew  him.  He  died  in  October,  1897. 
Our  subject's  mother  died  in  1894. 

The  boyhood  days  of  President  McMurrin 
were  spent  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  of  the  city.    Early  in  life, 


being  ambitious  to  earn  his  own  living,  permis- 
sion was  given  him  by  his  parents  to  assist  a 
neighbor  in  work  upon  a  farm.  At  a  later  day 
he  engaged  in  freighting  and  ore  hauling  from 
the  mines  adjacent  to  and  from  Salt  Lake 
City.  For  two  years  before  he  was  married 
he  was  employed  as  a  stonecutter  in  the  erec- 
tion of  the  great  Mormon  Temple.  After 
his  marriage  he  launched  out  into  the  rail- 
road contracting  business  and  secured  several 
contracts  in  connection  with  associates,  in  the 
construction  of  portions  of  the  Oregon  Short 
Line  grade,  which  they  successfully  carried 
through  to  completion.  While  engaged  at 
this  work,  he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission,  in 
October,  1881,  to  Great  Britain.  Upon  his  ar- 
rival in  England  he  was  assigned  to  Scotland, 
and  labored  in  the  county  of  Ayr  for  nine  months. 
He  was  then  transferred  to  the  city  of  Edin- 
burgh, where  he  labored  seven  months,  and  was 
then  called  to  the  city  of  Glasgow.  He  was  after- 
wards made  President  of  the  Scottish  Mission, 
which  position  he  continued  to  fill  until  his  return 
in  November,  1883,  having  been  absent  from 
home  for  a  period  of  twenty-five  months.  Dur- 
ing this  time  he  made  over  fifty  converts,  among 
this  number  being  two  of  his  father's  sisters, 
whom  he  baptized  while  there. 

On  his  return  to  Salt  Lake  he  was  employed  at 
the  Bishop's  Store  House,  as  night-watchman. 
At  this  time  the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act  was  being 
vigorously  enforced  by  the  Federal  authorities, 
and  during  this  troublesome  period  in  Utah, 
which  resulted  in  so  much  disturbance  to  the 
affairs  of  the  State,  President  McMurrin  had  an 
altercation  with  a  United  States  Marshal,  which 
ended  in  the  marshal  drawing  his  revolver  and 
shooting  President  McMurrin  through  the  ab- 
domen twice.  From  these  wounds  he  speedily 
recovered  and  was  able  to  be  about  in  six  weeks, 
and  this  marvelous  return  to  health  from  an  al- 
most universally  fatal  wound,  was  due  to  his 
iron  constitution  and  his  wonderful  vitality.  While 
confined  to  his  home.  Apostle  John  Henry  Smith 
and  others  frequently  visited  him  and  encouraged 
him ;  he  had  the  sympathy  of  all  the  people.  He 
believes  that  he  was  healed  by  the  power  of  God 
in  fulfillment  of  a  promise  made  by  .Apostle  John 


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Henry  Smith  that  he  should  live,  notwithstanding 
that  death  was  seemingly  inevitable. 

A  year  after  this  occurrence  he  was  called  to 
go  on  his  second  mission  to  Great  Britain,  being 
assigned  to  Bristol,  England,  and  was  later  trans- 
ferred to  London,  where  he  served  two  years  and 
a  lialf  as  the  President  of  the  London  Confer- 
ence, On  this  mission  he  spent  four  years  away 
from  home.  Upon  his  return  to  L"!tah  he  was  em- 
ployed as  a  receipt  clerk  in  the  Bishop's  Store 
House,  which  position  he  held  for  six  years.  In 
June,  1896,  he  was  again  called  to  go  on  a  mission 
to  Great  Britain,  as  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the 
European  Mission,  to  act  as  First  Counsellor 
to  President  Rulon  S.  Wells.  The  extensive 
nature  of  the  work  in  the  European  ]\Iission 
makes  this  a  responsible  position,  requiring  a  man 
of  ability  and  industry  to  properly  discharge  its 
duties  and  supervise  the  work  of  the  five  hundred 
missionaries  in  that  country,  and  organize,  coun- 
sel and  direct  the  organizations  of  the 
Saints  in  the  European  iMission,  who  are 
about  seventeen  thousand  strong.  Before 
his  return  he  traveled  extensively  in  Ire- 
land, Germany,  Austria,  Switzerland.  France, 
Holland,  Belgium  and  Italy,  and  made  sev- 
eral extensive  tours  through  England,  Scot- 
land and  Wales.  While  absent  on  this  mission 
he  was  selected  by  the  general  authorities  of  the 
Church  as  one  of  the  seven  Presidents  of  the 
Seventies,  and  was  sustained  b}'  the  vote  of  the 
general  conference  of  the  Church,  in  October, 
1897.  He  returned  to  Utah  in  1898.  and  has  since 
devoted  all  his  time  to  the  work  of  the  Church, 
his  attention  being  largely  given  to  assisting  the 
Presidents  of  the  Seventies  in  their  responsible 
duties.  The  mission  service  of  President  Mc- 
Murrin  covers  almost  a  quarter  of  a  century,  his 
first  mission  being  undertaken  in  1876,  when 
he  was  sent  on  a  mission  to  Arizona,  spending 
two  years  in  that  territory,  assisting  in  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  colonists  sent  there  by  the 
Church.  President  McMurrin  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  St.  Joseph,  on  the  Little  Colorado. 
As  a  foreign  missionary,  he  has  traveled  over 
seventy-five  thousand  miles  and  has  been  brought 
in  contact  with  many  nations  of  men. 

He  has  also  traveled  quite  extensively  at  home 


in  visiting  the  various  organizations  of  the  Saints. 
He  has  made  frequent  trips  throughout  Utah, 
and  through  Idaho,  Montana,  Wyoming,  Oregon, 
Colorado,  Arizona  and  California,  and  into  Can- 
ada and  Mexico.  Thus  becoming  quite  familiar 
with  the  condition  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints  in 
all  of  the  Western  States  where  they  are  perma- 
nently established. 

His  advancement  in  the  Priesthood  has  been 
in  the  following  order:  The  first  ordination  he 
received  was  while  he  was  quite  a  young  boy, 
when  he  was  ordained  a  Deacon.  January  17, 
1876,  he  was  ordained  an  Elder,  and  as  an  Elder 
filled  his  first  foreign  mission.  April  27,  1884, 
he  was  ordained  a  Seventy  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Tenth  Quorum.  After  performing  in 
a  faithful  manner  the  duties  of  this  calling  for 
several  years,  he  was  ordained  by  George  Rey- 
nolds, July  5,  1895,  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the 
Tenth  Quorum.  January  21,  1898,  he  was  or- 
dained by  Apostle  Anthon  H.  Lund  one  of  the 
first  Seven  Presidents  of  the  Seventies.  Bv  this 
ordination,  he  became  a  member  of  the  third 
great  presiding  quorum  of  authority  in  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints. 
President  MeMurrin  is  also  a  member  of  the 
General  Board  of  Aids  of  the  Young  Men's  Mu- 
tual Improvement  Associations  of  the  Church. 
This  organization  has  a  membership,  among  the 
young  men,  of  thirty  thousand.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  General  Board  of  the  Religion 
Classes  of  the  Church,  which  is  another  strong  or- 
ganization giving  religious  instruction  to  many 
thousands  of  children. 

He  married  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years, 
Aliss  Mary  Ellen  Hunter,  daughter  of  Stephen 
and  Martha  (Clark)  Hunter.  Her  father  was 
born  in  Scotland,  and  emigrated  to  Utah  in  1852. 
Mr.  McMurrin's  family  consists  of  seven  children 
— Joseph  W.,  Stephen  H.,  Chelta  M.,  Everard  L., 
James  Waldo,  and  Mary  Lucile. 

The  ability  and  zeal  which  President  McAIur- 
rin  has  exhibited  in  the  work  of  the  Church  has 
won  for  him  a  high  place  in  the  confidence  of  its 
leaders,  and  to  him  have  been  entrusted  many 
important  and  difficult  tasks.  His  determination 
and  application  have  made  for  him  a  successful 
career,  and  he  is  todav  one  of  the  leaders  in  that 


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organization  which  has  done  so  much  for  the 
development  of  the  resources  of  the  West.  His 
sincere  manner,  his  broad-mindedness  and  his 
charity  have  gained  for  him  the  love  of  his 
people,  and  have  brought  him  the  respect  and  es- 
teem of  the  citizens  of  Utah. 


A.  XELDEN.  In  the  front  ranks 
of  the  commercial  enterprises 
which  have  aided  so  materially  in 
bringing  Salt  Lake  City  up  to  its 
present  position  as  an  important 
point  of  distribution  for  the  surrounding  terri- 
tory, and  in  increasing  the  mercantile  impor- 
tance of  Utah  as  well,  stands  the  Xelden-Judson 
Drug  Company,  both  by  reason  of  its. prosperity 
and  the  extent  of  its  business.  At  the  head  of 
this  company  and  guiding  its  movements  is  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

W.  A.  Xelden  was  born  in  Montague,  Sussex 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  lived  there  on  his 
father's  farm  until  five  years  of  age.  when  the 
family  removed  to  Newton,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  spent  the  ensuing  seven  years  of  his  life.  His 
father,  John  H.  Nelden,  was  a  prosperous  farmer 
of  New  Jersey,  and  followed  that  vocation  for 
some  time,  leaving  it  to  embark  in  the  lumber 
and  coal  business,  which  he  conducted  with  suc- 
cess until  his  death  in  1859.  The  mother  of  our 
subject,  Sarah  (Rorback)  Nelden,  died  when  her 
son  was  fifteen  years  of  age.  The  Xelden  fam- 
ily were  originally  natives  of  Holland,  and 
the  Rorbacks  came  to  the  United  States  from 
Germany.  These  two  families  were  among  tlie 
early  settlers  of  Pennsylvania,  and  were  influ- 
ential people  in  their  community. 

At  the  age  of  twelve,  their  son  entered  the 
Temple  Hill  Academy  at  Geneseo,  Xew  York, 
where  he  took  a  special  course  in  chemistry,  in 
addition  to  the  regular  studies  taught  in  that 
school.  Three  years  later  he  entered  upon  his 
business  career,  securing  employment  in  a  drug 
store  in  Newton,  where  he  remained  for  the  fol- 
lowing five  years.  He  has  followed  that  busi- 
!-.ess  throughout  his  life,  and  by  his  energy  and 
industry  has  achieved  such  a  success  that  he  is 
now  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of   Utah. 


He  established  himself  in  the  drug  business  at 
Philipsburg.  Xew  Jersey,  being  proprietor  of 
a  drug  store  there  at  the  age  of  twenty.  He  re- 
moved to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1879,  and  secured  em- 
ployment as  a  clerk  in  the  drug  house  of  Moore, 
-Allen  &  Company,  and  in  1884  established  here 
the  firm  of  Roberts  &  Xelden  for  the  purpose  of 
transacting  a  wholesale  and  retail  drug  busi- 
ness. This  firm  enjoyed  a  very  lucrative  trade, 
and  in  1892  Mr.  Xelden  purchased  the  interest 
of  his  partner  and  disposed  of  the  retail  depart- 
ment of  the  establishment,  confining  his  opera- 
tions within  strictly  wholesale  lines. 

In  the  following  year  the  present  establish- 
ment was  formed,  under  the  corporate  name  of 
the  Nelden-Judson  Drug  Company,  Air.  Nelden 
filling-  the  ofifice  of  president,  whicii  he  has  con- 
tinued to  hold  from  that  date.  This  company 
has  had  a  very  prosperous  career,  and  is  now  the 
largest  establishment  of  the  kind  in  Salt  Lake, 
and  Utah  as  well,  and  has  grown  into  its  present 
condition  through  the  capable  management  of 
its  president  and  assistants,  who  have  devoted 
their  time  and  attention  to  its  growth.  In  the 
transaction  of  its  business,  it  gives  employment 
to  twenty-si.x  people,  in  addition  to  its  force  of 
travelling  salesmen,  who  cover  all  the  inter- 
mountain   territory. 

Mr.  Xelden  married  in  Pennsylvania  Miss 
Sarah  O.  Stem,  daughter  of  Professor  B.  F. 
Stem,  one  of  the  prominent  educators  of  Eastern 
Pennsylvania.  His  family  consists  of  three  chil- 
dren— one  daughter.  M.  Louise,  and  two  sons — 
Paul  and  Ralph. 

Mr.  Xelden,  in  political  life,  is  a  believer  in 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  ow- 
ing to  the  confining  duties  of  his  commercial  en- 
terprises, has  never  participated  actively  in  the 
work  of  the  party,  nor  has  he  held  public  office. 
He  was  president  of  the  Salt  Lake  Chamber  of 
Commerce  several  years,  and  was  also  president 
of  the  Board  of  Education,  being  still  a  mem- 
ber of  the  latter.  He  was  one  of  the  committee 
appointed  by  the  Governor  when  the  jubilee  was 
held,  and  was  also  president  of  the  Sak  Palace 
.Association.  This  is  a  building  erected  with 
blocks  of  salt,  and  is  used  as  a  place  of  amuse- 
ment.    This  company  also  built  the  bicycle  track 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


in  connection  with  the  Salt  Palace,  and  in  both 
these  ventures  Mr.  Nelden  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  promoters  and  supporters.  In  social 
life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Kniehts  of  Pythias, 
and  is  also  one  of  the  members  of  the  Alta  Club. 
He  is  third  vice-president  of  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists'  Association,  and  president 
of  the  Commercial  Club  of  Salt  Lake  City,  a 
large  and  thriving  organization. 

Mr.  Nelden  is  pre-eminently  a  self-made  man, 
and  one  who  has  won  his  present  standing  in  the 
commercial  world  of  the  West  by  his  own  ef- 
forts. His  integrity  and  ability  have  won  for 
him  the  confidence  and  respect  of  his  business 
associates,  and  throughout  LTtah  and  the  inter- 
mountain  region  he  enjoys  a  wide  popularity, 
and  numbers  his  friends  bv  the  legion. 


RESIDENT  BRIGHAM  YOUNG.  In 
attempting  to  write  a  sketch  of  the  life 
iii  this  noted  man  it  is  necessary  to  recall 
the  fact  that  he  attained  to  the  liigh 
position  he  occupied  in  the  world 
through  his  association  in  the  early  years  of  his 
religious  career  with  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith, 
founder  of  the  Mormon  religion,  whom  Brigham 
Young  succeeded  as  head  of  that  Church.  The 
Mormon  religion  is  the  only  religion  established 
on  this  continent  which  is  indiginous  to  the  soil. 
It  has  attracted  more  attention  than  any  sect 
established  during  the  Nineteenth  Century,  and 
has  been  the  means  of  bringing  more  people  from 
lives  of  very  often  penury  and  sharp  want  in  the 
old  world  and  transplanting  them  in  homes  of 
comfort  and  even  lu.xury  in  the  United  States, 
than  perhaps  any  other  one  factor  used  for  the 
redemption  of  the  human  race.  As  the  head  of 
this  sect,  the  leader  of  this  peculiar  people,  fore- 
most in  every  scheme  advanced  or  promoted  fof 
the  bettering  of  the  condition  of  the  Mormon  peo- 
ple, Brigham  Young  received  at  the  hands  of  his 
followers  a  love  and  devotion  that  is  without  par- 
allel in  the  annals  of  history.  It  was  through  him 
that  they  were  brought  to  this  valley  and  estab- 
lished in  what  is  rapidly  becoming  one  of  the  fore- 
most States  of  the  West,  from  the  standpoint  of 
wealth  and  fertility,  and  without  the  guiding  of 


that  strong  hand  and  able  mind  the  Church  must 
have  become  shipwrecked  in  its  infancy. 

Brigham  Young  was  born  in  Whittingham, 
Windham  county,  Vermont,  June  i,  1801,  and 
there  spent  his  early  life  and  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  that  town.  His  parents  were 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and 
he  was  raised  in  that  faith.  After  completing 
his  education  he  learned  the  trade  of  carpentering 
and  joining,  and  also  painting  and  glazing,  and 
followed  these  occupations  after  reaching  his  ma- 
jority. He  was  married  October  8,  1824,  in 
.•\urelius,  Cayuga  County,  New  York,  to  which 
place  he  had  moved,  and  lived  there  twelve  years, 
following  his  trade.  In  the  spring  of  1829  he 
moved  to  Mendon,  Monroe  countv,  where  his 
parents  then  resided,  and  there  first  saw  the  book 
of  Mormon,  which  had  been  left  with  his  brother 
Phineas  by  Samuel  H.,  a  brother  of  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith.  He  continued  to  study  the  Book 
with  great  interest,  and  in  the  spring  of  1832  in 
company  with  his  brother  Phineas  and  Heber  C. 
Kimball  made  a  visit  to  the  branch  of  the  Church 
at  Columbia,  Pennsylvania,  and  there  became  so 
profoundly  impressed  with  the  truth  of  its  teach- 
ings that  he  went  to  Canada  to  visit  his  brother 
Joseph,  who  was  then  on  a  mission  in  the  interest 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  that  coun- 
try. He  succeeded  in  convincing  Joseph  of  the 
truth  of  the  claims  made  by  Joseph  Smith  and 
they  returned  home  together  and  united  with  the 
Church,  Brigham  being  baptized  x\pril  14,  1832, 
by  Elder  Eleazer  Miller,  and  received  the  hand 
of  fellowship  from  the  Prophet  the  following 
June,  in  Kirtland,  Ohio,  where  he  had  journeyed 
for  the  purpose.  This  was  the  first  meeting  of 
the  two  men,  and  it  was  at  this  time  that  the 
Prophet  heard  for  the  first  time  the  gift  of  speak- 
ing in  tongues.  Brigham  Young  had  received 
this  gift  and  spoke  in  tongues  at  a  meeting  held 
that  night.  From  that  time  on  through  twelve 
years  of  close  association  the  two  men  were  the 
most  intimate  and  loving  friends,  and  the  devo- 
tion and  affection  which  Brigham  Young  dis- 
played for  the  Prophet  was  only  surpassed  by 
that  of  Hyrum  Smith,  whose  love  for  his  gifted 
brother  led  him  to  share  even  his  death.  TTiree 
weeks  after  the  baptism  of  President  Young  his 


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wife  received  the  ordinance  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Church.  She  died  the  following  spring 
leaving  two  little  girls,  and  thereafter  for  many 
years  the  family  made  their  home  with  Heber  C. 
Kimball. 

In  December  of  that  year  the  two  brothers, 
Brigham  and  Joseph  Young,  went  on  a  mission 
for  the  Church  in  upper  Canada,  traveling  on 
foot,  and  returning  in  February,  before  the  ice 
broke  up.  Brigham  returned  to  Canada  in  April 
and  remained  until  the  following  July,  establish- 
ing branches  of  the  Church.  He  settled  in  Kirt- 
land,  which  becatne  his  headquarters  for  some 
years,  his  work  for  the  Church  making  it  neces- 
sary for  him  to  be  absent  from  home  a  great  part 
of  the  time.  On  February  14,  1835,  the  Prophet 
called  a  council  of  the  Elders,  and  the  quorum  of 
the  Twelve  Apostles  was  chosen,  Brigham  Young 
being  the  second  one  chosen.  It  was  in  the 
spring  and  summer  of  1837  that  the  greatest 
danger  menaced  the  Church,  not  from  mob  vio- 
lence or  opposition  from  outsiders — these  the 
early  church  had  to  contend  with  almost  daily — 
but  from  a  spirit  of  apostacy  that  pervaded  the 
entire  Church,  disaffecting  even  members  of  the 
Twelve  Apostles,  and  during  these  most  trying 
times  the  great  strength  of  character  and  mighty 
influence  that  Brigham  Young  was  destined  to 
wield  over  the  affairs  of  the  Church  began  to  be 
felt.  He  not  only  clung  close  to  the  Prophet, 
he  brought  back  the  erring  members  and  knit  the 
Church  into  a  closer  unity  than  it  had  yet  known, 
and  those  who  had  heard  of  the  prophecy  of 
Joseph  Smith  that  th'is  was  the  man  who  should 
succeed  him  as  head  of  the  Church  were  led  to 
believe  that  he  was  the  man  of  all  men  most  fit- 
ted to  receive  such  a  responsibile  charge.  With 
a  devotion  that  was  almost  sublime,  Brigham 
Young  went  through  all  manner  of  dangers  and 
menaces,  relieving  the  distress  among  the  Saints, 
bringing  them  out  of  the  places  where  they  were 
gathered,  and  after  the  imprisonment  of  the 
Prophet  at  Far  West,  in  1838,  he  took  charge 
of  the  affairs  of  the  Church,  being  chosen  Presi- 
dent of  the  Twelve.  The  Mormons  were  driven 
out  of  Far  West  and  Kirtland  in  1839,  and  lo- 
cated in  Nauvoo,  where  they  remained  until  1846, 
two  vears  after  the  death  of  the  Prophet. 


On  March  19,  1840,  in  company  with  several 
others,  Brigham  Young  sailed  from  New  York 
on  his  first  foreign  mission,  laboring  in  England 
about  a  year  and  returning  in  April,  1841  Dur- 
ing this  time  they  baptized  eight  thousand  con- 
verts, printed  and  distributed  five  thousand 
Books  of  Mormon,  three  thousand  hymn  books, 
and  emigrated  about  one  thousand  converts.  He 
reached  Nauvoo  in  July  of  that  year,  and  shortly 
after  his  return  the  Prophet  received  a  revelation 
to  the  effect  that  Brigham  Young  was  not  to  be 
required  to  go  on  any  more  missionary  trips,  but 
was  to  remain  in  charge  of  the  Church  affairs  at 
home  and  assist  in  sending  out  other  missiona- 
ries. 

The  opposition  to  the  Mormons  grew  rapidly 
after  the  killing  of  the  Prophet,  and  in  1846  they 
were  once  more  driven  out  of  their  homes,  and 
this  time  gathered  at  Winter  Quarters,  from 
where  Brigham  Young  led  them  out  across  the 
Great  American  plains,  traveling  by  ox  teams, 
and  after  enduring  untold  sufferings  and  hard- 
ships, reached  the  great  Salt  Lake  Valley,  which 
had  been  described  to  him  in  a  revelation.  Though 
barren  in  aspect,  it  was  rich  in  promise,  and  here 
they  ended  their  long  journey  and  prepared  to 
build  homes  far  from  any  civilization,  content  if 
they  could  but  live  according  to  their  own  de- 
sires, unmolested  by  those  opposed  to  them.  Mor- 
mon and  Gentile  literature  is  alike  full  of  the  ac- 
counts of  those  early  days  and  of  the  devotion 
to  his  people  which  President  Young  displayed. 
It  is  not  the  object  of  this  article  to  give  a  de- 
tailed sketch  of  his  life;  that  could  not  be  done 
in  a  work  of  this  kind  and  do  justice  to  the  sub- 
ject: but  as  the  stranger  who  has  perhaps  wan- 
dered far  over  the  earth  and  gazed  upon  the  val- 
ley of  the  Nile,  for  ages  the  "granary  of  the 
world,"  or  roamed  amid  the  rich  plantations  of 
the  Caribbean  shores,  where  the  wonderful  soil 
yields  almost  spontaneously  every  grain,  grass, 
fruit  and  fabric  necessary  for  human  sustenance 
and  luxury ;  been  delighted  with  the  sea-islands  of 
Georgia  and  Carolina,  or  the  far-farmed  mighty 
valley  of  Dakota,  with  its  mighty  wheat  fields 
stretching  away  till  all  around  the  blue  sky  meets 
the  heads  of  golden  grain ;  as  he  shall  stand  with- 
in the  borders  of  Utah,  which  not  only  gives  the 


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world  about  twelve  million  pounds  of  wool  an- 
nually, and  produces  tons  of  ores  of  fabulous 
wealth,  but  raises  to  a  state  of  perfection  every 
known  product  of  the  temperate  zone,  possess- 
ingf  a  soil  of  matchless  fertility  and  a  climate  un- 
surpassed by  that  of  any  other  State,  let  him  re- 
member the  man  to  whom  the  world  is  indebted 
for  this  wonderful  consummation  of  the  work 
begun  more  than  fifty  years  ago  by  a  homeless, 
friendless  people ;  the  man  who  not  only  led  them 
into  this  wilderness  and  encouraged  them  amid 
all  the  trying  times  and  sufferings  that  followed, 
hut  who  also  shared  every  hardship  and  stood 
in  the  thick  of  the  fra}'  and  made  possible  by  his 
own  heroic  example  the  sacrifices  that  were 
cheerfully  made  that  a  later  generation  might  en- 
joy not  only  the  privileges  of  worshiping  accord- 
ing to  their  own  desires,  unmolested,  but  might 
also  possess  homes  of  comfort  and  lives  of  pros- 
perity. 

President  Young  died  in  1877,  thirty  years  af- 
ter he  had  first  camped  within  the  Salt  Lake  Val- 
lev,  deeply  mourned  by  the  people  whose  staff 
he  had  been,  but  leaving  the  Church  in  such  con- 
dition that  there  were  able  and  willing  men  to 
carry  on  the  work  he  had  begun,  and  which  has 
nad  a  steady  growth  since  then.  In  1897  a 
statue  commemorating  the  life  and  work  of  Brig- 
ham  Young  and  the  pioneers  was  unveiled,  and 
stands  at  the  head  of  Main  street,  at  the  inter- 
section of  Main  and  Temple  streets.  However, 
this  statue  is  but  the  expression  of  the  people  who 
either  knew  and  loved  the  President  or  were  later 
the  benefactors  of  his  foresight  and  wise  admin- 
istration. He  himself  laid  the  foundation  for  and 
brought  far  forward  towards  a  state  of  comple- 
tion a  more  magnificent  and  lasting  monument  to 
himself  in  the  work  of  the  Salt  Lake  Temple, 
which  is  one  of  the  most  exquisite  pieces  of  archi- 
tectural beauty  and  workmanship  in  the  world, 
and  of  which  not  alone  the  members  of  this  re- 
ligious body,  but  of  the  entire  State  at  large,  are 
most  justly  proud.  While  none  but  Mormons  in 
good  standing  are  allowed  to  enter  this  sacred 
edifice,  tourists  from  all  parts  of  the  world  have 
visited  Salt  Lake  City  for  the  purpose  of  gazing 
at  the  exterior  of  the  edifice  and  visiting  its  com- 
panion, the  Tabernacle,  which  has  the  most  won- 


derful acoustic  properties  of  any  known  building 
in  the  world ;  the  immense  roof  of  which  was  put 
together  without  nail  or  iron  of  anv  kind,  and  is 
unsupported  by  column  or  pillar. 


OX.  JAMES  IVERS.  The  record  of 
the  great  Silver  King  mine  of  Park 
City  is  known  in  nearly  every  quarter 
of  the  civilized  world  as  one  of  the 
most  important  silver  mines  that  has 
ever  l:)een  developed  and  successfully  operated  fn 
this  or  any  other  country — a  mine  which  has 
paid  millions  of  dividends  to  its  owners,  which 
has  given  employment  to  thousands  of  laboring 
men,  and  which  has  been  and  will  be  in  the  fu- 
ture of  untold  benefit  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  the 
State  at  large.  Among  one  of  the  first  promot- 
ers and  developers  of  this  great  mine  shoukl  be 
mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Ivers  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  in 
tlie  province  of  Quebec.  Canada,  on  May  12, 
1846,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  there.  His 
education  was  derived  from  the  common  schools 
of  his  native  country.  When  quite  a  young  boy, 
he  learned  the  blacksmithing  trade,  and  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  started  to  make  his  own  way  in 
the  world.  He  went  to  Vermont  and  settled  at 
St.  Johnsbury,  where  he  established  a  black- 
smith shop  and  resided  there  for  nine  years.  He 
then  moved  to  Concord.  Xew  Hampshire,  in 
1872,  where  he  conducted  a  similar  business  for 
five  years,  but  being  dissatisfied  with  the  oppor- 
tunities afforded  by  the  East,  he  determined  to 
seek  the  western  country,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1877,  went  to  California,  where  he  spent 
about  a  year,  removing  to  Nevada,  where  he 
worked  at  his  trade.  At  the  same  time  he  spent 
his  leisure  hours  in  prospecting,  and  located  sev- 
eral claims,  all  of  which  he  sold  before  they  were 
developed,  materially  increasing  his  financial  as- 
sets. 

In  the  fall  of  1882  he  left  Xevada  and  settled 
in  Park  City,  Utah,  where  he  worked  at  his 
trade  for  four  and  one-half  years,  being  em- 
ployed by  the  company  operating  the  Daly  mine. 
At  about  this  time  Mr.  Ivers  began  to  branch 
out  in  other  business,  and  equipped  himself  with 


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133 


a  large  livery  stable,  which  he  successfully  con- 
ducted in  Park  City  for  eleven  years.  He  be- 
came identified  with  the  Silver  King  mine  in  its 
early  history,  and  has  always  retained  a  large 
financial  interest  in  it,  and  is  at  present  one  of 
the  managing  board  of  directors.  He  is  also 
largely  interested  in  other  mining  property  in 
Park  City  and  in  different  portions  of  Utah  and 
Montana  as  well,  but  has  practically  retired  from 
active  business. 

While  in  Concord,  Xew  Hamnshire,  Mr.  Ivers 
met  ]\liss  Bridget  J.  Welsh,  a  native  of  that  State, 
and  in  1875  they  were  married,  and  while  Mr. 
Ivers  has  made  a  wonderful  success  in  life,  yet 
his  W'ife  deservedly  shares  in  the  credit  of  that 
success,  for  she  has  ever  been  a  true  and  de- 
voted helpmeet,  and  is  also  a  lady  of  rare  refine- 
ment and  culture.  They  have  had  three  children, 
Mary,  now  a  young  lady,  James,  Jr.,  and  Harry, 
who  died  April  11,  1902. 

The  father  of  our  subject,  Francis  Ivers,  was 
a  successful  farmer  in  Canada,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death  in  1882.  The  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, Margaret  (Masterson)  Ivers,  is  still  living, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years,  on  the  the  old 
home  farm,  where  our  subject  was  born  and  spent 
his  early  life. 

In  politics,  Air.  Ivers  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican.  He  was  elected  to  and 
served  in  the  State  Legislature  of  L'tah  during 
1898  and  1899,  and  has  served  Park  City  in  va- 
rious capacities,  such  as  Councilman  and  other 
minor  offices.  He  and  his  family  are  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Catholic  Church.  Their  elegant  and 
comfortable  home,  which  he  erected  about  three 
years  ago,  is  located  at  No.  564  East  First  South 
street.  Salt  Lake  Citv. 


I'oSTLE  BRIGHAM  YOUXG.  The 
anluous  trial  through  which  the  Mor- 
iiiiins  passed  in  the  early  existence  of 
their  church,  the  persecutions  to  which 
they  were  subjected,  and  the  hardships 
the\  encountered,  are  more  like  a  scene  from  the 
tumultuous  days  of  the  eighteenth  century  in  Eu- 
rope than  a  real  page  taken  from  the  history  of 
theL'nited  States  in  the  last  half  of  the  nineteenth 


century.  Through  all  these  trials  and  tribula- 
tions, sharing  in  the  labor  and  sorrows  and 
finally  triumphing  in  the  success  that  has  come  to 
Utah  and  to  the  Church  is  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

The  son  of  a  great  man,  and  especially  the  son 
of  a  great  leader,  is  always  handicapped  by  the 
halo  of  his  sire's  success.  Yet,  notwithstanding 
the  disadvantages  under  which  he  labored  and  the 
poverty  of  the  country  in  which  he  settled,  Brig- 
ham  Young  has  achieved  such  success  that  his 
fame  stands  high  in  the  ranks  of  the  builders  of 
the  West  and  on  a  plane  with  that  of  his  father, 
the  second  President  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  to  whom  Utah  owes 
so  much  of  her  material  prosperity  and  Salt  Lake 
her  present  development  and  standing. 

Brigham  Young  is  the  second  son  of  President 
Brigham  Young  and  Mary  Ann  (Angell)  Young. 
He  was  born  in  Kirtland,  Geauga  county,  now 
Lake  county,  Ohio,  December  18,  1836,  when  the 
opposition  to  the  teachings  of  the  Church  was 
beginning  to  gather  headway.  His  infancy  and 
early  boyhood  were  passed  amidst  the  turbulent 
scenes  enacted  in  Illinois  and  Missouri  when  the 
members  of  the  Church  were  mobbed  and  forced 
out  of  those  States. 

His  mother,  Mary  Ann  Angell,  was  the  second 
wife  of  his  father,  Brigham  Young,  upon  whose 
shoulders  the  cares  of  the  entire  Cnurch  rested 
after  the  death  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith. 
By  his  first  wife  he  had  two  children,  Elizabeth 
and  Vilate,  and  the  care  of  these  children  fell 
to  the  lot  of  his  second  wife.  Her  noble,  self- 
sacrificing  personality,  her  devout  and  sincere 
character,  together  with  her  rare  judgment,  made 
her  an  ideal  helpmeet  for  her  husband  and  a  lov- 
ing and  careful  guardian  of  his  children.  She 
was  passionately  devoted  to  her  children,  and 
early  taught  them  to  regard  the  Gospel  as  the 
most  precious  earthly  or  eternal  possession ;  and 
the  families  of  President  Young  bear  willing  tes- 
timony to  her  kindness  and  usefulness  and  to  her 
faithfulness  in  all  her  relations  with  the  wives 
and  children  of  her  husband. 

The  earliest  recollections  of  Apostle  Brigham 
Young,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  are  of  the 
gloomy  and  sorrowful  days  of  the  Church  in  Illi- 


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nois.  After  various  moves  from  Far  West  to 
the  West,  the  family  arrived  at  Commerce.  These 
journeys  were  made  under  the  most  trying  con- 
ditions— inclement  weather,  inhospitable  people, 
scarcity  of  food,  lack  of  shelter,  and  inadequate 
means  of  transportation  made  up  one  of  the 
darkest  chapters  in  the  settlement  of  the  \\'est. 
Through  all  these  the  devoted  family  of  the 
late  President  Young  shared  to  the  fullest  ex- 
tent, and  arduous  as  were  the  experiences  they 
had  the  effect  that  all  trials  have  on  great  char- 
acters— making  them  stronger  and  more  able  to 
cope  with  diiificulties.  Notwithstanding  these 
trying  conditions,  the  lad  Brigham  was  a  bright 
and  merry  boy,  full  of  fun  and  pranks.  After 
his  father's  departure  on  a  mission  to  England, 
his  mother  removed  from  Commerce  to  Mon- 
trose, and  subsequently  returned  to  Commerce. 
The  ferry-boat  had  brought  the  family  and  their 
slender  effects  across,  carrying  also  their  cow, 
one  of  their  most  cherished  possessions,  and 
on  which  they  depended  for  their  livelihood  to  a 
large  extent.  With  great  dismay  they  saw  the 
animal  plunge  into  the  swift  river,  and  it  was 
only  after  a  long  and  dangerous  chase  that  she 
was  finally  recaptured  and  brought  around  to 
them,  having  to  be  landed  on  the  Iowa  side  of  the 
river  and  led  around  a  circuit  of  over  fourteen 
miles.  They  remained  in  Montrose  during  the 
spring  of  1840,  and  in  the  following  year  moved 
across  the  river  to  Xauvoo. 

Earlv  in  his  boyhood,  Brigham  showed  the 
possession  of  an  indomitable  spirit,  an  infectious 
merriment,  a  love  of  sport  and  adventure  and  a 
courage  that  nothing  could  daunt.  He  was  as 
devoted  to  the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  as  was- 
his  father.  The  black  gloom  which  fell  over 
Nauvoo  at  the  martyrdom  of  the  leaders  of  the 
Church  made  a  deep  impress  on  the  spirit  of  this 
lad.  When  the  members  of  the  Church  were 
driven  out  of  Xauvoo,  after  the  awful  struggles 
and  throes  of  anguish  which  accompanied  and 
followed  the  killing  of  the  Prophet,  Joseph 
Smith,  President  Young  led  the  company 
across  the  river  to  a  place  of  greater  safety,  yet 
of  such  barren  distress  as  surely  has  been  but 
rarely  witnessed.  When  his  mother  and  the  rest 
of  the  children  were  taken  across  the  ferrv,  the 


boy  Brigham  was  ofif  at  play  in  Knight's  mill 
with  two  companions.  When  he  returned  to  his 
home  in  the  afternoon,  he  found  the  house  open, 
furniture  left  standing,  yet  all  marked  with  the 
solemn  silence  of  desertion.  He  immediately 
made  for  the  river,  and  found  the  last  boat  for 
the  night  just  putting  ofif  from  the  shore.  It 
was  crowded  with  wretched  men,  women  and 
children  forced  away  from  their  homes  for  the 
sake  of  their  religion,  and  the  boy  at  last  found 
a  seat  on  a  barrel  in  the  bow  of  the  boat.  When 
he  arrived  on  the  opposite  shore,  he  found  every- 
thing in  a  wild  state  of  confusion.  He  failed 
to  find  his  parents  and  lived  for  three  days,  with 
others,  upon  an  ox  that  had  been  drowned  in  the 
river  and  had  been  hauled  to  the  shore  and  dis- 
tributed among  such  as  were  without  food.  He 
finally  heard  of  his  parents  at  Sugar  Creek,  dis- 
tant ten  miles  to  the  west,  and  to  that  place  he 
tramped  and  joined  the  family.  Here  the  con- 
ditions were  in  as  bad  shape  as  on  the  bank  of 
the  river.  The  wagon  was  overcrowded  and 
there  was  no  room  for  the  ten-year-old  boy  who 
had  just  arrived,  nor  could  any  bedding  be 
spared  for  him. 

With  characteristic  ability  to  provide  for  him- 
self, the  lad  at  once  began  to  improvise  a 
shelter  of  cooking  utensils  and  saddles  against 
one  side  of  his  mother's  wagon,  but  the  cold,  bit- 
ing storm  of  sleet  and  wind  made  this  attempt 
useless.  With  the  help  of  some  of  his  young 
companions  he  finally  succeeded  in  making  a 
wickiup  from  brush  which  they  cut,  and  into  this 
they  crawled  and  attempted  to  keep  warm  by  the 
heat  of  their  bodies.  The  colony  started  west 
as  soon  as  conditions  favored,  but  the  journey 
through  the  swamps  and  bogs  of  Iowa  was  slow 
and  painful  in  the  extreme.  For  miles  the  wag- 
ons labored  heavily  over  a  corduroy  road,  made 
of  logs  withed  together  with  tough  willows. 
This  terrible  swamp  was  full  of  danger  and  dif- 
ficulty. Here  and  there  were  swales,  with  a  lit- 
tle sod  over  the  seas  of  water  and  mud.  If  one 
wagon  got  safely  over  the  swale,  no  other  would 
dare  to  follow  in  its  tracks,  for  they  would  have 
sunk  to  the  running  gears.  Each  wagon  strad- 
dled the  tracks  of  the  last,  and  even  then  the 
wheels   would   sink  throuHi  the  twelve-inch   sod 


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into  the  mud  below,  and  sometimes  hours  would 
be  consumed  in  traveling  a  quarter  of  a  mile. 
In  one  such  swale,  Brigham  secured  a  stick 
twelve  feet  long,  and  thrusting  it  down  through 
a  wagon  track,  it  went  completely  out  of  sight 
in  the  muddy  sea  below.  After  a  toilsome  and 
dangerous  journey,  the  party  finally  arrived  at 
Winter  Quarters,  now  Florence,  in  Nebraska, 
where  rude,  but  comfortable  cabins  for  the  shel- 
ter of  the  women  and  children  were  at  once 
erected.  The  Pioneers  took  their  way  across  the 
plains  in  the  following  year,  but  Brigham  re- 
mained with  his  mother  in  Winter  Quarters.  In 
.April,  1848,  President  Brigham  Young  led  the 
pioneers'  company  from  Winter  Quarters  on  the 
long  journey  to  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  .  Brig- 
ham, then  twelve  years  of  age,  was  made  a 
driver  of  two  yoke  of  oxen,  and  this  team 
he  drove  the  entire  distance.  When  the  com- 
pany halted  at  Sweetwater,  all  the  members 
were  greatly  discouraged,  both  over  the  delay 
in  traveling  and  the  unpropitious  conditions 
which  they  encountered.  President  Young,  feel- 
ing the  unexpressed  discontent  and  the  ne- 
cessity for  prompt  action,  hitched  up  his  coach 
with  the  terse  statement  that  he  was  "going 
to  the  valley,  if  anybody  wants  to  follow  the 
road  is  open,"  whipped  his  horses  and  started 
on  the  long  trip.  His  action  was  seen  and  com- 
prehended by  his  son,  and  without  an  instant's 
delav  he  had  yoked  his  team  and  prepared  to  fol- 
low in  his  father's  wake.  To  his  father's  wife, 
who  at  once  took  her  seat  in  the  wagon,  he  said 
"Father's  started ;  I'm  not  going  to  lose  sight  of 
his  wagon  wheels  while  daylight  lasts."  Through- 
out the  long  day  and  evening  the  lad  followed 
through  a  blinding  storm  the  dim  tracks  of  his 
father's  coach.  Clinging  to  the  bow  of  the  yoke, 
the  young  driver  ran  on  beside  his  team,  losing 
his  whip  from  his  half  frozen  hands,  and  on  the 
seat  of  the  wagon,  half  frozen,  yet  determined  to 
keep  on,  was  the  faithful  wife,  Eliza  B.  Young. 
At  midnight  a  campfire  was  seen,  and  after  hav- 
ing traveled  eighteen  miles  from  three  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon,  they  came  to  a  rest.  The  jour- 
ney was  again  resumed  and  the  entire  trip  made 
by  the  lad  and  the  wife  of  his  father  was  over 
nine    hundred    miles,    extending    from    the    Mis- 


souri river  to  Fort  Bridger.  Upon  their  ar- 
rival here  they  were  met  by  men  from  the  Salt 
Lake  Valley,  and  the  feeling  of  the  lad  of  twelve 
at  the  sight  of  the  green  spot  in  the  heart  of  the 
dreary  valley  of  the  great  Salt  Lake  from  the 
top  of  the  Big  iMountain  and  later  from  the 
mouth  of  Emigration  Canyon,  can  not  readily  be 
imagined. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah,  he  at  once  began  his 
active  career  and  in  the  organization  of  the  Min- 
ute Men  found  ample  scope  for  the  restless  dar- 
ing and  dauntless  courage  which  the  events 
through  which  he  had  passed  had  bred  in  his  very 
fibre.  At  the  age  of  fifteen,  Brigham  was  en- 
rolled as  a  member  of  this  corps  of  mountain 
soldiers,  known  as  the  Valley  Tan  Boys,  or  Min- 
ute Men,  and  for  nine  years  he  was  a  faithful 
member  of  that  organization. 

His  next  work  was  in  1862,  when  he  joined 
the  company  under  the  command  of  Colonel 
Robert  T.  Burton,  the  second  in  command,  which 
opened  up  the  mail  route  from  Green  river  to 
Laramie,  then  owned  by  Ben  Halliday.  An  ac- 
cident unfitted  him  temporarily  for  active  serv- 
ice, and  he  was  sent  to  Washington  with  Captain 
Hooper.  When  Captain  Hooper  and  the  Honor- 
able George  Q.  Cannon  arrived  in  Washington 
with  the  petition  for  statehood,  Brigham,  who 
accompanied  them,  found  a  suggestion  in  a  let- 
ter from  his  father,  that  he  go  on  a  mission  to 
England.  This  request  was  a  severe  one,  inas- 
much as  he  had  been  absent  from  home  for  over 
three  months,  he  having  enlisted  in  the  United 
States  service  for  thirty  days  on  a  telegram  from 
President  Lincoln  to  his  father,  and  being  sepa- 
rated from  his  two  wives  and  his  children,  and 
the  desire  to  see  them  was  very  strong.  His 
father  had  given  him  the  option,  in  case  he  should 
decline  to  go  on  the  mission  before  returning 
home,  of  visiting  his  relatives  in  Troopsville, 
New  York,  but  with  his  characteristic  devotion 
to  duty,  the  young  man  decided  to  obey  the  call 
to  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  to  proceed  on 
his  mission.  When  he  arrived  in  Philadelphia, 
on  his  way  to  England,  he  met  Colonel  Kane,  a 
tried  and  true  friend  of  President  Young  and 
of  the  Church,  who  desired  to  have  the  benefit 
of  the  young  man's  experience,  and  offered  him 


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a  position  on  his  staff.  Notwithstanding  this 
tempting  offer  to  participate  in  the  great  Civil 
War,  Brigham  Young  resolutely  left  for  En- 
gland. He  arrived  in  London  in  August,  1862, 
and  labored  earnestly  and  zealously  under  the 
direction  of  Apostle  George  O.  Cannon,  then 
president  of  the  European  mission.  Here  he  re- 
mained until  the  spring  of  1863,  when  he  re- 
ceived word  that  he  was  to  return  to  the  L^nited 
States  in  August  of  that  year.  He  made  a  hur- 
ried trip  over  Europe,  visiting  Italy  and  the 
ruins  of  Pompeii  and  Herculaneum,  and  other 
historical   places   in   various   countries. 

Upon  his  return  to  Utah,  he  was  ordained  an 
Apostle  of  the  Church  under  the  hands  of  his 
father.  President  Young,  but  did  not  enter  the 
quorum  at  that  time.  In  the  spring  of  1864  he 
returned  to  Europe,  to  assist  President  Daniel 
H.  Wells  in  the  presidency  of  the  European  mis- 
sion, and  in  1865,  President  Wells  returned  to 
Utah,  leaving  Elder  Youn?  in  full  charge  of  the 
work  in  Europe.  Here  he  was  eminently  suc- 
cessful in  spreading  the  work  of  the  Church  and 
secured  many  converts  to  the  teachings  and  many 
emigrants  to  the  headquarters  of  the  Church  in 
Utah.  He  again  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  he  spent  the  year  1866  and  part  of  the 
succeeding  year,  returning  to  Europe  in  1867 
to  act  as  a  commissioner  to  the  Paris  Exposi- 
tion. He  endeavored  to  secure  space  for  an  ex- 
hibition from  Utah,  but  this  application  shared 
the  fate  of  many  similar  ones  and  failed  of  fa- 
vorable consideration  by  the  authorities.  While 
in  France  he  became  acquainted  with  many  prom- 
inent men  of  the  LTnited  States,  and  with  whom 
he  formed  a  lasting  friendship.  Among  these 
were  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse,  of  telegraph  fame, 
Marshall  P.  Wilder,  and  General  Banks.  Upon 
his  return  to  the  United  States  in  August, 
1867,  bringing  a  company  of  five  hundred  emi- 
grants across  the  plains,  fitting  out  at  North 
Platte,  he  at  once  took  up  the  work  of  the 
Church  in  Utah,  and  in  the  following  year  was 
appointed  to  a  place  in  the  quorum  of  the 
Twelve  Apostles.  He  has  served  in  many  capac- 
ities since  his  ordination  to  the  Apostleship  and 
elevation  to  the  quorum,  and  his  life  has  been  a 
constant  scene  of  travel  and  ministrv  among  the 


members  of  the  Church,  both  in  the  United 
States  and  in  foreign  lands.  In  1882  he  was 
called  to  go  on  an  important  mission  to  the 
Yaqui  Indians,  in  Sonora,  Mexico,  and  in  1890 
he  again  took  charge  of  the  European  mission, 
returning  in  time  to  participate  in  the  dedica- 
tion of  the  Salt  Lake  Temple  in  1893.  Since 
then  he  has  spent  his  time  in  traveling  and  vis- 
iting stakes  and  conferences  from  Canada  to 
Mexico. 

Upon  the  death  of  President  Lorenzo  Snow, 
and  the  succession  of  Joseph  F.  Smitn  to  that  of- 
fice. Apostle  Brigham  Young,  by  reason  of  se- 
niority, became  President  of  the  Twelve  Apos- 
tles, which  position  he  continues  to  hold,  dis- 
charging its  duties  with  the  same  fidelity  and 
zeal  that  has  characterized  all  his  life. 

Apostle  Young  is  a  noble  representative  of  his 
father.  His  wisdom,  integrity  and  truth,  to- 
gether with  his  warm  heart  and  kind  disposi- 
tion, have  made  him  beloved  by  all  the  people 
of  the  Church,  and  have  won  for  him  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  all  the  people  of  the  West. 
His  life  has  been  like  a  clear  stream  of  water, 
and  his  innate  modesty  of  character,  and  his 
freedom  from  guile  have  made  him  one  of  the 
most  prominent  members  of  the  Church  of  his 
choice.  His  work  in  the  Church  has  been  along 
broad  lines,  and  the  State  has  secured  many  ben- 
efits from  his  work.  He  retains  the  same  youth- 
ful spirit,  the  same  genial  manner,  and  the  same 
quiet  wisdom  that  have  been  so  prominent  in  his 
character  from  his  boyhood  days.  From  those 
who  know  and  appreciate  him,  he  receives  honor 
and  reverence.  When  the  histor\^  of  the  devel- 
opment of  Utah  shall  be  written  and  the  work 
of  the  men  who  have  brought  this  State  to  the 
fore  shall  be  weighed  and  measured,  none  will 
stand  in  a  better  position,  nor  tip  the  scales  as 
heavily  as  will  that  accomplished  by  Brigham 
Young,  the  father,  and  Brigham  Young,  the  son. 


L.  ROOD.  The  development  and 
growth  of  the  street  railway  system  of 
Salt  Lake  City  and  its  efficient  man- 
agement are  largely  due  to  the  men 
who  now  control  its  affairs.  Among 
them  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who,  at  the 


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request  of  the  principal  owners,  accepted  the 
presidency  of  the  company  last  year.  Its  inter- 
ests are  varied  and  wide,  and  require  large  execu- 
tive and  administrative  ability  in  the  proper  con- 
duct of  its  business.  His  work  has  not  been  con- 
fined to  this  enterprise,  but  he  has  also  partici- 
pated in  the  development  of  Utah's  mineral  re- 
sources. 

C.  L.  Rood  was  born  in  Cattaraugus  county, 
New  York,  in  i860,  and  when  ten  years  old  his 
parents  removed  to  the  West,  and  their  son's  edu- 
cation was  received  in  the  schools  of  California 
and  Nevada,  and  he  later  entered  the  university 
of  the  latter  State.  Like  most  Western  men  who 
have  made  their  mark  in  the  world  and  have  built 
up  a  successful  career,  Mr.  Rood  early  started  on 
his  life  work.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  en- 
tered a  country  bank,  where  he  was  enabled  to 
learn  something  of  the  duties  of  several  positions, 
all  of  which  aiiforded  a  good  training  for  a  busi- 
ness career.  Two  years  later  he  went  into  the 
newly  discovered  mines  of  Yankee  Fork  Mining 
District,  Idaho,  where  he  became  identified,  as 
clerk  and  afterwards  as  cashier,  with  the  most 
important  mining  companies  there.  Upon  com- 
ing to  Salt  Lake  City,  in  1886,  he  entered  the  em- 
ployment of  the  Ontario  Silver  Mining  Company, 
and  assisted  its  superintendent,  R.  C.  Chambers, 
in  the  many  enterprises  in  which  the  latter  was 
engaged.  Upon  his  death,  Mr.  Rood  was  chosen 
by  the  heirs  to  the  estate  as  administrator  thereof, 
and  as  such  has  had  the  care  and  responsibility  of 
the  vast  property  owned  by  Mr.  Chambers.  The 
controlling  interests  in  the  Ontario  and  Daly 
Mining  Companies  elected  him  as  superintendent 
of  those  properties.  The  Ontario  Mine  is  one  of 
the  largest  and  most  sucessful  mines  in  the  West, 
having  paid  nearly  fourteen  million  dollars  in 
dividends,  out  of  a  total  output  of  thirty-three 
millions.  The  Daly  Mine  is  a  neighbor  of  the 
Ontario,  and  has  paid  nearly  three  millions  of 
dollars  dividends.  Both  properties  are  being 
actively  worked. 

Mr.  Rood  married  in  California,  in  1890,  Miss 
Addie  L.  Stow-e,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Stowe, 
and  a  member  of  a  distinguished  California  fam- 
ily.   He  has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  politics. 


having  devoted  his  whole  time  and  attention  to 
his  business  interests. 

Mr.  Rood  is  a  self-made  man,  having  obtained 
his  present  position  and  success  entirely  through 
his  own  efforts,  and  all  his  life  has  provided  the 
necessary  finances  for  the  conduct  of  whatever 
he  undertook.  He  is  still  a  young  man,  and  his 
career  may  be  said  to  be  but  in  its  beginning, 
but  the  work  he  has  already  done  stamps  him  as 
a  man  who  even  now  is  a  leader  among  the  cap- 
tains of  capital  in  the  West,  and  one  who  will  un- 
doubtedly rise  to  a  prominent  position  in  the  af- 
fairs of  Utah. 


AMES  FARRELL.  The  mining  opera- 
tions which  have  been  conducted  in  Utah 
have  brought  forth  many  prominent  and 
prosperous  mines,  and  especially  so  in 
the  Park  City  District,  but  among  this 
number  there  are  few  which  have  achieved  the 
prosperous  state  which  the  Quincy  mine  has 
now  reached.  Its  development  has  been  the  work 
of  but  two  years,  and  its  present  prosperity  is  in 
a  large  measure  due  to  the  ability  with  which  the 
President  of  that  company  has  conducted  its  af- 
fairs. Mr.  Farrell  has  been  one  of  its  promoters 
and  developers.  It  is  now  ranked  among  the 
most  important  mines  of  the  entire  inter-moun- 
tain region,  and  the  work  which  he  has  done  in  its 
development  has  gone  far  towards  placing  the 
mining  property  of  Utah  upon  the  high  level  it 
now  occupies. 

James  Farrell  was  born  in  Ireland,  but  his 
parents  removed  to  the  United  States  when  he 
was  a  cliild  of  seven  years  of  age,  and  his  early 
life  was  spent  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  and  in  Cook 
and  Dupage  counties  in  that  State.  His  father, 
John  Farrell,  was  a  ship  builder,  and  upon  com- 
ing to  the  United  States  found  employment  in 
the  ship  yards  at  Chicago,  in  which  occupation  he 
was  employed  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred when  his  son  James  was  but  ten  years  of 
age.     Our  subject's  mother,  Catherine   (Hayes) 


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Farrell,  was  also  a  native  of  Ireland,  and  lived  in 
Chicago  upon  coming  to  this  country. 

The  death  of  his  father  and  the  necessity  which 
was  forced  upon  him  of  earning  his  own  living, 
made  it  imperative  for  him  to  go  to  work,  and 
at  the  age  of  eleven  years  he  secured  employment 
on  a  farm  in  Illinois.  He  continued  at  this  until 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  in  1861,  when  he 
enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  and 
participated  in  all  the  important  engagements  of 
that  cpnflict.  He  was  present  and  took  part  in 
the  battles  of  Vicksburg,  Arkansas  Post,  Mission 
Ridge,  Ringgold  Gap,  Averasboro  and  Jones- 
borough,  North  Carolina.  He  was  taken  pris- 
oner while  at  Madison,  Alabama,  by  the  Confed- 
erate forces,  and  was  confined  in  the  prison  at 
Cahaba,  Alabama,  where  he  remained  for  si.xty 
days,  when  he  escaped  from  prison.  He  was, 
however,  recaptured  and  taken  to  Mobile,  and 
later  to  the  prison  camp  at  Andersonville,  Geor- 
gia, and  from  there  to  Savannah  in  the  same 
State,  and  was  later  moved  to  Milan,  Georgia. 
He  made  his  escape  from  this  latter  prison,  and 
joined  Sherman's  army  and  took  part  in  his  fam- 
ous march  to  the  sea.  He  served  throughout  the 
remainder  of  the  war  in  Georgia  and  in  the  Caro- 
linas,  and  after  the  close  of  the  war  participated 
in  the  grand  review  of  the  Union  army  which 
took  place  in  Washington,  D.  C.  From  Wash- 
ington he  was  sent  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and 
from  there  to  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  where  he 
was  finally  mustered  out  of  the  service  as  Ser- 
rjeant  of  Company  I  of  the  Fifty-sixth  Illinois 
Regiment.  He  had  served  throughout  the  entire 
war,  enlisting  on  May  24,  1861,  and  being  dis- 
charged on  August  12,  1865. 

After  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  removed  to 
the  West,  and  traveled  through  Colorado  and 
New  Mexico,  and,  in  fact,  all  of  the  inter-moun- 
tain and  Pacific  Slope  States.  He  took  up  the 
business  'of  freighting  and  mining,  and  crossed 
the  plains  to  Pueblo,  Colorado,  and  was  engaged 
for  a  considerable  time  in  freighting  in  that  State, 
as  well  as  in  Utah,  Nevada  and  Idaho.  He  came 
to  Utah  and  settled  in  Park  City  twenty-two 
years  ago.  At  that  time  the  settlement  there  had 
been  in  existence  about  five  vears,  and  Mr.  Far- 


rell was  one  of  the  first  to  take  up  the  work  of 
developing  the  mining  properties  of  that  locality. 
In  association  with  Mr.  D.  C.  McLaughlin,  he 
formed  the  Quincy  Company,  which  bonded  the 
Quincy  Mine,  Mr.  Farrell  being  now  the  presi- 
dent of  the  company  which  conducts  its  opera- 
tions. In  addition  to  this  mining  property,  Mr. 
Farrell  is  also  interested  in  various  other  mining 
properties  throughout  Utah  and  in  other  sections 
of  the  West.  The  Quincy  Mine  has  now  grown 
to  be  one  of  the  largest  in  the  State,  and  gives 
employment  to  over  one  hundred  men,  and  is  one 
of  the  best  dividend-paying  properties  in  Utah. 
Mr.  Farrell  has  seen  Park  City  grow  from  a  small 
mining  camp  on  the  frontier  to  its  present  posi- 
tion in  the  ranks  of  the  cities  of  LUah  and  to  its 
importance  as  one  of  the  mining  centers  of  this 
State. 

Our  subject  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Nash,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Nash,  and  by  this  marriage  they  have  had  four 
children. 

In  political  life  he  has  always  been  a  Repub- 
lican, and  has  been  one  of  the  men  who  have 
been  chosen  by  the  citizens  of  Park  City  to  direct 
its  atifairs,  having  served  two  years  as  its  Mayor, 
and  also  a  term  of  two  years  in  the  Council  of 
that  city.  He  is  also  interested  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Park  City  and  the  enlargement  of  the 
commercial  resources  of  Utah.  He  is  one  of  the 
owners  of  one  of  the  largest  freighting  and  de- 
livery businesses  in  Park  City,  conducted  under 
the  name  of  James  Farrell  &  Co. 

Mr.  Farrell  is  essentially  a  self-made  man,  and 
one  who  has  won  his  way  to  his  present  position 
by  dint  of  hard  work  and  unwavering  industry. 
He  started  out  to  care  for  himself  at  the  early 
age  of  eleven  years,  and  since  that  time  has  built 
his  way,  step  by  step,  to  a  high  place  in  the  busi- 
ness and  mining  world  of  L^tah.  He  is  one  of  the 
most  substantial  men  in  this  State,  and  one  who 
enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  the  people 
with  whom  he  has  been  associated.  Although 
practically  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Park  City,  he 
prefers  to  live  in  the  capital  of  the  State,  and 
makes  his  home  in  this  citv. 


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HERON  GEDDES,  Vice-President  and 
General  Manager  of  the  Swansea  Mine, 
located  in  the  Tintic  District.  It  may 
confidently  be  asserted  that  no  State  in 
the  Union  has  so  world-wide  a  reputa- 
tion, nor  is  more  deserving  of  this  notoriety,  than 
is  the  State  of  Utah.  The  extreme  prolificness  of 
her  soil,  her  unsurpassed  loveliness  of  scenery, 
unrivalled  climate  and  the  fabulous  wealth  of  her 
almost  endless  mining  resources,  as  yet  only  in 
their  infancy,  go  to  make  up  a  combination  that 
cannot  be  surpassed,  if,  indeed,  equalled,  by  any 
sister  State.  Her  mining  industry  must,  how- 
ever, take  precedence  over  all  other  industries,  as 
every  enterprise,  public  or  private,  of  any  con- 
siderable magnitude  in  the  State  can  be  traced 
directly  or  indirectly  to  the  mines  whose  outputs 
have  made  such  enterprises  possible.  While  of 
recent  years  the  attention  of  Eastern  capitalists 
has  been  attracted  to  this  most  enticing  field,  and 
one  by  one  they  are  coming  here  to  invest  their 
surplus  funds,  yet  by  far  the  greater  volume  of 
business  in  the  mining  world  of  Utah  has  been 
done  by  men  who  claim  this  as  their  homes ;  in 
many  instances  native  born  citizens  of  Utah,  but 
quite  as  often  poor  men  who  have  come  to  make 
this  their  place  of  permanent  abode,  and,  acquir- 
ing large  wealth  from  these  mines,  have  invested 
it  in  the  State  and  used  it  to  develop  or  promote 
other  industries ;  erecting  handsome  public  and 
private  buildings,  and  endowing  charitable,  re- 
ligious or  educational  institutions.  Magnificent 
examples  of  this  noble  use  to  whicn  these  men 
have  put  their  wealth,  may  be  mentioned  the  St. 
Ann  Orphanage,  the  Catholic  Cathedral,  the 
Judge  Memorial  Hospital  for  Miners,  and  the 
plot  of  ground  on  State  street  and  donation  given 
for  a  public  library,  the  donation  amounting  to 
ninety  thousand  dollars.  Among  those  who  came 
to  Salt  Lake  City  comparatively  poor  men,  and, 
through  their  investments  in  mines,  have  become 
wealthy  and  influential  citizens,  mention  should 
be  made  of  Theron  Geddes,  the  subject  of  this 
article. 

Mr.  Geddes  is  a  native  of  Lewisburgh,  L^nion 
county,  Pennsylvania,  where  his  father,  Samuel, 
was  a  wealthy  and  influential  iron  manufac- 
turer,  manufacturing   furnaces  and   stoves  prin- 


cipally, and  turning  out  the  first  cooking  stoves 
made  in  the  central  part  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  which  acquired  a  wide  reputation  under 
the  name  of  the  Hathaway  cooking  stove. 
He  was  a  prominent  and  influential  member  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church,  active,  in  the  Sunday 
school  and  other  work  of  the  church,  and 
a  man  of  considerable  importance  in  business 
circles.  He  later  moved  to  Camden,  and  from 
there  to  Dover,  Kent  county,  Delaware,  where 
he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years.  The 
family  originally  came  from  Scotland,  settling 
in  Pennsylvania,  the  head  of  the  family  be- 
ing a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Edinburgh. 
He  came  to  America  before  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  gave  some  valuable  assistance  to  this 
government  during  the  war.  Mr.  Geddes'  mother 
was  also  descended  from  Revolutionary  stock, 
her  maternal  ancestors  being  named  Crane  and 
taking  a  prominent  part  in  the  war.  Mrs.  Geddes 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Jane  M.  Budd,  and  was 
a  daughter  of  Joshua  Budd,  a  resident  of  Peeks- 
ville,  Dutchess  county,  New  York,  where  his 
daughter  was  born. 

Our  subject  obtained  his  education  in  one  of 
the  best  educational  institutions  of  Pennsylvania, 
known  as  the  Hill  School,  of  Pottstown,  Penn- 
sylvania, and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  started  in  life 
for  himself  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  secured  a 
position  with  a  large  commission  house,  having 
charge  of  their  financial  affairs,  and  remaining 
with  the  firm  four  years.  After  severing  his  con- 
nection with  this  concern,  he  remained  in  Phila- 
delphia until  1881,  engaged  in  various  lines  of 
work,  and  in  that  year  came  West  on  account  ol 
his  health,  going  first  to  Colorado  Springs  and 
later  to  Denver.  In  Colorado  Springs  he  began 
his  career  as  a  railroad  man,  accepting  a  position 
in  the  auditing  department  of  the  Denver  and 
Rio  Grande  road,  filling  that  position  two  years, 
his  headquarters  being  later  moved  to  Denver. 
When  the  interests  of  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande 
and  the  Rio  Grande  Western  roads  were  dis- 
solved, in  1884,  Mr.  Geddes  accepted  a  position 
as  chief  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Auditor  of  the 
latter  company,  and  two  years  later  was  pro- 
moted to  the  Auditorship  of  the  company,  his 
headquarters    remaining    in    Denver    until    1890, 


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when  the  offices  were  moved  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  Mr.  Geddes  retained  that  position  until  the 
road  came  under  control  of  Mr.  Gould,  when  he 
resigned,  his  term  of  office  expiring  October  i, 
1901. 

During  the  time  Mr.  Geddes  was  connected 
with  the  railroad  he  was  Auditor  and  Secretary 
in  the  following  associated  companies  of  the  Rio 
Grande  Western  system:  The  Pleasant  Valley 
Coal  Company,  Wasatch  Company,  Rio  Grande 
Western  Construction  Company,  Tintic  Range 
Railway  Company,  Sevier  Railroad  Company, 
Utah  Central  Railroad  Company,  Utah  Eastern 
Railroad  Company,  and  a  director  in  the  numer- 
ous companies  of  this  system. 

He  became  identified  with  the  mining  inter- 
ests of  Utah  in  1892,  when  he  acquired  an  inter- 
est in  the  famous  Swansea  Mine,  at  Silver  City, 
of  which  he  was  elected  Secretary  and  Treasurer, 
holding  those  offices  until  1895,  when  he  was 
elected  Vice-President,  General  Manager  and 
Treasurer,  which  offices  he  still  holds.  This  mine 
has  been  one  of  the  largest  producers  of  any  mine 
in  the  Tintic  District,  and  during  the  past  year 
the  owners  have  spent  large  sums  of  money  in 
development  work,  believing  that  the  resources 
of  the  mine  are  not  nearly  exhausted.  The  com- 
pany expect  to  begin  work  again  when  the  shaft 
reaches  a  depth  of  twelve  hundred  feet,  when 
work  will  be  commenced  on  the  lower  levels,  and 
it  is  confidently  expected  that  the  mine  will  once 
more  take  a  leading  place  as  a  producer  of  rich 
ores,  and  eclipse  all  past  records.  Mr.  Geddes  is 
also  interested  in  property  in  the  Deep  Creek 
country  and  the  southern  part  of  L^tah,  and  is 
to-day  one  of  Utah's  leading  mining  men. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
in  December,  1875,  to  Miss  Ida  B.  Geffrey,  a 
native  of  that  State.  Two  daughters  have  been 
born  to  them,  Kathryn  Allen  and  Jenna-Budd. 

In  politics  Mr.  Geddes  is  a  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  party,  but  not  an  active 
worker,  nor  has  he  ever  desired  or  sought  public 
office. 

Socially  Mr.  Geddes  is  a  gentleman  of  most 
pleasing  address,  courteous  and  considerate  in 
his  intercourse  with  others,  and,  since  coming  to 
Salt  Lake  Citv,  has  won  and  retained  the  esteem 


and  friendship  of  a  large  class  of  her  best  citi- 
zens. 


RANCIS  ARMSTRONG.  (Deceased.) 
Prominent  among  the  business  men  of 
Utah,  and  who  made  for  themselves  a 
leading  place  in  the  annals  of  Utah,  and 
amassed  wealth  in  the  work  of  assist- 
ing in  the  development  of  the  resources  of  this 
State,  and  in  bringing  its  commercial  standing  up 
to  its  present  high  position,  there  is  no  man  who 
is  entitled  to  a  higher  place  than  tne  subject  of 
this  sketch.  He  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers 
who  successfully  undertook  the  carrying  to  com- 
pletion many  of  the  projects  which  have  brought 
Utah  and  Salt  Lake  City  to  their  high  commer- 
cial position. 

Francis  Armstrong  was  born  in  Northumber- 
land, England,  on  October  3,  1839,  and  when  but 
twelve  years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Can- 
ada, where  their  son  spent  his  early  life.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  also  in  a 
boarding  school  at  Hamilton,  and  soon  started 
out  on  his  business  career.  He  removed  to  the 
United  States,  and  made  his  way  to  Missouri, 
where  he  remained  until  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Civil  War,  in  1861.  He  then  decided 
to  remove  to  the  West,  and  came  to  Utah, 
driving  an  ox  team  across  the  plains.  He  became 
identified  with  the  Mormon  Church  a  short  time 
after  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City,  having  made 
his  way  to  the  Great  Salt  Lake  Valley  in  Captain 
Duncan's  company,  who  were  members  of  the 
Church,  arriving  here  in  1861.  Upon  his  arrival 
he  first  devoted  his  attention  to  the  milling  busi- 
ness, and  successfully  erected  several  mills,  which 
he  sold  at  a  considerable  advantage.  He  later 
turned  his  attention  to  the  lumber  business,  and 
formed  the  company  of  Armstrong  &  Livingston, 
which  was  later  known  by  the  name  of  Arm- 
strong &  Bagley,  their  mills  being  in  Cottonwood 
and  their  headquarters  in  Salt  Lake  City.  This 
was  a  very  successful  firm,  and  enjoyed  a  con- 
tinued prosperity  from  its  establishment  in  1864. 
It  was  also  known  as  Taylor,  Lattmar  &  Co., 
and  later  became  Taylor,  Romney  &  Armstrong 
Company,  in  which  Mr.  .Armstrong  took  an  active 


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part,  botli  in  incorporating  and  in  bringing  it  to 
the  high  place  it  occupies  in  the  commercial  world 
of  the  West.  He  did  not  confine  his  attention 
entirely  to  the  lumber  business,  but  also  found 
time  to  aid  in  the  establishment  and  growth  of 
many  of  the  enterprises  which  have  gone  to  build 
up  Salt  Lake.  He  was  one  of  the  originators  of 
the  Utah  Power  Company,  of  which  he  was  Pres- 
ident, and  he  also  became  interested  in  the  street 
railway  system  of  the  city.  This  property  he  pur- 
chased from  the  Church  when  horses  were  the 
motive  power,  and  substituted  electricity  for  that 
power,  and  was  President  of  that  company  for 
some  time,  when  he  resigned.  He  died  June  15, 
1899.  It  was  largely  through  his  efiforts  that  the 
present  efficient  system  of  street  railways  in  Salt 
Lake  City  was  provided,  and  he  was  also  one  of 
the  first  to  introduce  electricity  as  a  motive  power, 
making  Salt  Lake  the  first  city  west  of  Chicago 
to  use  that  means  of  operating  street  cars.  From 
the  street  railway  business  he  turned  his  attention 
to  stock  raising,  and  became  a  stockholder  in  the 
Blackfoot  Stock  Company,  of  which  he  was  made 
President,  and  also  owned  a  large  ranch  in  Battle 
Creek,  Idaho,  which  was  known  as  the  Roscoe 
Stock  Company.  Mr.  Armstrong  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Utah  Commercial  and  Savings 
Bank,  and  at  its  organization  was  elected  the 
first  President,  on  May  31,  1899,  shortly  before 
his  death,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Wil- 
liam F.  This  is  one  of  the  strong  financial  insti- 
tutions of  the  city.  In  politics  the  senior  Mr. 
Armstrong  was  a  Democrat.  Among  the  official 
positions  he  held  were  those  of  City  Councilman, 
Mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  at  two  different 
times  was  County  Commissioner,  holding  that 
position  when  he  died. 

From  the  time  he  joined  the  Mormon  Church 
he  was  a  faithful  and  consistent  follower  of  its 
teachings,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a 
member  of  the  Seventies.  He  started  out  as  a 
poor  boy,  and  won  his  way  to  the  ranks  of 
wealthy  men  by  his  own  efforts.  His  industry, 
energy  and  business  ability  made  him  one  of  the 
most  prominent  men  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  he 
left  behind  him  a  record  that  will  be  a  source  of 
pride  to  his  posterity. 

He  was  married  December  10,   1864,  to  Miss 


Isabella  Siddoway,  who  was  also  a  native  of 
Northumberland,  England,  having  been  born  in 
the  same  section  as  was  her  husband.  She  came 
to  Utah  in  i86o  with  her  parents,  as  a  girl  of  ten 
years,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Roberts  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Dawson)  Siddoway,  natives  of  North- 
umberland, England.  Her  father  was  a  ship 
builder  in  England.  He  came  to  America  in 
1857,  and  spent  about  four  years  in  New  York 
and  Pennsylvania,  and  upon  joining  the  Mormon 
Church  there  emigrated  to  Utah,  reaching  here 
in  i860,  and  here  followed  the  business  of  a 
wheelwright,  and  was  employed  as  the  superin- 
tendent of  many  of  the  buildings  erected  by  the 
railways,  engaging  in  this  work  for  many  years. 
He  remained  identified  with  the  Church  through- 
out his  whole  life.  His  people  in  England  were 
prominent  in  industrial  affairs,  and  his  wife's  rel- 
atives, the  Davvsons,  were  prominent  glass  manu- 
facturers. By  this  marriage  Mrs.  Armstrong  has 
ten  living  children — Elizabeth  S.,  William  F.,  Isa- 
bella, Anne,  Mary,  Emma,  Sarah  E.,  Florence, 
Irene  and  Lee.  Mr.  Armstrong  made  his  home  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  dying-  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine  years, 
in  the  fullness  of  his  career  and  at  the  zenith  of  his 
power.  He  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and 
influential  business  men  of  Utah,  and  had  won 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  entire  business 
world  by  his  industry  and  integrity.  To  the  lead- 
ers of  the  Church  to  which  he  belonged  he  was 
a  loved  and  trusted  member,  and  was  by  them 
held  in  high  esteem.  To  the  people  of  Utah,  with- 
out respect  to  religious  belief  of  political  faith, 
he  was  known  as  a  large-hearted  and  generous 
friend. 


OSEPH  YOUNG.  Much  has  been  writ- 
ten about  the  pioneers  of  the  Mormon 
Church  in  Utah,  and  of  the  hardships 
and  sufferings  they  endured  on  their 
long  and  tedious  journey  over  the  plains. 
Although  not  strictly  a  pioneer — for  the  pioneers 
arrived  in  Utah  in  1847 — Joseph  Young  was 
among  the  earliest  settlers,  reaching  the  Beehive 
State  in  the  year  1850.  His  brother  was  Brigham 
Young,  the  first  President  of  the  Mormon  Church 
in  Utah,  the  man  whose  name  will  go  down  in 


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history  as  the  father  of  the  pioneers  and  the 
founder  of  the  City  of  Salt  Lake. 

Joseph  Young  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  April  7,  1797,  and  died  on  July  16, 
1881,  at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-four  years.  He 
was  the  Senior  President  of  the  Seventies  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
and  held  this  high  church  office  until  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  came  of  old  Puritan  stock.  His 
early  years  were  spent  in  Massachusetts  and  New 
York,  and  he  obtained  his  schooling  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  Empire  State.  Up  to  the  time  of 
the  founding  of  the  Mormon  Church  he  lived  in 
the  vicinity  of  Auburn,  New  York,  and  he  became 
one  of  its  early  adherents.  When  the  Mormons 
migrated  to  Kirkland,  Ohio,  Joseph  Young  went 
with  them  to  their  new  home.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  what  was  known  as  Zion  Camp,  which 
was  the  first  delegation  to  go  to  Independence, 
Missouri,  and  found  the  settlement  which  they 
believed  was  to  be  the  Zion,  where,  in  course  of 
time,  the  great  Mormon  temple  is  to  be  erected. 
But  this  dream  has  not  yet  been  realized.  The 
Mormons  were  driven  out  of  Missouri,  and  found 
a  new  resting  place  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois.  Here 
Joseph  Young  assisted  in  building  the  temple, 
and  at  the  time  of  the  Mormon  exodus  from  Illi- 
nois moved  to  winter  quarters  near  Omaha,  at 
a  place  now  called  Florence.  In  the  summer  of 
1850  he  crossed  the  plains  in  a  company  to  the 
Great  Salt  Lake  Valley,  having  spent  the  three 
preceding  years  in  Iowa.  Here,  in  the  virgin  soil 
of  a  new  country,  he  took  an  active  part  in  the 
development  of  the  great  valley  and  the  settle- 
ment of  the  future  State  of  Utah. 

Joseph  Young  helped  to  lay  the  corner-stone 
of  the  magnificent  Mormon  Temple,  a  sanctuary 
whose  intrinsic  value  is  stated  at  $4,000,000,  and 
which  stands  to-day  as  a  marvel  of  beauty  of 
architecture,  a  wonder  to  the  whole  civilized 
world,  and  a  monument  to  the  enduring  energy 
and  enterprise  of  the  Mormon  people. 

As  First  President  of  the  First  Seventies, 
loseph  Young  was  commissioned  to  preach  the 
gospel,  and  most  of  his  life  after  coming  to 
Utah  was  devoted  to  his  sacred  mission.  The 
memory  of  few  men  will  be  cherished  by  the  gen- 
erations to  come  with  deeper  respect  or  greater 


love.  He  carried  the  word  of  the  eospel  through- 
out the  greater  part  of  the  State  of  Utah,  ever 
ready  to  succor  the  needy  or  help  the  suffering. 
He  was  a  man  of  marked  ability  and  an  earnest 
student,  and  the  work  of  his  life  showed  that  he 
was  a  firm  believer  in  the  doctrines  and  principles 
which  he  inculcated. 

Joseph  Young  was  a  man  of  mild  and  gentle 
temperament.  If  he  ever  had  an  enemy  no  one 
knew  of  it,  for  he  was  ever  genial  and  kind  to  all. 
He  was  thoroughly  grounded  in  the  precepts  of 
the  Mormon  faith,  and  claimed  the  right  to  be- 
lieve as  his  conscience  bid  him,  and  was  ever  will- 
ing to  accord  to  every  man  the  same  privilege. 
If  any  believed  differently  to  him,  he  would  never 
quarrel  with  him  or  harbor  hard  feelings  against 
him  on  this  account.  His  brother.  President  Brig- 
ham  Young,  has  often  said  of  Joseph  that  he 
never  knew  a  better  man,  nor  one  who  followed 
more  closely  the  teachings  of  Christ. 

In  the  early  Territorial  days  Joseph  Young  was 
a  member  of  the  Territorial  Legislature.  He  was 
broad  and  cosmopolitan  in  all  his  views,  in  politics 
as  well  as  religion.  It  has  been  said  that  his 
gentle,  kindly  disposition  was  inherited  from  his 
mother. 

Bv  his  first  wife,  Jane  Adeline  Cicknell,  Joseph 
Young  had  nine  children — Jane  Adeline  Young 
Robbins,  Joseph  Young,  Jr.,  Dr.  Seymore  B. 
Young,  Judge  Le  Grande  Young,  Vilate  Young, 
Chloie  Young  Benedict  (wife  of  Dr.  Benedict), 
Rhoda  Young  ^Mackintosh,  Henrietta  Young  and 
Brigham  Bicknell  Young.  His  second  wife,  Eliz- 
abeth Flemming,  bore  him  three  children — Isaac, 
Fannie  and  Caroline  Young;  and  his  third,  Lu- 
cinda  Allen,  five — Phineas,  John  C,  Josephine, 
Augusta  and  Wilfred.  The  fourth  wife,  Mary 
Burnham,  had  two  children — Moriah  Young  Rus- 
sell and  Clara  Young  Conrad.  By  the  fifth  wife 
two  children  were  born — Edward  and  Mary 
Young. 


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ALTER  P.  READ.  In  the  work  of 
developing  the  resources  of  Utah 
and  in  bringing  the  prosperity  of  the 
State  to  its  present  satisfactory  con- 
dition, few  men  have  played  a  more 
inipt.rtant  part  and  few  have  been  so  widely  in- 
terested in  the  varied  industries  of  the  State  as 
has  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Without  the  ad- 
vantages of  a  scholastic  education,  and  learning 
deeply  and  well  in  the  strict  school  of  experience, 
his  success  in  life  has  been  due  entirely  to  his  own 
efforts  and  to  his  indomitable  will  and  unflagging 
industry. 

Walter  P.  Read,  the  son  of  Samuel  George 
Read  and  Elizabeth  Georgian  (Ouellyj  Read,  was 
born  in  London.  England,  in  1848,  and  lived  in 
that  country  until  the  eighth  year  of  his  age.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  London,  England,  and  was 
employed  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the  service  of  the 
East  India  Company,  and  later  was  employed  in 
the  office  of  the  General  Mercantile  Department 
of  the  docks  of  that  company  in  i.,ondon.  He  left 
England  for  America  in  1856,  and  settled  in  Iowa, 
in  which  State  he  remained  for  five  years.  He  re- 
moved, with  his  family,  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1861, 
arriving  in  Utah  some  time  after  the  rest  of  his 
family  had  arrived.  This  delay  was  due  to  his 
search  for  his  son  Walter,  who,  at  the  age  of 
thirteen,  evinced  a  desire  to  support  himself.  Our 
subject  left  Iowa  on  the  1st  day  of  July,  1861, 
and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  October  of  that 
year,  he  driving  an  o.x  team  across  the  plains. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City,  our  sub- 
ject's father  secured  employment  as  a  bookkeeper 
in  the  office  of  the  Deseret  News,  where  he  re- 
mained until  he  established  himself  in  business, 
dealing  in  books  and  newspapers  under  the  firm 
name  of  "The  London  Newsdealer."  He  had  be- 
come a  member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints  before  he  left  England,  and 
continued  to  be  a  member  of  that  Church  until  the 
time  of  his  death  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Elizabeth  Georgian  (Quelly)  Read,  wife  of 
Samuel  George  Read  and  mother  of  Walter  P. 
Read,  was  a  native  of  England.  She  left  that 
country  with  her  husband  in  1856,  coming  direct 
to  Salt  Lake  and  remaining  here  until  1859,  when 
she  returned  to  Iowa  and  there  joined  the  balance 


of  the  family,  coming  back  to  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1861,  her  husband  having  come  in  1859. 

Walter  P.  Read  received  his  early  education  in 
private  schools  in  Salt  Lake  City,  but  as  he  de- 
sired to  gain  his  own  livelihood  and  be  independ- 
ent, soon  started  on  his  business  career.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen  he  entered  the  harness  business  and 
remained  in  that  vocation  for  the  ensuing  sixteen 
years.  The  first  six  years  of  this  period  he  was 
an  employe,  and  throughout  the  latter  ten  years 
owned  and  controlled  the  business  located  at 
Nephi.  L'pon  the  sale  of  his  harness  business,  he 
devoted  himself  to  railroad  building,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1879,  in  connection  with  Messrs.  Grover 
and  McCune,  formed  a  construction  company 
known  as  the  Juab  Contract  Company,  who  in 
that  year  successfully  undertook  and  completed 
the  building  of  the  line  on  the  San  Juan  river,  Col- 
orado. 

In  the  spring  of  1880  the  firm  went  to  Gunnison 
county,  Colorado,  and  there  constructed  thirty 
miles  of  the  South  Park  road.  This  firm  was 
known  as  Grover,  McCune  &  Read,  and  secured 
the  contract  for  building  thirty  miles  of  track, 
from  Gunnison  City  to  the  Ruby  ?^Iountains,  for 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and  also  contracted 
for  and  successfully  completed  ninety  miles  of 
the  road  from  Pueblo  north  on  the  Denver  and 
New  Orleans,  now  known  as  the  Denver  and  Fort 
Worth  Railroad.  This  firm  operated  extensively 
in  the  Western  States,  and  secured  a  contract  in 
Montana  to  haul  wood  to  the  Lexington  !^Iills, 
at  Butte  City,  from  the  low  lands. 

In  addition  to  the  extensive  interests  of  this 
successful  firm,  Mr.  Read  found  opportunities  for 
the  exercise  of  his  abilities  in  other  fields,  and  in 
1881  he  became  interested  in  stock  raising.  In 
that  year  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Messrs. 
Alfred  W.  McCune  and  Thomas  J.  Scofield,  and 
engaged  in  the  cattle  business.  This  partnership 
owns  an  extensive  stock  ranch  in  Southern  Utah, 
comprising  about  six  thousand  acres,  stocked  with 
upwards  of  seven  hundred  head  of  horses  and 
cattle.  The  same  industry  and  ability  which  he 
displayed  in  his  former  enterprises  has  made  this 
ranch  one  of  the  most  prosperous  in  the  entire 
State. 

In   1885  Mr.  Read  again  turned  his  attention 


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to  railroad  building,  and  in  Montana  the  firm  of 
McCune,  Kerkendall  &  Co.  was  formed  at  Helena. 
The  extensive  operations  of  this  firm  were  man- 
aged by  Mr.  Read,  who  had  entire  charge  of  its 
business  in  Montana. 

From  railroad  building  he  turned  his  attention 
in  a  few  years,  and  entered  into  a  partnership  at 
Nephi  for  the  purpose  of  conducting  a  general 
merchandise  business,  the  firm  being  known  as 
Read  &  Bryan.  Here  he  remained  until  1889, 
when  he  moved  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  took  up  the 
management  of  the  street  railway  system  of  the 
Salt  Lake  City  Railroad  Company.  When  Mr. 
Read  took  up  the  management  of  this  property 
it  was  a  poorly  equipped,  crude  system.  The 
cars  were  hauled  by  mule  teams,  and  the  tracks 
extended  but  an  inconsiderable  distance.  Since 
his  incumbency  of  the  office  of  General  Manager 
the  system  has  made  wonderful  strides,  both  in 
efficiency  and  prosperity.  Under  his  direction 
mule  power  was  superseded  by  electricity,  and  in 
Salt  Lake  City  was  installed  the  first  system  of 
electric  street  railways  west  of  Omaha.  He  filled 
the  offices  of  Superintendent,  General  Manager 
and  Vice-President  and  Director  of  this  company, 
from  the  time  of  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  1889,  until  the  consolidation  of  the  two  street 
railway  companies,  the  Rapid  Transit  Company 
and  the  Salt  Lake  City  Railroad  Company,  was 
effected,  in  1901,  under  the  name  of  the  Consoli- 
dated Railway  and  Power  Company,  and  in  the 
new  corporation  he  continues  to  act  as  Superin- 
tendent, Vice-President  and  Director.  This  com- 
pany now  controls  and  operates  all  the  street  rail- 
ways of  the  city,  and  their  mileage  of  tracks  now 
amounts  to  seventy-six  miles.  It  furnishes  em- 
ployment for  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  men. 
The  power  plants  and  the  water  power  required 
in  the  operation  of  the  railway  are  also  owned  by 
the  company.  In  the  summer  season  it  operates 
over  one  hundred  cars  a  day,  and  throughout  the 
year  maintains  an  average  of  fifty-four  cars. 
From  the  small  and  crude  beginning  in  1889  it 
has  now  developed  into  a  prosperous  and  efficient 
system,  and  this  result  has  been  due,  in  a  large 
measure,  to  the  ability  and  enterprise  of  Mr. 
Read. 

In    1872   Mr.   Read  married   Miss   Martha   A. 


Pond,  daughter  of  Stillman  and  Elizabeth  Pond, 
and  his  family  consists  of  seven  children — three 
sons  and  four  daughters — Walter  E.,  who  has 
charge  of  the  car  barns  at  night ;  Joseph  Marion, 
messenger  for  the  Pacific  Express  Company  on 
the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad ;  and  Winslow. 
His  daughters  are  Gertrude,  wife  of  Fred  Michel- 
son,  who  is  engaged  in  the  baking  business  in  Salt 
Lake  City ;  Martha  J.,  in  Germany,  studying 
music  ;  Ermer  and  Edna. 

Notwithstanding  his  varied  and  active  business 
career,  Mr.  Read  found  time  to  take  part  in  the 
political  affairs  of  the  State.  He  is  a  believer  in 
the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  in 
1876  was  elected  and  served  as  Sheriff  of  Juab 
county,  Utah.  He  also  had  the  honor  of  being 
the  first  City  Marshal  of  Nephi,  being  elected  to 
that  office  in  the  spring  of  1889,  but  owing  to  his 
removal  to  Salt  Lake  City  to  take  up  the  man- 
agreement  of  the  Salt  Lake  City  Railroad,  he  re- 
signed his  office  in  that  year. 

In  social  matters  he  has  also  taken  an  active 
part,  being  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen,  of  which  he  is  Past  Master, 
and  is  a  leading  member  of  the  Elks. 

The  success  of  all  the  business  enterprises  in 
which  Mr.  Read  has  been  interested  and  the 
strikingly  successful  career  he  has  made  in  Utah 
are  the  results  of  his  own  efforts.  Starting  out 
in  life  at  an  age  when  most  boys  are  still  under 
parental  guidance,  self-instructed  and  self-made, 
he  has  achieved  results  that  mark  him  as  one  of 
the  great  captains  in  the  industrial  development 
of  the  West.  A  man  of  splendid  physique,  un- 
daunted will  power,  coupled  with  the  ability  to 
learn  from  others  and  profit  by  their  experience, 
no  matter  how  limited,  has  made  his  career  one 
of  the  most  striking  illustrations  of  what  energy, 
application  and  industry  can  accomplish.  Gifted 
with  a  pleasing  personality  and  a  kind  and  genial 
manner,  he  has  become  one  of  the  best  known  and 
most  popular  men  throughout  this  region. 


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OHN  J.  STEWART.  In  the  settlement 
of  a  new  country  and  in  the  building  up 
of  a  city,  especially  a  city  of  the  rapid 
growth  that  Salt  Lake  has  experienced, 
a  great  demand  arises  for  building  ma- 
terial, and  the  supplying  of  the  lumber  necessary 
for  the  erection  of  houses  and  buildings  forms 
one  of  the  chief  industries  of  a  community.  This 
is  especially  true  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the 
growth  of  the  city  is  clearly  indicated  by  the  de- 
velopment and  prosperity  of  the  large  wholesale 
lumber  interests.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  estab- 
lish the  wholesale  lumber  business  in  LItah,  and  he 
has  kept  pace  with  the  development  of  the  city 
and  State. 

John  J.  Stewart  was  born  in  \  ellow  Springs, 
Green  county,  Ohio,  and  spent  his  early  life  in 
that  State,  deriving  his  early  education  from  the 
district  schools  established  in  his  native  county. 
At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  began  his  business  ca- 
reer, becoming  connected  with  his  father,  E.  R. 
Stewart,  in  the  flour  milling  business,  and  con- 
tinuing in  that  industry  until  1887,  in  which  year 
his  father  retired  from  business.  E.  R.  Stewart, 
the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a 
native  of  Ohio,  and  his  wife,  Rachel  (Jacoby) 
Stewart,  was  a  native  of  Ohio.  Her  father  was 
a  successful  farmer  and  stock  raiser  in  that  State, 
and  her  family  were  among  the  early  settlers  of 
Green  county.  The  Stewart  family  were  among 
the  pioneers  of  Clark  county,  Ohio,  and  settled 
in  that  State  when  the  country  was  a  wilderness 
and  the  land  occupied  by  hostile  Indians.  The 
same  energy,  determination  and  ability  that  has 
made  Mr.  Stewart's  life  a  success  was  exhibited 
by  his  ancestors  in  the  settlement  and  cultivation 
of  what  was  then  considered  the  outpost  of  civil- 
ization. After  the  retirement  of  our  subject's 
father  from  the  flour  milling  business,  which  had 
been  conducted  with  great  success,  the  family  re- 
moved to  California,  and  there  lived  until  1889, 
when  they  came  to  Salt  Lake  City.  When  Mr. 
Stewart  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City  his  father  re- 
turned to  the  East,  and  is  still  living  in  Spring- 
field, Ohio,  but  is  not  actively  engaged  in  busi- 
ness. 

In  November,  1899,  Mr.  Stewart  established 
his  present  business  and  began  the  building  up  of 


his  now  large  and  prosperous  wholesale  lumber 
business.  His  success  in  the  East  has  been  con- 
tinued in  Utah,  and  he  now  ranks  high  in  the 
commercial  and  political  life  of  this  State. 

He  was  married  in  Ohio,  in  1883,  to  Miss  Flora 
Dickson,  daughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  Dixon,  D.  D.,  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  clergymen 
of  thePresbyterian  Church  in  Ohio,  who  has  since 
died.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Stewart  has  four 
children — Elinor,  Marguerite,  John  J.,  Jr.,  and 
Jean. 

In  politics  Air.  Stewart  has  been  a  staunch  Re- 
publican all  through  his  life,  and  has  participated 
actively  in  the  growth  of  Salt  Lake  City  in  the 
administration  of  its  aflairs.  He  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  City  Council  in  this  city  in  the 
fall  of  1895,  and  served  in  that  capacity  during 
the  years  of  1896  and  1897.  Outside  of  this,  how- 
ever, he  has  never  held  public  office,  nor  sought 
in  any  way  or  manner  the  nomination  or  election 
to  any  office  in  the  gift  of  the  people,  devoting  his 
time  to  the  development  and  care  of  his  business 
interests. 

When  Mr.  Stewart  settled  in  Salt  Lake,  in 
1889,  it  was  a  much  smaller  city  than  now,  and 
since  that  time  he  has  seen  it  grow  to  its  present 
importance  as  a  cosmopolitan  city  and  the  center 
of  distribution  for  a  territory  covered  by  Wyom- 
ing, Nevada.  Idaho  and  the  western  portion  of 
Colorado.  There  were  not  many  business  houses 
of  any  importance  here  when  he  arrived,  and  he 
has  seen  the  present  buildings  erected,  the  city 
extended  and  improvements  made  of  a  nature  be- 
fitting its  importance.  In  this  work  he  has  taken 
an  active  part,  and  during  his  tenure  of  office  in 
the  City  Council  was  a  strong  advocate  of  meas- 
ures tending  to  improve  the  city  and  State  as 
well.  He  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  future  impor- 
tance of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  feels  assured  that 
in  the  immediate  years  to  come  it  will  take  its 
place  as  one  of  the  most  important  cities  in  the 
western  portion  of  the  country.  When  the  re- 
sources of  Utah  shall  have  been  developed  more 
thoroughly  and  its  hidden  wealth  disclosed,  he 
believes  that  the  State  will  rise  to  a  prominent 
position  in  both  agriculture  and  mining. 

The  success  which  Mr.  Stewart  has  achieved 
has  been  won  by  his  own  efforts,  and  the  integ- 


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rity  and  industry  he  has  displayed  in  his  business, 
together  with  his  genial  and  pleasant  manner, 
have  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  friendship 
of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated  in  busi- 
ness, and  throughout  the  State,  and,  indeed,  the 
West,  he  enjoys  a  wide  popularity. 


KORGE  H.  NaYLOR.  One  of  the 
most  responsible  positions  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  the  duties  which  de- 
volve upon  the  county  is  that  of  Sher- 
iff, and  this  position  has  been  satisfac- 
torily filled  by  the  present  incumbent,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  George  H.  Naylor.  Mr.  Naylor, 
by  his  unflagging  devotion  to  duty  and  by  his 
humanity  and  consideration,  has  won  for  himself 
a  warm  place  in  the  hearts  of  all  the  people. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  March  10,  1863. 
He  is  a  son  of  George  Xaylor,  one  of  the  pio- 
neers of  Utah  and  of  Salt  Lake  county,  who  built 
the  first  wagon  ever  constructed  in  the  valley  of 
Salt  Lake.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the  sheep  busi- 
ness in  Utah,  and  is  still  living  in  the  enjoyment 
of  good  health.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints 
ever  since  the  early  part  of  his  life,  joining  it 
in  Manchester,  England,  and  coming  to  this  coun- 
try as  a  boy.  He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
work,  and  has  filled  various  offices  in  the  Church. 
His  wife,  Huldah  C.  (Duncan)  Naylor,  was  a 
native  of  South  Carolina.  Her  parents  died,  and 
she  came  West  at  an  early  age. 

Their  son,  George  H.  Naylor,  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  started 
out  on  his  life  work  at  the  age  of  twenty  years, 
and  has  made  his  own  way  in  the  world  and  con- 
ducted a  successful  business  ever  since,  giving  up 
his  business  when  he  was  elected  Sheriff.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  blacksmith  and  ferrier  under 
the  direction  of  his  father,  who  then  had  a  shop  on 
First  South  East,  and  after  he  became  a  journey- 
man he  established  himself  in  business  and  fol- 
lowed that  with  success  until,  as  stated,  he  was 
elected  Sheriff. 

Mr.  Naylor  was  married  sixteen  years  ago  to 
Miss  Ruth  Pierpont,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Pier- 


pont,  whose  father  was  engaged  in  the  machinery 
and  foundry  business,  and  still  lives  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  By  this  marriage  he  has  six  children — 
Naomi,  Lawrence,  George,  Winifred,  Clarence, 
Afton  and  Gladys. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Naylor  is  a  believer  in  the 
Democratic  principles,  and  it  was  on  that  ticket 
that  he  was  elected  Sheriff,  his  majority  in  that 
election  being  over  sixteen  hundred.  In  fraternal 
life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  ofUnited 
Workmen,  and  also  of  the  Elks.  He  is  distinctly 
a  self-made  man,  and  of  the  type  that  the  West 
produces.  He  has  been  beholden  to  no  man  for 
his  success,  and  the  position  which  he  now  holds 
he  has  gained  by  unflagging,  constant  hard  work 
and  application  to  the  tasks  which  he  had  in  hand. 


AMES  P.  FREEZE  is  a  forcible  example 
lit  what  perseverance,  coupled  with  abil- 
it\-  and  ambition,  can  accomplish  for  a 
man.  Coming  to  Utah  a  poor  boy,  with- 
out friends  or  influence,  he  is  to-day  one 
of  the  substantial  and  influential  citizens  of  the 
State,  honored  wherever  known,  and  enjoying  a 
reputation  for  business  integrity  and  honesty  that 
might  well  be  the  envy  of  any  man.  He  has,  dur- 
ing his  business  life  in  Utah,  organized  and  fos- 
tered two  business  enterprises  and  found  time  to 
devote  to  the  study  of  scientific  farming,  which 
ideas  have  been  crystalized  since  his  retirement 
from  the  more  active  duties  of  life,  and  he  has 
to-day  a  farm  which  men  who  have  devoted  their 
entire  lives  to  agricultural  pursuits  might  copy 
profitably. 

Air.  Freeze  is  an  x\merican  by  birth,  being 
born  in  Columbia  county,  Pennsylvania,  October 
II,  1834,  and  is  the  son  of  James  and  Frances 
(Goss)  Freeze.  The  father  was  a  miller,  and 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  our  subject 
worked  at  that  business  with  his  father.  The 
parents  both  died  in  Pennsylvania,  and  at  the 
age  of  sixteen  years  our  subject  found  himself 
compelled  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world.  He 
began  as  a  clerk,  and  in  1855  went  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  again  secured  a  clerkship,  remaining 
there  until  1861,  when  he  joined  a  train  of  emi- 
grants  at   Omaha,   and   made    the   long  journey 


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across  the  plains  with  an  ox  team,  reacliing  Salt 
Lake  City  on  Xovember  ist. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  went  to  Richmond, 
in  Cache  Valley,  where  he  engaged  in  school 
teaching  for  two  years,  and  then  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  where  he  once  more  engaged  as  a 
clerk,  holding  a  position  with  Hooper  &  Eldridge 
until  1869.  and  then  opened  the  Thirteenth  Ward 
Co-operative  Store,  conducting  it  with  success 
until  about  1894.  In  that  year  he  closed  out  his 
business  and  organized  the  Freeze  Mercantile 
Company,  and  operated  that  business  until  April, 
igoi,  at  which  time  he  sold  out  his  interests  and 
retired  from  mercantile  life.  He  has  owned  his 
home  in  Murray  for  the  past  twenty  years,  and 
upon  retiring  from  business  life  moved  here  and 
intends  making  this  his  permanent  home.  He  has 
erected  a  beautiful  seven-room  cottage,  which 
be  modern  in  every  respect,  fitted  up  with  hot  and 
cold  water,  electric  lights,  etc.  His  farm  consists 
of  two  hundred  and  thirty  acres  adjoining  Mur- 
ray, and  on  this  land  he  has  built  fifteen  houses, 
which  he  rents  to  the  employees  of  the  smelters. 
He  has  a  small  village  of  good  barns  and  out- 
buildings, and  his  place  is  considered  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  and  cultivated  in  the  valley.  The 
Little  Cottonwood  creek  runs  through  his  land, 
and  is  fed  from  a  number  of  boiling  springs.  He 
has  also  several  good  artesian  wells,  which  sup- 
ply the  water  for  his  barns,  orchard  and  yards. 
Much  of  the  land  once  formed  the  creek  bed  of  the 
stream  which  now  flows  through  it,  and  this  has 
been  reclaimed  by  banking  the  waters  in  with 
slack  from  the  smelters,  which  has  served  the 
double  purpose  of  confining  the  water  within  a 
narrow  channel,  and  also  fencing  the  land.  This 
waste  land  has  been  converted  into  rich  meadow 
and  pasture  land,  and  is  a  monument  to  the  skill 
and  industry  of  Mr.  Freeze.  He  has  on  his  farm 
fifty  head  of  the  famous  red  polled  cattle,  and  has 
taken  great  pains  to  provide  good  quarters  for 
his  stock.  His  ample  stock  barns  and  hay  cor- 
rals are  such  as  are  to  be  found  in  the  old  East- 
ern States,  built  on  the  hillside  for  shelter,  and 
his  place  is  in  all  resepcts  a  model  one. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  never  been 
an  office-seeker,  nor  taken  any  very  active  part  in 
his  party's  campaigns.     He  is  a  member  of  the 


Mormon   Church,   and   for   the   past   twenty-five 
years  has  been  a  member  of  the  High  Council. 

In  1863  he  was  married  to  Mary  Ann  Burn- 
ham,  a  native  of  Richmond,  Utah,  and  a  daughter 
of  Louis  and  Mary  Ann  Burnham.  Of  the  eight 
children  born  to  them,  si.x:  are  now  living. 


SCAR  W.  MOYLE.  Salt  Lake  City 
claims  as  citizens  some  of  the  brightest 
legal  lights  of  the  western  country,  and 
among  them  and  worthy  of  special  note 
are  many  native  sons  of  Utah,  some  ad- 
vanced in  years  and  in  the  enjoyment  of  an  estab- 
lished reputation  and  a  lucrative  practice ;  some 
of  [hem  still  young  in  years  and  experience,  but 
giving  evidence  of  the  possession  of  talent  of  no 
mean  order,  and  having  already  demonstrated 
their  ability  in  their  profession.  Among  the  latter 
class  belongs  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  law  firm  of  Young  &  Moyle,  recognized 
as  among  the  reputable  lawyers  of  the  city. 

Mr  Moyle  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1868, 
and  his  whole  life,  up  to  the  present  time,  with 
the  exception  of  the  time  spent  in  the  East  com- 
pleting his  studies,  has  been  spent  within  the  con- 
fines of  this  State.  As  a  boy  he  learned  the  stone- 
cutting  trade,  and  worked  for  a  time  on  the  Salt 
Lake  Temple.  He  attended  the  common  schools 
of  the  city,  and  later  entered  the  Deseret  Uni- 
versity, now  the  University  of  Utah,  where  he 
graduated  with  the  class  of  '85,  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  B.  S.  He  later  entered  the  University  of 
Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  graduating  from  that 
institution  in  1890,  with  the  degree  of  Ph.  B.,  and 
taking  a  two  years'  course  in  the  law  department 
of  the  same  institution,  graduating  in  1892,  hav- 
ing spent  in  all  four  years  in  .\nn  Arbor.  Upon 
his  graduation  he  was  admitted  to  practice  be- 
fore the  Supreme  Court  of  Michigan.  He  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake  City  that  same  year  and  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  forming 
a  partnership  with  Judge  Le  Grande  Young,  one 
of  the  foremost  attorneys  of  this  city,  with  whom 
he  has  since  been  associated.  While  they  have 
done  a  general  law  practice,  the  greater  portion 


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of  their  work  has  been  devoted  to  mining  and  cor- 
poration law,  of  which  they  have  made  a  special 
study,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  there  are  few  law 
firms  in  this  State  that  have  a  better  standing 
or  are  considered  more  versed  in  this  branch  of 
the  law  than  the  firm  of  Young  &  Movie.  Their 
fine  offices  and  splendid  law  library  are  located  on 
the  second  floor  of  the  Deseret  National  Bank 
building,  at  the  corner  of  First  South  and  Alain 
streets. 

In  1895  Mr.  Moyle  was  married  to  Miss  May 
Preston,  daughter  of  Bishop  William  B.  Preston, 
one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  this  city  and 
one  of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  Mormon 
Church,  a  full  biographical  sketch  of  whom  ap- 
pears elsewhere  in  this  work.  Four  children  have 
been  born  of  this  marriage — Harriett,  Elizabeth 
May,  Allie  and  Rebecca. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Moyle  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  Democratic  party  since  the 
time  of  its  organization  in  this  State.  He  has 
perhaps  been  more  prominently  identified  with 
the  educational  work  of  the  city  than  any  other 
one  branch  of  political  life.  He  has  served  on 
the  Board  of  Education  for  a  number  of  years. 
His  second  term  expires  in  1905.  He  has  proved 
himself  the  friend  of  education,  and  believes  in 
giving  the  youth  of  Utah  every  possible  advan- 
tage along  this  line,  and  raising  the  standard  of 
education  as  rapidly  as  circumstances  will  admit. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  while  he  has  perhaps 
not  been  as  prominent  in  Church  affairs  as  some 
others  of  its  members,  yet  he  is  in  hearty  sym- 
pathy with  all  its  work,  as  he  is,  in  fact,  with 
every  religious  denomination  whose  tendency  is 
towards  the  uplifting  and  betterment  of  mankind. 
He  is  naturally  broad  and  liberal  minded  in  his 
views,  and  personally  is  a  man  of  most  genial  and 
pleasing  manners,  and  it  is  this  feature  that  has 
undoubtedly  contributed  towards  the  success  to 
which  he  has  attained  in  his  professional  career. 
He  is  yet  a  very  young  man,  with  almost  all  of 
life  before  him,  and  the  record  he  has  thus  far 
made  has  been  such  as  to  cause  his  many  friends 
to  predict  a  brilliant  future  for  him.  His  life 
from  boyhood  has  been  straightforward,  honor- 
able and  upright. 


O.  RHOADES,  General  Purchasing 
Agent  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Rail- 
road system.  The  traveler  through 
this  western  country  must,  if  he  stops 
to  consider  the  subject,  justly  be  sur- 
prised at  the  number  of  young  men  to  be  found 
in  positions  of  responsibility  in  the  railroads  of 
this  region.  Some  of  them  are  natives  of  Utah, 
but  the  greater  number  come  from  Eastern 
homes,  beginning  at  the  bottom  in  railroad  work 
and  rising  by  their  own  ability  and  perseverance, 
promoted  from  one  position  of  trust  to  another, 
until  at  an  early  age  we  find  them  holding  vari- 
ous positions  in  our  Western  roads,  handling  their 
work  vfhh  skill  and  giving  the  patrons  of  the 
road  most  satisfactory  and  efficient  service.  The 
duties  of  purchasing  agent  for  a  railway  cannot 
be  said  to  be  fraught  with  as  great  responsibility 
as  some  other  lines,  but  if  not  properly  attended 
to  it  might  result  in  large  financial  losses,  not 
only  to  the  company,  but  to  the  public,  delaying 
traffic  and  rendering  many  of  the  departments 
unfit  for  duty.  The  task  of  superintending  the 
purchasing  of  supplies  for  so  large  a  corporation 
will  readily  be  recognized  as  no  sinecure,  but  one 
that  calls  for  a  man  of  a  high  order  of  business 
ability. 

Mr.  Rhoades  was  born  in  Rockland,  Maine, 
and  when  but  five  years  of  age  came  West  with 
his  parents,  they  settling  in  Omaha,  where  he 
attended  the  common  and  high  schools  and  under- 
took the  study  of  medicine,  with  a  view  of  fol- 
lowing that  as  a  profession.  However,  he  did  not 
find  the  study  a  congenial  one,  and  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  entered  the  employ  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  Company,  remaining  there  from  1879 
until  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1897.  During 
this  time  he  was  employed  as  messenger  in  the 
supply  department,  tie  inspector,  rail  inspector, 
and,  in  1888,  promoted  to  the  position  of  chief 
clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Purchasing  Agent,  hold- 
ing that  position  until  1897,  when  he  was  sent 
to  Salt  Lake  and  made  Purchasing  Agent  of  the 
entire  system  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railway, 
which  he  still  holds,  having  supervision  over 
about  one  hundred  men. 

Mr.  Rhoades'  father,  William  G.  Rhoades,  was 
a  ship  builder  by  trade,  and  before  reaching  his 


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majority  had  built  the  Young  Mechanic,  the  fast- 
est three-mast  sailing  vessel  ever  built  in  the 
United  States  at  that  time.  He  later  moved  to 
Omaha,  where  he  followed  contracting  and  build- 
ing up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  His  wife,  and  the 
mother  of  our  subject,  was  Addie  T.  Durgin. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1885.  in  Omaha, 
to  Aliss  Katherine  M.  Brown,  by  whom  he  has 
two  children — one  son,  William  G.,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Elwinnie  M. 

During  his  residence  in  Omaha  Mr.  Rhoades 
was  largely  identified  with  the  educational  work 
of  the  city,  and  in  1893  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  School  Board,  being  re-elected  in  1896, 
being  President  of  the  Board  during  the  last  two 
years,  as  a  resident  of  that  place.  In  political  life 
he  is  a  Republican,  but  has  never  been  actively 
identified  with  the  work  of  the  party.  In  fra- 
ternal circles  he  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason 
and  has  passed  through  all  the  degrees  of  Ma- 
sonry, and  is  also  a  member  of  the  A.  A.  O.  N. 
M.  S.,  being  at  the  head  of  that  order  in  Salt 
Lake.  He  also  has  his  membership  with  the 
Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  L^nited 
Workmen. 

Since  he  has  been  a  resident  of  this  city  Mr. 
Rhoades  has  made  many  warm  friends,  not  only 
among  his  associates,  but  in  social  circles,  where 
he  and  his  wiie  are  ever-welcome  members.  He 
is  most  genial  and  kindly  in  his  nature,  upright 
and  honorable  in  his  business  and  private  life, 
and  stands  high  in  the  esteem  of  his  employers. 


ICHARD  MATHEW  CARLISLE. 
iM-om  1850  to  1867  Richard  M.  Car- 
lisle led  an  unsettled  life.  Frontiers- 
man, freighter,  lumberman,  etc.,  he 
finally  settled  down  in  Mill  Creek 
Ward,  where  he  now  lives  on  his  farm  of  seventy 
acres  with  his  wife  and  daughter. 

A  son  of  Richard  and  Jane(  Fields) Carlisle, the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Lincolnshire, 
England,  in  June,  1840,  being  the  youngest  of  the 
family.  He  came  to  America  when  he  was  only 
ten  years  old  with  his  parents,  and  the  family 
made  their  home  for  a  while  in  St.  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, where  his  mother  died  of  cholera.  After 
this  the  family  broke  up,  coming  west  to  L^tah 


at  diflferent  times.  Our  subject  crossed  the  Mis- 
sissippi to  East  St.  Louis,  in  Illinois,  and  here 
he  found  a  home  with  one  Joseph  Launceford,  a 
man  who  had  helped  to  build  the  first  ten  log 
houses  that  were  put  up  in  St.  Louis.  W  nen 
Launceford  came  to  Utah  he  brought  our  sub- 
ject along  with  him.  This  was  in  1852,  and 
Joseph  Outhouse,  a  son-in-law  of  Launceford's, 
was  captain  of  the  train.  Salt  Lake  City  was 
reached  on  August  8th,  1852.  Richard  made  but 
a  brief  stay,  and  then  went  on  to  Spanish  Fork. 
From  there  he  went  to  Palmyra,  where  there  was 
a  little  settlement,  and  lived  for  a  year.  Next  he 
came  to  Mill  Creek,  and  lived  there  for  about 
two  years,  returning  again  to  Utah  county,  where 
he  stayed  till  1859.  In  that  year  he  returned  to 
Salt  Lake  county,  where  he  has  had  his  home 
ever  since.  He  has  helped  to  settle  the  Mormon 
settlements  in  Arizona  and  has  crossed  the  plains 
many  times,  freighting  and  bringing  over  Mor- 
mon emigrants. 

In  1868  Mr.  Carlisle  married  Mary  H.  Wright 
at  Salt  Lake  City.  She  was  born  in  Mill  Creek, 
and  is  a  sister  of  Joseph  A.  Wright.  Of  the  six 
children  born  to  them,  only  two  are  living — 
Joseph  A.,  who  has  a  farm  near  his  father's,  and 
Mary  Alice,  a  girl  of  nineteen,  who  still  lives 
under  the  family  rooftree.  They  were  the  sec- 
ond and  fourth  children,  respectively.  The  chil- 
dren who  died  were:  Richard  W.,  the  eldest,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  four  months ;  Jane  Maria,  the 
third,  who  lived  till  she  was  nineteen  years ; 
Washburn  M.,  the  fifth  child,  who  only  reached 
the  age  of  nine  years,  and  Rowland  W.,  the 
youngest,  who  only  lived  six  months. 

Mr.  Carlisle's  home  farm  consists  of  seventy 
acres,  which  is  well  improved  and  contains  a  com- 
fortable home,  with  an  artesian  well  in  the  yard. 
His  wife  also  has  a  ten-acre  farm,  left  her  by  her 
father. 

Politically  Mr.  Carlisle  is  a  Democrat.  He  has 
taken  an  active  interest  in  school  matters.  He  was 
born  and  raised  a  Mormon,  as  were  also  his  wife 
and  children.  His  wife  is  an  active  member  of 
the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  and  takes  a  lively  in- 
terest in  the  Church  affairs  of  her  ward.  The 
daughter  is  a  popular  young  lady  in  Mill  Creek, 
a  member  of  the  Young  Ladies'   Primary,  and 


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prominent  in  Church  matters.  She  was  for  a 
time  governess  to  the  children  of  Benjamin  R. 
Eldredge. 

Mr.  CarHsle  was  left  to  shift  for  himself  when 
he  was  only  a  boy.  He  had  no  start  in  life,  and 
had  to  fight  all  his  own  battles.  He  was  the  first 
of  his  family  to  come  out  to  Utah,  and  was  a 
close  friend  of  some  of  the  leading  families.  He 
helped  to  haul  the  materials  from  the  canyons 
that  were  used  in  the  building  of  the  Tabernacle 
and  the  Temple. 


iJlXDREW  D.  HELM.  The  history  of  the 
Helm  family  presents  a  forcible  ex- 
ample of  the  strenuous  life  which  the 
]}iuneers  and  early  settlers  of  Utah  had 
to  face — a  life  so  full  of  hardships 
and  sutlcring  that,  looking  back,  it  seems  little 
short  of  miraculous  that  so  many  have  sur- 
vived the  struggle,  and  not  only  survived  it, 
but  at  the  same  time  managed  to  accumu- 
late a  competency  and  lived  to  a  good  old 
age.  With  the  Helms  it  was  a  case  of  the 
younger  sons  working  to  provide  a  living 
for  the  family  while  the  older  boys  patrolled  the 
neighborhood  with  their  guns  on  their  shoulders 
to  protect  the  family  from  sudden  onslaughts  by 
the  Indians.  To  the  hardships  thus  endured  by 
the  older  sons  is  doubtless  attributed  their  early 
deaths.  Three  of  them  served  in  the  Mormon 
ranks  in  the  campaign  waged  by  General  Johnson 
against  the  Mormons. 

Andrew  D.  Helm  was  born  in  Jackson  town- 
ship, Sandusky  county,  Ohio,  in  1849.  He  is  a 
son  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Richards)  Helm,  who 
came  to  L'tah  in  1855.  His  father  was  born  at 
Lee  Cross  Road,  Cumberland  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  his  mother  was  born  in  Germany  and 
raised  in  Ohio  and  Pennsylvania.  He  had  seven 
brothers,  three  of  whom  succumbed  to  the  rigors 
of  the  life  of  the  early  days  of  the  Territory,  and 
four  sisters.  One  brother  is  now  located  in 
Idaho,  another  in  Colorado ;  one  of  his  sisters 
has  made  her  home  in  Idaho,  and  the  rest  of  the 
family  live  in  Utah. 

The  Helm  family  crossed  the  plains  under  the 
leadership  of  Captain  Moses  Thurston.  Thev 
had  three  wagons,  two  teams  of  horses  and  one 


of  oxen,  which  they  drove  from  Ohio,  meeting 
the  wagon  train  for  L^tah  at  Omaha.  Abraham 
Helm  bought  a  farm  in  Mill  Creek,  and  his  wife 
still  lives  on  it.  He  died  in  1895,  ^^  '^'"'^  ^S^  of 
eightv-four  years.  At  the  age  of  nine  years  An- 
drew was  a  sheep  herder.  His  mother  and  sis- 
ters used  to  shear  the  sheep,  spin  the  wool  into 
yarn,  weave  the  yarn  into  cloth  and  then  make 
the  cloth  into  clothing.  He  married  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine  Rachel  Mitchell,  a  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin T.  and  Mary  L.  (Buckwalter)  Mitchell, 
who  had  arrived  in  L'tah  in  the  late  forties.  Both 
are  now  dead.  Andrew  has  four  children  liv- 
ing: Rachel  Josephine,  Benjamin  T.,  Mary  La- 
vina  and  Maple  Clara.  They  all  live  at  home  on 
Mr.  Helm's  thirty-two  acre  tarm  in  Mill  Creek 
near  the  railroad.  Here  he  is  now  just  putting 
the  finishing  touches  on  a  modern  six-room, 
pressed  brick  dwelling  house,  which  is  fenced  in 
bv  a  dense,  luxuriant  growth  of  poplar  hedges 
which  Mr.  Helm  planted  years  ago.  Spacious 
barns  adjoin  the  house,  and  his  farm  is  irri- 
gated from  the  Gardner  mill  race.  He  raises  hay, 
beets,  wheat  and  cattle  and  runs  a  small  dairy. 
He  also  owns  ten  shares  of  stock  in  the  Taylors- 
ville  and  Murray  Creamery  Company. 

Mr.  Helm  is  a  Democrat,  and  for  four  years  he 
has  been  a  registrar  of  the  fifty-eighth  district. 
He  has  also  served  as  school  trustee,  and  has 
always  been  an  earnest  advocate  of  good  schools. 
His  two  elder  children  graduated  from  the 
district  school  and  now  attend  the  Granite  Stake 
.-\cademy.  It  is  their  father's  aim  to  give  the 
younger  members  of  his  family  the  same  educa- 
tional advantages.  ^Ir.  Helm's  father  became  a 
member  of  the  Mormon  church  in  Ohio,  and  An- 
drew was  baptized  in  the  same  faith  in  Mill  Creek 
Ward  when  he  was  twelve  years  old.  His  wife 
and  children  belong  to  the  same  church.  He  is 
presiding  teacher  in  the  second  district  in  Mill 
Creek  ward,  and  a  teacher  in  the  theological  class 
of  the  Sunday  school,  and  was  called  in  1891  to 
serve  on  a  mission  in  North  Carolina  and  Tennes- 
see, laboring  in  that  field  two  years.  He  met 
with  good  success  during  this  period  and  reached 
home  on  October  10,  1893.  Mrs.  Helm  is  a 
members  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  is  an 
active  worker  among  the  ladies  of  her  ward. 


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'CTOR  CLAUDE  W.  GATES,  one 
f  the  successful  and  leading  dentists 
lit  Salt  Lake  City,  is  a  native  son  of 
L'tah.  having  been  born  at  Saint  George 
in  1869,  and  his  whole  life  up  to  the 
I^resent  time  has  been  spent  within  the  confines  of 
this  State.  By  his  courteous  and  genial  manners 
with  all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact,  and 
by  close  and  painstaking  care  along  the  line  of 
his  chosen  profession,  he  has  won  for  himself  a 
high  place  in  the  ranks  of  his  profession.  He  is 
the  son  of  Jacob  Gates. 

Jacob  Gates  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1847. 
He  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  and  embraced  the 
Mormon  religion  in  the  early  thirties.  He  was 
with  the  Mormons  at  Kirkland,  Ohio,  and  later 
at  Xauvoo,  where  he  took  part  in  the  battle  which 
ensued  at  the  time  of  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons 
from  that  place  in  1846.  going  with  the  main 
body  of  the  Church  to  Winter  Quarters,  near 
Omaha,  now  known  as  Florence.  When  Brigham 
Young  left  for  L'tah,  Mr.  Gates  was  appointed 
Captain  of  one  of  the  Divisions  left  behind,  and 
while  acting  in  that  capacity  sickness  broke  out 
in  the  camp  and  his  duties  became  so  arduous 
that  he  called  to  his  assistance  Claudius  V.  Spen- 
cer, and  together  they  brought  the  company  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  arriving  here  in  the  fall  of  1847. 
He  afterward  became  Senior  President  of  the 
Seven  Presidents  of  the  Seventies,  which  position 
he  occupied  until  his  death  in  1892.  During  the 
years  he  lived  in  Utah  he  filled  several  European 
missions  and  at  one  time  presided  over  the  Euro- 
pean Conference,  and  was  also  editor  of  the 
Church  paper  at  Conference  headquarters.  He 
went  to  Dixie  in  company  with  Erastus  Snow  and 
others  and  assisted  in  settling  Southern  Utah, 
and  in  building  the  Saint  George  Temple,  residing 
in  that  place  for  some  years.  He  was  familiarly 
known  as  the  '"Father  of  Dixie,"  and  served  as 
Mayor  of  Saint  George  for  several  terms.  Dur- 
ing the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  lived  at  Provo, 
where  his  son  Jacob  F.  Gates  and  family  are 
well-known.  He  spent  his  whole  life  in  Utah  in 
the  service  of  the  Church,  and  was  associated 
with  the  heads  of  the  Church  in  all  the  enter- 
prises for  the  upbuilding  of  the  work  in  Utah 
during  his  life-time.     He  was  a  member  of  the 


Xauvoo  Legion  and  Aide-de-Camp  on  the  staff  of 
Brigadier-General  Erastus  Snow.  He  was  a  di- 
rector of  the  Washington  Woolen  mills  and  was 
for  many  years  identified  with  the  milling  busi- 
ness. He  built  the  first  large  residence  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  now  standing  at  the  corner  of  Third 
East  and  Third  South  streets,  and  which  is  owned 
by  Bishop  A\'oolley.  His  wife  was  a  sister  of 
Erastus  Snow. 

Our  subject  received  his  early  education  in 
his  native  town,  and  moved  with  his  father's 
family  to  Provo  in  1883,  where  he  entered  the 
Erigham  Young  Academy,  and  later  completed 
his  education  in  the  Latter  Day  Saints'  College 
at  Logan.  He  took  up  the  study  of  dentistry  in 
1887,  and  two  years  later  entered  upon  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
which  he  has  successfully  followed  up  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  His  office  and  laboratory  are  located 
in  the  Templeton  building.  Doctor  Gates  is  a 
member  of  the  State  Dental  Association. 

He  was  married  in  July,  1901,  to  Miss  Lyle 
Young,  daughter  of  H.  S.  Young,  cashier  of 
the  Deseret  National  Bank.  He  owns  some  val- 
uable property  in  the  city,  where  he  expects  to 
make  his  future  home.  He  is,  like  his  people,  a 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  actively  in- 
terested in  its  work.  At  this  time  he  holds  the 
office  of  Elder. 


( >BERT  J.  CASKEY,  Principal  of  the 
Salt  Lake  Collegiate  Institute.  Salt 
Lake  is  fast  becoming  known  as  a  city 
III  schools  and  colleges.  The  efifect  of 
that  reputation  is  already  being  felt. 
Many  students  from  the  outlying  districts  of 
L'tah  and  the  adjoining  States  are  year  by  year 
crowding  to  the  city  on  account  of  its  superior 
educational  facilities.  One  of  its  leading  insti- 
tutions is  the  Salt  Lake  Collegiate  Institute, 
which  is  ably  presided  over  and  directed  by 
Robert  J.  Caskey,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

^Ir.  Caskey  is  a  native  of  Cook  County,  Illinois, 
where  he  was  born  in  i860,  near  the  village  of 
Bloom,  now  known  as  Chicago  Heights.  His 
Parents  were  Alexander  and  Ellen  (McQueen) 
Caskev.    residents   of    Illinois.      Mr.    Caskev   re- 


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ceived  his  early  education  in  the  country  schools 
of  his  native  State  and  prepared  for  college  in  a 
private  academy  in  Bloom,  Illinois.  He  entered 
Knox  College  in  1882,  taking  a  classical  course. 
and  graduated  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1887, 
and  recieved  the  degree  of  A.  M.  in  1890.  Upon 
graduating  from  Knox  college  Mr.  Caskey  came 
to  Utah  and  became  principal  of  the  academic 
department  of  the  Salt  Lake  Collegiate  Institute, 
remaining  in  charge  of  that  department  for  four 
years  at  the  end  of  which  time  Mr. Caskey  became 
superintendent  of  the  school,  which  position  he 
held  till  all  grades  below  the  eighth  were  dropped, 
when  his  title  was  changed  to  principal  of  the 
school.  Early  in  i8go,  through  the  munificence 
of  the  Woman's  Board  of  Home  Missions 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  Mrs.  Cyrus 
H.  McConnick  of  Chicago,  the  present  main 
building  was  erected,  Mr.  Caskey  having 
planned  the  same  and  having  charge  of  the  work. 

The  school  has  at  this  time  about  eighty-five 
pupils  enrolled,  and  is  doing  a  good  work  on  ed- 
ucational lines.  There  are  two  departments  in  the 
school,  the  preparatory  and  the  academic ;  in  the 
latter  are  two  courses  of  four  years  each,  the 
classical  and  the  Latin  scientific.  These  depart- 
ments prepare  pupils  for  entrance  into  the  best 
institutions  of  learning  in  the  East. 

Mr.  Caskey  was  married  in  1891  to  Miss  Helen 
Wishard,  daughter  of  Rev.  S.  E.  Wishard,  D.  D., 
of  Ogden,  Utah,  Synodical  Missionary  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church,  and  a  man  widely  known 
and  loved  throughout  this  inter-mountain  region. 
Three  daughters  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Caskey,  Lois,  Carol  and  Kathryn. 

Mr.  Caskey  has,  during  his  residence  in  Salt 
Lake,  been  prominent  in  all  educational  matters 
pertaining  to  the  city,  having  been  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Examiners  for  the  city  schools,  and 
ranking  among  the  most  successful  educators  of 
Utah.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  being  an  Elder  in  that  body,  and  was  for 
a  number  of  years  Superintendent  of  its  Sunday 
school,  but  has  of  late  years  devoted  his 
time  to  teaching  in  the  Sunday  school.  He 
has  been  President  of  the  State  Christian 
Endeavor  Society,  and  President  of  the  local 
societv    of    his    church.     He    was    one  of    the 


organizers  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  of  the  city  and  served  as  a  member 
of  its  Board  of  Directors.  During  the  time  he 
has  lived  here  Mr.  Caskey's  life  has  been  above 
reproach  and  he  has  many  admirers  and  friends 
among  all  classes  of  people,  irrespective  of  church 
affiliations  or  religious  belief. 


EORGE  ROMNEY,  JUNIOR.  Utah 
has  furnished  splendid  fields  for  young 
men  in  nearly  every  calling  or  avoca- 
tion in  life.  During  the  past  decade  the 
whole  State  has  made  most  wonderful 
strides  in  the  direction  of  development  and 
progress,  and  to  a  large  extent  her  native  sons 
have  played  an  important  part  in  her  onward 
march  of  progress.  Among  her  native  sons 
whose  history  and  efforts  are  closely  linked  with 
many  of  her  most  important  enterprises,  special 
mention  belongs  to  George  Romney,  Junior,  the 
subject  of  this  article. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  July  7,  1864, 
and  is  the  son  of  Bishop  George  and  Margaret 
Ann  (Thomas)  Romney.  He  grew  to  manhood 
in  this  city  and  received  his  education  in  its 
schools.  At  the  early  age  ,of  fourteen  he  entered 
the  wholesale  shoe  department  of  the  Zion  Co-op- 
erative Mercantile  Institution,  as  a  salesman,  and 
remained  with  that  establishment  for  seventeen 
years,  rising  to  the  position  of  manager  of  the 
sales  department,  and  in  1885  being  made  man- 
ager over  the  boot,  shoe  and  overall  factory, 
where  he  remained  until  1897,  in  October  of 
which  year  the  Romney  Shoe  Company  was  or- 
ganized, of  which  he  became  manager,  taking 
entire  charge  of  the  business.  This  concern  does 
an  exclusive  wholesale  boot  and  shoe  trade. 

In  1894  he  was  called  on  a  mission  to  New 
Zealand,  by  the  Mormon  Church,  where  he  mas- 
tered the  native  tongue  and  presided  over  the  dis- 
trict in  the  north  end  of  the  island,  and  upon  com- 
pleting his  labors  started  on  a  trip  around  the 
world,  visiting  the  Melbourne  and  Paris  expo- 
sitions and  returning  home  by  way  of  New  York. 

In  politics  Mr.  Romney  is  a  Democrat,  and 
has  done  some  good  work  in  that  party.  He  has 
always  been   activelv   interested   in  the  advance- 


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ment  of  the  interests  of  his  native  city,  and  be- 
fore he  was  twenty  years  of  age  had  served  for 
three  years  as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  be- 
ing the  youngest  member  ever  elected  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  In  1898  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Second  State  Legislature,  where  he  served  on 
several  important  committees,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  supporting  Hon.  Joseph  L.  Rawlins  for 
United  States  Senator. 

In  1894  Mr.  Romney  was  married  to  Miss 
Mary  Ann  Needham,  and  they  have  had  two 
children,  Sarah  and  Mary  Ann. 

In  social  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Elks  and 
also  a  member  of  the  United  Commerical  Travel- 
ers' Association.  Mr.  Romney  is  a  young  man, 
but  has  given  evidence  of  his  ability  to  success- 
fully conduct  a  business  of  which  older  and  more 
experienced  men  might  be  justly  proud.  He  is 
wide  awake,  energetic  and  keeps  abreast  of  the 
times.  The  high  rank  he  today  takes  among 
Salt  Lake  City's  leading  business  men  has  been 
won  by  his  own  indefatigable  industry  and  close 
attention  to  detail.  He  is  well  known  in  social 
circles  and  has  many  warm  friends  among  Utah's 
citizens. 


pDGE  CHARLES  W.  BENNETT,  the 
Dean  of  the  legal  corps  of  Utah,  and 
one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  of  the  West^ 
who,  during  the  time  he  has  been  prac- 
ticing his  profession  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
has  won  for  himself  a  foremost  place  at  the  Bar 
of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  has  been  actively 
identified  with  the  interests  of  Utah  and  of  Salt 
Lake  City  for  over  thirty  years,  and  stands  at 
the  present  time  in  the  highest  place  in  his  pro- 
fession. He  is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Bennett,  Sutherland,  Van  Cott  &  Allison,  one  of 
the  largest  firms  in  Salt  Lake  Citv,  and  one  of 
the  most  successful  in  the  West. 

He  was  born  in  Duanesburgh,  Schenectady 
county,  New  York,  October  the  14th,  1833,  and 
spent  his  early  life  on  his  father's  farm  in  that 
State.  He  attended  the  district  schools  of  his 
native  place,  later  entered  the  Princetown  Acad- 
emy, at  that  time  a  celebrated  institution  of 
learning.  He  also  took  a  course  and  graduated 
at  the  Albany  Law  School,  one  of  the  most  prom- 


inent legal  institutions  of  New  York,  graduat- 
ing at  the  age  of  twenty-three,  in  1857.  He  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
New  York  in  the  same  year.  He  did  not  re- 
main in  his  native  State,  but  removed  to  the 
West,  where  he  considered  the  prospects  greater, 
and  located  at  Burlington,  Racine  county,  Wis- 
consin, where  he  practiced  his  profession  for 
three  years.  He  then  removed  to  Racine,  Wis- 
consin, and  here  continued  the  practice  of  law 
until  the  spring  of  1869,  when  he  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  there  formed  a  partnership  under 
the  name  of  Bentley,  Bennett,  Ullman  &  Ives, 
which  firm  continued  to  enjoy  a  lucrative  prac- 
tice until  1 87 1.  After  the  great  fire  of  that  year 
which  destroyed  the  greater  part  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  Judge  Bennett  removed  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  has  continued  to  reside  ever 
since.  When  he  came  here  he  found  Salt  Lake 
City  just  emerging  from  the  clothes  of  a  border 
settlement  and  beginning  to  attain  its  present 
proportions.  From  a  straggling  village  with 
but  few  ideas  of  progress,  and  no  attempt  made 
to  corral  the  great  tributary  trade  or  develop  the 
vast  mineral  resources  of  the  State,  the  Judge 
has  witnessed  the  transformation  during  the 
past  quarter  of  a  century  to  a  progressive,  bust- 
ling city,  alive  to  the  possibilities  incident  to  its 
location,  and  the  development  of  the  great  min- 
eral resources  of  the  inter-mountain  region. 
Judge  Bennett  has  figured  prominently  in  its 
development,  and  with  this  development  has 
grown  his  law  practice,  until  now  he  stands  at 
the  head  of  a  firm  noted  for  its  voluminous  busi- 
ness, as  well  as  for  the  integrity,  ability  and 
learning  of  the  men  who  compose  it.  He  has 
been  counsel  for  many  of  the  largest  mining 
companies  and  industrial  corporations  of  the 
West,  and  many  of  the  cases  he  has  conducted 
have  gone  down  into  history  as  some  of  the 
most  complex  and  intricate  problems  that  a  law- 
yer has  ever  been  called  upon  to  solve.  Many  of 
these  cases  have  been  distinguished,  not  only  by 
the  knotty  problems,  but  also  by  the  length  of 
time  consumed  in  unravelling  them;  many  of 
them  taking  up  three  months  in  their  hearing. 
Judge  Bennett  married  in  September,  1858, 
in  Indiana,  to  Miss  Isabella  E.  Eisher,  a  native 


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of  New  York,  whose  people  were  originally  of 
Scotch  extraction,  and  among  the  early  settlers 
of  New  York  State.  They  have  two  children — 
Maud  B.,  widow  of  Charles  S.  Davis,  a  citizen  of 
Salt  Lake,  and  Mary  Agnes.  Mrs.  Bennett  died 
April  24,  1902,  at  her  home  in  Salt  Lake,  and 
Mr.  Davis,  their  son-in-law,  died  eight  days 
thereafter. 

Judge  Bennett  comes  from  an  old  New  York 
family,  who  were  originally  from  England.  His 
father,  Ira  Bennett,  was  a  successful  and  pros- 
perous farmer  in  New  York  State,  and  was 
among  the  early  settlers  of  that  region.  His 
father,  Amos  Bennett,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Co- 
lonial forces  in  '  the  Revolutionary  War.  The 
mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Angelica 
(Templar)  Bennett,  was  also  a  native  of  New 
York,  and  her  family  were  originally  from  Hol- 
land and  settled  in  New  York  in  the  early  days 
of  its  colonization. 

In  political  life  Judge  Bennett  has  ever  been 
a  staunch  and  faithful  adherent  to  the  principles 
of  the  Republican  party,  having  been  a  mem- 
ber of  that  party,  not  only  throughout  his  life, 
but  from  its  very  birth.  He  cast  his  first  vote 
for  John  C.  Fremont,  and  from  that  time  has 
unfalteringly  followed  the  lortunes  of  the  Repub- 
lican party  to  the  present  time.  He  has,  how- 
ever, not  participated  actively  in  its  work,  so  far 
as  the  solicitation  of  office  is  concerned,  his  time 
being  devoted  to  the  upbuilding  of  his  practice 
and  to  the  care  of  the  many  and  varied  interests 
entrusted  to  his  charge.  In  fraternal  life,  he  is 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  be- 
ing a  Past  Grand  Master  of  Utah  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chapter.  He  is  one  of  the  most  influ- 
ential citizens  of  Utah,  and  one  who  has  done 
much  to  bring  the  standing  of  the  legal  frater- 
nity to  its  present  high  position.  A  man  of  un- 
impeachable integrity,  great  learning  and  fair- 
ness, he  has,  throughout  the  generation  that  he 
has  been  practicing  in  this  State,  made  for  himself 
a  reputation  that  has  not  been  equalled  by  any 
other  lawyer  in  the  annals  of  Utah.  His  career 
is  one  that  may  justly  be  a  matter  of  pride  to  his 
descendants,  and  his  work  as  a  lawyer  makes 
his  life  one  01  the  mile  stones  in  Utah's  prog- 
ress. 


OHN  FARRINGTON  has  for  many 
\ears  been  one  of  the  substantial  busi- 
ness men  of  Salt  Lake  City ;  in  fact,  his 
whole  business  life  has  been  spent  with- 
in the  confines  of  Utah.  He  has  been 
identified  with  many  dififerent  kinds  of  enter- 
prises and  at  the  present  writing  is  proprietor 
and  sole  owner  of  one  of  the  finest  livery  and 
carriage  stables  in  the  city. 

He  is  a  native  of  that  grand  old  country,  Eng- 
land, having  been  born  in  Cheshire,  May  29, 
1852,  and  is  the  son  of  Richard  and  Mary  (Bunt- 
ing) Farrington.  He  lived  at  home  until  fifteen 
years  of  age,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town.  His  mother  became 
a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  1844  and 
taught  her  son  the  principles  of  that  religion. 
She  died  when  our  subject  was  fifteen  years  of 
age,  and  his  father  and  brother,  not  being  mem- 
bers of  the  church,  and  wishing  to  be  with  those 
who  were,  he  went  to  Liverpool  and  entered  the 
printing  office  of  the  Mormon  Church  there,  re- 
maining two  and  a  half  years  and  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  many  of  the  men  who  were  after- 
ward prominently  identified  with  the  work  in 
Utah,  and  who  became  his  friends  and  associates 
in  after  life.  He  sailed  from  Liverpool  on  board 
the  vessel  Minnesota,  August  25,  1869,  in  com- 
pany with  five  hundred  other  emigrants,  and 
reached  Salt  Lake  in  September  of  that  year. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  he  found 
employment  in  the  Deseret  News  office,  later  be- 
coming associated  with  the  construction  outfit  of 
the  Utah  Central  railroad,  moving  to  Ogden  in 
the  meantime,  where  he  printed  the  first  and 
second  editions  of  the  Ogden  Junction,  now  the 
Standard.  He  remained  there  three  months, 
when  he  again  returned  to  Salt  Lake,  following 
a  number  of  occupations,  spending  a  part  of  the 
time  in  mines,  and  on  April  4,  1882,  started  out 
on  his  present  career,  his  outfit  consisting  of  a 
team  and  carriage.  From  this  insignificant  be- 
ginning he  has  built  up  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
nesses of  its  kind  in  the  State. 

Mr.  Farrington  was  married  November  18, 
1874,  to  Miss  EHzabeth  Brooks,  a  native  of  En- 
gland, and  by  this  marriage  has  had  seven  chil- 
dren—Richard C.  John  S.,  Lillian  E..  Albert  H., 


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Ethel  H.,  Franklin  D.  and  Ella  Louise. 

He  has  ever  been  a  staunch  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  an  active 
and  ardent  worker  in  its  interests.  At  this  time 
he  holds  the  office  of  an  Elder.  In  addition  to  the 
fine  business  which  he  has  built  up,  Mr.  Farring- 
ton  has  continued  his  interests  in  the  mining 
regions  of  the  State,  and  is  now  interested  in  a 
number  of  mining  properties.  He  is  also  a  stock- 
holder in  the  L^tah  Sugar  Company,  and  actively 
interested  in  whatever  tends  to  build  up  this 
country. 

By  his  upright  and  honorable  life  he  has  won 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  those  with  whom 
he  has  been  associated  in  business,  and  in  private 
life  his  genial  and  pleasant  manners  have  won 
for  him  many  friends. 


VRUM  BENNION.  The  record  of  the 
Bennion  family  in  Utah  has  formed  a 
most  interesting  and  valuable  chapter 
in  the  history  of  this  State.  From  its 
^•ery  earliest  settlement  by  white  peo- 
ple they  had  been  among  the  first  of  the  pioneers 
to  come  to  this  country  and  to  forego  the  hard- 
ships and  trials  incident  to  crossing  the  plains 
and  locating  in  a  wild  and  unsettled  section  far 
removed  at  that  time  from  the  seat  of  civilization. 
At  the  time  the  Benn  ions'  settled  in  Utah  it 
was  a  barren  waste  of  valley,  hills  and  mountains. 
and  they  have  taken  a  prominent  and  active  part 
in  bringing  it  up  to  its  present  wonderful  state  of 
development. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Garden  Grove.  De- 
cater  county,  Iowa,  January  13th,  1847.  He  is 
a  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Bushell)  Bennion. 
His  father  was  born  in  Flintshire,  Wales,  De- 
cember nth,  1818,  but  raised  in  Liverpool,  where 
our  subject's  mother  was  born,  ]\Iarch  i,  1816. 
They  were  married  in  St.  Nicholas  Church,  Liv- 
erpool, Sunday,  April  28th,  1839.  Sunday  March 
30th,  1845,  they  left  Liverpool  for  the  United 
States,  landing  in  New  Orleans  the  12th  of  May 
of  the  same  year.  Our  subject's  father  had  been 
a  baker  by  trade,  and  with  the  assistance  of  one 
of  his  uncles,  he  began  business   for  himself   in 


the  suburbs  of  Liverpool,  which  he  successfully 
carried  on  for  a  number  of  years. 

Having  attended  one  of  the  meetings  held 
by  the  Mormon  missionaries,  he  at  once  became 
a  disciple  of  that  Church,  and  gave  up  his  busi- 
ness and  sailed  for  America. 

His  grandfather  was  John  Bennion,  who  came 
to  America  in  1844,  and  on  the  arrival  of  our 
subject  in  St.  Louis,  he  was  met  by  his  father,  on 
May  23rd,  1845.  The  next  day  after  arriving  in 
St.  Louis,  the  Temple  at  Nauvoo  was  captured  by 
the  officers  of  Illinois.  Our  subject's  grand 
father  and  his  son  John,  who  met  them  at  St. 
Louis,  conveyed  them  to  their  home,  which  con- 
sisted of  a  small  shanty  seven  miles  out  of  Nau- 
voo. Here  our  subject's  father  purchased  con- 
siderable land  and  built  a  five  room  brick  house 
and  did  considerable  improving  on  the  farm.  In 
May,  1846,  he  sold  all  of  his  belongings  in  that 
section  for  $250.00,  receiving  part  of  the  consider- 
ation in  trade,  and  on  the  19th  of  ]May,  1846,  they 
departed  for  the  West,  there  being  in  that  com- 
pany our  subject,  his  father  and  mother,  grand 
father  and  his  son  John  and  wife  and  two  chil- 
dren. They  traveled  60  miles  west  of  Nauvoo 
to  Garden  Grove,  here  they  plowed  up  ground 
and  put  in  a  crop  of  corn  and  buckwheat.  They 
having  between  them  two  yoke  of  oxen  and  one 
team  of  horses  and  two  wagons.  Mrs.  Bennion, 
our  subject's  mother,  drove  the  horse  team  in 
doing  farm  work. 

The  grandfaither  of  our  subject  died  at  this 
place  September  24th,  1846,  at  the  age  of  60  years, 
having  been  born  November  9th,  1786,  at  Man- 
cott,  near  Harden,  Flintshire,  North  Wales.  He 
was  buried  by  the  side  of  Samuel  Bentley,  under 
a  large  oak  tree  at  the  edge  of  a  large  stretch  of 
timber  by  the  road  side,  in  what  was  then  Cow 
county,  Iowa. 

Our  subject's  father's  family  consisted  of 
eleven  children,  the  two  oldest  died  in  England. 
Our  subject  being  the  first  child  of  the  family 
born  in  America.  They  came  on  with  the  pion- 
eers in  1847  to  Utah,  spending  the  winter  of  '47 
and  '48  in  the  old  fort  of  Salt  Lake  City.  In  the 
summer  of  1848  Mr.  Bennion  raised  a  crop  on 
the  outskirts  of  what  is  now  Salt  Lake  City. 

In  the  spring  of  '49,  Samuel  and  John,  brothers 


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of  our  subject,  Thomas  Mackay,  Joseph  Harker, 
Tarbet,  Field,  and  a  Mr.  Kelley  crossed  the  Jor- 
dan river  where  they  threw  up  dirt  and  logs  to 
build  a  fort  which  would  serve  as  a  protection 
against  the  ravages  of  the  red  man.  This  fort 
was  abandoned  in  1853,  and  they  built  further 
up  the  river  what  was  known  as  the  old  English 
fort,  which  was  occupied  by  them  for  several 
years. 

Hyrum  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  this  ward,  re- 
ceiving the  best  education  that  the  schools  of 
those  times  would  afford,  and  under  some  of  the 
most  trying  and  difficult  conditions.  Here  he 
farmed  until  1862,  when  he  went  to  Rush  Val- 
ley, where  he  farmed  for  several  years  and  en- 
gaged in  the  stock  business. 

While  living  in  the  valley  the  United  States 
mails  were  often  captured  by  bandits  and  out- 
laws, and  Mr.  Bennion  was  often  called  upon  to 
protect  passengers  and  mail  en  route  to  the  Pa- 
cific Coast.  Later  Mr.  Bennion  moved  to  Castle 
Valley,  now  Emery  county,  where  he  remained 
but  a  short  time,  when  he  removed  to  Taylors- 
ville  ward  in  1875,  where  he  has  continued  to  live 
ever  since. 

In  1880  he  became  interested  in  the  Taylors- 
ville  Rolling  mills,  which  he  has  successfully  op- 
erated ever  since.  This  mill  is  equipped  with  the 
finest  machinery  known  to  the  trade  in  modern 
times.  It  is  located  on  the  Jordan  river  near 
the  Taylorsville  road,  and  the  products  of  this 
mill  are  known  far  and  near  for  the  excellent 
food  stuff  produced  in  it. 

In  1881  Mr.  Bennion  established  the  Taylors- 
ville Co-operative  Mercantile  Company,  of  which 
he  has  been  a  director,  stockholder  and  manager 
ever  since. 

Mr.  Bennion  has  been  the  husband  of  two 
wives,  and  is  the  father  of  fourteen  children. 
His  first  wife,  Eliza  N.,  was  the  mother  of  seven 
children,  Hyrum,  who  is  now  serving  on  a  mis- 
sion to  England;  Oscar  and  Earnest  are  identi- 
fied in  the  milling  business  with  their  father; 
Joseph,  a.  student  in  the  State  University  of 
Utah ;  May,  Ruble  and  Robert  are  still  at  home. 
His  second  wife,  Mary  Karen,  was  the  mother 
of  seven  children,  Anna  B.,  now  Mrs.  Thomas 
D.  Wallace :  ^Nlary  E.,  now  Mrs.  Noble  Wallace ; 


Madia,  the  wife  of  David  Rushton ;  Samuel  T., 
David,  Catherine,  deceased  at  the  age  of  12  years, 
and  Karen.  All  three  daughters  are  now  resi- 
dents of  McGrath,  Canada. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Bennion  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican,  ever  since  the  organization 
of  that  party  in  this  State,  but  has  never  de- 
sired or  sought  public  ofifice. 

He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith 
and  has  ever  been  a  faithful  and  consistent  mem- 
ber of  that  Church.  He  has  served  his  Church 
on  missionary  tours,  having  spent  from  1879  to 
1880  on  a  mission  to  England. 

During  fifteen  years,  from  i860  to  1875,  Mr. 
Bennion  was  continually  exposed  to  the  ravages 
of  the  hostile  red  man.  No  man  in  the  State 
of  Utah  deserves  greater  credit  or  more  praise 
for  what  he  has  accomplished  than  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  He  counts  his  friends  by  the  legion. 
His  life  has  been  honorable,  consistent  and 
straightforward  in  every  particular. 


HRISTIAN  BERGER.  Among  the 
many  worthy  citizens  which  Switzer- 
land has  furnished  in  the  building  up 
of  this  new  country,  and  the  men  who 
have  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the 
subduing  of  this  land  and  bringing  it  from  its 
wild  state  to  the  present  prosperous  condition, 
should  be  mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Christian  Berger  was  born  in  Switzerland  De- 
cember 23,  1847.  He  is  the  son  of  Christian  and 
Magdalina  (Zaugg)  Berger.  Our  subject  spent 
his  early  life  on  his  father's  farm  in  Switzerland, 
and  received  a  common  school  education  in  his 
native  land.  When  but  twelve  years  of  age  his 
parents  sailed  for  America,  in  i860.  They  joined 
the  Mormon  train  and  crossed  the  plains.  Our 
subject's  father  at  that  time  owned  four  yoke  of 
oxen  and  two  wagons.  Upon  arriving  in  Utah 
they  at  once  settled  on  the  South  Cottonwood 
Ward  creek,  where  the  senior  Mr.  Berger  secured 
a  piece  of  land  and  at  once  began  farming.  The 
land  which  he  originally  took  up  was  located 
where  the  American  Smelting  Company  has  since 
located  its  works,  and  he  sold  the  land  to  that 
company.     He  also   sold   the   land   for  the  Ger- 


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mania  Smelting  Company  works,  this  being  on 
a  part  of  the  original  homestead.  He  lived  and 
died  on  the  balance  of  this  land.  He  was  born  in 
181  o,  and  died  November  18,  1892.  Our  subject's 
mother  was  born  May  i,  1821,  and  died  July  5, 
1888.  Peter  Berger,  the  paternal  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  was  born  in  Switzerland  in  1777,  and 
his  wife,  Elizabeth,  was  born  in  1767.  Our  sub- 
ject's maternal  grandfather,  Ulric  Zaugg,  was 
born  in  1781,  and  his  wife,  Cathrina,  was  born  in 
the  same  year. 

Our  subject  remained  at  home  on  the  farm  with 
his  father  until  twenty-three  years  of  age.  He 
married,  February  21,  1870,  Magdalina  Buhler, 
also  a  native  of  Switzerland,  and  a  daughter  of 
Ulric  and  Ann  (Burgdorfer)  Buhler.  Her  par- 
ents are  still  living  in  Midway,  this  State.  In 
starting  out  in  life  Air.  Berger  secured  a  piece  of 
land  from  his  father,  which  his  father  had  orig- 
inally taken  up,  and  which  Mr.  Berger  still  owns, 
at  the  corner  of  State  and  Twentieth  South 
streets,  which  consists  of  twenty  acres,  and  which 
by  years  of  hard  work,  he  has  improved  to  a  high 
state  of  cultivation,  having  built  a  fine  house, 
barns,  sheds,  fences,  etc.,  and  the  place  being 
fenced  and  adorned  with  orchard  and  fruit  trees, 
and  on  which  he  raises  all  kinds  of  fruits  in  their 
season.  .\t  the  time  he  settled  upon  this  place 
there  was  only  a  log  cabin  upon  it.  and  the  other 
improvements  were  correspondingly  small.  He 
does  a  general  farming  and  stock  business,  and  is 
considered  one  of  the  successful  men  of  his 
county. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  been  identified  with 
the  Democratic  party.  He  has  also  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  having 
been  born  and  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith.  There 
were  six  children  in  his  father's  family,  five  of 
whom  are  living,  and  our  subject  was  the  oldest. 
They  are  all.  with  the  exception  of  one  sister,  resi- 
dents of  this  vicinity.  Mr.  Berger  was  called  by 
the  leaders  of  the  Church  in  1882  to  serve  on  a 
mission  in  Alinnesota,  where  he  spent  nine  months. 
He  also  served  on  a  mission  in  1876  in  Arizona, 
and  assisted  in  the  colonization  of  that  Territory. 
He  was  ordained  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  His 
wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society, 
and  is  active  in  its  work.    Mr.  Berger  has  always 


taken  a  prominent  and  active  part,  not  only  in 
the  upbuilding  of  the  country,  in  the  development 
of  the  land,  in  political  affairs  and  in  school  mat- 
ters, but  he  has  also  assisted  largely  in  the  work 
of  the  Church,  and  few  men  in  Salt  Lake  county 
are  more  highly  esteemed  than  is  he. 


TSHOP  SANTA  ANNA  CASTO,  Bish- 
op of  the  Big  Cottonwood  Ward  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  was  born  in  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa,  May  7,  1850,  and  is  the  son  of 
William  and  Racheline  (Cornog)  Casto.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  Indiana  and  his  mother 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania.  William  Casto, 
the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  of 
New  England  stock,  his  father,  Able,  having  been 
born  in  that  country.  William  Casto,  at  the  age 
of  sixteen  years,  was  sent  by  his  father  to  Illinois 
to  locate  a  farm  in  that  State,  and  was  there  prior 
to  the  coming  of  the  Mormons  to  Nauvoo.  His 
uncle.  Dr.  Galland,  sold  the  Mormons  the  first 
land  purchased  in  Illinois.  The  Casto  family  are 
of  the  oldest  American  stock,  their  forefathers 
having  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War  on  the 
colonial  side.  William  Casto,  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  is  supposed  to  be  the  first 
person  baptized  into  the  Alormon  Church  at  Nau- 
voo, and  was  intimately  acquainted  with  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith  and  with  the  leaders  of 
that  new  religion,  which  was  then  practically  in 
its  infancy.  He  lived  in  Nauvoo  until  the  up- 
rising of  the  people  against  the  members  of  the 
Church,  and  went  with  them  on  their  enforced 
march  to  Council  Bluffs,  then  known  as  Winter 
Quarters.  He  met  his  wife,  Racheline  Cornog, 
in  Illinois,  and  they  were  married  there.  The 
Cornog  family  were  among  the  prominent  people 
in  the  eastern  part  of  Pennsylvania,  and  a  brother, 
John,  of  his  wife  was  one  of  the  contractors  who 
built  the  famous  Girard  College  in  Philadelphia, 
which  stands  to-day  as  one  of  the  best  monuments 
to  the  energ}'  and  business  sagacity,  as  well  as  the 
charity  of  that  merchant  prince,  Stephen  Girard. 
It  was  while  the  members  of  the  Mormon  Church 
were  gathering  at  Winter  Quarters  that  the  call 
came   from  the   President  of  the  United   States, 


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James  K.  Polk,  for  the  formation  of  a  battalion 
from  the  members  of  the  Church  to  go  to  Mexico 
in  the  service  of  the  United  States  against  that 
country.  One  of  the  principal  reasons  that  led 
to  this  call  was  the  desire  of  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment to  ascertain  for  itself  whether  or  not  the 
members  of  the  Mormon  Church  were  loyal  to  the 
Government,  or,  as  charged  by  the  people  who 
opposed  them  in  Illinois,  were  traitors  to  the 
United  States.  Their  prompt  reply  to  this  call, 
by  the  enlistment  of  over  five  hundred  of  their 
members  in  the  army  of  the  United  States,  settled 
that  question  for  all  time.  President  Brigham 
Young  personally  assured  the  members  who  went 
that  he,  as  President  of  the  Church,  would  be 
responsible  for  their  families  and  would  see  that 
they  were  watched  over  and  cared  for  during  the 
absence  of  the  members.  The  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, William  Casto,  was  one  of  the  first  to  enlist, 
and  was  assigned  to  Company  D.  The  movement 
of  this  battalion,  from  its  formation  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  when  they  were  mustered  out 
in  Southern  California,  is  one  of  the  most  remark- 
able chapters  in  that  brilliant  war.  The  war  of 
1847  was  a  memorable  one  for  many  things,  but 
it  distinguished  itself  chiefly  as  being  the  first  one 
in  which  the  United  States  engaged  in  which  they 
were  successful  in  foreign  lands.  The  battalion 
was  mobilized  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and 
from  there  was  ordered  to  march  to  Santa  Fe, 
New  Mexico,  being  formed  into  one  of  the  United 
States  regiments  under  the  command  of  General 
Scott,  then  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  United 
States  forces.  '  The  dangers  of  the  desert  region 
lying  between  Kansas  and  New  Mexico  were  then 
unknown,  and  provision  was  not  made  for  the 
members  in  their  passage  across  the  desert.  But 
little  water  was  taken  with  them ;  in  fact,  only 
as  much  as  each  man  could  carry  in  his  canteen, 
and  when  they  entered  the  deserts  of  Colorado 
and  New  Mexico  their  water  supply  gave  out 
eighty  miles  from  any  stream,  and  during  the 
last  part  of  the  journey  to  water  many  of  the 
members  of  this  battalion  had  to  be  carried  by 
their  stronger  comrades.  The  tortures  that  they 
suffered  from  thirst  and  the  patience  with  which 
they  endured  all  the  privations  and  hardships 
through  which  they  passed,  marks  this  battalion  as 


the  most  remarkable  body  of  soldiers  who  have 
ever  been  mustered  from  the  volunteer  forces  of 
the  United  States.  The  tongues  of  some  of  the  men 
were  so  swollen  as  to  almost  result  in  suffocation, 
and  as  a  result  of  this  fearful  trip  many  of  the 
men  were  forever  after  incapacitated  for  any  man- 
ual labor,  or,  indeed,  any  labor  requiring  physi- 
cal exertion.  The  battalion  arrived  at  Santa  Fe 
and  was  met  by  couriers  from  General  Carney, 
with  orders  to  hurry  to  his  relief  in  Southern  Cal- 
ifornia all  of  the  able-bodied  men.  In  accordance 
with  this  command,  all  of  the  men  who  were  able 
to  travel  were  hurried  forward  to  his  relief,  and 
the  sick  and  disabled  men,  together  with  the  men 
whose  wives  had  accompanied  them,  four  to  each 
company,  were  ordered  back  to  the  post  in  Colo- 
rado, and  there  they  spent  the  winter.  Mr.  Casto, 
however,  did  not  journey  with  either  of  these 
parties,  but  was  sent  as  a  courier  to  intercept 
Brigham  Young  on  his  trip  across  the  plains  to 
Utah  and  to  report  to  him  the  results  of  the  ex- 
pedition by  the  battalion.  He  and  his  companion 
had  progressed  about  four  days  from  Santa  Fe 
when  they  encountered  a  hostile  band  of  Indians, 
who  were  at  war  with  another  tribe,  and,  believ- 
ing that  Mr.  Casto  and  his  companion  were  spies 
of  their  foes,  took  them  prisoners,  and  until  con- 
vinced that  they  were  not  spies,  but  emissaries  of 
the  United  States  troops,  threatened  to  take  their 
lives.  They  were,  however,  released,  and  contin- 
ued their  journey,  and  Mr.  Casto  made  his  report 
to  President  Young,  whoin  he  met  on  the  plains, 
en  route  to  Utah.  The  history  of  the  Mormon 
battalion  from  the  time  it  left  Santa  Fe  is  one  of 
the  important  features  of  the  Me.xican  War. 
They  successfully  reached  San  Diego,  and  after 
being  placed  under  General  Carney's  command, 
remained  there  until  mustered  out  of  the  service 
in  the  following  spring  at  Los  Angeles.  Many 
of  the  men  remained  in  Southern  California  and 
secured  employment  on  a  mill  dam  that  was  being 
built  at  Los  Angeles,  and  while  engaged  in  that 
work  discovered  the  first  gold  found  in  that  State, 
which  has  advanced  more  than  anything  else  the 
present  prosperity  of  the  southwestern  portion  of 
the  United  States. 

Mr.    Casto    rejoined    his     family    in    1850    or 
1 85 1,    and    brought    them    across    the    plains    to 


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Utah.  His  first  work  in  the  new  settlement  was 
in  carrying  the  mails  from  the  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley to  the  Missouri  river.  He  made  two  or  three 
trips  across  the  plains  for  this  purpose  at  a  time 
when  not  only  was  travel  dangerous,  but  even 
human  life  was  in  jeopardy  from  the  hostile  at- 
titude of  the  Indians.  The  Casto  family  settled 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  they  remained  for  a 
short  time  and  then  removed  to  Butterfield  can- 
yon, and  later  came  to  the  settlement  of  Holli- 
day,  in  the  Big  Cottonwood  Ward,  where  Air. 
Casto  improved  one  of  the  finest  homes  in  the 
county  and  lived  there  until  nis  death.  This 
house  and  the  grounds  surrounding  it  forms 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  places  in  the  whole 
county,  and  even  to  this  time  is  known  as  the 
old  Casto  home.  Air.  Casto  died  in  the  fulness 
of  his  years  about  1894,  honored  and  respected 
by  all  who  knew  him,  and  after  a  life  that  was 
filled  with  all  the  striking  incidents  which  oc- 
curred in  the  settlement  and  progress  of  Utah 
from  a  wild  and  unknown  region  to  one  of  the 
most  prosperous  and  growing  of  the  Western 
States.  Their  son,  Santa  Anna,  received  his  ed- 
ucation in  the  schools  that  then  existed  in  this 
country,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  the  Big 
Cottonwood  Ward,  and  lived  with  his  father 
until  twenty-three  years  of  age,  having  entire 
charge  of  the  homestead,  and  during  this  time 
his  father  and  a  younger  brother  were  absent 
for  four  years  on  missionary  work  for  the 
Church  in  Arizona,  where  they  paid  particular 
attention  to  the  settlement  of  that  region  with 
the  members  of  the  Church,  and  also  worked 
among  the  Indian  tribes. 

Our  subject  was  married  January  24,  1878, 
to  Miss  Mary  Graham,  daughter  of  Robert  D. 
and  Mary  Graham,  whose  family  came  to  Utah 
in  the  decade  of  the  sixties.  In  this  marriage 
six  children  have  been  born,  five  of  whom  are 
now  living — Robert  D.,  William  G.,  Racheline. 
who  died  August  30,  1901,  aged  seventeen  years; 
Margaret,  Lewis  and  Vera.  Bishop  Casto  set- 
tled on  his  present  home  about  twenty  years  ago, 
and  his  homestead  is  located  close  to  the  county 
road  near  Holliday.  It  is  at  the  foot  of  a  high 
mountain,  on  whose  peak  snow  lies  all  the  year 
round.     The  homestead  consists  of  thirtv  acres. 


wliich  is  devoted  largely  to  the  growing  of  fruit, 
and  the  Bishop's  orchard  is  one  of  the  finest  in 
the  county,  growing  all  the  different  kinds  of 
fruit  trees,  which  he  has  planted  and  cultivated 
himself,  and  which  bears  fruit  all  the  season.  His 
father  was  the  first  fruit  man  in  Utah,  and  was 
considered  one  of  the  best  pomologists  of  this  re- 
gion. 

In  political  life,  the  Bishop  has  been  a  fol- 
lower of  the  Democratic  party,  and  is  considered 
one  of  the  leaders  in  his  district,  being  chair- 
man of  his  committee  in  his  election  precinct,  as 
well  as  being  its  registrar.  He  has  been  a  life- 
long member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  of  which 
his  father  was  one  of  the  first  members  in  Illi- 
nois, and  his  wife  and  children  are  also  mem- 
bers of  that  faith.  He  has  risen  to  his  present 
high  position  in  the  Church  by  his  ability  and 
by  his  constant  and  faithful  devotion  to  its  in- 
terests. He  was  made  First  Counsellor  to  Bishop 
Brinton  in  1877,  which  position  he  held  until  the 
fall  of  1900,  when  he  was  made  Bishop  of  the 
Big  Cottonwood  Ward,  in  November  of  that 
year.  He  has  always  been  active  in  Church  mat- 
ters, and  aided  largely  in  the  growth  of  the 
Church  in  this  State,  and  especially  in  his  own 
county  and  ward.  He  has  also  participated  in 
the  development  of  the  facilities  for  settling  the 
region  in  which  he  first  lived,  and  for  three  years 
held  the  Government  contract  for  carrying  the 
mail  from  Salt  Lake  City  to  Silver  City.  The 
Bishop  had  before  him  as  an  example  the  life 
of  his  father,  which  was  one  that  brought  forth 
all  the  energy,  courage  and  endurance  that  a  man 
is  capable  of  exhibiting,  and  he  has  in  no  way 
allowed  his  father's  career  to  be  dimmed  by  his 
own  work.  His  integrity  and  honesty,  his  abil- 
ity and  industry,  together  with  his  genial  and 
pleasant  manner,  have  made  him  one  of  the  most 
popular  and  respected  men  in  his  community. 


OMER  BROWN.  In  taking  a  retro- 
spective view  of  what  has  been  accom- 
plished in  Utah  during  the  past  half 
century,  of  the  trials  and  hardships 
which  the  early  pioneers  passed 
through,  it  appears  more  like  a  dream  to  those 
who  have  not  had  actual  experience  along  this 


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line  than  real  facts.  However,  it  does  not  require 
any  vivid  imagination  to  those  who  early  partic- 
ipated in  the  building  of  this  great  and  prosper- 
ous State  of  the  hardships  incident  to  crossing 
the  great  American  plains,  and  settling  in  this 
wild  and  barren  waste  of  country  to  thoroughly 
comprehend  what  it  all  meant.  Among  the  early 
settlers  of  Utah  should  be  mentioned  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Brown  was  born  in  Pomphret  township, 
Chautauqua  county,  New  York,  August  9th, 
1830.  He  is  a  son  of  Bishop  Benjamin  and  Sarah 
(Mumford)  Brown.  His  father  was  the  first 
Bishop  of  the  Fourth  Ward,  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
he  was  born  September  30th,  1794,  in  the  town 
of  Queensberry,  Washington  county,  New  York, 
and  his  father,  Asa  Brown,  was  a  Quaker,  and 
the  father  of  twelve  children,  six  sons  and  six 
daughters. 

Our  subject's  paternal  grandfather  was  also 
Asa  Brown.  This  was  one  of  the  oldest  families 
who  settled  in  the  State  of  New  York.  Our 
subject's  father,  Benjamin  Brown,  was  the  elev- 
enth child  of  his  family,  and  came  to  Illinois, 
settling  in  Nauvoo,  June  6th,  1839.  Nauvoo  was 
at  that  time  called  Commerce,  there  the  family 
lived  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons,  which 
occurred  in  1846,  during  that  period  our  sub- 
ject's father  was  a  very  active  member  in  the 
Mormon  Church  and  serving  on  several  missions 
in  New  Brunswick,  Maine,  Canada,  and  several 
other  places.  In  1846,  the  family,  consisting  of 
our  subject's  father,  mother  anH  two  sons,  Lo- 
renzo and  Homer,  on  May  12th,  crossed  the  Mis- 
sissippi river,  journeying  West,  and  in  August 
they  continued  their  journey  to  Winter  Quarters, 
known  as  Florence,  Nebraska,  where  the  subject 
and  his  mother  remained  while  his  father  and 
Lorenzo  returned  to  Missouri  in  order  to  secure 
money  and  supplies  to  come  to  Utah.  On  IMay 
25th,  1848,  they  all  left  Winter  Quarters  and 
started  on  the  long  and  tedious  journey  across 
the  great  American  plains  with  Brigham  Young's 
Company.  On  September  loth  they  arrived  at 
the  old  Fort  Bridger.  Here  our  subject  hired 
out  and  worked  for  one  year  trading  at  this  fort. 
He  then  came  on  and  joined  his  parents  in  Salt 
Lake  City.     The  senior  Brown  was  a  carpenter 


by  trade,  and  worked  on  the  first  distillery  ever 
started  in  Utah,  in  1849.  A  company  of  United 
States  troops  were  camping  near  Salt  Lake  City 
on  their  way  to  Oregon,  and  being  in  need  of  a 
carpenter,  our  subject's  father  joined  this  com- 
pany, under  instructions  to  remain  with  them 
and  watch  their  movements,  as  President  Young 
was  in  fear  that  they  might  have  other  objects  in 
going  to  Oregon.  Mr.  Brown  worked  that  win- 
ter for  the  government,  and  in  the  spring  they 
took  up  their  journey  to  Oregon,  at  which  time 
Mr.  Brown  was  called  by  Brigham  Young  to  take 
this  position,  he  and  our  subject  had  a  contract  of 
thrashing  wheat,  and  the  machinery  that  they 
used  were  two  flails. 

After  his  father  had  gone  with  the  army,  our 
subject  completed  the  contract.  After  Mr.  Brown 
had  served  with  the  United  States  army  for  a 
short  time  in  Oregon,  he  was  called  as  one  of 
the  colonizing  party  to  Iron  county,  Utah.  He 
died  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  our  subject's  mother 
died  in  this  city  January  ist,  1879.  She  was 
born  April  20th,  1795,  in  Hartford  county, 
Conn.,  and  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  Mum- 
ford,  who  was  born  in  Simsberry,  Hartford 
county,  Conn.  He  was  the  son  of  Henry  and 
Sarah  (Filley)  Mumford.  Our  subject's  only 
brother,  Lorenzo,  was  engaged  in  business  in 
Arizona.     He  died  in  January,  1902. 

Mr.  Brown  married  Miss  Hannah  Eliza  Wolff, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  Ann  Wolff,  who 
were  pioneers  in  this  country. 

Our  subject  is  the  father  of  twenty-four  chil- 
dren, nineteen  of  whom  are  still  living. 

In  December,  1881,  he  settled  in  the  south  end 
of  Taylorsville  ward,  on  the  Jordan  river,  at 
which  time  the  improvements  were  very  crude, 
only  having  a  one-room  frame  house.  Mr.  Brown 
has  made  substantial  improvements  on  this  land, 
which  consists  of  ninety-nine  acres. 

At  the  age  of  nine  years  he  was  baptized  at 
Nauvoo  by  one  of  the  Mormon  Elders  of  that 
Church.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Church,  but  at  present  he  is  not  a  member 
of  any  church.  All  of  his  family,  however,  are 
members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints.  In  1852  our  subject  assisted  in  colo- 
nizing and  settling  Nephi,  which  had  a  few  set- 


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tiers  the  year  previous.  He  took  up  his  residence 
at  Mona,  seven  miles  north  of  Nephi,  where  he 
was  the  owner  of  150  acres  of  land,  and  was  fast 
improving  the  same  when  the  San  Pete  Indian 
war  broke  out,  which  resulted  in  his  abandoning 
his  home,  and  nearly  all  his  effects.  After  being 
driven  out  of  Nephi,  he  came  back  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  then  purchased  a  place  in  Cache  Val- 
ley, where  he  lived  for  three  years.  He  then  sold 
out  and  moved  to  Rabbit  Valley. 

Mr.  Brown  is  of  a  literary  turn  of  mind,  and 
while  he  has  been  a  hard  working  man  all  his 
life,  yet  he  has  been  a  close  student  and  has 
written  a  number  of  poems.  When  the  pioneers 
at  Nephi  held  their  jubilee  in  igoi,  they  extended 
our  subject  an  invitation  to  celebrate  with  them, 
as  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  place.  Mr. 
Brown  not  being  able  to  make  a  public  speech,  he 
prepared  a  couple  of  poems,  with  the  intention 
of  having  some  one  read  them  at  the  meetings, 
but  upon  his  arrival  he  was  called  upon  for  a 
speech,  and  read  the  poem  instead.  This  was  so 
good  that  they  insisted  on  his  reading  the  second 
one,  and  after  this  meeting  the  poems  were  re- 
garded so  highly  by  the  pioneers  that  they  in- 
sisted on  having  a  large  number  printed  and  dis- 
tributed among  his  friends  and  the  pioneers  who 
participated  in  that  meeting.  One  of  the  poems 
is  entitled  "The  Jubilee  Poem,"  and  the  other 
"Nephi  of  Today  and  Fifty  Years  Ago." 

Mr.  Brown,  by  his  untiring  energy  and  deter- 
mination, has  made  a  splendid  success  in  life 
and  has  left  a  record  which  his  posterity  and  fu- 
ture generations  will  look  upon  with  pride. 


ARION  H.  BRADY.  The  record  of 
the  early  pioneers  of  Utah  has 
formed  a  chapter  in  the  history  of 
this  country  that  is  indeed  worthy 
of  being  preserved  and  handed  down 
in  tangible  form  for  their  posterity  and  the  fu- 
ture generation,  .\mong  the  men  who  have  taken 
a  prominent  and  active  part  in  the  development  of 
the  great  resources  of  Utah  and  in  bringing  the 
State  to  its  present  prosperous  condition,  should 
be  mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

^Marion     H.    Brady     was    born     in     Calloway 
county,  Kentucky,   December  15,  1834.  He  is  the 


son  of  Lindsay  A.  and  Elizabeth  Ann(Hendrick- 
son)  Brady.  Lindsay  A.  Brady  was  born  June  11, 
181 1,  in  Lincoln  county,  Kentucky,  and  Mrs. 
Brady  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Ken- 
tucky, October  13,  1813.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Simeon  and  Keziah  Hendrickson.  Our  sub- 
ject's paternal  grandfather  was  Thomas  Brady, 
and  his  wife  was  Elizabeth  Brady;  both  natives ' 
of  Kentucky.  The  family  left  Kentucky  and 
settled  in  Missouri,  where  they  continued  to  re- 
side for  a  few  years  and  then  moved  to  Illinois, 
where  they  lived  until  they  journeyed  to  Council 
Bluffs.  Our  subject's  father  and  mother  were 
among  the  first  to  be  baptized  into  the  Mormon 
faith  in  Kentucky,  which  occurred  in  1835,  at  the 
hands  of  Wilford  Woodruff,  late  president  of  the 
Mormon  Church.  Our  subject  was  baptized  into 
the  same  faith  in  Nauvoo  on  September  i,  1844, 
where  his  parents  lived  until  the  exodus  of  the 
Mormon  people,  which  occurred  in  1846.  The 
senior  Mr.  Brady  passed  through  all  the  trials 
of  the  new  denomination  in  that  section.  With 
the  exodus  of  the  Mormon  people  he  journeyed 
to  Council  Bluffs  and  settled  on  the  Big  Masceto 
creek,  where  he  engaged  in  farming  for  a  period 
of  three  years.  On  June  20,  1850,  the  family 
fitted  out  teams  preparatory  to  making  the  trip 
across  the  plains  to  Utah,  which  they  did,  travel- 
ing in  the  company  of  which  Warren  Foote  was 
Captain  of  one  hundred  wagons,  and  William 
Wall  Captain  of  fifty  wagons,  and  Chester  Love- 
land  Captain  of  ten  wagons.  They  arrived  at 
Salt  Lake  City  September  19,  1850.  Our  sub- 
ject's father  was  the  owner  of  two  wagons,  and 
on  this  memorable  trip  he  drove  three  yoke  of 
oxen  and  our  subject  drove  two  yoke.  In  this 
family  there  were  eight  children,  one  born  on  the 
Platte  river  in  Nebraska,  while  the  family  were 
en  route  to  Utah,  and  one  was  born  in  Utah,  all 
living.  Our  subject  was  the  eldest  of  the  family. 
Upon  arriving  in  Utah  the  senior  Mr.  Brady 
settled  on  a  farm  one-quarter  of  a  mile  from 
where  our  subject  owns  his  present  home,  in  the 
Union  ward,  then  known  as  the  Little  Cotton- 
wood ward.  Here  the  children  grew  up.  The 
father  died  June  6,  1885  and  his  wife  died  Au- 
gust 7,  1890. 

Our   subject   spent   his   boyhood   days   on   the 


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farm  and  received  such  education  as  the  district 
schools  afforded  at  that  time.  He  married  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1855,  to  Miss  Frances  Maria  Richards, 
daughter  of  Silas  and  Elizabeth  McLenahan. 
Three  children  were  born  to  them — Newton, 
Silas  M.  and  Frances  Maria,  all  of  whom  died, 
and  their  mother  died  on  September  12,  1859. 
Our  subject  married  Lucy  Ann  Richards,  a  sister 
of  his  first  wife,  on  March  22,  1858.  The  father 
of  these  girls  was  born  in  Highland  county,  Ohio, 
December  18,  1807,  and  their  mother  was  born 
in-  Panelton  county,  Kentucky,  June  12,  1809. 
By  the  last  marriage  eleven  children  were  born, 
eight  of  whom  are  still  Hving — Joseph  S.  died  at 
eight  months  of  age ;  Elizabeth,  now  Mrs.  Joseph 
Thompson,  Junior;  Hyrum  H. ;  Lucy  M.,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  twelve  years;  Lindsay  A.,  now 
married ;  Warren  P.,  also  married ;  Martha  R., 
now  Mrs.  Chas.  Milne ;  Sarah  A.,  now  Mrs.  Ar- 
thur Wright ;  Laura  L.,  who  died  at  six  months 
of  age ;  Nancy  O.,  now  Mrs.  J.  R.  Milne,  and 
Ailcy  A.,  at  home. 

Our  subject  settled  at  his  present  home,  which 
was  formerly  the  home  of  his  father,  and  where 
he  has  continued  to  live  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  politics  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party  ever  since  its  organization  in  this 
State.  For  many  years  he  served  as  road  super- 
visor and  also  as  constable  and  school  trustee  of 
his  ward.  During  the  early  troubles  when  John- 
ston's army  landed  in  LUah,  he  was  called  upon 
to  serve  as  a  guard.  He  later  served  in  the 
Black  Hawk  war,  and  nearly  all  the  Indian  wars 
that  have  occurred  in  this  State.  During  the 
Black  Hawk  war  he  was  Captain  of  fifty,  and 
served  as  Captain  for  fourteen  years.  For  twenty- 
two  years  he  has  been  Counselor  to  the  Bishop  in 
his  ward.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies' 
Relief  society,  of  which  she  is  treasurer,  and  has 
occupied  that  position  for  twenty-five  months. 
All  of  their  daughters  are  members  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Brady  have  thirty-seven  grand  children 
and  one  great-grandchild.  In  the  early  history  of 
the  church  in  the  Little  Cottonwood  ward  our 
subject's  father  was  first  Counselor  to  the  Bishop, 
which  position  he  filled  for  a  period  of  fifteen 
years. 


5 


OHN  T.  THORUP,  Manager  of  the 
Thirteenth  Ward  store  of  Salt  Lake 
City.  A  fact  worthy  of  note  is  that  Den- 
mark has  furnished  a  large  quota  of  her 
noble  sons  in  the  settlement  and  upbuild- 
ing of  Utah.  John  T.  Thorup,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  is  a  native  of  that  country.  He  was 
born  on  his  father's  old  home  place  in  Copenha- 
gen, May  25,  1856,  which  was  the  early  scene  of 
his  boyhood  days ;  where  he  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools,  and  while  his  early  education 
was  of  a  limited  nature,  yet  through  life  he  has 
lost  no  opportunity  to  improve  his  mental  facul- 
ties. He  has  been  a  hard  worker  all  his  life,  and 
by  perseverance  and  determination  he  has  been 
blessed  with  a  reasonable  degree  of  success. 

Herman  A.  Thorup,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
was  a  native  of  Copenhagen,  born  August  11, 
1826.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  joiner  by  trade, 
which  he  followed  in  his  native  country,  and 
in  1853,  with  his  wife,  was  baptized  into  the 
Mormon  Church,  after  which  he  was  ordained 
an  Elder  and  became  Secretary  of  the  Co- 
penhagen Conference.  In  1868  he  sailed  witii 
his  family  for  America,  and  after  spend- 
ing one  year  in  Chicago,  came  to  Utah  soon 
after  the  railroad  had  reached  Ogden.  He 
is  a  High  Priest  and  acting  teacher  in  the 
First  ward.  His  wife  was  Mary  C.  Christensen, 
of  Myrup  Sjelland,  Denmark,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage they  had  eight  children,  six  of  whom  came 
to  L^tah  and  five  of  whom  now  live  in  the  city — 
Herman  F.  F.,  a  florist ;  John  T.,  our  subject ;  one 
daughter,  now  Mrs.  Niels  Rasmussen  ;  Hyrum  E., 
and  Joseph,  who  is  a  clerk  in  the  retail  grocery 
department  of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile 
Institution,  and  Clerk  of  the  First  ward.  Mrs. 
Thorup  is  a  teacher  in  the  Ladies'  Relief  society 
of  the  First  ward. 

When  our  subject  was  thirteen  years  of  age  his 
parents  located  at  Provo  and  he  there  attended 
the  Brigham  Young  College.  He  came  to  this 
citv  with  his  parents  in  1873  and  followed  the 
carpenter  trade  for  a  few  years,  being  associated 
with  his  father  in  contracting  and  building.  In 
1878  he  entered  the  mercantile  establishment 
oi  Jennings  &  Sons.  In  1881  he  became 
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eery  department  of  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Establishment,  and  remained  with 
them  until  1884,  when  he  became  identified 
with  the  Thirteenth  Ward  Co-operative  store, 
on  Main  street.  On  Septembc-  i,  1891, 
the  store  was  re-incorporated  under  the  name  of 
the  Freeze  Mercantile  Company,  of  which  Mr. 
Thorup  became  Vice-President.  In  April,  1901, 
the  Thirteenth  Ward  store  was  organized  as 
dealers  in  general  merchandise,  and  he  became 
Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Manager,  which  po- 
sitions he  still  retains. 

Mr.  Thorup  was  married  August  24,  1882,  to 
Miss  Johaiinah  C.  Ostermann,  a  native  of  Den- 
mark, and  the  daughter  of  Jens  C.  and  Caroline 
M.  (Berg)  Osterman.  This  family  came  to  Utah 
in  1868,  leaving  their  native  land  with  a  family 
of  six  children,  four  of  whom  died  of  measles  and 
were  buried  at  sea.  The  younger  daughter,  Mary, 
is  now  the  wife  of  B.  C.  Ward,  and  James,  who 
was  born  in  Granite,  Utah,  May  9,  1874,  is  now  a 
student  at  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
at  Batimore,  Alaryland.  Mr.  Ostermann  became 
a  resident  of  Sandy  and  was  for  many  years  a 
teacher  and  member  of  the  Seventies.  He  died 
there  in  1883.  and  his  widow  is  still  living  there, 
conducting  a  general  store  and  living  in  the  old 
family  residence.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thorup  have 
seven  children  living — Jonn  M,  Caroline,  M.  L., 
Mabel  E.,  Racnel  H.,  Ruth  O.,  Martha  O..  and 
Neomia.  The  family  are  all  members  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and 
Mrs.  Thorup  is  President  of  the  Primary  associa- 
tion of  the  First  ward.  Salt  Lake  Stake  of  Zion. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen,  our  subject  was  ordained 
an  Elder  and  in  1884  was  ordained  a  Seventy  and 
became  identified  with  the  Sixteenth  Quorum  of 
Seventies.  January  23.  1887,  he  was  ordained  a 
High  Priest  by  President  Angus  M.  Cannon  and 
set  apart  as  Second  Counselor  to  Bishop  War- 
burton  of  the  First  ward,  later  succeeding  to  the 
First  Counselorship,  which  position  he  still  holds. 
He  was  also  for  a  number  of  years  President  of 
the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement  associa- 
tion of  the  First  ward,  and  a  Sunday  school 
teacher.  He  was  called  on  a  mission  to  his 
native  country  in  1879,  laboring  as  a  travel- 
ing   Elder    in    the  Conference  of    Aarhus    and 


on  the  Island  of  Fyen  for  the  first  year, 
after  which  he  was  appointed  to  labor  in 
Aulborg  Conference,  where  he  presided  over 
the  Hjoring  Frederickshavn  and  Saby  dis- 
tricts until  1881,  when  he  returned  home  with  the 
second  largest  company  of  Saints, (numbering 
nearly  one  thousand)  that  ever  crossed  the  At- 
lantic. He  performed  a  successful  mission,  and 
during  his  labors  baptized  forty-eight  people. 

Mr.  Thorup  has  by  hard  work  and  close  econ- 
omy fought  his  way  through  life  to  his  present 
position,  and  has  by  his  upright  living  and  de- 
votion to  his  church  commanded  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  all  who  have  known  him,  and  today 
stands  high,  not  only  in  the  business  w'orld  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  but  also  in  the  community  in 
which  he  lives. 

hie  was  School  'Trustee  in  the  First  district 
during  the  years  1883-1887. 


iCTOR       ROMANIA      BUNNELL 

'R.\TT.     It  is  a  fact  worthy  of  note 

that  in  the  vast  work  of  transforming 

from    a    wild    and    undeveloped 


Utah 


State  to  its  present  properous  con- 
dition, many  women  have  played  a  very  important 
part.  They  have  successfully  entered  every 
channel  of  professional  and  business  life.  Among 
this  class,  and  one  who  by  her  keen  intellectual 
faculties  and  by  close  and  careful  study  has  made 
a  splendid  success  in  the  professional  life.  Doctor 
Romania  B.  Pratt  deserves  special  mention. 

She  was  born  August  8,  1839,  at  Washington, 
Wayne  county,  Indiana,  and  is  the  daughter  of 
Luther  B.  and  Esther  (Mendenhall)  Bunnell. 
Her  father  was  a  native  of  Warren  county,  Ohio, 
and  her  mother  was  born  in  Gilford  county, 
North  Carolina.  Air.  and  Mrs.  Bunnell  became 
converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church 
and  w^hen  our  subject  was  seven  years  of  age 
joined  the  Saints  at  Nauvoo.  However,  the 
mother's  health  being  very  poor,  and  the  father 
fearing  to  risk  her  life  in  the  rigors  of  the  win- 
ters in  Illinois,  removed  to  Newmarket,  Missouri, 
and  from  there  returned  to  Ohio,  where  he  pur- 
chased a  farm  and  continued  to  reside  until  the 
gold   fever  broke   out   in   California   in    1849,   3' 


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which  time  he  left  his  family  on  the  farm  and 
went  with  a  number  of  others  to  California  and 
engaged  in  mining.  He  was  very  successful  and 
accumulated  considerable  means,  which  he 
cached  in  a  number  of  places.  He  was  stricken 
with  typhoid  fever  in  one  of  the  mining  camps 
of  that  State.  A  nephew  reached  him  just  before 
his  death,  but  he  was  not  able  to  tell  all  the  places 
where  he  had  hidden  his  wealth,  and  only  a  por- 
tion of  it  was  ever  found ;  sufficient  however  to 
keep  his  family  in  comfort  and  educate  his  child- 
ren. 

Our  subject  attended  the  Western  Agricultural 
school,  a  Quaker  institution  fifty  miles  from  her 
home,  and  later  the  Female  Seminary  at  Craw- 
fordsville,  taking  special  studies  at  this  institu- 
tion in  German,  music  and  painting.  The  mother 
was  anxious  lest  her  daughter  should  be  in- 
fluenced by  the  religious  life  of  those  with  whom 
she  was  associated,  and  wishing  to  live  where  she 
might  be  surrounded  by  members  of  her  own 
faith,  she  sold  her  farm  in  1855  and  ,  with  her 
four  children  started  across  the  plains  to  Utah, 
traveling  in  an  independent  company  of  fifty  peo- 
ple, of  whom  John  Hindley  was  Captain.  They 
reached  Salt  Lake  City  in  September  of  that  year, 
and  our  subject  began  life  as  a  school  teacher, 
supporting  her  mother  and  the  other  children, 
in  tne  spring  of  1857  the  mother  made  a  trip 
East  in  order  to  close  up  matters  relating  to  the 
estate,  and  on  her  return  brought  with  her  a 
piano  for  her  daughter,  which  was  one  of  the  first 
of  these  instruments  to  be  brought  to  Utah.  The 
family  moved  to  Provo  in  1858,  during-  the  John- 
ston army  troubles,  but  returned  upon  the  resto- 
ration of  peace,  and  continued  to  make  their 
home  here. 

Our  subject  was  married  on  February  23,  1859, 
to  Parley  P.  Pratt,  oldest  son  of  Apostle  Parley 
P.  Pratt,  by  whom  she  had  six  sons  and  one 
daughter ;  the  latter  and  one  of  the  sons  dying  in 
childhood. 

During  the  earlier  years  of  her  married  life 
she  passed  through  many  scenes  of  privation  and 
suffering,  and  while  her  children  were  yet  very 
young  it  was  decided  that  she  should  go  East  for 
a  course  in  medical  study,  in  order  to  assist  in 
educating    the    family    growing    up    about    her. 


This  was  a  very  trying  time,  but  believing  her 
duty  to  be  clear  she  undertook  the  journey,  and 
upon  her  arrival  in  New  York  spent  some  time 
in  reading  the  proof  sheets  for  the  history  of 
Parley  P.  Pratt,  her  husband's  father,  after  which 
she  entered  uf>on  her  medical  studies,  which  she 
pursued  for  sixteen  months,  and  then  returned 
home.  Under  the  advice  of  Brigham  Young  she 
returned  East  and  again  took  up  her  studies,  re- 
maining two  years  longer,  studying  at  the  Wom- 
an's Medical  school  in  Pennsylvania,  and  gradu- 
ating with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1877.  She 
spent  her  vacations  in  the  hospital  for  women 
and  children  in  Boston  and  there  gained  much  val- 
uable information.  Her  work  was  of  so  high  a 
character  that  she  was  spoken  of  as  a  candidate 
for  a  course  in  medical  study  in  the  great  medi- 
cal centres  of  Europe,  but  as  this  required  more 
time  than  she  considered  she  could  spare  from 
her  family,  she  returned  home  upon  her  gradu- 
ation and  at  once  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
her  profession.  She  was  the  first  woman  to  go 
from  Utah  to  an  Eastern  college  and  graduate 
in  medicine  and  surgery.  Two  years  after  coming 
home  she  went  to  New  York  City  and  studied 
under  Dr.  Henry  D-.  Noyes  at  the  Eye  and  Ear 
infirmary.  Upon  again  returning  home  and  re- 
suming her  practice  she  was  urged  by  a  nlimber 
of  prominent  women  of  the  State  to  teach  obstet- 
rics, and  has  since  continued  these  classes,  in 
which  she  has  met  with  much  success  and  her 
teachings  have  been  of  incalculable  benefit  to  hun- 
dreds of  the  women  of  Utah.  She  was  one  of  the 
originators  and  promoters  of  the  Deseret  hospital, 
organized  under  the  First  Presidency  in  1884,  and 
in  1887  was  installed  as  resident  physician,  re- 
maining in  charge  of  that  institution  until  it  was 
closed  for  lacK  of  funds  in  1893,  when  she  re- 
turned to  private  practice,  in  which  she  is  still 
active,  having  her  office  in  the  Constitution  block. 
She  has  been  keenly  alive  to  everything  that 
has  tended  to  advance  or  uplift  womanhood  in  her 
State,  and  was  the  first  President  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Retrenchment  association  of  the  Twelfth 
Ward.  It  was  also  she  who  suggested  to  Mrs. 
Susie  Young  Gates,  at  that  time  in  Hawaii,  the 
advisability  of  publishing  a  magazine  for  young 
women,  which  suggestion  Mrs.  Gates  received  fav- 


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orably,  and  is  now  the  able  editor  of  the  Young 
IVoman's  Journal,  published  in  this  city.  In  1893 
Doctor  Pratt  visited  the  World's  Fair  in  company 
with  the  Tabernacle  choir.  She  was  for  ten  years 
Secretary  of  the  Central  Board  of  the  Relief  So- 
ciety, of  which  Board  she  is  still  an  active  mem- 
ber. She  has  also  figured  prominently  in  Club 
work,  being  a  charter  member  of  the  Utah 
Woman's  Press  Club  and  of  the  Reapers  Club. 
She  has  attended  a  number  of  meetings,  in  com- 
pany with  ^Irs.  Emmeline  B.  Wells,  and  is  well 
known  throughout  the  State.  Her  work  in  behalf 
of  her  sex  has  won  for  her  not  alone  the  love 
and  gratitude  of  hundreds  that  are  at  one  with 
her  in  religious  belief,  but  also  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  with  whom  she  has  been  associated, 
irrespective  of  religious  dogma,  and  she  is  today 
one  of  the  most  deservedlv  popular  women  of 
Utah. 


EORGE  CALDER  is  the  founder  of 
Calder's  Park,  one  of  the  finest  parks 
in  the  inter-mountain  region  and  one 
which  has  achieved  considerable  fame 
as  a  popular  amusement  place  for  the 
residents  of  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  heated  term ; 
but  it  is  not  alone  as  the  founder  of  this  place 
that  Mr.  Calder  is  known,  or  has  made  his  mark 
on  the  pages  of  life.  He  has  been  a  very  promi- 
nent man  in  all  the  industries  which  have  built 
up  Salt  Lake  City  and  its  vicinity. 

He  came  to  Utah  at  an  early  age  and  located  on 
his  present  site  almost  forty  years  ago,  when  there 
was  nothing  to  indicate  that  the  land  would  repay 
cultivation.  His  persistent  efiforts,  however,  have 
brought  from  this  barren  wilderness  a  highly  de- 
veloped place  and  it  is  now  among  the  finest  in 
the  County  of  Salt  Lake. 

George  Calder  was  born  in  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, in  1839.  He  is  the  youngest  of  seven  children 
of  George  and  .Anna  (Johnson)  Calder,  both  na- 
tives of  Scotland.  His  father  died  when  he  was 
but  a  child.  The  family  emigrated  from  Scotland 
to  America  and  later  came  to  Utah.  Our  subject 
spent  some  years  in  Cincinnati  and  received  some 
of  his  education  in  that  city,  where  he  attended 
the  common  schools.     The  family  then  pursued 


their  way  from  Ohio  across  to  Iowa,  and  from 
Keokuk,  Iowa,  crossed  the  "-reat  plains,  by  ox 
teams,  in  the  wagon  train  under  command  of  Cap- 
tain Clawson.  Upon  their  arrival  in  Utah  they 
settled  at  the  site  where  Taylorsville  now  stands, 
and  here  they  took  up  Government  land  and  be- 
gan the  work  of  making  the  barren  land  of  Utah 
furnish  them  a  living.  Mr.  Calder  began  his  busi- 
ness career  about  i860,  and  was  in  partnership 
with  his  brother  David  in  the  stock  and  farming 
business,  paying  particular  attention  to  the  raising 
of  sheep. 

In  1861  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Bennion, 
daughter  of  John  and  Esther  Bennion  who  were 
among  the  early  pioneers  of  Utah.  By  this  mar- 
riage they  have  eight  children  living— Orson  B., 
married  and  living  in  Vernal;  Ada,  now  Mrs. 
Winder,  living  at  Vernal;  Hyrum,  engaged  in 
the  stock  business  at  Vernal;  Rebean  Ponthia, 
married  and  living  in  \'ernal ;  Wallace,  attending 
the  University  of  Utah;  Bruce,  and  Dora.  Mr. 
Calder's  sons,  who  reside  at\'ernal,  are  now  build- 
ing up  a  merchandise,  stock  and  sheep  company 
to  be  known  as  Calder  Bros.  Company,  which  will 
undoubtedly  be  a  very  successful  enterprise.  Mr. 
Calder  moved  to  his  present  home  at  the  corner  of 
Seventh  East  and  Thirteenth  South,  in  the  Spring 
of  1 89 1,  and  together  with  his  brother  David,  in 
1864,  purchased  one  hundred  and  ten  acres  of 
land  and  at  once  laid  out  the  present  Calder's 
Park,  which  covers  thirty  acres.  This  was  the 
first  park  ever  established  in  Utah  and  is  one  of 
the  finest  in  Salt  Lake.  He  built  a  fine  lagoon  and 
also  a  splendid  bridge  over  two  hundred  feet 
long,  and  Mr.  Calder  and  his  son  Hyrum  planned 
and  erected  it  without  any  additional  aid.  The 
financial  outlay  caused  by  the  building  of  this  park 
resulted  in  Mr.  Calder  going  in  debt  to  the 
extent  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  but  through  his 
ingenuity,  and  the  original  methods  he  adopted  for 
advertising,  at  the  end  of  the  season  he  was  clear 
of  all  financial  encumbrances.  He  has  now  dis- 
posed of  the  ownership  of  this  park,  but  retained 
about  ten  acres  of  the  original  plat  of  land,  and 
in  1890  built  a  fine  frame  house,  lined  with  adobe, 
which  contains  twenty  rooms.  This  house  was 
erected  entirely  by  Mr.  Calder  and  his  sons,  and 
the  planning,  building,  finishing  and  decorating  of 


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the  rooms  is  entirely  the  work  of  Mr.  Calder ;  the 
exterior  finish  is  especially  of  a  fine  character. 

In  political  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  but  has  never  run  for  office  nor  solic- 
ited in  any  way  public  favors.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  from  his  childhood,  and  his  wife  and 
children  are  also  members  of  that  Church.  In 
addition  to  his  present  place  he  has  given  con- 
siderable attention  to  the  fish  industry,  and  at 
present  has  a  hatchery  stocked  with  thousands  of 
rainbow  trout.  The  capacity  of  the  hatchery  is 
100,000.  The  location  of  the  ponds  are  the  best 
in  the  county  and  the  water  is  supplied  by  artesian 
wells.  ]\Ir.  Calder  has  always  been  prominently 
identified  with  LTtah  and  with  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  especially  in  the  development  of  the  valley. 
He  is  known  as  one  of  the  most  substantial  men 
in  his  community  and  has  made  for  himself  a 
prominent  place  in  both  the  business  and  agri- 
cultural life  of  Utah.  His  straigntforward  man- 
ner and  his  integrity  have  won  for  him  the  trust 
of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated,  and  he 
numbers  his  friends  by  the  legion. 


OSEPH  H.  BRINTON,  one  of  the 
worthy  citizens  and  a  native  of  Utah, 
was  born  in  Cottonwood  Ward,  April  8, 
if^52.  He  was  the  son  of  David  and 
Harriett  (Dillworth)  Brinton.  His  father 
was  a  native  of  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania, 
having  been  born  there  in  1814 ;  and  his  mother 
was  born  in  the  same  county  in  1822.  The  senior 
Brinton  was  left  an  orphan  in  childhood  and  was 
adopted  by  Benjamin  Cope,  with  whom  he  spent 
his  early  life,  receiving  a  common  school  educa- 
tion. He  later  learned  the  blacksmith  trade,  which 
he  followed  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  State 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  later  he  moved  to  Nauvoo, 
Illinois,  where  he  continued  to  follow  his  trade 
until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormon  people,  when 
he  moved  to  Missouri  and  later  fitted  out  a  num- 
ber of  ox  teams  and  wagons  for  Utah  and  in  1850 
left  Winter  Quarters  with  a  train  of  Mormon 
emigrants,  he  being  captain  of  fifty  wagons.  They 
crossed  the  plains  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City 
the  following  September.     Mr.  Brinton  had  mar- 


ried four  wives  and  was  the  father  of  eighteen 
children.  Three  of  his  wives  are  now  dead. 
There  were  two  children  born  in  Illinois  and  the 
rest  after  coming  to  Utah.  Evan  P.  is  now  resid- 
ing at  Spring\'ille,  Utah ;  Caleb  D.,  the  oldest, 
with  his  wife,  is  at  present  serving  on  a  mission 
in  England;  David  B.  was  called  to  serve  in 
New  York  City  on  a  mission  in  1900,  and  spent 
two  years  in  that  capacity;  Joseph  H.,  the  next 
oldest,  was  called  to  serve  on  a  mission  in  the 
Sandwich  Islands,  in  1896,  where  he  contin- 
ued for  a  period  of  twenty-eight  months.  While 
in  those  islands  he  was  assistant  manager 
of  the  plantation  which  the  Church  had  estab- 
lished, it  having  a  large  rice  and  sugar  industry 
there ;  Samuel,  the  next  youngest,  has  served  on  a 
mission  to  the  Southern  States  during  the  year 
1894-95;  Frank  D.  and  Harriet  D.  were  twins; 
Harriet  is  now  the  wife  of  Hiram  Bagley ;  Sarah, 
the  wife  of  V.  Shurtlifl:;  Eliza  D.,  now  Mrs.  L. 
Young.  All  the  children  reside  in  Utah.  David 
Brinton  came  to  Utah  and  at  once  settled  in  the 
Big  Cottonwood  Ward,  where  he  resided  for  a 
short  time  when  he  was  called  to  assist  in  the 
settling  of  the  town  of  Parowan,  in  the  southern 
part  of  this  State,  and  after  a  short  period  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake  county  and  took  up  the  black- 
smithing  business,  which  he  operatea  until  1857. 
In  this  year  he  crossed  the  plains  to  the  Missouri 
river  in  a  hand  cart  company ;  this  was  an  experi- 
mental trip,  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the 
practicability  of  that  style  of  travel.  He  was 
made  Bishop  of  the  Big  Cottonwood  Ward,  in 
which  capacity  he  served  for  a  period  of  seventeen 
years.  He  also  served  on  a  mission  to  England 
for  two  years,  in  1869  and  1870.  He  died  in 
1876,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years. 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  the 
farm,  where  he  received  a  common  school  educa- 
tion from  such  schools  as  then  existed  in  Utah. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  he  learned  the  black- 
smith trade  under  the  direction  of  George  L.Scott, 
and  has  since  continued  to  maintain  the  shop  at 
the  old  residence  of  his  father,  which  was  estab- 
lished over  fifty  years  ago,  and  was  among  the 
very  first  shops  of  Salt  Lake  county. 

Mr.  Brinton  was  married  in  1874  to  Miss  Mary 
W.  Howard,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 


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Howard,  her  father  being  the  first  man  to  estabhsh 
a  distillery  in  Utah,  having  settled  in  this  State 
in  1850.  Our  subject  and  his  wife  have  had 
eleven  children,  nine  of  whom  are  living — Mary 
A.,  now  the  wife  of  O.  T.  Jensen,  of  Big  Cotton- 
wood ;  Harriett  W.,  now  Mrs.  T.  O.  Gunderson, 
of  Mill  Creek  Ward;  Josephine  E.,  the  wife  of 
Mark  Driggs,  a  farmer  in  this  ward ;  Catherine 
A.,  now  Mrs.  J.  F.  Hill ;  Samuel  H.,  William  H., 
Lucretia,  Vivian,  Jay  E.,  Elizabeth,  the  first  born, 
died  at  the  age  of  four  years ;  Joseph,  the  first 
son,  died  at  the  age  of  two  years.  Mrs.  Jensen  is 
a  University  graduate  and  for  three  years  taught 
school  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

^Ir.  Brinton"s  blacksmith  shop  is  situated  be- 
tween Seventeenth  South  and  Eleventn  East,  and 
his  residence  is  on  Seventeenth  South,  between 
Eleventh  and  Twelfth  East,  where  he  has  a  nicely 
furnished  brick  residence,  barns,  etc.,  and  owns 
forty  acres  of  valuable  land  in  the  same  vicinity. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  constable  of 
his  Ward  and  also  S€rved  as  school  trustee.  He 
has  been  identified  with  the  Democratic  party 
ever  since  it  was  organized  in  this  State.  His 
wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  in 
which  she  is  a  prominent  and  faithful  worker, 
and  their  daughters  belong  to  the  Young  Ladies' 
Aid  Society. 


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HOMAS  R.  G.  WELCH  is  the  oldest 
living  resident  of  Morgan  county.  He 
was  born  in  Sommersetshire,  at  Shepton 
Malleet,  England,  on  July  10,  1835,  and 
is  the  son  of  Robert  and  Isabelle  (Fri- 
day I  Welch.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native 
country,  and  there  obtained  his  education,  begin- 
ninsr  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  dry  goods  establishment. 
He  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  in  England, 
and  became  a  member  of  that  body  on  September 
20,  1854.  Three  years  later  he  decided  to  join 
the  Mormon  colony  in  America,  and  sailed  from 
Liverpool  on  March  28,  1857,  on  board  the  ship 
George  Washington,  in  company  with  -eight  hun- 
dred and  seventeen  Mormon  emigrants.  They 
landed  in  Boston  and  made  the  trip  bv  rail  to  Iowa 
City,  and  from  there  made  the  journey  of  thirteen 


hundred  and  thirty-five  miles  across  the  great 
American  plains  by  ox  team,  arriving  in  the  Salt 
Lake  Valley  in  the  Fall  of  that  year.  In  the 
Spring  of  1858  when  he  was  at  the  Echo  canyon 
owing  to  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  the  Saints 
left  Salt  Lake  City  and  moved  into  the  southern 
part  of  the  State.  His  family  was  moved  to  Lehi, 
in  his  absence,  where  they  remained  until  i860, 
when  they  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City.  In  July, 
of  that  year,  he  moved  to  Weber  Valley,  then  a 
part  of  Davis  county,  and  took  up  land  at  Little- 
ton, later  purchasing  more  land  of  the  railroad 
company.  Here  he  engaged  in  general  farming 
and  stock  raising.  He  has  been  a  resident  of 
Morgan  City  since  1862,  when  he  was  appointed 
postmaster  of  that  place  by  President  Abraham 
Lincoln.     He  held  that  office  until  1867. 

]Mr.  Welch  was  married  in  Brighton,  England, 
in  1855,  to  Miss  Harriett  Nash,  who  came  to 
Utah  with  him  and  died  in  1894,  leaving  a  family 
of  nine  children,  one  of  whom  was  born  in  Eng- 
land. Of  these  children,  six  are  now  living.  They 
are :  Thomas  F.,  living  at  Morgan  City ;  Charles 
A.,  one  of  the  Presidency  of  the  Big  Horn  Stake, 
and  a  Director  in  the  Big  Horn  Colonization  com- 
pany, in  Wyoming;  James  N.,  Isabella  L.,  the 
wife  of  E.  Butters ;  Robert,  and  Joseph  F.,  of 
Morgan  City.  He  married  a  second  time  to  Mrs. 
Mary  Jane  (Cook)  Toomer,  of  Farmington.  Mrs. 
Welcn  crossed  the  plains  in  1854  with  her  first 
husband  and  resided  at  Farmington  for  many 
years,  where  they  were  well-known  singers.  She 
has  three  sons  by  her  first  marriage.  Mr.  and 
:Mrs.  Welch  each  have  forty  grandchildren,  and 
each  have  one  greatgrandchild. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Welch  is  a  Republican  and 
has  all  his  life  been  active  in  politics  in  his  own 
town.  He  held  the  office  of  clerk  and  recorder  of 
Morgan  county  for  four  years  and  was  assessor 
and  collector  of  that  county  for  seven  years  prior 
to  1874.  He  has  also  been  recorder  of  Morgan 
county,  and  was  for  five  years  a  member  of  the 
Republican  State  committee,  and  three  years 
chairman  of  the  county  central  committee.  He 
was  also  an  officer  in  the  State  Legislature  in 
1896.  In  Church  life  he  has  been  clerk  of  the 
Tithing  Office,  serving  from  i860  to  1899,  being 
appointed  to  that  position   by   Brigham   Young. 


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He  has  also  been  active  in  Sunday  school  work 
and  was  ordained  a  Higfh  Priest  in  1877  and  set 
apart  as  a  member  of  the  High  Council  of  Morgan 
Stake  of  Zion,  and  is  at  present  the  senior  member 
of  that  body. 

Mr.  Welch,  like  so  manv  others  of  the  early 
pioneers  of  Utah,  had  to  begin  at  the  very  bottom 
and  work  his  way  up.  He  has  been  fairly  success- 
ful in  a  financial  way  and  has  won  a  prominent 
place  in  public  life  by  his  many  years  of  service  in 
the  different  offices  to  which  he  has  been  elected, 
and  in  which  he  has  served  with  efficiency  and 
honor,  both  to  himself  and  to  the  people  whom  he 
has  represented.  His  life,  both  public  and  private, 
has  been  an  upright  and  honorable  one,  and  he 
stands  high  in  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all 
who  know  him.  At  present  Mr.  Welch  is  a  suc- 
cessful apiaculturist,  producing  a  great  deal  of 
honev. 


RS.  P.ATHSHEBA  W.  SMITH, 
President  of  the  Woman's  Relief 
S'iciety  in  all  the  world.  In  the 
vast  workings  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
there  are  many  different  branches  in  its  vast  field 
of  operation,  and  among  the  most  important,  and 
one  which  is  perhaps  doing  as  much  good,  not 
onlv  in  Utah  but  in  every  land  where  the  Church 
has  branches,  as  any  other  one  department  in  the 
whole  Church,  is  the  Woman's  Relief  Society. 
The  object  which  this  branch  of  the  Church  has  in 
view  is  looking  after  the  wants  of  the  poor  and 
needy,  wherever  they  are  found.  Mrs.  Smith  is 
filling  the  important  office  as  President  of  this 
Society  for  the  whole  world,  with  efficiency  and 
credit,  not  only  to  herself  but  to  the  Church. 

Her  parents  were  Mark  and  Susannah  Bigler, 
natives  of  Pennsylvania  and  Maryland,  respect- 
ively, and  after  their  marriage  moved  to  Harrison 
county,  West  Virginia,  where  our  subject  was 
born  near  the  town  of  Shinston,  May  3,  1822.  Her 
mother's  people  were  slave  holders,  but  from  con- 
scientious motives  released  the  slaves.  There  were 
six  daughters  and  one  son  in  Mr.  Bigler's  family 
and  they  all  received  a  good  education  and  were 
brought  up  under  religious  instruction,  although 


it  was  not  until  our  subject  was  seventeen  years 
of  age  that  the  parents  became  communicants  of 
any  church.  About  this  time  the  family  heard 
the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon  Church  expounded 
by  one  of  the  Missionary  Elders  of  that  Church, 
and  becoming  convinced  of  the  truth  of  their 
teachings,  the  family  became  members  of  the 
Church. 

Among  the  Elders  who  came  to  her  father's 
home,  during  this  time,  was  George  A.  Smith, 
a  cousin  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  They  were 
married  in  the  city  of  Nauvoo  on  July  25,  1841, 
and  two  days  later  started  on  foot  to  go  to  the 
home  of  Mr.  Smith's  father  in  Zerahelma,  across 
the  river  from  Nauvoo,  in  Iowa.  The  place  was 
a  mile  from  the  river.  They  obtained  free  pas- 
sage across  the  river,  and  there  Mr.  Smith,  senior, 
pronounced  upon  them  the  blessings  of  Abraham, 
Isaac  and  Jacob.  At  this  time  George  A.  Smith 
was  the  youngest  member  of  the  First  Quorum  of 
Seventies.  On  June  26,  1838,  he  was  ordained  a 
member  of  the  High  Council  of  Adam  Ondiah- 
man,  in  Davis  county,  Missouri,  and  was  subse- 
quently ordained  one  of  the  Twelve  Apostles,  and 
later  started  on  a  mission  to  Europe,  from  which 
he  returned  ten  days  previous  to  his  marriage. 

From  the  time  of  her  marriage  the  life  of  our 
subject  has  been  a  part  of  the  history  of  the 
Church.  She  is  the  only  living  person  who  re- 
ceived her  Temple  blessing  under  the  personal 
direction  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  She  re- 
ceived the  endowment  in  1844,  before  the  Proph- 
et's death,  and  was  a  continuous  worker  in  the 
Temple  at  Nauvoo,  from  the  day  of  its  completion 
until  the  Mormons  were  driven  out  of  that  city. 
She  suffered  all  the  early  persecutions  and  trials 
of  the  Church,  and  was  with  the  Mormons  when 
they  were  expelled  from  Nauvoo  in  1846,  her  par- 
lor being  used  as  a  paint  shop  in  painting  the 
wagons  to  be  used  in  crossing  the  plains.  After 
her  arrival  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  in  October, 
1849,  she,  in  connection  with  her  husband's  other 
wives,  spun  and  wove  flax  and  wool  from  which 
they  made  all  kinds  of  wearing  apparel  and  did 
everything  possible  to  assist  in  gaining  a  liveli- 
hood. For  many  years  she  lived  in  what  is  now 
the  Historian's  office ;  at  that  time  Mr.  Smith  was 
Historian  of  the  Church,  where  her  husband,  at 


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that  time  First  Counselor  to  Brighani  Youn,a;, 
died  in  1875. 

After  reaching  Salt  Lake  City,  Mrs.  Smith  as- 
sisted in  erecting  the  Endowment  House,  where 
she  worked  for  seventeen  years,  and  has  labored 
continuously  in  the  Temple  since  its  completion 
nine  years  ago.  She  has  also  officiated  in  the 
Temples  at  Logan  and  Manti.  At  the  opening  of 
the  Salt  Lake  Temple,  Mrs.  Zina  Young,  our  sub- 
ject, and  Mrs.  Minnie  J.  Snow,  were  set  apart 
to  preside  over  the  Woman's  department,  in  which 
Mrs.  Smith  is  today  an  active  worker.  She  has 
all  her  life  been  closely  associated  with  the  leading 
women  of  the  Mormon  Church,  her  special  friends 
in  Xauvoo  being  such  women  as  Eliza  R.  Snow, 
Zina  D.  Young  and  Emily  Partridge,  and  upon 
the  death  of  Mrs.  Young,  in  August,  1901,  IMrs. 
Smith  was  chosen  as  her  successor,  as  President 
of  the  Woman's  Relief  Society  of  all  the  world. 
This  society  has  over  thirty  thousand  members, 
fifty  Stakes,  and  numerous  missions  located  wher- 
ever there  is  a  branch  of  the  church,  all  of  which 
are  under  her  charge. 

Mrs.  Smith  has  been  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren— George  A.  Smith,  Junior,  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  whne  serving  on  a 
mission  in  Southern  L'tah  and  Arizona ;  her  sec- 
ond son,  John,  died  in  infancy,  and  her  daughter 
is  the  w-ife  of  Clarence  Merrill.  Mrs.  Smith  has 
fourteen  grandchidren  and  fifteen  greatgrandchil- 
dren. 

Her  work  has  brought  Mrs.  Smith  in  close  con- 
tact w-ith  the  members  of  the  Church  from  all 
parts  of  the  State,  and  by  her  never-failing  love 
and  sympathy,  as  well  as  the  help  she  has  been 
able  to  give  hundreds  of  her  sex,  she  has  won  the 
friendship  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  she 
has  come  in  contact,  and  is  one  of  the  leaders  in 
Church  circles  of  todav. 


PSEPH  T.  MABEY.  In  the  building  up 
of  the  settlement  of  Bountiful,  Davis 
county,  Utah,  few  men  have  participated 
more  actively  in  the  work  than  has  the 
subject  of  this   sketch.     He  has  seen  it 

from  a  small  border  settlement,  made  by 


the  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints,  to  a  bustling  and  progressive 
settlement.  Identified  with  its  progress  and  with 
the  growth  of  the  county,  he  is  now  one  of  the 
County  Commissioners  of  Davis  county. 

Joseph  T.  Mabey  was  born  in  Wraxall,  Eng- 
land, June  30,  1345.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Esther  (Chalker)  Mabey,  also  natives  of 
England,  and  born  in  the  same  place  as  was  their 
son.  He  was  the  fourth  chuu  of  a  family  of  six, 
all  of  whom  are  still  living. 

His  parents  became  converts  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Church  and  emigrated  to  .America  in  1862, 
arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  5,  of  that 
year,  after  a  long  trip  across  the  plains  by  ox- 
teams,  under  the  command  of  Captain  Ansel  Har- 
man.  Upon  their  arrival  in  Utah  his  father  settled 
at  Bountiful.  He  died  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  Alarch 
of  the  following  year.  The  work  of  farming, 
which  he  had  begun,  devolved  upon  his  sons, 
.\lbert  and  Joseph  w^ho,  at  the  ages  of  twenty  and 
eighteen,  respectively,  were  supporting  the  family. 
They  continued  to  care  for  their  mother  during 
the  remainder  of  her  life,  and  by  their  energy  and 
industry  maintained  her  in  comfort  until  her  death 
in  September,  1891. 

Through  our  subject's  industry  and  untiring 
energy  he  has  carved  out  a  career  for  himself 
that  stands  well  in  the  records  of  the  accomplished 
works  of  the  pioneers.  He  settled  in  the  north- 
west part  of  East  Bountiful,  where  he  now  has  a 
splendid  farm,  with  a  beautiful  brick  residence 
containing  nine  rooms  and  equipped  w-ith  all  the 
modern  conveniences.  He  is  also  the  owner  of 
several  other  lots  throughout  the  ward.  In  ad- 
dition to  his  property  in  Utah,  he  is  also  the 
owner  of  a  sheep  ranch  in  Idaho,  which  he  has 
successfuly  conducted  for  a  number  of  years.  Its 
headquarters  are  at  Bancroft,  in  that  State.  Mr. 
Mabey  has  also  aided  in  the  establishment  of 
many  of  the  industries  of  his  region,  and  is  now 
a  director  of  the  Woods  Cross  Canning  and  Pick- 
ling Company,  located  at  Woods  Cross,  a  short 
distance  south  of  his  home.  This  has  proved  to  be 
a  profitable  investment  and  is  a  very  successful 
enterprise. 

Our  subject  was  married  on  March  13,  1871, 
to   Sarah   L.   Tolman.   daughter  of  Judson   and 


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Sarah  (Holbrook)  Tolman,  citizens  of  Bountiful, 
and  by  this  marriage  he  had  twelve  children,  of 
whom  eleven  are  still  living.  They  are :  Joseph 
T.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  months  ;  Judson 
A.,  who  has  charge  of  the  sheep  ranch  in  Idaho 
He  served  thirty-four  months  as  a  missionary  for 
the  Church  in  the  Southern  States,  being  called  to 
that  work  in  December,  1895.  William  A.,  Charles 
R.,  now  absent  at  Berlin^  Germany,  on  a  mission. 
This  son  organized  the  militia  of  Bountiful  and 
served  as  captain  of  that  force  until  the  outbreak 
of  the  Spanish-American  war.  when  he  resigned 
his  commission  and  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Bat- 
tery A.  Utah  Artillery,  and  left  with  his  com- 
mand for  the  Philippine  Islands,  serving  with 
such  distinction  that  he  was  promoted  to  be  a  ser- 
geant before  his  return.  He  was  honorably  mus- 
tered out  of  the  service  of  the  United  States  with 
his  battery  at  San  Francisco.  Joseph  I,.,  at 
school,  attending  the  sessins  of  the  Latter  Day 
Saints"  College  in  Salt  Lake  City;  George  E., 
Clarence,  David,  Sarah  L.,  Orson,  Alice  E.,  and 
Esther. 

In  political  life  ^Ir. Mabey  is  a  Republican,  join- 
ing that  party  upon  its  organization  in  this  State. 
He  was  nominated  on  that  ticket  as  County  Com 
missioner  in  the  fall  of  1900,  and  so  great  was 
his  popularity  and  so  strong  the  confidence  of 
the  people,  that  he  ran  ahead  of  his  ticket,  anu 
received  more  votes  than  any  other  candidate  of 
his  party.  In  the  old  days,  when  the  people  were 
divided  into  the  People's  and  the  Liberal  parties. 
Mr.  Mabey  was  a  member  of  the  former  party. 
and  twenty  years  ago  was  one  of  the  first  con- 
stables of  Bountiful,  and  also  served  a  term  of  two 
years  as  marshal  of  that  city. 

He  has  always  been  a  faithful  member  of  the 
Church  of  his  choice,  and  is  now  President  of 
the  One  Hundredth  Quorum  of  the  Seventies. 
For  some  time  he  was  also  superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  school  in  West  Bountiful,  and  at  present 
is  associate  superintendent  of  East  Bountiful. 

iVIr.  Mabey's  success  has  been  the  result  of 
hard,  plodding  work,  and  the  leading  position  he 
has  achieved  in  the  affairs  of  Davis  county  are  due 
to  his  own  efforts.  His  sincerity  and  devotion 
to  his  religion  have  won  for  him  a  high  place  in 
the  regard  of  the  leaders  of  his  Church,  and  his  in- 


tegrity and  honesty  have  won  for  him  the  confi- 
dence and  respect  of  all  the  people  of  the  country. 


^ESIDE.XT  ANGUS  MUNX  CAX- 
XON'.  So  closely  interwoven  with  the 
history  of  L'tah  in  its  development  from 
a  wild  and  unsettled  region  to  one  of 
the  most  prosperous  and  growing  States 
in  the  West,  is  the  life  of  President  .\ngus  M. 
Cannon,  that  a  sketch  of  his  life  is  a  part  of  the 
history  of  the  State.  He  was  one  of  the  early 
settlers  who  crossed  the  wilds  of  the  western 
plains  to  found  in  the  inter-mountain  region  the 
home  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints.  He  has  been  a  leader  in  the  work 
of  the  Church,  and  hand  in  hand  with  this  work 
has  grown  his  interest  in  the  development  of  the 
State.  He  has  built  a  career  by  his  own  efforts 
which  is  a  lasting  monument  to  the  industry  and 
ability  of  the  pioneers,  and  to  which  his  posterity 
may  well  point  with  pride. 

.\ngus  Munn  Cannon  was  born  in  Liverpool, 
Lancashire,  England,  May  17,  1834.  When  he 
was  less  than  three  years  of  age  his  maternal 
grandmother  took  him  to  reside  with  her  on  the 
Isle  of  Man  and  he  remained  there  until  past  four 
years  of  age,  when  he  returned  to  the  home  of  his 
parents  in  Liverpool.  His  parents  had  become 
converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  church 
in  February,  1840,  and  in  the  fall  of  1842  crossed 
the  Atlantic  ocean  to  America,  landing  at  New 
Orleans  after  an  eight  weeks  voyage.  When 
they  were  six  weeks  out  at  sea  the  mother  died. 
She  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Ann  Quayle.  The 
father  and  mother  were  both  natives  of  Peel, 
Isle  of  Man.  The  family  consisted  of  three  sons, 
George  O. ;  Angus  Munn,  our  subject ;  and  David 
Henry ;  and  three  daughters,  Mary  Alice ;  Ann ; 
and  Leonora.  From  New  Orleans  the  family 
went  to  Navoo,  reaching  there  in  the  spring  of 
1843.  The  oldest  son,  George  O.,  and  one  sister, 
Ann,  left  Nauvoo  with  the  pioneers  early  in  1846. 
and  arrived  in  Utah  in  advance  of  the  rest  of  the ' 
family ;  x\ngus  M.,  David  Henry  and  Leonora 
being  left  with  Charles  Lambert,  who  had  married 
one  of  the  sisters,  Mary  Alice.  They  remained  at 
Winter  Quarters  with  the  rest  of  the  company. 


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This  place  is  now  known  as  Florence,  near  Oma- 
ha, Nebraska.  So  hurried  had  been  the  departure 
and  so  ruthless  the  mob  that  these  people,  perse- 
cuted on  account  of  their  religion,  began  the  win- 
ter of  1846-47  with  scarcely  any  provisions  and 
the  Cannon  family  in  the  scarcity  of  food  found 
relief  in  the  artichokes  and  wild  onions  which 
grew  on  the  bottom  lands  along  the  Missouri 
river.  This  diet,  however,  proved  to  be  a  very 
good  preventative  against  the  scurvy,  cholera  and 
the  disease  known  as  the  black-leg,  shielding  them 
against  these  diseases,  which  were  then  raging  in 
that  section  of  the  country.  In  addition  to  the 
lack  oi  food  they  were  much  annoyed  by  the  hos- 
tile attitude  of  the  Indians,  who,  in  their  despera- 
tion killed  their  cattle.  This  necessitated  our 
subject  going  with  his  brother-in-law,  Charles 
Lambert,  to  Missouri,  where  he  secured  work  on 
the  Missouri  river,  working  on  a  farm  and  chop- 
ping wood,  and  remained  there  until  the  winter 
of  1847-48.  While  crossing  the  Missouri  river 
on  their  return  to  winter  quarters,  the  ice  broke 
and  they  had  the  misfortune  to  destroy  their  out- 
fit. 

In  1849  -^I""-  Lambert  and  the  rest  of  the  family 
crossed  the  plains  to  L'tah.  arriving  in  Salt  Lake 
City. in  Octol)er  of  that  year.  Shortly  after  his 
arival  in  Utah  President  Cannon  followed  manual 
labor  until  the  fall  ot  1850,  when  he  accompanied 
over  a  hundred  men  and  twelve  or  thirteen  women 
to  found  a  colony  now  known  as  Iron  county, 
under  the  leadership  of  President  George  A. 
Smith.  They  located  on  Center  Creek  and  es- 
tablished the  city  now  known  as  Parowan,  in  the 
Little  Salt  Lake  Valley.  The  winter  was  spent  in 
building  houses,  surveying  the  land  and  establish- 
ing a  fort  as  a  protection  against  the  raids  of  the 
Indians.  Captain  Jefferson  Hunt,  who  met  the 
company  on  his  w'ay  to  California,  was  sent  as  a 
representative  from  Iron  county  wnich  this  col- 
ony had  established,  to  the  first  legislature  from 
this  district.  Our  subject  returned  to  Salt  Lake 
in  May  1851,  and  spent  that  summer  and  winter 
in  hauling  wood  and  lumber,  working  on  the  farm 
and  a  portion  of  the  winter  attended  school.  In 
November,  1852,  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  print- 
ing business  under  Doctor  W'illard  Richards,  in 
the  same  building  in  which  his  present  office  is  lo- 


cated. He  remained  here  until  the  tall  of  1854, 
when,  on  the  suggestion  of  Governor  Brigham 
Young  and  Doctor  J.  M.  Bernhisel,  the  then  dele- 
gate from  Utah  to  Congress,  he  secured  his  ap- 
pointment as  a  cadet  to  West  Point  for  the  tenn 
of  1855.  He  received  an  appointment  from  the 
Church  to  spend  the  interval  in  missionary  work 
in  the  eastern  states,  under  President  John  Taylor, 
laboring  in  1854  and  the  early  part  of  1855  in 
Connecticut.  His  work  was  most  successful  and 
he  succeeded  in  baptizing  twenty-one  people  in 
thirty  days.  President  Taylor  was  so  well  pleas- 
ed with  his  success  as  a  missionary  that  he  per- 
suaded him  to  abandon  the  plan  of  entering  West 
Point,  and  in  May,  1855,  he  was  called  to  labor  in 
New  York  and  Pennsylvania,  meeting  with  good 
success.  He  w-as  later  called  to  take  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Philadelphia  Conference,  which  in- 
cluded Pennsylvania.  New  Jersey,  Delaware  and 
Eastern  Maryland,  with  headquarters  at  Philadel- 
phia. They  occupied  W'ashington  hall  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Eighth  and  Spring  Garden  streets,  which 
had  a  seating  capacity  of  one  thousand,  for  their 
Sunday  ser\ices.  In  the  spring  of  1857  he  was 
called  to  take  charge  of  the  emigrants  coming 
from  Europe  by  way  of  Boston,  New  York 
and  Philadelpb.ia,  and  in  addition  to  act  as  First 
Counselor  to  President  William  P.  Appleby,  who 
had  succeeded  President  John  Taylor  as  publisher 
of  the  Mormon  paper  and  presiding  over  the  east- 
ern Mission.  In  the  fall  of  the  year  he  was  pros- 
trated with  lung  fever  and  had  a  very  severe  ill- 
ness. 

In  March,  1858,  he  left  Philadelphia  for  home, 
hut  when  he  reached  Iowa  was  again  attacked 
with  lung  fever  and  lay  a  month  sick  at  Crescent 
City,  Iowa.  In  May  of  that  year  he  again  started 
for  home,  accompanying  a  party  of  one  hundred 
and  ten  returning  Elders  who  had  been  laboring 
in  Europe,  British  .America  and  the  eastern  states. 
On  account  of  his  illness  he  was  made  chaplain  of 
this  company  and  relieved  from  all  arduous  du- 
ties. His  health  was  so  precarious  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  joumey  from  the  Missouri  river 
that  they  despaired  of  his  living  to  complete  the 
journey,  but  he  finally  began  to  improve  and  by 
the  time  they  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  was  convales- 
cent.   At  this  time  lohnston's  army  was  marching 


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to  Utah,  and  as  their  route  would  cross  the  line  of 
march  of  the  army  the  company  made  a  detour 
and  passed  the  United  States  forces  without  even 
appraising  them  of  their  presence  in  the  country, 
arriving  in  Salt  Lake  without  a  mishap  of  any 
kind.  The  trip  was  quite  perilous  and  in  the 
eyes  of  those  forming  the  company  the  hand  of 
providence  was  manifest  in  a  remarkable  degree 
in  the  events  attending  their  journey  home. 

Upon  reaching  Salt  Lake  City,  June  21,  1858, 
they  found  the  place  deserted  and  that  the  people 
had  all  moved  to  the  south  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
thev  were  found  located  in  the  south  of  Utah 
county,  owing  to  the  approach  of  Johnston's  army. 
Mr.  Cannon  went  to  Fillmore,  where  he  found 
his  brother,  George  Q.,  published  the  Deseret 
Nezi.'s.  This  was  the  first  meeting  of  the  brothers 
in  eleven  years.  Our  subject  remained  a  week 
with  his  brother  and  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City 
after  the  army  had  entered  Utah  and  passed 
through  the  City  and  located  what  was  known  as 
Camp  Floyd  in  Cedar  Valley.  The  amnesty  proc- 
lamation having  been  issued  the  people  returned 
to  their  homes  early  in  July. 

On  July  i8th  of  that  year,  1858,  President  Can- 
non was  married  to  two  sisters,  Sarah  Maria  and 
Ann  Amanda  Mousley,  their  ancestors  coming 
originally  from  Finland  and  Sweden  and  settled  in 
Delaware  where  they  were  the  founders  of  the 
celebrated  brick  church  of  Wilmington,  Delaware. 
The  marriage  ceremony  was  performed  by  Presi- 
dent Brigham  Young  in  what  is  known  as  the 
Beehive  House.  After  his  marriage  President  Can- 
non settled  in  Salt  Lake  City  where  he  followed 
the  occupation  of  printer  and  farmer,  and  finally 
formed  a  co-partnership  for  the  manufacture  of 
pottery,  in  the  summer  of  i860,  the  business  be- 
ing successfully  conducted  under  the  name  of 
Cannon,  Eardley  and  Brothers.  In  the  fall  of 
1 86 1,  he  was  called  to  accompany  a  colony  to  form 
a  settlement  south  of  the  rim  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Basin,  in  Washington  county.  This  colony  con- 
sisted of  three  hundred  families,  and  the  family 
of  President  Cannon  accompanied  him.  The 
threatened  aspect  of  the  Civil  war  and  a  blockade 
having  been  established  by  the  Federal  govern- 
ment in  the  southern  ports,  the  scarcity  of  cotton 
and  the  demand  for  it  bv  the  manufacturers  of 


Europe  and  the  eastern  United  States  caused 
President  Young  to  realize  the  importance  of 
turning  the  attention  of  the  people  of  Utah  to  this 
industry,  and  it  was  for  this  purpose  that  these 
settlements  were  made.  Our  subject  was  one  of 
a  committee  of  three  who  located  the  City  of  St. 
George,  and  this  colony  was  very  successful  in 
growing  cotton,  which  was  sent  to  the  Missouri 
river  with  teams  .going  back  for  the  purpose  of 
bringing  emigrants  to  L^tah.  It  was  shipped  to 
New  York  and  there  commanded  a  price  of  nine- 
ty cents  a  pound. 

The  territorial  legislature  having  issued  a 
Charter  to  Saint  George,  an  election  was  held  for 
Mayor,  President  Cannon  being  elected,  and  hold- 
ing that  office  for  two  terms.  He  was  also  dur- 
ing his  residence  in  that  City  elected  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  Prosecuting  Attorney  and  finally  District 
Attorney  of  the  Second  Judicial  District.  He  was 
elected  Major  and  afterwards  Lieutenant-Colonel 
of  the  second  regiment  of  the  First  Brigade  of 
the  Nauvoo  Legion  of  the  Iron  County  Militia, 
during  the  trouble  in  which  Doctor  James  M. 
Whitmore  and  Robert  Mclntyre  were  killed  by 
the  Indians,  in  the  spring  of  1865.  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Cannon  associated  with  Colonel  McAr- 
tluir.  went  out  with  a  company  of  ninety  men 
and  after  a  long  search  in  the  mountains  found  the 
bodies  of  the  murdered  men  buried  under  the 
snow.  They  pursued  the  Indians  and  punished 
them  for  their  misdeeds,  urging  the  people  to 
build  forts  for  their  protection,  returning  to  Saint 
George  after  having  been  out  one  month.  In 
1864  he  had  accompanied  Anson  Call  to  establish 
what  was  later  known  as  Callville,  on  the  Colora- 
do river,  twenty-five  miles  west  of  the  mouth  of 
the  Virgin  river.  This  is  the  highest  point  on  the 
Colorado  river  which  a  steamboat  has  attained  to. 
The  boat  came  with  a  load  of  freight.  During 
the  summer  our  subject  was  attacked  with  typhoid 
fever  and  was  the  only  one  out  of  the  four  cases 
who  recovered. 

In  1867,  his  health  having  again  failed  he  was 
advised  to  come  north  to  recuperate.  He  secured 
employment  from  William  S.  Godby,  being  given 
charge  of  a  mule  train  destined  for  Virginia  City, 
Montana,  and  laden  with  cigars,  tobacco,  cased 
liquors,  butter,   eggs,    lard,  etc.,    and  was  given 


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charge  of  the  train  and  produce  to  dispose  of  ac- 
cording to  his  best  judgment  and  just  as  if  he 
owned  it,  and  to  return  and  make  his  report.  He 
made  his  trip  to  Montana  and  only  remained  there 
a  short  time  and  returned  with  his  teams  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  the  grasshopper  plague  being  so  pre- 
valent in  that  country  that  he  could  not  remain 
there  with  the  hope  of  realizing  what  Mr.  Godby 
had  anticipated  in  the  venture.  That  fall  he  com- 
menced his  journey  home  to  Saint  George  when  a 
messenger  from  President  Young  overtook  him, 
when  he  was  informed  that  his  brother  George  Q. 
Cannon  was  appointed  editor  of  the  DeseretNews 
Angus  M.  Cannon  was  appointed  Business  Man- 
ager and  the  Deseret  Evening  Neii's  was  begun  in 
November.  Mr.  Cannon  continued  as  Business 
Manager  of  the  paper  for  six  years,  during  which 
time  they  manufactured  the  greater  portion  of 
the  paper  and  type  used  in  its  publication.  His 
health  once  more  failed  as  a  result  of  his  labor- 
ious duties  and  he  was  compelled  to  resign  his 
position  and  for  a  short  time  traveled  throughout 
the  Territory  receiving  much  benefit  from  this 
mode  of  living.  In  1874  he  engaged  in  the  wagon 
and  machine  business.  In  1876  he  received  the 
appointment  of  president  of  the  Salt  Lake  Stake 
of  Zion  which  at  that  time  included  the  churches 
situated  in  Salt  Lake,  Tooele,  Davis,  Morgan, 
Summit  and  Wasatch  counties.  He  was  ordained 
to  this  office  in  April  of  that  year,  under  the  hands 
of  Presidents  Brigham  Young  and  Daniel  H. 
Wells.  In  the  spring  of  1877  the  counties  out- 
side of  Salt  Lake  were  organized  into  separate 
Stakes,  reducing  President  Cannon's  territory  to 
Salt  Lake  county.  In  July,  1876,  he  was  elected 
County  Recorder  for  Salt  Lake  county,  and  held 
that  office  for  eight  consecutive  years. 

Up  to  1862,  there  had  been  no  laws  existing  in 
the  Statute  books  against  the  practice  of  polyg- 
amy, but  at  this  time  such  a  law  was  passed. 
However,  this  law  remained  a  dead  letter  for  some 
years  afterwards,  until  the  matter  being  agitated 
Congress  passed  the  Edmunds  law,  which  took  ef- 
fect in  March,  1882.  This  law  made  it  a  crime 
for  a  man  to  co-habit  with  more  than  one  wife, 
and  affixed  a  penalty  of  three  hundred  dollars  fine 
and  six  months  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary. 
Desiring  to  comply  with  the  law  and  still  perform 


his  duties  towards  his  families  in  providing  for 
their  support.  President  Cannon  established  him- 
self in  one  room  of  his  house  and  only  met  with 
his  families  at  meal  time.  At  this  time  he  had 
three  wives,  having  married  in  1874  Mrs.  Clara  C. 
Mason,  a  widow  with  two  children.  She  came 
from  San  Francisco.  By  this  wife  he  had  three 
children.  During  this  trouble  he  learned  that  a 
warrant  was  out  for  his  arrest  and  in  the  fall  of 
1884  he  surrendered  himself  to  the  United  States 
authorities  for  the  purpose  of  testing  the  consti- 
tutionality of  the  law  ;  also  with  a  view  of  protect- 
ing the  heads  of  the  Church,  as,  if  President  Can- 
non had  been  found  guilty.  President  Taylor, 
who  was  then  in  exile  would  have  suffered  a  like 
fate,  as  would  also  the  Apostles.  He  was  tried, 
convicted  and  sentenced  on  the  9th  day  of  May, 
1885.  to  six  months  imprisonment  and  a  fine  of 
three  hundred  dollars.  He  was  asked  to  promise 
to  obey  the  law  with  the  inducement  that  if  he 
would  do  so  he  need  not  go  to  prison  nor  pay  any 
fine.  This  he  resolutely  refused  to  do  and  was 
sent  to  prison  after  beins"  again  urged  by  United 
States  Marshal  Ireland.  In  his  reply  to  Mr.  Ire- 
land he  said :  'T  know  your  power  to  punish  and 
even  torture  me  in  my  confinement  in  prison,  but 
if  I  knew  that  you  were  to  put  me  on  the  wheel 
and  pull  me  limb  from  limb  and  fibre  from  fibre, 
I  would  not  do  what  you  ask."  At  the  time  he 
was  sentenced  the  streets  were  filled  with  his 
friends  and  people  and  the  Marshall  fearing  an 
uprising,  at  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Cannon  Cap- 
tain Phillips  of  the  city  police  was  deputized  to 
escort  him  to  the  penitentiary  by  a  round-about 
route.  He  remained  in  prison  until  he  was  re-ar- 
rested and  tried  upon  the  same  charge  and  again 
sentenced  to  imprisonment.  He,  with  the  other 
members  of  his  Church  who  were  imprisoned  for 
this  offense,  viewed  it,  not  as  a  transgression  of 
the  law  of  the  land,  but  as  a  persecution  by  Con- 
gress. They  held  that  Congress,  in  making  such 
a  law  had  exceeded  its  jurisdiction  and  had  failed 
to  take  into  account  the  necessity  for  providing 
for  the  children  born  in  such  marriages.  Feel- 
ing that  it  would  be  unchristian  and  unfatherly  to 
forsake  his  family  and  let  them  struggle  for  ex- 
istence, he  underwent  his  punishment  for  the  sake 
of  his  conscience.     With  these  principles  to  guide 


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him  and  with  the  thought  of  his  family  to  sustain 
him,  and  in  the  knowledge  that  he  was  acting  as 
his  conscience  dictated,  he  served  his  terms  in  the 
penitentiary  and  refusing  to  pay  his  fine  of  three 
hundred  dollars  continued  in  prison. 

He  obtained  an  appeal  to  the  supreme  court 
after  a  writ  of  error  had  been  certified  to  by  Jus- 
tice Miller  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  After  Mr.  Cannon,  had  endured  an  eight 
months  term  ne  paid  his  fine  and  was  discharged. 
Being  told  that  other  warrants  were  issued,  he 
took  what  was  known  as  the  "Underground"  for 
a  term  of  eleven  months,  when  he  was  again  ar- 
rested and  placed  under  a  bond  of  ten  thousand 
dollars  to  appear  and  answer  the  charge  of  having 
contracted  an  additional  polygamous  marriage. 
He  underwent  an  examination  in  which  the 
government  did  not  spend  less  than  a  thousand 
dollars,  when  he  was  again  discharged.  He  was 
arrested  several  times  afterwards  and  underwent 
examinations,  the  last  being  in  the  spring  of  1890. 

In  1888  President  Cannon  engaged  in  the  stock 
buying  and  raising  business,  and  in  the  fall 
of  that  year  closed  out  his  stock  of  horses 
for  ten  thousand  dollars.  He  engaged  in 
mining  in  Tooele  county  in  1890,  securing 
a  good  many  low  grade  ore  properties,  and 
after  spending  a  great  deal  of  money  in  im- 
proving and  patenting  these  properties,  and  hav- 
ing patented  them  he  discontinued  work  on  ac- 
count of  the  railroad  transportation  and  went  into 
the  Mercur  Mining  district,  where  he  also  located 
a  number  of  claims  from  which  he  realized  some 
money.  During  the  past  five  years  President 
Cannon  has  sold  a  large  portion  of  his  real  and 
personal  property,  including  much  of  this  Mercur 
mining  property;  in  order  to  meet  his  obligations. 

President  Cannon  has  at  this  time  nineteen 
living  children  ;  eleven  sons  and  eight  daughters, 
with  thirty-five  grandchildren.  He  has  buried 
three  daughters  and  five  sons.  Maria  Bennion, 
the  fifth  wife,  was  the  mother  of  two  sons  and 
two  daughters,  one  beautiful  little  daughter  of 
nine  years,  Eleanor,  dying  December  29,  1901. 
His  fourth  wife.  Doctor  Martha  Hughes  Cannon, 
is  the  mother  of  two  daughters  and  one  son.  She 
served  two  terms  as  state  senator. 

President  Cannon  is  a  lover  of  fine  horses  and 


has  ov^'ned  a  number  of  fine  saddle  animals. 

President  Cannon  all  through  life  has  been  a 
most  conscientious  man,  whether  in  laboring  in 
the  interests  of  his  Church  or  in  private  or  public 
life,  whenever  and  under  whatever  circumstances 
he  has  been  placed.  He  has  thrown  his  whole 
life,  energy  and  strength  into  his  work.  But  few 
men  have  been  stronger  advocates  of  the  doc- 
trines and  principles  of  the  Church  than  he  has 
been. 


DHX  JAMES.  Among  the  important 
positions  connected  with  the  administra- 
tion of  the  affairs  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
county,  is  that  of  County  Clerk  and 
Clerk  of  the  Third  Judicial  District  of 
Utah,  the  duties  of  which  are  at  present  discharg- 
ed by  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

John  James  was  born  in  Pembroke,  South 
Wales,  March  i,  1864.  and  spent  his  boyhood 
days  in  that  land.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  later  graduated  from  college  in 
1 88 1.  He  came  to  the  United  States  in  1885  and 
stopped  a  few  weeks  in  New  York  City,  arriving 
in  Salt  Lake  City  in  July  of  the  same  year,  where 
for  seven  years  he  was  a  court  reporter.  He  later 
took  a  law  course  in  the  Sprague  law  school  of 
Michigan,  and  graduated  from  that  institution 
in  1896.  In  1894  he  was  made  clerk  of  the  Po- 
lice Court  and  Public  Prosecutor,  which  positions 
he  held  for  two  and  one-half  years.  In  the  elect- 
ion in  November,  1900,  Jie  was  elected  County 
Clerk  of  Salt  Lake  county  and  ex-officio  Clerk  of 
the  District  Court  of  the  Third  Judicial  District 
of  Utah,  which  included  the  Civil  Court,  the  Pro- 
bate Court,  Criminal  Court,  and  the  Court  of 
Equity  branches.  He  is  also  clerk  of  the  board 
of  county  commissioners  and  also  of  the  county 
Board  of  Health. 

Mr.  James  comes  from  one  of  the  old  families 
of  Wales,  his  father,  George  James,  having  been 
one  of  the  six  hundred  in  the  Light  Brigade 
who  made  the  famous  charge  in  the  battle  of  Bak- 
alava  and  was  one  of  the  twenty-five  who  came 
out  of  the  fiery  furnace  alive.  A  brother  of  our 
subject,  William  James,  lost  his  life  in  February, 
1881,  at  Alexandria,  Egypt,  after  the  bombard- 


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nient.  by  falling  betwen  her  Majesties  vessels  the 
Hyacinthc  and  Coniptis.  George  James  came  to 
America  and  settled  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
where  he  lived  for  eleven  years,  castins?  his  first 
vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  was  educated  in 
England  and  in  addition  to  being  an  expert  pen- 
man, was  a  splendid  thinker  and  almost  invincible 
in  debate.  He  was  the  possessor  of  a  splendid 
physique,  tall  and  of  commanding  appearance,  be- 
ing si.K  feet,  four  inches  tall.  After  living  in 
Brooklyn  for  eleven  years  he  returned  to  Wales 
and  there  died.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife, 
and  the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  also  James, 
but  she  died  when  her  son  was  but  four  years  old. 

Our  subject  was  married  to  Aliss  Jennie  Wil- 
liams, and  she  died  in  October,  1891,  and  he  mar- 
ried his  present  wife.  Miss  Anna  Merrill  in  1899. 
She  is  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  but  came 
to  Utah  from  Paris,  France.  By  his  first  mar- 
riage Mr.  James  has  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters:  Lillian,  John  W.,  Genevieve,  Harold  and 
Frank  K.  By  his  second  marriage  he  has  tw-o 
sons:     George  Merrill  and  Glyndwri  Tudor. 

In  political  life  Mr.  James  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican  and  has  always  unfalteringly 
followed  the  fortunes  of  that  party.  He  has 
been  in  poitical  life  almost  all  of  the  time  he  has 
been  in  the  United  States.  Fraternally  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men. W'oodmen  of  the  W'orld,  and  the  Fraternal 
Union  of  America.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  and 
is  at  present  an  Elder  of  the  Twenty-first  W'ard. 
In  the  present  position  to  which  he  was  elected 
in  November,  1900,  the  responsibilities  attached  to 
the  position  were  so  well  recognized  by  the  legis- 
lature that  it  is  one  of  the  qualifications  of  the  of- 
fice that  the  Clerk  is  forced  to  furnish  a  bond  of 
twenty  thousand  dollars  before  he  can  assume  the 
duties.  In  the  work  incident  to  this  office  he  em- 
ploys fifteen  clerks,  including  his  deputies  and  as- 
sistants. 

The  successful  administration  which  Mr.  James 
has  made  in  his  present  position,  has  made  him 
a  host  of  friends,  and  his  genial  and  pleasant  man- 
ner, coupled  with  his  ability,  has  made  him  one  of 
the  most  popular  oflficers  in  Utah,  and  he  is  well 
and  favorablv  known  throughout  the  state. 


I-.ORGE  COLEMAN.  England  has 
furnished  a  large  quota  of  men  and 
women  who  have  taken  a  prominent 
and  substantial  part  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  vast  resources  of  Utah,  and 
among  her  sons,  who  by  bravery,  perseverance 
and  determination  have  assisted  largely  in  the 
development  of  the  agricultural  and  live  stock 
business  in  Utah,  and  especially  in  Salt  Lake 
county,  should  be  mentioned  George  Coleman, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Coleman  w'as  born  in  Hartfordshire,  Eng- 
land, twenty  miles  from  London.  He  is  the  son 
of  George  and  Elizabeth  (Bailey)  Coleman,  who 
were  also  natives  of  England,  and  in  1864  emi- 
grated to  America  and  settled  in  this  state.  The 
family  lived  in  Big  Cottonwood  Ward  for  many 
years.  George  Coleman  had  become  identified 
with  the  Mormon  Church  in  England  and  continu- 
ed to  be  a  faithful  member  and  liberal  supporter 
of  that  Church  during  all  the  period  of  his  life. 
For  many  years  he  was  the  leader  of  its  choir  in 
Big  Cottonwood  Ward.  He  died  June  15,  1888, 
loved,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who  had 
known  him  through  his  life.  Henry,  the  brother 
of  our  subject,  came  to  America  and  settled  in 
Utah  in  1853.  Two  other  brothers  came  in  1862, 
and  our  subject  in  1868.  Henry  died  December 
25.  1867,  and  William  in  1898.  Louis  and  Sam- 
uel are  still  living,  residing  in  Heber  City,  Utah. 
All  of  the  members  of  this  family  were  identified 
with  the  Mormon  Church  and  assisted  largely  in 
building  up  not  only  the  agricultural  and  live 
stock  interests  of  Utah,  but  they  assisted  largely 
in  bringing  the  Church  to  its  present  wonderful 
state  of  prosperity.  Our  subject  spent  his  early 
life  in  England,  being  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  that  country.  L'pon  coming  to  Utah  he 
at  once  entered  into  the  farming  and  stock  raising 
business  in  Salt  Lake  county  and  he  has  built  a 
beautiful  home  on  the  Upper  Cottonwood  road, 
close  to  the  Holliday  postoffice,  where  he  has 
twenty-four  acres  of  land,  well  improved,  with  a 
substantial  brick  house  with  all  modern  improve- 
ments, good  barns,  etc.  This  is  considered  one  of 
the  finest  farms  in  this  county  of  its  size,  the 
drive  from  his  place  being  one  of  the  best  from 
Cottonwood  ^^'ard  to  Salt  Lake  Citv. 


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Mr.  Coleman  married  October  25,  1888,  to  Miss 
Amy  World  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Ann  (Waters) 
World.  This  family  came  to  Utah  in  1862,  and 
the  father,  Caleb  World,  with  his  family  spent 
eight  years  on  a  mission  in  the  Sandwich  islands. 
He  died  December  24,  1888,  aged  sixty-seven, 
and  his  wife  died  April  19,  1902,  aged  eighty- 
four  years.  Mrs.  Coleman  accompanied  her 
father  on  his  missions,  which .  has  given  her  a 
broader  and  wider  field  of  forethought,  having 
come  in  contact  with  more  people  of  the  outside 
world  than  it  is  the  lot  of  most  people  to  do.  She 
is  a  well  educated  lady  and  takes  an  active  part 
in  all  of  the  Church  work,  and  especially  among 
the  relief  societies.  They  have  two  children, 
Georgina,  twelve  years  of  age  and  Phyllis  N. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coleman  were  both  raised  in  the 
Mormon  Church  and  have  been  faithful  members 
of  it.  The  Coleman  family  are  a  family  of 
worthy  and  enterprising  citizens  and  have  always 
taken  a  substantial  part  in  the  upbuilding  of  the 
Ward  in  which  they  have  resided.  They  enjoy 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  they  have 
been  associated  through  life  and  those  who  have 
had  the  pleasure  of  their  warm  hospitality.  Mrs. 
Coleman's  family  all  live  in  Salt  Lake  Citv. 


\PTAIX  F.  M.  BISHOP.  AlUed 
with  the  development  of  the  mining 
resources  of  Utah,  and  so  closely  con- 
nected with  it  as  to  form  a  part  of  that 
important  industry,  is  the  business  of 
assaying.  Among  the  prominent  men  engaged 
in  this  business  in  Salt  Lake  City  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  and  one  who  has  been  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  Utah.  He 
has  seen  the  city  grow  from  an  inland  town,  and 
with  the  entrance  of  railroads,  to  a  city  of  metro- 
politan size,  and  to  be  the  distribution  center  for 
an  area  covered  by  four  of  the  largest  States  of 
the  L'nion. 

Captain  F.  M.  Bishop  was  born  in  Essex  coun- 
ty. New  York,  August  the  2d,  1842,  and  at  seven 
years  of  age  removed  with  his  parents  to  Mar- 
quette, Michigan,  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Superior, 
his  family  being  among  the  first  to  settle  in  that 
region.     He  received  his  education  in  the  schools 


of  Marquette,  and  in  1861  at  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Civil  war,  enlisted  in  the  First  Regiment, 
Michigan  Volunteers.  In  May,  1862,  his  regi- 
ment was  stationed  at  Old  Point  Comfort,  Vir- 
ginia, and  he  was  a  witness  of  the  destruction  of 
the  Merrimac  by  the  Confederates.  While  there 
his  regiment  was  ordered  to  the  Gasport  navy 
yards,  and  remained  there  until  it  was  brigaded 
with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  he  served 
with  it  in  front  of  Richmond,  being  in  the  battle 
of  Mechanicsville,  which  formed  a  part  of  the 
famous  Seven  Days  battle.  After  the  engage- 
ment at  Harrison's  Landing,  he  was  promoted  to 
be  Sergeant-Major  of  his  regiment.  He  partici- 
pated in  all  the  battles  in  which  his  regiment  was 
engaged,  and  at  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run 
they  lost  over  seventy  per  cent  of  the  regiment. 
After  this  battle  he  was  promoted  for  gallantrv 
to  be  a  Second  Lieutenant.  They  were  then  order- 
ed back  to  Washington,  and  from  thence  to 
Frederick,  Maryland,  forming  a  part  of  the 
LTnion  forces  in  the  battles  of  South  Mountain 
and  Antietam.  After  Antietem  he  was  promoted 
to  be  a  First  Lieutenant  and  was  then  ordered 
with  his  regiment  along  the  Blue  Kidge  to  Fred- 
ericksburg, during  which  march  it  had  several 
skirmishes  with  the  Confederate  forces.  Here 
they  remained  a  short  time  and  on  December  the 
I2th,  1862,  participated  in  the  battle  of  Freder- 
icksburg. He  had  command  of  the  company  dur- 
ing this  engagement,  owing  to  the  absence  of  his 
captain.  He  was  wounded  in  this  battle  and  was 
in  the  hospital  incapatiated  for  service  until  May, 
1863,  when  he  again  joined  his  regiment  on  the 
Rappahannock,  and  while  there  assisted  in  break- 
ing up  General  Stuart's  raid.  He  was  then  call- 
ed to  Washington  and  transferred  to  the  Veter- 
an's Reserve  Corps,  and  from  Washington  was 
sent  to  St.  Louis,  and  thence  to  Rock  Island  Mil- 
itary prison.  While  he  was  serving  here  in  1864, 
he  was  made  Assistant  Inspector  General  on  the 
staiT  of  General  George  J.  Smith.  He  remained 
here  until  July,  1864,  when  he  was  again  ordered 
to  Washington  and  assisted  in  the  defense  of  that 
city  against  Mosby's  raid,  being  stationed  at  Fort 
Stevens.  He  was  again  detached  from  line  duty 
and  made  Acting  Assistant  Inspector  General  of 
the  Second  Brigade  of  Hardin's  Division,  Defen- 


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ses  of  Washington.  In  this  duty  he  continued 
until  September  of  that  year,  when  he  rejoined 
his  regiment,  which  had  returned  to  Rock  Island, 
and  there  assumed  command  of  Company  E., 
Fourth  Volunteer  Relief  Corps.  He  was  promo- 
ted in  February,  1865,  to  be  Captain  and  assigned 
to  Company  H  of  the  Second  United  States  \'ol- 
unteers  and  ordered  to  Fort  Leavenworth.  From 
there  he  was  ordered  to  Fort  Larned,  Kansas, 
on  the  Pawnee  Fork,  and  remained  at  the  latter 
place  until  June,  1865.  He  was  again  detached 
from  his  regiment  and  assigned  to  duty  as  Acting. 
Inspector  General  for  the  District  of  the  Upper 
Arkansas,  serving  on  the  staff  of  Brevet  Briga- 
dier General  James  G.  Ford.  He  was  ordered  to 
Fort  Leavenworth  on  November  the  7th,  1865, 
and  rounded  out  the  entire  four  years  of  the  war 
with  distinction  and  brilliancy. 

Upon  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  removed 
to  Bloomintgon,  Illinois,  and  entered  the  Illinois 
Wesleyan  university,  graduating  from  that  insti- 
tution in  June,  1870,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor 
of  Science.  During  the  summer  of  1867  he  was 
a  member  of  the  expedition  under  the  leadership 
of  i\Iajor  John  W.  Powell  engaged  in  the  explora- 
tion of  the  Colorado  canyon  in  the  interests  of  the 
United  States  Geological  survey.  He  accompan- 
ied Major  Powell  on  his  first  expedition  to  the 
Rocky  Mountains  as  taxidermist,  and  in  1870 
came  to  Salt  Lake  City  with  the  expedition,  and 
travelled  through  Arizona  collecting  material  for 
the  work.  In  the  following  year  he  was  one  of 
the  party  under  Major  Powell  who  started  down 
Green  river,  and  also  participated  in  the  e.xplora- 
tions  in  the  Colorado  river  basin.  He  spent  the 
winter  of  1871-72  engaged  in  making  maps  of 
that  region.  He  took  up  his  residence  in  Salt 
Lake  City  in  1872,  and  the  first  work  he  engaged 
in  was  teaching  at  Morgan  college.  In  this  he 
continued  until  1873,  when  he  was  appointed  to 
the  chair  of  Natural  Science  in  the  Deseret  uni- 
versity, and  occupied  that  position  for  some  time. 
It  was  while  here  that  he  decided  to  take  up  as- 
saying and  much  of  his  success  as  an  assayer  in 
later  years  he  owes  to  the  opportunities  which  his 
duties  at  the  university  afforded  him.  He  re- 
mained as  a  professor  in  the  university  until  the 
summer  of  1877,  when  he  resigned  his  position 


and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Stormont  Min- 
ing company  as  assayer  where  he  remained 
until  1879,  at  which  time  he  took  up  assaying  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  with  the  exception  of  ten 
years,  from  1885  to  1895,  when  he  was  engaged  in 
the  real  estate  business,  he  has  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  assaying  and  mining.  In  addition  to 
his  mining  and  assaying,  he  has  also  taken  an 
active  interest  in  the  welfare  of  Utah,  and  in 
bringing  its  standard  up  to  the  high  place  it  now 
occupies.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  advocate 
the  adoption  of  the  public  school  system  in  this 
state,  and  it  was  largely  througn  his  efforts  that 
this  important  adjunct  to  the  development  of  the 
state  was  established.  He  was  trustee  in  the 
Seventh  district  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  during 
his  administration  many  important  changes  and 
advances  were  made  in  the  methods  of  educating 
the  youth  of  Utah.  The  prominence  into  which 
he  has  come  as  an  assayer,  and  the  extent  of  his 
original  investigations,  had  made  him  well  known 
throughout  the  mining  region,  and  in  scientific 
circles  as  well,  and  in  1885  he  was  awarded  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  by  his  alma  mater,  the 
Illinois  Wesleyan  universitv. 

Captain  Bishop  was  married  in  1873  to  Miss 
Zina  Pratt,  daughter  of  Orson  Pratt,  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  and  by  this  marriage  they  have  four 
children  now  living.  They  are :  Mrs.  Alice  B. 
Graham  wife  of  Fred  C.  Graham ;  Bertha,  wife  of 
Victor  Christopherson ;  Florence,  wife  of  Orson 
T.  Truelson,  an  assayer  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
Marion  Alden,  at  present  a  student  at  the  I'niver- 
sity  of  L'tah. 

In  polictical  life  Captain  Bishop  has  always 
been  a  staunch  Republican,  and  cast  his  first  vote 
for  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  has  participated  ac- 
tively in  the  work  of  the  party  in  Utah,  although 
he  has  never  sought  public  office.  In  fraternal 
life  he  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Masonic 
order,  being  a  Past  Master  of  Argenta  lodge 
and  High  Priest  of  the  Utah  Chapter.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  Utah  Commandary  of  Knights 
Templar.  He  was  the  first  potentate  of  El  Ka- 
lah  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  members  of  that  order  when  it  was  or- 
ganized here.     He  is  also  a  prominent  member 


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of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  RepubHc  and  is  Past 
Commander  of  Mclvean  Post,  Number  One. 

The  brilliant  career  which  Captain  Bishop 
made  during  the  Civil  war  stamped  him,  even  in 
his  early  life,  a  man  of  magnificent  courage, 
great  resources,  and  splendid  endurance.  The 
ordeal  through  which  he  passed  in  this  war, 
widened  his  experience  and  cemented  his  ability 
to  cope  with  and  successfully  surmount  all  the 
difficulties  that  he  encountered  in  his  life  work. 
The  success  that  he  has  attained  in  his  chosen 
field  in  Salt  Lake  City  has  brought  him  to  the 
front  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  assayers  and 
his  genial,  unassuming  and  sincere  manner  has 
made  for  him  a  host  of  friends  throughout  the 
West ;  and  in  his  own  circles  there  is  no  more 
popular  man. 


'.TER  GORDON.  Among  the  native 
Mins  of  Utah  but  few  are  deserving  of 
,:.;reater  credit  for  what  they  have  ac- 
complished in  the  building  up  of  this 
new  country,  along  the  lines  of  stock 
raising  and  farming,  than  is  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

Peter  Gordon  was  born  July  24,  1861,  in  Mill 
Creek  Ward,  Salt  Lake  county,  Utah,  and  was 
the  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Balintine)  Gordon. 
Both  of  his  parents  were  natives  of  Scotland, 
his  father  coming  from  the  western  and  his  moth- 
er from  the  eastern  portion  of  that  country. 
They  emigrated  to  America  and  settled  in  Nau- 
voo,  Illinois,  in  the  early  forties,  that  place  then 
being  the  headquarters  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
Here  they  were  married  by  Hyrum  Smith,  brother 
of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  and  received  from 
him  the  partriarchial  blessing.  The  Gordons  and 
the  Smiths'became  close  friends,  and  when  Joseph 
Smith  was  arrested  and  being  taken  to  prison, 
Mr.  Gordon  gave  him  substantial  evidence  of 
his  sympathy  and  friendship.  It  was  while  the 
family  were  at  breakfast  that  Mr.  Gordon  ob- 
served the  prophet  being  taken  past  his  house  to 
the  jail,  and  after  a  short  consultation  with  his 
wife,  went  out  and  gave  him  ten  dollars,  which 
he  had  received  the  day  before  from  the  sale  of  a 
cow.  This  money,  though  but  a  small  sum,  re- 
presented much  to  Mr.  Gordon,  who  was  a  poor 


man,  and  Mr.  Smith  was  deeply  affected  by  this 
proof  of  his  friendship.  Placing  his  hand  on 
Mr.  Gordon's  shoulder  he  thanked  him  warmly 
and  assured  him  that  he  would  never  want  for 
means ;  which  prophecy  was  amply  fulfilled  after 
the  family  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  Mr.  Gordon 
accumulating  a  comfortable  competence  and  be- 
ing the  owner  of  several  farms.  Upon  coming 
to  Utah  in  1848,  Mr.  Gordon  settled  first  on  the 
Little  Cottonwood,  just  south  of  Murray,  on  the 
farm  now  owned  and  occupied  by  James  P. 
Freeze,  where  he  remained  but  a  short  time,  re- 
moving from  there  to  State  street,  between  Fif- 
teenth and  Sixteenth  South  streets,  where  he 
purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land 
which  he  cultivated  and  improved  to  a  high  de- 
gree, building  several  houses  on  it.  the  last  one 
being  a  beautiful  brick  residence.  Although  he 
became  the  owner  of  a  number  of  other  farms  he 
continued  to  reside  at  this  location  and  died  there 
in  October,  1892.  His  wife  died  in  1878,  her  death 
occuring  on  the  27th  day  of  November,  of  that 
year.  Our  subject  was  the  youngest  of  a  family 
of  nine  children,  of  whom  eight  are  still  living. 
He  grew  up  under  the  same  conditions  as  the 
other  sons  of  pioneers,  assisting  his  father  in  the 
cultivation  of  the  farm  and  doing  his  share  to- 
wards supporting  the  family,  attending  school  in 
the  winter  and  working  on  the  farm  in  the  sum- 
mer. Although  his  father  gave  him  all  the  fa- 
cilities of  obtaining  an  education  that  were  then 
within  his  power,  the  schools  of  those  days  were 
necessarily  poorly  equipped,  and  our  subject  had 
to  depend  upon  his  own  powers  of  observation 
and  study  of  nature  and  men  for  a  great  part 
of  his  education.  He  remained  at  home  until  the 
time  of  his  father's  death. 

Peter  Gordon  was  married  October  6,  1887,  to 
Miss  Priscilla  Philips,  daughter  of  Alfred  and 
Fredrica  Augusta  Philips.  The  Philips  fam- 
ily came  to  Utah  in  1855,  'Sir.  and  Mrs.  Philips 
being  married  on  the  plains,  while  en  route  to  this 
state.  Mr.  Gordon  has  had  seven  children  by 
this  marriage,  two  of  whom  died.  They  are, 
James  A.,  who  died  when  twenty  months  old; 
Rosetta,  who  died  at  one  year  of  age ;  Rachel ; 
Alfred  L. ;  Peter  Y. :  Bertha  M. ;  and  Erma  May. 

Mr.  Gordon  owns  thirty  acres  of  the  old  home- 


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stead  at  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth  South  State 
street,  which  he  has  cultivated  and  improved  and 
in  1897  buih  a  beautiful  and  substantial  brick 
dwelling  thereon.  In  addition  to  farming,  which 
Mr.  Gordon  has  followed  principally  throughout 
his  life,  he  was  also  for  a  short  time  engaged  in 
the  sheep  business  with  his  brother  William.  He 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lives  and  has  always  been 
ready  and  willing  to  aid  in  any  way  the  advance- 
ment of  the  interests  of  the  county  and  city.  He 
is  deeply  interested  in  educational  matters,  be- 
lieving in  giving  the  young  people  every  assist- 
ance in  gaining  a  knowledge  of  the  higher  branch- 
es of  education,  and  has  been  for  two  terms  one 
of  the  school  trustees  of  his  district,  his  second 
term  not  yet  having  expired.  To  his  efiforts  is 
large!}-  due  the  erecting  of  the  beautiful  school 
house  of  his  district. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  but  while  activ- 
ely interested  in  its  work,  he  has  never  had  the 
time  to  give  to  participating  to  the  extent  of  be- 
ing a  candidate  for  public  office,  preferring  to 
devote  his  time  to  the  furthering  of  the  interests 
of  his  own  community,  in  which  he  is  held  in  high 
esteem. 


.\XIEL  MOSS.  Among  the  self  made 
men  of  Utah  who  by  energy,  persever- 
ance and  determination  have  acquired 
a  competency  in  this  world's  goods  and 
at  the  same  time  retained  the  confi- 
dence and  respect  of  their  fellow  men  in  the  com- 
munities where  they  have  resided,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  deserves  special  mention. 

Daniel  Moss  was  born  on  January  21,  1847,  in 
Council  Bluiifs,  Pottawatomie  county,  Iowa,  and  is 
the  son  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Wood)  Moss. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  England,  and  born  at 
Newton,  March  6,  1823,  and  his  mother  was  a 
native  of  Upper  Canada.  The  family  came  to 
Illinois  and  settled  at  Nauvoo,  where  they  con- 
tinued to  reside  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormon 
people,  which  occured  in  1846.  On  their  journey 
westward  this  family  stopped  for  a  short  time  in 
Council  Bluffs  and  in  1848  continued  the  jour- 
ney to  Utah.     Soon  after  arriving  in   Salt  Lake 


City  they  settled  south  of  Woods  Cross  depot  in 
the  spring  of  1849.  Here  the  father  secured  land 
and  built  a  home.  He  was  also  identified  with 
the  stock  business,  both  sheep  and  cattle  for  many 
years  in  this  vicinity.  He  was  one  of  the  leading 
men  of  Davis  county  in  his  day,  and  assisted 
largely  in  the  pioneer  work  of  the  early  develop- 
ment of  this  county.  He  laid  the  foundation  for 
the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company,  which  has  since 
developed  into  one  of  the  largest  live'  stock  com- 
panies in  Utah.  He  died  in  1884  at  the  age  of 
sixty-one  years,  his  wife  having  died  about  four 
years  previous. 

Our  subject  remained  at  home  with  his  father 
until  he  married  on  February  20,  1870,  Miss  Mel- 
vina  Rushton,  daughter  of  Frederick  and  Eliza 
Rushton.  Ten  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage,  eight  of  whom  are  now  living,  Eliza 
R.,  now  Mrs.  Joseph  E.  Bair  of  Alpine,  Utah; 
John  H.,  ranching  in  Idaho;  Marv  M.,  now  Mrs. 
John  Jackson  of  West  Bountiful ;  Clara  A.,  who 
died  in  infancy ;  Louisa,  who  also  died  in  infancy ; 
Daniel  R.,  now  a  student  in  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  in  Provo ;  Ida  L.,  and  Elmer  H.  at 
home ;  Lela ;  Aften,  and  Glen  W. 

When  J\Ir.  Moss  married  he  settled  on  his  pres- 
ent place  which  is  located  one-half  mile  south  of 
the  postofifice  and  in  close  proximity  to  a  splendid 
school  and  meeting  house.  By  hard  work,  energy 
and  perserverance  he  has  built  a  splendid  home, 
adorned  with  fruit,  shade  and  forest  trees  ^and 
flowers,  etc.  Besides  his  home  place  he  owns  an- 
other fami  of  twenty-five  acres  in  the  same  vic- 
inity, and  is  also  interested  in  a  large  ranch  of 
three  hundred  acres  of  good  land  in  Idaho,  in 
connection  with  his  sons.  While  Mr.  Moss  has 
given  a  great  deal  of  time  to  the  beautifying  and 
improving  of  his  home,  this  has  not  been  his  chief 
occupation,  for  he  has  been  through  life  largely 
identified  with  the  stock  business,  both  cattle  and 
sheep,  and  is  one  of  the  large  stockholders  in  the 
Deseret  Live  Stock  Company.  He  is  also  interes- 
ed  in  the  dairy  business  and  other  enterprises  in 
tnis  inter-mountain  country. 

In  political  arfairs  Mr.  Moss  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  Republican  party  and  has  serv- 
ed as  school  trustee  in  his  Ward  for  years.  He 
and   his    family    have    been    among   the    staunch 


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members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints.  At  present  he  is  one  of  the 
presidents  of  the  Seventy-fourth  Quorum  of  the 
Seventies.  On  November  4,  1890,  he  was  call- 
ed and  set  apart  to  serve  on  a  mission  for  the 
Church  to  the  Southern  states,  where  he  labored 
successfully  and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the 
heads  of  the  Church,  laboring  in  the  states  of 
Alabama  and  Mississippi  for  a  period  of  two 
years.  For  the  past  thirty  years  he  has  been  a 
teacher  in  his  Ward.  During  the  Black  Hawk  war 
he  participated  in  that  as  well  as  in  many  other 
Indian  troubles  which  occurred  in  Utah  in  early 
times.  Outside  of  the  missionary  work  already 
mentioned  he  assisted  largely  in  the  colonization 
of  Arizona,  having  spent  considerable  time  in 
that  field  in  the  interests  of  the  Church.  Per- 
haps no  other  man  in  Davis  county  has  had  a  more 
eventful  or  interesting  life  than  has  Mr.  Moss. 
He  has  passed  through  all  the  scenes  and  hard- 
ships of  the  early  days.  When  only  a  boy  he  as- 
sisted in  hauling  wood  from  the  canyons  and  in 
driving  ox  teams  from  place  to  place  in  this  inter- 
mountain  country,  doing  freighting.  He  also 
hauled  rock  from  Little  Cottonwood  canyon  for 
the  foundation  of  the  Salt  Lake  Temple..  Mr. 
Moss  is  essentially  a  self  made  man,  having  start- 
ed out  practically  on  his  own  hook.  He  has  by 
his  energy  and  close  attention  to  business  made 
a  successful  career  for  himself  and  is  now  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leading  men  of  Davis  county 
and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  en- 
tire communitv. 


ABBI  LOUIS  G.  REYNOLDS.  In 
0I  connection  with  the  life  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  it  is  worthy  of  note  that  many 
young  men  are  active  in  the  profes- 
sions, in  business  circles  and  in  pub- 
lic affairs.  Among  those  who  are  devot- 
ing their  lives  and  best  energies  to  the  up- 
lifting of  the  human  race,  morally  and  spir- 
itually, the  subject  of  this  sketch  deserves 
special  mention.  While  yet  only  a  young  man  he 
is  fast  gaining  a  high  place  in  the  ecclesiastical 
ranks  of  this  city.  His  thorough  and  extensive 
education,  together  with  his  wide  and  extended 


travels  in  this  and  foreign  lands,  has  well  fitted 
him  for  the  high  position  he  occupies  in  the  Heb- 
rew congregation  of  this  city. 

Louis  G.  Reynolds,  Rabbi  of  the  Congregation 
Bnai  Israel,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  is  a  native  of  Rus- 
sia-Poland, and  was  born  in  1870,  coming  from 
a  family  of  professional  men,  both  clergy  and 
medical.  He  received  his  education  at  the  city  of 
Kovno,  Russia,  and  also  studied  at  the  univer- 
sities of  Zurich,  Switzerland,  and  the  university 
of  France,  in  Paris.  He  came  to  the  L^^nited 
States  in  1890  and  became  Rabbi  of  the  Congre- 
gation Ohabsholon  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  re- 
maining there  four  years,  and  during  that  time 
enlarged  the  synagogue  and  introduced  many 
changes  in  the  ritual.  In  1896  he  went  to  Brad- 
ford, Pennsylvania,  as  Rabbi  of  the  Congregation 
of  Bith  Zion,  and  remained  there  for  four  years. 
This  congregation  was  largely  increased  under 
his  administration,  where  he  made  many  improve- 
ments in  the  Synagogue  and  had  a  laj-ge  attend- 
ance of  both  Jews  and  Gentiles.  In  1900  he  was 
called  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  under  his  supervis- 
ion the  Sunday  School  has  had  a  remarkable 
growth  and  the  congregation  been  materially  in- 
creased. His  Friday  evening  lectures  on  theolog- 
ical subjects  are  largely  attended. 

Dr.  Reynolds  is  a  highly  educated  man,  speak- 
ing twelve  languages,  eight  of  them  fluently.  His 
education  was  self-received,  and  from  a  boy  he 
has  been  obliged  to  make  his  own  way  in  the 
world.  Besides  his  native  tongue  he  speaks  the 
classic  Hebrew,  Polish,  all  the  Slavonic  lang- 
uages. Latin,  Greek,  German,  French  and  Eng- 
lish. He  has  made  a  thorough  study  of  the  San- 
scrit and  is  now  preparing  for  the  press  a  history 
of  the  land  holdings  of  the  nations  of  the  Orient. 
He  has  also  done  considerable  journalistic  work 
and  while  in  Paris  was  associated  with  the 
"Rochcforf,"  besides  contributing  articles  to 
many  other  journals.  He  is  becoming  thorough- 
ly Americanized,  having  already  sworn  allegiance 
to  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  and  is  much  interested 
in  American  customs,  institutions  of  learning,  etc. 
He  has  traveled  extensively  throughout  the 
L'nited  States  and  is  abreast  with  all  the  leading 
topics  of  the  day.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Bnai 
Brith,  the  Hebrew  organization  of  this  citv. 


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On  January  21,  1902,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Belle  Zemansky,  a  native  of  Sacramento,  Cali- 
fornia. Her  parents  came  from  Poland,  in 
which  countrv  thev  were  born. 


HOMAS  S.  NEWMAN,  was  born  in 
England  -May  8th,  1852.  He  is  a  son  of 
Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Hughes)  New- 
man, who  were  bom  in  Staffordshire, 
England.  The  family,  consisting  of  fath- 
er and  mother  and  six  children,  of  whom  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  the  youngest  came  to 
America  in  1853,  joining  Claudus  Spencer's  train 
at  Omaha.  They  arrived  in  Utah  in  the  fall  of 
that  year  and  remained  in  Salt  Lake  City  only  a 
short  time.  The  following  December  they  set- 
tled in  the  Big  Cottonwood  Canyon,  where  they 
resided  for  two  years,  the  father  of  our  subject 
carrying  on  a  blacksmith  business.  They  next 
moved  on  a  farm  and  commenced  building  a 
home,  the  father  having  purchased  a  large  tract 
of  land  at  the  mouth  of  the  canyon  from  Mr. 
Henry  Lee,  the  place  now  being  known  as  the 
Walker  Bros.  farm.  Here  they  successfully  car- 
ried on  farming  and  gardening,  and  also  convert- 
ed it  into  a  resort.  ]sla.ny  of  the  prominent  people 
of  Salt  Lake  City  at  that  time  spent  part  of  their 
summers  there;  among  them  the  Walkers  and 
others. 

Our  subject's  father  died  about  twenty-five 
years  ago,  and  his  mother  still  lives,  spending 
her  time  among  her  children,three  of  whom  re- 
side in  the  town  of  Holliday.  Our  subject  spent 
his  boyhood  days  in  the  vicinity  where  he  now 
resides.  His  education  was  received  in  such 
schools  as  existed  at  that  time,  attending  for  a 
few  weeks  in  the  winter,  and  working  on  the  farm 
during  the  summer  months,  and  while  his  educa- 
tion was  necessarily  limited,  yet  he  has  always 
been  a  faithful  student  and  is  considered  one  of 
the  able  men  of  his  community  at  the  present  time 
intellectually,   morally   and   financially. 

In  1877  he  married  Miss  Caroline  M.Wayman, 
daughter  of  Emanuel  and  Margaret  (Johnston) 
Wayman.  By  this  union  nine  children  have  been 
born :  Reuben,  Joseph,  William,  Albert,  Howell, 
Elizabeth.  Margaret,  Ethel  and  Clarence  J. 


In  1897  Mr.  Newman  settled  on  his  present 
home  where  he  purchased  nine  acres  of  land, 
and  year  by  year  he  has  continued  to  improve  it, 
until  now  he  has  what  is  considered  one  among 
the  finest  homes  in  Salt  Lake  county,  which  is  lo- 
cated on  the  upper  county  road  near  the  Holliday 
postoffice,  within  a  short  distance  of  one  of  the 
best  graded  schools  in  the  county.  In  addition 
to  this  piece  he  also  has  55  acres  near  by,  together 
with  other  valuable  property  within  a  short  radius 
from  these  holdings.  Mr.  Newman  has  gradual- 
ly added  to  that  and  now  has  a  farm  of  nearly  200 
acres.  And  while  starting  out  in  life  on  his  own 
hook,  and  at  the  very  bottom  of  the  ladder,  he  has 
by  economy,  perseverance  and  determination 
made  a  successful  career.  His  upright  dealings 
with  his  neighbors  has  won  for  him  a  large  circle 
of  friends  in  the  community  where  he  has  resid- 
ed. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  been  identified  with 
the  Democratic  party  since  its  organization  in  this 
state. 

Mr.  Newman  takes  a  deep  interest  in  educa- 
tional afifairs,  having  for  years  served  as  school 
trustee  in  his  Ward. 

When  but  a  child  he  became  identified  with  the 
;\Iormon  Church  and  has  always  been  an  active 
and  faithful  member  ever  since.  He  was  ordain- 
ed a  member  of  the  Seventies.  March  i6th, 
1894,  he  was  called  to  serve  on  a  mission  to  his 
native  country  in  England,  to  which  he  cheerfully 
responded  and  spent  two  years  in  that  capacity. 
These  were  two  years  well  spent  in  the  interests 
of  the  Mormon  Church  in  England,  and  also  a 
great  benefit  to  Mr.  Newman  personally,  as  while 
there  he  met  many  of  his  old  associates  and 
friends,  and  as  a  result  of  his  missionary  work  to 
England  many  adherents  to  the  Mormon  Church 
were  received.  He  is  now  one  of  the  theological 
teachers  of  the  Sunday  school  in  his  ward,  as 
well  as  being  ward  teacher. 

Mrs.  Newman  is  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Ladies'  Relief  Society  of  which  she  has  always 
been  a  faithful  and  consistent  worker.  Their 
children  are  being  brought  up  in  the  same  re- 
ligious belief,  all  of  them  being  identified  with 
the  Sunday  schools,  the  Young  Men's  Mutual 
.\ssociation,  or  some  branch  of  the  Church  work. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


The  eldest  son,  Reuben,  is  at  present  serving  on 
a  missionary  tour  to  New  Zealand,  having  left 
home  September  21,  igoo. 


(  )SEPH  P.  NEWMAN.  While  Utah  is 
noted  for  the  many-sided  nature  of  her 
climate  and  soil,  it  is  perhaps  true  that 
she  stands  out  most  distinctly  as  a  farm- 
ing State,  thrifty  and  prosperous  farms 
being  in  evidence  all  over  Utah,  varying  not  so 
much  in  the  quality  of  their  productions  as  in 
their  variety.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  in  all  of  Salt 
Lake  county  there  is  not  a  farm  to  be  found  which 
shows  better  evidence  of  care  or  prosperity 
than  that  owned  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
who  is  a  native  of  England,  but  was  reared  amid 
the  ever-changing  scenes  of  this  new  State. 

His  birth  occurred  February  20,  1845,  ™  Staf- 
fordshire, England,  and  he  is  the  son  of  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  (Hughes)  Newman.  The  family 
came  to  America  in  1853,  when  our  subject  was 
but  eight  years  old,  and  upon  their  arrival  in 
Utah  siettled  in  the  Big  Cottonwood  Canyon,  in 
December  of  that  year,  where  they  remained 
until  ^lay,  1855,  the  father  carrying  on  a  black- 
smith business,  when  they  moved  to  Holliday, 
which  l)ecame  their  permanent   home. 

Our  subject,  who  was  the  fourth  child  in  a 
family  of  six,  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm,  find- 
ing but  little  opportunity  to  attend  school,  and  is 
for  the  most  part  self-educated,  but  he  has  suc- 
ceeded in  keeping  in  touch  with  the  lead- 
ing questions  of  the  day,  and  is  a  well- 
informed  man.  The  most  of  his  young  life 
was  spent  in  attending  to  the  chores  about  his 
father's  farm  and  in  herding  the  cattle  and  sheep, 
his  father  being  engaged  in  the  live  stock  business 
as  well  as  general  farming.  When  he  had  reached 
his  majority,  Mr.  Newman  entered  upon  his 
life  work,  first  going  to  Montana  for  a  year  and 
then  coming  back  to  settle  down  near  the  old 
homestead,  buying  about  eighty  acres  of  sage 
brush  land  which  he  cleared  and  later  sold 
to  his  brother  Thomas.  Pic  then  bought  his 
present  home,  of  about  fifteen  acres,  of  his  father. 
This  was  also  in  an  uncultivated  state,  and  had  to 
be  cleared  of  undergrowth,  but  he  has  since  trans- 


formed it  into  one  of  the  most  attractive  places 
to  be  found  in  this  part  of  the  State,  located  just 
south  of  the  Holliday  postoffice,  on  the  county 
road.  Aside  from  the  home  place,  Mr.  Newman 
owns  a  number  of  other  pieces  of  land  in  this 
section  of  the  county,  and  is  considered  one  of  the 
most  successful  men  in  his  community. 

He  was  married  in  Sah  Lake  City  on  May  i, 
1876,  to  Miss  Eliza  A.  Moses,  a  daughter  of 
James  and  Eliza  (Spencer)  Moses.  Nine  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  them — Joseph  S. ;  Edith, 
widow  of  Heber  Nielson,  who  was  killed  during 
the  summer  of  1901  by  being  run  over  by  a  wagon 
in  Mill  Creek  Canyon;  Elizabeth  A.;  James  M., 
died  at  the  age  of  six  years;  John  S.,  died  in 
infancy:  Franklin  W. ;  Frederick  P. ;  Eliza;  Ade- 
laide. The  mother  of  these  children  died  April 
7,  1902. 

Politically,  Mr.  Newman  owes  allegiance  to  no 
faction,  preferring  to  give  his  vote  to  the  man 
whom  he  considers  best  fitted  for  the  office.  He 
has  served  as  Constable  of  Holliday  and  also 
on  the  school  board,  having  been  a  trustee  and 
also  treasurer. 

He  was  raised  in  the  Mormon  Church,  as  was 
also  his  wife  and  children,  and  they  have  through 
life  been  consistent  members  of  that  faith.  Mr. 
Newman  has  won  his  own  way  to  the  prominent 
position  he  today  accupies  among  the  agricultur- 
ists of  Salt  Lake  county,  and  while  making  a 
name  for  himself  as  a  thrifty,  honest  and  upright 
man,  has  at  the  same  time  won  and  retained  the 
highest  regard  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated,  both  in  business  and  private  life. 


r^BS 


ILLIAM  JOSEPH  PANTER. 
Utah,  in  the  past  half  a  century, 
has  produced  many  noble  sons  who 
have  come  on  to  take  up  and  carry 
on  to  successful  completion  the  life 
work  begun  by  their  ancestors.  Among  her  na- 
tive sons  who  have  taken  an  active  part,  as  well 
as  a  prominent  one,  in  buiding  up  Salt  Lake 
county ;  in  the  development  of  its  vast  agricul- 
tural and  live  stock  interests ;  in  the  maintenance 
of  public  schools  and   in   the   furtherance  of  the 


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work  of  the  Church,  none  deserve  more  credit 
or  praise  for  what  they  have  accomplished  than 
does  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  I'anter  was  born  in  South  Cottonwood 
Ward.  November  3,  1861.  He  is  the  son  of  Wil- 
liam and  Jane  (Gadesby)  Panter,  both  of  whom 
were  born  and  raised  in  Bedfordshire,  England, 
where  they  were  married  and  came  to  America  in 
1854.  The  first  few  years  they  spent  in  Pennsyl- 
vania near  Philadelphia,  where  the  senior  Mr. 
Panter  engaged  in  farming.  In  i860  they  came 
to  Utah  having  crossed  the  plains  by  ox-team 
and  endured  all  the  hardships  and  trials  incident 
to  those  early  migrations.  They  settled  in  South 
Cottonwood  Ward,  where  the  father  secured  land 
on  which  he  lived  the  balance  of  his  life,  his  death 
occurring  April  22,  1872,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
nine  years,  and  his  wife  dying  in  September,  1889, 
aged  fifty-nine  years. 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his 
father's  farm  in  this  vicinity,  where  he  received 
a  common  school  education  from  such  schools  as 
then  existed  in  this  county.  At  the  early  age  of 
fifteen  years  he  went  to  Tavlorsville  where  he 
secured  employment  with  Samuel  R.  Bennion, 
with  whom  he  remained  as  foreman  of  his  large 
herds  of  cattle  and  sheep  for  a  number  of  years, 
part  of  this  time  being  spent  in  the  fields  of  Wyo- 
ming, where  the  herds  were  ranged.  During 
these  years  Mr.  Panter  had  saved  up  considerable 
money  which  he  from  time  to  time  invested  in 
sheep,  and  on  the  termination  of  his  service  with 
Mr.  Bennion  he  had  quite  a  large  herd  of  his  own, 
which  he  moved  to  Wyoming,  and  has  ever  since 
been  identified  with  that  business. 

He  married  November  5,  1885,  to  Miss  Lizzie 
Bennett,  of  West  Jordan  Ward,  and  daughter 
of  William  and  Sarah  (Chaple)  Bennett.  They 
have  two  children — Edna,  the  oldest  child,  died 
in  infancy,  and  Eva  is  now  seven  years  of  age. 

Our  subject  is  now  residing  on  the  same  farm 
which  his  father  took  up  and  partly  improved. 
In  addition  to  this  he  added  sixteen  acres  more 
to  this  land,  most  of  it  having  been  an  unim- 
proved, barren  waste,  covered  with  sage-brush, 
etc.  He  has  continued  to  improve  his  farm  and 
has  erected  a  handsome  brick  dwelling,  outbuild- 
ings and  barns,  and  has  set  out  and  maintains  a 


fine  orchard  and  raises  all  kinds  of  fruit,  shade 
trees,  flowers,  etc..  and  it  is  now  considered  one 
of  the  finest  farms  in  Salt  Lake  county,  containing 
sixty-six  acres. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Panter  has  always  been  identi- 
fied with  the  Republican  party.  He  is  President 
of  the  Rrown  and  Sanford  Irrigation  company, 
and  for  many  years  he  served  as  delegate  to  the 
irrigation  conventions.  He  was  born  and  raised 
in  the  Mormon  faith  and  has  always  been  an  ac- 
tive and  faithful  member  of  that  Church.  He  was 
first  ordained  a  Deacon  and  later  an  Elder,  and 
still  later  a  member  of  the  Seventies  and  a  High 
Priest.  In  1896  he  was  called  by  the  leaders  of 
the  Church  to  go  on  a  mission  to  England,  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  old  home  of  his  parents,  which  he 
did,  and  served  two  years  in  that  capacity.  .A.t 
the  present  time  he  is  First  Counselor  to  Bishop 
Burgon  of  the  Union  Ward.  He  is  also  Chair- 
man of  the  Old  Folks'  Committee  of  Jordan 
Stake. 


RANCIS  McDonald  was  born  in 
Scotland  on  September  17,  1851,  and 
was  the  son  of  William  and  Christinea 
(Wallace)  McDonald.  His  parents 
lived  in  Forfardshire  at  the  foot  of  the 
Grampian  hills.  Mr.  McDonald  spent  his  early 
life  in  Scotland  and  received  his  early  education 
in  the  Government  schools  of  Scotland,  and  later 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Utah,  taking  a 
course  in  the  L^niversity  of  this  State  after  he 
was  married.  He  was  converted  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  in  Scotland,  and  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen crossed  the  ocean  and  came  to  America, 
crossing  the  great  American  plains  to  Utah  under 
the  leadership  of  John  Gillispie,  who  was  the 
captain  of  the  train.  He  later  assisted  in  bring- 
ing his  parents  and  brother  to  L^tah,  where  his 
mother  died  in  1879.  ^'^  father  and  bro'ther  are 
still  living  in  his  neighborhood. 

Upon  arriving  in  Ltah,  ^Vlr.  McDonald  went  to 
work  on  the  railroad  in  Echo  Canyon,  remain- 
ing there  but  a  short  time,  and  in  October  of  that 
year — 1868.  came  to  Salt  Lake  county  where  he 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


worked  in  a  distillery  for  a  time,  The  first  farm 
he  owned  was  on  sections  four  and  nine,  which 
was  sage  brush  land  and  which  consisted  of  forty 
acres  and  is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  McDon- 
ald family,  and  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation  and 
upon  which  there  are  now  four  brick  dwellings. 
In  addition  to  this  forty  acres  and  the  land  on 
which  he  now  lives,  our  subject  owns  a  fine  peach 
orchard  just  north  of  the  Big  Cottonwood  Canyon 
at  the  foot  of  the  mountains,  which  he  bought  in 
1897.  This  is  but  a  small  orchard,  but  it  is  very 
prolific  and  bears  a  fine  quality  of  fruit.  During 
the  season  of  1901,  Mr.  McDonald  got  eight  hun- 
dred case  of  peaches  from  this  place.  In  1883 
he  opened  up  a  store  on  the  county  road,  which  he 
conducted  for  ten  years.  In  addition  to  being  a 
good  business  man,  Mr.  McDonald  is  also  a  fine 
brick-maker,  and  in  addition  to  making  the  brick 
for  two  houses  which  he  has  on  his  present 
homestead,  and  for  other  purposes,  he  manufac- 
tured all  the  brick  of  the  splendid  school  houses 
of  Districts  number  twenty-eight  and  thirty-seven 
in  Big  Cottonwood  precinct. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1870,  to  Miss  Zenobia  Anderson,  and  of  this  mar- 
riage nine  children  were  born,  eight  of  whom  are 
still  living.  He  was  married  a  second  time  and 
is  now  the  father  of  fifteen  living  children,  all  of 
whom  reside  in  Salt  Lake  county.  His  daughter, 
Mary  A.,  is  a  graduate  of  the  l^atter  Day  Saints 
College,  and  the  younger  children  are  still  in 
school.  Both  Mr.  McDonald  and  his  entire  fam- 
ily are  members  of  the  ]\Iormon  Church  and 
active  in  its  work.  In  1879  yir.  McDonald  was 
called  to  go  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern  States, 
where  he  spent  two  years,  and  in  1892  went  on  a 
colonization  mission  to  Old  Mexico.  He  made 
two  trips  in  the  interest  of  this  work,  remaining 
six  months  each  time,  assisting  in  establishing 
the  colony  and  forming  a  corporation.  He  is 
secretary  of  this  company,  which  is  known  as  the 
L^tah  Colonization  and  Improvement  Company, 
and  while  in  Mexico  assisted  in  purchasing  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  acres  of  land 
for  the  colony.  His  fourth  son,  George  A.,  is  at 
this  time  on  a  mission  in  Oregon,  and  his  second 
son,  William  W.,  served  for  three  and  a  half 
Years  in  New  Zealand. 


Politically,  Mr.  McDonald  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Democra::ic  party,  and  has  held 
the  position  of  justice  of  the  peace  for  four 
iicars.  He  was  also  school  trustee  for  one  term ; 
during  this  term  a  fine  building  was  erected  for 
District  number  twenty-eight,  and  he  was  largely 
instrumental  in  obtaining  the  handsome  building 
which  now  adorns  the  school  grounds.  He  is  a 
friend  to  education  and  believes  in  giving  all  the 
advantages  possible  to  the  young  people.  He  has 
been  active  in  local  affairs  in  his  community  and 
is  known  as  an  honorable,  upright  man  and  a 
good  citizen. 


\PTAIN  TIMOTHY  EGAN.  Promi- 
nent among  the  successful  mining  men 
of  Salt  Lake  City  and  Utah,  and  one 
who  has  aided  materially  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  resources  of  the 
State,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

He  was  born  in  Lewis  county,  New  York, 
and  spent  his  early  life  in  that  State,  living  in 
Jefferson  county.  His  father  died  when  he  was 
but  eleven  years  old,  and  the  boy  w-as  left  to  fend 
for  himself.  He  secured  employment  on  a  farm 
and  did  whatever  came  first  to  his  hand.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  among  the  first 
to  volunteer  and  enlisted  in  the  Thirty-fifth 
New  York  Infantry,  participating  in  many  of  the 
great  battles  of  that  conflict.  Most  of  the  time  his 
regiment  was  brigaded  with  the  Army  of  the  Po- 
tomac. He  took  part  in  the  second  battle  of  Bull 
Run,  at  Fredericksburg,  and  most  of  the  battles 
of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  up  to  Antietam, 
being  severely  wounded  in  the  latter  battle.  He 
also  participated  in  the  battle  of  South  Mountain. 
He  was  promoted  from  private  to  a  Lieutenant, 
and  later  commissioned  Captain. 

When  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  service,  he  en- 
gaged as  a  commercial  traveler  for  the  firm  of 
Daggert  &  Edgerly,  and  remained  with  them 
two  years.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he  turned 
his  attention  to  the  retail  hardware  business,  in 
which  he  met  with  such  success  and  which  grew 
to  such  proportions  that  he  soon  started  a  whole- 
sale business  as  well,  the  business  being  trans- 


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acted  under  the  firm  name  of  Egan  &  Harper. 
When  he  had  been  in  business  five  years  his  en- 
tire plant  was  destroyed  by  fire.  After  this  catas- 
trophe, he  and  his  partner  purchased  the  business 
of  Daggett  &  Edgerly,  for  whom  he  had  formerly 
traveled,  and  conducted  the  business  together  un- 
til 1881. 

Captain  Egan's  health  failing,  he  was  advised 
by  his  physicians  to  leave  the  East,  and  he  came 
to  Utah  and  then  traveled  extensively  over  the 
western  country  for  about  a  year,  when  he  re- 
turned East  and  established  a  wholesale  grocery 
business  which  he  conducted  until  1890.  This 
firm  was  known  as  Moriarity,  Egan  &  Co.  Upon 
Mr.  Moriarity's  leaving  for  California  the  firm 
was  changed  to  Egan  &  McLaughlin.  The 
whole  interest  of  the  firm  was  disposed  of  in 
1890,  and  in  September  of  that  year  Captain  Egan 
came  to  Utah,  going  later  to  California  where 
he  spent  the  winter.  Since  that  time  he  has  been 
identified  with  the  mining  interests  throughout 
Utah  and  the  inter-mountain  region,  and  holds 
large  interests  in  the  Gold  Mountain  district, 
Piute  county,  Utah ;  holding  large  interests  in  the 
group  of  claims  called  the  "Apex,"  in  this  district. 
He  is  also  interested  in  the  Mercur  Mining  dis- 
trict; in  property  in  Park  City;  in  the  Park  Val- 
ley in  Bo.x  Elder  county,  and  in  the  Cottonwood 
and  Eureka  districts. 

He  was  married,  in  1867,  to  Miss  May  Benoit, 
a  very  refined  and  accomplished  lady.  They  have 
one  son,  A.  T.  Egan,  at  present  with  the  Western 
Electric  Supply  Company,  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 
Their  son  married  Miss  Edith  Sears,  of  this  city. 

In  politics  Captain  Egan  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican  and  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  affairs  of  the  party.  While  living  at 
Ottumwa,  Iowa,  he  served  two  years  in  the  City 
Council.  He  has  also  been  Commander  of  the 
Grand  Army  Post  in  Ottumwa.  Captain  Egan  is 
a  self-made  man,  and  one  who  has  accomplished 
the  tasks  before  him  by  dint  of  constant,  hard 
work.  The  position  he  has  won  in  the  mining 
circles  of  Utah  marks  him  as  one  of  the  prominent 
and  successful  operators  in  this  State.  His  genial, 
pleasant  manner  and  his  well-known  integrity 
have  made  for  him  a  host  of  friends  throughout 
the  country. 


TEPHEN  H.  LOVE.  The  operations 
of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  In- 
stitution are  of  such  a  large  and  ex- 
tended nature  that  the  shipments  made 
by  it  and  to  it  from  various  points,  is  a 
work  that  requires  the  entire  time  and  attention 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  has  had  a 
long  experience  in  his  work,  and  by  his  ability 
has  risen  to  a  prominent  place  among  the  subordi- 
nate officers  of  that  great  commercial  institution, 
and  he  is  now  its  traffic  manager. 

Stephen  H.  Love  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1865,  and  was  the  son  of  David  Love,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  who  came  to  America  in  1846,  set- 
tling at  St.  Louis.  He  removed  to  Utah  in  1852. 
He  had  become  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  Edinburgh,  and  upon  his  re- 
moval to  the  United  States  continued  to  take  a 
great  interest  in  its  affairs  until  his  death  in  1887. 
He  was  an  Elder  in  the  Church  and  lived  a  life 
consistent  with  its  teachings.  While  in  Scotland 
he  was  in  charge  of  a  coal  mine,  and  upon  coming 
to  this  country  secured  work  as  foreman  of  a 
coal  mine  near  St.  Louis.  Upon  coming  to  Utah 
he  settled  near  the  old  Fort  and  devoted  his  time 
to  making  adobe  brick,  which  was  used  exten- 
sively for  building  purposes  in  the  early  days. 
He  also  engaged  in  farming  and  later  in  mining. 
He  crossed  the  plains  from  St.  Joseph,  Missouri, 
to  Utah,  in  the  same  wagon  train  with  William 
Jennings.  His  wife,  Margaret  (Hunter)  Love, 
the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  also  a  native  of 
Scotland,  coming  from  the  same  town  as  the 
Sharp  family  and  other  hardy  "Scots"  who  took 
such  a  prominent  part  in  the  upbuilding  of  Utah. 
At  the  early  age  of  thirteen  our  subject  was 
supposed  to  earn  his  own  living,  working  in  the 
adobe  yards  and  on  the  farm,  and  at  eighteen 
years  of  age  commenced  with  the  Standard  Oil 
Company,  remaihing  with  them  for  several  years 
in  the  capacity  of  shipping  clerk  and  later  as 
book-keeper.  He  was  also  employed  in  the  County 
Recorder's  office  for  about  a  year.  His  next 
occupation  was  with  the  Zion  Co-Operative  Mer- 
cantile Institution,  the  service  of  which  he  en- 
tered in  1888  as  receiving  clerk,  and  became  its 
traffic  manager,  having  entire  charge  of  its 
freight  business  since  1892,  and  has  also  had 
charge  of  the  receiving  department. 


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Mr.  Love  was  married,  in  1884,  to  Miss  Eleanor 
Wilding,  daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth  Wild- 
ing, and  by  this  marriage  he  has  nine  children — 
Hazel,  Geneva,  Lucy,  Russell,  Milton,  Steve 
Layne,  Viola,  Afton,  and  Douglas. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Love  has  taken  an  ac- 
tive part  and  owes  his  allegiance  to  the  Republi- 
can party.  In  the  election,  held  in  November, 
1900,  he  was  elected  a  State  Senator  for  four 
years,  and  also  served  on  the  State  Board  for  five 
years  in  the  twenty-ninth  district,  being  Chair- 
man of  the  Board. 

He  is  a  devoted  member  of  the  Mormon  Church 
and,  in  addition  to  being  an  Elder  in  it,  is  a 
Stake  officer  in  the  Granite  Stake.  He  is  also  a 
prominent  member  in  the  Jobbers'  Association  and 
has  held  the  position  of  secretary  of  this  associa- 
tion since  1892,  being  prominent  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Salt  Lake  City  as  a  jobbing  center,  being 
an  expert  in  rate  matters,  and  his  services  have 
been  much  sought  after  in  dealing  with  the  rail- 
roads. Throughout  his  long  service  in  his  pres- 
ent employment,  he  has  made  for  himself  a  splen- 
did record  for  ability  and  integrity,  and  today  en- 
joys a  high  position  in  the  confidence  of  the  direc- 
tors of  this  institution.  Mr.  Love  is  an  ardent 
sportsman  and  is  one  of  the  crack  shots  of  the 
State.  He  is  well  and  popularly  known  through- 
out Utah,  and  enjoys  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all 
the  citizens. 


F.ORGE  JAY  GIBSON,  of  the  law 
firm  of  Thompson  &  Gibson,  of  Salt 
Lake  City.  Anyone  who  has  met  Mr. 
Gibson  and  is  at  all  acquainted  with 
him,  will  agree  that  he  is  one  of  the 
oncoming  lawyers  of  this  city.  The  law  firm,  of 
which  he  is  a  member,  has  only  been  organized 
about  three  and  a  half  years,  and  during  that 
time  they  have  built  up  a  splendid  practice,  which 
many  men  of  more  mature  years  might  be 
proud  of. 

Mr.  Gibson  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  having  been 
born  in  Cleveland  in  1873,  where  the  first  seven 
years  of  his  life  were  spent,  when  his  parents 
moved  to  Peoria,  Illinois,  at  which  place  he  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  district  and  high 


schools.  At  the  age  of  eighteen,  in  1891,  he 
entered  Yale  college  and  graduated  from  the  lit- 
erary department  in  the  class  of  1895,  and  from 
the  law  department  of  the  same  college  in  1897. 
Soon  after  graduation  he  located  in  Buffalo,  New 
York,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  Supreme 
Court  in  that  State.  Having  practiced  his  pro- 
fession for  one  year  in  Buffalo,  he  decided  to  emi- 
grate to  U^tah,  which  he  did,  and  located  in  Salt 
Lake  City  in  1899.  Mr.  Gibson  and  his  law 
partner,  Mr.  Thompson,  had  been  college  mates, 
both  having  graduated  from  Yale  and  coming  to 
Utah  about  the  same  time,  the  law  firm  being 
organized  in  January,  1899,  and  has  continued 
ever  since  under  the  same  title. 

Our  subject's  father,  George  J.  Gibson,  was  a 
native  of  England,  but  came  to  America  early  in 
life  and  settled  in  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He  has 
been  a  successful  manufacturer  throughout  his 
life  and  for  many  years  he  was  president  of  the 
Peoria  Steel  and  Iron  Works,  and  was  its  chief 
promoter  until  it  was  absorbed  by  the  steel  trust. 
During  the  past  few  years  he  has  lived  a  retired 
life,  spending  most  of  his  time  in  traveling  in  this 
and  foreign  countries.  Our  subject's  mother  bore 
the  name  of  Caroline  Scovill.  She  was  born  in 
Cleveland,  of  which  place  her  father  was  also  a 
native,  having  been  born  in  that  city  in  1820.  The 
Scovill  family  were  early  settlers  in  America,  our 
subject's  maternal  great  great  grandfather  having 
fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War  in  a  Connecticut 
regiment. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Gibson  is  a  staunch 
believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party, 
but  he  has  never  sought  public  preferment  of  any 
kind.  Mr.  Gibson,  socially,  is  a  member  of  the 
college  fraternities,  Phi  Delta  Phi  and  Phi  Beta 
Kappa. 


M.  MILLER.  The  importance  of 
the  Salt  Lake  City  Alining  Ex- 
change in  the  development  of  the 
mining  properties  in  Utah,  can 
hardly  be  overestimated.  Through 
it,  Eastern  capital  has  been  largely  introduced, 
and  the  necessary  funds  provided  for  the  develop- 
ment  of  the   properties   through   the   sale   of  its 


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stock.     One  of  the  leading  members  of  the  Ex- 
change is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

M.  M.  Miller  was  born  near  Pittsburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, May  12,  1862,  and  when  he  was  five 
years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Iowa,  where 
his  father  engaged  in  the  stock  business,  and  in 
this  State  our  subject  received  his  education  at 
the  common  schools.  He  early  started  to  make  his 
own  way  in  the  world,  and  at  fifteen  years  of 
age  was  buying  and  shipping  stock  to  Chicago. 
In  1879  he  came  to  Kansas,  where  he  lived  for 
two  years,  and  in  1884  went  to  New  Mexico 
and  engaged  in  mining.  He  located  and  de- 
veloped the  Alhambra  mine  and  succeeded  in  dis- 
posing of  it  to  Chicago  capitalists.  This  was  a 
very  successful  venture.  He  also  went  to  Tupalo, 
Mississippi,  where  he  assisted  in  organizing  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Tupalo,  and  still  retains 
a  large  interest  in  that  institution.  He  later  re- 
turned to  New  Mexico  and  in  1890  went  to  Val- 
asco,  Texas,  and  there  established  a  real  estate 
business.  He  also  assisted  in  the  establishment 
of  the  Valasco  National  Bank,  of  which  he  was 
made  Vice-President,  and  later,  in  company  with 
J.  M.  Moore,  established  the  Angelton  Bank,  at 
Angelton,  Texas.  These  financial  institutions 
have  all  proven  to  be  successful  and  are  in  active 
business  at  the  present  time,  and  in  most  of  them 
our  subject  still  retains  a  large  interest,  besides 
holding  interests  in  the  oil  fields  in  Beaumont, 
Texas,  and  spends  most  of  his  summers  in  that 
State.  He  assisted  in  organizing  the  Savanic 
mine,  and  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany which  now  operates  it.  This  has  proven  to 
be  a  very  rich  mining  claim,  and  is  at  present  con- 
ducted by  H.  F.  Pickett  and  Mr.  Miller.  The 
first  car  of  ore  shipped  from  the  development 
work  showed  45  per  cent  copper.  Mr.  Miller  is 
also  interested  in  a  number  of  other  mining  prop- 
erties in  Utah  and  in  the  adjoining  States. 

He  married,  in  New  Mexico,  in  1889,  to  Miss 
Janet  Hull,  a  native  of  Tyrone,  Pennsylvania. 
They  have  two  children,  of  whom  one  son,  Philip, 
'is  now  living. 

In  political  life  Mr.'Miller  is  a  believer  in  Re- 
publican principles,  and  gives  his  support  to  that 
party,  although  he  has  never  sought  distinction 
in  the  line  of  public  office.      He  is  essentially  a 


self-made  man,  and  from  the  time  he  started  to 
earn  his  own  living  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  has 
had  an  unvarying  succession  of  successes.  He 
has  made  for  himself  a  high  place  in  the  financial 
world  of  Utah  and  is  well  and  popularly  known 
throughout  the  State.  His  genial  and  pleasant 
manner  has  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  re- 
spect of  all  the  people  with  whom  he  has  come  in 
contact,  and  he  today  enjoys  a  wide  popularity 
throughout  the  West. 


RESIDENT  WILFORD  WOOD- 
RUFF. To  attempt  to  repeat  the  story 
of  the  life  of  President  Woodruff,  is 
to  tell  of  not  only  his  ancestors,  birth, 
education,  marriage  and  death  ;  it  is  to 
record  sixty-five  years  of  service  spent  in  the 
interests  of  the  Mormon  Church ;  a  period  which 
more  than  covers  the  span  of  life  usually  allotted 
to  man,  but  which  was  scarce  more  than  two- 
thirds  of  his  life,  he  being  nearly  ninety-two 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death.  President 
Woodruff  was  the  fourth  president  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  filled  that  position  for  almost 
ten  years,  succeeding  John  Taylor.  The  years 
during  which  he  occupied  the  presidential  chair 
were  among  the  most  eventful  and  important  of 
the  Church's  later  history,  and  his  administration 
was  at  once  so  tender,  wise  and  able  that  it  called 
forth  the  honest  admiration  and  praise  of  both 
Mormon  and  Gentile,  and  to  the  citizens  of  this 
State  he  was  first  a  man  and  a  man  of  such  noble 
traits  of  character  as  to  overshadow  all  thoughts 
of  religious  dift'erences  and  bring  to  him  the 
warm  friendship  of  all  classes,  his  death  being 
universally  mourned  as  a  loss  not  alone  to  the 
Church  of  which  he  was  the  honored  head,  but 
to  the  entire  community  at  large.  He  was  a  man 
of  methodical  habits  and  we  owe  much  to  this 
trait,  being  able  to  give  many  facts  about  his  life 
from  the  diary  which  he  kept  of  his  life.  He  came 
of  a  long  and  honorable  line  of  American  an- 
cestry, and  was  very  proud  of  being  an  American. 
The  progenitors  of  this  family  came  to  the  United 
States  soon  after  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrim  Fath- 
ers, coming  from  England,  and  settling  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut.     There  were  two  brothers  of 


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this  family  who  came  to  America  together;  they 
were  a  branch  of  the  family  in  England  which 
spell  the  name  Woodroffe. 

The  first  recorded  member  of  the  family  of 
President  Woodruff  is  his  great-grandfather, 
Elijah  Woodruff,  born  some  time  during  the 
Seventeenth  Century,  and  lived  to  be  over  one 
hundred  years  of  age,  dying  at  what  is  now 
called  Avon,  Connecticut.  He  was  one  of  the 
Selectmen  to  whom  the  original  charter  of  Farm- 
ington,  Connecticut,  was  granted.  His  son  Eldad, 
was  born  in  1747  and  died  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
eight.  He  had  seven  children,  one  of  whom, 
Aphek,  became  the  father  of  our  subject.  Aphek 
Woodruff  was  born  in  Farmington,  Connecticut, 
November  11,  1778.  He  married  Bulah  Thomp- 
son, daughter  of  Lot  Thompson,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage had  three  sons,  Ozen,  Azmon  and  Wilford, 
our  subject.  The  mother  of  these  children  died 
of  yellow  fever  in  1808,  at  the  age  of  twenty-six 
years,  although  she  came  of  a  sturdy  and  long- 
lived  race,  four  of  her  family  having  lived  to  be 
eighty-four  years  of  age.  The  father  married  a 
second  time  to  Azubah  Hart,  by  whom  he  had  five 
sons  and  one  daughter,  all  of  whom  have  been 
dead  for  more  than  forty  years.  President  Wood- 
ruff's father  died  in  Salt  Lake  City  at  the  age 
of  eighty-two  years  and  six  months. 

President  Wilford  Woodruff  was  born  in 
Farmington,  Connecticut,  March  i,  1807,  and  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  that  place.  He  was 
left  motherless  when  about  a  year  old  and  until 
his  father  married  a  second  time  lived  with  his 
grandmother.  He  always  spoke  in  the  highest 
terms  of  his  step-mother,  and  said  again  and 
again  that  she  had  loved  and  cared  for  him  as 
she  did  for  her  own  children,  and  when  she  finally 
died  he  mourned  her  as  a  second  mother.  He 
■came  of  a  long  line  of  millers,  that  being  his 
father's  occupation  and  the  occupation  of  the 
Woodruffs  for  generations  back.  Our  subject 
•assisted  his  father  in  the  mills  until  he  was 
twenty  years  of  age,  when  he  took  charge  of 
mills  belonging  to  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Helen  Wheeler, 
which  he  attended  three  years,  after  which  he 
had  charge  of  the  mills  of  a  Mr.  Collins,  the  ax 
manufacturer  of  South  Canton,  Massachusetts. 
In  18^1  he  took  charge  of  another  flouring  mill 


in  New  Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  in  the  spring 
of  1832  went  to  Richland,  Oswego  county,  New 
York,  where  he  purchased  a  farm  and  sawmill 
and  established  himself  in  busmess. 

He  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  while  residing  in  this  place  and  was 
baptized  December  31,  1833.  His  father  and 
brothers  also  became  members  of  the  Church  and 
his  father  later  came  to  Utah.  He  remained  in 
Oswego  county  until  1837  and  from  that  time 
on  his  life  was  given  to  the  work  of  the  Church. 
In  that  year  he  traveled  on  the  ocean  and  in  the 
Eastern  States,  going  to  his  old  home  in  Con- 
necticut and  through  his  ministrations  nine  of  his 
relatives  were  brought  into  the  Church.  In  1839 
he  went  to  England  and  there  established  the  first 
branch  of  the  Church  in  London.  The  greater 
portion  of  1842-43  were  passed  in  Nauvoo,  Illi- 
nois. He  traveled  ten  thousand  miles  in  the  in- 
terests of  the  Church  during  1844,  and  again 
sailed  for  England  in  that  year,  returning  in 
1846.  On  April  7,  1847,  he  left  his  family, 
among  whom  was  his  father,  then  in  his  seventy- 
eighth  year,  at  Winter  Quarters  and  in  company 
with  Brigham  Young  and  his  company  of  one 
hundred  and  forty-three  men  crossed  the  great 
American  plains,  arriving  in  the  Salt  Lake  \'alley 
on  July  24,  1847.  They  laid  out  the  city  of  Salt 
Lake  and  built  a  fort  around  ten  acres,  after 
which  they  returned  to  Winter  Quarters  that 
same  season.  The  day  following  his  arrival  in 
the  Valley  President  Woodruff  with  a  party  of 
pioneers,  went  out  on  an  exploring  trip,  and  Pres- 
ident Woodruff  was  the  first  to  ascend  the  peak 
which  he  named  Ensign  Peak,  planting  an  en- 
sign upon  it,  and  it  has  since  retained  that  name. 
This  was  then  Mexican  territory,  and  President 
Woodruff,  under  the  direction  of  President 
Brigham  Young,  was  the  first  man  to  raise  the 
Stars  and  -Stripes  in  Utah,  on  Ensign  Peak,  the 
territory  being  then  known  as  Deseret.  The  day 
following  they  visited  Black  Rock,  and  took  their 
first  bath  in  the  Great  Salt  Lake.  On  August  6th 
the  Twelve  were  rebaptized,  and  the  day  follow- 
ing went  to  the  Temple  Block  to  select  the  ground 
for  their  homes.  President  Woodruff  selecting  the 
blocks  southwest.  They  each  built  a  log  and 
adobe  house.     He  later  owned  homes  in  different 


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parts  of  the  city,  his  last  residence  being  the 
Woodruff  Villa,  on  Fifth  East  street,  a  modern 
residence,  built  in  1893. 

During-  his  life  in  Utah  President  Woodruff 
was  most  active  in  building  up  both  Church  and 
State.  He  was  ordained  an  Apostle  in  1839,  and 
became  President  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  April  7,  1889.  Among  the 
more  notable  events  of  his  Presidency  may  be 
mentioned  the  issuing  of  the  polygamy  manifesto, 
which  was  read  to  the  Mormon  Conference  on 
September  24,  1890,  which,  upon  motion  of 
Apostle  Snow  (who  succeeded  President  Wood- 
ruff as  President  of  the  Church),  the  declaration 
was  received  as  authentative  and  binding,  and  car- 
ried unanimously.  Another  celebrated  manifesto 
was  that  touching  on  politics,  promulgated  at  the 
General  Conference  on  April  6,  1896,  which  cre- 
ated some  little  strife  and  resulted  in  the  name  of 
Apostle  Thatcher  being  dropped  from  the  list  of 
officers  to  be  sustained  by  the  conference.  This 
manifesto  requires  high  Church  officials  to  take 
"counsel". before  accepting  a  political  nomination 
fo'r  office.  In  politics  he  believed  in  voting  for 
the  man  best  fitted  for  the  office,  and  his  advice, 
given  in  1897  to  the  Conference,  that  they  should 
vote  for  the  man  who  would  best  serve  their  in- 
terests, regardless  of  politics,  caused  some  little 
commotion  in  Church  circles.  The  day  after  the 
funeral  of  President  Taylor  proceedings  for  the 
confiscation  of  Mormon  Church  property  were 
begun,  and  the  litigation  did  not  cease  until  about 
a  year  and  a  half  before  President  Woodruff's 
death,  when  Congress  passed  an  act  restoring  all 
property  to  the  Church.  Utah  was  also  admitted 
to  Statehood  during  his  term  of  office,  the  proc- 
lamation being  signed  January  6,  1896,  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland.  One  other  important  event  in  his 
life  was  the  dedication  by  him  of  the  Great  Salt 
Lake  Temple, which  had  been  forty  years  in  course 
of  construction,  and  which  cost  about  four  mil- 
lions of  dollars.  In  1897  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  the  pioneers  into  Salt  Lake  \'alley  was 
celebrated  in  Salt  Lake  City,  President  Wood- 
ruff receiving  much  attention  as  a  survivor  of 
those  pioneers.  His  last  public  appearance 
was  just  a  year  later,  July  24.  1898,  upon  the 
occasion  of   the    dedication  of    the    historic  Pio- 


neer Square  for  a  public  park.  Of  that  notable 
company  President  Woodruff  and  W.  C.  A.  Smoot 
were  alone  present  to  see  their  first  camping 
ground  dedicated  to  public  use,  and  the  interesting 
address  delivered  by  the  aged  President  was  lis- 
tened to  with  profound  attention  by  a  multitude 
of  people.  At  the  time  of  his  death  ne  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Zion's  Savings  Bank  and  the  Zion  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution,  besides  being  in- 
terested in  a  number  of  minor  enterprises.  He 
was  most  active,  being  found  at  his  office  every 
day  from  nine  till  four,  unless  too  ill  to  come  down 
town. 

President  Woodruff  was  married  five  times, 
and  the  father  of  thirty-two  children,  three  of  his 
wives  and  twenty  children  surviving  him.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  there  were  one  hundred  and 
three  grandchildren  and  thirteen  great  grandchil- 
dren, the  youngest  being  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  McEwan  two  weeks  before  the  Presi- 
dent's death.  It  was  said  he  knew  each  of  his 
grand  children  and  great  grandchildren  by  name, 
and  was  never  so  happy  as  when  surrounded  by 
their  happy  faces.  They  were  all  extremely  fond 
of  him,  and  his  loss  was  felt  keenly  in  this  juve- 
nile group.  His  first  wife  was  Phoebe  Carter,  of 
whose  children  three  survive.  His  second  wife 
was  Mary  Jackson,  who  bore  him  one  son.  Both 
she  and  Phoebe  Carter  have  since  died.  His  third 
wife  was  Emma  Smith,  Y'ho  was  with  him  when 
he  died.  Six  of  the  children  born  of  this  marriage 
are  now  living.  His  fourth  wife,  who  survived 
him,  w^as  Sarah  Brown ;  she  has  five  children  liv- 
ing. His  fifth  wife  was  Delight  Stocking,  who 
also  survived  him ;  she  has  five  living  children. 

President  Woodruff  was  for  many  years  pre- 
vious to  his  death  a  great  sufferer,  and  his  health 
failed  so  rapidly  during  the  last  year  that  it  was 
thought  advisable  to  take  him  away,  as  a  change 
of  climate  might  prove  beneficial.  With  the  im- 
mediate members  of  his  family,  George  Q.  Cannon 
and  Bishop  Hirum  B.  Clawson  and  their  wives, 
he  was  taken  to  San  Francisco,  where  they  all  be- 
came the  guests  of  Colonel  Isaac  Trumbo.  The 
trip  was  taken  in  vain,  however,  for  although 
bright  and  happy  up  to  the  last  minute,  the  Presi- 
dent died  there  at  seven  o'clock  on  the  morning 
of  September  2,  1898.    The  remains  were  brought 


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to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  funeral  held  on  Thurs- 
day, the  9th,  from  the  Tabernacle,  most  of  the 
public  and  business  houses  of  the  city  being  closed 
and  the  services  being  attended  not  only  by  the 
heads  of  the  Church,  city  and  State  officials  and 
residents  of  the  city,  but  people  coming  from  all 
over  the  State  to  pay  this  last  tribute  of  respect 
to  the  man  whom  they  had  honored  and  loved 
during  his  lifetime  and  whom  they  regarded  as 
their  personal  friend.  The  building  was  wholly 
inadequate  to  hold  the  vast  concourse  that  gath- 
ered to  witness  the  services,  and  the  grounds  were 
thronged  with  thousands  who  could  not  gain  en- 
trance into  the  Tabernacle.  The  services  were 
most  impressive,  the  casket  being  almost  lost  to 
view  by  the  floral  offerings  which  covered  and 
surrounded  it,  and  a  most  touching  funeral  march 
was  played  by  Professor  Joseph  Daynes.  Appro- 
priate music  was  rendered  by  the  choir  and 
George  D.  Pyper,  and  addresses  followed  from 
President  Joseph  F.  Smith  and  others. 

President  Woodruff  died  as  he  had  lived,  cheer- 
fully and  hopefully,  and  was  laid  to  rest  in  the 
City  Cemetery,  his  last  resting  place  being  marked 
by  a  granite  monument  from  his  native  State.  He 
was  a  man  of  gentle  speech  and  mild  manner,  un- 
ostentatious, thoughtful  for  the  comfort  and  hap- 
piness of  others,  and  had  not  an  enemy  in  the 
whole  State. 


MM  A  SMITH  WOODRUFF,  widow 
I  if  the  late  President  Wilford  Woodruff, 
is  the  daughter  of  one  of  the  earliest 
members  of  the  Mormon  Church.  Her 
father,  Samuel  Smith,  was  a  native  of 
Tennessee,  where  he  spent  his  early  life.  He  and 
his  wife  were  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church  under  the  preaching  of'  President 
Woodruff,  who  was  at  that  time  laboring  as  a 
missionary  in  Tennessee,  and  were  baptized  into 
the  Church  in  1833,  remaining  in  Tennessee  until 
1838,  when  they  moved  to  Missouri.  Our  subject 
was  at  this  time  about  a  year  old.  From  Missouri 
the  family  moved  to  Nauvoo,  and  there  the  father 
built  a  home  and  assisted  in  building  the  Temple 
at  Nauvoo.     In  1843  ^^-  Smith  was  sent,  with 


Lyman  White,  George  Miller  and  a  number  of 
others,  to  go  to  the  Black  River  country,  in  Wis- 
consin, and  procure  lumber  for  use  in  the  Nauvoo 
Temple.  Those  were  early  days  in  Wisconsin, 
and  the  little  company  suffered  many  privations 
and  hardships,  being  compelled  to  go  without  food 
a  portion  of  the  time,  and  suffering  from  the  rig- 
ors of  a  northern  winter.  While  they  were  ab- 
sent on  this  trip  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  was 
killed.  The  February  following  their  return  Mr. 
Smith  accompanied  President  Brigham  Young  as 
one  of  his  body  guards  on  his  trip  to  Winter  Quar- 
ters, now  known  as  Florence,  near  Omaha,  Ne- 
braska. He  remained  in  Winter  Quarters  that 
winter,  and  in  the  following  spring  returned  to 
Missouri  to  procure  provisions  and  outfits  to  bring 
his  famiy  to  Utah.  He  started  for  Utah  in  the 
spring  of  1850,  and  died  of  cholera  on  June  28th, 
two  weeks  after  he  had  crossed  the  Missouri 
river.  His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  our  subject, 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Marticia  Smoot.  She 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  went  to  live  in  Ten- 
nessee in  her  early  womanhood,  and  there  met  and 
married  Mr.  Smith.  Upon  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band she  was  left  with  two  children,  the  youngest 
but  two  weeks  old,  but  with  wonderful  courage 
she  continued  the  journey  across  the  plains,  driv- 
ing her  own  ox  team  and  caring  for  her  infant 
child,  being  assisted  by  her  little  daughter,  who 
was  at  that  time  about  twelve  years  of  age.  Upon 
arriving  in  Utah  she  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  died  here  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years. 

Mrs.  Woodruff  received  her  early  schooling  in 
Winter  Quarters,  and  after  coming  to  Utah  had 
but  little  opportunity  to  devote  to  study,  it  being 
necessary  for  her  to  assist  her  mother  in  their 
support.  She  was  married  to  the  late  President 
Woodruff  at  the  early  age  of  fifteen,  and  they  had 
a  family  of  eight  children,  six  of  whom  are  now 
living — Hyrum  Smith,  died  at  an  early  age ; 
Emma  M.,  the  wife  of  Henry  Woodruff ;  Asahel 
H.,  who  has  for  a  number  of  years  been  connected 
with  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution 
as  manager  of  the  wholesale  dry  goods  depart- 
ment, and  whose  biographical  sketch  appears  else- 
where in  this  work ;  Anna  Thompson,  died  at  a 
tender  age ;  Clara,  wife  of  O.  C.  Beebe,  paying 
teller  in  the  Zion's  Savings  Bank ;  Abraham  O., 


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one  of  the  Twelve  Apostles  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  whose  biographical  sketch  also  ap- 
pears in  this  volume  ;  Mary  Alice,  wife  of  William 
McEwan,  and  Winnifred  Blanche,  wife  of  Joseph 
J.  Daynes,  Jr.,  now  absent  on  a  mission  to  Eng- 
land, and  a  member  of  the  Daynes  Music  Com- 
pany. Mrs.  Woodruff  has  had  twenty-three 
grandchildren. 

Our  subject  has  been  an  active  worker  in  the 
Mormon  Church  since  her  early  girlhood.  Dur- 
ing the  life  of  her  husband  she  traveled  exten- 
sively, accompanying  him  on  his  missionary  trips 
to  British  Columbia  and  different  parts  of  the 
United  States,  and  since  his  death  she  has  assisted 
in  organizing  branches  of  the  Relief  Society  in 
Arizona.  Mexico  and  Colorado,  and  has  done  con- 
siderable missionary  work  in  those  fields.  She  is 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society, 
and  President  of  the  Granite  Stake.  She  makes 
her  home  at  1558  South  on  Fifth  East  street, 
which  is  a  part  of  the  old  homestead,  and  where 
she  has  a  handsome  residence. 

As  the  wife  of  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  Mrs.  Woodruff  has  been  brought 
prominently  before  the  people  of  that  denomina- 
tion, as  well  as  of  the  State  at  large,  and  she  has 
herself  performed  some  very  important  work  for 
the  Church.  She  has  not  only  won,  but  retained, 
the  confidence  and  love  of  the  people  for  and  with 
whom  she  has  labored,  and  now,  in  the  sunset  of 
her  life,  is  reaping  the  reward  of  her  labors,  sur- 
rounded by  the  love  and  devotion  of  her  children 
and  grandchildren. 


REDERICK  A.  SWEET.  Among  the 
younger  members  of  the  bar  of  Utah 
who  have  shown  marked  ability  in  their 
irofessional  career  and  have  aided  in 
raising  the  standard  of  the  profession  in 
this  State  to  its  present  high  position,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  has  made  an  enviable  record,  and 
one  which,  from  the  difficulties  encountered  and 
successfully  overcome  marks  him  as  a  leader  in 
his  chosen  profession. 

Frederick  A.   Sweet,  the  son  of  A.  E.   Sweet 
and  Mary  (Gaylord)  Sweet,  was  born  in  De  Kalb 


county,  Illinois,  in  1873,  and  spent  the  first  five 
years  of  his  life  in  that  State.  When  he  was  five 
years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  Kansas,  which 
State  continued  to  be  his  home  for  the  ensuing 
eight  years.  Here  his  father  is  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  is  also  at  the  present  time  a  Judge  of 
Russell  county,  Kansas. 

Our  subject's  boyhood  days  were  spent  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  his  early  education  was  derived 
from  the  district  schools  of  Kansas,  but  owing  to 
the  limited  means  of  his  parents,  he  was  'forced 
to  earn  his  own  living  at  an  early  age.  He  en- 
tered the  railroad  business  and  learned  telegraphy, 
and  at  fourteen  was  a  telegrapher  in  the  service 
of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad.  He  remained  with 
this  company  for  some  time,  and  left  it  for  a  better 
position  on  the  Denver,  Texas  and  Fort  Worth 
Railroad,  which  he  later  left  to  enter  the  employ 
of  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railway.  Later 
he  went  to  Iowa  and  entered  the  service  of  the 
Burlington,  Cedar  Rapids  and  Northern  Railroad, 
in  which  employment  he  remained  for  a  year. 

He  moved  to  Wyoming  in  1889,  and  entered  the 
service  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  where,  how- 
ever, he  remained  but  a  short  time,  coming  to  Salt 
Lake  City  in  the  fall  of  that  year  and  entering  the 
service  of  the  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway.  In 
this  employment  he  remained  for  two  years,  when 
he  left  railroading  to  accept  a  position  as  traveling 
salesman  for  George  A.  Lowe  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  whose  employ  he  spent  the  ensuing  two  years. 
His  next  work  was  in  a  similar  capacity  for  Ault- 
man,  Miller  &  Company,  for  whom  he  traveled  in 
Colorado. 

His  ambition  had  always  been  to  follow  the  pro- 
fession of  a  lawyer,  and,  in  the  fall  of  1894,  after 
a  strenuous  struggle  for  the  accumulation  of  the 
necessary  funds,  he  entered  the  Law  Department 
of  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  graduated 
from  that  institution  in  1899.  Owing  to  the  fact 
that  he  was  working  his  way  through  college  and 
supporting  himself,  he  was  twice  forced  to  leave 
to  earn  the  necessary  sum  to  continue  his  studies. 
His  tenacity  of  purpose  and  the  zeal  and  industry 
he  displayed  in  his  studies  attracted  the  favorable 
attention  of  the  faculty  of  the  University,  all  of 
whom  formed  for  him  a  warm  and  lasting  friend- 
ship.    In  1897,  two  years  before  his  course  was 


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finished,  he  successfully  passed  the  examination 
for  admission  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Utah,  and  in  1899  formed  a  partnership  in  Salt 
Lake  City  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  on  business 
as  a  lawyer.  This  firm  is  known  as  Lee  &  Sweet. 
and,  although  young,  its  members  have  already 
proved  themselves  worthy  of  the  high  place  they 
hold  in  the  legal  world  of  Utah. 

So  successful  had  he  been  in  commercial  life 
that  his  employers  endeavored  to  retain  his  serv- 
ices, and  offered  him  a  salary  of  over  two  thou- 
sand dollars  a  year  and  all  his  expenses,  but  even 
this  tempting  offer  could  not  induce  him  to  forego 
his  ambition  to  be  a  lawyer. 

In  addition  to  the  work  attending  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  Mr.  Sweet  has  found  opportu- 
nities to  exercise  his  ability  and  energy  in  the  suc- 
cessful organization  and  establishment  of  a  num- 
ber of  industrial  enterprises  in  Utah.  Prominent 
among  these  are  the  canning  factory,  located  south 
of  Ogden,  which  has  since  grown  to  be  one  of 
the  prosperous  industries  of  the  State.  Another 
industry  in  which  he  has  been  the  guiding  spirit 
is  the  Mountain  Ice  Company,  which  he  formed 
in  1894,  to  do  business  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr. 
Sweet  was  elected  President  of  this  company,  and 
continued  to  fill  that  office  until  J.  D.  Wood  was 
elected  President.  Upon  Mr.  Wood's  election 
Mr.  Sweet  was  elected  Vice-President,  which  po- 
sition he  still  holds. 

Mr.  Sweet  was  married,  in  Quincy,  Illinois,  on 
December  19,  1900,  to  Miss  Electa  M.  Ogle,  whose 
father,  F.  E.  Ogle,  is  a  prominent  banker  in  Illi- 
nois. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Sweet  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party.  In  social  life 
he  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  Woodmen,  and  also 
a  member  of  the  Order  of  Railway  Telegraphers. 

Although  but  a  young  man  and  his  career  in  its 
beginning,  he  has  given  practical  demonstration 
of  his  ability  to  cope  with  and  successfully  sur- 
mount the  obstacles  in  the  pathway  of  success. 
His  industry  and  ability,  and  his  energy  in  grasp- 
ing opportunities  and  turning  them  to  account  in 
his  work  of  making  a  career,  already  mark  him  as 
a  man  whose  voice  will  have  weight  in  the  coun- 
cils of  the  State  and  whose  success  will  redound 
to  the  credit  of  Utah. 


RANK  HOFFMAN.  The  increase  in 
the  discovery  of  the  mineral  wealth  of 
L'tah  and  the  prosecution  of  the  mining 
operations  has  resulted  in  a  consider- 
able amount  of  litigation,  and  for  the 
proper  settlement  of  these  controversies  lawyers 
of  ability  are  demanded.  They  must  not  only  be 
well  quaified  to  interpret  the  laws  of  the  State,  but 
must  also  have  a  general  knowledge  and  thorough 
understanding  of  all  the  ramifications  of  mining. 
There  are  many  men  who  have  devoted  their  lives 
to  the  study  of  this  industry  in  order  to  more  prop- 
erly fit  themselves  for  the  successful  settlement  of 
disputed  points  when  the  cases  are  brought  before 
the  courts  to  be  adjudicated,  and  in  the  ranks  of 
these  men  there  is  none  who  holds  a  higher  posi- 
tion than  does  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  by 
his  ability  has  proven  himself  to  be  one  of  the  most 
eminent  lawyers  in  the  State. 

Frank  Hoffman  was  born  in  Akron,  Summit 
county,  Ohio,  and  lived  in  that  town  until  fourteen 
years  of  age.  He  was  educated  in  Jackson 
Academy,  in  Wayne  county,  in  that  State,  and  left 
school  at  the  age  of  fifteen  to  enter  the  army,  upon 
the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  in  1861.  He  en- 
listed in  Company  D,  Twenty-ninth  Ohio  Infantry, 
as  a  private,  and  served  with  distinction  through- 
out that  conflict.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  the 
battles  of  Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg.  The 
regiment  with  which  he  served  was  brigaded  with 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  it  was  later  trans- 
ferred to  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  under  the 
command  of  General  Hooker.  While  in  this  divi- 
sion he  participated  in  the  battle  of  Lookout 
Mountain.  He  was  in  General  Sherman's  army, 
that  marched  from  Chattanooga  to  Altanta,  and 
later  with  General  Sherman  in  his  famous  march 
from  Atlanta  to  the  sea.  In  the  campaign  that 
followed,  from  Atlanta  north  throughout  the 
Carolinas,  he  served  with  his  regiment,  and  was 
mustered  out  in  June,  1865,  after  the  cessation  of 
hostilities. 

After  the  close  of  the  war  our  subject  returned 
to  Ohio  and  entered  Vermillion  Institute,  at 
Hayesville,  Ohio,  graduating  from  that  institu- 
tion in  1867.  Here  he  completed  his  study  of  the 
law,  which  he  had  taken  up  before  he  entered  the 
school,  and  upon  his  graduation  came  West  and 


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settled  in  Omaha,  where  he  resided  until  March, 
1868.  His  first  work  in  Nebraska  was  in  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Company, 
where  he  held  a  position  in  the  engineering  de- 
partment for  two  months,  coming  to  Utah  in  the 
summer  of  that  year.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  this  State  in  1870,  and  has  practiced  law  in 
Salt  Lake  City  ever  since.  He  enjoys  a  large  gen- 
eral practice,  but  has  also  paid  considerable  atten- 
tion to  mining  law.  He  has  been  retained  as  coun- 
sel in  many  of  the  leading  cases  which  have  come 
before  the  courts  of  this  State  for  adjudication. 
Prominent  among  these  were  the  Kahn  vs.  Cen- 
tral Smelting  Company,  the  Montreal  vs.  the  Old 
Telegraph  Company,  Rebellion  vs.  Ruyon,  Climax 
vs.  Walker  and  Webster,  all  of  which  were  con- 
troversies arising  from  mining  claims  located  in 
the  Park  City  District.  He  was  also  counsel  for 
the  Accident,  Eclipse  and  Deiper  vs.  Mammoth, 
and  Morgan  vs.  Daly  and  Daly  West.  These 
mines  were  also  located  in  Park  City. 

Mr.  Hofifman  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
to  Miss  Lottie  Higbee,  daughter  of  Isaac  Higbee, 
one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Utah,  and  a  resident  of 
Provo.  By  this  marriage  he  has  two  sons  and  two 
daughters — Grace,  Pearl,  John  F.  and  Frank  J. 

Mr.  Hofifman's  father,  John  Hoffman,  was  a 
native  of  Schleswig-Holstein,  which  at  the  time 
of  his  birth  was  a  part  of  Denmark,  but  in  the  war 
which  occurred  in  1846-48  it  was  annexed  to  Ger- 
many, and  has  since  formed  a  part  of  the  German 
Empire.  His  wife,  Betsie  (Innzz)  Hoffman,  and 
the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  also 
a  native  of  that  country. 

In  politics  our  subject  has  followed  the  fortunes 
of  the  Republican  party.  He  has  been  largely  in- 
terested in  politics  and  in  the  administration  of  the 
affairs  of  Utah  all  his  life,  but  has  never  been  a 
candidate  for  public  office.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  is  one  of 
the  officers  of  it.  He  is  Past  Commander  of  J.  B. 
McKeen  Post,  and  Past  Commander  of  the  De- 
partment of  Utah.  He  has  twice  been  appointed 
to  the  position  of  Assistant  Adjutant  General,  and 
is  at  present  serving  in  that  capacity.  The  success 
which  Mr.  Hoffman  has  made  in  his  chosen  pro- 
fession has  also  been  duplicated  in  his  personal 
life. 


RANK  L.  HINES,  Superintendent  of 
Salt  Lake  City  Water  Works.  The 
name  of  Frank  L.  Hines  adds  another 
to  the  long  list  of  Eastern-born  men  who 
have  sought  fame  or  fortune  in  this 
great  Western  country.  The  wild,  free  life  of  the 
Western  plains  and  mountains,  the  fabulous 
wealth  hidden  in  hill  and  valley,  and  the  life- 
giving  and  invigorating  climate  of  the  country 
beyond  the  Rockies,  have  each  in  their  way  been 
the  loadstone  which  has  drawn  from  the  home 
nest  many  an  adventurous  or  ambitious  soul. 

Frank  L.  Hines  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New 
York,  in  1850.  His  grandfather  came  from  Ire- 
land at  an  early  date,  and  was  among  the  pio- 
neers who  settled  in  Buffalo  and  hewed  homes 
for  themselves  and  their  families  out  of  the  then 
wilderness.  -His  son,  Andrew,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  was  born  there,  and  that  was  his  home 
during  his  lifetime.  He  served  as  a  soldier  in 
the  regular  army  during  the  war  with  Mexico, 
and  died  before  the  Civil  War  occurred.  His  wife, 
Margaret  Hines,  came  to  America  from  Ireland 
with  her  parents  when  a  child. 

Mr.  Hines  spent  his  early  life  in  Buffalo,  and 
attended  the  common  schools  of  that  place.  When 
fifteen  years  of  age  he  started  out  in  life  for  him- 
self, going  to  the  oil  fields  in  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  remained,  identified  with  that  business,  until 
1 87 1.  Becoming  imbued  with  a  desire  to  see  the 
great  West,  of  which  he  had  heard  such  wonder- 
ful stories,  he  started  for  the  gold  fields  of  Cali- 
fornia in  1 87 1.  He  remained  in  that  section  but 
a  short  time,  leaving  that  State  and  going  into 
the  mining  districts  of  Nevada,  where  he  success- 
fully followed  mining  for  a  few  years,  and  from 
there  went  to  Idaho.  From  Idaho  he  came  to 
Utah,  and  has  since  made  Salt  Lake  City  his 
home,  although  most  of  his  time  has  been  spent 
in  the  mining  district  of  this  and  adjoining 
States.  During  this  time  he  has  been  superin- 
tendent of  the  Ender  Mines  in  Colorado,  and  also 
of  the  Keystone  Mines  in  Wyoming;  the  Wild 
Dutchman  and  the  Pittsburg  and  the  Miller 
Mines,  all  in  American  Fork;  the  i\Iaxfield,  Big 
Cottonwood,  Ballondach,  Northern  Lights  and  a 
number  of  others.  He  has  also  devoted  much 
time  and  attention  to  irrigation,  especially  in  the 


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Mount  Nebo  District,  where  he  constructed  the 
tunnel  and  built  the  dam  for  that  great  irrigation 
project. 

Mr.  Hines  was  united  in  marriage  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  in  1877,  to  Miss  Myra  J.  Hollingsworth, 
daughter  of  Thomas  J.  Hollingsworth,  a  native 
of  England,  who  is  living  in  this  city  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  seventy-eight  years,  hale  and 
hearty.  By  this  union  four  sons  and  three 
daughters  have  been  born — Frank  T.,  a  Lieuten- 
ant in  the  regular  army;  he  served  in  the  Span- 
ish-American War  and  also  in  the  Philippines; 
Delia  M.,  Charles,  Mary  E.,  Edward  and  Lin- 
coln. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hines  owes  his  allegiance  to  the 
Republican  party,  but  has  never  sought  or  held 
public  office  until  recent  years.  He  was  for  two 
years  Street  Supervisor  of  the  city,  and  was 
elected  to  his  present  office  in  1892,  which  posi- 
tion he  has  since  continued  to  hold.  His  term 
expires  in  1902. 


EWIS  T.  CANNON,  one  of  the  young 
architects  of  Utah,  who  has  already 
made  for  himself  an  enviable  record  in 
his  profession,  and  by  his  ability  has 
won  the  confidence  of  all  the  people 
witn  whom  he  has  come  in  contact. 

He  is  a  son  of  George  Q.  Cannon,  and  was 
born  in  Salt  Lake  City  April  22,  1872,  where  he 
has  spent  the  most  of  his  lite.  He  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  here,  and  later  entered  the 
University  of  Utah,  where  he  took  special  studies 
to  fit  himself  for  his  chosen  profession,  later  tak- 
ing an  advanced  course  in  the  Massachusetts  In- 
stitute of  Technolog)'  of  Boston,  graduating  in 
1896  from  the  Department  of  Architecture  of 
that  institution.  Upon  his  graduation  he  re- 
turned to  Utah,  and  for  the  following  few  months 
was  in  the  employ  of  the  Utah  Light  and  Power 
Company  in  Ogden,  and  took  an  active  part  in 
the  construction  of  the  large  plant  erected  by  that 
company.  He  left  the  service  of  this  corporation, 
and  for  two  years  was  professor  of  mathematics 
and  drawing  in  the  Agricultural  College  at  Lo- 
gan. 

The  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints  then  called  him  to  take  up  its  missionary 


work  in  Germany  and  Switzerland,  and  for  three 
years  he  was  absent  on  this  work.  While  abroad 
he  perfected  himself  in  both  the  German  and 
French  languages.  He  returned  to  Utah  in 
April,  1901,  and  two  months  later  was  married 
to  Miss  Martha  Howell,  daughter  of  Senator 
Joseph  Howell,  a  resident  of  Cache  Valley.  The 
Howell  family  were  among  the  early  settlers  of 
LTtah,  and  were  very  prominent  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  resources  of  the  State.  In  addition 
to  bei/ig  State  Senator,  Mr.  Howell  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Governing  Board  of  the  Brigham 
Young  College  in  Logan,  and  has  been  in  the 
Legislature  for  a  number  of  years.  Mr.  Howell's 
wife,  Mary  (Maughan)  Howell,  was  a  resident 
of  Cache  Valley  and  a  daughter  of  Bishop  Wil- 
liam H.  Maughan,  one  of  the  first  settlers  in 
Cache  Valley. 

Martha  (Telle)  Cannon,  the  mother  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Utah,  and  is  still  living.  Her  uncle  and 
father  by  adoption,  George  R.  Beebe,  was  one  of 
the  prominent  men  of  Utah,  and  her  brother,  O. 
C.  Beebe,  received,  in  April,  1902,  an  appoint- 
ment from  President  Roosevelt  as  United  States 
Bank  Examiner  for  Utah  and  Wyoming. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Cannon  is  a  Republican, 
but  has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  the  work 
of  that  party.  In  the  Church  of  his  choice  he  has 
always  been  a  prominent  member,  and  is  at  pres- 
ent one  of  the  Seventies.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
executors  of  the  estate  of  his  father,  the  late 
George  Q.  Cannon.  He  has  followed  architect- 
ure as  a  profession,  and  has  given  a  great  deal 
of  his  time  and  attention  to  that,  with  the  suc- 
cess that  invariably  follows  close  application  and 
industry.  He  is  at  present  employed  in  the  office 
of  the  United  States  Surveyor  General,  having  an 
important  position  in  the  Mineral  Department 
under  that  official's  care. 


DWARD  H.  CALLISTER,  the  present 
Collector  of  United  States  Internal 
Revenue  for  the  District  of  Montana 
— comprising  the  States  of  Montana, 
Idaho  and  Utah — and  Chairman  of  the 
Republican  State  Central  Committee  of  Utah,  has 
won  his  place  through  the  sheer  force  of  industry, 


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application  and  the  exercise  of  his  inherent  abili- 
ties. He  is  a  Utahn  born  and  bred,  and  the  suc- 
cess which  he  has  achieved  redounds,  not  only  to 
his  credit,  but  to  the  credit  of  the  State  as  well. 
He  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  on  re- 
cess of  the  Senate,  and  on  the  Senate's  convening 
was  reappointed  by  President  Roosevelt.  He  is 
regarded  as  one  of  the  staunch  rnen  of  Utah  and 
one  who  has  done  much  to  aid  in  its  development. 
In  the  work  of  his  party  he  has  been  a  prominent 
leader,  and  has  aided  greatly  in  its  successful 
campaigns.  He  has  won  wide  popularity  by  his 
genial  and  courteous  manner,  and  his  strict  atten- 
tion to  his  official  duties,  together  with  his  integ- 
rity and  honesty,  have  won  for  him  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  all  the  business  world  of  his  dis- 
trict. 

Edward  H.  Callister  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  December,  1862.  He  is  a  son  of  Edward 
Callister,  who  came  to  L^tah  in  1854.  Our  sub- 
ject's father  was  a  native  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  and 
spent  his  early  life  there.  He  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  that  place,  and  remained 
a  subject  of  Great  Britain  until  his  removal  to 
Utah,  when  he  was  thirty  years  old.  In  the  Isle 
of  Man  he  followed  the  business  of  a  tailor,  and 
upon  his  emigration  to  Lftah  he  continued  that 
occupation  here.  He  was  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  which  he  joined  in  his 
native  country,  and  upon  coming  to  this  State 
took  an  active  part  in  the  development  of  the 
Church.  He  also  took  an  active  and  leading  part 
in  the  political  administration  of  the  affairs  of 
the  State,  and  was  a  valued  member  of  the  old 
People's  party.  His  family  was  a  very  old  one, 
his  ancestors  for  fifteen  generations  having  been 
residents  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  but  the  records  of 
the  family,  together  with  those  of  numerous  oth- 
ers, were  destroyed  by  Cromwell  in  his  expedi- 
tions to  subdue  the  people  of  the  island.  His 
wife,  and  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  Ann  (Cowley)  Callister,  was  also  a  native 
of  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  joined  the  Mormon 
Church  there.  She  was  married  to  Mr.  Callister 
in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  and  was  with  the  Mor- 
mons when  they  were  expelled  from  Nauvoo,  and 
she  was  also  at  Masidonia  when  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith   was  killed   at   Carthage.        The   Callister 


family  made  the  trip  across  the  great  .A.merican 
plains  by  ox  teams,  and  when  they  came  through 
Chicago  it  was  but  a  small,  stragging  village, 
which  had  not  yet  begun  to  feel  the  impetus  of 
the  great  grain  trade  of  the  West.  Mrs.  Callister 
and  the  other  members  of  her  family  who  joined 
the  Church  in  the  Isle  of  Man  were  converted 
through  the  teachings  of  John  Taylor,  who  was 
afterwards  President  of  the  Church.  Her  father, 
Mathias  Cowley,  was  from  the  Isle  of  Man,  but 
died  in  St.  Louis,  en  route  to  Utah.  Her  mother, 
Ann  Cowley,  continued  the  journey  with  her  chil- 
dren, and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1854. 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Salt  Lake  City  that  then  existed.  He,  like  all 
the  other  sons  of  pioneers  of  Utah,  was  early 
forced  to  aid  in  the  support  of  the  family,  and  at 
the  age  of  fifteen  secured  employment  as  "devil" 
in  the  Star  Printing  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  followed  the  printing  business  with  such  suc- 
cess that  he  rose  to  be  manager  of  it,  which  posi- 
tion he  occupied  for  four  years,  and  then  became 
a  partner  in  the  business.  In  poitical  affairs  he 
has  taken  a  prominent  part,  and  has  aided  largely 
in  the  development  of  the  city.  He  served  in  the 
City  Council  in  the  first  Republican  administra- 
tion, in  1894.  and  served  for  two  consecutive 
terms,  covering  a  period  of  four  years.  He  was 
then  elected  to  the  Chairmanship  of  the  Repub- 
lican Committee,  and  successfully  conducted  the 
last  Presidential  campaign,  in  1900.  In  1896 
Utah  had  gone  fifty-one  thousand  majority  for 
Bryan,  and  under  Mr.  Callister's  management 
this  majority  for  the  Democrats  was  reversed, 
the  Republicans  carrying  it  with  a  majority  of 
over  twenty-one  hundred  for  McKinley.  He  was 
appointed  to  the  Collectorship  of  Internal  Reve- 
nue in  July,  1901,  and  served  with  such  success 
that  he  was  reappointed  in  January,  1902,  by 
President  Roosevelt. 

Mr.  Callister  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  1888,  to  Miss  Louise  Eddington.  daughter  of 
William  Eddington,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Utah,  who  came  here  in  1852.  He  was  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  business  in  this  city,  and  was  a 
prominent  man  in  the  affairs  of  the  Church.  He 
is  now  the  oldest  member  of  the  High  Council  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  and  is  still  enjoying  good 


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health  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years,  hav- 
ing retired  from  active  business  Hfe.  By  this 
marriage  Mr.  Calhster  has  six  children — Ed- 
ward R.,  Marguerite,  Irene,  Paul  Quayle,  Ner- 
val E.  and  Reed.  Mr.  Callister  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  is  one  of  its  valued 
members,  holding  the  ofifice  of  Elder. 

In  addition  to  his  printing  business  and  his 
political  affairs,  Mr.  Callister  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  other  prominent  industries  of  Utah.  He 
has  been  largely  identified  with  the  sheep  busi- 
ness, and  is  now  Secretary  of  the  Wool  Growers' 
Association,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Exec- 
utive Committee  of  the  National  Live  Stock  As- 
sociation for  two  years,  and  owns  extensive 
ranches  in  Wyoming.  His  family  have  been 
prominent  in  the  Mormon  Church  ever  since  their 
arrival  in  LItah. 


i 


OHN  SUTHERLAND  was  born  on  the 
Islands  of  Shetland,  a  British  possession, 
on  October  11,  1832,  and  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1853,  later  coming  to 
Utah  and  settling  in  Salt  Lake  county, 
and  throughout  his  life  has  been  one  of  its  promi- 
nent and  influential  men.  He  took  up  land  that 
was  then  barren,  and  by  his  industry  and  appli- 
cation has  made  it  a  fertile  farm.  He  is  now  in 
the  enjoyment  of  a  prosperous  farming  business, 
and  is  one  of  the  respected  residents  of  his  com- 
munity. No  man  stands  higher  in  the  esteem 
of  his  neighbors,  nor  does  any  one  hold  a  higher 
reputation  for  integrity,  honesty  and  good  citi- 
zenship than  does  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He 
is  the  son  of  Gilbert  and  Bruce  (Morrison) 
Sutherland,  who  were  born  in  the  Shetland 
Islands,  and  lived  and  died  there.  Their  son, 
who  was  the  oldest  of  eight  children,  received 
a  common  school  education,  and,  like  many  of 
the  natives  of  these  islands,  early  turned  his  at- 
tention to  following  the  sea.  He  followed  that 
occupation  until  he  came  to  America,  in  1853, 
most  of  his  trips  being  made  between  Great 
Britain  and  the  United  States.  He  served  his 
apprenticeship  on  board  a  sailing  ship,  and  was 
later  an  able  seaman,  and  rose  by  his  proficiency 
to  be   Second   Mate,   and   later   was  made   First 


Mate.  He  was  in  this  business  for  upwards  of 
nine  years,  and  his  travels  extended  not  only 
over  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  but  also  among  many 
of  the  British  Isles.  He  became  a  convert  to 
the  Mormon  Church  in  1856,  and  in  1859  made 
the  long  trip  from  the  East  across  the  plains  to 
Utah.  In  the  voyage  across  the  ocean  the  ship 
in  which  Mr.  Sutherland  made  his  trip  contained 
about  one  hundred  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church.  After  his  arrival  in  the  L'nited  States, 
our  subject  spent  about  one  year  in  coast  trade 
on  a  vessel  between  New  York  and  Boston,  and 
then  came  to  St.  Louis,  and  from  there  made  his 
way  to  Omaha,  and  made  the  journey  across  the 
plains  in  the  train  under  the  command  of  Cap- 
tain Orton  Haight,  and  on  September  i,  1859, 
arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  lived  here  for  two 
and  a  half  years,  and,  owing  to  the  fact  that  he 
had  followed  the  sea  all  his  life  and  was  not  ap- 
prenticed, nor  had  he  learned  any  mechanical 
trade,  was  forced  to  secure  employment  in  the 
quarrying  of  rocks.  He  finally  decided  to  take 
up  farming,  and  in  1862  removed  to  the  portion 
of  Salt  Lake  county  where  he  has  ever  since 
made  his  home.  His  homestead  is  on  the  county 
road  and  Sixteenth  South  street,  and  comprises 
about  sixteen  acres  of  land,  which  under  his  care 
has  been  well  cultivated  and  improved,  and  has 
grown  from  a  barren  region  into  a  prosperous 
farm. 

Mr.  Sutherland  was  married,  in  1859,  in  Ne- 
braska, to  Miss  Ella  C.  Nicholson,  also  a  native 
of  the  Shetland  Islands,  and  by  this  marriage  he 
has  had  seven  children.  They  are  William  J.,  a 
resident  of  the  Cottonwood  Ward ;  Joseph,  living 
in  Mill  Creek  Ward;  Hyrum  B.,  employed  in 
mining  at  Deep  Creek,  Utah ;  Isaiah,  at  Park 
City,  where  he  follows  the  trade  of  blacksmith- 
ing ;  Mary  E.,  now  the  wife  of  David  Chrystal ; 
Catherine  E.,  died  aged  fifteen  years  and  six 
months,  and  Zenobia  June,  now  Mrs.  Harper. 
Both  of  his  daughters  live  in  the  neighborhood 
of  their  father's  residence. 

In  political  affairs,  so  far  as  they  pertained  to 
the  local  affairs  of  Utah,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  People's  party,  but  in  national  politics  has 
been  a  believer  in  the  policies  of  the  Republican 
party.     He  has  held  the  position  of  Road  Super- 


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visor,  which  he  occupied  for  ten  years,  and  has 
also  been  a  School  Trustee  of  his  district  for 
twenty  years,  his  office  terminating  two  years 
ago.  He  has  been  a  prominent  member  of 
his  community,  and  served  on  the  jury  of  the 
Court  of  the  Third  Judicial  District  of  this  btate 
in  many  cases,  prominent  among  which  was  the 
Garland  case.  He  has  also  been  Chairman  of  the 
county  organizations  of  his  party,  and  has  held 
that  office  for  several  years.  As  has  been  said, 
he  joined  the  Mormon  Church  in  1856,  and  has 
all  his  life  been  a  staunch  and  faithful  follower 
of  its  doctrines.  He  has  served  as  a  missionary 
in  its  work,  and  spent  a  year  in  the  Shetland 
Islands  in  this  work.  His  son  Joseph  is  now 
absent  on  a  mission  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  Wil- 
liam J.,  another  son,  has  also  served  on  a  mission 
for  the  Church  in  Florida.  Mr.  Sutherland  has 
also  been  greatly  interested  and  active  in  the 
work  of  educating  the  young  people  of  the 
Church,  and  was  Superintendent  of  his  Sunday 
school  for  fourteen  years,  and  has  been  one  of  the 
active  workers  in  building  up  the  Church  in  his 
county.  He  is  now  in  his  seventieth  year,  and 
enjoys  fine  health,  and  with  his  consistent  life, 
his  straightforwardness  and  integrity,  has  won 
for  himself  a  lasting  place  in  the  affections  of  the 
people  with  whom  he  has  been  brought  into  close 
contact,  and  possesses  also  the  confidence  and 
trust  of  the  leaders  of  his  Church. 


)XORABLE  H.  S.  TANNER.  There 
are,  perhaps,  more  devotees  at  the 
shrine  of  the  Law  than  any  other  known 
profession,  and  yet  the  old  saw,  that 
"there  is  always  room  at  the  top,"  holds 
especially  true  here.  In  the  practice  of  the  law 
the  old  rule  of  the  survival  of  the  fittest  is  rigidly 
carried  out,  and  only  those  who  are  by  natural 
or  acquired  proficiency  able  to  stem  the  tide  ever 
come  to  be  read  of  men ;  but,  on  the  other  hand, 
no  profession  is  so  prodigal  of  the  favors  be- 
stowed upon  the  successful  candidate,  and  to 
have  one's  life  and  history  associated  with  the 
names  of  lawyers,  jurists  and  statesmen  whose 
names  adorn  the  halls  of  fame  is  an  honor  that 
any  man  may  well  covet.    A  perusal  of  the  career 


of  the  gentleman  whose  name  appears  at  the 
head  of  this  sketch  will  easily  convince  the  reader 
that  he  has  earned  the  right  to  this  distinction, 
and  that  he  stands  in  the  front  ranks  of  the  legal 
world  of  the  West. 

Judge  Tanner  is  a  native  son  of  Utah.  He 
was  born  in  Payson,  February  15,  1869,  and 
there  spent  his  early  life,  attending  the  common 
schools,  and  later  spent  five  years  in  the  Brigham 
Young  College  at  Logan  and  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo,  from  which  latter  institution 
he  graduated  in  1894.  He  then  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  graduating 
from  its  Law  Department  in  1899,  and  was  the 
same  year  admitted  to  practice  before  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  State  of  Michigan.  He  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake  Citv  and  was  admitted  to 


f  . 


practice  before  the  Supreme  and  Federal  Courts,' 
of  this  State.     He  at  once  entered  upon  the  prac-,  s     \ 
tice  of  his  profession,  meeting  with  good  success,\jy^ 
and  in  a  short  time  built  up  a  lucrative  practice.     K  jfc 
The  ability  he  displayed  as  a  lawyer  won  the  at-      ^ 
tention  and  approbation  of  the  older  men  in  the 
profession,  and  a  bright  future  was  predicted  for 
him,  the  beginning    of    the  fulfillment  of    which 
prediction  came  with  his  election,  in  November, 
1901,  as  one  of  the  City  Judges.     He  took  his 
office  on  January  i,  1902,  and  has  thus  far  made 
a  very  creditable  record,  being  one  of  the  young- 
est Judges  on  the  bench  of  L'tah. 

Our  subject's  father  is  Joseph  S.  Tanner,  ex- 
Bishop  of  Payson,  which  office  he  held  for  nearly 
twenty-five  years.  He  came  to  Utah  with  his 
father,  John  Tanner,  in  1848,  and  has  since  de- 
voted his  time  to  farming,  stock  raising  and  mill- 
ing. He  recently  lost  one  of  his  largest  mills 
by  fire  at  Payson.  He  has  met  with  large  suc- 
cess in  a  financial  way,  and  besides  being  one  of 
the  prominent  men  of  his  city,  is  one  of  the 
staunch  followers  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in 
which  he  was  born  and  reared,  his  father  joining 
the  Church  in  1831,  and  has  done  much  for  the 
advancement  and  upbuilding  of  that  faith  in  the 
West.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  mis- 
sion in  San  Bernardino  county,  California,  re- 
maining in  that  mission  until  recalled  by  Presi- 
dent Young  in  1857,  during  the  Johnston  army 
troubles.     His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  our  sub- 


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ject,  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Clark 
Haws.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Catherine  Haws, 
who  went  through  all  the  early  trials  and  hard- 
ships which  the  Saints  endured  at  Nauvoo  and 
in  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  of  this  State. 
With  her  parents,  Mrs.  Tanner  walked  the  en- 
tire distance  across  the  plains  from  Omaha  to 
Salt  Lake  City. 

Our  subject  was  united  in  marriage,  in  March, 
1890,  to  Laura  L.  Woodland,  daughter  of  W.  W. 
Woodland,  who  was  an  early  settler  in  Utah  and 
one  of  President  Brigham  Young's  body  guard. 
Six  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage — 
Henry  Bernard,  Vella  E.,  Mildred,  La  Fond, 
Deonge  and  Merlyn. 

Judge  Tanner's  political  sympathies  are  with 
the  Republican  party,  to  which  party  he  has  given 

tis  hearty  support  ever  since  its  organization  in 
Itah,  and  it  was  on  the  ticket  of  this  party  that 
e  received  his  election  to  the  Judgeship  in  1901. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  its  interests 
and  work.  He  spent  two  and  a  half  years  on  a 
mission  to  the  Southern  States,  laboring  in  North 
and  South  Carolina  and  in  Georgia.  He  filled  a 
short  mission,  during  the  summer  of  1894,  in 
Park  City  and  vicinity,  opening  up  the  Mormon 
Church  work  in  that  great  mining,  camp.  He 
had  charge  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints'  mission  in 
California,  his  headquarters  being  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  having  under  his  jurisdiction  all  of  the 
work  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  has  also  devoted 
a  considerable  amount  of  time  as  a  home  mission- 
ary in  Utah.  For  two  years  he  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Board  of  Young  Men's  Mutual 
Improvement  Association  of  the  Latter  Day 
Saints'  Church. 


AMES  B.  RHEAD  has  always  been  con- 
sidered one  of  the  piers  of  the  Mormon 
Church  since  reaching  manhood.  He 
has  lived  in  Coalville,  and  to  a  large  de- 
gree the  rapid  advancement  of  the 
county  has  been  due  to  his  untiring  efforts.  He 
has  always  been  closely  identified  with  the  lead- 
ing enterprises  of  his  county ;  and  in  the  affairs 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints  few  men  have  taken  a  more  prominent  or 


active  part  in  its  development  and  advancement. 
To  this  end  he  has  given  liberaly  of  his  time  and 
means.  For  a  number  of  years  he  did  efficient 
work  for  his  Church  in  the  foreign  mission  field, 
since  which  time  he  has  filled  two  home  missions, 
each  of  several  months  duration,  in  the  interests 
of  Mutual  Improvement  and  general  Church 
work.  His  long  and  honorable  career  in  this 
State  has  won  for  him  a  large  circle  of  friends 
and  admirers. 

Josiah  Rhead,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  Staffordshire,  England,  in  1831.  He  was 
there  converted  to  the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  emigrated  with  his  family  to  Amer- 
ica in  1856  on  the  sailing  vessel  Horizon,  which 
was  ten  weeks  in  making  the  trip  across  the 
ocean,  landing  in  Boston  in  July  of  that  year. 
From  Boston  they  came  by  rail  as  far  west  as 
Iowa  City,  then  the  western  terminus  of  the  rail- 
way. After  remaining  there  two  weeks,  they 
took  up  their  journey  with  the  ill-fated  hand-cart 
company,  which  was  captained  by  Joseph  Martin, 
in  which  so  many  subsequently  perished  from 
cold  and  hunger.  After  traveling  some  two  hun- 
dred miles,  to  the  little  town  of  Newton,  Mr. 
Rhead  had  a  severe  attack  of  chills  and  fever, 
which  necessitated  the  family  abandoning  the 
journey  for  a  time.  This  incident  was  always 
considered  providential  by  him  in  preserving  the 
family's  life,  as  in  all  probability  they,  with 
constitutions  none  too  strong,  would  never  have 
survived  the  vicissitudes  of  that  long  and  perilous 
march.  To  them,  from  a  religious  point  of  view, 
this  meant  much  more  than  a  mere  deliverance 
from  an  untimely  death ;  it  meant  that  they  could 
later  gather  with  the  body  of  the  Church  in  Zion, 
and  there,  by  officiating  vicariously,  be  spiritual 
saviors  to  their  fathers'  house. 

Upon  Mr.  Rhead's  recovery  the  family  moved 
to  Des  Moines,  where  the  father  worked  for  five 
vears,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time,  having  accu- 
mulated sufficient  to  purchase  an  outfit,  consist- 
ing mainly  of  a  yoke  of  cows  and  a  light  spring 
wagon,  crossed  the  plains  under  the  captaincy  of 
Joseph  A.  Young,  in  one  of  the  best  equipped 
companies  that  ever  crossed  the  country  from  the 
Missouri  river  to  Salt  Lake  City.  They  reached 
Utah   in   September.   1861,  and  located  near  the 


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junction  of  Chalk  creek  and  the  Weber  river,  not 
far  from  where  Coalville  is  now  located,  and  there 
the  father  procured  some  land  and  engaged  in 
farming.  He  was  a  potter  by  trade,  and  one  of 
the  first  to  engage  in  that  business  in  the  State, 
being  for  a  time  employed  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  later  established  a  pottery  in  Coalville,  which 
he  run  for  several  years,  continuing  his  farm  in 
the  meantime!  He  was  active  in  business  life  and 
one  of  the  prominent  men  of  his  community.  In 
the  Church  he  was  for  many  years  President  of 
the  First  Elders'  Quorum  of  Summit  Stake,  and 
later  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents  of  the  Twenty- 
Seventh  Quorum  of  Seventies.  He  died  on  the 
farm  in  1887,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years,  sin- 
cerely mourned  by  those  with  whom  he  had  been 
associated  for  more  than  twenty-five  years. 

His  wife,  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  Mrs.  Eliza  (Lewis)  Beech,  a  native 
of  the  same  shire  as  her  husband.  She,  too,  fig- 
ured prominently  and  took  great  delight  in 
Church  work.  For  a  great  many  years  she  la- 
bored arduously  in  the  Relief  Society,  and  for 
the  last  seventeen  years  of  her  life  was  President 
of  the  Young  Ladies!"  Mutual  Association  of 
Summit  Stake,  the  performance  of  the  duties  of 
that  office  affording  her  unbounded  pleasure.  She 
had  two  children  by  her  first  husband  and  eight 
by  Mr.  Rhead.  At  the  time  of  her  death,  in  1895, 
then  being  seventy  years  of  age,  there  were 
seven  of  the  children  living.  Of  the  first  family, 
Thomas  L.  Beech ;  and  of  the  second  family,  Ed- 
ward H.,  now  County  Surveyor  of  Summit 
county ;  Eliza  P.,  the  widow  of  Joseph  Farns- 
worth  ;  James  B.,  our  subject;  William  G. ;  Sarah 
Ann,  widow  of  A.  C.  Salmon,  and  Josiah  L. 
Rhead,  a  civil  engineer  and  graduate  of  the  Agri- 
cultural College  of  L^tah. 

James  B.  Rhead  was  born  in  Des  Aloines, 
Iowa,  March  17,  1858.  He  grew  up  in  Utah  from 
the  time  he  was  three  years  old,  and  received  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  the  State.  He  was 
the  first  Normal  graduate  from  Summit  county, 
at  the  Deseret  University,  now  the  University  of 
Utah.  After  graduating  he  spent  some  time 
teaching  school,  and  in  1887  engaged  in  high- 
grade  stock  raising  on  the  South  Fork  of  Chalk 
creek,  where  he  has  two  hundred  and  fortv  acres 


of  good  irrigable  land,  being  watered  from  a  very 
large  and  expensive  ditch,  two  and  a  half  miles 
long,  taken  from  the  South  Fork,  in  the  construc- 
tion of  which  he  spent  several  years.  Immedi- 
ately surrounding  this  tract  he  has  bought  from 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Company  and  the 
State,  respectively,  some  six  sections  of  first-class 
grazing  land  for  his  cattle  to  range  upon,  and 
has  there  established  a  record  as  being  one  of  the 
most  successful  cattle  growers  in  thaf  part  of 
the  country. 

He  divides  his  time  between  the  old  homestead 
at  Coalville,  where  his  father  and  mother  died, 
and  where  his  widowed  sisters  and  their  children 
now  live,  and  his  ranch,  ten  miles  out  of  town, 
where  his  wife  and  family  reside,  both  of  which 
homes  he  has  improved  and  beautified  to  a  com- 
mendable degree. 

He  has  also  been  interested  in  local  business 
enterprises,  and  has  been  for  a  number  of  years 
a  stockholder  and  director  in  the  Coalville  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution. 

Mr.  Rhead  was  married,  in  1896,  to  Miss 
Maria  W.  Hortin,  daughter  of  John  Hortin,  one 
of  the  pioneers  and  founders  of  Rockport,  Sum- 
mit county.  They  have  three  children — Fia- 
metta,  Hortense  and  La  Von. 

Pie  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  political 
life  of  his  district,  and  has  filled  the  office  of  City 
Recorder,  and  also  been  in  the  City  Council 
for  several  years.  He  has  also  had  the  privilege 
on  several  occasions  of  refusing  the  nominations 
of  his  party,  the  Democratic,  for  Mayor ;  his  ex- 
tremely busy  life  in  his  chosen  occupation,  and 
consequent  absence  from  the  city  a  great  part  of 
the  time  has  prohibited  his  accepting  the  honor. 
His  life  motto  has  been,  "Perform  well  and  faith- 
fully any  labor  undertaken,  whether  of  a  private 
or  public  nature,"  and  this  has  been  the  keynote 
of  his  unusually  successful  life. 

In  Church  matters  he  has  been  a  leader  since 
old  enough  to  take  part  in  the  work.  He  has 
filled  the  office  of  an  Elder,  and  been  a  member 
of  the  Twenty-seventh-Quorum  of  Seventies.  He 
was  ordained  a  High  Pridst  in  May,  1901,  under 
the  hands  of  President  Joseph  F.  Smith,  and  set 
apart  as  a  member  of  the  High  Council  of  Sum- 
mit   Slake   at   its   reorganization,    which  position 


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he  now  holds.  He  was  also  First  Counsellor  to 
Superintendent  F.  W.  Marchant  of  the  Summit 
Stake  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Asso- 
ciations for  a  great  number  of  years,  and  until 
Mr.  Marchant's  promotion  to  the  High  Council 
of  the  Stake,  when  he  was  tendered  his  prede- 
cessor's position  as  Superintendent  of  the  Im- 
provement Associations.  Owing,  however,  to  his 
pressing  duties  in  secular  life,  he  felt  obliged  to 
decline  tliis  honor,  although  he  had  become 
deeply  attached  to  the  work,  and  it  was  with 
much  regret  that  he  resigned  his  ambitions  for  a 
larger  scope  of  usefulness  in  Church  work.  In 
addition  to  the  above  offices,  he  has  also  filled 
that  of  teacher  of  the  theological  class  in  the 
Ward  Sunday  school,  receiving  a  medal  for  being 
one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  Coalville  Sab- 
bath school. 

In  1881  he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  to 
the  Sandwich  Islands  in  the  interest  of  the 
Church,  where  he  labored  for  three  years,  mas- 
tering the  language  of  that  people  and  having 
the  honor  of  presiding  over  every  conference  of 
the  Church  in  the  island.  During  the  latter  part 
of  his  sojourn  there  he  was  called  to  preside  over 
the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Associa- 
tions of  the  mission.  His  father  was  considered 
an  authority  on  Church  doctrine,  and  the  son  is 
following  closely  in  the  footsteps  of  the  parent. 

Mr.  Rhead  has  spent  almost  his  entire  life  in 
this  vicinity,  and  has  grown  up  with  the  country. 
He  has  seen  it  grow,  and  helped  to  redeem  it 
from  a  wild  and  barren  wilderness  to  a  cultivated 
and  beautiful  valley,  and  its  interests  and  his  own 
have  been  identical.  His  life  has  typified  that  of 
most  of  the  sons  of  the  early  settlers  of  this  re- 
gion, and  it  is  through  the  untiring  and  un- 
daunted energy  and  perseverance  of  such  men 
as  he  and  his  father  before  him  that  this  State 
has  been  brought  to  its  present  high  state  of 
cultivation. 


LMA  ELDREDGE.  In  tracing  the 
career  of  Alma  Eldredge,  President  of 
the  People's  Mercantile  Company,  of 
Coalville,  Summit  county,  one  is  im- 
pressed with  the  fact  that  he  is  a  man 
who  has  risen  to  his  present  position  among  the 


leading  financiers  of  Utah  solely  by  his  own  in- 
herent ability  and  correct  business  methods ;  that 
he  is  indebted  to  no  one  nor  to  any  favorable  com- 
bination of  circumstances  for  his  wealth  and 
prominence.  Industry  and  concentration  of  pur- 
pose have  been  his  watchwords,  and  success  has 
been  the  natural  outcome  of  these  essential  quali- 
fications. 

Alma  Eldredge  was  bom  near  Indianapolis,  In- 
diana, October  13.  1841,  and  is  the  son  of  Ira  and 
Nancy  (Black)  Eldredge,  who  came  to  Utah  Sep- 
tember 22,  1847,  in  a  train  commanded  by  Captain 
Daniel  Spencer,  as  captain  of  one  hundred  wag- 
ons and  himself  as  captain  over  fifty  wagons.  He 
was  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church  in  1841.  He  was  a  civil  engineer  by  pro- 
fession, and  did  much  surveying  in  this  country. 
He  located  a  farm  on  the  site  where  the  State 
Penitentiary  now  stands,  in  the  spring  of  1849, 
and  continued  his  residence  there  until  his  death. 
He  was  bom  in  Middleton,  Rutland  county,  Ver- 
mont, March  30,  1810,  and  died  at  Eldredge's 
Spring,  near  Coalville,  Utah,  in  1866.  His  father, 
Alanson  Eldredge,  was  bom  in  New  England  in 
1 781  ;  his  grandfather,  Micha  Eldredge,  was  born 
there  in  1758,  and  his  great  grandfather,  Mulford 
Eldredge,  was  born  in  the  New  England  colony 
in  1713,  ninety-three  years  after  the  landing  of 
the  Pilgrims  on  Plymouth  Rock.  Mr.  Eldredge 
several  times  crossed  the  plains  from  the  Mis- 
souri river  to  Utah,  assisting  emigrants  to  outfit 
and  come  to  this  State. 

Alma  was  the  fourth  child  in  a  family  of  nine. 
His  boyhood  days  were  spent  between  Sugar 
House  Ward  and  American  Fork,  where  he  lived 
for  some  time  with  an  uncle,  and  his  education 
was  obtained  from  the  schools  of  those  two 
places,  working  on  the  farm  in  the  summer  and 
attending  school  sometimes  in  the  winter.  In 
the  spring  of  1861  he  came  to  Coalville  and  took 
up  Government  land  half  a  mile  south  of  the 
town,  where  he  lived  for  five  years,  following 
ranching  and  stock  raising.  He  gave  particular 
attention  to  irrigation,  and  was  one  of  the  four 
to  construct  the  first  ditch  to  tap  the  Weber  river 
in  Summit  county. 

During  the  Black  Hawk  War  the  settlers  e.x- 
perienced  a  great  deal  of  trouble  with  the  Indians, 


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and  were  compelled  to  remove  all  improvements 
on  fanns  and  ranches  to  favorable  locations  for 
forts.  Mr.  Eldredge  removed  to  what  is  now  the 
site  of  Coalville,  where  the  settlers  combined  to 
build  a  rock  fort  for  protection.  From  that  time 
to  1868  he  followed  freighting  from  Salt  Lake 
City  east  along  the  mail  line.  In  1868  he  was 
occupied  in  grading  for  the  Union  Pacilic  Rail- 
road Company,  east  of  where  Evanston,  Wyom- 
ing, now  stands.  From  1869  to  1871  he  was  en- 
gaged in  missionary  work  for  the  Mormon 
Church  in  England  and  Ireland,  laboring  in  the 
Birmingham,  Hereford,  Bristol  and  Sheffield 
Conferences  in  England,  presiding  over  the  two 
latter  for  a  time.  Upon  his  return  to  L^tah  he 
spent  some  time  in  the  construction  of  the  Sum- 
mit County  Railroad,  which  connected  the  coal 
mines  with  the  L^nion  Pacific  Railroad  at  Echo, 
and  was  later  given  charge  of  the  transportation 
department  of  that  road,  which  position  he  held 
for  four  years.  He  gave  up  this  position  to  take 
a  contract,  in  connection  with  three  other  parties, 
to  build  the  Park  City  branch.  In  1879  he  be- 
came manager  of  the  Coalville  Co-operative  Mer- 
cantile Institution,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the 
organizers,  and  held  this  position  at  different 
times  until  1891.  In  1895  he  purchased  the  Peo- 
ple's Mercantile  Company  from  Ogden  parties, 
and  became  President  of  the  company.  He  was 
also  for  a  number  of  years  identified  with  the 
Johnson  Coal  Mine,  and  still  owns  some  valuable 
coal  lands.  He  has  done  much  towards  building 
up  and  improving  the  town,  and  built  the  first 
brick  house  in  Summit  county. 

Mr.  Eldredge  was  married,  January  24,  1863. 
to  Miss  Marinda  M.  Merrill  of  Ogden,  daughter 
of  Gilman  and  Rebecca  (Sevier)  Merrill.  By 
this  marriage  he  has  six  children — Lawrence  E., 
Secretary  of  the  People's  Mercantile  Company ; 
Bert ;  Earl ;  Roscoe ;  Leola,  wife  of  W.  J.  Brom- 
ley, and  Nellie,  wife  of  Elroy  Wilkins.  One 
daughter,  Armilla,  married  Samuel  Gentry.  Jr. ; 
they  both  died,  leaving  one  son,  Ralph. 

Mr.  Eldredge  was  elected  Sheriff  of  Summit 
county  in  1865,  and  was  later  Prosecuting  Attor- 
ney for  that  county.  He  was  elected  Probate 
Judge  in  1885,  and  twice  thereafter  re-elected  to 
the  same  office.     He  was  a  member  of  the  last 


Territorial  Legislative  Council  from  his  district, 
and  took  an  active  part  in  all  legislative  matters. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  three  State  Constitu- 
tional Conventions,  the  last  one  of  which  framed 
the  present  Constitution  of  the  State  of  Utah.  In 
1898  he  was  his  party's  candidate  for  Congress, 
but  was  defeated  by  the  Diemocratic  nominee,  B. 
H.  Roberts.  In  local  political  life  he  has  been 
Mayor  of  Coalville  four  terms,  and  has  also  been 
a  member  of  the  City  Council.  In  Church  mat- 
ters he  has  taken  a  very  prominent  and  useful 
part,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  Church  since 
he  was  eight  years  old.  He  was  ordained  an 
Elder  at  the  age  of  twenty,  and  in  1869  became  a 
member  of  the  Seventies.  On  his  return  from 
England  he  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set 
apart  as  Second  Counsellor  to  President  W.  W. 
Cluff  of  the  Summit  Stake,  later  becoming  First 
Counsellor.  He  remained  in  the  Presidency  until 
1901,  when  the  Stake  was  disorganized. 

Mr.  Eldredge  has  been  prominent  in  public 
life,  both  in  his  own  county  and  in  the  State, 
and  is  well  known  throughout  Utah.  No  man 
in  public  life  to-day  has  served  his  constituents 
better  or  more  faithfully  than  he  has,  and  the 
high  place  to  which  he  has  attained,  both  in  pri- 
vate and  public  walks  of  life,  have  been  due  to 
his  own  efforts,  and  he  is  deserving  of  all  the 
honors  that  have  come  to  him.  He  is  a  man  of 
wide  intellect,  agreeable  and  pleasant  in  his  bear- 
ing, and  counts  his  friends  by  the  legion. 


■.ORGE  R.  JONES,  Bishop  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  in  the  Twenty-third  Ward,  Salt 
Lake  City.  Bishop  Jones  has  been 
closely  identified  with  many  enterprises 
for  the  upbuilding  of  the  city,  having  spent  over 
forty  years  in  the  best  period  of  his  life  in  this 
State.  He  has  known  by  sad  experience  the 
hardships  and  difficulties  which  the  early  build- 
ers of  Utah  were  compelled  to  pass  through ;  in- 
deed, he  has  himself  experienced  many  privations 
and  hardships  in  the  early  days  of  this  new  coun- 
try, and  while  crossing  the  great  American  plains 
on  his  journey  to  Salt  Lake,  for  many  days  he 
and  his  wife  suffered  hunger  from  the  scarcity  of 


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food,  and  _vet  through  all  these  trying  scenes 
Bishop  Jones  has  come  out  a  stronger  and  better 
man.  They  came  across  the  plains  and  pushed 
hand-carts,  which  contained  their  bedding,  wear- 
ing apparel,  cooking  utensils  and  provisions. 
They  were  accompanied  by  five  wagons,  drawn 
by  oxen,  containing  the  balance  of  the  goods  be- 
longing to  the  party. 

George  R.  Jones  was  born  in  the  parish  of  New 
Church,  East  Monmouthshire,  England,  January 
21,  1836.  He  is  the  son  of  George  Jones,  a  native 
of  Bristol,  England,  who  moved  with  his  family 
to  the  parish  of  Tintern  Abbey  in  1845,  and  it 
was  in  this  place  that  our  subject  attained  his 
majority,  at  Shrewsbury,  and  in  Shropshire  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  1857. 
Two  years  later  he  sailed  with  his  young  wife 
from  Liverpool,  on  the  vessel  William  Tapscott, 
and  reached  New  York  after  a  voyage  of  thirty- 
one  days.  They  went  to  Detroit,  and  from  there 
to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  thence  by  boat  to 
Florence,  then  known  as  Winter  Quarters.  Here 
they  remained  a  short  time,  preparing  for  the 
journey  across  the  plains,  leaving  there  in  com- 
pany with  one  of  the  famous  hand-cart  com- 
panies, which  consisted  of  seventy-five  men  and 
a  number  of  women.  They  met  with  many  diffi- 
culties on  this  trip,  and  had  quite  an  interesting 
visit  with  a  band  of  Indians,  whom  they  met  at 
Buffalo  creek,  and  who  proved  to  be  very 
friendly,  assisting  them  to  draw  the  hand-carts 
for  a  short  time.  In  the  evening  the  Indians 
danced  their  war  dance  around  the  camp,  as  a 
sign  of  welcome,  but  this  not  being  understood 
by  the  emigrants,  grave  fears  of  their  safety  were 
entertained.  One  of  the  young  braves  fell  in 
love  with  a  young  lady  of  the  company  and  of- 
fered her  many  inducements  to  accompany  him 
to  his  camp  and  become  his  squaw,  which  offer 
was  declined.  Their  supply  of  food  was  very 
low,  and  for  three  days  our  subject  and  his  young 
wife  were  almost  entirely  without  food.  They 
encountered  a  wagon  belonging  to  the  Johnston 
army,  and  from  this  wagon  obtained  a  loaf  of 
bread.  On  reaching  Independence,  east  of  the 
Devil's  Gate,  they  secured  some  flour,  and  some 
of  the  oxen  having  died  from  drinking  alkali 
water,  they  were  compelled  to  eat  the  flesh,  and 


the  hide  being  boiled,  a  jellv  was  procured,  which 
many  of  the  company  ate.  On  reaching  Hams 
Fork,  in  the  western  part  of  Wyoming,  they  were 
met  by  teams  sent  out  by  Brigham  Young  for 
their  relief,  and  reached  Salt  Lake  City  Septem- 
ber 4,  1859. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah  Bishop  Jones  turned 
his  attention  to  anything  he  could  find,  herding 
sheep,  taking  care  of  stock  and  performing  all 
kinds  of  manual  labor  for  a  number  of  years.  In 
1872  he  purchased  a  lime  kiln  and  began  digging 
out  the  rock  and  burning  lime,  which  occupation 
he  has  followed  more  or  less  up  to  the  present 
time,  furnishing  all  the  lime  used  in  building  the 
walls  of  the  Temple  and  also  for  many  of  the  large 
buildings  here.  He  still  owns  this  property,  but 
is  not  operating  it  on  as  large  a  scale  as  formerly. 
He  is  interested  in  farming  in  Tooele  and  Davis 
counties,  and  has  accumulated  a  considerable 
amount  of  real  estate.  He  also  assisted  in  con- 
structing many  of  the  canals  in  the  State. 

Bishop  Jones's  marriage  occurred  in  March, 
1859,  in  the  city  of  Shrewsbury,  England,  when 
he  was  united  to  Miss  Harriett  Bruckshaw.  They 
have  three  children — Thomas  B.,  a  farmer  in 
Cassia  county,  Idaho ;  he  married  Catherine  Pick- 
ering, and  they  have  ten  children ;  Sarah,  wife  of 
Milon  Knight  of  this  city,  and  George  B.,  Jr.,  at 
present  with  his  brother  in  Idaho. 

Bishop  Jones  has  been  active  in  Church  work 
during  his  residence  in  this  State,  and  has  held 
a  number  of  offices  in  the  Church,  having  been 
ordained  an  Elder  in  1861  by  John  V.  Long,  and 
on  December  13,  1891,  was  made  Bishop  of  this 
ward.  He  has  also  been  prominent  in  Sunday 
school  work.  The  Bishop  is  a  self-made  man, 
and  by  dint  of  industry  and  economy  has  made 
for  himself  a  successful  career. 


\JOR  RICHARD  W.  YOUNG. 
The  brilliant  career  which  the 
American  troops  made  in  the  cam- 
paign in  the  Philippines,  both 
against  the  Spanish  arms  and  later 
in  the  subjugation  of  the  insurrection  headed 
by  Aguinaldo,  placed  the  volunteer  forces  of  the 
United  States  in  the  leadership  of  the  world's 
fighters.      Shortly   after   the   annihilation   of   the 


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Spanish  fleet  by  Admiral  Dewey,  troops  were 
hurried  to  his  support  from  the  western  part  of 
the  country,  and  in  few  things  have  the  Ameri- 
cans demonstrated  their  ability  so  aptly  as  in 
the  campaign  which  followed  upon  their  arrival 
in  the  East.  Among  the  volunteer  organizations 
which  took  an  active  part  in  the  work,  the  Utah 
Light  Artillery  distinguished  itself,  both  Dy  its 
bravery  in  action  and  by  its  discipline  in  garrison. 
Its  efficiency  was  due,  in  a  large  measure,  to  the 
able  officers  who  directed  its  operations,  and  the 
part  which  Major  Young,  the  commanding  offi- 
cer, took  in  the  command  of  the  organization  and 
later  in  the  administration  of  the  civil  afifairs  of 
those  islands,  redounded  greatly  to  the  credit  of 
Utah  and  the  entire  West. 

Major  Young  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
April  19,  1858,  and  is  the  son  of  Joseph  Angell 
Young,  oldest  son  of  President  Brigham  Young 
and  Margaret  (Whitehead)  Young.  He  spent 
his  early  life  in  Utah,  and  received  his  education 
m  the  public  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  spent 
one  year  in  the  employ  of  the  Utah  Central  Rail- 
road Company,  as  office  boy  and  telegraph  op- 
erator at  Salt  Lake  City.  He  then  began  to  learn 
the  trade  of  a  carpenter,  as  the  basis  of  the  pro- 
fession of  architecture,  and  worked  at  that  occu- 
pation for  a  year  and  a  half.  He  then  spent  the 
winters  of  two  years  teaching  school  in  Rich- 
field and  Manti,  leaving  that  to  again  enter  rail- 
road life,  accepting  a  position  as  agent  of  the 
Utah  Northern  Railroad  at  Ogden.  He  entered 
the  Deseret  University,  and  spent  several  years 
in  a  course  of  study  there.  He  was  appointed  a 
cadet  at  the  L^nited  States  Military  Academy  a'. 
West  Point,  and  graduated  from  that  institution 
in  1882.  He  graduated  well  in  his  class,  and  was 
assigned  to  the  artillery  arm  of  the  service.  His 
first  work  was  at  the  headquarters  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  East,  at  Governor's  Island,  New 
York  City,  where  he  was  Post  Adjutant,  and 
later  Captam  and  Acting  Judge  Advocate  of  the 
Department  on  the  staff  of  Major  General  W.  S. 
Hancock.  At  the  request  of  the  Military  Service 
Institution  he  wrote  a  legal  and  tactical  work 
on  "Mobs  and  the  Military,"  which  was  received 
with  marked  favor  by  the  leading  military  and 
naval  men  of  the  L^nited  States  and  was  com- 


mended in  the  preface  by  General  James  B.  Fry 
as  "the  most  thorough  and  complete  work  on  the 
subject  yet  published."  The  studies  which  he 
had  taken  in  law  at  West  Point,  together  with 
his  law  experience  as  a  Judge  Advocate,  resulted 
in  his  detail  by  Robert  T.  Lincoln,  then  Secretary 
of  War,  to  assist  the  prosecution  in  the  famous 
trial  of  General  Swain.  He  was  also  prominent 
m  military  life,  and  received  a  personal  letter  of 
thanks  from  General  Hancock  for  his  efficient 
services  at  the  funeral  of  General  Grant.  His 
success  as  a  Judge  Advocate  led  to  his  frequent 
appointment  to  that  position  on  a  number  of  im- 
portant courts-martial ;  he  was  a  valued  mem- 
ber of  the  military  service  during  his  connection 
with  it.  He  had  studied  constitutional  and  na- 
tional law  at  West  Point,  and  after  his  gradua- 
tion from  that  institution  pursued  his  study  of 
law  in  Columbia  College,  New  York  City,  grad- 
uating from  this  latter  school  in  1884,  and  being 
admitted  to  practice  before  all  the  courts  of  the 
State  of  New  York  in  the  same  year.  He  made 
military  law  a  specialty  until  1888,  when  he  re- 
signed from  the  service  and  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  law  in  Salt  Lake  Citv.  Prior  to  his 
departure  for  the  Philippines,  Major  Young  had 
built  up  a  large  and  comfortable  practice  as  an 
attorney.  He  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the 
affairs  of  Utah  and  in  the  building  up  of  this  city, 
and  has  been  frequently  called  to  occupy  import- 
ant positions  in  the  service  of  the  people.  He  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council,  and  is 
a  member  and  Vice-President  of  the  Board  of 
Education  of  Salt  Lake  City,  spending  four  and 
a  half  years  in  the  work  of  the  latter.  He  was 
also  prominent  in  the  military  affairs  of  the  State, 
and  occupied  the  rank  of  Brigadier  General  of 
the  Utah  National  Guard.  When  Utah  was  ad- 
mitted into  the  Union,  in  1896,  he  was  one  of 
the  Democratic  candidates  for  the  position  of 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court,  but  went  down  to 
defeat  with  the  rest  of  his  party.  He  was  Chair- 
man of  the  commission  which  prepared  the  code 
and  revised  statutes  of  Utah,  which  now  forni 
the  basis  of  the  government  of  this  State. 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can War,  Major  Young  was  first  appointed  to 
the  command  of  Batterv  A,  and  shortly  after- 


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wards,  as  commanding  officer  of  the  Utah  Light 
Artillery,  went  with  that  organization  to  the 
Philippines,  where  he  served  in  1898  and  1899, 
participating  in  the  capture  of  Manila  and  a 
number  of  engagements  with  the  insurgents.  He 
was  made  Chief  of  Artillery  of  Major  General 
MacArthur's  Division  in  the  Malalos  campaign. 
When  the  Utah  Artillery  sailed  from  the  Philip- 
pines for  the  United  States,  to  be  mustered  out. 
General  Otis,  Commanding  General,  appointed 
him  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  Philippine  Islands,  in  July,  1899,  and  he  was 
made  President  of  the  Criminal  Branch  of  that 
Court  by  General  MacArthur  in  1900.  In  May 
of  1901  he  resigned  his  position  and  returned  to 
the  United  States  and  took  up  his  practice  again. 
He  has  been  nominated  to  the  Senate  by  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  for  the  brevets  of  Lieutenant 
Colonel  and  Colonel  for  gallantry  in  action  in 
the  Philippines. 

Major  Young  was  married  to  Miss  Minerva 
Richards,  daughter  of  Henry  P.  Richards,  one 
of  the  prominent  men  of  Utah.  By  this  mar- 
riage they  have  seven  children — Margaret.  Mary, 
Richard,  Henrietta,    Minerva,   Clark  and   Ethel. 

Major  Young  has  been  a  consistent  and  able 
member  of  the  Democratic  party  since  its  organ- 
ization in  this  State.  His  ability  and  the  work 
he  has  done  have  won  for  him  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  all  citizens,  irrespective  of  political  or 
religious  creed,  and  few  men  enjoy  as  wide  a 
popularity  as  does  he. 


\\^\LCOTT  THOMPSON,  one  of  the 
leading  young  members  of  the  bar  of 
I 'tah,  who  has  already  given  such  prom- 
ise of  his  future  success  as  to  insure  him 
a  leading  position  in  his  profession  in  this 
State,  was  born  at  Fort  Brown,  Texas,  February 
10,  1873.  His  father,  Colonel  J.  Milton  Thomp- 
son, is  Colonel  of  the  Twenty-third  United  States 
.Infantry.  He  also  served  during  the  Civil  War 
in  the  Seventh  New  Hampshire  Regiment,  and 
served  throughout  the  conflict  with  brilliancy  and 
credit.  After  the  war  he  served  on  the  frontier 
and  at  various  posts  throughout  the  country  unti! 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Spanish-American  War, 


when  he  was  the  first  American  officer  to  take  a 
regiment — the  Twenty-third  Infantry — around 
the  world,  to  the  Philippines  and  back  to  New 
York.  He  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  the  service 
of  the  United  States  Army,  and  is  now  stationed 
at  Plattsburg  Barracks,  New  York.  His  wife, 
Mary  Elizabeth  (Walcott)  Thompson,  and  the 
mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  from  the 
same  branch  of  the  Walcott  family  as  was  Oliver 
Wolcott,  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence.  Her  father,  Oliver  Walcott,  was 
a  native  of  New  Hampshire  and  a  successful 
manufacturer  in  Lebanon  in  that  State.  She  is 
still  living  and  in  the  enjoyment  of  good  health, 
with  her  husband,  at  Plattsburg  Barracks,  New 
York. 

Their  son  prepared  for  college  in  Racine  Col- 
lege Grammar  School,  Racine,  Wisconsin,  and  at 
Tilton  Seminary,  Tilton,  New  Hampshire,  ana 
later  attended  Dartmouth  College,  where  he 
graduated  with  the  degree  of  B.  A.  in  1895.  He 
then  entered  Yale  University,  and  received  from 
it  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  in  1897,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  received  from  this  university  his 
degree  of  LL.  M.  He  was  admitted  to  practice 
before  the  Supreme  Court  of  Errors  of  Connecti- 
cut in  1898,  and  in  the  same  fall  came  to  Utah 
and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  George  Jay  Gibson,  with 
whom  he  had  been  associated  in  his  law  studies 
at  Yale,  and  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere 
in  this  volume.  They  have  been  very  successful 
in  building  up  their  practice,  and  now  enjoy  a 
growing  business. 

In  politics  Mr.  Thompson  is.  a  Republican.  He 
has  taken  a  great  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his 
party,  and  has  participated  actively  in  its  work. 
In  fraternal  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Military 
Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the  L^nited  States, 
a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion and  of  the  following  college  fraternities ; 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Phi  Beta  Phi ;  and  also  of 
the  legal  fraternity.  Phi  Delta  Phi.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Graduate  Club  of  New  Haven, 
and  in  Salt  Lake  City  is  a  member  of  the  Coun- 
try Club  and  of  the  University  Club.  He  has 
but  lately  been  appointed  Reporter  of  the  Decis- 
ions of  the  Supreme  Court  of  L^tah. 


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The  work  he  has  done  and  the  ability  which 
he  has  demonstrated  in  the  tasks  which  have 
fallen  to  him  to  perform  mark  him  as  one  of  the 
leadino^  young  men  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  for 
whom  the  future  has  a  brig:ht  career. 


UDGE  JOHN  M.  BOWMAN.  The  bar 
of  Utah  has  among  its  numbers  many 
men  of  ability  and  learning,  but  no 
member  of  that  body  has  achieved  a 
greater  success  or  occupies  a  more  com- 
manding position  than  does  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  He  is  now  one  of  the  leading  lawyers 
of  the  State,  and  in  addition  to  the  enjoyment  of 
a  lucrative  practice,  has  won  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  his  fellow  practitioners  and  of  the  citi- 
zens of  the  State  as  well. 

He  was  born  in  the  city  of  Reading,  Berks 
county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1844,  and  spent  his  early 
life  on  his  father's  farm.  He  received  his  early 
education  from  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
county.  His  father,  John  Bowman,  was  a  native 
of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  one  of  the  successful 
farmers  of  Berks  county.  The  mother  of  our 
subject,  Hannah  (Major)  Bowman,  was  also  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania.  Her  family  were  of 
Welsh  descent  on  her  mother's  side,  and  on  her 
father's  side,  of  English.  Her  father  was  also 
one  the  successful  farmers  of  that  county. 

After  the  completion  of  his  common  school 
education,  Judge  Bowman,  then  a  lad  of  fifteen 
years,  removed  to  Indiana  and  worked  on  a  farm 
for  over  a  year.  The  Civil  War  broke  out  in 
1861,  and  in  March  of  the  following  year,  when 
only  seventeen,  he  enlisted  in  the  Sixtieth  Indi- 
ana Volunteers,  and  served  throughout  the  entire 
conflict,  being  mustered  out  in  March,  1865.  His 
first  service  was  in  Kentucky,  and  the  first  battle 
in  which  his  regiment  participated  was  at  Mum- 
fordsville,  when  the  entire  command  was  cap- 
tured, paroled,  and  sent  to  Indianapolis,  Indiana, 
where  they  were  held  nearly  a  month,  with  seven 
thousand  other  prisoners.  LTpon  their  being  ex- 
changed, the  regiment  was  ordered  back  to  In- 
diana, and  was  later  sent  to  Memphis,  Tennessee, 


under  General  Grant,  and  he  later  served  in  his 
regiment  under  the  command  of  General  Sher- 
man, in  the  first  attack  on  Vicksburg,  Chickasaw 
Blufif.  The  regiment  participated  in  the  battle 
and  capture  of  Arkansas  Post,  under  General  Mc- 
Clarnand,  and  after  that  battle  the  regiment  lay 
at  Young's  Point,  west  of  Vicksburg,  where  they 
remained  that  winter,  working  on  the  canal.  Judge 
Bowman  and  his  oldest  brother  served  in  the 
same  regiment,  and  after  the  battle  of  Vicks- 
burg, Western  Louisiana,  his  brother  was 
wounded  in  the  battle  of  Carrion  Crow,  in  Tech 
Valley,  in  that  State,  and  later  died  in  the  hos- 
pital, at  New  Orleans,  from  the  eflfects  of  the 
wound.  Subsequently  the  regiment  was  ordered 
to  Texas  until  February,  1865,  when  it  was  or- 
dered back  to  New  Orleans,  and  from  there  was 
sent  to  Fort  Gains. 

After  he  had  been  mustered  out  of  service, 
Judge  Bowman  returned  to  farm  life,  securing 
employment  on  a  farm  near  Milford,  Illinois,  in 
which  work  he  remained  until  1871.  Dissatisfied 
with  farm  life,  and  determined  to  find  a  field 
that  promised  greater  results,  he  took  up  a 
course  of  study  and  prepared  himself  for  the 
position  of  school  teacher,  which  ocupation  he 
followed  during  the  winters  of  1872,  1873,  snd 
1874,  in  the  meantime  reading  and  studying  law, 
and  in  1876  he  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Indi- 
ana, and  practiced  one  year.  He  was  elected 
Superintendent  of  Schools  for  Warren  county 
Indiana,  in  1877,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for 
two  terms,  amounting  to  four  years.  In  the  fall 
of  1881  he  removed  from  Indiana  to  Kansas  and 
located  at  Oswego,  where  he  formed  a  law  part- 
nership with  Bishop  W.  Perkins,  late  United 
States  Senator  from  that  State.  The  firm  was 
later  known  as  Perkins,  Morrison  &  Bowman, 
and  this  partnership  continued  until  the  fall  of 
1884,  when  Judge  Bowman  removed  to  Pratt 
county,  Kansas.  Here  he  remained  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  law  until  1888,  when  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Legislature  from  Pratt 
county.  He  remained  in  Kansas,  until  January, 
1889,  when  he  removed  to  Utah,  settling  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  where  he  has  practiced  law  ever  since. 
On  November  the  24th,  1900,  he  formed  a  law 
partnership  with  Alviras  E.  Sno\y.  This  partner- 


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ship  enjoys  a  large  and  lucrative  practive,  and 
is  also  interested  to  some  extent  in  mining  prop- 
erties. 

Judge  Bowman  married  in  Indiana,  to  Miss 
Kate  Hunt,  daughter  of  David  Hunt.  She  is 
a  member  of  an  old  German  family  and  her  fa- 
ther was  a  prosperous  farmer. 

In  politics  Judge  Bowman  is  a  staunch  Repub- 
lican, and  in  social  life  is  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic Order,  having  attained  the  degree  of 
Knights  Templar,  and  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.  He  has  served  two  terms  as  Master 
of  the  Wasatch  Lodge,  and  served  one  term  as 
Master  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, Temple  Lodge,   Number  Fifteen. 

Although  Judge  Bowman  has  not  long  been  a 
resident  of  Utah,  his  work  in  this  State  is  a  du- 
plicate of  his  success  in  the  East,  and  the  promi- 
nent position  which  he  now  occupies  has  been 
the  result  of  his  own  efforts,  and  of  constant, 
grinding,  hard  work.  He  is  a  self-made  man  of 
the  highest  type — one  who  has  acquired  his  edu- 
cation and  his  present  standing  by  his  own  abil- 
ity, and  overcame  the  obstacles  that  arose  in  the 
pathway  of  success  by  his  determination  to  suc- 
ceed. 


RESIDENT  J.  GOLDEN  KIMB.^LL, 
one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Seventies, 
and  a  son  of  Heber  C.  Kimball, 
was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  on  June 
9,  1853,  and  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  that  then  existed  in  this 
city,  and  also  attended  the  Deseret  University 
in  the  early  days  of  its  establishment,  and  later 
attended  the  sessions  of  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy,  at  Provo,  graduating  from  the  latter 
institution  in  1880.  He  became  one  of  the  promi- 
nent men  of  Utah  in  1875.  when,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-two,  he  started  out  for  himself  in  the 
ranch  business  and  secured  a  ranch  of  four  hun- 
dred acres  and  stocked  it  with  cattle  and  horses, 
in  Rich  county,  and  continued  in  that  business 
until  July,  1900,  when  he  entered  the  implement 
business,    in    Logan,    Cache    county,    and    main- 


tained a  branch  house  in  Montpelier,  Bear  Lake 
county.  He  believed  the  opportunities  greater  in 
Salt  Lake  City  than  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  State,  and  moved  here  and  went  in  to  the 
real  estate  business  in  the  days  of  the  '  boom."  He 
has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  to  which  he  belongs  and  of  which  his 
father  was  one  of  the  leaders,  and  has  risen  to  a 
prominent  place  in  its  councils.  For  the  past 
ten  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  First  Council 
of  the  Seventies,  and  for  five  years  was  absent  on 
missionary  work  for  the  Church,  traveling 
throughout  the  Southern  States.  During  this 
time  he  was  engaged  in  traveling  extensively, 
preaching  and  making  many  converts  to  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Mormon  Church.  The  first  two 
years  he  filled  the  regular  mission  and  traveled 
three  hundred  miles  on  foot,  during  which  time 
he  never  met  a  man  who  had  seen  a  Mormon, 
and  during  his  first  two  years  service  was  in 
company  with  Elder  B.  H.  Roberts,  and  assisted 
in  securing  the  bodies  of  two  Mormon  mission- 
aries, who  were  murdered  at  Cane  Creek,  Ten- 
nessee, on  account  of  their  religious  behef.  At 
the  time  these  two  missionaries  were  murdered, 
two  young  men  who  had  become  converts  to  the 
teachings  of  the  missionaries,  were  killed,  and 
their  mother  dangerously  wounded.  Upon  his 
return  to  Salt  Lake  City  he  resumed  his  active 
work  in  building  up  the  Church's  influence 
throughout  Utah,  and  is  now  one  of  the  First 
Council  of  the  Seventies. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1888,  to  Miss  Jen- 
nie K.  Knowlton,  daughter  of  Ouincy  Knowlton, 
who  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  this  region.  By 
this  marriage  he  has  six  children — Quincy,  Jona- 
than G.,  Elizabeth,  Gladys,  Heber  C,  and  Max 
Knowlton. 

The  work  which  he  has  done  for  the  Church 
has  made  him  one  of  the  prominent  men  of 
its  ranks  and  has  won  for  him  a  high  standing 
in  its  membership.  His  integrity  and  ability  have 
won  for  him  a  high  place  in  the  esteem  and  re- 
spect of  the  citizens  of  Utah,  and  today  he  en- 
joys a  wide  popularity.  He  has  devoted  most 
of  his  time  to  the  work  of  the  Church  and,  as 
a  consequence,  has  not  been  to  any  extent  able 
to  carry  on  independent  mercantile  pursuits. 


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UDGE  CHRISTOPHER  B.  DIEHL. 
Possessincr  a  thorough  and  practical 
knowledge  of  the  law,  Judge  Diehl  is  emi- 
nently qualified  to  fill  the  responsible 
position  to  which  he  has  been  called,  as 
one  of  the  city  judges,  having  for  some  time 
prior  to  his  appointment  to  this  position  been 
connected  with  the  City  Justice's  court,  and  is 
peculiarly  adapted  to  the  discharginp-  of  the  duties 
of  his  office. 

Judge  Diehl  is  a  native  of  Utah,  being  bom 
in  this  city  in  1874,  and  is  the  only  son  of  Chris- 
topher and  .A.nn  (Rothardt)  Diehl,  natives  of 
Germany.  The  father  of  our  subject  came  to 
Utah  in  1852  and  has  since  made  Salt  Lake  City 
his  home.  He  has  devoted  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  to  the  interests  of  Masonry,  being  at  this 
time  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  .A.. 
F.  and  A.  M.,  with  headquarters  in  the  Masonic 
Temple,  in  this  city,  and  is  known  through  his 
work  and  writings  throughout  the  Masonic  world. 
He  is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  highly 
respected  of  Salt  Lake  City's  prominent  citizens. 
Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  this 
city,  and  obtained  his  early  education  from  the 
common  schools  and  the  Deseret  University,  now 
the  University  of  Utah,  in  which  he  took  a  three 
years'  course,  after  which  he  entered  the  Stan- 
ford LTniversity  of  California,  graduating  from 
that  institution.  He  then  entered  the  Northwest- 
ern University,  of  Chicago,  from  which  he  grad- 
tiated  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  i^aws  in 
1897.  He  was  adinitted  to  practice  before  the 
Supreme  Court  of  this  State  in  1898,  and  since 
that  time  his  career  has  been  a  brilliant  one.  He 
was,  for  three  and  a  half  years,  Prosecuting  At- 
torney of  Salt  Lake  City,  under  Judge  Timmony. 
He  filled  that  position  until  the  spring  of  1901, 
when  he  w-as  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  death  of  Judge  Timmony,  as  City  Justice, 
and  at  the  election  which  occurred  in  November, 
1901,  was  elected  to  the  position  of  City  Judge 
by  a  large  inajority. 

Judge  Diehl  is  yet  a  young  man,  just  in  the 
sunrise  of  his  career,  but  those  who  have  watched 
his  course,  predict  for  him  a  bright  future  as 
one  of  the  leading  attorneys  of  the  West.     He 


ture  and  experienced  lawyer  might  be  well  proud, 
and  commands  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the 
better  class  of  citizens  in  Salt  Lake  City.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  stands  high  with 
the  leaders  of  his  party,  for  which  he  has  done 
splendid  work  since  attaining  his  majority. 

In  social  Hfe  he  is  a  member  of  the  Elks,  and 
University  Club.     Pie  is  unmarried. 


OHN  A.  SPIKER.  The  field  of  elec- 
tricity affords  a  young  man  of  energy 
and  ability  a  means  for  pushing  rapidly 
tu  the  front  in  the  commercial  circles  of 
his  community,  and  in  no  city  is  this  more 
marked  than  in  Salt  Lake.  The  President  of  the 
Spiker  Electric  company  is  a  young  man  who  has 
risen  to  his  present  position  in  the  business  life 
of  Salt  Lake  City  by  his  own  industry  and  un- 
tiring perseverance.  He  has  made  his  own  way 
to  the  position  he  occupies  and  has  come  to  it 
through  the  exercise  of  pluck  and  undaunted  de- 
termination. 

John  A.  Spiker  was  born  in  Grand  Island, 
Nebraska,  in  1877,  and  lived  there  until  he  was 
nineteen  years  of  age.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of 
W.  M.  Spiker,  a  native  of  Illinois,  who  settled  in 
Nebraska  in  the  early  days,  coming  to  that  State 
before  the  railroad  was  completed.  He  was  a 
prominent  attorney,  practicing  his  profession  all 
his  life,  and  died  in  Grand  Island  when  his  son 
was  thirteen  years  of  age.  He  was  prominent  in 
the  afifairs  of  Hall  county,  and  was  Sheriff  of  it. 
He  was  a  Democrat  and  participated  actively  in 
the  work  of  that  party.  His  wife,  the  mother 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  Melinda 
(Barnes)   Spiker. 

Their  son  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
Grand  Island  and  lived  in  Nebraska  until  he  was 
nineteen  years  of  age.  Owing  to  the  death  of  his 
father  when  he  was  but  thirteen  years  of  age, 
he  was  forced  to  contribute  to  the  support  of 
the  family,  and  secured  employment  as  a  mes- 
senger boy  in  the  service  of  the  Western  Union 
Telegraph  Company.  With  this  company  he 
remained  for  ten  years,  three  years  of  which 
time  he  spent  in   Nebraska.     He  then  came  to 


has  alreadv  made  a  record  of  which  a  more  ma-      Utah  and  took  a  position  in  the  Western  Union 


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service  as  telegraph  operator,  and  was  also  an 
electrician  for  that  company  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  remained  in  its  employ  until  two  years  ago 
when  he  resigned  to  accept  a  position  with  the 
Pleasant  Valley  Coal  Company,  as  book-keeper 
and  operator,  at  Clear  Creek  and  Castle  Gate, 
Utah.  While  in  the  service  of  this  latter  com- 
pany he  realized  the  possibilities  of  the  further 
adaptation  of  electricity  to  the  needs  of  the  peo- 
ple, and  organized  the  Western  Construction  and 
Electric  Company,  which  later  became  the  Spiker 
Electric  Company,  of  which  he  was  elected  Presi- 
dent, and  has  continued  in  that  capacity  ever 
since.  This  new  firm  has  enjoyed  a  great  popu- 
larity and  is  now  one  of  the  prosperous  enter- 
prises of  the  city.  Its  success  has  been  largely  due 
to  the  energy  and  ability  which  Mr.  Spiker  has 
brought  to  bear  upon  problems  in  connection 
with  its  management. 

Mr.  Spiker  was  married  three  years  ago  to 
Miss  Delia  C.  Eldredge,  daughter  of  J.  U.  Eld- 
redge,  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  Salt  Lake 
Citv,  and  by  this  marriage  has  one  child — Lulu- 

belL 

In  political  life  Mr.  Spiker  is  a  Democrat,  but 
has  never  participated  actively  in  the  work  of  that 
party,  so  far  as  a  candidacy  for  public  office  is 
concerned,  nor  has  he  ever  desired  to  hold  office. 
He  is  a  self-made  man  of  the  highest  type,  and 
one  who,  by  the  success  he  has  already  won 
for  himself  in  commercial  life  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
will  in  the  future  years  be  among  the  leaders  of 
business  in  this  region.  He  is  well  and  popularly 
known  throughout  the  State,  and  his  integrity 
and  strict  honesty  have  won  for  him  the  confi- 
dence and  esteeem  of  the  business  people. 


ILLIAM  NELSON.  In  the  world 
i)f  newspaperdom  of  the  LTnited 
States,  few  papers  have  had  so 
strenuous  a  career  as  has  had  the 
Salt  Lake  Tribune.  It  has  reached 
its  present  position  largely  through  the  fearless- 
ness of  its  editors,  and  through  the  policy  which 
it  has  always  maintained  of  being  first,  last  and 
all  the  time  for  the  development  of  Utah  and 
Latah's  mineral  wealth.  It  has  not  confined  itself 


to  any  one  industry,  however,  but  given  its  aid 
and  support  and  used  its  mighty  influence  for  the 
furthering  of  any  and  all  projects  which  had  for 
their  end  the  betterment  of  the  State.  It  has 
grown  in  importance  and  prospered  as  the  years 
progressed,  under  its  able  corps  of  editors,  until 
it  is  now  ranked  as  one  of  the  best  newspapers 
in  the  inter-mountain  region,  and  one  of  the 
been  reached  and  maintained  through  the  efforts 
of  such  men  as  Charles  C.  Goodwin  and  William 
Nelson,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

William  Nelson  was  born  near  Rutherglen, 
Scotland,  now  a  part  of  Glasgow,  in  1839.  At  the 
age  of  three  years  his  parents  removed  to  Amer- 
ica and  settled  in  Wisconsin,  where  their  son 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools. 
With  the  necessity  of  contributing  to  the  support 
of  the  family,  which  was  the  lot  of  every  boy 
of  a  pioneer  family  in  those  days,  young  Nelson 
started  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  to  learn  the 
trade  of  printing,  and  was  apprenticed  on  the 
Sentinel,  at  Monroe,  Wisconsin,  where  he  con- 
tinued for  some  years.  He  afterwards  left  this 
position  and  accepted  a  better  one,  in  the  same 
line,  on  the  Gazette,  of  Galena,  Illinois,  and  re- 
mained there  for  a  year,  returning  at  the  end  of 
that  time  to  Monroe,  and  worked  for  various 
newspapers  in  Wisconsin,  among  which  was  the 
IVitness,  at   Platteville. 

Upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War.  in  1861. 
Mr.  Nelson  enlisted  in  Company  I,  Tenth  Wis- 
consin Volunteers,  in  September  of  that  year, 
and  served  throughout  the  entire  conflict,  being 
mustered  out  of  the  service  of  the  United  States 
on  January  7,  1865.  He  participated  in  all  the 
battles  in  which  his  regiment  was  engaged,  except 
Perryville,  Kentucky,  and  his  first  fight  was  in 
defending  the  bridge  at  Paint  Rock,  .\labama. 
The  action  here  was  very  heavy  and  his  baptismal 
fire  was  a  fearful  ordeal.  All  of  his  command 
of  twenty-four  were  wounded,  the  attacking  force 
numbering  two  hundred  and  fifty.  The  enemy 
were  successfully  repulsed  after  a  two  hours' 
fight.  He  was  later  at  Stevenson  and  took  part 
in  the  siege  of  Nashville,  and  was  also  in  the 
battle  of  Stone  River.  He  fought  all  through 
the  Tennessee  campaign,  from  the  first  engage- 
ment to  the  last,   the   latter  being  the  battle  01 


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209 


Chickamaiiga.  His  entire  regiment  was  captured 
and  held  prisoners,  first  in  Richmond  for  four 
months,  then  transferred  to  Danville,  in  Virginia, 
and  held  there  during  the  winter,  and  later  trans- 
ferred to  the  prison  camp  at  Andersonville,  made 
famous  by  the  horrible  treatment  which  the  Union 
soldiers  were  forced  to  undergo  there.  He  was 
removed,  in  the  fall,  to  Florence,  South  Carolina, 
where  he  remained  a  prisoner  until  Februarj 
1865.  He  was  chosen  to  be  a  Sergeant  of  his 
company,  and  later  to  be  First  Sergeant.  After 
the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  Wisconsin 
and  re-entered  the  newspaper  business.  He  pur- 
chased the  I'iroqna  tensor,  and  successfully  con- 
ducted it  for  some  time.  While  he  was  its  editor 
he  was  elected  State  Senator  from  that  district 
and  served  for  two  years  in  the  Legislature  of 
Wisconsin.  He  remained  actively  engaged  in 
the  newspaper  work  until  he  came  to  Utah  in 
1876,  as  United  States  Marshal,  and  was  engagea 
in  the  collection  of  the  evidence  concerning  the 
Mountain  Meadow  Massacre.  He  obtained  the 
witnesses  for  the  prosecution  in  the  trial  of  John 
D.  Lee,  who  was  one  of  the  prime  instigators 
of  that  crime,  perpetrated  in  1857,  Lee  was 
condemned  to  death  and  shot  in  1877,  twenty 
years  after  the  crime  had  been  committed.  He 
remained  in  his  position  of  United  States  Marshaj 
until  1878,  when  he  engaged  in  mining.  He  be- 
came connected  with  the  Tribune  and  has  been  in 
its  active  service  ever  since.  He  was  first  em- 
ployed as  telegraph  editor  and  raised  from  that 
position  to  be  the  managing  editor  of  that  paper, 
and  it  is  largely  through  his  ability  and  through 
the  energy  and  experience  that  he  has  brought 
to  this  work  that  the  Tribune  of  today  has 
achieved  its  present  standing  in  the  ranks  of  me- 
tropolitan journals. 

Mr.  Nelson's  father  was  a  native  of  Scotland, 
and  after  coming  to  Wisconsin  devoted  his  time 
to  mining.  His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  died  in  Scotland. 

Mr.  Xelsoji  was  married,  in  1866,  in  Wisconsin, 
to  Miss  Mary  Fritwell,  and  by  this  marriage  has 
five  children — Margaret,  Mary,  William,  Esther, 
and  Grace.  William  is  at  present  employed  on 
the  Tribune,  and  who  is  also  a  veteran,  having 
joined    liattery    A,    of   the    Utah    Artillery,    and 


served  with  that  organization  for  more  than  a 
year  in  the  insurrection  in  the  Philippine  Islands 
being  honorably  mustered  out  of  the  service  of 
the  United  States,  as  Corporal,  at  San  Fran- 
cisco, with  his  battery. 

In  the  administration  of  the  political  aiifairs  of 
the  State,  Mr.  Nelson  is  a  prominent  member  oi 
the  Republican  party.  In  the  old  regime,  before 
the  separation  of  the  citizens  of  the  State  upon 
National  political  lines,  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
members  of  the  Liberal  party,  and  by  his  ad 
vice  and  counsel  did  much  to  make  possible  the 
separation  of  the  people  upon  the  present  lines. 
In  fraternal  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
Order,  and  a  Companion  in  the  Royal  Arch. 

Mr.  Nelson's  career  in  Utah  has  been  closely 
identified  with  the  progress  made  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources,  and  in  the  building  up  of 
the  large  mining  operations  which  are  at  present 
making  this  State  one  of  the  great  mineral  pro- 
ducing commonwealths  of  the  country.  His  suc- 
cess in  life  has  been  achieved  by  his  own  efforts 
and  is  due  to  his  untiring  energy,  industry,  perse- 
verance, and  indomitable  will.  The  part  which 
he  has  played  in  forcing  the  opening  of  the  State 
to  emigrants  from  all  sections  of  the  United 
States,  has  made  his  name  one  of  historical  im- 
portance in  the  annals  of  Utah.  Since  the  termi- 
nation of  the  fight  which  raged  so  fierceK  in 
L'tah  between  the  Mormons  and  the  Gen- 
tiles, he  has  been  prominent  in  the  work 
of  making  the  citizens  of  the  State  a  united 
people,  and  the  present  satisfactory  condi- 
tion IS  due  largely  to  his  efforts  and  to  the 
influence  of  the  paper  which  he  directs.  Today 
there  is  no  more  prominent  man,  nor  one  more 
universally  liked,,  by  Mormon  and  by  Gentile, 
than  is  Mr.  Nelson.  He  was  one  of  the  first  ten 
members  of  the  Board  of  Education  in  1891, 
and  was  afterwards  President  of  the  Board.  He 
was  for  four  years  a  member  of  the  General 
Board,  and  President  of  it  three  years  of  that 
time. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


LEXANDER  CROOKSHANK 
PYPER.  In  reviewing  the  history  of 
those  men  who  came  to  Utah  after  the 
first  influx  of  immigration  had  sub- 
sided, and  by  their  shrewd  business 
ability,  keen  foresight  and  able  co-operation  as- 
sisted in  laying  a  firm  foundation  upon  which 
future  generations  were  to  build  for  both  Church 
and  State,  none  is  more  worthy  of  special  men- 
tion than  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  has 
long  since  laid  down  the  responsible  duties  which 
he  had  assumed,  and  passed  to  the  reward  which 
awaits  those  who  have  lived  noble  lives  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  light  they  possessed.  He  wa? 
for  a  period  of  more  than  twenty  years  one  of 
the  most  prominent  men  in  this  whole  inter- 
mountain  region. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Larg=,  Ayrshire,  Scot- 
land, May  i8,  1828.  He  spent  his  early  life  in 
the  land  of  his  birth  and  there  received  his  edu- 
cation. He  became  identified  with  the  Mormon 
Church  while  very  young,  and  at  the  early  age 
of  seventeen  was  appointed  to  the  position  of 
Traveling  Elder  and  spent  some  time  preaching 
the  gospel  of  Mormonism  in  his  native  country, 
enduring  many  hardships  for  Truth's  sake.  .A? 
a  young  man  he  came  to  the  United  States  and 
settled  first  at  Saint  Louis,  where  he  remained 
for  several  years.  From  there  he  went  to  Coun- 
cil Blufifs,  in  1838,  at  which  place  and  at  Florence, 
Nebraska,  he  conducted  successful  mercantile  es- 
tablishments. While  on  the  plains,  he  aided  Gen- 
eral Horace  S.  Eldredge  in  connection  with  the 
emigration  business  of  the  Church  for  a  period 
of  about  four  years. 

In  1859  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Utah  by  ox 
team,  and  arrived  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  in  the 
Autumn  of  that  year,  bringing  with  him  several 
wagons  loaded  with  general  merchandise,  witn 
which  he  again  commenced  business.  Subse- 
quently he  established  a  chemical  manufact- 
uring laboratory  in  Sugar  House  Ward  and 
engaged  in  the  production  of  white  lead, 
sulphur  and  other  articles  of  similar  char- 
acter. He  was  afterwards  employed  by  Pres- 
ident Brigham  Young  to  conduct  his  pri- 
vate outside  business,  and  during  the  remain- 
der   of    his    life    in    Utah   was   closely    associ- 


ated with  President  Young  in  many  of  his  busi- 
ness enterprises,  as  well  as  in  Church  work.  Hes 
again  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  which 
he  conducted  for  a  few  years,  when  he  accepted 
a  position  as  superintendent  of  the  grocery  de- 
partment of  the  Zion  Co-Operative  Mercantile 
Institution,  when  that  branch  of  the  business  was 
conducted  in  the  Constitution  building.  This  busi- 
ness he  successfully  run  for  a  number  of  years. 

His  next  work  was  of  an  official  character ; 
being  installed  in  the  City  Hall  as  Police  Judge, 
which  position  he  occupied  from  August,  1874, 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  For  a  period  of  ten 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of 
Salt  Lake.  In  June,  1877,  at  the  time  of  the 
general  organization  of  the  Stakes  and  Wards, 
by  direction  of  President  Brigham  Young,  Elder 
Pyper  was  ordained  a  Bishop  and  set  apart  to 
preside  over  the  Twelfth  W  ard. 

Perhaps  no  man  in  the  city  did  more  towards 
promoting  the  silk  industry  than  did  Mr.  Pyper, 
he  being  one  of  the- most  successful  producers  of 
silk  in  the  entire  inter-mountain  region,  and  even 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  took  an  active  and 
deep  interest  in  that  industry.  That  he  was  a 
very  strong  man  in  every  way  there  can  be  no 
question.  Full  of  activity  and  alive  to  the  im- 
portance of  every  enterprise  for  the  upbuilding 
and  advancement  of  Utah,  he  was  one  of  the 
best-known  figures  in  the  State.  In  general  ap- 
pearance, he  was  of  average  height,  spare-built 
and  of  naturally  quick  movements.  His  death 
occurred  July  29,  1882,  and  the  funeral  was  held 
in  the  Twelfth  Ward  school  house,  July  30th. 
The  funeral  was  perhaps  one  of  the  largest  held 
in  the  city  up  to  that  time.  Mr.  Pyper,  by  his 
long  and  honorable  career  in  Utah,  had  drawn 
around  him  many  warm  friends — not  alone  among 
the  leaders  of  the  Church,  but  from  the  people 
in  general.  On  the  day  of  the  funeral  the  hall 
was  crowded  with  all  classes  of  people.  There 
were  present.  Presidents  Wilford  Woodruf?  and 
Joseph  F.  Smith;  Apostle  and  Counselor  Daniel 
H.  Wells ;  the  Bishopric  of  the  Church,  Edward 
Hunter  and  L.  W.  Hardy;  Bishop  Robert  T. 
Burton ;  the  Presidency  of  the  Stake,  A.  M.  Can- 
non and  D.  O.  Calder ;  and  nearly  all  the  Bishops 
of  Salt  Lake  City  and  many  others  of  the  leading 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Church  authorities  too  numerous  to  mention. 
Mayor  Jennings  and  the  City  Council  and  officers 
were  present  in  a  body.  The  services  were  con- 
ducted by  Elder  John  Dr.uce,  who  was  First 
Counselor  to  Bishop  Pyper  in  the  Twelfth  Ward 
Stake  of  Zion.  Nearly  all  the  heads  of  the 
Church  spoke  at  his  funeral  in  commendation  of 
his  grand  and  useful  life,  and  it  is  safe  to  say 
that  few  men  whose  lives  have  been  so  closely 
identified  with  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  State  of 
Utah  were  more  deeply  mourned  or  missed  than 
was  Bishop  Pyper. 

His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Christiana 
Dollinger,  and  was  a  native  of  New  York  City. 
She  came  across  the  plains  by  ox  teams  in  1859, 
and  is  still  living  in  this  city,  where  she  has, 
since  coming  here,  been  one  of  the  most  active 
and  prominent  women  of  the  Mormon  Church ; 
devoting  much  of  her  time  to  its  interests  and 
being  closely  associated  with  its  different  charit- 
able organizations  and  societies.  Her  long  resi- 
dence has  given  her  an  extended  acquaintance — 
not  only  among  the  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
but  throughout  the  State,  where  she  is  universally 
beloved.  Her  father,  Thomas  Dollinger,  was  one 
of  the  earliest  adherents  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
He  died  at  Nauvoo,  prior  to  the  exodus. 


USANNA  BRANSFORD  EMERY 
HOLMES.  The  development  of  the 
mining  resources  of  Utah  has  resulted 
in  the  enriching  of  the  fortunes  of  man\ 
of  the  men  of  the  State.  This  field  of 
work,  apparently  peculiarly  adapted  to  men,  has 
been  invaded  by  women  of  courage,  ability  and 
energy,  and  their  rewards  have  been  as  great  as 
have  those  secured  by  the  men.  At  the  very  head 
of  all  the  women  of  Utah,  in  wealth  and  in  pop- 
ularity, is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

A  Kentuckian,  by  birth,  she  has  always  been 
noted  for  her  graciousness  of  manner  and  tne 
courtesy  and  hospitality  that  are  the  inherent 
birthrights  of  all  Southerners.  She  married  A. 
B.  Emery,  who  died  about  eight  year*  smce.  By 
this  union  she  has  one  daughter — Louise  Grace 
Emery.  Mr.  Emery  left  his  widow  a  rich  herit- 
age in  mining  interests.    He  had  been  a  dealer  in 


mining  stocks  throughout  his  life,  to  a  large  de- 
gree, and  at  his  death  left,  as  a  legacy  to  his 
widow,  his  extensive  interests  in  the  Silver  King 
mine. 

With  rare  courage  and  ability,  and  profiting 
by  the  knowledge  of  mining  which  she  had  de- 
rived from  her  father's  and  from  her  husband's 
experience,  Mrs.  Emery  set  to  work  to  develop 
the  business.  Believing  in  the  future  value  of  the 
property  left  her  by  her  husband,  she  refused  the 
trifling  offers  made  for  her  rights  and  immedi- 
ately began  a  thorough  investigation  of  the 
mines.  Her  faith  was  so  great  in  the  future  value 
of  her  properties  that  she  willingly  earned  her 
own  income,  rather  than  sacrifice  her  interests. 
Later  she  was  enabled  to  properly  start  operations 
in  the  mines  and  the  results  soon  justified  her 
faith.  The  income  derived  from  these  properties 
soon  enabled  her  to  extend  her  operations  until 
now,  with  an  income  of  one  hundred  thousand 
dollars  a  year,  she  is  the  richest  woman  in  Utah 
and  one  of  the  wealthiest  in  the  United  States 
whose  property  and  fortune  have  been  acquired 
largely  by  her  own  efforts.  So  wide  are  her  in- 
terests that  she  is  now  a  large  owner  in  all  the 
more  prosperous  and  valuable  mining  property 
in  the  State,  including  the  Silver  King  mine,  the 
most  valuable  mine  in  the  West. 

Although  a  remarkably  rich  woman,  her  suc- 
cess has  not  robbed  her  of  her  interests  in  her 
fellow  beings,  and  today  she  is  as  widely  known 
for  her  philanthropy  as  she  is  for  her  wealth. 
In  the  newsboys  of  Salt  Lake  City  she  takes  a 
great  interest,  which  her  wards  warmly  recip- 
rocate. 

In  1899,  Mrs.  Emery  met  Edwin  F.  Holmes, 
a  millionaire  capitalist  of  Detroit,  Michigan,  in 
the  course  of  a  mining  transaction ;  their  mutual 
liking  developed  into  love  and  they  were  married 
at  the  Waldorf-.\storia,  in  New  York  City,  in 
that  year. 

Mrs.  Holmes  is  one  of  the  most  popular  women 
in  Utah,  and  indeed,  throughout  the  West.  She 
is  a  woman  of  many  attainments,  fond  of  music 
and  books,  and  her  graceful,  cultured  and  polished 
manner  has  been  enriched  by  her  extensive  trav- 
els both  in  the  United  States  and  in  Europe. 
While   in   Europe   she   was   the   object  of  much 


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social  attention ;  and  in  London,  Paris  and  Rome, 
her  grace  and  tact,  together  with  her  wealth 
and  the  richness  of  her  jewels  and  gowns, 
has  made  her  one  of  the  best  known  and 
most  popular  Americans  in  those  lands.  She 
received  an  audience  from  Pope  Leo  and 
was  the  guest  of  the  late  Queen  Victoria 
of  England,  besides  receiving  other  attentions 
from  the  crowned  heads  of  Europe.  When  re- 
siding in  America,  her  time  is  divided  between 
the  East  and  the  West,  New  York  and  San  Fran- 
cisco knowing  and  welcoming  her  as  heartily  as 
does  Salt  Lake. 

One  of  the  most  brilliant  functions  that  ever 
took  place  in  the  West,  and  one  which  Mrs. 
Holmes  directed,  was  the  marriage  of  her  sister. 
Miss  Nellie  Bransford,  to  Jay  T.  Harris,  which 
took  place  in  Salt  Lake  City,  in  October,  1900. 
The  entire  cost  of  the  wedding,  including  the 
trousseau  of  the  bride,  was  defrayed  by  Mrs. 
Holmes,  and  amounted  to  over  one  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars.  In  addition  to  this  outlay  the  bride 
received,  as  a  present  from  her  sister,  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars'  worth  of  the  stock  of  the  Silver 
King  mine. 

Mrs.  Holmes  is  recognized  as  the  social  leader 
in  affairs  of  Salt  Lake  City — not  alone  from 
her  wealth  but  from  her  knowledge  and  tact,  as 
well.  Instead  of  warping  and  narrowing  .her 
Hfe,  her  wealth  has  broadened  and  developed  her 
love  for  the  beautiful ;  and  her  hospitable  home, 
formerly  the  ".\melia  Palace,"  is  perhaps  the 
most  popular  home  in  all  the  inter-mountain  re- 
gion. She  is  famed  for  her  charity  and  for  her 
generous  spirit,  and  many  of  the  poor  people  of 
the  city  can  testify  to  her  minstering  deeds.  Her 
success  shines  brilliantly  in  the  records  of  Utah, 
and  her  remarkable  success  in  financial  matters 
is  due  entirely  to  her  own  ability,  energy  and 
foresig:ht. 


Louis, 


USTAVE  J.  BARTHEL,  the  president 
of  the  Utah  Lithographing  Company, 
the  largest  printing  and  lithographing 
establishment  west  of  Omaha  and  east 
of  San  Francisco,  was  born  in  Saint 
Missouri,    in    1863.      He   spent   his   early 


life  in  that  State,  and  was  educated  in  the  parish 
schools  of  Saint  Louis,  and  began  to  learn  lith- 
ographing and  engraving  at  an  early  age.  He 
served  his  apprenticeship  in  Saint  Louis  with  the 
August  Cast  Lithographing  Company,  where  he 
remained  about  five  years.  He  then  removed  to 
Omaha,  and  for  seven  years  carried  on  business 
in  that  city,  being  in  charge  of  the  lithographing 
department  in  the  establishment  of  Gibson,  Mil- 
ler &  Richardson,  and  also  the  Rees  Printing 
Company.  He  then  removed  to  Denver  and  took 
charge  of  the  lithographing  department  of  the 
Pioneer  Lithographing  Company,  in  which  em- 
ployment he  remained  for  four  years,  coming  to 
Salt  Lake  in  1893.  His  first  work  in  Utah  was 
with  the  Salt  Lake  Lithographing  Company,  and 
in  1895  he  established  the  present  company,  of 
which  he  is  president,  under  the  name  of  the 
Utah  Lithographing  Company.  This  establish- 
ment was  first  located  on  Richards  street,  and 
later  removed  to  its  present  site  on  West  Temple 
street.  A  short  time  after  its  establishment  it 
grew  to  such  proportions  that  it  bought  out  the 
Salt  Lake  Lithographing  Company,  and  the  busi- 
ness has  increased  to  such  an  extent  that  from  a 
force  of  four  men,  the  number  of  its  employees 
is  now  between  forty-five  and  fifty  men.  It  is 
one  of  the  solid  business  establishments  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  to  the  ability  with  which  Mr. 
Barthel  has  conducted  its  affairs  is  largely  due 
its  popularity  and  prosperity.  It  is  now  the  lead- 
ing printing  company  in  the  inter-mountain  re- 
gion, and  its  business  has  increased  so  rapidly 
within  the  past  four  years  that  additional  room 
has  been  needed  for  its  work,  and  extensive  im- 
provements have  been  made  in  the  plant.  It  is  a 
thoroughly  equipped  plant,  and  one  that  is  capa- 
ble of  handling  with  expedition  the  most  diffi- 
cult class  of  work. 

Mr.  Barthel  was  married  in  C)maha,  to  Miss 
Mary  Callahan,  daughter  of  J.  C.  Callahan,  of 
Aleadville,  Pennsylvania,  and  by  this  marriage 
has  two  children — Harold  and  Edward. 

The  position  which  he  now  holds  in  Salt  Lake 
City  has  been  won  by  his  own  ability,  and  by  his 
application  to  his  business.  He  has  devoted  his 
entire  time  and  attention  to  the  building  up  of 
his    establishment,    and    the    prominent    position  • 


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which  it  now  holds  is  largely  due  to  his  able  ad- 
ministration of  the  office  of  president,  which  he 
has  held  since  the  company  was  formed. 


LLIAM  TONKS.  Not  only  has 
England  furnished  a  larger  quota  of 
the  State  of  Utah  than  perhaps  any 
other  country  on  the  globe,  but  they 
have  invariably  been  men  of  high 
courage  and  determination,  coming  here  practi- 
cally without  means  and  by  perseverance,  pluck 
and  hard  work  have  not  only  assisted  in  devel- 
oping the  State  and  transforming  the  once  bar- 
ren and  apparently  unpromising  wilderness  into 
one  of  the  most  prosperous  and  productive  por- 
tions of  the  United  States,  but  have  at  the  same 
time  acquired  wealth  and  high  social  standing 
for  themselves,  and  from  positions  of  obscurity 
have  risen  to  the  highest  positions  of  trust  and 
influence  in  their  community.  Among  these  men 
the  career  of  William  Tonks,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  is  especially  worthy  of  note. 

Mr.  Tonks  was  born  in  Staffordshire,  En- 
gland, July  19,  1832.  He  received  his  education 
there,  and  grew  to  manhood,  learning  the  black- 
smith trade  from  his  father.  When  but  eighteen 
years  of  age,  he  became  converted  to  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  in  1856,  becom- 
ing imbued  with  a  desire  to  join  the  members  of 
that  Church  in  this  country,  sailed  for  America, 
and  landed  in  New  York.  He  remained  there 
about  three  years,  working  at  his  trade,  and  at 
the  end  of  that  time  took  river  passage  to  Flor- 
ence with  his  wife  and  two  children,  and  joined 
a  train  of  Mormon  emigrants  bound  for  Utah, 
traveling  most  of  the  long  journey  across  the 
plains  on  foot.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City 
October  i,  1859.  Upon  his  arrival  here,  our  sub- 
ject opened  up  a  nail  factory  in  the  Nineteeenth 
Ward,  which  he  operated  for  a  time,  and  then 
took  up  his  trade  of  blacksmith.  In  1866  he 
moved  to  Morgan  City,  where  he  opened  the  first 
blacksmith  shop  to  be  established  in  that  place, 
and  continued  to  ply  his  trade  until  recent  years, 
building  up  an  extensive  business  and  making 
considerable  monev  out  of  it.     He  accumulated 


a  large  amount  of  property  in  Morgan  and  built 
one  of  the  finest  residences  in  that  place.  About 
1872  he  bought  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Round 
\'alley.  The  land  was  in  an  uncultivated  state, 
mostly  covered  with  willows  and  other  wild 
growth,  and  since  he  has  owned  it  Mr.  Tonks 
has  cleared  and  cultivated  one  hundred  acres  of 
it,  putting  it  under  irrigation,  and  has  followed 
a  general  farming  business.  He  raised  two  thou- 
sand bushels  of  potatoes  off  of  his  land  in  1901, 
besides  his  wheat,  oats,  hay  and  other  produce. 
He  is  also  interested  largely  in  stock  raising,  and 
owns  some  valuable  range  land.  In  1899  °'^'' 
subject,  together  with  a  number  of  his  neighbors, 
organized  a  stock  company  and  bought  a  large 
tract  of  land  from  the  railroad  company,  which 
they  use  for  range  purposes,  and  usually  have 
about  five  hundred  head  of  stock  on  this  range. 
Mr.  Tonks  has  built  another  very  fine  house  on 
his  ranch,  which  is  occupied  by  his  son,  who  has 
the  supervision  of  the  place.  His  sons  are  in- 
terested with  him  in  his  different  enterprises,  and 
take  the  burden  of  looking  after  the  extensive 
interests  in  which  they  are  engaged,  off  of  his 
shoulders. 

Mr.  Tonks  was  married  in  England  in  1855  to 
Miss  IMartha  Doericott,  a  native  of  the  same 
place  where  he  grew  to  manhood.  She  came  to 
America  and  crossed  the  plains  with  him,  pass- 
ing through  all  the  hardships  incident  to  living 
here  in  the  early  days,  and  has  been  his  constant 
companion  since,  doing  much  by  her  care  and 
forethought  as  well  as  advice  to  assist  in  earning 
the  reward  that  has  come  to  them  for  the  long 
life  of  toil  that  is  now  past.  They  have  a  family 
of  seven  children — Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Clay- 
ton;  George  M.,  living  in  Teton  Basin.  Idaho; 
William  H.,  also  living  in  Teton  Basin :  Jane, 
wife  of  Thomas  F.  Welch;  Louisa,  wife  of 
Benjamin  Jones ;  Charles,  residing  on  the  ranch, 
and  Rebecca,  wife  of  James  Tucker,  of  Morgan. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tonks  have  forty-seven  grand- 
children and  five  great-grandchildren. 

Mr.  Tonks  has  reared  his  children  in  the  faith 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  the  family  are  prom- 
inent in  local  church  work.  While  residing  in 
Round  Valley,  Mr.  Tonks  was  Assistant  Super- 
intendent of  the  Sundav  School  there.     He  has 


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been  very  liberal  with  his  means,  and  has  done 
much  towards  building  up  his  community,  giv- 
ing a  good  deal  of  money  towards  the  erecting 
of  school  and  meeting  houses,  ditches,  roads  and 
other  enterprises  for  the  upbuilding  and  growth 
of  the  town  and  county. 

When  he  came  to  Utah,  IMr.  Tonks  had  to  bor- 
row the  money  to  bring  himself  and  family  across 
the  plains.  His  wonderful  success  since  demon- 
strates the  fact  that  no  obstacle  is  too  great  to 
be  overcome  by  the  man  who  possesses  the  will 
to  do  and  dare.  He  has  not  only  succeeded  in 
accumulating  wealth  and  a  high  commercial 
standing  in  his  county,  but  he  has  won  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  the  business  men  of  the 
place,  and  enjoys  the  respect  and  confidence  of 
■school  work.  The  Bishop  is  a  self-made  man, 
ward.  He  has  also  been  prominent  in  Sunday 
the  people  with  whom  he  has  been  more  or  less 
closely  associated  for  more  than  thirty  years.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  at  present  owns 
one-third  of  the  stock  of  the  Morgan  City  Zion 
Co-operative  Commercial  Institution. 


lOVANNI  LAVAGNINO.  Among  the 
prominent  and  successful  mine  operat- 
ors of  the  State  may  be  counted  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  the  president  of 
the  Conglomerate  Mining  and  Milling 
Company. 

Born  in  Piedmont,  Italy,  in  1848,  his  boyhood 
days  were  spent  in  his  native  country.  His 
early  education  was  obtained  at  Piedmont  and 
later  in  the  National  University  at  Palarmo  in 
Sicily,  graduating  from  the  department  of  civil 
engineering  of  that  institution  in  1873  with  the 
degree  of  C.  E.  He  then  entered  the  Academy 
of  mining  in  Frigburg,  Saxony,  graduating  in 
1875  in  mining  and  metallurgy.  Later  he  took 
special  courses  in  different  schools  to  perfect  his 
education  and  broaden  his  mind  along  the  line 
of  his  chosen  profession — that  of  civil  engineer- 
ing. During  his  school  days  he  served  as  a  sol- 
dier in  the  volunteer  army  of  his  native  country. 
Upon  the  completion  of  his  education  in  these 
schools  and  universities,  he  was  for  eight  years 


professor  of  science  and  mathematics  in  differ- 
ent schools  and  colleges  in  Italy.  Later  he  re- 
linquished these  positions  and  went  to  the  Isle 
of  Sardino,  where  he  engaged  in  mining  and  in 
work  as  a  civil  engineer  for  a  period  of  four 
years.  He  then  traveled  in  France  and  England 
for  about  a  year,  studying  the  mining  operations 
and  methods  in  those  countries,  and  also  profiting 
by  the  experience  of  the  leading  civil  engineers 
of  those  countries. 

The  great  excitement  caused  by  the  discovery 
of  the  large  beds  of  ore  in  the  Leadville  district, 
determined  him  to  see  and  judge  for  himself, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1879  he  set  sail  for  America, 
arriving  in  Leadville,  Colorado,  in  the  early 
spring  of  1880.  He  visited  the  principal  cities 
of  this  country  before  he  settled  in  Leadville. 
Here  he  found  conditions  both  unsatisfactory 
and  uncongenial,  and  remained  but  a  short  time, 
removing  to  Butte,  Montana,  where  he  located 
and  engaged  in  mining  for  the  two  years,  1881 
and  1882.  Here  he  became  identified  with  the 
Calvarus  Mining  and  Smelting  Company, 
which  was  the  first  copper  mine  developed  and 
sucessfully  worked  in  Montana,  the  smelter  be- 
ing the  first  erected  in  that  State  for  the  exclu- 
sive treatment  of  copper  ores.  Later  he  became 
assfociated  with  the  Lexington  mine,  and  re- 
mained with  that  company  until  the  completion 
of  the  Lexington  mill  in  the  fall  of  1882. 

Early  in  the  spring  of  1883,  he  removed  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  since  which  time  his  headquar- 
ters have  been  in  this  city,  and  here,  as  well  as 
in  other  Western  States,  he  has  taken  an  active 
and  prominent  part  in  the  development  of  some 
of  the  greatest  mining  properties  of  this  region. 
Among  the  most  prominent  of  such  properties 
with  which  he  has  been  identified  in  Utah  is  the 
old  Telegraph  mine,  located  at  Bingham  City. 
This  has  been  a  great  success  and  a  prosperous 
investment  for  its  owners,  and  at  this  time  is  still 
a  great  mine.  Mr.  Lavagnino  sold  this  property 
to  the  United  States  Mining  Company  in  April, 
1899,  for  nearly  six  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
He  also  sold  the  De  Ard  mine  at  Cripple  Creek, 
Colorado,  to  W.  S.  Stratton,  for  a  large  sum. 
While  in  the  western  part  of  the  United  States, 
Mr.   Lavagnino  has   spent  about  three  years   in 


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the  Cripple  Creek  district  of  Colorado,  and  still 
retains  interests  in  many  mining  properties  there. 
His  holdings  extend  through  Utah  and  into  all 
the  adjoining  States,  and  even  into  Mexico.  In 
Mexico,  his  properties  have  proved  prosperous 
and  very   remunerative. 

In  addition  to  his  mining  property  in  Utah, 
he  is  a  large  owner  of  real  estate  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and,  indeed,  throughout  the  State  as  well, 
and  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  future  prosperity  and 
importance  of  this  city. 

Mr.  Lavagnino  is  a  self-made  man.  He  was 
left  an  orphan  in  his  early  childhood,  and  his 
early  education  was  derived  through  the  assist- 
ance and  kindness  of  a  sister.  This  was  the 
only  assistance  he  received,  and  since  that  has 
made  his  own  way  in  the  world. 

One  secret  of  his  success,  and  upon  which  he 
has  built  his  career,  has  been  the  unbounded  con- 
fidence reposed  in  him  by  the  people  with  whom 
he  has  been  connected,  and  his  scrupulous  re- 
spect for  the  trusts  confided  in  him  has  brought 
him  such  a  record  that  it  may  well  be  an  object 
of  pride  to  his  children  and  to  his  future  pos- 
terity. 

Before  he  had  arrived  at  the  age  of  sixteen, 
he  was  filling  a  position  in  the  Internal  Revenue 
Office  in  his  native  land,  connected  with  which 
were  responsibilities  and  trusts  of  a  high  order. 

Mr.  Lavagnino  married  Miss  Loreno  Larson, 
a  native  of  Salt  Lake  City,  who,  for  several 
years  prior  to  her  marriage,  was  a  talented  and 
successful  school  teacher.  By  this  union  they 
have  three  bright,  intelligent  and  beautiful  chil- 
dren— Florence,  Jerrett  and  Louise — who  are 
now  at  school  in  Italy. 

In  politics,  our  subject  owes  allegiance  to  nei- 
ther party,  preferring  to  maintain  an  independ- 
ent position  and  direct  his  efforts  in  the  line  best 
calculated  to  serve  the  interests  of  the  commu- 
nity. In  religious  matters,  he  attends  the  Uni- 
tarian church.  Personally,  he  is  a  very  genial 
and  pleasant  gentleman,  highly  educated,  cul- 
tured and  refined.  He  has  a  large  circle  of  warm 
friends  throughout  Utah,  and  indeed  in  all  the 
Western  States,  and  his  genial  manner  and  unim- 
peachable integrity  have  brought  him  the  enjoy- 
ment of  a  wide  and  substantial  popularity. 


TEARNS  HATCH.  Among  the  prom- 
inent and  successful  stockmen  of  Davis 
county,  who  have  been  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  upbuilding  of  this  county 
from  almost  its  earliest  period,  and  who 
has  assisted  in  a  large  measure  in  every  enter- 
prise for  the  development  and  improvement  of 
his  county,  Stearns  Hatch  deserves  special  men- 
tion. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  LTtah  having  been  born 
in  South  Bountiful  Ward,  December  6,  1853, 
and  is  a  son  of  Ira  Stearns  and  Jane  (Bee) 
Hatch,  a  full  biographical  sketch  of  his  father 
appearing  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  His  mother 
was  a  native  of  Scotland,  being  born  in  Edin- 
burgh. Our  subject  is  the  oldest  of  eight  chil- 
dren of  Jane  (Bee)  Hatch,  who  is  still  living  in 
the  neighborhood  of  her  son,  our  subject.  Mr. 
Hatch  spent  his  early  life  on  the  farm,  and  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
Davis  county,  such  as  existed  at  that  time.  He 
started  out  in  life  for  himself  soon  after  the  death 
of  his  father,  which  occurred  in  1869. 

On  October  6,  1876,  he  married  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Jane  Ellis,  daughter  of  John  and  Harriett 
(Hales)  Ellis.  By  this  union  eleven  children 
were  born,  ten  of  whom  are  still  living — Ira  S. , 
Harriett  E.,  John  L.,  Lena  Jane,  Laura  L.,  Wil- 
ford  W.,  Irene,  Mary,  who  died  at  five  years  of 
age ;  Lillian  G.,  Sarah,  and  Leonard  E.  Soon  after 
Mr.  Hatch  married,  he  settled  in  South  Bountiful 
Ward.  He  first  purchased  twenty-five  acres  of 
land,  which  at  that  time  was  in  a  wild  state,  be- 
ing covered  with  willows  and  underbrush,  and 
this  he  has  continued  to  improve  from  time  to 
time  until  he  now  has  one  of  the  finest  places  for 
its  size  in  that  vicinity.  He  owns  a  splendid 
brick  residence,  and  all  the  improvements  on  his 
home  place  are  of  a  high  order.  Mr.  Hatch  has 
been  largely  identified  with  the  stock  raising  bus- 
iness, both  cattle  and  sheep,  throughout  his 
career.  At  the  present  time  he  is  largely  inter- 
ested in  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company,  and 
in  the  Hatch  Brothers  Live  Stock  Company.  He 
was  one  of  the  original  organizers  of  the  Woods 
Cross  Canning  and  Pickling  Company,  and  is  at 
this  time  its  president,  having  been  elected  in 
1892.      This   has   been   a   very   successful   enter- 


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prise,  and  has  been  very  beneficial  to  Davis 
county.  The  concern  gives  eniployment  to  some- 
thing over  one  hundred  people  during  the  sea- 
son, and  so  popular  are  their  brands  that  dur- 
ing the  past  season  they  were  not  able  to  fill 
all  their  orders.  He  is  also  identified  with  many 
other  enterprises  in  Davis  county. 

In  politics  he  believes  in  supporting  the  best 
man,  and  therefore  has  never  been  identified  with 
either  of  the  dominant  parties.  He  is  essenti- 
ally a  business  man,  and  has  never  run  for  any 
political  office.  He  and  his  whole  family  are 
members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  for  many 
years  he  has  served  as  Sunday  School  teacher 
and  superintendent  in  the  South  Bountiful  Ward. 
He  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  in  1894,  and 
later  ordained  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Sev- 
enty-Fourth Quorum  of  Seventies,  and  at  one 
time  was  President  of  the  Elders'  Quorum,  as  well 
as  being  a  member  of  the  High  Council.  He  has 
served  for  a  number  of  years  as  school  trustee 
of  his  district.  Mr.  Hatch,  in  connection  with 
his  brothers,  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  tracing 
the  genealogy  of  the  family.  They  have  spent 
much  money  and  time  in  traveling  to  the  East 
and  to  Europe  ,  and  now  have  a  genealogy  on 
both  sides  that  traces  back  for  eight  generations. 

Mr.  Hatch,  by  his  honorable  and  straightfor- 
ward dealings  with  all  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated  through  life,  has  won  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  the  people,  not  only  of  South 
Bountiful  Ward,  but  throughout  Davis  county 
and  wherever  he  is  known. 


P,.  WIGHT,  member  of  the  law  firm 
of  Snyder,  Westervelt,  Snyder  & 
Wight,  of  Park  City.  Mr.  Wight  has 
only  been  a  resident  of  Park  City  for 
the  past  ten  years,  and  a  member  of 
the  firm  since  1901,  but  during  this  time  he  and 
the  firm  of  which  he  is  a  member  have  built  up 
a  large  and  lucrative  law  business.  The  firm 
also  have  offices  in  the  Atlas  Block,  Salt  Lake 
City,  ]\Ir.  Wight's  time  being  mostly  devoted  to 
the  Park  City  end  of  the  business. 

Our  subject  is  a  native  of  New  York   State, 
having  been    born    in    Fowler,   Saint   Lawrence 


county,  March  18,  1874,  where  he  lived  until 
thirteen  years  of  age,  when  the  family  moved  to 
Gouverneur,  that  State,  where  the  school  facili- 
ties were  better,  and  where  our  subject  received 
his  early  education.  He  was  one  of  a  family  of 
eight  boys.  The  family  is  descended  from  John 
Wight,  who  emigrated  to  this  country  before  the 
Revolutionary  War  and  settled  in  Massachusetts, 
following  farming.  The  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject, Abner  Wight,  was  born  in  181 1,  and  emi- 
grated to  Saint  Lawrence  county,  New  York, 
where  our  subject's  father  was  raised.  Our  sub- 
ject's mother  was  Mary  Whitney,  a  native  of 
Spragueville,  New  York,  and  a  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  (Houghton)  Whitney.  She 
died  in  Park  City  in  1891,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
seven  years,  leaving  seven  sons — Herbert,  an . 
electrical  engineer,  living  in  Syracuse,  New 
York ;  L.B.,  our  subject ;  Guy,  Royal,  now  a  prac- 
ticing dentist  of  Park  City;  Holland,  Verne,  and 
]\Iark.  Our  subject's  father  is  still  living  in  Cali- 
fornia. 

Mr.  Wight  began  life  for  himself  at  the  early 
age  of  sixteen,  when  he  engaged  in  school  teach- 
ing, which  he  followed  for  a  number  of  years,  at- 
tending school  himself  and  thus  completing  his 
education.  In  1892  he  came  to  Park  City,  where 
his  father  was  located,  and  taught  school  in  Sum- 
mit county  until  the  fall  of  1896,  when  he  entered 
the  Law  School  of  Syracuse  University,  from 
which  he  graduated  in  1898  with  the  degree  of 
L.  B. 

L'pon  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American 
War,  Mr.  Wight  enlisted  with  his  brothers,  Guy 
and  Royal,  in  Company  A,  Two  Hundred  and 
Third  New  York  Volunteer  Infantry,  for  service 
in  Cuba.  The  regiment  was  sent  to  Camp  Black, 
and  from  there  to  Camp  Mead,  in  Pennsylva- 
nia, from  which  place  they  were  transferred  to 
Camp  Wetherell,  where  they  were  honorably  dis- 
charged in  March,  1899,  our  subject  retiring  with 
the  title  of  Corporal.  Mr.  Wight  lost  one  brother 
— Guy — as  a  result  of  acute  rheumatism,  con- 
tracted while  in  service. 

Mr.  Wight  returned  to  LTtah  in  May,  1899, 
and  for  two  years  was  associated  with  Grant  H. 
Smith,  in  the  law  business  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
in  Alarch,  1901,  became  a  member  of  the  present 


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firm,  coming  to  Park  City  to  represent  the  firm 
in  this  place. 

He  was  married  June  6,  1900,  to  Miss  Kittie 
J.  Kickler,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  daughter  of  the 
late  R.  \\\  Kidder.  They  have  one  child — Bray- 
ton. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Wight  owes  his  allegiance 
to  the  Republican  party,  and  is  at  this  time  City 
Attorney  of  Park  City.  Socially  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Elks,  being  a  charter  member  and  the 
Esteemed  Loyal  Knight  of  Park  City  Lodge  of 
that  order. 

The  firm  which  ;\Ir.  Wight  represents  does 
quite  an  extensive  practice  among  the  mining 
companies  of  this  district,  representing  among 
others  the  Ontario  Mining  Company,  the  Daly 
West,  California,  Wolverine  and  other  mining 
companies,  besides  the  leading  commercial  houses 
of  Park  City. 


L'DGE  PETER  LOCHRIE.  Among  the 
Justices  of  the  Peace  of  Utah  there  is 
none,  who,  by  his  work  in  that  ofifiice, 
has  made  for  himself  a  better  record  or 
stands  higher  in  the  confidence  of  the 
]iublic  than  does  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He 
is  eminently  a  man  of  the  people  and  has  won 
his  way  to  the  front  rank  that  he  now  holds  by 
virtue  of  his  sterling  qualities  and  by  the  exer- 
cise of  unstinted  hard  work  and  constant  appli- 
cation. 

He  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1843.  ^nd  came  to 
the  United  States  ten  years  later,  settling  in  Green 
county,  Illinois,  and  later  moved  to  Champaign 
county,  of  that  State,  where  he  resided  for  a  pe- 
riod of  twenty  years.  He  was  "educated  in  the 
district  schools  and  in  Macon  Academy  and  in  the 
Presbyterian  Academy,  and  completed  his  studies 
in  the  University  which  was  later  established  at 
Lincoln,  Illinois.  He  took  up  the  study  of  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illi- 
nois in  1867.  Two  years  later  he  became  imbued 
with  a  desire  to  become  a  journalist  and  entered 
the  newspaper  field  with  a  weekly  paper  which  he 
continued  to  publish  for  four  years,  at  the  end 
of   which    time   he   resumed   the   practice   of   the 


law,  and  from  1873  ^o  1879  continued  in  the 
practice  of  that  profession  at  Champaien,  Illinois, 
removing  in  the  fall  of  the  latter  year  to  Utah 
and  settling  in  the  mining  camp  of  Frisco.  He 
practiced  his  profession  in  the  Second  Judicial 
District  of  the  Territory  of  Utah,  and  remained 
there  for  nine  years.  In  1888  he  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  which  place  has  been  his  home  ever 
since,  and  he  has  here  continued  to  devote  his 
time  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  with  the 
exception  of  the  periods  covered  by  the  terms  he 
has  served  as  Justice  of  the  Peace.  He  was  elected 
as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  1892  and  was  re- 
elected in  1896  and  in  1900.  His  term  of  office 
will  expire  at  the  end  of  the  year  1902,  by  reason 
of  the  establishment  of  the  new  municipal  courts 
for  Salt  Lake  City. 

Judge  Lochrie  was  married  in  Illinois,  in  Jan- 
uary, 1871,  to  Miss  Viola  Stanger,  a  native  of 
Ohio,  and  by  this  marriage  he  has  two  children — • 
\'iola  M.,  and  Donald.  Judge  Lochrie's  father, 
Michael,  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  upon  his 
removal  to  Illinois  took  up  the  business  of  farm- 
ing, which  he  followed  for  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  His  father  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
politics  of  his  county  in  Illinois,  where  he  spent 
the  most  of  his  life,  and  was  elected  to  a  number 
of  the  minor  offices  of  that  county.  His  wife,, 
the  inother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Mary 
(Stuart)  Lochrie,  is  a  descendant  of  the  old 
Scotch  family  of  that  name. 

In  political  life  our  subject  has  been  a  staunch 
Republican  and  cast  his  first  vote  for  Abraham 
Lincoln  for  President,  in  1864.  He  holds  the  dis- 
tinction of  having  been  the  first  Gentile  elected 
to  the  position  of  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Beaver 
county,  in  which  position  he  served  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  all  the  people.  He  is  essentially 
a  self-made  man,  and  has  made  his  own  way 
through  life  from  the  early  age  of  twelve.  He 
worked  for  his  own  education  and  has  never  re- 
ceived any  financial  aid  from  anyone  since  that 
time.  His  impartiality  and  his  integrity  as  a 
justice  have  won  for  him  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated  in  this  State,  and  he  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  members  of  the  judiciary  of  Salt  Lake 
City. 


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)HX  K.  HALL.  Among  the  many  noble 
sons  of  England  who  have  sought  fame 
and  fortune  in  this  new  country,  may  be 
mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  John 
K.  Hall. 

He  was  born  in  Yorkshire,  near  Sheffield,  Sep- 
tember 7,  1828,  and  is  the  son  of  Kilburn  and 
Ann  (Shilito)  Hall.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  his 
native  town  and  there  received  his  education  and 
became  a  pattern  maker,  which  trade  he  foUpwed 
until  i860.  In  1847  he  heard  the  doctrines  of 
the  Mormon  Church  expounded  and,  becoming 
convinced  of  the  correctness  of  their  views,  was 
baptized  and  ordained  an  Elder,  spending  the 
next  two  or  three  years  as  a  local  preacher.  He 
took  passage  on  the  ship  Cynosure,  at  Liverpool, 
in  the  spring  of  1863,  and  after  a  voyage  of  eight 
weeks  landed  in  New  York  City,  from  where  he 
went  direct  to  Winter  Quarters,  where  he  pro- 
cured an  outfit  and  crossed  the  plains  in  company 
with  Captain  Rossell  Hyde,  his  wife  and  three 
small  children  being  with  him. 

Upon  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City,  October  13, 
1863,  he  purchased  a  lot  and  built  a  home  in  the 
Fifteenth  Ward,  where  he  lived  for  eleven  years, 
following  the  trade  of  carpentering  and  contract- 
ing. He  did  much  of  the  building  in  the  city  at 
that  time,  among  other  residences  which  he  built 
being  that  of  Joseph  R.  Walker.  He  also  did  a 
great  deal  of  other  carpenter  work  for  the  Walker 
Brothers.  In  1874  he  moved  to  Enterprise,  Mor- 
gan county,  and  there  purchased  a  farm  and 
also  a  number  of  lots  in  town.  He  built 
a  home  on  his  farm,  where  he  moved  his 
family,  and  took  up  general  farming,  which  he 
has  followed  ever  since,  also  being  engaged  in 
the  contracting  business  as  opportunity  ofifered. 
He  is  interested  in  the  Bench  Irrigation  Ditch 
Company,  of  Enterprise,  in  which  company  he 
was  a  director  for  a  number  of  years,  and  as- 
sisted in  building  that  ditch.  He  has  also  done 
considerable  building  in  the  Enterprise  Ward. 
He  drew  the  plans  for  the  Alorgan  county  court 
house,  on  which  he  did  much  of  the  work.  The 
Stake  meeting  house  at  Morgan  is  another  build- 
ing which  he  erected.  Besides  his  farm  near 
Enterprise  he  has  another  in  Spring  Hollow  can- 
yon,   where    he    homesteaded    one    hundred    and 


sixty  acres  about  twelve  years  ago  and  built  a 
home  which  he  named  "Glen  Cottage"  or  "Mount 
View."  This  place  is  a  very  beautiful  one,  being 
laid  out  in  fruit  orchards  and  highly  cultivated. 
He  also  owns  twenty  acres  of  choice  land  on 
Weber  river,  and  altogether  has  been  very  suc- 
cessful since  coming  to  America,  and  is  today  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Morgan  county. 

Mr.  Hall  has  been  three  times  married.  His 
first  marriage  occurred  in  England,  where  he 
was  married  on  December  25,  1849,  ^'^  Miss  Mary 
Spencer,  a  native  of  Sheffield,  and  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  Spencer.  Her  father  was  a  man- 
ufacturer of  knives  and  cutlery,  and  one  of  the 
past  masters  of  Cutlers  Company.  Mrs.  Hall  died 
in  Enterprise,  in  July,  1897,  leaving  a  family  of 
four  children — Mary  S. ;  Edith,  wife  of  George 
Hufl:' ;  Annetta,  wife  of  George  Palmer;  and  Kil- 
burn, at  home.  His  second  wife  was  Jane  Hales, 
by  whom  he  had  six  children,  five  of  whom  are 
living — Ruth,  wife  of  George  Eddineton  ;  Edgar  ; 
Effie,  now  Mrs.  Elijah  Eddington;  Eliza,  and 
Bernard,  living  in  Ogden.  The  present  Mrs. 
Hall  was  Miss  Esther  Holdt,  whom  he  married 
December  11,  iqoi.  Mr.  Hall  has  nine  grand- 
children and  one  great-grandchild. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  at  this  time  a 
Republican,  but  for  many  years  his  allegiance  was 
with  the  Democratic  party.  Except  for  the>  posi- 
tion of  Trustee  on  his  School  Board,  he  has  never 
sought  or  held  public  office,  his  time  being  de- 
voted to  the  interests  of  his  large  farming  en- 
terprises. He  has  been  very  active  in  Church 
circles  and  was  a  teacher  in  the  Fifteenth  Ward 
where  he  first  made  his  home.  He  was  ordained 
a  member  of  the  Sixty-Fifth  Quorum,  and  was 
later  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents  of  that  Quo- 
rum. He  was  for  nine  years  Superintendent  of 
the  Fifteenth  Ward  Sunday  School.  When  the 
Morgan  Ward  was  organized,  in  1877,  he  was  or- 
dained High  Priest,  and  set  apart  as  Bishop  over 
the  Enterprise  Ward,  in  which  office  he  contin- 
ued until  the  consolidation  of  that  ward  with  the 
Peterson  Ward  in  1901.  He  was  for  twenty 
years  Stake  Superintendent  of  Sunday  Schools 
and  upon  resigning  that  position  was  tendered  a 
banquet  and  presented  with  a  handsome  gold- 
headed  cane,  on  which  was  engraved  his  name 


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and  the  number  of  years  he  had  served  in  that 
office.  He  has  been  one  of  the  most  active  men 
of  his  ward  in  all  enterprises  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  by  his  long 
life  of  upright  and  honorable  living  has  won  the 
esteem  of  the  people  with  whom  he  has  come  in 
contact,  as  well  as  the  confidence  of  the  leaders 
of  the  Church  and  those  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated  in  business  life,  and  is  today  enjoying 
the  fruits  of  a  well-spent  life. 


\MES  JOHAXSON,  for  a  number  of 
years,  has  been  a  leading  spirit  in  many 
of  the  enterprises  of  Morgan  county, 
and  is  considered  one  of  the  substan- 
tial men  of  his  county.  He  is  a 
native  of  Denmark,  where  he  was  born  in  1855, 
and  is  the  oldest  of  a  family  of  five  children.  He 
came  to  Utah  with  his  parents,  Paul  and  Mattie 
Johanson,  when  but  fourteen  years  of  age.  They 
had  become  converts  to  the  Mormon  religion  in 
1867,  and  two  years  later  emigrated  to  America, 
coming  to  Utah  in  1869,  ^"d  locating  at  Milton, 
where  the  father  located  a  farm  and  died  in  1884. 
The  mother  died  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1890. 

The  early  education  of  our  subject  was  received 
from  the  schools  of  Denmark,  and  later  attended 
the  schools  in  Utah.  When  quite  a  young  man 
he  began  life  for  himself,  working  for  a  time 
on  the  Union  Pacific  railroad,  as  trackman,  and 
later  being  promoted  to  the  position  of  section 
foreman,  living  at  Echo.  He  continued  in  this 
work  two  and  a  half  years,  when  he  located  a 
farm  at  Littleton,  where  he  has  since  resided. 
Besides  this  land,  he  has  bought  a  number  of 
other  pieces,  both  range  and  farming  land,  and 
has  branched  out  into  the  cattle  business,  rais- 
ing beeves  for  market,  and  is  now  one  of  the 
prosperous  and  successful  ranchers  of  that 
county.  His  land  is  all  under  irrigation,  most 
of  the  water  being  obtained  from  the  Littleton 
and  Milton  irrigating  ditch,  of  which  he  was  one 
of  the  promoters  and  assisted  in  building. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  18S3  to  Miss  Caro- 
line M.  Nielson,  daughter  of  Soren  and  Anne 
Maria  (Poulson)  Nielson,  natives  of  Denmark, 
who  came  to  Utah  in  1866.     Bv  this  marriage 


they  have  three  children  living — .\nnie   C,  Ar- 
thur and  Dora. 

Since  the  division  of  the  parties  on  national 
political  lines,  Mr.  Johanson  has  cast  his  fortunes 
with  the  Republican  party,  and  has  been  quite  an 
active  worker  in  its  ranks.  He  has  held  the 
office  of  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  two  terms,  his 
second  term  not  having  expired,  and  has  also 
been  a  school  trustee.  He  is  a  director  of  the 
Live  Stock  Range  Company,  and  identified  with 
many  of  the  enterprises  looking  toward  the  ad- 
vancement and  development  of  the  industries  of 
his  section  of  the  State.  Mr.  Johanson  was  also 
deputy  Registration  Officer  from  1891  until  the 
Territory  was  admitted  into  the  Union  as  a 
State. 


AMES  F.  SMITH,  one  of  the  most 
prominent  young  lawyers  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  who  has  already  made  an  envi- 
able career  in  his  chosen  profession,  was 
born  in  this  city  in  1872.  He  is  a  son  of 
James  Smith,  a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
who  came  to  Utah  in  1869.  His  wife,  Mary 
(Bowdidge)  Smith,  the  mother  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  was  a  native  of  the  Island  of  Jer- 
sey, a  British  possession  near  the  coast  of 
France.  She  emigrated  to  the  L^nited  States  in 
1865,  in  which  year  she  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
City. 

Their  son,  James,  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  this  city,  and  later  took  a  course  in 
All  Hallows  College  here.  Owing  to  the  lim- 
ited means  of  his  parents,  and  the  necessity  of 
earning  his  own  living,  at  the  age  of  eleven  years 
he  secured  employment  as  cash  boy  in  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution,  where  he 
remained  for  about  one  year,  and  then  secured 
employment  in  a  grocery  business.  He  later 
mastered  the  painting  and  glazing  trade,  and  fol- 
lowed that  occupation  for  five  or  six  years.  His 
next  business  was  with  the  glass  firm  of  G.  F. 
Culmer  Brothers,  where  he  remained  for  about 
four  years,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Salt  Lake  Building  and  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, remaining  with  this  latter  establishment  for 
about  two  years.     He  was  early  alive  to  the  im- 


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portaiice  of  increasing  his  store  of  knowledge, 
and  \vit)i  that  end  in  view,  took  a  course  in  the 
Salt  Lake  Business  College,  and  was  later  a  clerk 
in  the  Morgan  Hotel,  during  which  time  all  his 
spare  moments  were  applied  to  his  studies,  and 
in  1894  he  began  the  study  of  law,  reading  with 
the  firm  of  Chas.  J-  Pence  and  C.  E.  Allen.  He 
continued  to  work  in  the  day  time  and  study  late 
at  night  during  1895.  On  September  15th  of  the 
following  year  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  of- 
fice of  this  firm,  where  he  pursued  his  studies 
until  his  admission  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Utah.  He  then  opened  a  law  office  and 
struck  out  for  himself.  His  first  start  was  in  a 
room  about  six  feet  wide  and  ten  feet  long.  His 
equipment  was,  to  say  the  least,  so  far  as  books 
were  concerned,  of  a  very  limited  order.  His 
application  to  his  study  and  the  ability  which  he 
demonstrated  in  the  successful  conduct  of  the 
cases  entrusted  to  him,  soon  led  to  an  increase  in 
his  practice,  and  he  is  now  one  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful young  attorneys  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Smith  was  married  in  1893  to  Miss  Eliza 
A.  Morgan,  daughter  of  Elder  John  M.  Mor- 
gan, President  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints.  His  wife's  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Groesbeck,  who  was  one 
of  the  early  settlers  of  Utah. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Smith  is  a  firm  believer 
in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
while  he  has  taken  an  active  part  in  its  work, 
has  never  sought  or  held  public  office.  He,  like 
his  parents,  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  has  been  a  faithful  worker  in  its  behalf.  He 
has  acquired  a  prominent  place  in  the  legal  and 
social  circles  of  Salt  Lake,  and  enjoys  a  wide 
popularity. 


O'BERT  YOUNG,  one  of  the  promi- 
nent men  of  affairs  of  Summit  county, 
residing  at  Wanship.  A  native  of  New 
Jersey,  having  been  born  in  Paterson, 
June  25,  185 1.  When  only  a  boy  of 
eight  years  his  people  emigrated  from  that  State 
to  Utah  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  Mr. 
Young  grew  to  manhood.  What  education  he 
received  was  obtained  from  the  common  schools 


of  that  city.  When  quite  a  younpf  boy,  we  find 
him  assisting  his  father  in  various  ways  in  the 
undertakings  with  which  he  was  connected — 
such  as  building  railroads,  sawmills,  stock  rais- 
ing and  many  other  enterprises  for  the  building 
up  and  developing  of  the  State. 

Ebenezer  R.  Young,  Senior,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  was  a  native  of  Staten  Island.  New 
York,  where  he  was  born  in  1816.  His  father 
was  a  sailor  on  a  man-of-war,  and  died  before 
his  son  was  born.  The  mother  married  again, 
leaving  her  son  the  sole  representative  of  the 
Young  family.  He  grew  to  manhood  and  be- 
came quite  wealthy,  owning  cotton  factories  at 
Westport,  Connecticut,  and  Paterson,  New  Jer- 
sey. He  crossed  the  plains  with  his  family  in 
1858,  making  a  home  for  his  family  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  then  took  up  freighting  over  the  prai- 
ries, making  twelve  trips  across  the  plains  from 
Omaha  to  Salt  Lake,  bringing  the  first  machin- 
ery for  the  woolen  mills,  and  also  a  considerable 
amount  of  merchandise.  He  at  one  time  owned 
a  store  on  First  South  street,  wnere  Culmer 
Brothers  are  located  at  this  time.  In  1862  he 
moved  to  the  Sugar  House  Ward,  where  he 
started  a  woolen  mill  in  connection  with  Brig- 
ham  Young,  and  remained  there  for  several 
years.  He  also  made  molasses  from  sugar  cane. 
In  1865  he  bought  the  grist  mill  and  property 
at  Wanship  and  followed  the  milling  business 
there  for  some  years.  He  also  engaged  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  at  Wanship,  and 
in  farming,  owning  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
of  land  at  one  time.  In  1868  he  took  a  contract 
for  buildinp-  a  portion  of  the  Union  Pacific  rail- 
road in  Echo  and  Weber  canyons.  He  also  spent 
three  years  floating  ties  down  the  Weber  river 
for  the  railroad  company.  He  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  and  widely  known  men  of  the 
State,  and  the  industries  he  fostered  gave  a  new 
impetus  not  only  to  the  life  of  this  State,  but  to 
the  whole  inter-mountain  region.  His  political 
sympathies  were  with  the  Democratic  party,  and 
for  several  years  he  was  United  States  Court 
Commissioner.  He  also  served  as  Justice  of 
the  Peace.  In  Church  afifairs  he  displayed  the 
same  zeal  that  characterized  his  life  in  other  mat- 
ters.    He  made  two  trips  to  the  East  on  mission- 


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ary  work,  and  took  an  active  part  in  advancing 
the  work  at  home.  He  was  President  of  the 
Twenty-seventh  Ouoruin  of  Seventies.  He 
gave  much  of  his  means  towards  the  erection  of 
schools  and  meeting  houses,  and  was  noted  for 
liis  Hberahty  and  charitable  nature.  He  died  in 
1889,  greatly  mourned  throughout  the  whole 
State.  His  wife  and  the  mother  of  our  subject 
was  Margaret  Holden,  a  native  of  England.  She 
died  in  Wanship  in  1886.  leaving  a  family  of 
seven  children — Ebenezer  R.,  Junior ;  John  W., 
of  Los  Angeles  ;  Robert,  our  subject ;  George  W., 
Margaret  Y.,  widow  of  John  W.  Taylor;  Mary, 
wife  of  Judge  Appleby,  and  Esther  E.,  wife  of 
P.  T.  Curtis. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  Salt  Lake  City  and 
Sugar  House  Ward,  and  obtained  his  education 
in  those  two  places.  His  education,  however, 
was  of  a  limited  character,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
he  was  his  father's  almost  constant  companion 
and  associated  with  him  in  almost  all  of  his  en- 
terprises. He  had  an  interest  in  the  sawmill 
business  in  Summit  county,  and  followed  freight- 
ing all  over  the  State,  hauling  supplies  to 
the  mining  camps.  After  the  death  of  his 
father  he  and  his  brother,  George  W.,  took 
a  contract  for  building  part  of  the  rail- 
road from  Park  City  to  Heber.  They  completed 
their  contract,  but  were  heavy  losers.  These 
two  brothers  bought  out  ihe  estate  of  their  father 
and  continued  the  store  a.  Wanship  until  1899, 
under  the  name  of  G.  W.  &  R.  Young,  our  sub- 
ject carrying  on  a  ranching  and  cattle  raising 
business  at  the  same  time.  His  farm  consists  of 
three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  good  land  at 
Marion,  where  he  keeps  Hereford  and  short- 
horn cattle,  and  some  good  horses.  He  makes 
a  specialty  of  raising  a  high-grade  of  stock.  He  is 
the  owner  of  a  private  ditch  taken  from  the  Weber 
river,  and  has  his  piace  under  a  good  system  of  ir- 
rigation. He  has  been  interested  to  some  extent  in 
mining  in  his  section  of  the  countr)  and  has  out- 
fitted a  number  of  prospectors. 

Mr.  Young  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss  Annie 
Taylor  (Shreve),  a  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Eliz- 
abeth Shreve  of  New  Jersey.  They  have  five 
children— Robert  S.,  Annie  R.,  William  S..  Ed- 
win R.,  and  Elizabeth,  who  died  in  infancy. 


In  political  life  Mr.  Young  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party.  He  is  Chairman  of  the  County 
Central  Committee,  and  has  been  a  delegate  to 
all  the  county  and  State  conventions.  He  is 
Road  Supervisor  of  his  district,  and  active  in  all 
matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  county. 

No  man  of  Summit  county  has  been  more 
prominently  before  the  people  than  has  Mr. 
Young,  and  his  life,  both  private,  public  and  in 
business  walks,  has  been  such  as  to  win  and  re- 
tain the  confidence  and  esteeem  of  the  citizens  of 
his  community,  and  he  is  today  one  of  the  most 
deservedly  popular  men  of  that  portion  of  the 
State. 


DWARD  WHITE  was  born  in  Essex, 
England,  February  8,  1831.  He  is  the 
son  of  Henry  and  Anna  (Arnold) 
White,  who  were  both  natives  of  the 
same  part  of  England,  and  lived  and 
died  in  that  country.  Edward  was  the  third  son 
in  the  family,  and  his  father  died  when  he  was 
eight  years  old,  so  that  his  education  was  neces- 
sarily of  a  limited  nature.  Our  subject  followed 
the  sea  for  a  living,  and  had  a  cutter  or  fishing 
vessel  and  made  trips  in  the  harbor  of  Chiches- 
ter and  to  the  fishing  banks,  and  also  made  trips 
between  England  and  France,  following  that  life 
for  over  twenty  years.  On  one  of  these  trips  his 
brother  Matthew  was  lost  overboard  from  the 
smack.  Mr.  White  was  for  a  long  time  em- 
ployed in  the  English  squadron,  and  was  stew- 
ard and  seaman  on  th;  yacht  Beatrice,  owned  by 
Sir  Walter  Carue,  and  later  owned  by  Squire 
Rose  of  Monmouthshire,  and  held  that  position 
for  over  four  seasons.  He  was  also  purchasing 
agent  for  that  yacht  at  times.  He  was  later  em- 
ployed on  the  steam  yacht  Serious,  owned  by 
Lord  Brownlow,  and  served  for  one  season  in 
the  Mediterranean.  He  was  later  cook  on  a 
yawl  yacht  owned  by  Lord  Gray.  All  these  boats 
belonged  to  Englislimen  and  were  sailed  by  Eng- 
lish crews.  He  was  also  for  a  time  engaged  in 
the  transportation  of  coal  by  vessels. 

He  had  joined  the  Mormon  Church  in  England 
in  the  early  fifties,  and  in  1864  Mr.  White  came 
to  America  in  the  company  which  President  Can- 


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non  organized,  making  the  trip  on  board  the  ship 
Hudson,  with  nine  hundred  Mormons  and  two 
hundred  Gentiles.  On  the  trip  across  the  ocean, 
the  charge  of  the  cooking  was  sriven  to  Mr. 
White.  The  ship  arrived  at  New  York  in  July, 
1864,  and  they  immediately  left  for  the  West. 
At  Omaha  the  emigrants  were  divided  into  trains, 
and  Warren  Swan  was  captain  of  the  company  in 
crossing  the  plains.  Mr.  White  was  the  driver 
of  an  ox  team,  and  walked  all  the  way  from 
Omaha  to  Utah,  arriving  in  Weber  on  October 
29,  1864.  Upon  his  arrival  in  this  State,  Mr. 
White  was  employed  as  a  cook  in  the  mines.  The 
winter  that  followed  that  year  was  an  exception- 
ally hard  one,  and  food  being  scarce,  commodi- 
ties commanded  an  unusual  price,  flour  bringing 
twenty-four  dollars  a  sack.  Late  in  that  winter 
Mr.  White  secured  a  contract  for  the  building  of 
the  city  canal  in  Salt  Lake,  and  brought  his 
family  to  Salt  Lake  City  from  Weber  in  Febru- 
ary, 1865.  He  worked  on  the  canal  for  a  year, 
and  then,  in  1866,  removed  to  Mill  Creek  Ward 
and  bought  a  squatter's  claim  and  took  up  a 
quarter  section,  and  later  let  other  men  settle  on 
and  cultivate  a  part  of  his  claim.  His  home- 
stead is  located  between  Thirteenth  and  Four- 
teenth East  and  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  South 
streets.  When  Mr.  White  took  up  his  land  here 
this  part  of  the  Ward  was  all  prairie  land,  and  he 
was  the  first  settler  to  break  the  soil  and  bend 
his  energies  to  the  cultivation  of  the  land.  The 
Ward  in  which  he  then  lived  is  now  known  as 
Wilford  Ward. 

Mr.  White  was  married  in  England  to  Miss 
Eliza  Howick,  daughter  of  William  and  Char- 
lotte (Carter)  Howick,  and  by  this  marriage  they 
have  had  ten  children,  who  are  still  living,  and 
they  also  adopted  a  son.  They  are  Kezia,  now 
Mrs.  Walter  Howick,  of  Wilford  Ward;  Ka- 
tura,  now  the  wife  of  Mr.  James  Carlisle,  of 
Mill  Creek  Ward ;  Edward,  a  resident  of  Wilford 
Ward;  Eunice,  wife  of  T.  Falkins,  of  Granger 
Ward,  one  of  the  High  Counselors  of  Granite 
Stake;  John  Williain,  First  Counselor  to  Bishop 
Cummins ;  Hannah,  now  Mrs.  John  T.  Lythgo, 
of  Wilford  Ward;  Henry  H.,  in  Wilford  Ward; 
Matthew,  and  Eliza  E.,  twins;  Eliza  E.  died  at 
the  age  of  three  years;  Joseph  A.,  absent  on  a 


mission  in  England,  where  he  has  been  for  two 
years ;  Mahonrimoriancumur,  at  home,  and  the 
adopted  son,  Eugene  B. 

In  political  life  Mr.  White  is  a  Democrat,  and 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  afifairs  of  his 
party.  He  served  seventeen  months  on  a  mission 
to  England,  and  two  of  his  sons — John  W.  and 
Henry  H. — and  his  sons-in-law — Tobe  Falkins, 
James  Carlisle  and  Walter  Howick — have  all 
served  on  missions  for  the  Church,  the  latter  in 
England.  His  homestead  shows  the  result  of 
his  constant,  hard  work  and  application  to  the 
cultivation  of  his  farm.  The  whole  place  is  well 
improved  and  well  kept ;  the  buildings  are  good, 
the  fences  in  repair,  and  all  the  land  is  in  a  high 
state  of  cultivation.  He  has  demonstrated  that 
he  is  one  of  the  most  able  farmers  in  Salt  Lake 
county  and  one  of  its  most  substantial  citizens. 
He  has  aided  greatly  in  the  growth,  not  only  of 
the  Church,  but  of  the  country  as  well,  and  enjoys 
the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  his  neighbors,  and 
the  confidence  and  trust  of  the  leaders  of  the 
Church.  i 


OUIS  W.  SMITH  has  for  over  forty 
years  been  a  resident  in  the  Kamas  Val- 
ley, Summit  county.  He  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  development  of  his 
county,  more  particularly  along  agricul- 
tural and  live  stock  lines.  He  has  been  an  eye- 
witness to  its  remarkable  growth  from  a  wild 
sage  brush  country  to  its  present  prosperous  con- 
dition. While  Mr.  Smith  is  a  native  of  Ger- 
many, most  of  his  life  has  been  spent  in  the 
United  States,  having  come  to  this  country  when 
only  seventeen  years  of  age.  His  love  for  Amer- 
ica and  her  institutions  has  been  fully  verified, 
for  as  early  as  1858,  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia, 
he  enlisted  as  a  soldier  in  the  regular  army, 
Tenth  United  States  Infantry,  under  command 
of  General  Johnston,  and  continued  in  the  serv- 
ice until  he  received  his  honorable  discharge  at 
Fort  Douglas,  March  11,  1863. 

]\Ir.  Smith  was  born  in  Prussia  in  1837.  After 
receiving  his  discharge  from  the  army,  he  located 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  bought  some  prop- 
erty, where  he  was  married  in  1863  to  Miss  Mary 


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Ann  Richards,  a  native  of  England,  who  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1861.  They  have  had 
five  children,  three  of  whom  are  living — Louis 
W.,  Junior;  Mary  Jane,  wife  of  George  Whipple, 
and  Mary  Ann,  the  wife  of  Thomas  fiates,  of 
Wanship. 

Soon  after  his  marriage,  our  subject  purchased 
his  present  farm  from  "Father"  Rhodes,  who  was 
the  first  settler  in  this  valley,  and  with  the  excep- 
tion of  eighteen  months  spent  in  Ogden,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  he  has  since 
made  his  home  here.  He  has  done  a  general 
farming  business,  and  also  engaged  largely  in 
stock  raising,  having  at  times  a  herd  of  five  hun- 
dred head  of  cattle,  and  has  been  very  success- 
ful in  all  his  farming  ventures.  He  has  pur- 
chased land  from  time  to  time  as  he  has  been 
able,  and  now  has  two  hundred  acres  under  cul- 
tivation, obtaining  the  water  for  irrigation  pur- 
poses from  Beaver  creek.  He  also  supplies  the 
creamery  near  this  place  with  a  large  part  of  the 
milk  it  consumes. 

Mr.  Smith  has  never  affiliated  with  any  polit- 
ical party,  preferrin?-  to  use  his  own  judgment, 
and  voting  for  the  man  he  considers  best  fitted 
for  the  office.  He  is  broad-minded  and  liberal  in 
his  views  and  believes  in  according  everyone  the 
right  to  follow  the  dictates  of  his  own  conscience. 

He  has  devoted  some  time  to  prospecting  in 
mining,  both  in  Utah  and  in  Wyoming.  He  has 
found  a  few  good  specimens  of  gold  on  his  own 
farm,  but  not  enough  to  encourage  him  to  pros- 
pect to  any  large  extent.  He  is  interested  in  some 
mining  properties  in  Sweetwater  county,  Wyom- 
ing, and  also  owns  the  Hoodoo  mine  in  Fremont 
county,  Wyoming,  which  gives  promise  of  being 
a  good  producer. 


A.  CUNNINGHAA/[.  Among  the  prom- 
inent financial  institutions  of  Utah,  and 
which  have  aided  materially  in  the  devel- 
opment of  Salt  Lake,  is  the  Bank  of  Com- 
merce, whose  affairs  are  directed  by 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  he  is  now  among 
the  leading  men  of  the  city,  both  in  financial  and 
in  mining  affairs. 


J.  A.  Cunningham  was  born  in  Quincy,  Illi- 
nois, in  1842,  where  he  lived  until  the  sixth  year 
of  his  life,  when  his  parents  removed  to  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  was  the  oldest  son  of  the  family. 
His  father,  Andrew  Cunningham,  was  a  native 
of  West  Virginia,  and  after  settling  in  Utah  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  stock  raising,  his  farm  be- 
ing close  to  the  city.  He  was  held  in  high  repute 
by  the  citizens,  and  was  elected  City  Marshal, 
which  position  he  held  for  some  time,  and  was 
also  a  member  of  the  City  Council  for  two  terms. 
He  cast  his  first  vote  for  Andrew  Jackson,  and 
all  his  life  had  been  a  staunch  Democrat.  The 
Cunningham  family  were  among  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Virginia,  coming  to  that  State  in  1765, 
and  participating  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  The 
mother  of  our  subject,  Lucinda  (Rawlins)  Cun- 
ningham, was  born  in  Indiana,  but  spent  her 
early  life  in  Illinois,  to  which  State  her  parents 
moved  in  1822.  Her  father,  James  Rawlins,  was 
a  successful  farmer.  He  was  a  participant  in 
the  War  of  1812,  and  was  in  the  historic  battle 
of  New  Orleans,  when  General  Jackson  com- 
manded the  American  forces.  James  Rawlins 
was  born  in  South  Carolina,  his  family  being 
among  the  oldest  settlers  in  that  State. 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Utah,  and  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  remained  at  home,  aiding  his  father  in  the 
cultivation  of  his  farm,  until  he  was  twenty-six 
years  of  age,  when  he  started  out  for  himself, 
his  first  work  being  freighting  goods  to  Mon- 
tana from  Salt  Lake  City.  This  he  followed  until 
1873,  when  he  became  interested  in  mining,  with 
which  he  has  been  prominently  identified  ever 
since.  He  is  largely  interested  in  the  Mammoth 
mine,  being  connected  with  that  property  since 
1873.  This  is  considered  one  of  the  best  min- 
ing properties  of  the  West,  and  is  a  very  suc- 
cessful mine.  He  is  also  interested  in  a  large 
number  of  other  mines  in  Utah  and  Nevada.  In 
addition  to  his  mining  property,  he  formerly  had 
large  interests  in  stock  raising,  most  of  his 
ranches  being  then  in  this  State.  At  present  he 
is  engaged  in  sheep  raising  in  Wyoming.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  held  large  live  stock  in- 
terests in  Canada,  but  subsequently  sold  his  prop- 


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erty  in  that  country.  He  turned  his  attention 
to  banking,  and  was  one  of  the  original  organ- 
izers of  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  which  was  estab- 
lished in  1873.  He  has  always  been  a  large  stock- 
holder in  that  institution,  and  was  a  director  in 
it  for  a  number  of  years.  He  became  its  presi- 
dent last  year,  and  has  continued  to  hold  that 
position.  The  bank  is  one  of  the  solid  financial 
institutions  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  Utah  as  well, 
and  is  handsomely  fitted  with  the  most  modern 
equipments  for  the  conduct  of  its  business. 

Mr.  Cunningham  was  married  in  1870,  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  to  Miss  Jennette  Forsyth,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Forsyth,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Utah,  who  came  here  in  1852.  By  this  marriage, 
Mr.  Cunningham  has  six  children,  two  sons — 
James,  teller  in  the  Bank  of  Commerce,  and  Roy, 
with  the  Conklin  Smelting  Works  of  Salt  Lake, 
— and  four  daughters. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Cunningham  is  a  staunch 
adherent  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  while  he 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  its  welfare,  he 
has  never  participated  actively  in  the  work,  so 
far  as  solicitation  for  office  is  concerned.  He 
has  never  held  public  office  of  any  kind,  but  has 
devoted  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  his  grow- 
ing business  interests.  His  father  was  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
throughout  his  life  aided  it  in  every  way — in  the 
work  of  its  development  and  in  the  work  of 
building  up  Utah.  He  assisted  in  building  the 
Salt  Lake  Temple,  and  has  been  prominent  in 
the  other  works  of  the  Church.  He  was  a  Bishop 
from  1852  to  the  time  of  his  death,  in  1868.  His 
son,  our  subject,  is  also  a  member  of  the  Church, 
but  holds  no  office  in  it. 

The  success  which  Mr.  Cunningham  has  made 
marks  his  as  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  a  self-made  man,  and 
has  won  his  wealth  and  position  by  the  exercise 
of  his  own  ability.  When  he  left  his  father's 
farm  to  work  for  himself,  he  had  but  one  team 
and  wagon,  the  total  value  of  which  was  four 
hundred  dollars.  His  financial  business  has 
brought  him  into  close  relations  with  a  great 
number  of  people  throughout  the  State,  and  his 
genial  and  courteous  manner  has  made  him  one 
of  the  most  popular  men  of  Utah. 


TDGE    CHARLES  M.  NIELSEN,  one 
I  if  the  leading  and  representative  men  of 
Salt  Lake    City,  was  born  in  Christian, 
Norway,  in  1856.  His  early  life  was  spent 
in  his  native  land,  where  he  grew  to  man- 
In  )od.  and  his  education  received  from  the  com- 
mon schools  of  that  country.    However,  his  early 
scholastic  education  was  but  meager,  as,  on  ac- 
count of  his  parents  being  in  poor  circumstances, 
it  became  necessary  for  our  subject  to  early  start 
in   life  for  himself.     At  the  tender  age  of   ten 
years  he  was  employed  as  cash  boy  in  the  stores 
of  his  native  place,  and  later  came  to  be  a  clerk, 
which  occupation  he  followed  until  1876.  Judge 
Nielsen  was,  as  a  mere  boy,  of  an  ambitious  tem- 
perament, and  longed  to  make  a  name  for  him- 
self in  the  great  world.     Like  most  boys  of  his 
country,    he   heard    much   of    the     new   country 
across  the  ocean,  and  of  the  wonderful  opportu- 
nities it  offered  for  young  men  to  acquire  wealth 
and  fame,  and,  fired  with  an  ambition  to  share 
in  the  good  things  which  America  so  freely  of- 
fered to  the  aspiring  and  worthy,  he  left  his  na- 
tive  land   and   kindred    and    emigrated   to    the 
United  States,  coming  direct  to  Utah.     The  first 
few  years  of  his  life  in  this  new  land  were  spent 
in  the  mines,  laying  aside  his  earnings  until  he 
could  secure  enough  means  to  obtain  a  foothold. 
He  then  engaged  in  farming  for  a  few  years,  prin- 
cipally in  Salt  Lake  county,  but  this  being  dis- 
tasteful to  him,  he  abandoned  it  and  for  the  next 
seven  years  was  employed  by  a  number  of  firms 
as  a  clerk,  working  a  portion  of  the  time  for  the 
firm  of  Barnes,  Lewis  &  Company.     He  was  then 
employed  for  a  time  as  bailiff  in  the  Third  Ju- 
dicial Court  of  the  Territory  of  Utah.     During 
all  these  years  the  Judge  had  not  forgotten  the 
ambitions  of  his  early  manhood,  and  while  being 
compelled   to   labor   at   such   occupations   as   of- 
fered, he  improved  all  his  spare  time  by  studying. 
At  first  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  by  himself, 
and  later  attended  the  night  sessions  of  the  pri- 
vate law   schools  of    this    city.     He  made  such 
headway  that  he  was  enabled  to  pass  his  exami- 
nation and  was  admitted  to  practice  before  the 
bar  in  this   State  in   1895.     He  at  once  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  which 
he  followed  for  the  next  three  vears.  and  in  i8q8 


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was  elected  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  his  office,  was  re-elected  in  1900,  his 
second  term  not  having  yet  expired. 

In  politics  Judee  Xielsen  has  always  been  iden- 
tified with  the  Democratic  party,  and  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  its  work. 

He  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1886  to  Miss 
Margaret  Peterson,  a  native  of  the  same  section 
of  Norway  as  himself.  They  have  seven  living 
children. 

The  career  of  Jude-e  Nielsen  is  one  that  may 
well  serve  not  only  as  an  example,  but  as  an 
inspiration  to  the  youth  of  this  country.  Be- 
ginning life  as  a  mere  child,  handicapped  by  a 
lack  of  book  lore,  he  has  continued  undaunted  on 
the  career  which  he  early  marked  out  for  him- 
self, and  has  overcome  apparently  unsurmount- 
able  obstacles,  mastering  a  foreign  language  and 
taking  up  the  study  of  the  law  at  an  age  when 
other  men  are  usually  long  past  their  student 
days  and  well  launched  in  their  careers.  He  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  his 
boyhood  days.  His  upright  and  honorable  career 
since  becoming  a  resident  of  L^tah  has  won  for 
him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  a  host  of 
friends. 


ILLIAM  A.  LEE  is  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  the  celebrated  \  irginia  fam- 
ily bearing  that  name.  John  Lee, 
the  eldest  son  of  William  and 
Catherine  Lee,  was  born  in  Berk- 
eley countw  Virginia,  in  1767.  and  soon  after 
the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War  removed 
to  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  there 
married  Isabel  Hays,  she  being  a  member  of  the 
Hays  family  from  which  the  President  was  de- 
scended. Of  this  marriage  there  were  thirteen 
children  born,  the  fourth,  David  R.  Lee,  was  the 
grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

William  A.  Lee  was  born  in  Falls  City,  Ne- 
braska, December  nth.  1859,  and  about  the  time 
of  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  his  father, 
Benjamin  F.  Lee,  returned  to  Warren  county, 
Iowa,  where  his  father's  family  resided,  and  en- 
listed in  the  i8th  Iowa  Infantry  and  served  with 
his   regiment   until   he   was   killed   in   the   battle 


of  Springfield,  Missouri,  in  1863.  As  this 
branch  of  the  family  had  resided  in  the  North 
for  several  generations,  its  sympathies  were  with 
the  L^nion  cause  and  all  the  sons  of  David  R. 
Lee,  who  were  old  enough  to  bear  arms,  were  in 
the  National  Army. 

The  mother  of  William  A.  Lee  was  Sarah  Jane 
Worley,  who  belonged  to  one  of  the  oldest  fami- 
lies of  Valparaiso.  Indiana,  which  emigrated 
to  Iowa  in  an  early  day,  vyhere  she  and  Benjamin 
F.  Lee  were  married,  the  issue  of  the  marriage 
being  two  daughters  and  one  son.  After  the 
death  of  her  husband,  the  young  widow  and  her 
three  children  passed  through  the  trials  and  hard- 
ships incident  to  that  trying  period,  and  as  a 
consequence,  the  son  had  cast  upon  him  the  re- 
sponsibility of  caring  for  a  large  farm  by  the 
time  he  was  thirteen  years  of  age.  Here  he  spent 
the  earlier  years  of  his  life  and  later  he  took  a 
course  at  Simpson  College,  Indianolo,  Iowa,  and 
in  1885  he  completed  a  course  in  law  at  Washing- 
ton L^niversity,  St.  Louis,  taking  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Law  with  the  class  of  that  year.  He 
immediately  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law, 
locating  in  Central  City,  Nebraska,  and  being 
associated  with  the  Hon.  Wm.  T.  Thompson  of 
that  place,  under  the  firm  name  of  Lee  &  Thomp- 
son. 

In  1887  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mollie  Foulks, 
of  Chariton.  Iowa,  an  acquaintance  of  his  early 
youth,  and  of  this  marriage  there  were  three 
children  born,  Corwin,  Margaret  and  Nellie 
Reid  Lee.  In  1892,  his  wife's  health  having  be- 
come seriously  impaired,  he  removed  to  Ogden, 
L^tah,  in  the  hope  that  the  climatic  change  might 
prolong  her  life,  but  without  avail,  for  she  con- 
tinued to  decline,  and  tne  followine  year  died. 

Upon  his  coming  to  Utah  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship for  the  practice  of  law  with  W.  H.  Harvey, 
which  was  dissolved  upon  Mr.  Harvey  entering 
the  field  of  political  authorship. 

The  first  State  Legislature  provided  for  a  com- 
mission to  codefy  and  revise  the  statute  law  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  the  new  Constitution 
and  empowered  the  Governor  to  appoint  three 
commissioners  to  do  this  work.  Richard  W. 
Young,  Grant  H.  Smith,  of  Salt  Lake,  and  Wil- 
liam A.  Lee,  then  of  Ogden,  were  appointed  as 


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such  commissioners.  The  work  of  the  commis- 
sion was  submitted  to  tlie  subsequent  legislature 
and  was  adopted  with  few  changes,  the  commis- 
sion being  continued  to  annotate  and  otherwise 
arrange  and  publish  the  same,  the  completed 
work  being  the  Revised  Statutes  of  1898,  one 
of  the  best  arranged  and  most  carefully  edited 
statutes  in  existence  today  as  regards  the  work 
of  the  compilers. 

After  completing  this  work  he  was  appointed 
Assistant  Attorney-General,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  the  end  of  the  first  official  term 
after  Statehood.  During  this  period,  it  devolved 
upon  this  office  to  determine  an  unusually  large 
number  of  important  questions  growing  out  of 
the  new  conditions  incident  to  statehood,  the  new 
constitution  and  the  revision  of  all  the  statute 
laws.  With  most  of  the  questions,  the  opinions 
rendered  by  the  Attorney-General  were  accepted 
as  the  law,  but  many  were  taken  to  the  State 
Supreme  Court,  and  not  a  few  went  up  to  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States.  With  few  ex- 
ceptions the  position  taken  by  the  Attorney-Gen- 
eral's office  were  sustained  by  the  courts,  and  the 
records  of  that  office  for  the  term  show  it  to  have 
been  administered  with  exceptional  ability.  Very 
much  of  the  credit  for  the  efficient  manner  in 
which  the  duties  of  this  responsible  office  were 
administered  is,  according  to  the  testimony  of  the 
principal,  due  to  the  assistant. 

In  1896,  Mr.  Lee  was  married  to  i\Iiss  LiHyan 
Mae  Seaton,  of  Evanston,  Wyoming,  and  of  this 
marriage  one  son,  Richard  Amalphus  Lee,  a 
bright  lad  of  four  years,  has  been  born. 

Mr.  Lee  has  always  been  in  national  politics 
a  stalwart  Republican,  and  had,  prior  to  leaving 
Nebraska,  served  his  party  in  various  important 
capacities  and  for  years  was  chairman  of  the 
County  Central  Committee,  and  had  also  held 
positions  of  honor  and  trust,  such  as  City  At- 
torney and  Public  Prosecutor,  and  since  coming 
to  Utah  has  always  been  identified  with  that  ele- 
ment of  the  Republican  party  that  stood  upon  the 
platform  of  principles  announced  by  national  con- 
ventions. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  order  of  Knights  of 
Phythias,  and  for  several  years  represented  his 
lodge  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nebraska,  and  is 


also    a  member  of    the    Modern  Woodmen    and 
Woodmen  of  the  World. 

Since  his  retirement  from  office  he  has  devoted 
himself  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  is  the 
senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Lee  &  Sweet, 
one  of  the  best-known  firms  among  the  younger 
lawyers  of  Salt  Lake  City. 


ILLIAM  E.  PARKER.  The  live 
stock  interests  of  Utah  have  formed 
a  valuable  adjunct  in  the  history  of 
the  State  and  have  been  instrumen- 
tal in  paving  the  way  for  many  of 
the  great  and  successful  financial  enterprises 
which  have  been  built  up  in  this  State.  Among 
the  men  who  have  been  closely  identified  with 
the  life  of  the  stock  business  of  L^tah  should  be 
mentioned  William  E.  Parker,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  February  8, 
1861.  and  is  the  son  of  William  and  Mary  Parker. 
When  he  was  two  years  of  age  his  parents  moved 
to  Taylorsville,  where  they  continued  to  reside, 
and  a  sketch  of  William  Parker  is  to  be  found 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  Our  subject  spent  his 
boyhood  days  on  his  father's  farm  herding  his 
father's  cattle,  attending  school  for  only  a  few 
months  during  the  winter  time.  At  that  time. 
the  facilities  for  educating  the  children  of  the 
pioneers  were  but  limited,  and  our  subject  re- 
ceived only  such  education  as  the  schools  of  his 
vicinity  afforded.  As  he  grew  towards  man- 
hood he  spent  a  number  of  years  herding  in  the 
deserts. 

]\Ir.  Parker  was  married  on  April  24,  1884, 
to  Miss  ]\Iary  Swenson,  a  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Charstey  Swenson,  and  by  this  marriage  they  have 
seven  children — Winifred,  Ethel,  Edward  W., 
Harvey  A.,  Aleen  and  Verda,  twins,  and  Samuel 
S.  Mr.  Parker  settled  at  his  present  homestead 
in  1886.  He  owns  a  fine  farm  of  sixty-eight 
acres  two  miles  south  of  the  Taylorsville  post 
office,  on  the  Redwood  road.  The  place  is  well 
improved  with  good  barns,  fences,  etc.,  and  he 
has  built  a  handsome  brick  residence  on  it.  His 
house  is  near  one  of  the  finest  schools  in  the 
county,  and  his  children  are  receiving  the  benefits 


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of  the  higher  educational  facihies  that  were  de- 
nied their  father.  In  addition  to  his  farming 
interests  Mr.  Parker  is  also  largely  interested  in 
the  sheep  industry,  having  large  sheep  interests 
in  Idaho,  where  he  ranges  and  keeps  his  herds. 

Our  subject  in  political  matters  is  a  staunch 
adherent  of  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
party,  having  been  an  ardent  follower  of  that 
party  ever  since  its  organization  in  this  State, 
but  owing  to  his  large,  business  interests  has 
never  taken  an  active  part  in  its  work,  to  the  ex- 
tent of  seeking  or  holding  office.  Both  he  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
in  which  he  has  been  a  Ward  teacher,  and  is  at 
this  time  an  officer  in  the  Mutual  Improvement 
Association  of  his  Ward.  Mrs.  Parker  is  also 
actively  identified  with  the  work  of  the  Church, 
being  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society, 
and  her  oldest  daughter  belongs  to  the  Young 
Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association. 

Mr.  Parker  is  well  and  favorably  known  both  in 
this  vicinity  and  Idaho  as  a  sterling  business  man, 
and  aside  from  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the 
heads  of  the  Church  to  which  he  belongs,  he  en- 
joys the  friendship  of  a  large  circle  of  people. 


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AMUEL  G.  SPENCER.  Aluch  has 
fitly  been  said  in  praise  of  the  brave  men 
and  women  who  sacrificed  fortune  and 
friends  and  came  across  the  plains  in 
the  face  of  many  trials,  dangers  and 
discouragements  to  plant  in  this  then  far-oflf  place 
a  Church  and  make  for  themselves  and  their 
children  a  home  wherein  they  could  follow  un- 
molested the  teachings  of  their  Church ;  and 
rocked  in  the  cradle  of  this  spirit  of  independence 
and  hardihood  were  the  children  born  of  those 
parents  in  the  early  days.  Among  those  who 
have  been  born  in  this  State  and  nurtured  in  the 
teachings  and  doctrines  of  the  Mormfln  Church 
by  zealous  and  earnest  parents,  is  the  subject  of 
this  sketch. 

Samuel  G.  Spencer  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
February  14,  18C4,  and  is  the  son  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  Jane  (Cutclifife)  Spencer.  The  Spencer  fam- 
ily has  always  taken  an  active  and  prominent  part 
in  the  life-work  of  the  Church  and  State,  and  a 


full  biographical  sketch  of  this  interesting  people 
is  to  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Our  subject 
was  the  oiilv  boy  in  a  family  of  five.  The  first  nine 
years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
when  the  family  moved  to  the  country.  He  re- 
turned later  and  attended  Miss  Cook's  academy 
for  six  years,  receiving  there  a  good  academic 
education. 

Our  subject  has  been  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Miss  Emma  Gedge,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Rachel  (Bush)  Gedge,  to  whom  he  was 
married  December  21,  1882.  Mrs.  Spencer  was 
born  August  30,  1864.  They  had  the  following 
children:  Daniel  G.,  Samuel  G.,  Ira  O.,  Louie 
E.,  Ivy  R.,  Israel  C,  died  in  infancy;  William 
G.  On  October  14,  1885,  Mr.  Spencer  married  as 
his  second  wife,  Maria  Baker,  daughter  of  Al- 
bert M.  and  Jane  (Coon)  Baker.  She  was  born 
May  8,  1867.  Her  children  are:  Albert,  who 
died  in  infancy;  Alma  B.,  David  B.,  Pearl  B., 
Clawson,  died  in  infancy;  Rhoda,  Zina  B.  and 
Owen  B. 

Our  subject  took  up  farming  and  began  his 
life  work  at  the  time  of  his  marriage,  which  oc- 
curred soon  after  leaving  school.  He  owns  two 
hundred  acres  of  fine  farming  land,  on  a  part  of 
which  he  lives.  He  also  rents  seventy-five  acres 
of  land  and  some  stock  of  his  mother,  for  which 
he  pays  her  a  yearly  rental  of  six  hundred  dol- 
lars. His  business  interests  have  covered  a  wide 
field.  In  addition  to  farming,  he  is  a  large  sheep. 
owner,  owning  eighteen  hundred  acres  of  grazing 
land,  and  also  conducts  a  dairy  farm,  which  is  a 
model  of  cleanliness  and  equipped  with  every 
modern  convenience  known  to  that  business.  He 
is  now  erecting  a  building  in  which  he  intends 
conducting  a  general  merchandise  business.  Mr. 
Spencer's  interests  have  not  been  confined  to  ac- 
cumulating wealth  and  honors  for  himself,  but 
he  has  always  been  one  of  the  staunch  men  of 
his  community,  doing  everything  possible  for  its- 
advancement  and  prosperity.  He  is  a  friend  of 
education,  and  it  was  largely  through  his  efforts 
that  the  excellent  school  and  meeting  house  were 
built  in  his  Ward.  The  projectors  of  any  plan 
for  the  advancement  of  the  interests  of  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  lives  have  ever  found  in  Mr. 
Spencer  a  ready  and  liberal  supporter.     He  has 


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been  affiliated  with  the  RepubUcan  party  since  its 
organization  in  this  State  and  has  held  the  office 
of  justice  of  the  peace,  as  well  as  serving  as  trus- 
tee of  the  school  board.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spen- 
cer are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  act- 
ive in  its  work.  Mr.  Spencer  was  first  ordained  an 
Elder,  then  a  Seventy  and  is  at  this  time  President 
of  the  Fourteenth  Quorum  of  the  Seventres.  He 
has  also  served  the  Church  in  the  mission  fields, 
being  called  to  the  Southern  States  and  laboring 
in  Georgia  for  twenty-six  months.  In  1894  he 
was  called  to  fill  a  mission  to  the  Northern  States 
where  he  presided  over  the  Northwest  mission 
with  headquarters  in  Kansas  City.  In  Sunday 
School  work  he  has  been  for  years  a  teacher  in  the 
theological  department,  and  also  filled  the  office  of 
President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association  for  years.  Mrs.  Spencer  is  a 
member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  in  which 
she  is  a  prominent  worker,  and  is  foremost  in 
her  Ward  in  all  charitable  projects. 

Mr.  Spencer  has  by  energy,  determination  and 
persevering  hard  work,  demonstrated  that  suc- 
cess comes  to  those  who  earnestly  seek  it,  and 
today  he  stands  high  in  the  business  ranks  of 
Salt  Lake  county,  and  his  fine  home  surrounded 
by  one  of  the  best  orchards  in  the  county,  if  not 
in  the  State,  is  a  monument  to  his  life  work,  of 
which  any  man  might  well  be  proud.  He  has 
ever  been  found  an  upright,  conscientious  and 
"zealous  worker  in  the  interests  of  both  Church 
and  State,  and  today  occupies  a  high  place  in  the 
confidence  and  trust  of  not  only  the  leaders  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  but  of  those  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated  in  business  as  well,  and  by  his 
genial  and  pleasant  manner,  his  hieh-mindedness 
and  his  broad  hospitality,  has  won  for  himself  a 
host  of  friends. 


APTAIN  J.  E.  HILL.  One  of  the 
most  important  industries  in  the  life 
of  a  city,  and  especially  in  a  large  and 
growing  community,  is  the  supply  of 
pure  milk  and  dairy  products.  The 
work  of  supplying  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  adja- 
cent territory  with  this  product  has  grown  with 
the   increased   population   of   the   city   to  be  one 


of  the  most  important  industries  of  this  region, 
and  there  is  no  more  important  establishment 
in  this  work  than  the  Elgin  Creamery  Company, 
of  which  our  subject  is  the  President.  From  the 
small  and  crude  beginnings  of  the  dairy  business 
in  the  hands  of  the  farmers,  the  demand  for  pure 
milk  has  grown  to  such  an  extent  as  to  call  for 
able  business  management  and  improved  modern 
methods  in  the  management  and  supplying  of 
this  important  food  product  to  the  daily  life  of 
the  people.  The  successful  manner  in  which  the 
business  of  this  company  is  conducted,  is  largely 
due  to  the  ability  which  its  President  has  brought 
to  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 

Captain  Hill  was  born  in  Berlin,  Holmes 
county,  Ohio,  and  lived  in  that  section  until  he 
was  seventeen  years  of  age.  His  boyhood  days 
were  spent  in  working  on  his  father's  farm  and 
he  attended  the  common  schools  of  his  State  and 
later  entered  the  academy  at  West  Unity,  Ohio, 
where  his  scholastic  education  was  completed. 
His  parents  removed,  when  he  was  seventeen 
years  of  age,  to  Defiance,  Ohio.  In  1861,  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  Captain  Hill  enlisted 
in  one  of  the  Ohio  regiments,  and  in  the  following 
year  was  made  Captain  of  his  company.  Shortly 
after,  he  was  sent  with  his  regiment  to  Kentucky 
and  participated  in  the  battle  of  Perrysville,  Ken- 
tucky, that  being  the  first  battle  in  which  he  com- 
manded his  company.  He  also  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Kentucky  in  1862  and  during  the  winter 
of  1863  had  command  of  two  companies  of  his 
regiment  at  Fort  Baker,  Kentucky.  He  was  later 
with  General  Burnside  throughout  the  campaign 
in  Kentucky  and  Eastern  Tennessee,  and  later 
participated  in  the  battle  of  Chattanooga.  From 
Tennessee  he  was  sent  with  his  regiment  to  Geor- 
gia, with  Sherman's  army,  and  was  at  Atlanta 
when  Hood  made  his  advance  on  Nashville,  and 
participated  in  the  fight  at  Franklin  and  Nash- 
ville. He  later  accompanied  General  Sherman's 
army  in  the  campaign  through  the  Carolinas, 
where  he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being 
mustered  out  with  the  rank  of  captain. 

i\fter  the  close  of  hostilities,  he  removed  to 
Illinois,  and  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  at 
Heyworth,  in  that  State,  where  he  remained  until 
1872.     He  then  removed  to  Beatrice.  Nebraska, 


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whicli  at  tliat  time  was  Init  a  small  town,  and 
there  engaged  in  the  Hve  stock  and  farming 
business,  his  ranch  being  located  in  Gage  county. 
He  was  then,  and  has  always  since  been,  a  staunch 
Republican,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  politi- 
cal affairs  of  Nebraska,  being  elected  County 
Clerk  of  Gage  county,  and  served  for  three  con- 
secutive terms.  He  remained  in  Gage  county, 
filling  the  office  of  County  Clerk  and  attending  to 
his  business,  until  1887,  when  he  was  appointed 
private  secretary  to  Governor  Thayer,  and  in  the 
following  year  elected  State  Treasurer  of  Ne- 
braska, in  which  position  he  served  four  years. 
After  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  he  re- 
turned to  Gage  county  and  again  actively  took  up 
his  business  life.  He  remained  in  Nebraska  until 
1901,  when  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  was 
made  President  of  the  Elgin  Dairy  Company, 
which  position  he  has  held  up  to  the  present  time. 
This  is  one  of  the  largest  dairy  plants  in  the 
inter-mountain  region,  and  at  the  present  time 
gives  employment  to  thirty-eight  people.  Its  of- 
fice is  located  on  State  street  and  its  extensive 
dairy  farm  is  in  the  extreme  southeastern  portion 
of  the  city.  This  dairy  is  noted  for  the  purity 
of  its  milk  and  for  the  cleanliness  with  which 
its  business  is  conducted.  In  all  dairy  matters, 
the  prime  requisite  is,  of  course,  the  purity  of 
the  milk,  which  is  indispensable  to  the  health 
of  the  people,  and  perhaps  as  important  a  feature 
is  the  use  of  pure  water  in  the  cleansing  of  the 
bottles  and  vessels  used  in  the  work  of  supplying 
the  people  with  milk. 

Captain  Hul  was  married  in  1866,  in  Illinois, 
to  Miss  Laura  Stewart,  a  native  of  West  Vir- 
ginia. Her  people  were  successful  agriculturalists 
and  were  one  of  the  old  families  of  \'irginia. 
The  father  of  our  subject,  Samuel  Hill,  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  but  spent  most  of  his  life 
in  Ohio,  and  successfullv  conducted  a  mercantile 
business  in  that  State.  He  also  took  an  interest 
in  the  political  affairs  of  Ohio  and  owed  al- 
legiance to  the  Democratic  party.  His  wife. 
Pamela  (Edgar)  Hill,  and  the  mother  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  member  of  one  of 
the  old  Ohio  families.  Her  father  was  one  of 
the  prominent  men  in  the  early  settlement  of  that 
State,  and  was  a  member  of  the  old  \\niig  jiarty. 


Captain  Hill  has  five  children — Gertrude  ;  Corola; 
Herbert  S.,  at  present  serving  with  the  army  in 
the  Philippines  ;  Winifred,  and  J.  E.,  Junior,  Vice- 
President  and  Manager  of  the  Elgin  Dairy  com- 
pany. In  political  affairs,  Mr.  Hill,  as  already 
stated,  is  a  staunch  Republican,  and  has  followed 
the  fortunes  of  that  party  unfalteringly.  In  so- 
cial life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  .\rmy  of 
the  Republic. 

The  success  ■which  he  enjoyed  in  the  East,  and 
the  prominent  part  which  he  took  in  the  affairs 
of  Nebraska,  had  marked  him  as  one  of  the 
prominent  business  men  of  the  country,  and  the 
successful  conduct  of  the  business  in  which  he 
is  engaged  in  this  region,  has  brought  him  promi- 
nently to  the  front  rank  of  the  business  circles 
here.  His  genial  and  pleasant  manner  and  his 
integrity  and  honesty  have  won  for  him  the  con- 
fidence and  trust  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated.  The  dairy  company  is  now  one  of 
the  most  prosperous  industries  of  its  kind  in  the 
city  and  its  present  prosperity  is  due,  in  a  large 
measure,  to  the  able  management  of  its  Presi- 
dent. 


I.IJAH  :\I.  WEILER.  No  better  illus- 
tration of  the  adaptability,  energy  and 
resources  of  the  American  people  can 
be  found  than  in  the  conversion  of  Utah 
from  a  wilderness  to  a  land  teeming 
with  crops  and  yielding  from  its  very  heart  un- 
told wealth  in  minerals.  To  the  pioneers,  who 
fearlessly  blazed  their  way  across  the  Great  .\mer- 
ican  Desert,  posterity  owes  an  unpayable  debt  of 
gratitude,  not  alone  for  conquering  the  hostile 
natural  conditions,  but  for  defending  and  main- 
taining intact  the  land  from  foes,  both  savage  and 
civilized.  Few  men  played  as  important  a  part, 
and  none  exhibited  greater  courage,  energy  and 
ability  in  the  developing  of  the  natural  resources 
of  Utah,  than  did  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Elijah  M.  Weiler  has  made  a  career  that  stands 
high  in  the  annals  of  the  West,  not  only  as  a 
pioneer,  but  as  one  of  the  great  captains  in  the 
army  of  civilization  which  has  brought  Utah 
to  the  fore,  both  as  an  agricultural  and  as  a 
mining  State.     He  was  born  in  Chester  county, 


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near  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  on  April  i8. 
1839,  and  eight  years  later,  in  1847,  came  to  Salt 
Lake  Valley  with  his  parents.  He  was  the  young- 
est son,  and  is  now  the  only  living  son.  of  Jacob 
Weiler,  who  had  been  an  early  settler  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. His  forefathers  were  natives  of  Germany. 
The  Weilers  were  among  the  first  to  reach  the 
Salt  Lake  \'alley,  coming  in  in  advance  of  the 
party  of  one  hundred  and  forty-seven,  led  by 
President  Brigham  Young,  being'  one  of  the  first 
of  four  persons  that  arrived  in  advance  of  that 
company.  The  company  wintered  in  the  old  fort 
in  the  winter  of  1847-48.  His  father  then  built 
a  small  house  to  shelter  his  family  on  Seventh 
South,  between  First  and  Second  East  streets. 
He  also  owned  a  farm  of  about  twenty  acres, 
just  inside  the  city  limits,  and  also  another  farm 
outside  the  city  limits  in  the  eastern  portion  of  the 
county.  His  father  was  a  Bishop  in  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  for  the  Third 
Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City  for  a  period  of  over 
thirty-seven  years,  which  position  he  resigned  two 
years  before  his  death  on  account  of  his  age 
and  believing  that  his  place  could  be  better  filled 
by  a  man  younger  and  more  fitted  to  the  active 
work  which  such  a  bishopric  demanded.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  to  assist  in  locating  the  Tem- 
ple at  Salt  Lake  City  and  was  connected  with 
its  building,  from  its  foundation  to  its  completion. 
He  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  for  the  Church, 
to  Jerusalem,  with  Orson  Hyde  and  others,  but 
on  arriving  at  New  York  City  they  found  the 
party  too  large,  and  he  returned  to  Utah.  On 
his  return  from  New  York,  he  spent  a  considerable 
time  in  the  East  gathering  data  relating  to  the 
genealogy  of  his  dead  ancestors.  During  his 
early  sojourn  in  Utah  he  began  the  cultivation 
of  his  farm,  and  with  Bishop  E.  T.  Sheets,  who 
owned  the  adjoining  farm,  worked  their  fields 
jointly  with  one  yoke  of  oxen  and  shared  in  the 
labor  incident  to  the  care  of  both  farms.  Not- 
withstanding all  these  difficulties  and  hardships 
incident  to  the  settlement  of  a  new  country,  there 
was  never  a  word  of  complaint  or  a  murmur  of 
discontent  from  any  of  the  people.  Always  loyal 
to  his  country  and  faithful  to  the  Church  of  his 
choice,  a  man  highly  respected  and  honored  for 
his  charity  and  good   deeds  to  others,   he  lived 


to  be  eighty-eight  years  of  age  and  died  in  Salt 
Lake  City  on  March  24,  1896. 

Anna  Maria  Malin,  the  mother  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  and  wife  of  Jacob  Weiler,  was  born 
in  the  same  county  and  close  to  the  residence 
of  her  future  husband.  Her  family,  emigrated 
from  Germany  and  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  being 
among  the  first  settlers  of  that  country.  Her 
father,  Elijah  Malin,  became  a  member  of  the 
Church  among  the  first  days  of  its  existence  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  gave  up  his  home  and  followed 
the  fortunes  of  the  Church  and  with  his  family 
moved  to  Xauvoo  and  shared  all  the  trials  and 
hardships  to  which  the  Church  was  subjected, 
both  in  Illinois  and  Missouri.  He  came  to  Salt 
Lake  a  number  of  years  later  than  the  pioneers 
and  died  in  this  city.  Mrs.  Weiler  died  in  1865, 
the  next  year  after  the  marriage  of  her  son,  Eli- 
jah. 

The  early  life  of  our  subject  was  spent  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Utah  and  he  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City  that  were 
then  in  existence,  following  the  same  course  as 
did  all  the  sons  of  farmers  and  pioneers — work- 
ing on  the  farm  in  the  summer  and  attending 
school  for  three  months  in  winter.  In  1866  he 
began  his  life  work  and  took  up  farming  and  later 
entered  into  the  business  of  railroad  contracting, 
in  which  work  he  was  identified  with  George 
and  Charles  Crismon.  The  first  contract  which 
this  firm  received  was  for  the  building  of  the 
railroad  from  Echo  to  Park  City,  a  branch  of  the 
L'nion  Pacific.  This  was  a  very  large  contract, 
not  alone  from  the  extent  of  the  road,  but  from 
the  heavy  cuttings  that  had  to  be  made.  They 
also  built  the  road  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
from  Granger  to  Twin  Creek.  They  constructed 
in  all  about  seventy-five  miles  of  this  road,  and 
built  twenty  miles  of  the  Bear  River  division. 
Upon  the  completion  of  this  contract,  in  1881, 
Mr.  Weiler  went  to  Missouri  for  the  purpose  of 
purchasing  mules  to  be  used  in  the  contract  work, 
and  successfully  brought  them  across  to  Utah. 
Then  Mr.  Weiler,  together  with  Mr.  Crismon, 
undertook  the  building  of  the  Sweetwater  Cut 
OfT,  as  well  as  changing  it  from  a  narrow  gauge 
to  a  broad  gauge  road.  They  also  spent  a  sum- 
mer in  lowering  the  grade  at  Brigham  City. 


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From  railroad  contractino;-  Mr.  \\'eiler  turned 
his  attention  to  the  sheep-raising  industry,  and 
went  to  Iowa  where  he  purcliased  a  large  drove 
of  sheep  and  successfully  brought  them  to  Utah. 
He  devoted  about  seventeen  years  to  the  ?heep- 
raising  business  and  was  associated  with  Mr.  Cris- 
mon  in  the  adoption  of  the  migratory  movement 
of  sheep  from  one  range  in  summer  to  another  in 
winter,  which  proved  to  be  successful  and  profit- 
able. This  business  he  continued  in  until  about 
1890,  when  he  became  interested  in  mining  prop- 
erties in  this  State  and  secured  a  large  interest 
in  the  Utah  mine,  of  which  company  he  is  now 
a  director,  vice-president  and  secretary.  This 
mine  has  proved  to  be  very  successful  and  now 
employs  about  twenty-six  men  in  its  operations. 

When  a  call  was  made  by  President  Lincoln, 
in  1862,  for  volunteers  to  protect  the  mails  be- 
tween Salt  Lake  and  the  Sweetwater  River,  in 
Wyoming,  Mr.  Weiler  joined  Captain  Smith's 
command  and  served  in  that  companv  throughout 
all  the  trouble.  Their  horses  and  equipments, 
they  themselves  provided.  On  the  trip,  they 
killed  one  horse  for  food.  There  was  one  man 
drowned  crossing  the  Snake  River.  While  serv- 
ing in  the  militia  in  Utah  in  1862,  Mr.  Weiler 
was  one  of  the  members  of  that  force  which 
turned  the  march  of  the  Union  soldiers  at  Sweet- 
water. In  the  spring  of  1863  he  went  from  Salt 
Lake  City  with  Captain  John  Woolley  across  the 
plains  to  the  JMissouri  River  to  bring  a  company 
of  emigrants  to  L'tah.  In  the  fall  of  1863  he  set 
out  on  a  journey  to  San  Pedro,  California,  from 
Salt  Lake  City.  This  round  trip  he  successfully 
completed  in  one  year.  In  1865  he  served  for 
ninety  days  under  the  command  of  Captain  Peter 
Dewey,  in  Sanpete  county,  fighting  the  Indians. 
In  addition  to  his  other  experiences  and  his  trips 
to  the  East  and  to  the  West,  he  also  undertook 
freighting  to  the  Montana  mining  camps,  and 
made  two  trips  to  that  region  in  the  dead  of 
winter  in  1865-66.  and  a  few  years  later  made 
another  trip  in  mid-winter. 

Mr.  Weiler  was  married  on  December  24th, 
1864,  to  Miss  Emily  P.  Crismon,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  sister  of  George  Crismon.  By  that 
wife  he  has  had  ten  children :  Anna  Luella,  wife 
of  S.  L.  Sheets ;  Elizabeth,  who  died  at  the  age 


of  two  and  a  half  years:  Catherine,  wife  of 
Judge  Elias  A.  Smith,  Cashier  of  the  Deseret  Na- 
tional Bank;  Elijah  M.,  who  has  served  thirty- 
three  months  in  the  South  on  a  mission  for  the 
Church,  and  is  married  to  Miss  Ida  Pitts ;  George 
L.,  at  present  absent  on  a  mission  for  the  Church 
in  Holland ;  Walter  Scott,  in  Germany  on  a  mis- 
sion ;  Agnes  Pearl ;  Raymond ;  Irene  and  Gale, 
both  dead.  He  has  two  grandchildren,  the  chil- 
dren of  these  children  by  his  first  wife.  His  sec- 
ond wife  was  Miss  Agnes  Balto.  a  native  of  Utah, 
whose  family  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  the 
State.  By  this  second  wife  he  has  the  following 
chidren :  .-\leen.  \'era.  Rodney.  Walter,  Florence 
and  Jacob. 

In  the  administration  of  the  political  affairs  of 
the  State  Mr.  Weiler  has  always  taken  an  active 
interest.  He  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Democratic  party.  For  fourteen  and  a  half 
years  he  was  a  Commissioner  of  Salt  Lake 
county,  and  in  addition  to  this  service  has  repre- 
sented his  party  in  the  City  Councils  of  Salt  Lake 
City  for  two  years,  covering  a  period  from  1898 
to  1899. 

He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  and  has  given 
his  best  eflforts  to  the  advancement  of  this  cause. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  to  assist  in  digging  the 
foundation  of  the  Temple  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
contributed  fifteen  hundred  dollars  towards  de- 
fraying the  cost  of  the  completion  of  the  build- 
ing. Mr.  Weiler's  business  career  and  the  en- 
terprises in  which  he  has  participated,  cover  all 
the  industries  which  have  aided  Utah  in  arising 
to  its  present  'prosperous  position.  Among  the 
first  to  begin  the  raising  of  sheep,  he  has  also 
devoted  his  attention  to  mining  and  railroad  con- 
tracting. He  is  one  of  the  stalwart  men  of  Utah, 
and  one  who,  by  his  honesty  and  integrity,  has 
built  a  reputation  that  may  well  be  a  proud  legacy 
to  his  children  and  their  posterity.  In  the  devel- 
opment of  the  southern  part  of  the  State  he  has 
taken  an  active  part.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
settlers  sent  by  the  Church  to  colonize  that  sec- 
tion of  Utah,  in  the  sixties.  Besides  his  sheep 
business  he,  at  one  time,  raised  a  considerable 
number  of  fine  horses. 

His  success  has  been  due  entirely  to-  his  own 


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efforts.  His  education  was  derived,  not  so  much 
from  schools  and  from  books,  as  from  the  lessons 
he  received  from  his  daily  experience  in  a  country 
where  each  man  was  judged  by  his  ability  to  stand 
and  conquer  almost  unconquerable  conditions.  He 
met  every  difficulty  with  unflinching  courage, 
and  by  his  executive  and  administrative  ability 
has  proved  himself  to  be  one  of  the  leaders  of  the 
army  who  conquered  the  West  and  made  possible 
its  present  prosperity. 


SAHEL  H.  WOODRUFF  is  a  worthy 
scion  of  one  of  the  most  illustrious 
families  within  the  history  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  His  father,  Wilford 
Woodruff,   was  the   Fourth   President 


of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  and  one  of  the  most  universally  beloved 
and  widely  known  leaders  the  Church  has  had. 
Our  subject's  mother  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Emma  Smith.  She  became  President  Woodruff's 
third  wife,  and  at  the  time  of  the  trouble,  caused 
by  the  enforcement  of  the  Edmunds-Tucker  law, 
was  chosen  as  the  legal  wife  of  President  Wood- 
ruff. She  was  his  almost  constant  companion 
on  his  missionary  trips,  and  became  an  active 
worker  in  Church  circles.  She  survived  her  hus- 
band and  is  now  living  in  this  city.  Abraham  O. 
Woodruff  is  own  brother  to  our  subject ;  he  is  one 
of  the  youngest  of  the  Twelve  Apostles  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  is,  at  this  time,  in  the 
employ  of  the  Church  as  Colonization  Agent  for 
the  State  of  Wyoming.  Biographical  sketches  of 
Mr.  Woodruff's  parents  and  brother  will  be  found 
elsewhere-  in  this  work. 

Asahel  H.  Woodruff  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  February  3,  1863.  He  grew  up  in  this  city 
and  obtained  a  good  common  school  education 
from  the  public  schools  of  the  community.  At  the 
aere  of  seventeen  years  he  left  school  and  began 
life  for  himself,  commencing  in  the  packing  room 
of  the  Zion  Co-Operative  Mercantile  Institution, 
in  the  capacity  of  errand-boy.  He  worked  here 
two  years  and  was  then  promoted  to  a  clerkship  in 
the  dry-goods  department.  This  work  proved  to 
be  so  congenial  that  he  remained  in  it,  being  pro- 
moted from  time  to  time,  until  he  became  man- 


ager of  the  wholesale  dry  goods  department,  in 
1892,  one  of  the  most  responsible  positions  in  the 
gift  of  the  institution.  He  did  all  the  buying  for 
this  department,  which  necessitated  his  making 
two  trips  to  the  Eastern  States  each  year. 

In  the  spring  of  1884  he  was  called  to  go  on  a 
mission  for  the  Church  and  spent  about  two  years 
in  the  field  in  England,  returning  to  Salt  Lake 
City  in  the  fall  of  1885.  He  remained  at  home 
looking  after  his  private  business  affairs,  until 
the  following  September,  when  he  again  entered 
the  employ  of  the  wholesale  dry  goods  depart- 
ment of  the  Zion  Co-Operative  Mercantile  Insti- 
tution, and  retained  that  position  until  January 
15,  1902,  when  he  received  the  appointment  of 
President  of  the  Church  work  in  the  Northern 
States,  with  headquarters  at  Chicago,  which  posi- 
tion he  accepted  and  is  now  in  that  field.  He  was 
one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Pioneer  Electric 
Power  Company  and  is  one  of  its  directors.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  spirits  in  the  organization 
of  the  Equitable  Co-Operative  Institution  and 
served  on  its  first  Board  of  Directors.  He  is 
also  a  director  of  the  Wood  River  Live  Stock 
Company. 

Mr.  Woodruff'  was  married  December  14,  1886, 
to  Miss  Nannie  Butterworth,  daughter  of  Isaac 
and  Mary  (Rose)  Butterworth,  natives  of  Eng- 
land, where  their  daughter  was  born.  Five  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  this  union — Roxie, 
Norma,  Beulah,  .Isabel  Hart.  Douglass  and 
Emma  Rose. 

Politically.  Mr.  Woodruff  is  in  sympathy  with 
the  Republican  party,  but  owing  to  his  arduous 
duties  has  never  had  time  to  participate  actively 
in  its  work,  and  has  never  sought  or  held  public 
office. 

In  Church  circles  he  is  one  of  the  Seventies 
and  holds  the  office  of  Senior  President  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Thirty-seventh  Quorum  of 
Seventies. 

.\s  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City  from  his  birth, 
and  a  member  of  one  of  the  leading  families, 
it  is  but  natural  that  Mr.  Woodruff  should  be  well 
known  to  the  citizens  of  this  place,  but  his  high 
standing  in  the  community  is  the  result  of  his  own 
upright  and  manly  life.  He  began  on  his  own 
hook  at  an  early  age  and  has  been  verv  successful 


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throughout  his  career  so  far,  winning  and  re- 
taining the  confidence  of  his  employers  and  mak- 
ing a  record  as  a  bright  and  able  business  man. 
When  he  took  his  present  position  he  carried 
with  him  the  good  wishes  and  highest  esteem 
of  the  best  citizens  of  this  community. 


)SEPH  A.  WRIGHT.  there  are  few 
families  in  Mill  Creek  Ward  who  are  bet- 
ter known  or  have  done  more  for 
the  development  of  this  section  of  the 
State  than  the  Wright  family,  who 
came  here  in  the  early  days,  coming  to 
America  from  England,  and  settling  in  Mill 
Creek  Ward  in  1849.  Here  they  made  the 
family  home,  the  father  engaging  in  farming,  and 
spending  a  portion  of  his  time  in  colonization 
work ;  and  here  the  son  was  born  and  has  since 
continued  to  reside,  his  growth  being  synony- 
mous with  the  development  and  enrichment  of 
the  country.  He  is  now  one  of  the  influential 
farmers  of  this  district,  highly  respected,  and  an 
honor  to  the  community  in  which  he  makes  his 
home. 

Joseph  A.  Wright  was  born  February  17,  1853, 
and  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  M.  (Wat- 
son) Wright.  In  1862  the  father  was  sent  on  a 
colonization  mission  to  Dixie,  and  remained  there 
ten  years,  dying  on  the  Virgin  river  in  1872.  His 
wife  survived  him  and  lived  until  March,  1895. 
There  are  in  this  family  two  sons  and  three, 
daughters,  all  of  them  living  in  Utah.  The 
brother  of  our  subject  is  now  living  in  Di.xie, 
in  \'irgin  City  Ward. 

Our  subject,  the  youngest  member  of  this 
family,  remained  at  home  until  he  had  attained 
his  twenty-first  birthday,  when  he  led  to  the  mar- 
riage altar  Miss  Kindness  A.  Badger,  daughter 
of  John  C.  and  Kindness  (Haines)  Badger,  and 
at  once  began  life  on  his  own  account.  The  Bad- 
ger family  came  from  Vermont,  and  were  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Utah.  Mrs.  Badger  was 
born  in  Ohio,  but  went  to  Vermont  to  live  after 
her  marriage.  Ten  children  have  come  to  bless 
the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wright,  nine  of  whom 
are  now  living — ^Joseph  A.,  Junior;  Parley  R., 
Orson    W.,   Elmer,    Edgar    W.,  Verna,     Thae, 


Thomas  T.,  Cleeo  D.,  and  Mary  .A.     The  .second 
child,  William  N.,  died  aged  thirteen  years. 

After  his  marriage,  Mr.  Wright  engaged  in 
general  farming  and  in  the  raising  of  live  stock, 
paying  particular  attention  to  cattle  and  sheep, 
and  has  since  continued  successfully  in  these 
lines,  owning  a  valuable  farm  of  forty-five  acres 
of  highly  cultivated  land,  well  improved  with 
fences,  artesian  wells,  good  barns,  out-buildings, 
etc.,  and  has  built  a  substantial  and  handsome 
brick  residence.  His  sheep  and  cattle  afford  him 
a  good  revenue,  and  he  is  one  of  the  substantial 
men  of  Mill  Creek. 

Politically  his  sympathies  are  with  the  Repub- 
lican party,  but  he  has  never  participated  actively 
in  the  work  of  his  party,  nor  sought  to  hold  of- 
fice. 

The  family  are  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  Mrs.  Wright  being  for  the  past  twenty 
years  a  valued  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  So- 
ciety. She  is  also  Council  to  the  Primary  Asso- 
ciation. Mr.  Wright  was  for  many  years  a  Ward 
teacher,  and  has  always  been  active  in  all  lines  of 
local  Church  work.  He  has  also  taken  a  lively 
interest  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  advance- 
ment of  his  district,  being  for  several  terms  a 
school  trustee,  and  wide-awake  to  anything  that 
would  benefit  his  community.  As  a  high-minded- 
nonorable  and  public-spirited  gentleman,  our  sub- 
ject is  deserving  of  the  highest  praise,  and  as  a 
family,  the  Wrights  are  among  the  most  be- 
loved and  highly  respected  in  this  place. 


I  )HN  J.  McCLELLAN.  Utah  is  noted 
for  many  things  and  has  manj^  points 
of  interest  to  strangers  who  visit  her  do- 
mains, and  Salt  Lake  City  is  especially 
rich  in  wonders  of  nature,  but  is  more 
renowned  as  the  center  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
The  two  principal  objects  of  all  visitors  are  the 
Salt  Lake  Temple  and  the  great  Tabernacle.  In 
addition  to  the  Tabernacle  being  one  of  the  won- 
derful buildings  of  the  United  States,  and  indeed 
of  the  world,  constructed  entirely  by  the  pioneers 
out  of  the  materials  indigent  to  Utah,  and  erected 
by  the  labor  and  self-sacrifice  of  the  early  mem- 
bers of  the  Church,  it   is  perhaps  more  famous 


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for  the  wonderful  organ  wliose  reputation  is 
known  in  every  quarter  of  the  world.  This  organ 
was  at  first  built  by  the  early  Mormons  out  of  the 
native  wood  of  Utah,  but  has  lately  been  re-con- 
structed by  the  firm  of  W.  W.  Kimball  Company, 
of  Chicago.  Great  as  the  organ  is  and  wide  as 
its  fame  has  spread,  it  would  have  been  as  silent 
as  the  "harp  in  Tara's  halls"  did  it  lack  the  master 
hand  to  bring  forth  its  wonderful  resources  of 
tone  and  harmony.  Few  of  the  organists  who 
have  aided  in  establishing  the  reputation  of  this 
organ  have  done  so  much  for  it  as  has  the  present 
encumbent,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Although 
but  a  young  man,  he  has  already  demonstrated 
by  his  genius  and  ability  that  he  stands  in  the 
front  ranks  of  the  organists  of  the  United  States. 
John  J.  McClellan  was  born  in  Jt'ayson,  Utah 
county,  Utah,  April  20,  1874,  where  he  spent  his 
boyhood  days  attending  the  public  and  high 
schools.  He  was  a  son  of  John  Jasper  McClel- 
lan, a  native  of  Illinois,  who  was  educated  in 
Springfield  and  became  identified  with  the  Mor- 
mon Church  in  that  State  and  came  with  the 
pioneers  across  the  plains  in  1848,  making  the 
journey  on  foot.  The  dangers  were  increased  by 
the  hostile  attitude  of  the  Indians,  who,  however, 
did  not  molest  the  travellers.  Upon  his  arrival 
in  Utah  he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising 
and  also  took  an  active  interest  in  the  political 
administration  of  affairs,  and  was  Mayor  of  Pay- 
son  for  eight  years,  and  also  served  in  the  Coun- 
cil of  that  City.  He  first  settled  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  but  remained  there  only  a  few  months, 
moving  to  Utah  county,  where  he  made  his  home. 
He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  being  an  Elder,  and  was  President  of  the 
Elders'  Quorum  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His 
father,  James  McClellan,  was  also  a  native  of 
Illinois,  and  his  ancestors  had  been  natives  of 
Scotland.  James  McClellan  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  being  one  of  its  first  members.  The 
mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  the  wife 
of  John  Jasper  McClellan,  was  Eliza  Barbara 
(Walser)  McClellan,  a  native  of  Switzerland, 
who  emigrated  from  her  native  land  with  her 
parents  to  Utah,  after  joining  the  Church  in 
Europe.     The  father  died  before  they  left  Switz- 


erland, and  her  mother  married  John  Deim,  also 
a  member  of  the  Church,  and  he  brought  them 
safely  to  Utah.  He  became  a  prominent  mer- 
chant in  Payson  and  amassed  considerable 
wealth.  Mr.  McClellan's  father  died  in  August, 
1897. 

Upon  leaving  school  our  subject  entered  the 
printing  business  and  later  purchased  the  Payson 
Enterprise  and  for  two  years  successfully  con- 
ducted that  paper,  during  which  time  he  was  half 
owner  of  .it.  He  then  went  to  Saginaw,  Michi- 
gan, to  continue  his  musical  studies  and  develop 
his  talents,  and  studied  under  an  eminent  Ger- 
man master,  Albert  W.  Platte,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained for  eighteen  months  and  then  went  to 
Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  where  he  entered  the  con- 
servatory of  music  and  took  a  post-graduate 
course  under  Doctor  Stanley  Albert  O.  Jonas,  a 
great  Spanish  pianist.  Upon  the  completion  of 
his  musical  studies  he  returned  to  Utah  in  June, 
1896,  and  immediately  entered  upon  his  musical 
career.  In  that  year  he  was  made  Professor  of 
Music  in  the  Latter  Day  Saints'  University,  which 
position  he  held  for  two  years,  being  next  en- 
gaged in  a  similar  work  in  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo  for  another  year,  and  gave 
half  of  his  time  to  this  work. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Douglass, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Douglass,  of  Payson.  Her 
family  were  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  State,  and 
very  influential  in  their  community.  By  this 
marriage  Mr.  McClellan  has  three  children — 
Genevieve,  Madeline  and  Douglass. 

After  the  termination  of  his  teaching  career 
in  the  Brigham  Young  Academy,  Mr.  McClellan 
and  his  wife  took  an  extensive  tour  throughout 
Europe,  where  he  perfected  his  knowledge  of 
music.  While  in  Berlin  he  studied  under  Xavier 
Scharwenka  and  Ernst  Jedliczka.  He  returned 
to  the  United  States  after  an  extensive  tour 
through  France,  Italy  and  Switzerland,  and  was 
made  Director  of  Music  in  the  University  of 
Utah,  and  in  August,  1900,  became  Organist  in 
the  Tabernacle,  and  in  the  following  September 
was  made  Musical  Director  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Opera  Company.  Mr.  McClellan's  musical  abil- 
ity has  made  him  one  of  the  well-known  organ- 
ists of  the  country,  and  in   1893,  at  the  time  of 


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the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  held  in  Chi- 
cago, he  was  invited  to  perform  on  the  great 
organ  in  the  Music  Hall  there.  He  was  also 
organist  and  choirmaster  of  the  Catholic  Church 
at  Ann  Arbor  during  his  stay  there  at  the  con- 
servatory of  music. 

He  is  an  Elder  in  the  Mormon  Church  and 
takes  a  great  interest  in  the  proper  conduct  of 
the  musical  part  of  its  services.  His  father  was 
one  of  the  prominent  men  of  the  community  and 
was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Church  in  Herri- 
sans,  holding  also  the  position  of  postmaster  of 
that  town. 

Air.  McClellan  is  widely  known  throughout 
Utah  for  his  musical  ability,  and  his  genial  and 
pleasant  manner,  his  willingness  to  perform  on 
the  wonderful  organ,  and  his  courtesy  have  en- 
deared him  to  all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  con- 
tact, and  made  him  one  of  the  most  popular  men 
in  the  musical  profession  in  Utah.  The  "Apollo" 
Club,  composed  of  thirty  rare  male  voices,  has 
lately  been  organized  bv   Mr.   McClellan. 


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OHN  B.  HOYT.  The  Hoyt  family 
might  well  be  called  the  founders  of 
Summit  county.  Samuel  Pierce  Hoyt, 
our  subject's  father,  settled  and  owned 
the  land  where  Hoytsville  now  stands, 
as  early  as  i860,  being  among  the  first  settlers 
in  that  county,  and  from  that  day  to  the  present 
time  the  family  have  been  closely  identified  with 
the  history  and  development  of  the  country. 

John  B.  Hoyt  was  born  at  Hoytsville  January 
16,  1869.  His  father,  Samuel  Pierce  Hoyt,  came 
of  an  old  New  Hampshire  family.  He  was  born 
in  Devonshire,  New  Hampshire,  in  November, 
1807,  and  was  the  son  of  James  and  Pamelia 
Hoyt.  He  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and 
when  a  young  man  settled  at  Pottsdam,  in  the 
same  State,  later  moving  to  Nashua,  in  that  State, 
where  he  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  moved  to  Nauvoo.  He  became  the 
owner  of  the  land  where  the  Nauvoo  temple  was 
built,  which  land  he  contributed  to  the  Church. 
In  1850  he  crossed  the  plains  with  Elias  Smith 
and  settled  at  Fillmore,  then  the  capital  of  the 
State,  and  had  entire  charge  of  the  building  of 


the  State  Capitol  at  that  place.  He  was  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  and  tanning  business  and  also 
owned  a  farm  there,  becoming  one  of  the  promi- 
nent men  of  Fillmore.  He  moved  to  the  Weber 
valley  in  i860  and  located  on  what  is  now  the 
site  of  Hoytsville,  where  in  the  late  sixties  he 
began  the  erection  of  a  large  mansion,  built  of 
native  white  cut  sandstone,  which  was  approxi- 
mately five  years  in  course  of  construction  and 
cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  thirty-five  thousand 
dollars.  At  the  time  it  was  built  it  was  the 
finest  residence  in  the  State  outside  of  Salt  Lake 
City.  It  is  built  on  a  tract  of  land  of  over  a  hun- 
dred acres,  surrounded  by  a  massive  stone  wall, 
in  which  are  four  large  iron  gates,  one  on  either 
side.  The  house  contains  sixteen  spacious  rooms, 
and  there  are  eight  elaborate  fireplaces.  The  inte- 
rior decorations  are  on  an  unusually  magnificent 
scale,  the  work  being  done  by  European  artists. 
Solid  black  walnut  winding  stairs  connect  the 
upper  rooms  and  the  spacious  hall.  This  beau- 
tiful home  is  at  the  present  time  occupied  by  Mr. 
Hoyt's  married  daughter,  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Lee. 
He  erected  the  first  grist  mill,  and  laid  the  foun- 
dation for  the  town  which  was  later  named  in 
his  honor  by  Messrs.  Fox  and  Kessler.  He  had 
to  abandon  his  mill  owing  to  the  channel  of  the 
stream  being  changed.  In  1862  he  bought  a 
ranch  in  Rhodes  valley,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
stock  raising  business  and  made  his  home  here 
part  of  the  time.  In  politics  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Republican  party  and  filled  the  office  of 
selectman  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  and 
helped  draft  the  first  Territorial  laws.  In 
Church  life  he  was  a  member  of  the  Seventies. 
He  was  the  husband  of  three  wives  and  the 
father  of  eleven  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now 
living,  all  but  one  being  residents  of  Summit 
county — Mary,  wife  of  Joseph  W.  Lee ;  Pamelia, 
now  Mrs.  Alonzo  Mills;  Elizabeth,  wife  of  J. 
P.  Stonebraker ;  John  B.,  our  subject;  Martha, 
Joseph  B.,  and  Emma.  One  of  his  wives,  Cath- 
erine E.  Burbridge,  is  still  living.  Mr.  Hoyt 
died  on  his  ranch  in  Rhodes  valley  August  12, 
1889. 

Upon  the  death  of  his  father  our  subject  as- 
sumed charge  of  the  business,  and  has  since  fol- 


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lowed  the  raising  of  cattle,  sheep  and  horses  and 
is  today  one  of  the  largest  stock  dealers  in  the 
valley,  usually  feeding  one  hundred  and  seventy 
head  of  cattle  and  five  hundred  head  of  sheep. 
His  wife  and  family  of  four  children  reside  on 
the  old  homestead  in  Rhodes  valley,  and  the 
family  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  Summit 
county.  The  Hoyt  family  built  the  Crystal 
creamery  in  1896,  which  they  run  for  four  years, 
but  which  has  now  passed  into  other  hands.  Mr. 
Hoyt  is  alive  to  the  importance  of  irrigation 
for  this  Western  country  and  has  been  actively 
identified  with  the  building  of  the  canals  on  the 
south  side  of  Weber  river,  and  is  a  director  in 
the  Upper  Ditch.  He  is  also  interested  with 
other  members  of  the  family  in  some  mining 
properties  which  his  father  located  and  purchased 
among  the  Wasatch  group.  The  senior  Mr. 
Hoyt  brought  the  first  turning  lathe  into  Utah, 
on  which  machine  all  the  iron  work  in  the  Salt 
Lake  Temple  was  turned. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never 
sought  or  held  public  office,  devoting  his  time  to 
the  care  of  his  large  business  interests.  He  is  one 
of  the  best  known  men  of  his  county,  where  he 
enjoys  a  wide  popularity. 


OHX  J.  THOMAS.  In  the  important 
lidsition  of  member  and  Secretary  to  tne 
State  Board  of  Equalization,  is  a  man 
who,  by  reason  of  his  long  experience 
in  the  West  and  the  active  work  that 
he  has  done,  is  splendidly  equipped  to  discharge 
the  responsibilities  of  that  position.  He  held  the 
office  of  secretary  originally  under  the  Territorial 
government,  when  the  Board  of  Equalization 
was  a  Territorial  Board ;  and  when  the  State 
was  admitted  to  the  LTnion,  he  was  appointed  a 
member  and  was  chosen  to  continue  as  secretary 
to  it  as  a  State  Board,  which  position  he  now 
holds. 

John  J.  Thomas  was  born  in  Chicago.  Illinois, 
in  185 1.  His  father  was  engaged  in  business 
in  various  parts  of  the  country  and  the  boyhood 
days  of  his  son's  life  were  spent  in  Wisconsin, 
Michigan    and    Ohio.     For    seventeen    ^--rs    he 


lived  in  Pennsylvania,  in  Pittslnirgh  and  Sharps- 
burgh,  where  he  attended  school.  He  later  en- 
tered the  Western  Pennsylvania  University  at 
Pittsburgh,  and  there  took  a  special  course  of 
studies.  He  completed  his  education  at  the  age 
of  twenty-two  and  started  on  his  life's  work  as 
a  clerk  in  his  father's  office,  and  later  en- 
tered a  law  office,  where  he  read  law.  Find- 
ing opportunities  in  the  East  less  attractive 
and  those  of  the  West  oftering  greater  fields  for 
the  exercise  of  his  abilty,  he  emigrated  to  Cali- 
fornia and  engaged  in  the  orange  business  near 
Los  Angeles,  and  followed  that  employment  for 
two  years,  when  he  came  to  Utah  in  1879  and 
entered  the  employ  of  George  A.  Lowe  as  private 
secretary,  which  position  he  held  for  ten  years. 
He  became  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Territorial 
Board  of  Equalization  in  1889  and  in  1891  Sec- 
retary, and  when  L'tah  was  admitted  to  the 
Union  in  1896  he  was  appointed  a  member  and 
made  Secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion, which  position  he  continues  to  fill  with  effi- 
ciency and  credit.  He  has  taken  great  interest 
in  the  politics  of  Utah  and  during  the  years  1894 
to  1896  was  elected  and  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Education.  In  1899  he  was  elected 
to  the  City  Council  of  Salt  Lake  and  re-elected 
in  1900,  in  which  body  he  is  Cfiairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Municipal  Laws  and  the  Commit- 
tee on  Streets. 

In  1876  he  was  married  to  Miss  Annie  W. 
Lewis,  of  Uniontown.  Pennsylvania.  She  died 
in  November,  1889.  In  1896  he  married  as  his 
second  wife,  Mrs.  C.  M.  Hansen.  By  his  first 
marriage  he  had  three  children,  all  sons,  two  of 
whom  are  dead.  By  his  second  marriage  he  has 
had  one  daughter  and  one  son,  of  which  onlv  the 
daughter  is  living. 

In  the  political  ailfairs  of  L'tah  he  has  always 
manifested  a  great  interest,  being  a  staunch  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  has  been  one  of  the  most  active  workers  in 
the  campaigns  of  that  party  and  has  aided  in  the 
work  of  its  development.  So  valuable  have  his 
services  been  during  his  residence  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  that  he  is  now  recognized  as  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  dominant  party  of  the  State.  In 
social   life   he   is   a  member  of  the   Independent 


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Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  having  held  many  high 
positions  in  that  Order,  and  being  one  of  its  guid- 
ing spirits  in  the  West.  He  is  a  Past  Grand  Mas- 
ter and  Past  Grand  Patriarch,  and  has  repre- 
sented the  Utah  Grand  Lodges  in  the  sessions 
of  the  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge  for  twelve  years. 
Mr.  Thomas  has  won  his  present  position  in 
the  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  city,  and 
of  the  State  as  well,  by  his  own  efforts.  He  has 
risen  to  his  present  importance  in  political  cir- 
cles through  the  exercise  of  a  rare  order  of  abil- 
ity and  generalship.  He  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  men  throughout  the  State,  and  the  effi- 
cient manner  in  which  he  has  discharged  all  the 
duties  allotted  to  him  has  won  him  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  all  the  people. 


LJDGE  A.  X.  CHERRY.  Among  the 
men  who  have  been  called  to  preside 
on  the  Bench  of  the  Third  Judicial  Dis- 
trict of  Utah,  there  have  been  few  who 
iiave  made  as  good  a  record  as  has  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  His  integrity  as  a  judge 
and  his  learning  as  a  lawyer  has  made  for  him  a 
record  in  the  annals  of  Utah's  judiciary  that  ranks 
high  in  the  legal  life  of  the  West. 

Judge  Cherry  spent  his  early  life  working  on 
his  father's  farm  and  secured  his  early  education 
in  the  log  schoolhouses  that  then  existed  in  his 
section  of  the  country.  His  mother  was  am- 
bitious to  furnish  her  son  with  the  best  education 
obtainable,  and  the  Judge  then  realizing  the 
necessity  of  a  liberal  education  to  successfully 
compete  in  the  successes  of  the  world,  worked 
day  and  night  in  order  to  secure  the  means  for  his 
education. 

He  was  married  in  Illinois  in  1865  to  Miss 
Mary  E.  Banks,  daughter  of  John  Banks,  a  native 
of  Kentucky,  and  a  member  of  one  of  the  early 
families  of  that  State.  His  wife  had  relatives 
engaged  on  both  sides  of  the  Civil  War.  Judge 
Cherry  was  a  prominent  jurist  in  Kansas  and 
occupied  a  position  on  the  Bench  there.  By  his 
marriage  Judge  Cherry  has  seven  children — 
Ethel,  wife  of  Frank  J.  Carmen ;  Marvin  B.,  cash- 
ier of  the  Studebaker  Wagon  Company ;  Howard 


W.,  engaged  in  mining;  James  W.,  a  lawyer  at 
La  Grande,  Oregon ;  Ernest  A.,  an  electrician, 
residing  in  Butte,  Montana ;  Bertha  B.,  wife 
of  A.  J.  Vorse,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
Blanche.  Judge  Cherry  and  his  family  are 
members  of  the  Unitarian  Church,  and  have  taken 
an  active  part  in  its  work  in  Utah. 

In  his  younger  days  Judge  Cherry  started  the 
practice  of  law,  but  abandoned  it  after  a  time  and 
entered  commercial  life  and  engaged  in  the  mill- 
ing and  grain  business.  He  later  disposed  of 
this  business  and  resumed  his  law  practice,  re- 
moving to  Kansas  in  1886,  where  he  followed  his 
profession  with  success.  Upon  his  removal  to 
Utah  he  built  up  a  lucrative  practice  and  was 
called  to  preside  over  the  civil  branch  of  the 
Third  Judicial  District  of  Utah,  by  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  with  which  he  has  been  identified 
ever  since  his  removal  to  this  State,  having  as- 
signed to  him  the  trial  of  civil  cases.  He  held 
this  position  for  four  years,  his  term  expiring  in 
January,  1901.  It  was  his  early  ambition  as  a 
boy  to  practice  law,  and  the  success  which  he 
has  achieved  in  his  chosen  profession  has  been 
the  result  of  his  untiring  application  and  his  per- 
severance. As  a  Judge  in  Utah  he  made  for  him- 
self a  record  for  impartiality  and  fairness  that 
won  him  the  confidence  of  all  the  legal  world, 
and  he  enjoys  a  wide  popularity  throughout  the 
State. 


OHN  DUNCAN  PARK.  In  this  age 
(if  railroad  and  Pullman  car  service  the 
traveler  in  coming  west  from  Chicago 
can  hardly  avoid  admiring  the  beautiful 
scenery,  splendid  residences  and  substan- 
tial homes  which  forms  almost  one  continuous 
line  from  east  to  west.  How  few  people  at  the 
present  prosperous  time  can  appreciate  the  vast 
work  and  labor  which  it  has  taken  to  pave  the  road 
and  lay  the  foundation  which  has  made  it  possible 
for  the  present  prosperous  conditions  to  exist 
in  Utah.  Few  men  have  taken  a  greater  or  more 
prominent  part  in  the  building  up  of  the  State  of 
Utah  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

John  Duncan  Park  was  born  in  Canada,  June 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


i8,  1832,  and  was  the  son  of  William  and  Jane  ' 
(Duncan)  Park.  His  father  and  mother  were 
born  in  Scotland  and  came  to  Canada  when  they 
were  sixteen  and  fourteen  years  of  age,  respec- 
tively. When  our  subject  was  fourteen  years  of 
age  his  parents  left  Canada,  where  they  had  be- 
come converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  with  their 
family  of  nine  children  made  the  trip  to  Nauvoo 
by  ox  teams.  They  left  Canada  on  the  loth  of 
March,  1846,  and  arrived  in  Nauvoo  in  April 
of  that  year,  remaining  in  that  place  only  four 
days,  but  when  they  reached  the  Iowa  side  of  the 
Mississippi  river  they  made  a  stop  of  several 
weeks  and  then  continued  their  journey  to  Win- 
ter Quarters,  where  they  spent  the  winter,  mak- 
ing a  short  stay  in  Council  Bluffs  while  enroute 
to  that  place.  The  following  spring  they  started 
for  Utah  in  the  train  in  which  Bishop  Hunter 
was  Captain  of  one  hundred  wagons,  and  Joseph 
Home  had  command  over  fifty  wagons.  They 
arrived  in  the  Salt  Lake  valley  on  October  2, 
1847,  having  made  the  journey  across  the  great 
American  plains  in  safety,  and  spent  the  winter 
of  1847  in  the  Old  Fort.  There  had  been  but  a 
scant  crop  raised  in  the  neighborhood  that  year 
and  there  was  barely  enough  food  to  sustain  the 
little  company  through  the  winter.  The  Park 
family  farmed  the  land  in  1848,  which  is  the 
present  site  of  the  penitentiary,  and  in  1849  moved 
to  Mill  Creek,  where  William  Park  and  his  wife 
lived  until  the  time  of  their  death,  and  the 
brothers  of  John  Park,  Hugh,  Andrew  and  Wil- 
liam, still  reside  in  Mill  Creek  Ward. 

Mr.  Park  early  began  to  work  for  himself, 
and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  was  called  to  Nephi 
to  assist  in  guarding  the  settlers  against  the 
depredations  of  the  Indians,  and  remained  in  this 
service  for  a  year,  doing  a  little  farming  to  make 
a  living  for  himself.  He  was  employed  in  the 
Government  mail  service  in  1857,  protecting  it 
from  the  raids  of  the  Indians  and  renegade  white 
men,  and  during  this  time  was  also  engaged  in 
gathering  supplies  for  the  Horn  Shoe  station, 
in  Wyoming.  He  spent  five  months  in  this  work, 
and  was  called  home  when  Johnston's  army  was 
making  its  way  towards  Utah,  and  stationed  at 
Echo    Canyon    as    a    guard.     In    the    spring   of 


1858  he  went  to  Fort  Bridger,  Wyoming,  and 
acted  in  the  capacity  of  escort  to  Govewior  Cum- 
mings,  then  on  his  way  to  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr. 
Park  also  served  in  the  Indian  wars  of  the  early 
fifties.  During  the  early  sixties  the  Government 
called  him  to  fight  against  the  Indians,  but  cir- 
cumstances preventing  his  responding  to  the  call 
he  sent  a  substitute.  However,  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  famous  Black  Hawk  War  of  1866, 
which  was  the  final  war  of  any  note  between  the 
Indians  and  the  white  settlers. 

Our  subject  was  married  on  January  19,  1857, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  H.  Hill,  a  twin  of  William 
H.  Hill,  and  a  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Agnes 
(Hood)  Hill.  They  settled  in  Mill  Creek  at 
that  time  and  lived  there  until  1878.  Six  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  them — Agnes  Ann,  who 
married  David  Mackay,  of  Granger  Ward ;  Wil- 
liam, who  now  has  a  farm  in  Alberta,  Canada; 
Jane,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  months ;  Alex- 
ander, with  his  brother  William  in  Canada ; 
Mary  I.,  now  Mrs.  Triplett,  also  living  in  Can- 
ada, and  John  R.,  who  has  a  farm  in  Granger 
Ward.  Elizabeth  L.,  an  adopted  daughter,  is 
also  a  member  of  the  family,  the  Parks  having 
taken  her  to  their  home  when  but  one  day  old. 
All  the  children  are  married  except  Elizabeth. 
Mr.  Park  now  has  twenty  grandchildren. 

Mr.  Park  settled  at  his  present  home  in  the 
Granger  Ward  in  1878,  and  his  homestead  is  lo- 
cated at  the  corner  of  Fourteenth  South  street, 
on  the  Redwood  road.  At  this  place  he  owns 
fifty-three  acres  of  land,  which  at  the  time  he 
located  on  it  was  a  barren  wilderness,  but  is  now 
well  improved,  with  good  fences,  outbuildings, 
etc.  In  addition  to  his  real  estate  holdings  in 
this  State,  Mr.  Park  two  years  ago  bought  a 
tract  of  land  in  Canada,  which  he  later  sold  to  his 
sons.  While  he  has  followed  farming  most  of 
his  life,  and  has  been  very  successful  in  that  field, 
he  has  not  confined  himself  wholly  to  that  in- 
dustry, but  has  been  engaged  in  the  sheep  busi- 
ness for  some  years,  which  has  proved  to  be  a 
prosperous  investment. 

In  politics  Mr.  Park  is  a  firm  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and  while  not 
holding  public  office,  he  has  ever  taken  a  great  in- 
terest in  the  work  of  his  party,  and  has  given  it  his 


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hearty  support.  He  is  also  actively  interested 
in  the  education  of  the  young  people  of  his  com- 
munity and  for  some  time  has  been  a  school  trus- 
tee. Ill  religious  life  Mr.  Park  and  his  family 
are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  Mr. 
Park  has  been  an  active  and  earnest  worker  in  the 
interests  of  the  Church,  having  served  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Canada  for  the  Church  in  1885,  besides 
taking  an  active  part  in  the  work  at  home,  as 
has  also  his  wife.  They  enjoy  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  who  know  them. 

During  the  Jubilee  held  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1897,  to  celebrate  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
entrance  of  the  Mormons  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley, 
there  were  nine  members  of  the  Park  family 
present,  the  tenth  member,  Mrs.  Agnes  T.  Bor- 
rowman,  being  detaind  at  home  on  account  of  the 
illness  of  her  husband.  Since  then  both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Borrowman  have  died. 


ARRISON  T.  SHURTLEFF  was 
born  in  Massachusetts,  in  the  village 
of  Russell,  Hamlin  county,  January  i, 
1 841.  He  is  a  son  of  Vinson  and 
Elizabeth  (Loomis)  Shurtleff,  both 
natives  of  Massachusetts.  They  became  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church  in  that  State,  and 
emigrated  to  Nauvoo  in  1845,  where  they  re- 
mained until  the  members  of  the  Church  were 
driven  out  of  Illinois,  and  spent  the  winter  of 

1846  at   Punceau,    on   the    Missouri   River.      In 

1847  they  came  to  Utah  in  company  with  John 
Taylor,  being  among  the  first  pioneers  to  arrive 
in  this  country.  Upon  their  arrival  in  Salt  Lake 
City  they  remained  here  for  eight  years,  then 
removed  to  Twelfth  South  and  West  Temple 
street,  and  later  to  the  vicinity  of  the  inter- 
mountain  mill,  where  the  father  took  up  land, 
which  is  known  to  this  day  as  the  Shurtlefif 
place.  The  father  died  in  May,  1893,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty,  having  survived  his 
wife,   who   died   in   May,    1862. 

Their  son,  Harrison  T.  ShurtlefT  entered  ac- 
tively upon  his  life  work  when  but  a  young  boy, 
and  has  made  a  splendid  career  for  himself  in 
this  new  land.  He  was  married  in  1863,  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  to  Miss  Nellie  F.  Smith,  daughter  of 


Noah  and  Mary  (De  Forest)  Smith,  who  came 
to  Utah  in  1862.  The  father  was  born  in  Fair- 
field county,  Connecticut,  and  his  wife  was  a 
native  of  New  York  State.  Mr.  Smith  died  in 
Salt  Lake  county  shortly  after  his  arrival  here, 
and  his  widow,  later,  married  Ephraim  Green. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Battalion 
and  active  in  the  settlement  of  Salt  Lake  county 
and  of  the  entire  valley.  He  died  in  this  county 
in  1874  and  his  wife  lived  until  1888.  He  was 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  and 
was  twice  sent  on  a  mission  to  the  Hawaiian 
Islands.  By  this  marriage,  Mr.  Shurtlefif  has 
six  children — Nellie,  wife  of  Joseph  Morgan,  of 
Labelle,  Idaho;  Flarrison  S.,  in  Wyoming;  Ed- 
gar, also  in  Wyoming ;  Mamie,  now  the  wife  of 
Charles  Bell,  of  Mill  Creek ;  Lerov,  and  Arthur 
T. 

Mr.  Shurtleff  took  up  his  residence  in  the 
place  where  he  now  lives  in  1876  and  has  since 
made  many  improvements.  It  is  favorably  situ- 
ated for  water,  the  Mill  creek  flowing  within  a 
few  yards  of  the  rear  of  the  house.  His  home 
is  one  of  the  finest  places  in  Mill  Creek,  and  is 
located  at  Fifth  East  and  Fourteenth  South,  and 
comprises  forty  acres.  He  also  has  another  site 
of  sixty  acres  and  has  devoted  himself  largely 
to  the  raising  of  cattle  and  the  growing  of  hay,  in 
both  of  which  he  has  been  very  successful,  and 
which  has  brought  him  a  wide  reputation. 

He  has  recently  come  into  prominence  as  fore- 
man of  the  jury  impanelled  in  the  trial  of  the 
famous  Mortensen  case,  which  is  one  of  the 
most  celebrated  cases  tried  in  the  State  up  to 
the  present  time.  Nearly  twelve  hundred  men 
had  been  examined  before  a  jury  could  be  se- 
cured, so  widely  had  the  case  been  read  and 
discussed.  Mr.  Shurtleff  was  summoned  on  May 
6th,  accepted  on  the  6th,  and  served  forty-one 
days,  the  case  being  called  May  28th,  and  closed 
June  14th,  1902,  the  jury  finding  the  prisoner 
guilty. 

In  political  affairs  he  is  a  Republican.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Con- 
vention, held  in  1895,  and  which  framed  the 
Constitution  on  which  Utah  was  admitted  into 
the  Union,  and  has  also  taken  an  active  interest 
in  the  progress  of  education  in  Utah,  having  been 


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for  the  past  seventeen  years  school  trustee,  and 
has  also  been  road  supervisor  for  his  district, 
having  held  the  latter  position  for  seven  years. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
between  the  years  of  1862  and  1870  made  seven 
trips  to  the  Missouri  River,  and  successfully 
conducted  trains  of  emigrants  to  Utah,  together 
with  a  large  quantity  of  freight.  In  those  early 
days  the  trips  across  the  plains  were  fraught 
with  great  danger  and  difficulty  and  it  required 
men  of  special  ability  and  great  courage  to  suc- 
cessfully conduct  the  unwieldy  wagon  trains 
across  the  plains  of  Nebraska  and  Western  Wy- 
oming through  the  mountains  to  Utah.  The 
successful  manner  in  which  Mr.  Shurtleff  con- 
ducted these  trains  of  emigrants,  brought  him 
the  confidence  of  the  leaders  of  the  Church. 
He  also  made  two  round  trips  to  Los  An- 
geles, California,  with  mule  teams,  crossing 
the  great  Salt  Lake  Desert  and  the  des- 
ert regions  of  Nevada  and  Southeastern  Cali- 
fornia. The  region  from  Salt  Lake  to  California 
was  even  wilder  and  a  more  desert  place  than 
the  prairies  and  mountains  which  lay  between  the 
Salt  Lake  Valley  and  the  Missouri  river.  In  this 
pioneer  work  he  was  not  only  successful  in  mak- 
ing his  trips  without  accident  or  injury,  but  also 
brought  to  himself  a  considerable  reputation  as 
a  frontiersman  and  pioneer.  He  has  been  called 
to  go  on  missions  for  the  Church,  and  from  1864 
to  1866  served  as  missionary  in  England.  He 
is  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  his  locality,  and 
has  won  for  himself  a  wide  reputation  by  his 
honesty  and  integrity  and  enjoys  the  friendship 
of  a  large  circle  of  friends,  besides  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  the  leaders  of  his  Church. 


ALTER  HENRY  AT  WOOD.  It 
las  been  truly  said  that  "All  the 
world's  a  stage,"  and  the  one  fact 
tliat  we  may  not  lose  sight  of  is 
that  in  passing  across  this  stage 
we  may  do  so  silently  or  carelessly,  leaving  no 
trace  of  our  passage,  or  we  may  so  indelibly  im- 
press our  individuality  upon  everything  we  touch 
or  come  in  contact  with,  that  our  personality,  our 
buildings  and  our  influence  shall  live  on  through 


countless  ages,  benefitting  and  uplifting  the  hu- 
manity that  shall  come  after  us.  Among  the 
families  of  this  Western  State  that  are  building 
monunifnts  to  their  thrift  and  industry  and 
stamping  their  impress  upon  their  community  as 
men  of  strong  individuality  and  honorable  lives, 
the  Atwood  family  stands  prominently  forward. 

Walter  Henry  Atwood  is  the  third  son  in  this 
family,  and  one  of  the  most  successful.  He  was 
born  in  Crawford  county,  Pennsylvania,  January 
25,  1841,  and  during  his  younger  life  saw  many 
of  the  trying  scenes  incident  to  pioneer  life,  his 
father  being  among  the  first  settlers  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, going  there  when  the  country  was  cov- 
ered with  a  dense  growth  of  timber,  and  for 
many  years  having  a  close  struggle  for  e.xistence. 
A  full  biographical  record  of  the  interesting 
lives  of  the  parents  of  our  subject,  Simeon  and 
Melissa  Atwood,  may  be  found  in  the  sketch  of 
his  brother,  William,  which  is  printed  in  another 
part  of  this  work. 

C)ur  subject  had  grown  up  in  the  East  and  ob- 
tained his  schooling  in  the  different  towns  where 
the  family  lived.  He  had  attained  his  majority 
at  the  time  the  family  crossed  the  plains  in  1862, 
and  during  the  trip  was  sergeant-at-arms  of  the 
train.  His  father  was  captain  of  the  first  ten 
wagons,  and  J.  S.  Brown  in  charge  of  the  train, 
which  consisted  of  fifty-two  wagons,  four  oxen 
being  attached  to  each  wagon.  The  family  set- 
tled at  Garden  Grove,  on  Mill  Creek,  and  for  a 
time  our  subject  and  his  brother  William  worked 
at  carpentering  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  also  in  the 
canyon  getting  out  timber.  The  father  had  been 
a  brickmaker  in  Pennsylvania,  and  taught  his 
older  sons  this  business,  and  after  coming  to 
Utah  he  engaged  in  that  business  at  Murray,  al- 
though against  the  advice  of  President  Brigham 
Young,  who  had  seen  so  many  failures  made  by 
those  attempting-  to  make  brick,  that  he  did  not 
believe  the  scheme  feasible.  However,  he  gave 
Mr.  Atwood  his  blessing,  and  was  constrained  to 
later  praise  his  bricks  as  being  the  best  he  had 
yet  seen  in  Utah.  The  wisdom  of  Mr.  Atwood's 
judgment  has  been  verified  by  the  fact  that  this 
brick  yard  is  still  in  existence  and  is  now  the 
property  of  our  subject,  who  turns  out  about 
twenty  thousand  bricks  a  day.     The  father  and 


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sons  continued  together  until  the  time  of  the  death 
of  the  senior  Mr.  Atwood,  after  which  our  sub- 
ject and  his  older  brother,  William,  conducted  the 
business  until  of  recent  years,  when  the  elder 
brother  withdrew  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business  in  Murray.  Since  then  Mr.  Atwood  has 
conducted  this  business  alone,  and  has  been  most 
successful  in  it.  In  addition  to  this  property  Mr. 
Atwood  has  a  fine  farm  which  adjoins  that  of  his 
brother  William,  their  homes  beine  divided  by 
Murray  street.  At  the  time  of  his  deatli,  the 
senior  Mr.  Atwood  deeded  to  his  sons  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  of  land,  on  which  they  have 
their  farms,  and  there  is  still  left  to  the  estate 
eighty  acres  of  valuable  land,  well  improved,  ad- 
joining Murray.  Our  subject  obtained  the 
eighteenth  patent  issued  by  the  Government  for 
land  in  Utah,  and  his  was  the  first  claim  to  be 
recorded.  He  also  enjoys  the  distinction  of  giv- 
ing the  first  deed  executed  in  Utah.  The  home 
of  our  subject  consists  of  a  fine  brick  house,  sur- 
rounded by  shade  and  fruit  trees,  the  latter  of 
which  yield  him  an  abundance  of  delicious  fruit. 
He  also  owns  considerable  other  property  in 
Murray,  and  is  at  this  time  engaged  in  building 
a  row  of  thirteen  brick  cottages  for  the  purpose 
of  renting  them  to  the  employes  of  the  smelters. 
He  also  has  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  dry 
farm  land  in  the  wheat  belt.  He  at  one  time 
built  a  flour  mill,  in  which  he  retains  an  interest, 
and  also  is  interested  in  a  creamery.  In  fact,  he 
is  one  of  the  most  wide-awake  and  progressive 
citizens  of  this  flourishing  little  town,  and  either 
alone  or  in  connection  with  his  brother,  William, 
between  whom  and  himself  exists  a  most  beauti- 
ful friendship,  has  been  interested  in  a  large 
number  of  schemes  for  tlie  advancement  of  his 
community. 

Mr.  .\twood  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  on 
March  27,  1863.  to  Miss  Dianica  Stickney,  who 
has  borne  him  nine  children — Lizzie,  now  Mrs. 
Shaw,  of  Salt  Lake  City  ;  John  F. ;  Abby  R. ;  Ida 
M.;  Henry  C. ;  Edwin;  Alfred  W. ;  Lucbie  D., 
and  Walter  S.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Atwood  have  thirty 
grandchildren. 

He  is  a  staunch  adherent,  of  the  Democratic 
party,  in  whose  work  he  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest, and  has  been  a  delegate  to  nearly  every 


convention  held  in  Salt  Lake  county  since  he 
came  here. 

His  father  joined  the  Mormon  Church  when 
our  subject  was  a  small  boy,  and  he  himself 
became  a  member  after  coming  to  Utah.  Mrs. 
Atwood  is  also  a  member  of  the  Church  and 
for  two  years  served  as  a  missionary  in  the  east- 
ern States. 

Air.  Atwood  is  a  well  preserved  man  and  all 
his  life  has  been  very  temperate,  never  indulging 
in  either  liquors  or  tobacco.  As  a  young  man 
his  father  was  a  friend  of  President  Brigham 
Young  and  after  the  Atwood  family  came  to 
Utah  the  friendship  was  renewed  and  continued 
up  to  the  time  of  the  President's  death. 


-CAR  WILKINS  has  spent  his  whole 
1)usiness  life  in  Peoa,  Summit  county. 
A  native  of  Titbury,  Gloucestershire, 
England,  born  185 1.  When  only  thir- 
teen years  of  age  he  accompanied  his 
mother  to  Utah  and  soon  after  arriving  settled 
at  Peoa,  where  he  grew  to  manhood.  He  started 
out  for  himself  early  in  life,  commencing  at  the 
very  bottom  of  the  ladder,  and  by  perseverance, 
determination  and  the  possession  of  an  enterpris- 
ing spirit,  he  has  made  a  splendid  success  in 
life,  and  is  considered  one  of  the  substantial, 
enterprising  business  men  of  Summit  county. 

Mr.  Wilkins  and  his  mother  made  the  trip 
across  the  plains  in  the  ox  train  under  com- 
mand of  Captain  Hyde.  They  arrived  in  Wan- 
ship  on  October  17,  1864,  and  from  there  came 
to  Peoa,  where  they  made  their  home.  The 
mother  married  James  Gardner  of  this  place  and 
died  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-three  years, 
on  June  5,  1892.  Our  subject  was  the  only 
other  member  of  the  family  to  come  to  this  coun- 
try. He  received  a  common  school  education  in 
his  native  country  and  attended  the  schools  in 
Peoa  for  one  winter  after  coming  to  Utah.  He 
lived  with  his  stepfather  and  followed  general 
farming  until  1868,  when  he  went  to  the  Black 
Hills  and  worked  on  the  grade  of  the  Union  Pa- 
cific railroad,  following  the  road  up  until  it 
reached  Ogden  in  the  fall  of  1868,  when  he 
bought  a  team  and  took  a  sub-contract  on  the 
road.     He  returned  to  Peoa  in  the  year  1868. 


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In  the  fall  of  1870  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  (Durrah)  Maxwell,  foster  daughter  of 
Arthur  Maxwell,  Senior.  They  have  a  fam- 
ily of  eleven  children — Emma  Jane,  now  Mrs. 
Frank  Palmer;  Hannah,  wife  of  Henry  ^Nliles; 
Clara,  wife  of  George  Stevens ;  Jeanette,  now 
Mrs.  Abraham  Lyons;  George  E. ;  Oscar  W., 
a  student  at  the  Brigham  Young  academy  at 
Provo;  Mary  A.,  Albert,  Reuben,  Lillian  P.  and 
Edith. 

For  several  years  after  he  returned  to  Peoa 
Mr.  Wilkins  farmed  on  shares,  and  in  the  course 
of  time  was  able  to  buy  his  own  land,  since 
then  he  has  done  a  very  successful  farming 
and  stock-raising  business.  He  was  one  of  the 
organizers  and  promoters  of  the  South  Bench 
Canal  Company,  of  which  he  was  the  first  pres- 
ident, and  has  since  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  all  matters  pertaining  to  irrigation.  He  has 
several  times  filled  the  position  of  manager  of 
the  co-operative  store  at  this  place,  his  connec- 
tion with  that  establishment  covering  a  period 
of  nine  years,  and  he  is  at  this  time  engaged  in 
the  general  merchandise  business  for  himself. 
He  began  in  the  mercantile  line  in  a  small  room 
in  his  residence,  building  his  present  commodi- 
ous quarters  two  years  later  and  is  today  one 
of  the  leading  merchants  of  this  place.  He  also 
owns  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  acres  of  good 
farming  land,  all  under  cultivation  and  well  ir- 
rigated. He  keeps  about  sixty  head  of  stock 
on  his  place  and  is  one  of  the  most  prosperous 
men  in  the  county. 

Mr.  Wilkins  became  a  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  in  England  and  has  ever  been  a 
faithful  and  consistent  follower  of  the  teach- 
ings of  that  Church.  He  has  held  the  office  of 
Elder,  being  ordained  in  the  Endowment  House 
at  Salt  Lake  City  in  1870,  and  for  a  number  of 
years  was  a  member  of  the  Second  Quorum  of 
Elders ;  also  active  in  the  Sunday  school  work, 
in  which  he  was  an  officer  for  many  years,  and 
President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association.  In  May,  1901,  he  was  or- 
dained a  High  Priest  and  chosen  Second  Coun- 
selor to  Ward  E.  Pack,  President  of  the  High 
Priests'  Quorum  of  Summit  Stake.  Mrs.  Wil- 
kins holds  the  office  of  Second  Counselor  to  the 


President  of  the  Peoa  Ward  Relief  Society  and 
is  prominent  in  all  Church  circles.  One  son, 
George  E.,  has  served  on  a  mission  of  two  and 
a  half  years  in  the  Southwestern  States,  and  was 
Counselor  to  President  Hixson  of  the  East 
Arkansas   Conference. 

In  political  life  our  subject  owes  allegiance 
to  the  Democratic  party  and  has  been  one  of  the 
most  active  workers  in  its  ranks  in  Summit 
county.  He  is  the  present  chairman  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic club  and  a  member  of  the  Central  Com- 
mittee. He  was  road  supervisor  of  this  county 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  has  taken  a  keen 
interest  in  the  public  welfare  of  the  community 
in  which  he  lives. 

His  life  here  has  brought  him  prominently  be- 
fore the  people  and  he  is  known  as  a  man  of 
superior  business  ability,  honorable  and  upright 
in  all  his  dealings,  and  he  has  won  and  retained 
the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated. 


EORGE  W.  ASPER  is  not  a  native 
son  of  Utah,  but  his  whole  life  from 
early  childhood  has  been  spent  in  this 
State  and  most  of  it  on  the  beautiful 
farm  whicli  he  now  owns,  situated  on 
one  of  the  loveliest  spots  in  the  Weber  valley 
in  Summit  county,  between  Echo  canyon  and 
Coalville,  and  is  considered  one  of  the  finest 
places  in  the  county.  The  land  was  originally 
taken  up  by  Elias  Asper,  the  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, and  has  been  owned  by  some  member  of 
the    family    ever    since. 

Our  subject's  father,  Elias  Asper,  was  a  na- 
tive of  Pennsylvania  and  born  at  Carlisle,  York 
County,  in  that  State,  March  7,  1820.  He  was 
married  about  1855  in  Jonesville,  Ohio,  and  was 
a  successful  farmer  and  merchant  of  that  place 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  came  West  about  the 
time  of  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  spend- 
ing a  short  time  at  Council  Bluffs,  and  in  1861 
drove  an  ox  team  across  the  plains  to  Utah.  He 
located  his  home  at  the  mouth  of  Echo  Canyon 
and  engaged  in  farming  and  cattle  raising,  also 
having  some  horses.  He  became  a  large  land 
owner,   owning  most  of   the  land  around   Echo 


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at  one  time,  which  he  later  disposed  of,  and 
was  at  one  time  engaged  in  the  hotel  business 
at  that  place.  During  the  Indian  war  he  moved 
his  family  to  Coalville  and  kept  a  store  there 
for  some  time.  He  became  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative men  of  his  county,  and  occupied  a 
number  of  public  offices.  He  was  justice  of  the 
peace  at  Echo  about  the  time  the  railroad  was 
built  and  was  for  several  years  Probate  Judge  of 
Summit  county.  During  his  residence  in  Ohio 
he  had  become  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church 
and  was  Bishop  of  Echo  Ward  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  and  active  in  all  Church  work.  He 
died  on  his  ranch  March  15,  1894.  His  wife 
was  Jane  McCune  (Morrow)  Asper,  also  a  na- 
tive of  Pennsylvania,  was  born  September  20, 
1816,  and  died  at  Echo,  April  5,  1887,  leaving 
three  children — ]\Iary  Jane,  now  the  wife  of 
William  Weber;  George  W.,  our  subject,  and 
Agnes  I.,  the  wife  of  A.  G.  Brim,  of  Echo. 

George  W.  Asper  was  born  near  Johnsville, 
Ohio,  in  1856,  and  was  but  five  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  came  to  Utah.  His  education 
was  derived  from  the  district  schools  of  Echo 
and  at  the  Deseret  University,  now  the  Univer- 
sity of  Utah.  He  remained  on  his  father's  farm 
until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age,  at  which  time 
he  began  life  for  himself,  taking  up  a  place  near 
the  old  homestead  and  at  this  time  owns  about 
eleven  hundred  acres  of  land,  on  which  he  keeps 
a  large  herd  of  cattle.  He  has  of  late  years 
made  a  specialty  of  breeding  Clydsdale  horses 
for  the  market*  He  built  his  present  home  about 
two  miles  from  his  father's  place,  in  the  years 
of  1890  and  1891.  He  has  his  place  well  im- 
proved with  a  good  brick  house,  fences,  barns, 
outbuildings,  etc.,  and  his  land  is  under  good 
irrigation.  Besides  his  private  ditches  he  has  an 
interest  in  the  Grass  Creek  Irrigation  Ditch 
Company. 

He  was  married  in  1877  to  Miss  Jeanette  Mer- 
rill, daughter  of  Orson  L.  Merrill,  of  Coalville. 
They  have  a  family  of  six  children — Chloe  J., 
wife  of  William  Robison ;  Ethlyn  Jane,  wife  of 
Alex  Robison;  Marcia  E.,  George  W.,  Junior; 
Orson  E.  and  Rebecca. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Asper  is  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  party,  but  owing  to  demands  of  his 


business  has  never  been  able  to  give  much  time 
to  the  work  of  the  party  and  has  never  sought 
nor  held  public  office. 

Mr.  Asper  has  seen  the  country  grow  from 
a  desolate  wilderness  to  a  valley  that  literally 
blossoms  as  the  rose,  and  all  his  life's  interests 
have  centered  here.  He  has  been  energetic  and 
persistent  in  all  his  undertakings,  and  today 
ranks  as  one  of  the  leading  and  most  substantia] 
farmers  and  stock  raisers  of  Summit  county. 
His  honorable  career  has  won  and  retained  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  hundreds  of  the  citizens 
of  this  county  and  State,  and  he  enjoys  the 
friendship  of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances. 


TIARLES  CRISMOX,  JUNIOR. 
Among  the  pioneers  who  came  to 
Utah  when  the  land  was  wild  and  the 
Indians  hostile  and  who,  by  their  in- 
dustry, have  acquired  prominence  in 
its  affairs,  was  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  From 
a  wilderness,  the  crossing  to  which  was  a  difficult 
and  dangerous  journey  he  has  witnessed  and 
aided  in  its  transformation  to  a  progressive  and 
wealthy  city  and  has  assisted  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources  and  in  the  building  and 
extension  of  the  great  arteries  that  joins  the 
Union  in  that  indissoluble  bond  of  common  in- 
terest. No  matter  how  favorably  a  State  may  be 
provided  with  natural  conditions  of  wealth,  nor 
how  great  its  agricultural  or  mineral  resources, 
these  conditions  are  of  absolutely  no  value  what- 
ever until  the  master  hand  turns  the  key  and 
puts  them  into  practical  operation.  By  the  work 
which  he  has  done  and  the  results  that  he  has 
accomplished  Mr.  Crismon  is  marked  as  one  of 
the  leaders  in  the  empire  building  of  the  West. 

Charles  Crismon,  Junior,  son  of  Charles  Cris- 
mon, was  born  in  Masadonia,  Hancock  county, 
Illinois,  near  Nauvoo,  June  14th,  1844,  and  was 
but  fourteen  days  old  when  the  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith  was  killed  at  Carthage,  Missouri.  When 
but  two  and  a  half  years  of  age  his  parents  came 
across  the  plains  to  Utah  and  his  life  has  ever 
since  been  identified  with  this  State.  The  Crismon 
family  remained  in  the  Salt  Lake  valley  about 
two  years,  and  in  1849,  ^t  the  time  of  the  gold 


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discovery  in  California,  Cliarles  Crismon,  father 
of  tlie  subject  of  this  sketch,  went  to  that  new- 
country  and  settled  on  the  American  river  where 
he  engaged  in  mining  and  followed  that  occupa- 
tion for  some  time.  He  later  moved  to  San  Ber- 
nardino county,  which  was  then  being  colonized 
by  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  this  new 
movement  and  was  among  its  leaders  in  sub- 
jugating the  country  to  the  needs  of  the  peo- 
ple, building  mills  and  aiding  in  many  ways  in  the 
development  of  the  resources.  Here  he  remained 
until  Johnston's  army  marched  to  Utah,  when, 
by  the  direction  of  President  Brigham  Young, 
the  San  Bernardino  colonists  were  advised  to  re- 
turn to  Utah.  They  gave  up  their  homes  which 
they  had  established  after  many  discouraging 
contests  with  nature  and  savage  man  and  arrived 
in  the  Salt  Lake  valley  in  the  fall  of  1858. 

The  early  education  of  Charles  Crismon,  Jr., 
was  derived  from  the  schools  that  existed  in  San 
Bernardino  county  and  from  such  schools  as  ex- 
isted in  the  early  fifties  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Like 
all  sons  of  the  pioneers  his  education  was  de- 
rived more  from  actual  life  and  from  the  experi- 
ences which  he  received  in  the  work  of  develop- 
ing the  country  and  in  making  the  most  of  the 
resources  of  what  was  then  a  wilderness.  At  the 
early  age  of  fifteen  years  he  brought  a  drove  of 
sheep  from  the  Missouri  river  across  the  plains 
and  mountains  to  Salt  Lake  valley,  arriving  with 
them  in  the  fall  of  1862. 

When  President  Lincoln  called  for  volunteers 
to  protect  the  mails  from  the  depredations  of 
the  Indians  along  the  routes  from  Salt  Lake 
City  through  Idaho  and  Wyoming,  he  was  one  of 
the  first  to  offer  his  services  and  went  out  in 
the  company  that  was  raised  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
This  company  furnished  their  own  outfits,  in- 
cluding horses,  saddles,  arms  and,  in  fact,  all 
equipments.  The  country  through  which  they 
marched  was  an  absolute  wilderness  and  for 
fourteen  days  they  were  without  food,  subsisting 
entirely  upon  wild  berries  and  horse  meat.  They 
lost  most  of  their  horses  and  outfits  in  crossing 
the  waters  of  the  Snake  river.  Their  escape 
from  death  at  the  hands  of  the  Indians  was  due 
largely  to  the  fact  that  they  had  provided  their 


equipments  and  accoutrements  under  the  direc- 
tion of  President  Brigham  Young.  Owing  to 
the  absence  of  the  regular  uniforms  of  the  sol- 
diers of  the  United  States  the  Indians  did  not 
offer  to  molest  them  and  they  were  enabled, 
after  suffering  many  privations  and  hardships, 
to  return  to  Salt  Lake  City.  This  expedition 
in  addition  to  protecting  the  mails  was  also  a 
])unitive  one.  The  Indians  had  stolen  a  large 
number  of  horses  from  the  mountaineers  and 
these  volunteers'  were  sent  out  to  retake  the 
stolen  property,  as  well  as  protect  the  mails, 
and  to  imbue  in  the  Indians"  such  a  respect  foi 
the  property  of  the  white  men  as  to  render  fur- 
ther depredations  unprofitable.  Tlie  entire  time 
that  this  party  spent  absent  in  the  field  was  four 
months. 

L'pon  his  return  to  Utah  Air.  Crismon  began 
turning  his  attention  to  the  sheep  raising  in- 
tlustry  and  went  to  California  and  successfully 
brought  to  Salt  Lake  a  drove  of  sheep  from 
that  State,  arriving  here  in  1863.  In  addition  to 
the  sheep  he  also  brought  with  him  a  quantity 
of  bees,  which  were  the  first  introduced  into 
L'tah.  The  hardships  of  the  expedition  in  the 
northern  territory  against  the  Indians  was  re- 
peated to  some  extent  in  his  trip  across  the 
desert  between  California  and  Salt  Lake  valley. 
For  seven  days  and  seven  nights  he  was  with- 
out water  and  the  hostile  attitude  of  the  Indians 
compelled  him  to  push  on  at  his  best  speed  to 
Utah.  In  crossing  the  desert,  besides  the  tortur- 
ing thirst  which  he  and  his*  animals  suf- 
ered,  he  lost  fifteen  hundred  head  of  sheep, 
famished  by  the  want  of  water  and  stolen 
by  the  Indians.  Some  idea  of  the  cour- 
age and  determination  which  has  marked 
his  life  in  the  enterprises  in  which  he  has  been 
engaged  may  be  had  from  the  fact  that  on  this 
trip  for  three  days  and  three  nights  he  was  with- 
out water  or  sleep.  Mr.  Crismon  and  his  brother 
George,  together  with  his  father  and  Mr.  Elisha 
M.  Weiler,  were  the  first  to  recognize  the  pos- 
sibilities attending  the  raising  of  sheep  in  Utah 
and  are  easily  the  pioneers  of  this  great  industry 
of  the  State.  They  established  the  migratory 
movement  of  sheep  from  one  range  in  summer 
to   another   in   winter,   which  has   proved   to  be 


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such  a  great  success.  In  1868  he  made  a  second 
trip  to  the  East  and  successfully  brought  across 
the  mountains  and  plains  from  Iowa  another 
large  drove  of  sheep. 

In  addition  to  his  sheep  industry  Air.  Crismon 
successfully  undertook  the  business  of  railroad 
contracting.  The  superintending  of  the  work 
secured  by  the  firm  was  the  task  alloted  to  him. 
This  firm  had  extensive  contracts  on  all  of  the 
different  roads  through  Utah  and  the  West. 
They  built  twenty  miles  of  the  Bitter  Creek  di- 
vision and  sixteen  .miles  of  the  Muddy  division 
of  the  Union  Pacific  railway  and  also  success- 
full}-  built  seventy-five  miles  of  the  line  of  the 
Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  and  they  also  built 
the  first  fifty  miles  of  the  line  of  this  latter  road. 
They  built  a  large  portion  of  the  Park  City 
branch  from  Park  City  to  Echo  and  also  a  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  John  W.  Young  road, 
now  forming  a  part  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande 
Western  Railway. 

From  railroad  building  Mr.  Crismon  turned 
his  attention  to  mining  and  was  among  the  first 
to  develop  the  resources  of  the  Tintic  district, 
locating  in  that  district  thirty  years  ago.  He  lo- 
cated and  developed  the  Mammoth  mine  there 
to  a  depth  of  over  four  hundred  feet.  The 
Mammoth  has  been  a  very  successful  mine  and 
has  been  a  profitable  undertaking.  Mr.  Crismon 
also  developed  the  Eureka  Hill  and  did  the  first 
work  in  developing  that  property,  sinking  a 
shaft  to  a  depth  of  three  hundred  feet.  He  also 
began  the  development  of  the  Swansea.  These 
properties  he  afterwards  disposed  of.  His  work 
in  this  district  stamps  him  as  one  of  the  pioneers 
in  the  development  of  the  mining  resources  of 
L'tah.  After  disposing  of  his  interest  in  the 
Tintic  district  he  began  an  investigation  of  the 
coal  deposit  of  the  State  and  developed  at  Coal- 
ville the  property  known  as  the  Crismon  mine, 
now  owned  by  the  Ontario  Coal  &  Mining  Com- 
pany. 

The  success  of  his  previous  enterprises  fol- 
lowed him  in  this  new  one  and  he  again  turned 
his  attention  to  railroad  contracting  and  later 
went  to  Fish  Springs,  in  Juab  county,  Utah. 
Here  he  again  turned  his  attention  to  mining  and 
located   and   successfully   developed   the   Geneva 


mine,  and  the  L'tah  mine  to  the  depth  of  five 
hundred  feet,  and  the  Galena  mine  to  the  depth  of 
three  hundred  feet.  He  was  superintendent  of 
both  the  Utah  and  Galena  mines,  of  which  he 
was  practically  owner,  and  continued  to  devote 
hJs  attention  to  the  development  of  these  prop- 
erties for  over  eight  years,  and  retained  an  active 
interest  in  all  of  his  business  enterprises  until 
attacked  with  pneumonia,  which  resulted  in  a 
partial  stroke  of  paralysis.  Since  that  time  he  has 
practically  retired  from  active  business  life,  but 
still  retains  his  office  of  director  in  these  com- 
panies. Throughout  his  long  and  busy  life  he 
was  ever  ready  to  grasp  the  opportunities  w-hich 
offered,  to  aid  in  the  development  of  the  State 
and  of  the  entire  western  country.  Few  men 
have  taken  a  more  active  part  in  the  development 
of  Utah's  resources  and  few  men  have  made  the 
success  from  such  an  inauspicious  beginning  as 
was  his. 

Mr.  Crismon  married  in  June,  1871,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Cain,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Eliza- 
beth (Whittaker)  Cain,  among  the  pioneers  of 
this  country.  Their  daughter  Elizabeth,  the  wife 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Salt 
Lake  City  and  educated  in  the  schools  that  ex- 
isted here.  She  has  spent  her  w-hole  life  within 
the  confines  of  the  State  of  her  birth  and  has  seen 
Utah  develop  from  a  wilderness  to  a  prosperous 
and  growing  State.  Their  family  consists  of 
five  children — Florence,  the  wife  of  John  Y. 
Rich,  a  banker  in  Brigham  City ;  Charles  C. 
and  Joseph  C,  assayers  and  chemists  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  their  office  being  on  West  Temple 
street ;  George  W.,  a  student  at  the  agricultural 
college  at  Logan,  and  Allene,  at  home.  After 
Mr.  Crismon  had  been  attacked  by  paralysis, 
which  practically  ended  his  business  career,  his 
wife,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Crismon,  was  elected  pres- 
ident of  the  Utah  mine,  which  is  a  very  prosper- 
ous mine,  and  mining  has  been  carried  on  in  a 
very  satisfactory  manner  since.  jMrs.  Crismon 
is  largely  interested  in  educational  work  and  is 
also  one  of  the  pioneer  members  of  the  .-\uthors' 
Club  in  this  city.  She  is  also  deeply  interested 
in  kindergarten  work,  being  instrumental  in  in- 
troducing it  into  the  city  and  having  it  included 
in  the  work  of  the  public  schools.  Both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Crismon  and  family  are  members  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints. 


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RAM  T.  SPENCER,  Bishop  of  Pleas- 
ant Green  Ward,  of  Salt  Lake  county, 
and  a  member  of  one  of  the  best- 
known  families  of  this  section  of  the 
country,  several  of  whose  sketches  ap- 
pear elsewhere  in  this  work,  was  born  in  West 
Stockbridge,  Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts, 
XDvember  13,  1835.  He  is  the  son  of  Hiram 
and  Mary  Spencer,  both  natives  of  the  same 
place  where  their  son  was  born.  Hiram  Spencer 
and  Daniel  Spencer,  whose  sketch  will  be  found 
in  another  part  of  this  volume,  were  brothers. 
Mrs.  Spencer  died  when  her  son  Hiram  was  a 
mere  child,  and  Idiram  Spencer  moved  to  Nau- 
voo  with  his  son  when  the  latter  was  but  four 
years  old,  and  remained  there  until  the  ]\Ior- 
mons  were  driven  out  of  Illinois,  in  1846.  Mr, 
Spencer  had  become  a  convert  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints  during  the  latter  part  of  the  thirties,  and 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  faithful  mem- 
ber and  active  and  zealous  worker  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  church  of  his  choice.  He  and  his 
brother  Daniel  were  much  attached  to  each  other, 
and  the  latter  paid  a  touching  tribute  to  his 
memory  after  his  death,  in  the  following  words : 
"Hiram,  whose  life  before  association  with  our 
people,  and  his  devotion  and  loyalty  to  the  Gos- 
pel after  embracing  it,  was  worthy  of  the  high- 
est and  noblest  recognition.  He  had  left  Nauvoo 
with  the  first  outgoing  Saints,  as  Captain  of 
fifty  in  the  company  of  one  hundred  organized 
under  my  presidency.  During  the  journey  from 
Nauvoo  to  Garden  Grove  he  organized  the  labor 
force  of  the  camp,  and  took  contracts  from  set- 
tlers bordering  our  route  of  travel  to  chop  wood, 
split  rails,  etc.,  thereby  securing  sustenance  for 
the  camp  and  acquiring  much  other  needed 
means  for  the  feeble  and  ailing.  The  next  morn- 
ing after  his  arrival  at  Garden  Grove,  he  vol- 
untarily started  back  to  Nauvoo.  Through  great 
efforts  he  succeeded  in  emigrating  from  there 
several  poor  families ;  also  to  sell  some  of  the 
property  of  the  three  Spencer  brothers,  taking 
payment  in  stock  and  cattle ;  but  immediately 
trumped-up  writs  were  manufactured  and  at- 
tachments issued  to  hold  the  property  until  the 
mob  which  was  gathering  should  come  into  Nau- 


voo. By  almost  superhuman  efforts  he  escaped 
with  the  cattle  and  means,  reaching  the  camp 
of  the  Saints  at  Pisgah;  although  he  did  so  as  a 
martyr — his  exposures,  anxieties  and  labors  had 
killed  him.  He  died  some  miles  east  of  Pisgah 
and  his  body  was  brought  there  for  burial,  his 
grave  being  fenced  and  marked  by  two  stones 
inscribed  with  the  letters  'H.   S.'  " 

This  is  one  of  the  examples  of  devotion  to 
their  principles  which  the  early  pioneers  have 
left  to  their  posterity,  and  the  same  spirit  of 
determination  and  perseverance  in  the  face  of  all 
obstacles  that  caused  them  to  endure  even  death 
itself  when  necessary  to  protect  and  save  the 
Church  from  destruction,  led  them  in  later  years 
to  hew  out  of  this  barren  wilderness,  amid  all 
manner  of  peril  and  hardships,  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  and  prosperous  States  of  the  Nation. 

His  father's  death  had  left  our  subject  an 
orphan  and  he  and  liis  seven  brothers  and  sisters 
were  brought  across  the  plains  by  their  Uncle 
Daniel  in  the  train  of  which  he  was  Captain. 
Although  but  a  lad  of  eleven  years  our  sub- 
ject assisted  in  driving  the  live  stock  and  walked 
a  large  portion  of  the  way  across  the  plains  from 
Winter  Quarters  to  Salt  Lake  Citv.  Our  sub- 
ject, his  brother  Charles,  whose  sketch  appears 
in  this  work,  and  his  sister  Martha,  now  Mrs. 
Daniel  Cahoon  of  Deseret,  are  the  only  ones  of 
this  family  of  eight  who  are  now  living.  Mr. 
Spencer  began  farming  for  his  uncle  at  Neff's 
Mills  in  1 85 1  and  later  moved  to  Murray,  where 
he  followed  the  same  line  for  several  years.  He 
then  took  up  freighting  and  made  seven  trips 
between  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  Missouri  river. 
In  1 861  he  settled  on  his  present  farm  and  in 
addition  to  farming,  became  interested  in  sheep, 
following  these  lines  up  to  the  present  time.  He 
owns  between  six  and  seven  hundred  acres  of 
land  at  a  point  of  the  mountain  fifteen  miles  west 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  makes  his  home. 

On  March  31,  1857,  he  married  Miss  Mary 
B.  Young,  daughter  of  James  and  Jeanette 
(Caruth)  Young.  Her  parents  were  natives 
of  Scotland,  where  her  father  died.  Her  mother 
came  to  LTtah  with  her  family  in  1848,  and 
of  this  family  Mrs.  Spencer  is  the  only 
survivor.     Of  this   marriage   five   children   have 


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been  born,  one  of  whom  died.  They  are :  Jean- 
ette  A.,  now  the  wife  of  P.  J.  Reid  of  Pleasant 
Green ;  Mary  E.,  now  Airs.  D.  H.  Jacobs  of 
Pleasant  Green ;  Hiram  T.,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  years ;  Jane  Edith,  wife  of  W.  S. 
Reid  of  Pleasant  Green,  and  Grace  Maud,  now 
Mrs.  L.  B.  Laker.  Mr.  and  Airs.  Spencer  have 
nine  grandchildren. 

In  politics  Mr.  Spencer  has  been  a  strong 
adherent  of  the  Democratic  principles  ever  since 
the  organization  of  that  party  in  Utah.  He  has 
been  active  in  building  up  and  forwarding  the 
interests  of  the  community  in  which  he  has  lived, 
having  served  eight  terms  as  road  supervisor 
and  ten  terms  as  trustee  of  the  school.  He  is  at 
this  time  a  director  of  the  Utah  and  Salt  Lake 
Canal  Company,  of  which  he  was  at  one  time 
President.  He  has  not  confined  himself  to  the 
interests  of  his  immediate  community,  but  has 
ever  been  found  ready  to  respond  to  the  call 
of  duty  and  serve  his  State  in  its  time  of  need. 
In  the  early  days  he  was  a  member  of  the  Guard 
detailed  to  protect  the  settlers  against  the  depre- 
dations of  the  Indians,  and  later  accompanied 
Lot  Smith  in  his  campaign  against  Black  Hawk. 
During  the  invasion  of  Johnston's  army  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Nauvoo  Legion,  or  the  Terri- 
torial militia,  and  took  part  in  the  troubles  which 
occurred  in  Echo  Canyon.  He  has  also  been 
active  in  his  Church  work,  as  was  his  father 
before  him.  He  was  baptized  into  the  Mormon 
faith  in  Nauvoo  at  the  age  of  eight  years,  by 
his  uncle  Daniel,  and  since  then  has  passed 
through  all  the  different  orders  of  the  Priest- 
hood, being  ordained  a  High  Priest  in  1882 
and  set  apart  as  First  Counselor  to  the  Bishop 
of  his  Ward,  holding  that  position  for  ten  years, 
at  the  expiration  of  which  time  he  was  made 
Bishop  of  Pleasant  Green  Ward.  From  1878 
to  1882  he  was  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School  and  in  April,  1866,  was  called  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Europe  and  labored  in  Scotland  two 
years.  His  wife  is  also  a  member  of  this  Church 
and  is  active  and  prominent  in  its  work,  espe- 
cially along  the  lines  of  its  charitable  work,  be- 
ing a  member  of  the  Relief  Society.  Mrs.  Spen- 
cer comes  of  an  old  Scotch  family,  noted  for 
its  broad-mindedness  and  liberalitv,  and  is  well 


known  and  highly  respected  for  her  good  quali- 
ties of  mind  and  heart  by  the  older  families  of 
Salt  Lake  City  who  know  her  best. 

Although  left  an  orphan  when  but  a  child, 
having  nothing  to  look  forward  to  but  the  char- 
itable care  of  the  uncle  who  stood  in  the  place 
of  a  father  to  him,  and  who  in  those  early  days 
had  hard  work  to  sustain  those  dependent  upon 
him,  our  subject  early  showed  a  spirit  of  inde- 
pendence and  perseverance,  and  beginning  to  do 
for  himself  at  an  early  age,  he  has  gone  for- 
ward with  an  unfaltering  and  splendid  courage, 
and  by  dint  of  much  hard  work  has  achieved 
a  high  place  among  the  prosperous  farmers  and 
business  men  of  this  valley,  being  today  a  repre- 
sentative and  highly  respected  citizen  of  this  part 
of  the  State.  He  is  regarded  as  a  man  of  in- 
tegrity, honesty  and  loyalty  to  his  convictions 
of  right  and  justice,  and  no  man  in  the  com- 
munity stands  higher  in  the  esteem  of  the  leaders 
of  the  Church,  as  well  as  among  those  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated  through  a  long 
life,  than  docs  Hiram  T.  Spencer. 


TEWART  T.  TANNER.  In  the  won- 
derful development  which  has  gone  on 
in  Utah  during  the  past  half  a  century, 
it  has  taken  men  of  brain,  energy  and 
perseverance  to  convert  this  State  from 
a  wild  and  barren  country  to  thriving  agricul- 
tural and  commercial  center  such  as  it  occu- 
pies today  in  this  inter-mountain  region.  No 
one  stands  higher  in  this  rank  than  does  Stewart 
T.  Tanner  and  his  worthy  sire. 

Air.  Tanner  is  a  native  of  Utah,  having  been 
born  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  June  4,  1856.  He 
is  the  son  of  Nathan  and  Rachel  (Smith)  Tan- 
ner, his  mother  dying  in  April,  1897,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-six  3'ears.  Our  subject's  father  was 
born  at  Boulton,  New  York,  May  14.  1815,  and 
his  father,  John  Tanner,  was  a  wealthy  farmer 
in  New  York  State.  John  Tanner  early  became 
a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church.  During  the 
trying  and  troublesome  times  which  occurred  at 
Nauvoo,  the  Church  became  embarrassed  and 
needed  assistance.  Mr.  Tanner  came  to  their 
rescue    and    donatecfc  his    entire    fortune    to    the 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Church,  his  last  gift  being  thirty  thousand  dol- 
lars, which  he  received  for  his  property  in  New 
York.  He  then  made  his  way  to  Utah,  but  ar- 
rived here  a  poor  man  in  1848,  and  established 
his  home  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  lived  un- 
til a  few  years  ago.  Nathan  Tanner  came  to 
this  city  with  his  parents  and  also  made  his  home 
in  Salt  Lake  until  recent  years,  but  now  divides 
his  time  among  his  children,  remaining  the 
greater  portion  of  it  with  the  subject  of  our 
sketch.  He  freighted  from  Salt  Lake  City  to 
California  and  had  many  thrilling  experiences 
and  narrow  escapes,  the  Indians  at  that  time  be- 
ing very  troublesome.  In  1850  Nathan  Tanner 
established  what  is  known  as  the  Tanner  canal, 
which  is  one  of  the  most  important  irrigating 
canals  in  this  county.  In  those  days  it  was  a  vast 
undertaking  to  construct  a  canal,  but  with  the 
assistance  of  his  brothers  and  several  of  the 
other  pioneers,  Mr.  Tanner  was  able  to  complete 
this  work,  and  the  canal  is  still  in  use  and  bears 
his  name.  Our  subject  spent  the  first  fourteen 
years  of  his  life  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  here  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  common  schools 
and  also  Morgan's  Commercial  College,  the  first 
business  college  in  the  State.  In  1870  he  moved 
to  Cottonwood  canyon  and  there  joined  his  broth- 
ers, Nathan  and  William,  who  were  engaged  in 
the  general  mercantile  business.  In  connection 
with  this  business  they  also  handled  large  quan- 
tities of  ore.  This  branch  of  the  business  was 
taken  in  charge  by  our  subject,  he  hauling  the 
first  load  of  ore  that  was  ever  brought  from 
the  Emma  mine.  He  continued  at  this  business 
for  a  period  of  five  years  and  handled  the  larg- 
est volume  of  minerals  that  was  ever  hauled  by 
any  one  concern  up  to  that  time.  He  later  lo- 
cated upon  his  father's  farm  on  the  Cottonwood 
creek,  at  which  place  he  continued  for  several 
years. 

In  1875  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss  Jean- 
ette  Coates,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
(Dick)  Coates,  her  mother  having  come  to  Utah 
in  the  early  seventies.  As  a  result  of  this  mar- 
riage eight  children  have  been  born — Elizabeth 
R.,  now  Mrs.  George  Grant,  of  Granger  Ward ; 
Helen  I.,  Stewart  T..  Junio^;  Abigal  J..  William 


C.  Emily  W.,  Charles  F.,  and  Fern  L.,  all  of 
whom  are  at  home  attending  school  just  across 
the  way. 

In  1877  Mr.  Tanner  moved  to  his  present 
home  in  Granger  Ward,  which  is  located  half  a 
mile  from  the  old  Granger  postoffice.  It  con- 
sists of  one  hundred  acres  of  land  and  is  one  of 
the  finest  improved  farms  in  this  section.  In 
1889  he  built  a  fine  brick  house  on  his  farm, 
and  he  has  it  otherwise  well  improved.  Our  sub- 
ject has  devoted  the  most  of  his  time  and  at- 
tention to  horses  and  the  general  farming  busi- 
ness, and  has  demonstrated  by  his  ability,  un- 
tiring energy  and  determination  that  success  will 
follow  under  such  circumstances.  Mr.  Tanner 
has  received  a  good  education,  and  has  always 
been  a  consistent  and  thorough  student,  not  only 
along  the  lines  of  book  education,  but  he  has 
studied  the  great  book  of  nature,  which  has  as- 
sisted him  largely  in  his  successful  career. 

In  political  life  he  has  always  been  a  promi- 
nent Democrat,  as  was  his  father  before  him, 
and  for  the  past  twelve  years  he  has  been  a 
school  trustee  in  his  Ward,  and  served  one  term 
of  two  years  as  a  director  in  the  Utah  and  Salt 
Lake  Canal  company.  While  he  has  led  an 
active  and  busy  life  he  has  not  given  all  his 
attention  to  business,  the  Church  receiving  its 
full  share.  He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Mor- 
mon faith,  as  was  also  his  wife  and  children, 
and  they  have  ever  been  among  the  consistent 
and  faithful  members  of  that  Church.  For  many 
years  he  has  been  a  teacher  in  the  Ward.  He  ac- 
companied his  father  on  a  mission  to  the  old 
Tanner  home  in  New  York  State.  His  father 
was  one  of  the  early  missionaries  to  the  Sand- 
wich Islands,  and  visited  every  group  thereof. 
The  Tanner  family  were  represented  among 
those  who  went  out  to  fight  the  Indians  in  the 
early  days;  our  subject's  brother  Nathan  was  an 
active  participant  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  of 
1866.  He  had  many  thrilling  adventures  and 
narrow  escapes,  having  had  two  comrades  killed 
by  his  side  and  at  one  time  he  used  his  gun  as  a 
whip  to  urge  on  a  comrade's  horse  and  in  so 
doing  bent  the  barrel,  rendering  the  weapon  use- 
less. 


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OHN  MACK  AY.  Among  the  men  who 
have  passed  through  all  the  trials  and 
hardships  incident  to  the  settlement  of 
a  new  country,  and  among  those  who 
have  taken  a  prominent  and  active  part 
in  the  prosperit)'  of  Utah,  and  more  especially 
of  Salt  Lake  county,  and  who  have  for  over  half 
a  century  been  closely  identified  with  the  agri- 
cultural and  commercial  affairs  of  the  State, 
should  be  mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Mackay  was  born  in  the  Isle  of  Man, 
March  18,  1834,  being  the  son  of  Thomas  and 
Ann  (Rogers)  Mackay.  Our  subject's  father 
was  born  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  but  lived  in  Glas- 
gow, Scotland,  where  he  spent  his  early  life,  be- 
ing of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  The  family  came 
to  America  in  1841  by  way  of  New  Orleans,  hav- 
ing crossed  the  Atlantic  ocean  in  a  sailing  ship. 
They  settled  at  Nauvoo  and  remained  there  un- 
til 1846,  having  come  up  the  Mississippi  river 
from  New  Orleans,  when  the  Mormons  were 
driven  out  of  the  State,  when  they  moved  to 
Bloomfield,  Iowa,  and  the  following  spring  they 
made  the  trip  by  ox  team  across  the  great  Amer- 
ican desert.  In  the  train  in  which  they  came 
to  Utah,  known  as  John  Taylor's  Company,  Jos- 
eph Home  was  Captain  of  fifty  wagons  and 
Bishop  E.  Hunter  was  Captain  of  one  hundred 
wagons.  In  the  spring  of  1848  they  formed  a 
colony  at  the  Old  Fort  and  in  1849  moved  out 
to  Jordan,  and  our  subject's  father  assisted  in 
building  up  that  portion  of  the  country.  He 
died  in  February.  1880,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years. 

During  the  winter  of  1849  our  subject  went 
to  California  and  spent  two  years  in  that  State, 
returning  in  1851.  He  was  married  October  6, 
1855,  to  Miss  Isabella  Calder,  daughter  of 
George  and  Ann  Calder,  and  by  this  marriage 
they  have  eight  children — Annie  J.,  wife  of  Noah 
Murphy  of  Granger  Ward;  John  C,  Isabella, 
David  O.,  William  W.,  Jane,  Walter  S.,  and 
Julian  B.  He  moved  onto  his  present  place 
which  consists  of  two  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
of  farming  land,  and  he  has  divided  this  up 
among  his  children,  giving  each  one  a  home, 
which  they  have  improved  and  cultivated.  Mr 
Mackay  is  a  large  real  estate  owner,  outside  oi 


his  farms,  and  is  prominently  identified  with  the 
different  interests  of  the  county  and  State.  He 
has  also  been  largely  interested  in  cattle  and 
sheep  and  the  different  avocations  of  Utah.  His 
present  home  is  on  the  east  side  of  Redwood 
road,  between  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  South 
streets,  on  the  banks  of  the  Jordan  river. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Mackay  has  never  been 
influenced  by  either  of  the  great  political  par- 
ties, but  prefers  to  use  his  own  judgment  when 
it  comes  to  politics,  and  supports  the  best  man 
for  the  position.  He  has  by  his  straightforward 
and  upright  bearing  made  a  reputation  that  will 
be  valuable  not  only  to  his  children,  but  to  the 
posterity  in  the  future  generations  yet  to  come. 


OCTOR  O.  W.  FRENCH,  leading 
physician  and  surgeon  of  Coalville. 
He  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old 
and  sturdy  New  England  families. 
His  great-grandfather  was  David 
French,  a  native  of  Connecticut,  in  the  early 
part  of  the  Eighteenth  century.  He  settled  in 
Saint  Lawrence  county,  New  York,  being  among 
the  earliest  settlers  in  that  section.  The  French 
family  originally  came  from  Lincolnshire,  Eng- 
land. In  the  Colonial  days  they  owned  the  Isl- 
ands of  Martha's  Vinyard  and  Nantucket,  which 
they  purchased  from  the  English  crown. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Pottsdam,  Saint 
Lawrence  county,  New  York,  in  1868,  and 
is  the  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Marian  (Wit- 
ters) French.  The  father  of  Charles  F.  was 
Ira  T.  French,  a  colonel  in  the  State  militia 
before  the  Civil  War.  Our  subject's  father  is 
still  living  on  the  old  family  homestead,  and  is 
one  of  the  prominent  farmers  of  that  county. 
The  characters  and  scenes  in  "Eben  Holden," 
one  of  the  most  popular  novels  of  this  day,  were 
taken  from  this  spot,  and  the  old  church  and 
academy  referred  to  in  that  book  are  still  stand- 
ing, near  where  our  subject  was  born  and  spent 
his  boyhood  days.  Our  subject's  maternal  an- 
cestors were  of  Scotch  descent,  and  settled  in 
Massachusetts  in  the  middle  of  the  Eighteenth 
century.  The  family  moved  to  Saint  Lawrence 
county,    New   York,   where  they  are  well  known. 


2  so 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Mrs.  French's  mother  was  a  Bliss,  from  which 
family  Secretary  Bliss  of  the  United  States  Navy, 
is  a  descendant.  There  were  four  children  in 
this  family,  of  whom  our  subject  is  the  youngest 
— Clifton  I..  George,  Lottie  M.  and  O.  W.,  our 
subject. 

Doctor  French  obtained  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  at  the  State  Nor- 
mal school.  In  1890  he  entered  the  medical  de- 
partment of  the  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann 
Arbor,  graduating  from  the  Rush  Medical  col- 
lege of  Chicago  in  1893,  with  the  degree  of  M. 
D.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Chicago,  and  from  there  went  to  Sioux  City, 
Iowa,  where  he  remained  six  years  and  built  up 
a  good  practice.  He  came  to  Coalville  in  1899, 
where  he  purchased  the  practice  of  Doctor  J.  E. 
Hosmer,  a  brother  of  Doctor  A.  J.  Hosmer,  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  Since  coming  to  Coalville  he 
has  had  very  good  success  and  has  built  up  a 
large  practice  in  the  surrounding  towns  of  Oak- 
ley and  Henefer.  He  is  also  sureeon  for  the 
Grass  Creek  and  Wasatch  Mining  companies. 

Doctor  French  was  married  in  1898  to  Miss 
Lillian  Koolbeck,  of  Iowa,  a  daughter  of  Jacob 
Koolbeck,  of  that  State,  and  a  well-known  man 
in  political  life  there.  They  have  two  daughters, 
Pauline  and  Myrla. 

In  fraternal  life  the  Doctor  is  a  member  of 
Knights  of  Pythias  Lodge  Number  20,  of  Coal- 
ville, in  which  he  is  Deputy  Grand  Chancellor. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Modern  Woodmen 
and  Company  Number  20,  Iowa  U.  R.  K.  P. 
He  is  medical  examiner  for  all  tne  insurance 
companies  doing  business  here.  He  has  given 
some  attention  to  the  mining  industry  of  this 
region  and  owns  an  interest  in  several  mining 
ventures.  Socially  he  is  a  very  agreeable  gentle- 
man, and  durine  his  residence  in  Coalville  has 
made    manv    friends    among"   all   classes. 


\MES  VERNON,  Bishop  of  the  Rock- 
piirt  Ward,  Summit  county,  for  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints.  FJishop  Vernon  has  been  a  life- 
long member  of  the  Church.  His  faith- 
ful performance  of  his  duties  as  an  official  of  the 
Church  has  gained  for  him  not  only  the  admira- 


tion and  esteem  of  its  leaders,  but  of  the  people  in 
the  community  where  he  has  resided  for  many 
years.  A  native  of  England,  yet  his  whole  busi- 
nisss  career  has  been  spent  in  this  State,  coming  to 
L^tah  with  his  parents  when  only  a  boy  of  eight 
years. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England, 
April  18,  1862.  His  father,  Francis  Vernon,  was 
born  in  the  same  place  in  1813.  He  was  a  mason 
by  trade,  but  also  made  musical  instruments,  He 
was  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church  of  which  he  became  a  member  in  1868, 
emigrating  to  the  United  States  with  his  family 
in  the  same  year  and  coming  direct  to  Utah.  He 
remained  for  one  year  in  Coalville  and  then  lo- 
cated in  Rockport,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  an  officer 
in  the  priesthood  during  his  life  and  died  much 
respected  by  those  who  knew  him.  His  wife, 
and  our  subject's  mother,  was  Elizabeth  Cottrill, 
a  native  of  Derbyshire,  England.  She  is  still 
living  and  is  the  mother  of  ten  children — Martha, 
wife  of  George  Robinson ;  Mary,  wife  of  John 
Johnson;  Francis;  James,  our  subject;  Joseph; 
Ellen,  single ;  and  four  children,  now  dead. 

Bishop  Vernon  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm 
and  received  his  education  from  the  common 
schools  of  that  place.  He  remained  at  home  until 
he  attained  his  majority  when  he  started  out  for 
himself  in  the  sawmill  business,  doing  a  partner- 
ship business  in  Weber  canyon  for  four  years, 
turnine  out  native  timber  and  supplying  much  of 
the  building  material  used  in  that  section  of  the 
country.  He  took  up  farming  in  Rockport  in 
1887,  and  with  the  exception  of  four  years,  spent 
at  Marion,  has  lived  on  this  place  ever  since, 
engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-growing. 
In  1901  he  purchased  the  Wilson  farm,  which  is 
one  of  the  best  farms  in  this  section,  all  under 
irrigation. 

He  was  married,  in  1886,  to  Miss  Emma  M. 
Staker,  daughter  of  Wiliam  H.  and  Sarah  (Mer- 
chant) Staker.  Sarah  Staker  was  the  daughter 
of  James  and  Martha  (Hill)  Merchant,  and  was 
the  only  member  of  her  family  to  come  to  this 
country.  Her  people  were  natives  of  Derbyshire, 
England.  Seven  children  have  been  the  result 
of  this   union — Tames   A. ;   Francis,   died   in   in- 


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fancy  ;   Sarah  Edna  ;   Earl ;   Annis  L. ;  Edward  ; 
Nathan  L.,  and  Richard  L. 

In  politics  the  Bishop  owes  allegiance  to  the 
Democratic  party,  in  whose  ranks  he  has  been  an 
active  worker.  He  has  always  displayed  a  lively 
interest  in  local  affairs,  and  for  a  number  of 
terms  acted  as  school  trustee  of  his  district  He 
is  also  a  director  in  the  Rockport,  Hoytsville  and 
Wanship  Range  and  Live  Stock  Company,  and 
has  also  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  irrigation 
system  of  his  county.  In  Church  circles  he  is 
President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association,  and  a  Ward  teacher.  He  has 
filled  the  offices  of  Elder  and  High  Priest,  and, 
in  June.  1901,  was  set  apart  as  Bishop  of  this 
\\'ard,  by  I'resident  Joseph  F.  Smith. 


OSEPH  CAIX,  DECEASED.  Every 
year  the  number  of  those  brave  and 
noble  men  who  came  across  the  plains 
as  pioneers  to  Utah  in  1847  is  rapidly 
diminishing,  and  the  biographer  in  his 
work  of  gathering  data  is  called  upon  to  obtain 
his  information  largely  from  the  lips  of  those 
with  whom  the  early  settlers  were  closely  asso- 
ciated, or  in  rare  instances  from  the  well  kept 
diaries  of  the  men  themselves.  To  this  latter 
method  the  writer  of  this  article  is  greatly  in- 
debted for  his  knowledge  of  the  gentleman  whose 
name  heads  this  sketch,  and  who  in  his  day  was  a 
prominent  and  well-known  figure  in  the  early  his- 
tory of  the  State,  taking  an  active  part  in  mis- 
sionary work  and  later,  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  was  closely  associated  with  the  early  his- 
tory of  the  Deseret  News,  the  official  organ  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  today  one  of  the  leading 
newspapers  of  the  West. 

Mr.  Cain's  early  ancestors  were  natives  of 
the  Isle  of  Man,  where  his  grandfather,  John 
Cain,  died  in  July,  1837,  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
seven  years.  John  Cain's  wife  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Elizabeth  Brew.  She  lived  to  be  nine- 
ty-two years  of  age  and  survived  her  husband 
seven  years,  dying  in  March,  1844.  The  pa- 
rents of  our  subject  were  James  and  Ann 
(Moore)  Cain.  They  reared  a  family  of  three 
cliildren — William,   who   died   May  31,    1844,  at 


the  age  of  twenty-four  years ;  Eleanor,  who  re- 
mained single  and  died  in  1886,  and  Joseph,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  The  father  of  these  chil- 
dren died  at  Douglas,  Isle  of  Man,  in  October, 
1836. 

Our  subject  became  converted  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints  in  his  native  land,  when  a  young  man, 
and  in  the  early  forties  emigrated  to  the  United 
States,  joining  the  Mormons  at  their  headquar- 
ters in  Nauvoo.  He  made  the  trip  across  the 
ocean  in  company  with  his  uncle,  the  late  Presi- 
dent John  Ta)'lor,  and  while  in  Xauvoo,  about 
1843  or  1844,  worked  in  the  printing  office  with 
George  0.  Cannon.  In  1845  he  was  called  to 
go  on  a  mission  to  England,  remaining  there 
until  1847,  '"  February  of  that  year  he  set  sail 
for  the  United  States.  L^pon  learnine  that  the 
Saints  had  been  driven  from  Nauvoo  he  joined 
the  main  body  at  Winter  Quarters  and  that  same 
year  crossed  the  plains  in  the  company  com- 
manded by  his  uncle,  President  John  Taylor, 
reaching  LTtah  in  the  fall  of  that  year.  He  took 
up  his  permanent  residence  in  Salt  Lake  and  in 
1849  ^"^'^s  called  to  go  on  a  mission  to  Califor- 
nia with  the  late  President  George  Q.  Cannon. 
During  the  year  spent  in  this  work  they  suffered 
many  hardships,  as  that  country  was  also  in  an 
undeveloped  state  and  in  the  first  throes  of  the 
gold  excitement,  provisions  being  scarce  and 
prices  abnormal. 

Upon  his  return  from  California  in  1850  he 
became  associated  with  the  Deseret  News,  in  con- 
nection with  Willard  Richards  and  Judge  Elias 
Smith,  and  remained  on  the  staff  of  that  paper 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
1856. 

During  his  missionary  trip  to  England,  he  met 
^liss  Elizabeth  Whittaker,  who  became  his  wife 
on  February  i,  1847,  just  prior  to  his  return  to 
.\merica,  and  she  made  the  return  trip  with 
him,  and  together  they  endured  all  the  trials  and 
hardships  incident  to  pioneer  life  in  Utah.  Mrs. 
Cain  survived  her  husband  and  lived  until  1880. 
Of  their  children  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  is 
now  the  wife  of  Charles  Crismon,  Jr.,  a  sketch 
of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Mr.  Cain  was  the  first  postmaster  of  Salt  Lake 


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City  to  be  appointed  by  the  government,  and 
while  a  resident  of  the  United  States  proved  to 
be  a  most  loyal  citizen.  He  joined  the  Mormon 
Church  in  opposition  to  his  relatives'  wishes,  and 
throughout  his  life  was  one  of  its  most  faithful 
and  consistent  members,  enjoying  the  entire  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  not  only  the  leaders  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  but  also  of  all  with  whom 
he   was   associated. 


I  SHOP  FREDERICK  RASBAND. 
Among  the  prominent  and  successful 
Ijusiness  men  of  Park  City,  the  subject 
of  this  narrative  is  deserving  of  spe- 
cial mention.  He  is  a  native  son  of 
Utah,  having  been  born  in  Provo  City,  Septem- 
ber 2,  1858,  and  his  whole  life  up  to  the  pres- 
ent time  has  been  spent  in  this  State.  By  care- 
ful and  close  attention  to  business  he  has  carved 
out  a  successful  career,  and  today  he  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  most  successful,  broad-minded 
and  liberal  men  of  Park  City. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  Thomas  Ras- 
band,  who  came  to  Utah  from  England  in  the 
early  fifties,  crossing  the  plains  from  Quincy, 
Illinois,  by  ox  teams.  He  first  located  at  Provo, 
from  which  place  he  moved  to  Heber.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  in  the  Provo  valley,  in 
Wasatch  county.  He  took  up  government  land 
in  Heber  and  became  Bishop  of  the  East  Ward 
of  that  place  in  1873,  which  he  retained  up  to 
1885,  when  he  died,  aged  sixty-seven  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  which 
he  was  an  active  worker  all  his  life.  His  wife, 
and  the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  Elizabeth 
Giles,  a  native  of  England,  who  came  to  this 
country  with  her  husband  in  the  early  fifties. 
She  was  for  many  years  Counselor  to  the  Stake 
President  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Society.  She 
was  the  mother  of  twelve  children,  eight  of 
whom  are  now  living — Emily,  the  wife  of  Orson 
Hicken;  William  G.,  living  at  Heber;  Frederick, 
our  subject;  Heber,  was  killed  in  the  Anchor 
mine  in  1899;  James,  living  in  Park  City;  Jos- 
eph, in  Heber;  Mary,  wife  of  Joseph  McDon- 
ald, of  Heber ;  Charles,  living  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
The  mother  of  these  children  lived  to  be  seventy- 


four  years  of  age  and  died  in  Park  City  October 
15.    1900. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  Heber  City  and  there 
obtained  his  early  education.  He  came  to  Park 
City  in  1887  and  became  associated  with  his 
brothers  Heber  and  James  as  butchers,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Rasband  Brothers,  continuing 
until  the  fall  of  1898,  when  they  were  burned  out, 
and  our  subject  became  associated  with  the  Park 
City    Meat  company. 

Bishop  Rasband  was  married  September  29, 
1881,  to  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth  Hawkins,  daughter 
of  John  B.  and  Sarah  (Moulton)  Hawkins,  of  Salt 
Lake  City.  They  have  had  three  children — Sadie, 
a  student  in  the  Brigham  Young  academy  at 
Provo ;  Ethel  and  Delia. 

Our  subject  has  always  been  active  in  Church 
work  and  has  held  a  number  of  offices  in  the 
Priesthood.  He  was  ordained  anElder  in  1881  and 
a  High  Priest  in  1885.  He  became  one  of  the  Su- 
perintendency  of  the  Wasatch  local  missionary 
Stake  for  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement 
Association  and  retained  that  office  until  1887, 
When  the  Park  City  Ward  was  organized  in  1892 
he  became  Counselor  to  Bishop  Thomas  x^llen,  and 
acted  in  that  capacity  until  called  on  a  mission 
to  England  in  1899.  He  labored  in  the  London 
Conference  for  twenty  months,  being  called 
home  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  Bishopric  caused 
by  Bishop  .Allen's  being  ordained  one  of  the 
Presidency  of  the  Stake.  He  was  also  for  six 
years  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School,  and 
active  in   all   Church  matters. 

Bishop  Rasband  has  been  prominent  in  all  mat- 
ters pertaining  to  the  political  welfare  of  the  city 
and  is  now  serving  a  second  term  as  a  member 
of  the  Citv  Council. 


\RION  FRAZIER.  The  new- 
comer to  LTtah  is  at  once  impressed 
with  the  remarkable  number  of  self- 
made  men  who  reside  within  the 
confines  of  this  State.  Perhaps  no 
other  section  of  the  United  States  can  lay  claim 
to  a  larger  number  of  this  class  of  men  than  can 
the  State  of  L^tah.  This  is  not  a  new  condition 
of  aiifairs,  for  it  has  ever  been  a  marked 
characteristic  of  this  country  from  the  time  the 


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early  pioneers  crossed  the  great  American  desert 
headed  for  Utah,  to  the  present  time.  Among 
this  class  of  men,  and  whose  life's  history  has 
been  closely  identified  with  nearly  every  enter- 
prise for  the  advancement  and  building  up  of 
Summit  county,  Marion  Frazier  is  deserving  of 
special  mention. 

Our  subject  came  into  this  valley  with  his 
father,  Thomas  Frazier,  in  1862.  Thomas  Fra- 
zier was  a  native  of  Henry  county,  Tennessee, 
where  he  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  in  his  earfy  manhood,  and  moved  to 
Nauvoo,  where  he  remained  until  the  exodus 
of  the  Mormons  from  that  place  in  1846,  and 
when  the  call  came  for  volunteers  in  the  Mexi- 
can War,  Mr.  Frazier  was  one  of  those  who  re- 
sponded and  went  through  that  campaign  with 
the  Mormon  Battalion.  He  was  in  California 
at  the  time  of  the  great  gold  discoveries  in  1849. 
He  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  fifties,  and  was 
married  in  Salt  Lake  City  to  Miss  Rachel  Young. 
In  1862  he  moved  with  his  family  to  Wanship, 
in  the  Weber  valley,  and  there  took  up  genera! 
farming  and  stock  raising,  which  he  followed 
for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  died  in  1866 
at  the  early  age  of  forty-three.  His  widow  still 
lives  in  Wanship. 

Our  subject  was  born  at  Fort  Supply,  Wyom- 
ing, at  a  time  when  his  father  was  one  of  the 
guards  stationed  to  head  off  Johnston's  army. 
His  birth  occurred  in  a  covered  wagon  June  20, 
1856.  He  was  six  years  of  age  when  his  par- 
ents moved  to  Wanship,  where  he  grew  up,  and 
where  he  received  his  education.  He  began  life 
for  himself  in  1881,  when  he  moved  to  Oakley 
and  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising,  which 
he  has  since  successfully  followed,  having  a  good 
herd  of  cattle  and  a  large  ranch  on  the  Weber 
river. 

]\Ir.  Frazier  was  married  l^ebruary  25,  1879, 
to  Miss  Nancy  Richards,  daughter  of  Franklin 
D.  and  Susan  (Pilsson)  Richards.  They  have 
had  ten  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now  living. 
They  are :  Marion  E.,  now  on  a  mission  to  the 
Samoan  Islands ;  Susan  L..  died  in  infancy ;  Wil- 
liam P. ;  Nancy  C. ;  Thomas  F.,  died  in  infancy ; 
Albert  J.,  died  in  infancy ;  Lorenzo  F. ;  Clarence 
R. :  Walter  M.,  and  Ina  Lucille. 


Mr.  Frazier  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  has  all  his  life  been  an  energetic 
and  faithful  worker  in  its  behalf.  He  was  for 
thirteen  years  superintendent  of  his  Sunday 
School,  and  has  been  successively  ordained  Elder, 
member  of  the  Twenty-second  Quorum  of  Sev- 
enties, and  a  High  Priest.  At  the  time  of  his  or- 
dination as  High  Priest  he  was  set  apart  by 
Apostle  Brigham  Young,  in  August,  1895,  as 
Bishop  of  Oakley  Ward,  which  had  just  been 
organized.  He  presided  over  this  Ward  for  six 
years,  until  it  was  reorganized  in  April,  1901.  He 
was  for  three  years  President  of  the  Improve- 
ment Association  in  his  Ward,  and  has  been  one 
of  the  leading  spirits  in  church  work  during  his 
residence  in  Oakley. 

The  success  to  which  Mr.  Frazier  has  attained 
has  been  due  entirely  to  his  unflagging  energy 
and  determination  to  succeed.  He  was  left  an 
orphan  at  an  early  age  and  had  to  carve  out  his 
own  career  without  assistance  from  anyone.  His 
life  has  been  singularly  free  from  any  of  the 
subterfuges  by  which  men  often  attempt  to  pro- 
mote their  own  interests,  and  has  always  been 
such  as  to  command  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  those  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact, 
while  his  pleasant  and  genial  nature  has  won 
for  him  manv  friends. 


ILES  A.  ROMNEY,—  son  of 
Bishop  George  Romney,  whose 
sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work, — is  one  of  the  most  trusted 
employes  of  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Institution,  of  which  institution  his 
father,  the  Bishop,  is  a  director.  He  has  worked 
his  way  from  a  clerkship  to  the  important  posi- 
tion of  manager  of  the  wholesale  and  retail  carpet 
department,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has 
superintended  the  purchases  of  this  institution  in 
the  New  York  market. 

Miles  A.  Romney  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1862,  and  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Utah.  At  the  age  of  nineteen 
he  began  his  business  career  in  the  employ  of  the 
Zion   Co-operative   Mercantile   Institution,  being 


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first  a  clerk  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  grocery 
department  of  that  institution.  He  served  for 
eighteen  months  as  cashier  in  the  retail  depart- 
ment and  for  the  past  nine  years  has  had  entire 
charge  of  the  wholesale  and  retail  carpet  depart- 
ment, and  has  under  him  nine  employes.  He 
has  been  employed  in  this  institution  for  over 
twenty  years  and  has  made  for  himself  a  splen- 
did reputation  as  an  energetic  and  active  busi- 
ness man. 

He  married  in  1885  to  Miss  Nellie  T.  Smellie, 
daughter  of  David  Smellie,  who  is  now  retired 
from  active  business  life.  By  this  marriage  ]Mr. 
Romney  has  eight  children.  They  are :  Mignon  ; 
Miles,  Jr. ;  David ;  Douglass,  Dean,  these  latter 
being  twins ;  Clyde ;  Mary  Jane,  and  Earl. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Romney  is  a  member  of 
the  Republican  party  and  takes  an  active  inter- 
est in  its  welfare,  although  he  has  not  partici- 
pated in  its  work  so  far  as  the  solicitation  for  or 
holding  of  public  office  is  concerned.  He,  like 
his  parents,  is  a  devoted  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  has  risen  by  his  zeal  and  industry 
in  its  work  to  be  an  Elder.  His  career  in  the 
Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  marks 
him  as  one  of  the  bright  business  men  of  this 
city,  and  the  confidence  and  trust  reposed  in  him 
by  the  leaders  of  that  establishment  bears  testi- 
mony to  his  integrity  and  honesty.  He  is  well 
and  popularly  known  to  the  leaders  of  the 
church  and  enjoys  the  friendship  of  the  citizens 
of  Utah. 


LVIRAS  E.  SNUW.  In  connection 
with  the  life  of  Salt  Lake  City  it  is 
worthy  of  note  that  there  are  a  large 
number  of  young  men,  active  in  the 
professions,  in  business  circles  and  in 
public  affairs ;  and  certainly  the  city's  rapid 
growth  is  due  in  no  small  decree  to  tneir  enter- 
prise. Among  the  young  attorneys  who  are 
building  up  enviable  reputations,  Alviras  E. 
Snow,  whose  name  appears  at  the  head  of  this 
article,  is  a  noteworthy  subject.  He  comes  of 
one  of  Utah's  most  prominent  and  widely-known 


families,  and  is  a  native  of  Utah,  having  been 
born  in  Brigham  City,  Utah,  December  2,  1863, 
and  is  a  son  of  the  late  President  Lorenzo  Snow. 

Our  subject  spent  the  early  days  of  his  boy- 
hood in  Brigham  City,  where  he  received  his 
first  schooling,  later  attending  the  schools  of 
Salt  Lake  City  and  graduating  from  the  L^ni- 
versity  of  Utah  in  the  fall  of  1882.  Upon  the 
completion  of  his  education  he  engaged  in  school 
teaching,  which  he  followed  for  one  year,  aban- 
doning that  to  embark  in  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  Brigham  City.  He  was  for  a  number 
of  years  a  member  of  the  Co-operative  Mercan- 
tile Company  of  that  place,  and  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Brigham  City  was  called  to  serve  as  a 
member  of  the  City  Council,  serving  with  effi- 
ciency and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  citi- 
zens of  that  place.  He  has  always  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  educational  matters,  as  did  his  father 
before  him. 

In  1805  -^Ii".  Snow  gave  up  the  mercantile 
business  and  entered  the  Columbian  LTniversity 
at  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  studied  law  and 
graduated  from  the  law  department  of  that  in- 
stitution in  the  fall  of  1897.  After  his  gradua- 
tion he  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  before  the  Supreme  and  Fed- 
eral Courts  of  the  State  of  Utah.  He  opened  up 
an  office  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession alone  until  the  fall  of  1900,  at  which  time 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  Bowman, 
which  has  continued  to  the  present  time. 

Mr.  Snow  has  not  confined  his  attention  wholly 
to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  but  has  taken 
an  active  interest  in  developing  the  mining  in- 
dustries of  Utah,  being  interested  in  a  number 
of  mining  claims  in  the  State.  He  has  devoted 
considerable  study  to  mining  law  and  has  a  large 
and  lucrative  clientage  among  the  mining  men 
of  this  city. 

Having  spent  the  greater  portion  of  his  life 
in  Salt  Lake,  he  is  well  known  to  its  citizens, 
among  whom  he  numbers  many  warm  friends. 
He  has  inherited  his  father's  genial  and  pleasant 
dispositon,  and  is  regarded  as  a  man  of  high 
character,  strict  integrity  and  thoroughly  reliable. 
Mr.  Snow's  offices  are  in  the  D.  F.  Walker  build- 
ing, where  he  has  a  valuable  library. 


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W.  MAXWELL.  A  fact  worthy  of 
note  is  the  large  percentage  of  the 
native  sons  of  Utah  who,  after  they 
have  grown  to  manhood  and  started 
out  in  life  for  themselves,  choose  their 
native  State  as  the  field  of  their  operations,  and 
to  this  fact  may  be  accredited  to  a  large  extent 
the  rapid  development  of  Utah.  The  work  which 
their  fathers  commenced  has  been  taken  up  by 
them  and  carried  still  further  and  to  a  higher 
degree  of  success. 

R.  W.  Maxwell,  our  subject,  is  a  native  of 
Utah,  being  born  at  Peoa  in  1862.  His  whole 
life  up  to  the  present  time  has  been  spent  in  this 
State.  His  father  was  Ralph  Maxwell,  a  native 
of  Scotland,  born  in  Glasgow  in  1837.  He  there 
became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  and 
emigrated  to  America  in  1857,  coming  directly  to 
Utah,  crossing  the  plains  with  the  famous  hand 
cart  company  and  settling  in  the  Salt  Lake  val- 
ley, being  among  the  men  to  meet  the  Johnston 
army  in  Echo  Canyon  that  same  year.  At  the 
time  of  the  general  move  south  on  account  of 
the  Johnston  army  troubles,  he  moved  with  his 
brother  to  the  southern  part  of  the  State  and 
spent  a  year  or  two  at  Spanish  Fork,  after  which 
he  located  on  the  Jordan  river  and  was  married 
in  i860.  He  came  to  the  Weber  valley  in  i86i 
and  settled  at  Peoa,  where  he  engaged  in  general 
farming,  which  he  followed  for  the  rest  of  his 
life.  He  became  a  prominent  figure  in  business, 
public  and  church  life,  and  was  a  well-known 
politician.  In  1888  he  went  on  a  misson  to  Scot- 
land and  Ireland,  remaining  two  years,  during 
which  time  he  preached  in  his  native  town  and 
also  in  London  and  the  northern  part  of  Scot- 
land. He  was  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  He 
died  in  1901  at  his  home  in  Peoa,  aged  sixty-four 
years.  His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  our  subject, 
was  Isabella  McGavin,  also  a  native  of  Scotland. 
She  is  the  mother  of  eight  children,  seven  of 
whom  are  living,  and  still  resides  at  the  old  home 
in  Peoa.  The  children  are:  Nettie,  the  wife  of 
John  Miles ;  Sarah  E.,  wife  of  Stephen  M. 
Walker,  Sr. ;  Robert  E. ;  Arthur  F. ;  James  A., 
living  on  the  old  place,  and  Grace  A.,  now  the 
wife  of  William  Milliner,  of  Peoa. 

Our  subject  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm  an'' 


obtained  his  education  at  the  district  schools.  He 
remained  in  Peoa  until  1884,  when  he  went  to 
Idaho  and  settled  on  Goose  creek,  where  he  fol- 
lowed farming  for  some  years.  He  returned  to 
Peoa,  where  he  built  a  home,  and  in  June,  1891, 
moved  to  Oakley,  where  he  purchased  some  un- 
cultivated land  and  built  another  home,  engag- 
ing in  general  farming  and  stock  raising.  He 
also  raises  considerable  hay  on  this  place,  hav- 
ing it  planted  to  timothy  and  lucerne.  In  1897 
he  built  a  fine  seven  room  brick  house  on  this 
place,  and  now  has  a  very  comfortable  home. 
He  has  named  this  place  Boulderville,  from 
which  the  Boulderville  Ditch  Company,  of  which 
he  is  a  director,  derived  its  name.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1884  to  Miss  Fannie  Elizabeth  Walker, 
daughter  of  Charlotte  Walker,  and  by  her  has 
had  a  family  of  six  children :  Dora  B. ;  Ella  G. ; 
James  P. ;  Irvin  L. ;  Elmer  H.,  and  Orson  C. 

Mr.  Maxwell  has  all  his  life  been  active  in 
church  work  and  has  held  many  of  the  offices 
of  the  priesthood.  He  received  the  ordination 
of  Elder  in  1884  and  in  1890  became  a  member 
of  the  Twenty-second  Quorum  of  the  Seventies. 
In  1894  he  was  ordained  High  Priest  and  set 
apart  as  First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Frazier.  He 
has  also  been  active  in  Sunday  School  work  and 
in  the  work  of  the  young  men's  societies. 

The  success  to  which  Mr.  Maxwell  has  at- 
tained has  been  directly  due  to  his  own  energy 
and  perseverance.  His  life  has  been  an  honor- 
able, upright  and  manly  one,  and  he  has  always 
striven  to  give  every  one  their  just  due.  Al- 
though but  a  young  man  he  is  regarded  as  one 
of  the  leading  farmers  of  his  district  and  un- 
doubtedly has  a  very  successful  career  ahead  of 
him. 


H.  WRIGHT,  the  present  County  Re- 
corder of  Summit  county,  has  been  a 
resident  of  this  county  since  1869. 
Few  men  have  been  more  closely 
identified  with  every  laudable  enter- 
prise for  the  building  up  and  advancement  of 
Summit  county  than  has  Mr.  Wright.  To  this 
end  he  has  given  largely  of  his  time  and  means. 
He  has  been  thoroughly  interested  in  the  social, 


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religious  and  political  status  of  his  county  and 
has  always  taken  a  prominent  and  active  part 
along  these  lines.  In  all  his  dealings  in  public 
or  private  life  he  has  been  found  honorable  and 
straightforward. 

A  native  of  England,  born  in  Sheffield,  York- 
shire, in  1852.  He  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and 
Martha  (Rippon)  Wright.  Our  subject's  father 
joined  the  Mormon  Church  in  England  in  1852, 
and  with  his  family  emigrated  to  America  in 
1873,  locating  at  Coalville,  where  he  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-five,  in  1878.  During  the  few 
years  he  lived  in  this  State  he  was  active  in 
church  work  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Summit  Stake.  His  wife  lived  to  be  eighty-four 
years  of  age,  and  also  died  in  Coalville.  There 
were  ten  children  in  this  family,  six  of  whom  are 
now  living,  our  subject  being  the  youngest  mem- 
ber of  the  family.  They  are :  Thomas,  living 
in  Spring  Hollow,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1867; 
John,  still  living  in  Yorkshire,  England ;  William 
J.,  living  in  Coalville;  Ann,  widow  of  Robert 
Rippon,  of  Coalville,  and  F.  H.,  our  subject,  and 
Marentha,  wife  of  Levi  M.  Savage. 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  York- 
shire, where  he  received  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  and  came  to  Utah  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years,  two  years  before  his  parents 
emigrated  to  this  country.  He  came  direct  to 
Coalville,  which  was  at  that  time  but  a  small 
mining  camp  and  his  first  work  in  this  country 
was  in  the  mines  at  that  place.  In  1876  he  be- 
came associated  with  the  Coalville  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Company,  where  he  remained  for  ten 
years,  beginning  at  the  bottom  and  working  up 
to  the  position  of  bookkeeper  and  accountant, 
which  position  he  held  for  a  number  of  years, 
until  1885.  In  that  year  he  was  sent  on  a  mis- 
sion to  New  Zealand  and  labored  in  different 
parts  of  the  island  for  three  years,  a  portion  of 
the  time  presiding  over  the  Poverty  Bay  district. 
He  baptized  thirty-eight  converts.  Upon  his  re- 
turn home  he  took  a  position  as  clerk  in  the 
Tithing  Store  of  Summit  Stake,  holding  that 
position  until  the  summer  of   1901. 

Mr.  Wright  was  married  June  14,  1875,  to 
Miss  Emma  Hickenbottom,  a  native  of  Worces' 


tershire.  England,  who  came  alone  to  this  coun- 
try in  1871.  They  have  had  a  family  of  nine 
children, — Amy  Edith,  deceased;  Clara  Eliza- 
beth ;  Frank  M. ;  Albert  H. ;  John  Leo ;  Joseph 
A. ;  Emma  Lillian ;  Ella  May,  and  Loraine,  who 
died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Wright  has  all  his  life  been  a 
Democrat  and  under  the  leadership  of  that  party 
had  done  much  for  the  upbuilding  of  his  county. 
He  has  held  a  number  of  public  offices,  having 
been  City  Treasurer  for  two  terms ;  two  terms 
on  the  School  Board;  three  terms  as  City  Coun- 
cilman and  was  twice  a  candidate  for  Mayor,  but 
failed  of  election.  He  has  held  his  present  office, 
that  of  County  Recorder  of  Summit  county,  since 
1899.  He  is  the  present  chairman  of  the  central 
precinct  committee  and  a  delegate  to  the  Demo- 
cratic convention.  In  church  life  he  has  been 
active  as  a  teacher,  and  has  held  the  offices  of 
Elder  and  a  member  of  the  Twenty-seventh 
Quorum  of  Seventies.  In  1880  he  was  ordained  a 
High  Priest  by  President  George  O.  Cannon  and 
set  apart  as  Counsel  to  Bishop  William  Hodson 
of  the  North  Ward,  in  which  position  he  re- 
mained until  the  two  wards  were  consolidated,  at 
which  time  he  was  made  Bishop  of  the  new  ward, 
acting  until  May,  1901,  when  the  Stake  was  re- 
organized. He  is  at  this  time  a  member  of  the 
High  Council  of  Summit  Stake.  He  has  also 
been  prominent  as  a  worker  among  the  young 
men  and  was  for  two  terms  president  of  the 
Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Association, 
and  Counselor  to  the  President  of  that  association 
for  three  terms. 

Although  his  hfe  has  been  given  to  clerical  and 
public  work,  Mr.  Wright  is  one  of  the  well  known 
stock  men  of  this  county.  He  has  a  good  ranch 
at  the  site  of  the  old  Wells  Fargo  stage  station, 
near  the  Wyoming  line,  which  he  has  well  stocked 
with  cattle.  He  is  also  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  Coalville  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution, 
and  president  of  the  Summit  Creamery  Associa- 
tion. He  is  a  well  known  man  in  his  county,  and 
enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated  in  private,  public 
or  business  life. 


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257 


F.ORGE  CRISMON.  To  attempt  to 
write  a  history  of  the  builders  of  Salt 
.ake  City,  and  indeed  of  Utah,  as  well, 
without  the  life  and  record  of  George 
Crismon,  would  be  an  imperfect  and 
incomplete  effort,  for  so  closely  has  he  been 
identified  with  the  growth  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
L^tah,  and  in  fact  all  of  the  Western  States,  since 
their  resources  first  came  to  the  notice  of  the  out- 
side world,  that  their  development  and  upbuild- 
ing is  a  story  of  his  life  work,  he  being  one  of 
the  pioneers  who  came  to  Utah  in  1847. 

Born  in  Morgan  county,  Illinois,  which  was 
later  divided  into  Morgan  and  Scott  counties,  his 
birthplace  was  in  what  is  now  known  as  Scott 
county,  Illinois,  in  the  year  1833. 

When,  he  was  but  three  years  of  age,  his  father, 
Charles  Crismon,  joined  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  two  years  later 
moved  from  Scott  county.  Illinois,  to  Caldwell 
county,  Missouri,  where  they  continued  to  make 
their  home  until  1839.  When  the  uprising 
against  the  members  of  the  church  took  place 
and  they  were  driven  out  of  Missouri,  the  Cris- 
mon famly  moved  back  to  the  old  home  in  Scott 
county,  Illinois,  and  here  they  remained  for  two 
years.  In  1841,  Mr.  Crismon  disposed  of  all  his 
property  and  belongings  in  Scott  county  and 
moved  his  family  to  Macedonia,  a  small  town 
in  Hancock  county,  Illinois,  twenty  miles  from 
the  historic  town  of  Nauvoo  and  eight  miles  from 
Carthage.  Here  the  family  remained  until  the 
early  winter  of  1845,  when  they  moved  to  the 
headquarters  of  the  church  at  Nauvoo,  but  only 
remained  there  until  the  exodus  of  the  people 
of  that  faith  took  place  in  1846,  removing  with 
the  rest  of  the  metnbers  of  the  church  to  Winter 
Quarters  established  at  what  is  now  Florence, 
near  Omaha,  Nebraska. 

Mr.  Crismon  and  his  family  being  most  of  the 
time  in  the  vanguard  of  the  movement,  were  sent 
ahead  to  Columbus,  Nebraska,  and  later  to  Nio- 
bara,  where  they  spent  the  winter  of  1846.  In 
the  spring  of  the  following  year  they  returned 
to  Winter  Quarters,  from  whence,  after  securing 
supplies  and  an  outfit,  they  began  the  long, 
dreary  and  arduous  trip  across  the  plains  to  Utah. 
None  but  those  who  made  that  toilsome  trip  in 


the  early  days  can  appreciate  its  difficulty  and 
the  hardships  incident  to  a  journey  across  the 
wilderness  it  then  was.  After  numerous  encoun- 
ters with  hostile  Indians  and  many  narrow  es- 
capes from  death  at  their  hands  and  from  the 
attacks  of  the  savage  beasts  that  then  roamed  at 
will  over  the  plains,  the  party  arrived  at  Salt 
Lake  City  in  October,  1847,  ^  short  distance  be- 
hind the  company  of  one  hundred  and  forty- 
seven  souls  led  by  President  Brigham  Young, 
and  surely  deserve  to  be  included  in  the  roll  of 
honor  of  the  pioneers  of  this  State. 

Mr.  Charles  Crismon,  the  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  born  in  Christian  county,  Kentucky, 
and  lived  there  until  he  attained  his  majority, 
when  he  moved  to  Illinois.  By  trade  he  was  a 
miller,  and  in  addition  to  his  work,  successfully 
erected  a  number  of  mills  in  Illinois.  He  erected 
one  at  Macedonia,  but  owing  to  his  departure  for 
Utah,  operated  it  for  only  a  few  years.  Upon 
his  arrival  in  Utah  he  found  a  large  field  for 
his  efforts.  At  that  time  there  was  not  a  single 
mill  in  the  territory,  and  indeed  but  few  im- 
provements of  any  kind  had  been  made  to  assist 
the  people  in  properly  using  the  natural  re- 
sources of  the  country.  He  built  and  success- 
fully operated  for  a  considerable  time  the  first 
mill  ever  erected  in  Utah,  its  site  being  on  City 
creek,  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  above  Eagle 
Gate.  The  family  remained  in  Salt  Lake  City 
for  two  years,  and  in  1849  removed  to  a  site  on 
the  north  fork  of  the  American  river  in  Califor- 
nia, where  they  engaged  in  mining.  Here  they 
spent  but  a  short  time,  removing  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, then  but  a  straggling  village,  and  in  that 
place  they  remained  until  1850.  In  that  year 
they  moved  to  Cedar  ranch,  about  thirty  miles 
southeast  of  Los  Angeles.  The  site  is  now  oc- 
cupied by  the  great  Chino  sugar  factory.  In 
1 85 1  Mr.  Crismon  and  his  father  purchased  a 
thousand  head  of  cattle  and  drove  them  to  Sacra- 
mento, where  they  sold  them  at  a  profit. 

Active  work  was  begun  in  1857  by  the  church 
in  colonizing  San  Bernardino  county.  Califor- 
nia, and  to  that  place  the  Crismon  family  of  pio- 
neers moved.  Here  Mr.  Charles  Crismon  and 
his  son  George  erected  the  first  saw  mill  ever 
built  south  of  Monterey.    When  Johnston's  army 


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was  on  its  march  to  Utah,  these  colonists,  under 
the  advice  of  President  Brigham  Young,  left 
their  homes  and  returned  to  Utah,  which  place 
they  reached  in  1858.  In  1865-66  they  built  the 
Husler  mill  on  State  road,  about  four  miles 
south  of  Salt  Lake.  In  1878  Charles  Crismon 
removed  to  Arizona,  and  assisted  in  establishing 
colonies  of  the  members  of  the  church,  and  while 
in  that  territory  Mr.  Crismon  and  his  son  George 
built  the  Crismon  mill  near  Phoenix,  Arizona. 
Charles  Crismon,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  throughout  his  life  a  staunch  and 
valued  member  of  the  church  of  his  choice.  While 
living  in  Illinois,  during  the  early  days  of  the 
church,  he  was  assigned  to  several  important 
missions,  and  later,  in  Califprnia,  was  a  member 
of  the  high  council  of  San  Bernardino  Stake,  and 
was  a  captain  in  Bishop  Miller's  Pioneer  Bridge 
Building  Company.  He  died  in  1893  at  the  ripe 
old  age  of  eighty-eight  years,  loved  and  hon- 
ored by  all  who  knew  him. 

His  wife,  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  Mary  (Hill)  Crismon,  daughter  of 
John  Hill,  a  native  of  North  Carolina.  Her  fam- 
ily moved  to  Kentucky,  crossing  the  Blue  Ridge 
mountains  with  three  pack  horses,  and  later 
moved  to  Illinois  in  company  with  the  Crismon 
family,  about  the  time  her  future  husband  set- 
tled there,  and  in  that  State  they  were  married. 

Their  son,  George,  spent  the  greater  portion 
of  his  boyhood  days  traveling  from  one  place 
to  another,  and  as  a  consequence  his  early  educa- 
tion was  necessarily  of  a  very  rudimentary  char- 
acter. During  the  residence  of  the  family  in 
Hancock  county,  Illinois,  he  attended  the  com- 
mon schools  then  in  existence  there,  and  on  com- 
ing to  Utah  took  advantage  of  whatever  oppor- 
tunity presented  itself  to  increase  his  store  of 
knowledge.  He  attended  the  school  in  the  old 
Fort  block  and  while  residing  in  San  Bernardino 
county,  also  attended  school  there. 

From  his  very  boyhood  days  he  had  been  as- 
sociated with  his  father  in  business  enterprises, 
building  and  operating  mills,  and  in  the  allied 
work  of  that  business  and  in  transporting 
freight  across  the  plain  from  the  Missouri  river. 
He  later  engaged  in  the  sheep  industry  and  then 
turned    his    attention    to    railroad    building.      In 


this  work  he  achieved  signal  success  and  suc- 
cessfully built  large  portions  of  the  roads  in  the 
West.  His  firm,  Crismon  &  Sons,  had  large  con- 
tracts for  building  portions  of  the  Union  Pacific 
railroad,  and  built  the  Park  City  branch  to  Echo. 
The  firm  of  which  he  was  the  senior  member. 
Crimson  &  Weiler,  also  built  a  large  part  of  the 
road  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line,  running  west 
from  Granger  a  distance  of  seventy-five  miles. 
They  were  also  entrusted  with  the  contract  for 
improving  the  Oregon  Short  Line  near  Brigham 
City,  changing  its  route  and  increasing  it  from 
a  narrow  gauge  to  a  broad  or  standard  gauge 
road.  The  Granger  contract  on  the  Oregon  Short 
Line  was  completed  in  1881  and  since  that  time 
Mr.  Crismon  has  devoted  his  attention  and  en- 
ergies to  the  development  of  mining  property  in 
Utah  and  in  other  Western  States.  He  acquired 
large  interests  in  the  Tintic  mining  district  and 
at  one  time  held,  in  connection  with  with  his 
father  and  brother,  Charles  Crismon,  Jr.,  the 
controlling  interest  in  the  Mammoth  and  Eureka 
Hill  mines. 

He  has  aided  in  developing  the  Utah  mines, 
located  at  Fish  Springs,  Juab  county,  Utah,  and 
is  one  of  its  principal  stockholders.  He  is  one 
of  the  directors  of  that  company,  and  the  mines, 
which  were  opened  in  1891,  now  employ  about 
twenty-five  men  in  the  operations.  They  have 
proved  to  be  a  very  successful  venture  and  bid 
fair  to  become  the  leading  mines  in  that  county. 
At  the  State  Fair,  held  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1901, 
these  mines  were  awarded  the  first  premium  for 
the  best  and  finest  display  of  silver  and  lead  ore. 
In  addition  to  these  mines,  Mr.  Crismon  holds 
large  interests  in  similar  property  in  other  parts 
of  Utah  and  in  Idaho. 

Few  men  have  been  so  widely  interested  in 
the  growth  and  development  of  the  West  as  has 
he  and  during  his  life  he  has  seen  the  large  cities 
of  this  region  grown  from  their  first  settlement. 
His  travels  have  been  all  over  the  mountain  re- 
gion, and  in  i860  he  saw  Denver  start  on  its 
present  career  from  a  small  village,  and  four 
years  later  he  was  in  Montana  when  that  was  a 
thinly  settled  territory. 

Mr.  Crismon  married  his  first  wife  while  in 
San  Bernardino  county,  California — Miss  JMary 


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Louisa  Tanner,  daughter  of  Sidney  Tanner,  who 
was  a  stock-raiser  and  freighter  in  the  early  days 
of  the  settlement  of  the  West.  Her  mother  died 
in  Winter  Quarters.  Air.  Crismon's  second  wife 
was  Miss  Mary  A.  Foster,  and  by  these  two 
wives  he  has  fourteen  living  children.  His  chil- 
dren by  his  first  wife  were:  Elouise,  now  wife 
of  W.  S.  ^urton,  of  Salt  Lake  City;  Alice; 
George  L..  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-two; 
Margaret  Louisa,  wiie  of  D.  S.  Spencer;  Emily 
Jane,  wife  of  George  W.  Thatcher,  Jr.;  Sidney 
Charles ;  Frank  W. ;  Dudley  X.,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  fourteen ;  Arthur  Owen ;  Beatrice  C.  and 
Kenneth  A.,  at  present  a  student  in  the  Brigham 
Young  College  at  Logan.  By  his  second  wife, 
his  children  are:  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Joshua  Sel- 
ley,  of  Salt  Lake  City;  Herbert  F. ;  Leo  F. ; 
Hazel  F.,  and  Duwayne  F..  and  he  has  now  liv- 
ing nineteen  grandchildren. 

Mr.  Crismon  has  been  a  staunch  member  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints 
and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the  High  Council 
of  Granite  Stake.  He  has  been  on  missions  for 
the  church  in  Europe,  visiting  London  and  Paris 
in  1872  and  1873  on  that  work. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Crismon  has  taken  an  active 
part,  and,  until  the  first  term  of  President  Cleve- 
land, was  a  believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  but  disbelieving  in  that  party's  ad- 
herence to  the  doctrine  of  free  trade,  threw  his 
support  to  the  Republican  party,  with  which  he 
has  since  been  identified.  He  served  two  terms 
as  collector  for  Salt  Lake  county  and  served  in 
the  City  Council  during  1874,  1875  and  1876. 
His  home  is  in  Sugar  ward  in  Salt  Lake  county. 


AI.  WILSON,  M.  D.  Everywhere 
tliroughout  the  length  and  breadth 
'if  America  are  to  be  found  men  who 
have  worked  their  own  way  upwards 
from  humble  and  lowly  beginnings 
to  positions,  of  leadership,  renown  and  high  es- 
teem. It  has  been  this  class  of  men  who  have 
formed  the  backbone  and  sinew  of  every  enter- 
prise that  has  been  projected  and  successfully 
carried  on  in  the  L^nited  States  since  the  landing 
of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers.     Dr.  Wilson,  one  of  the 


leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Park  City, 
was  born  in  Fowler,  St.  Lawrence  county.  New 
York,  in  1845,  and  is  the  son  of  Oren  and  Amelia 
(Merrill)  Wilson,  both  natives  of  that  county. 
The  Wilson  family  descended  from  Alexander 
Wilson,  who  settled  in  Vermont  about  1812,  and 
followed  farming.  His  son,  our  subject's  grand- 
father, John  Wilson,  moved  to  New  York  State, 
settling  in  St.  Lawrence  county,  and  there  our 
subject's  father  died  at  the  age  of  fifty  years,  in 
1864.  His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  our  subject, 
was  the  daughter  of  Richard  and  Margaret  (Bor- 
land) Merrill.  Mr.  :\Ierrill  was  a  native  of  New 
Hampshire,  but  emigrated  to  Montgomery 
county.  New  York,  where  he  engaged  in  school 
teaching.  The  Borland  family  came  to  this  coun- 
try from  Ireland,  and  were  also  residents  of 
IMontgomery  county.  New  York.  Their  ances- 
tors, the  O'Neils,  were  very  weathy  people  and 
at  the  time  of  coming  to  America  chartered  a 
vessel  to  bring  their  goods  to  this  country.  The 
captain  of  the  vessel  entered  into  a  conspiracy 
with  the  crew,  whereby  they  were  to  starve  the 
family  and  gain  possession  of  the  goods  and 
large  sum  of  money  which  they  had  with  them. 
They  sailed  in  a  roundabout  way  until  the  supply 
of  food  and  water  was  exhausted.  Finally  the 
mate  made  a  confession  of  the  conspiracy  and 
after  the  captain  had  been  put  in  irons,  brought 
the  vessel  safely  to  port.  This  family  were  the 
great-great-great-grandparents  of  our  subject 
and  the  story  has  been  handed  down  with  the 
family  history  from  one  generation  to  another. 
The  doctor's  mother  is  still  living  at  Canastola, 
New  York,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eightv-one 
years.  Her  only  other  livincr  child,  John  Wilson, 
lives  in  the  same  town.  The  doctor's  maternal 
grandfather  was  a  surveyor  and  surveyed  the 
St.  Lawrence  river  for  Baron  de  Kalb.  He  also 
surveyed  a  portion  of  St.  Lawrence  countv.  New 
York. 

Our  subject  lived  in  Fowler,  in  St.  Lawrence 
county,  until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  when 
he  went  to  Gouveneur,  where  he  attended  the 
Gouveneur  Wesleyan  Seminary,  from  which  in- 
stitution he  graduated  in  1864.  He  then  attended 
the  Wesleyan  university  at  Middleton,  Connecti- 
cut for  two  years,  after  which  he  took  a  course 


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in  medicine,  studying  under  Dr.  S.  L.  Parmalee 
of  Gouveneur  for  three  years.  He  then  entered 
the  medical  college  in  connection  with  Bellevue 
Hospital,  New  York,  from  which  he  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1871,  and  from  that 
time  up  to  1888  was  engaged  in  general  prac- 
tice in  the  towns  of  Rossie,  Hammond  and  Gou- 
veneur, all  in  St.  Lawrence  county. 

Dr.  Wilson  came  to  Park  City  in  1888,  and  has 
since  successfully  followed  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  He  has  his  membership  in  the  New 
York  State  Medical  Society  ;  the  Rocky  Mountain 
Interstate  Medical  Society,  and  the  American 
Medical  Association. 

Dr.  Wilson  was  married  in  1875  to  Miss  Eliz- 
abeth Gregor,  a  native  of  Hammond,  New  York. 
They  have  one  daughter.  Elizabeth,  who  is  at 
this  time  a  student  at  Ann  Arbor,  the  University 
of  Michigan. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  is  a  member  of  the  present 
City  Council.  In  social  life  he  is  a  member  of 
the  Park  City  Lodge  No.  7,  I.  O.  O.  F. ;  a  mem- 
ber of  the  K.  T.  O.  M.,  and  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen.  He  is  the  local  surgeon  for 
the  Union  Pacific  and  Rio  Grande  Western  rail- 
roads. 

During  the  time  that  Dr.  Wilson  has  been  a 
resident  of  Park  City  he  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest in  whatever  pertained  to  the  welfare  of 
the  people  of  the  city,  and  by  his  manly,  straight- 
forward life,  and  his  kindly  nature,  has  made 
many  friends  among  all  classes  of  people. 


SCAR  F.  LYONS  has  been  a  resident 
of  Utah  most  of  his  life,  having  come 
here  with  his  parents  when  only  nine 
years  of  age.  For  over  a  quarter  of 
a  century  his  home  has  been  in  Peoa. 
His  position  as  a  government  officer  in  Utah  has 
scarcely  been  exceeded  by  any  one  man  in  the 
State,  for  since  1881  he  has  served  as  postmaster 
at  Peoa.  He  has  taken  an  active  and  prominent 
part  in  every  movement  and  enterprise  for  the 
building  up  of  Summit  county,  and  is  accounted 
one  of  the  most  substantial,  wide  awake  and  en- 
terprising men  of  the  county. 


He  is  a  native  of  Illinois  and  was  born  in  Nau- 
voo,  December  25,  1840.  He  is  a  son  of  Caleb 
W.  and  Sarah  (Bigler)  Lyons,  his  mother  being 
a  sister  of  Mrs.  Bathsheba  W.  Smith,  whose 
biographical  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  His  parents  were  natives  of  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  became  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church  about  1836.  They  emigrated,  to  Nauvoo 
in  1839  and  remained  there  until  the  exodus  in 
1846,  when  they  moved  to  Quincy,  in  the  same 
State.  The  father  engaged  as  a  mate  on  the 
steamer  Edward  Bates  and  was  killed  in  an  ex- 
plosion of  the  steamer's  boiler  in  1848.  The  fol- 
lowing year  the  mother  moved  to  Council  Bluffs 
with  her  family  and  a  year  later  emigrated  to 
Utah  in  company  with  Seth  W.  Blair's  train, 
locating  in  the  Seventeenth  ward,  Salt  Lake  City. 
She  was  married  to  Thomas  E.  Taylor  in  1853, 
by  whom  she  had  two  children. 

L^pon  coming  to  Utah,  although  but  a  mere 
child,  our  subject  began  to  make  his  own  way 
in  the  world,  obtaining  employment  with  the 
Descrct  Neivs,  where  he  learned  the  printer's 
trade,  which  he  followed  for  some  years.  He 
also  became  a  member  of  the  Deseret  Dramatic 
Association,  and  played  at  the  Salt  Lake  theater 
for  two  years.  During  the  winter  of  1864  he  en- 
gaged in  school  teaching  in  Peoa,  and  from  1867 
to  1869  was  engaged  as  a  civil  engineer  on  the 
western  division  of  the  Union  Pacific  railroad. 
He  also  did  some  work  on  the  Utah  Central  rail- 
road. In  1873,  in  connection  with  Robert  G. 
Slater  and  Joseph  T.  McEwan,  he  started  the  first 
paper  south  of  Salt  Lake,r/if  Provo  Daily  Times. 
of  which  he  was  editor  for  three  years.  In  1876 
he  moved  to  Peoa,  where  he  has  since  continued 
to  reside,  and  where  he  taught  school  for  elLrlit 
years.  He  became  postmaster  in  1881  and  has 
since  held  that  office. 

Mr.  Lyons  was  married  in  1870  to  Miss  Maria 
Louise  Marchant,  daughter  of  Abraham  Mar- 
chant.  By  this  marriage  he  has  had  eleven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  eight  are  living:  Oscar  F..  Jr.; 
Maria  L.,  wife  of  Albert  Miles;  .^bra- 
ham  M.,  married  to  Sarah  J.  Wilkins ;  Herbert 
A. ;  Amy  C. ;  Edith ;  Hazel  L.,  and  Gladys.  Three 
children,  Gilbert  B. ;  Elbert  L.  and  Emory  L. 
died  in  earlv  childhood. 


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He  has  been  prosecuting  attorney  for  Sum- 
mit county  for  two  terms  and  active  in  the  public 
life  of  Peoa.  In  church  matters  he  is  a  promi- 
nent figure.  He  was  for  nine  years  assistant  su- 
perintendent of  the  Stake  Sunday  Schools,  and 
since  1884  has  been  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
Twenty-second  Quorum  of  Seventies.  He  has 
been  clerk  of  the  ward  since  1887.  He  is  identi- 
fied with  the  Peoa  South  Branch  Irrigation  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  has  been  secretary  since  its 
organization  in  1887.  He  owns  a  good  ranch 
near  this  place,  on  which  he  raises  stock,  and  is 
doing  a  successful  business  in  that  line.  He  is 
also  engaged  in  the  book  and  stationery  business 
on  a  small  scale. 


TSHOP  ELIJAH  F.  SHEETS  arrived 
in  Salt  Lake  City  with  the  early 
pioneers.  His  worldly  possessions  at 
that  time  consisted  of  a  yoke  of  oxen, 
one  cow,  another  yoke  of  oxen  which 
he  had  forwarded,  one  wagon  and  a  scant  supply 
of  eatables  and  wearing  apparel;  but  he  was  the 
last  man  in  the  world  to  sit  down  and  mourn 
because  he  was  not  born  rich.  He  possessed  a 
strong  body  and  a  willing  mind,  and  at  once  set 
to  work  to  carve  out  a  successful  career,  in  which 
he  has  succeeded  admirably.  During  his  whole 
life  in  Utah  he  has  been  an  important  factor  in 
its  businesr.  life,  as  well  as  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints. 

He  was  born  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania, 
March  22.  1821.  His  father  was  Frederick 
Sheets,  a  native  of  Germany,  who  emigrated  to 
America  v  hen  but  a  youn"-  man.  He  married 
Hannah  Page,  a  native  of  Chester  county,  and 
by  her  had  five  children,  of  whom  our  subject 
is  the  youngest,  and  the  only  member  of  the 
family  to  come  to  Utah.  He  was  left  an  orphan 
at  six  years  of  age,  and  then  went  to  live  with 
Bishop  Edward  Hunter,  with  whom  he  lived  until 
he  was  seventeen  years  of  age,  attending  school 
during  the  winter  for  six  weeks  each  year,  and 
thus  obtaining  his  education.  At  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen he  began  to  learn  the  blacksmith  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  two  and  a  half  years. 


On  July  5,  1840,  he  joined  the  Mormon  Church 
and  was  baptized  by  Elder  Erastus  Snow,  joining 
the  Saints  at  Nauvoo  the  following  year.  He 
was  called  in  company  with  Elder  Joseph  A. 
Stratton  to  do  missionary  work  in  his  native 
State  in  1842,  and  was  associated  with  Elder 
Stratton  for  twenty-two  months,  during  which 
time  he  preached  to  many  of  his  old  acquaint- 
ances in  Chester  county,  and  also  labored  in 
Pennsylvania,  Maryland,  Delaware  and  New 
Jersey.  Upon  their  return  to  Nauvoo  in  1844, 
he  and  Elder  Stratton  were  sent  on  a  mission  to 
England,  where  our  subject  visited  the  Liver- 
pool, Preston  and  Manchester  branches,  and  was 
called  to  preside  over  the  Bradford  Conference 
in  Yorkshire,  and  later  presided  over  the  Here- 
fordshire Conference,  where  he  remained  until 
1846. 

He  was  married  on  the  ocean  enroute  home, 
to  Miss  Margaret  Hutchinson,  of  Radnoshire, 
England,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by  Elder 
W'ilford  Woodruff.  LTpon  reaching  Nauvoo,  he 
found  that  President  Brigham  Young  had  gone 
with  a  company  of  Saints  towards  the  Missouri 
river.  He  then  went  on  to  Winter  Quarters, 
where  he  spent  the  winter  of  1846-47,  and  where 
his  wife  and  infant  child  died.  Bishop  Sheets 
was  again  married  before  leaving  Winter  Quar- 
ters, his  second  wife  being  Susanna  Musser,  who 
accompanied  him  to  Salt  Lake.  They  have  four 
children  living — Nephi,  Moroni,  Susanna,  now 
Mrs.  Thomas  Wilson,  and  Martha,  now  Mrs. 
Franklin  Davis.  Three  children  died  in  infancy. 
The  mother  of  these  children  also  died,  and  he 
married  Elizabeth  Leaver,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Leaver.  She  bore  him  ten  children,  eight  of 
whom  are  now  living — Samuel,  Milton,  Mary 
Ann,  the  wife  of  William  Wrieht;  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  Mathoni  Pratt ;  Edward  L.,  Joseph,  Eva. 
and  two  children  now  dead.  Ine  mother  of 
these  children  is  also  dead.  His  last  wife  was 
Emma  Spencer,  daughter  of  Edwin  Spencer,  who 
is  also  dead.  She  bore  him  Jeddiah  S.,  Emma, 
now  the  wife  of  James  Rigby ;  Heber  S..  Elija, 
Ray,  Bertha,  Eliza,  now  ]\Irs.  Thomas  Reader, 
and  William,  deceased. 

Bishop  Sheets  left  Winter  Quarters  in  June, 
1847,  in  a  company  of  fifty  ox  teams,  under  com- 


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mand  of  Captain  Perry  Green  Sessions,  our  sub- 
ject having  charge  of  ten  wagons.  With  the 
exception  of  threatened  stampedes  from  buffaloes 
and  the  trouble  caused  by  marauding  Indians,  the 
trip  passed  without  incident,  and  they  arrived  in 
Salt  Lake  City  September  22nd  of  that  year. 
They  here  found  a  small  company  of  pioneers 
who  had  arrived  in  July  of  that  year  with  Presi- 
dent Brigham  Young,  camped  in  the  barren  des- 
ert covered  with  sage  brush.  Brigham  Young 
had  returned  for  another  company  of  emigrants, 
and  they  had  passed  him  at  Pacific  Springs. 
They  camped  in  their  wagons  until  they  could 
get  out  timber  from  the  canyons  to  build  houses. 
Bishop  Sheets  and  Elder  Stratton  built  their 
houses  together  at  the  old  fort,  and  moved  into 
them  in  December,  1847.  Bishop  Sheets  took  up 
his  trade  of  blacksmithing,  which  he  followed  for 
some  years,  and  also  engaged  in  farming  in  what 
was  known  as  the  "Big  Field,"  naw  Farmer's 
Ward.  In  the  early  fifties  he  was  elected  water 
master  for  Salt  Lake  City,  which  position  he 
filled  for  about  fourteen  years,  also  serving  as  a 
member  of  the  City  Council  and  Alderman  of  the 
first  Municipal  Ward  during  that  time. 

When  the  Union  Pacific  railroad  was  built 
through  this  country,  he  took  a  large  contract 
under  President  Young  for  grading  a  portion  of 
the  road  through  Echo  Canyon,  near  Summit. 
This  contract  called  for  fifty  thousand  dollars. 
The  contract  work  lasted  for  several  months,  the 
Bishop  giving  employment  to  one  hundred  men. 

After  leaving  the  old  fort.  Bishop  Sheets  lo- 
cated in  the  Eighth  Ward,  near  where  the  city 
and  county  buildings  now  stand,  and  made  his 
home  there  for  some  years.  In  1850  he  went  with 
President  George  A.  Smith  and  a  company  to  set- 
tle Iron  county.  They  made  a  settlement  at  Pa- 
rowan,  where  he  remained  for  nearly  a  year.  In 
1868  he  went  to  Provo  in  company  with  Presi- 
dent Young,  Heber  C.  Kimball,  George  A.  Smith 
and  Joseph  F.  Smith,  and  assisted  in  reorganizing 
the  branch  of  the  Church  at  that  place,  putting  it 
on  a  solid  financial  basis,  as  well  as  strengthening 
its  spiritual  welfare.  While  there,  he  became 
First  Counselor  to  President  Abraham  O.  Smoot, 
who  was  president  of  the  Stake,  and  at  the  same 


time  served  as  a  member  of  the  Prove  City 
Council.  After  completing  his  railroad  contract 
work,  he  was  called  by  President  Young  to  act 
as  traveling  Bishop,  and  traveled  through  Utah, 
Sanpete  and  Millard  counties,  receiving  the  tith- 
ing and  looking  after  the  general  welfare  of  the 
Church. 

In  1870  he  was  called  to  act  as  traveling 
Bishop  by  President  Young,  as  Mr.  Young 
was  Trustee  in  Trust  and  appointed  Bishop 
Sheets  as  Agent,  in  which  position  he 
had  charge  of  all  farms,  lands  and  stocks  be- 
longing to  the  Church.  He  continued  to  hold 
this  position  under  Presidents  Young,  Taylor  and 
WoodrufT.  He  has  held  many  of  the  offices  of 
the  priesthood,  having  been  ordained  an  Elder, 
a  Seventy  and  a  High  Priest,  beinf  set  apart  as 
Bishop  of  the  Eighth  Ward  on  May  11,  1856, 
filling  that  position  continuously  since  that  time, 
his  Counselors  looking  after  the  interests  of  the 
Ward  during  his  absence,  and  is  so  far  as  known 
the  oldest  acting  Bishop  in  the  Church  at  this 
time.  In  1869  he  was  called  on  a  mission  to  the 
Eastern  States,  where  he  spent  six  months.  He 
has  been  actively  identified  with  all  the  auxiliary 
departments  of  the  Church,  and  participated  in 
the  construction  of  the  Temple,  where  he  has 
worked  since  its  completion  in  1893  up  to  the 
present  time.  He  has  always  been  a  firm  be- 
liever in  the  doctrines  promulgated  by  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  and  has  followed  them  implicitly. 
He  was  tried  with  a  number  of  others  in  1882 
for  a  violation  of  the  Edmonds-Tucker  act  and 
sentenced  to  eighty-five  days  in  the  penitentiary 
and  a  fine  of  three  hundred  dollars. 

His  home  has  been  in  the  Fanner's  Ward  since 
1 881,  where  he  owns  fifty  acres  of  choice  land, 
which  is  well  improved,  and  where  he  is  engaged 
in  farming  and  stock  raising.  He  has  a  hand- 
some brick  residence  on  this  place,  fitted  with 
every  modern  convenience,  and  his  home  is  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  in  the  Ward.  His  long 
life  in  this  place  has,  Irom  the  nature  of  his  work, 
brought  him  prominently  before  the  public,  and 
he  is  widely  known  throughout  the  entire  State, 
and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  come  in  contact. 


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263 


ICHARD  BIRCH.  To  be  ordained  a 
Patriarch  in  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  is  a  high  honor, 
which  but  very  few  men  ever  reach, 
and  only  those  who  have  faitli- 
fullv  served  the  church  for  a  long  time, 
devoting  nearly  their  entire  lives  to  its  in- 
terest and  advancement,  are  ordained  to  this 
high  position.  Patriarch  Piirch  has  been  a 
faithful  member,  a  staunch  supporter  and  an 
eminent  expounder  and  teacher  of  the  prin- 
cioles  and  doctrines  of  his  Church  from  the  time 
he  first  joined  it  as  a  young  man,  up  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  He  has  filled  all  the  different  offices 
of  priesthood  in  the  church  and  in  1894  was  or- 
dained a  Patriarch.  His  long  and  most  honor- 
able career  in  Summit  county  has  made  him  one 
of  the  most  popular  and  highly  respected  citizens 
of  that  entire  section,  and  now  in  his  declining 
}ears  he  can  look  back  with  pride  upon  a  life 
well  spent,  with  a  true  devotion  and  love  for  his 
fellowmen. 

Richard  Birch  was  born  May  25,  1824,  in 
Staffordshire,  England.  He  grew  to  manhood 
and  received  his  education  in  England.  He  united 
with  the  Mormon  Church  on  April  9.  1849,  ^"d 
soon  after  emigrated  to  America,  sailing  on  the 
ship  Berlin.  The  voyage  across  the  Atlantic 
ocean  was  a  most  perilous  and  terrible  one, 
cholera  having  broken  out  on  board  and  many 
of  the  passengers  dying  from  the  plague,  our 
subject's  oldest  son,  William,  being  among  the 
number.  He  landed  in  New  Orleans  and  went 
direct  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  remained  until 
1853,  when  he  came  to  Utah,  crossing  the  plains 
by  ox  team.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on 
October  i6th  of  that  year  and  went  to  Sugar 
House  Ward,  being  one  of  the  first  to  settle  there. 
He  took  up  land  in  the  ward  and  for  some  time 
worked  at  whatever  he  could  find,  being  em- 
ployed by  President  Brigham  Young  part  of  the 
time.  In  i860  he  removed  to  Hoytsville  and 
there  established  a  home  for  his  fainily,  return- 
ing to  Salt  Lake  where  he  worked  until  the 
spring  of  1861,  when  he  returned  to  his  farm, 
where  he  has  since  lived,  following  general  farm- 
ing and  improving  his  place.  He  owns  a  com- 
fortable stone  house,  where  he  makes  his  resi- 
dence and  has  been  verv  successful  financiallv. 


Patriarch  Birch  has  been  three  times  married. 
His  first  wife  was  Ellen  Plarris,  a  native  of  Staf- 
fordshire, England",  who  came  to  Utah  with  him 
in  1853.  His  second  wife  was  Mary  Ann  Hale, 
now  deceased,  and  his  third  wife  was  Mary  Ann 
Birch.  He  has  been  the  father  of  twenty-one 
children  and  has  a  number  of  grandchildren  liv- 
ing. 

In  the  church  our  subject  was  ordained  a  Priest 
before  leaving  his  native  land,  and  while  living 
in  Sugar  House  Ward  was  ordained  an  Elder  by 
Bishop  Rollins.  He  was  made  High  Priest  on 
February  4,  1877,  by  President  W.  W.  Cluff  and 
set  apart  as  a  member  of  the  High  Council  of 
Summit  Stake.  He  was  ordained  a  Patriarch 
under  the  hands  of  Apostle  Francis  'SI.  Lyman, 
November  4,  1894,  which  position  he  holds  at 
this  time.  He  has  done  much  towards  building 
up  the  State  and  in  his  younger  days  assisted  in 
erecting  many  of  the  public  buildings,  having 
assisted  to  build  the  Salt  Lake  and  Logan  Tem- 
ples, the  Tabernacle  and  the  Summit  Stake 
schools.  When  Johnston's  army  came  westward 
he  was  a  member  of  Major  Pugmire's  company, 
who  went  to  meet  the  army. 


1 

ACHONEUS  HEMENWAY.  Nature 
may  endow  a  country  with  rich  soil, 
splendid  climate,  and  untold  mil- 
lions of  wealth  may  be  hidden  in  the 
secret  corner  of  its  mountains,  yet  all 
these  conditions  avail  but  little,  unless  men  of 
unconquerable  courage,  perseverance  and  deter- 
mination are  found  to  develop  and  bring  them 
from  the  state  in  which  nature  left  them. 

Utah  has  not  been  lacking  in  this  class  of  men. 
Among  those  who  have  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  the  development  of  this  new  country  should  be 
mentioned  our  subject.  Lachoneus  Hemenway 
was  born  in  Daysville,  Ogle  county,  Illinois,  Jan- 
uary i6th,  1849.  He  is  a  son  of  Luther  and  AI- 
vira  (Day)  Hemenway,  his  father  being  a  native 
of  Massachusetts  who  settled  in  Illinois  on  May 
27th,  1844.  He  was  a  machinist  by  trade  and 
followed  that  avocation  for  a  number  of  years 
in  that  State.  He  later  had  charge  of  his 
brother's  farm,  who  was  a  wealthy  land  owner 


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in  that  State.  In  1852  the  family  came  to  Utah, 
crossing  the  plains  by  ox  teams,  arriving  in  Salt 
Lake  City  October  6th,  1852.  The  senior  Hem- 
enway  engaged  in  the  nursery  business  in  the 
Fourth  ward,  which  he  successfully  conducted 
for  many  years.  Having  become  a  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  he  was  called  upon  to  serve 
on  a  mission  after  coming  to  Utah,  which  he  did 
in  the  St.  George  district  during  the  early  part 
of  1869.  There  he  established  a  vineyard,  which 
he  conducted  until  his  death,  July  15th,  1891. 
He  was  buried  in  the  St.  George  cemetery. 

Our  subject's  mother  died  in  Cache  valley  in 
January,  1890,  and  her  remains  were  buried  in 
Logan.  Our  subject  has  spent  most  of  his  life 
in  Salt  Lake  county. 

He  was  married  October  i8th,  1869,  to  Anna 
Roberts,  daughter  of  John  Sidney  Roberts,  who 
was  born  in  Connecticut  August  28th,  1809,  ^"^ 
Martha  Caroline  (Bowers)  Roberts,  born  in 
England.  This  family  came  to  Utah  among  the 
pioneers  in  1847.  Mrs.  Hemenway  was  born  in 
Mill  Creek  ward  in  1854. 

Our  subject  and  wife  have  eleven  children,  six 
of  whom  are  living:  Anna  E.,  died  aged  21 
years;  Carrie,  now  Mrs.  George  Harman  of 
Granger  ward ;  Ada  B.,  now  the  wife  of  George 
Robinson,  of  Granger  Ward;  Lachoneus  J.,  died 
aged  25  years ;  Grace,  now  the  wife  of  David 
Harman,  of  Idaho ;  Ethel  M. ;  Hazel ;  Amy  L. ; 
John  S.,  died  in  infancy ;  Luther,  died  at  birth ; 
George  L.  G.,  died  in  infancy. 

In  1876  our  subject  settled  on  his  present  place, 
which  consists  of  160  acres  of  land,  which  he 
originally  took  up  from  the  government.  During 
all  of  these  years  he  has  made  substantial  and 
valuable  improvements  until  today  it  is  consid- 
ered one  of  the  finest  farms  and  homes  in  Salt 
Lake  county.  His  large  brick  residence,  splendid 
orchard,  shade  trees,  gardens,  and  beautiful 
yards  all  indicate  that  Mr.  Hemenway  has  been 
an  active  and  enterprising  citizen.  Stock  raising 
has  been  one  of  the  principal  factors  and  enter- 
prises, as  well  as  general  farming. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican,  he  having  served  a  number 
of  years  as  constable  and  deputy  tree  inspector 
of  Salt  Lake  county. 


He  was  ordained  an  elder  in  the  Mormon 
Church  of  which  he  and  his  family  are  all  faith- 
ful and  consistent  members.  His  wife  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society.  His  daugh- 
ters are  members  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual 
Improvement  Association. 

Mr.  Hemenway  has  been  alive  to  every  enter- 
prise for  the  development  and  improvement  of 
Salt  Lake  county.  He  was  for  eight  years  a 
director  of  the  Utah  and  Salt  Lake  Canal  Com- 
pany and  took  a  prominent  part  in  its  construc- 
tion, as  well  as  in  several  other  ditches  and 
canals  in  Salt  Lake  county. 


J.  TOLLERTON,  General  Master 
iNIechanic  of  the  Utah  division  of 
the  Oregon  Short  Line  railroad, 
is  a  splendid  example  of  what  an 
ambitious,  energetic  and  honor- 
able young  man  can  make  of  himself.  He  was 
born  and  bred  amid  the  glamour  of  railroad  life, 
his  father  having  been  connected  with  the  Great 
Northern  Railway,  and  upon  reaching  his  ma- 
jority it  was  but  natural  that  he  should  turn  to 
the  occupation  with  which  his  life  had  been  most 
closely  associated,  beginning  at  the  very  bottom 
rung  and  working  his  way  steadily  upward,  until 
today  he  is  in  one  of  the  most  responsible  posi- 
tions in  that  branch  of  railway  service. 

Mr.  Tollerton  was  born  in  Saint  Paul,  Alin- 
nesota.  January  i,  1869,  and  is  the  son  of  James 
Thomas  Tollerton.  who  died  in  1884.  Our  sub- 
ject spent  his  early  life  in  the  vicinity  of  Saint 
Paul,  attending  the  public  and  high  schools  of 
that  city  and  becoming  well  fitted,  from  an  edu- 
cational standpoint,  for  the  career  he  had  marked 
out  for  himself.  He  began  his  railroad  career 
at  the  age  of  seventeen  years,  entering  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Saint  Paul  Foundry  and  Machine 
Company,  which  later  became  the  Saint  Paul 
and  Duluth  Railroad  Company,  and  at  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years  entered  the  shops  of  the  lat- 
ter company  as  an  apprentice,  serving  his  full 
time  with  that  company  and  then  went  to  Omaha, 
where  he  accepted  a  position  with  the  Union  Pa- 
cific Railroad  Company,  in  whose  employ  he  has 
since  remained,  serving  in  various  capacities.  He 


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has  been  employed  at  Omaha,  Kansas  City, 
Cheyenne,  Pocatello  and  Shoshone,  Idaho,  prior 
to  coming  to  Salt  Lake.  He  went  to  Pocatello 
in  August,  1892,  and  remained  there  a  year, 
when  he  was  given  charge  of  the  shops  at  Sho- 
shone. Spent  two  years  at  Shoshone,  when  he 
was  returned  to  Pocatello  and  given  the  same 
position  in  that  place,  remaining  there  until  June, 
1897,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Salt  Lake  City 
and  promoted  as  General  Master  Mechanic  of 
the  Utah  Division  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
Railroad,  and  has  since  continued  to  fill  that  po- 
sition. He  has  supervision  over  six  hundred  and 
fifty-seven  miles  of  track,  and  has  under  him  in 
the  various  departments  three  hundred  and  sev- 
enty-five men.  To  those  acquainted  with  rail- 
road life,  the  arduous  duties  attached  to  this  po- 
sition, as  well  as  its  importance,  will  be  readily 
apparent.  While  it  is  true  that  there  is  a  faci- 
nation  in  the  life  of  the  railway  that  holds  most 
men  to  it  throughout  their  entire  lives  and  un- 
fits them  for  other  occupations,  in  most  instances, 
yet  the  man  who  rises  to  a  position  of  trust  and 
responsibility  must  not  only  have  himself  passed 
through  the  various  branches  and  divisions  of 
his  department  and  familiarized  himself  with  the 
minutest  details,  but  he  must  possess  a  pecu- 
liar adaptability  for  that  particular  work  and  be 
able  to  control  and  direct  the  multiplied  tasks 
of  those  under  his  charge  and  keep  everything 
in  smooth  running  order ;  a  mistake  on  his  part 
resulting  in  not  only  large  financial  loss  to  the 
company,  but  the  probable  loss  of  life  of  hun- 
dreds of  innocent  persons.  He  must  be  a  man 
of  clear  brain  and  quick  perception,  free  from 
vices  and  able  to  command  the  confidence  not 
only  of  his  superiors,  but  of  those  under  him  as 
well,  and  when  such  a  man  is  found  that  so-called 
"heartless  corporation,"  the  railroad  company,  is 
never  slow  in  recognizing  his  merits  and  re- 
warding them  with  as  rapid  promotion  as  one's 
abilities  allow.  Those  who  know  Mr.  Tollerton 
wiir  agree  with  the  writer  that  he  is  all  this,  and 
more — a  whole-souled,  genial  man,  most  ap- 
proachable, and  yet  allowine  no  social  function 
to  interfere  with  his  duties. 

Mt.  Tollerton  is  a  single  man ;  in  social  life  he 
is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  of 
the   Master    Mechanics'    Association. 


H.  RAND.\LL.  Whoever  labors  for 
the  advancement  of  his  community 
with  an  unselfish  devotion  to  duty  and 
right,  assisting  in  promoting  its  ag- 
ricultural, financial  and  commercial 
interes/ts ;  inspiring  energy,  confidence  and  pro- 
gressiveness  in  his  fellow  men,  will  never  lack 
for  friends  or  admirers.  Such  a  man  is  Mr.  Ran- 
dall, than  whom  Morgan  county  has  no  more 
highly  respected  or  honored  citizen.  He  has  been 
thoroughly  alive  to  every  enterprise  and  legiti- 
mate undertaking  which  has  been  successfully 
carried  on  in  his  county  during  the  past  decade, 
and  today  ranks  among  the  leaders  in  the  financial 
world  of  his  county. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  LUah,  having  been  bom 
in  Salt  Lake  City  January  11,  1850,  and  is  a 
son  of  Alfred  Randall,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1848. 
He  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  where  he  was  born  in 
1813,  and  became  a  member  of  the  Church  about 
the  time  the  Saints  gathered  at  Kirkland,  Ohio. 
He  was  in  Nauvoo  at  the  time  of  the  exodus,  and 
crossed  the  plains  with  ox  teams  in  1848,  settling 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  In  1858  he  went  back  to  the 
Missouri  river,  and  there  purchased  cattle  and 
brought  a  train  of  merchandise  across  the  plains 
for  Livingston  &  Bell,  who  were  among  the  first 
merchants  in  this  valley.  He  accumulated  some 
considerable  means,  and  aside  from  his  home  in 
Salt  Lake  City  purchased  property  in  North  Og- 
den  and  at  Centerville,  in  Davis  county.  During 
his  residence  in  Utah  he  filled  two  missions  to 
the  Sandwich  Islands,  and  was  a  High  Priest  in 
the  Salt  Lake  Stake.  He  enjoyed  the  friendship 
of  such  men  as  George  Q.  Cannon,  Heber  C.  Kim- 
ball and  Brigham  Young,  and  was  foremost  in 
all  enterprises  looking  to  the  upbuilding  and  ad- 
vancement of  the  State.  He  built  and  for  many 
years  ran  the  Ogden  Woolen  Mills.  He  was  the 
husband  of  five  wives  and  the  father  of  thirty- 
three  children,  our  subject  being  the  oldest  of 
seven  children  of  Margaret  Hardy,  who  is  still 
living  in  Centerville.  The  senior  Mr.  Randall 
died  in  Ogden  in  March,  1889,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-eight  years. 

Our  subject  lived  in  Centerville  for  thirty  years, 
where  he  successfully  engaged  in  general  farm 
intr  and  stock  raisin"-,   and   where  he  still  owns 


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his  farm.  In  1892  he  came  to  Morgan  county 
and  established  the  I.  X.  L.  Creamery  Company, 
in  which  his  brother,  M.  H.,  is  a  partner.  He 
also  opened  up  a  general  store  in  Morgan,  in  the 
South  Ward,  and  also  has  a  ranch  at  Peterson, 
on  the  line  of  the  Union  Pacific  railroad,  where 
he  has  his  cattle.  The  ranch  is  incorporated 
under  the  name  of  Randall  Brothers  Live  Stock 
and  Land  Company,  of  which  our  subject  is  pres- 
ident. The  ranch  is  under  the  management  of 
his  nephew,  Harley  P.  Randall.  The  creamery 
manufactures  a  very  excellent  grade  of  butter 
and  American  cheese. 

Mr.  Randall  was  married  in  1877  to  Miss  Julia 
Woolley,  daughter  of  John  Woolley,  of  Center- 
ville.  They  have  seven  children — Orrin  L.,  Julia 
I.,  John  W.,  Rachel,  Camilla,  Alfred  and  Harold 
— all  of  whom  are  living  at  home.  One  daughter, 
Mary  A.,  died  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years. 

]Mr.  Randall  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  but, 
owing  to  the  nature  of  his  business  interests,  has 
never  been  able  to  take  any  active  part  in  the 
political  life  of  his  community.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church  the  greater  part 
of  his  life,  and  passed  through  the  different  of- 
fices of  the  priesthood.  In  1889  he  went  on  a 
mission  to  Pennsylvania  and  West  Virginia 
where  he  served  for  over  two  years,  presiding 
over  the  Eastern  States  Missions  and  Confer- 
ence. He  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  of  Mor- 
gan County  Stake  and  set  apart  as  a  member  of 
the  High  Council,  which  position  he  still  holds 
and  is  at  this  time  President  of  the  Young  Men's 
Mutual  Improvement  Association. 


OHX  SHAFER,  deceased.  The  history 
i)f  the  pioneers  of  Utah  has  formed  a 
chapter  in  the  annals  of  this  country 
which  is  replete  with  thrilling  incidents, 
hardships,  trials  and  difficulties  which 
the  early  settlers  passed  through. 

Among  this  list  of  pioneers  should  be  men- 
tioned the  subject  of  this  sketch  and  his  worthy 
wife  who  survives  him.  John  Shafer  was  born 
in  New  York  State,  June  30,  1820.  He  was  the 
son  of  Jona  and  Hannah   (Rose)    Shafer.  When 


he  was  only  ten  years  of  age  his  people  moved 
to  Ohio,  and  purchased  a  farm  where  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  spent  his  early  life,  and  where 
h^  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools 
of  that  State.  From  Ohio  the  family  moved  to 
Nauvoo,  Illinois,  and  later  to  Missouri,  where, 
Jona  and  Hanna  (Rose)  Stiafer  died,  just  south 
of  the  Valley  of  the  Nauvoo,  which  occurred  in 
1840. 

October  27,  1844,  our  subject  met  Miss  Han- 
nah Casto,  daughter  of  Abel  and  Mary  (Gallon) 
Casto,  and  they  were  married  at  Nauvoo.  Mrs. 
Shafer  is  a  sister  of  William  Casto,  who  was  a 
member  of  the  Mormon  battalion  and  a  pioneer 
to  Utah.  His  son,  Santa  Ana,  being  at  the  pres- 
ent time  Bishop  of  the  C(jttonwood  Ward. 

Both  our  subject  and  his  worthy  wife  were 
intimately  acquainted  with  the  Prophet,  Joseph 
Smith,  and  witnessed  the  scene  of  his  imprison- 
ment at  Carthage.  Thev  were  present  on  the 
day  of  his  death  and  saw  him  brought  hoine  a 
corpse. 

Mrs.  Shafer  was  born  in  Lawrence  county,  In- 
diana, June  27,  1826.  After  she  married  I\Ir. 
Shafer,  she  lived  in  the  vicinity  of  Nauvoo  until 
the  exodus  which  occurred  in  May,  1846.  On 
May  first  of  that  year  they  crossed  the  Missis- 
sippi river,  journeying  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa, 
and  remained  in  that  State  until  1849.  I"  the 
spring  of  that  year  they  joined  the  train  of  which 
President  John  Taylor  was  captain,  crossing  the 
plains  with  ox  teams  and  part  of  the  way  on  foot, 
and  arrived  in  the  Great  Salt  Lake  Valley  Oc- 
tober 4th  of  the  same  year.  They  took  up  their 
residence  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  they  contin- 
ued to  live  for  a  period  of  thirty-nine  years.  Dur- 
ing all  of  these  years  Mr.  Shafer  was  engaged 
in  farming,  gardening  and  all  kinds  of  work  to 
support  his  family.  Eleven  children  were  born 
to  them,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living — William 
Orson,  Mary  A.,  now  J\Irs.  Jacob  Hunter  of 
Granger ;  John  H.,  Eliza,  now  Mrs.  Jno.,  W. 
Snell  of  Salt  Lake  City ;  Oliver,  James,  Eleanor, 
died  aged  eighteen  months ;  Frank,  and  Mabel, 
now  Mrs.  W.  R.  Smith  of  Tooele.  Charles  died 
at  the  age  of  35  years,  just  twenty  days  before 
his  father's  death,  which  occurred  December  17, 
1900.      Their   first-born   child    died    in    infancy. 


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Durin.e^  the  thirty-nine  years  spent  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  Mr.  Shafer  accumulated  enough  to  pur- 
chase a  large  farm  in  Granger  Ward,  being  situ- 
ated just  east  of  the  Granger  postoffice,  where 
they  removed  in  1888,  and  where  Mrs.  Shafer 
still  resides. 

In  politics  Mr.  Shafer  was  a  staunch  Demo- 
crat; was  active  in  his  party  and  was  for  many 
years  connected  with  the  police  department  in 
Salt  Lake  City.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shafer  were 
adherents  of  the  Mormon  faith  in  the  early  his- 
tory of  that  church  in  Illinois,  and  were  baptized 
in  the  Mormon  faith  at  Xauvoo. 

Our  subject  had  been  a  faithful  and  consistent 
member  of  the  Church  for  a  great  many  years, 
but  through  some  cause  or  trouble  which  came 
up  in  the  management  of  the  Church,  he  was 
barred  from  its  membership.  Notwithstanding 
this,  however,  he  continued  to  believe  in  the 
principles  and  doctrine  of  that  church  and  to 
serve  it  to  the  best  of  his  ability  until  the  day 
of  his  death.  Mrs.  Shafer  and  her  daughters  are 
still  faithful  members  of  the  church,  and  are  at 
present  taking  steps  to  have  the  hubsand  and 
father  reinstated,  which  they  hope  to  succeed  in. 

Of  the  early  pioneers,  the  life  and  record  of 
John  Shafer  formed  an  important  part  in  the 
historv-  of  this  country,  and  by  his  straightfor- 
ward, conscientious,  self-sacrificing  and  enter- 
prising spirit  he  has  left  a  wide  circle  of  friends 
to  mourn  his  demise. 


A.  PALAIER.  Just  as  the  most  im- 
portant industry  of  Utah  is  the  de- 
velopment of  its  mining  resources,  so 
it  necessarily  follows  that  the  most 
prominent  profession  is  that  of  min- 
ing engineering,  the  members  of  which  spend 
their  lives  in  the  economical  and  efficient  devel- 
opment of  this  property,  and  aid  in  the  financial 
prosperity  that  the  State  enjoys.  Few  men  have 
taken  so  active  a  part  in  this  work  as  has  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  and  no  man  is  more  fa- 
miliar with  the  geological  formation  of  the  en- 
tire West  than  is  he.  He  has  followed  the  pro- 
fession of  surveyor  throughout  Wyoming,  L'tah, 
Nevada,  and  other  portions  of  the  Western  coun- 


try, surveying  and  platting  the  public  land  of 
the  L^nited  States  Government.  He  has  risen  by 
his  own  ability  and  by  the  exercise  of  his  talents 
to  the  prominent  position  that  he  now  occupies 
in  the  professional  life  of  LTtah. 

O.  A.  Palmer  was  born  in  Wayne  county.  New 
York,  in  1839,  and  spent  his  early  life  in  Mas- 
sachusetts and  Wisconsin,  where  he  took  a  course 
in  the  study  of  engineering.  After  the  comple- 
tion of  his  education,  feeling  that  the  far  West 
afforded  greater  possibilities  for  the  exercise  of 
his  ability  as  an  engineer,  he  went  to  the  Pacific 
Coast  in  i860,  settling  in  San  Francisco,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  stock  and  mining  business  for 
three  years.  In  1864  he  removed  from  Califor- 
nia to  Idaho  and  began  his  active  work  as  a  min- 
ing engineer.  This,  however,  was  not  his  first 
experience  in  this  line  of  work,  for  before  he  left 
for  the  West  he  had  followed  that  profession  in 
Wisconsin,  where  he  was  employed  as  railroad 
engineer  in  the  engineering  department  of  the 
city  of  Milwaukee.  His  experience  thus  gained 
stood  him  in  good  stead,  and  he  soon  made  for 
himself  a  prominent  place  in  his  profession  in 
Idaho.  From  Idaho  he  removed  to  Utah  in  1872, 
and  from  that  time  has  been  a  resident  of  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  has  followed  his  profession  in 
this  State,  and  has  come  to  be  one  of  the  most 
prominent  experts  in  all  the  inter-mountain  re- 
gion. In  most,  if  indeed  not  all  of  the  large  and 
important  mining  controversies  which  have  arisen 
throughout  LTtah,  Idaho,  Wyoming  and  Nevada, 
he  has  been  called  in  to  give  expert  testimony.  He 
is  widely  known  through  his  long  experience, and 
his  ability  as  an  engineer  places  him  in  the  front 
ranks  of  his  profession. 

Mr.  Palmer  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1875  to  Miss  Margaret  McClelland,  daughter  of 
Thomas  McClelland,  who  for  many  years  was 
Bishop  of  the  Seventh  Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints.  By  this  marriage  they  have  four  chil- 
dren— Lydia,  Ruth,  Elizabeth  and  Margie. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Palmer  has  been  a  staunch 
Republican,  and  cast  his  first  vote  for  the  first 
nominee  of  that  party  for  President — Abraham 
Lincoln.  While  in  Idaho,  he  served  as  County 
Surveyor,  and  so  prominent  had  he  become  that 


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he  was  chosen  by  the  Government  to  conduct  its 
surveys  in  various  portions  of  the  inter-mountain 
region,  and  throughout  the  territory  east  of  the 
Pacific  slope.  In  social  life  he  is  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Masonic  order,  beinfr  Past  Master 
and  Past  High  Priest. 

His  father,  William  H.  Palmer,  was  a  paintei 
in  Wisconsin  and  Massachusetts,  and  spent  most 
of  his  life  in  those  two  States.  His  wife,  Lydia 
(Alley)  Palmer,  was  a  member  of  one  of  the  old 
and  prominent  families  of  Massachusetts.  Ihe 
Alley  family  first  settled  in  Maine,  and  later  re- 
moved to  Massachusetts,  where  they  have  evet 
since  been  prominent  in  the  afifairs  of  that  State. 
Mr.  Palmer  has  now  achieved  such  a  successful 
career  that  he  is  easily  among  the  leading  men 
of  Utah,  and  his  previous  achievements  have 
made  him  the  foremost  mining  engineer  in  this 
region.  His  strict  integrity  and  honesty  have  won 
for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  the  peo- 
ple with  whom  he  has  been  associated,  and  there 
is  no  more  popular  man  in  the  entire  West 
than  he. 


V    * 

SI  B 

BIS 


ILO  ANDRUS,  one  of  the  success- 
ful fanners  of  Salt  Lake  county,  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  settlement  of  Hol- 
liday,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  En- 
gland, September  30,  1848.  He  was 
the  son  of  Milo  and  Sarah  Ann  (Miles)  Andrus, 
His  father  was  a  native  of  New  York  and  his 
mother  was  born  in  Connecticut,  their  son  being 
born  in  Liverpool  while  his  father  and  mother 
were  on  a  mission  to  Europe.  In  1850  his  father 
returned  from  missionary  work  in  Great  Britain, 
and  came  direct  to  Utah,  where  he  lived  until  his 
death.  He  joined  the  wagon  train  at  Florence, 
Nebraska,  and  was  captain  of  a  train.  His  father 
later  made  several  trips  to  the  Missouri  river  and 
successfully  conducted  trains  of  emigrants  to 
Utah  at  a  time  when  travel  across  the  plains  was 
accompanied  with  many  dangers  and  hardships. 
Our  subject's  father  had  a  number  of  wives.  He 
was  the  first  to  plant  trees  east  of  the  county  road, 
and  planted  three-quarters  of  an  acre  of  land  with 
apple  trees,  some  of  which  are  still  living.  He 
lived  in  Salt  Lake    county    for  many  years,  and 


died  in  Idaho  in  June.  1893.  Owing  to  the  ne- 
cessity of  havino-  every  available  hand  assist  in 
the  support  of  the  family,  our  subject  was  early 
forced  to  gain  his  own  livelihood,  and  has  made 
his  own  way  in  the  world  ever  since. 

Mr.  Andrus  was  married  in  1871  to  Miss  Eliz- 
abeth Boyes,  daughter  of  George  and  Elizabeth 
(Taylor)  Boyes,  and  by  this  marriage  has  had 
ten  children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living — Milo, 
Elizabeth,  Sarah,  George,  Ann  E.,  Joseph,  Elena, 
Lavina,  Willard,  and  John.  Elizabeth  is  now 
Mrs.  Thomas  Richey,  and  lives  in  Idaho,  and 
Sarah  is  now  Mrs.  James  W.  Brockbank,  and 
resides  in  the  Big  Cottonwood  Ward.  All  of  his 
sons  are  engaged  with  their  father  in  the  farm- 
ing and  cattle  business.  He  has  about  eighteen 
acres  of  land,  situated  three-quarters  of  a  mile 
south  of  the  Holliday  postoffice.  His  place  is 
well  improved,  and  he  has  a  good  home,  with  all 
modern  improvements,  located  upon  it.  In  addi- 
tion to  this,  he  also  holds  other  land  in  Salt  Lake 
county — one  lot  containing  eighty  acres  and  an- 
other in  the  West  Jordan  Ward  contains  one  hun- 
dred acres.  He  also  has  a  cattle  range  at  the 
head  of  Lamb's  Canyon,  and  has  some  cattle  on 
that  property.  He  is  now  building  a  comfortable 
stone  and  brick  house  for  the  occupancy  of  his 
eldest  son.  The  children  have  all  been  a  source 
of  pride  and  pleasure  to  their  parents,  and  his 
sons  have  always  co-operated  with  him  in  the 
work  that  he  has  done. 

In  politics  Mr.  Andrus  is  independent,  and 
votes  for  the  best  man,  regardless  of  party  affili- 
ations. He  has  had  several  opportunities  to  af- 
filiate with  one  or  the  other  of  the  parties,  but 
has  preferred  to  remain  unattached,  and  not  to 
be  a  candidate  for  public  office.  His  children  are 
all  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  of  which  his 
parents  were  also  members.  He  is  one  of  the 
staunch  members  of  the  Church  in  Salt  Lake 
county,  and  especially  in  his  Ward,  and  is  now 
First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Casto,  and  was  Coun- 
selor to  Bishop  Brinton  from  1875  to  1900. 
Bishop  Brinton  was  Bishop  Casto's  predecessor 
in  this  position,  but  relinquished  it  to  go  on  a 
mission  to  the  East.  Mr.  Andrus  has  also  been 
Ward  teacher  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
Schools  of  his  Ward,  and  has  won  for  himself  a 


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high  place  in  the  regard  of  the  people  of  his  lo- 
cality, and  is  now  enjoying  the  fruits  of  the  toil 
of  his  life,  and  is  a  successful,  well-to-do  far- 
mer, who  holds  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the 
people  with  whom  he  associates. 


PHN  A.  MARCHANT.  In  reviewing 
the  history  of  Summit  county,  there  are 
a  few  men  whose  names  stand  out  in  bold 
relief,  because  they  have  possessed  keen 
intellectual  faculties  and  been  broad  and 
liberal  in  their  views,  and  have  taken  the  lead  in 
all  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare  and  im- 
provement of  the  county.  Such  men  are  a  credit 
and  an  honor  to  any  community.  By  their  influ- 
ence and  enterprise  the  county  advances  commer- 
cially, intellectually  and  morally.  Among  the  men 
who  have  done  more  perhaps  to  improve  Sum- 
mit county  than  any  other,  is  the  man  whose 
name  heads  this  narrative.  He  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  Peoa  since  1861,  and  his  straightforward 
business  life,  his  devotion  to  duty,  and  his  high 
sense  of  honor  have  made  him  one  of  the  most 
highly  respected  men  in  the  county. 

Abraham  Marchant,  father  of  our  subject,  was 
a  native  of  Bath,  England,  where  he  became  a 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  1845,  ^nd  for 
some  time  thereafter  presided  over  the  Birming- 
ham Conference.  In  1854  he  emigrated  to  the 
United  States  with  his  family,  and  upon  arriving 
in  Utah  located  on  the  South  Cottonwood,  where 
he  remained  until  1861,  when  he  came  to  Peoa. 
Soon  after  locating  in  this  place  he  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Peoa  Ward,  being  the  first  Bishop  of 
that  Ward,  and  later  presided  over  the  Wards  of 
Peoa,  Rockport,  Wanship  and  Kamas.  He  held 
the  office  of  Bishop  until  his  death  on  October  6, 
1881,  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years.  When  not 
engaged  in  laboring  for  the  Church.  Mr.  Mar- 
chant  devoted  his  time  to  the  mercantile  busi- 
ness, and  was  also  a  large  farmer  and  stock 
raiser,  and  one  of  the  leading  and  prominent  men 
of  Peoa.  His  wife  was  Lydia  Lidiard,  also  a 
native  of  Bath.    She  died  here  in  June,  1891. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Bath,  England,  May 
7,   1848,  and  was  but  six  years  of  age  when  his 


parents  emigrated  to  this  country.  He  grew  to 
manhood  in  Peoa  and  received  his  education 
from  the  schools  of  this  district,  growing  up  on 
his  father's  farm  and  taking  up  that  occupation 
after  reaching  his  majority.  He  has  been  very 
successful  as  a  farmer,  and  now  owns  a  ranch 
that  covers  almost  an  entire  section  of  land  on 
the  Weber  river,  where  he  has  a  large  herd  of 
cattle.  He  also  has  another  farm  of  eighty  acres, 
all  under  irrigation,  and  has  one  steam  sawmill 
in  Peoa  and  one  water  mill  on  his  ranch.  In  the 
fall  of  1882  he  began  in  the  mercantile  business 
in  a  small  way,  opening  a  store  next  to  his  resi- 
dence, and  in  1891  built  his  present  business 
place,  known  as  Marchant's  Hall,  the  upper  part 
of  the  building  being  devoted  to  the  purposes  of 
a  hall  and  the  lower  part  occupied  as  a  store. 

Our  subject  was  married  March  30,  1867,  to 
Miss  Hannah  Maria  Russell,  who  died  in  1893, 
leaving  a  family  of  six  children — Myrtle  S.,  John 
R.,  Abraham  H.,  Franklin  R.,  Austin  W.,  and 
Willard.  Mr.  Marchant  was  married  a  second 
time,  to  Miss  Jane  Ann  Maxwell,  daughter  of 
Arthur  Maxwell,  Senior,  who  bore  him  seven 
children.  They  are,.  Arthur  W.,  Jane  Ann,  El- 
bert H.,  Ruby,  Clyde,  Ivy,  and  Gilbert. 

In  politics  Mr.  Marchant  is  a  Republican,  and 
president  of  the  Peoa  Republican  Club.  He  has 
always  been  a  prominent  figure  in  all  the  State 
conventions  of  his  party,  to  which  he  has  been 
a  delegate,  and  has  held  a  number  of  public  of- 
fices in  his  town,  having  been  Justice  of  the 
Peace  and  United  States  Court  Commissioner  at 
Peoa.  He  was  for  six  years  Constable  of  this 
precinct,  and  also  a  member  of  the  School  Board 
for  nine  years.  He  is  one  of  the  staunch  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church  and  active  in  Ward 
and  Sunday  School  work.  He  was  ordained  an 
Elder  at  the  time  of  his  first  marriage,  when  he 
went  through  the  Endowment  House  in  Salt 
Lake. 

Mr.  Marchant  belongs  to  one  of  the  oldest  and 
best-known  families  of  this  place,  and  as  one  of 
the  leading  merchants  and  most  prosperous  far- 
mers and  stockmen  of  Summit  county,  has  for 
many  years  been  prominently  before  the  public. 
His  upright  and  honorable  life,  both  in  public  and 
private,  has  won  him  many  friends. 


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REDERICK  R.  KRAMER,  one  of  the 
successful  farmers  and  fancy  live  stock- 
men of  Morgan  county.  Mr.  Kramer 
has  proved  the  exception  to  the  general 
rule  and  oft-repeated  saying  that  after 
a  man  has  spent  fifteen  or  twenty  years  of  his 
life  in  the  railroad  business  he  is  unfitted  and  un- 
qualified to  succeed  in  any  other  calling  or  busi- 
ness in  life.  For  twenty  long  years  Mr.  Kramer 
successfully  filled  important  and  trusted  positions 
for  railroad  companies,  and  for  the  past  twelve 
years  he  has  thoroughly  demonstrated  his  abil- 
ity to  succeed  at  his  chosen  vocation,  that  of  farm- 
ing and  the  raising  of  fancy  live  stock. 

Mr.  Kramer  is  a  native  of  Clairmont  county, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  born  in  1862,  and  is  the  son 
of  William  and  Mary  Ann  (Jenkins)  Kramer. 
His  father  was  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  after 
the  birth  of  our  subject  moved  to  Cincinnati, 
where  his  son  was  raised  and  educated. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  our  subject  became  ap- 
prenticed to  the  machinists'  trade,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  his  apprenticeship  came  West,  locating 
at  Ogden  and  becoming  employed  as  a  fireman  on 
the  Southern  Pacific  railroad,  running  between 
Ogden  and  Wells,  Nevada.  He  was  a  fireman  on 
one  of  the  passenger  engines  for  four  years,  and 
during  the  greater  part  of  the  time  worked  under 
Engineer  J.  C.  Martin,  who  is  now  traveling  en- 
gineer on  the  coast  division.  Mr.  Kramer  was 
promoted  to  be  an  engineer  in  1886,  and  was 
given  a  freieht  run  between  Carlin  and  Winne- 
mucca,  Nevada.  He  held  this  run  for  a  number 
of  years,  when  he  was  transferred  and  given  the 
division  between  Winnemucca  and  Wadsworth. 
He  kept  this  run  for  five  years,  and  was  then  put 
on  the  run  from  Carlin  to  Wells,  remaining  there 
for  three  years,  when  he  was  once  more  trans- 
ferred, this  time  taking  the  run  from  Ogden  to 
Carlin,  which  he  kept  two  years,  completing  six- 
teen years  as  engineer  for  the  same  company. 
Upon  resigning  from  railroad  service,  he  received 
a  personal  letter  from  General  Superintendent  of 
Motive  Power  H.  J.  Small,  highly  recommend- 
ing him  for  the  very  efficient  service  he  had  ren- 
dered the  company.  In  1893  he  bought  forty-one 
acres  of  land  in  Morgan  county,  which  was  at 
that    time    in    a    wild    and    uncultivated    state, 


mostly  covered  by  willows  and  wild  fruit  trees. 
He  has  since  devoted  his  time  to  clearing  and 
cultivating  this  land,  and  it  now  yields  fifty  bush- 
els of  wheat  and  four  hundred  bushels  of  pota- 
toes to  the  acre.  In  extra  favorable  seasons  he 
has  raised  five  hundred  bushels  of  potatoes  to  the 
acre.  He  moved  his  family  onto  the  farm  in 
1898,  and  has  made  his  own  home  there  since 
1900,  giving  his  time  and  attention  aside  from 
his  farm  work  wholly  to  the  raising  of  blooded 
stock,  having  on  his  place  some  fine  Poland  China 
hogs  and  Durham  cattle.  He  is  at  this  time 
making  arrangements  for  planting  a  five-acre  or- 
chard to  fruit,  and  expects  to  raise  only  choice 
varieties,  it  being  his  ambition  to  make  his  farm 
a  model  one  in  every  respect.  His  handsome 
brick  residence  is  a  model  of  convenience  and 
comfort,  containing  six  rooms  and  a  bath,  and  his 
place  is  already  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  Mor- 
gan county.  He  has  been  very  successful  in  all 
his  business  ventures,  and  finds  his  farm  a  very 
good  paying  proposition. 

Mr.  Kramer  was  married  in  1884  to  Miss  Mar- 
tha M.  Stewart.  They  have  two  children — Ada 
May  and  William  A. 

He  has  retained  his  membership  in  the  Broth- 
erhood of  Locomotive  Engineers  and  the  Broth- 
erhood of  Locomotive  Firemen,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men. j\Ir.  Kramer  is  very  liberal  and  public 
spirited  in  his  views,  and  has  done_  much  during 
his  residence  in  Morgan  county  to  further  its  in- 
terests, giving  much  of  his  assistance  to  irriga- 
tion matters,  and  was  identified  with  the  building 
of  the  North  Morgan  ditch.  He  is  also  part 
owner  in  the  North  Morgan  Grazing  Land  Com- 
pany, Incorporated. 


RTHUR  MAXWELL,  Bishop  in  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  for  the  Peoa  Ward,  Summit 
Stake  of  Zion.  A  native  of  Utah  him- 
self, he  comes  from  that  sturdy  Scotch 
stock  which  has  been  an  honor  to  every  country 
where  they  have  settled.  His  father,  Arthur 
Maxwell,  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1825.  When 
a  young  man,  he  became  interested  in  the  doc- 


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trines  and  principles  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
after  a  thoroueh  investigation  he  became  con- 
vinced of  its  correctness  and  authenticity  and  cast 
his  lot  with  the  fortunes  of  that  faith,  and  for 
many  years  was  President  of  the  Glasgow  branch 
of  the  Church,  before  coming  to  America.  In 
1856  he  sailed  for  America  on  the  vessel  John  M. 
IP'ood,  and  that  same  year  came  to  Utah,  cross- 
ing the  plains  as  a  member  of  the  famous  hand 
cart  brigade.  He  located  at  West  Jordan,  where 
he  spent  the  first  winter,  and  at  the  time  of  the 
general  southward  movement  of  the  Church, 
caused  by  the  entrance  of  Johnston's  army  into 
the  Salt  Lake  valley,  he  moved  to  Spanish  Fork, 
and  after  a  time  went  to  live  in  Goshen.  From 
the  latter  place  he  returned  to  West  Jordan,  and 
in  1864  went  to  Peoa,  and  there  took  up  farm- 
ing, in  which  occupation  he  remained  for  the 
balance  of  his  life.  He  was  ordained  High 
Priest  and  set  apart  as  Counselor  to  Bishop  Abra- 
ham Marchant,  retaining  that  position  until  his 
death  in  1872,  at  the  age  of  forty-seven  years. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  Mr.  Maxwell  was  one 
of  the  best-known  and  most  prominent  men  of 
his  community.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth  (Mc- 
Auslin)  Maxwell.  She  is  still  living  and  has 
been  the  mother  of  six  children,  four  of  whom  arc 
now  living — Arthur,  our  subject;  Jane  Ann, 
wife  of  John  A.  IMarchant ;  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
Abraham  H.  Marchant,  and  Catherine,  wife  of 
John  R.  Marchant. 

Bishop  Maxwell  was  born  at  West  Jordan, 
December  14,  1858,  and  was  but  six  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  moved  to  Peoa.  He  grew  to 
manhood  in  this  place,  working  on  his  father's 
farm  in  the  summer  months  and  attending  the 
district  school  for  a  few  weeks  in  winter.  He 
was  about  fourteen  years  of  age  when  his  father 
died,  and  since  then  has  had  to  make  his  o\\fn  way 
in  the  world.  He  has  followed  the  business  of 
farming  and  stock  raising,  paying  particular  at- 
tention to  the  latter  industry  and  raising  a  high 
grade  of  cattle. 

In  1882  he  married  :\Iiss  Wealthy  Ann  Cas- 
per of  Rig  Cottonwood.  They  have  a  family  of 
five  children— Bethia  B.,  Duncan  A.,  William, 
Matilda  and  John. 

Mr.  Maxwell  has  been  prominent  in  the  public 


life  of  Peoa  since  he  reached  his  majority,  and 
has  filled  a  number  of  public  offices.  He  was 
born  and  reared  in  the  Mormon  faith,  and  has 
been  all  his  life  a  consistent  and  faithful  worker 
in  the  Church.  He  was  ordamed  an  Elder,  and 
was  later  a  member  of  the  Twenty-Second  Quo- 
rum of  the  Seventies,  later  becoming  one  of  the 
Seven  Presidents  of  that  body.  On  May  i,  1901, 
he  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set  apart  as 
Bishop  of  the  Ward.  He  labored  in  the  South- 
ern States  for  two  years  as  a  missionary,  being 
called  in  1888.  In  1900  he  was  sent  out  as  a 
Mutual  missionary  to  Saint  George  Stake,  he  be- 
ing the  only  one  sent  out  at  that  time  from  Sum- 
mit Stake.  In  business  life  he  is  a  prominent 
and  well  known  figure,  and  has  been  one  of  the 
staunch  supporters  of  the  irrigation  system  in 
Summit  county.  He  was  at  one  time  President 
of  the  South  Bench  Irrigation  Company,  in 
which  he  now  holds  the  office  of  vice-president, 
and  is  also  interested  in  the  system  for  irriga- 
tion of  the  upper  Bench.  His  whole  life  having 
practically  been  spent  here,  he  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  growth  and  progress  of  the  place, 
and  is  today  regarded  as  one  of  the  solid  and 
substantial  citizens  of  Summit  county. 


TEPHEN  WALKER  came  to  Utah  as 
a  lioy,  and  has  lived  in  Summit  county 
since  1862,  doing  his  full  sliare  towards 
developing  this  part  of  Utah  from  its 
original  state  of  barrenness  and  bring- 
ing it  up  to  its  present  fertile  condition.  He 
was  bom  in  Titchfield,  England,  October  14, 
1842,  and  is  the  son  of  Edmund  and  Maria  An- 
toinetta  (Swallow)  Walker,  natives  of  England, 
who  came  to  this  country  with  their  family  at 
an  earlv  day,  tlrtf  mother  dying  in  Peoa  and  leav- 
ing a  family  of  five  boys— Stephen,  our  subject; 
Walter,  Charles,  Cyrus,  and  William — all  of 
whom  are  still  living  and  members  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church. 

Edmund  Walker,  our  subject's  father,  was 
born  in  London,  England,  June  11,  1818,  grow- 
ing up  in  that  city  and  living  there  until  after 
his  first  child  was  born.  He  became  a  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church  in   1840,  and  emigrated 


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to  America  on  board  the  ship  George  Bouine,  in 
the  early  fifties.  He  first  settled  in  Council 
Bluffs,  Iowa,  from  which  place  he  went  to  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  where  he  remained  until  April, 
1859,  at  which  time  he  started  for  Utah,  and 
crossed  the  plains  with  the  company  over  which 
Captain  Wright  had  command,  reaching  Salt 
Lake  City,  October  nth  of  that  year.  He  bought 
a  home  in  the  Eleventh  Ward  and  lived  there 
until  the  spring  of  1862,  at  which  time  he  moved 
to  Peoa,  where  he  has  since  been  active  in  the 
affairs  of  Summit  county,  following  general 
fanning  and  stock  raising,  and  is  still  in  the  en- 
joyment of  good  health  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-four  years. 

Our  subject  obtained  his  early  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  England  and  the  Eastern 
cities  where  he  lived  after  coming  to  the  L^nited 
States,  completing  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  Utah.  He  took  up  a  farm  near  Peoa,  which 
he  has  since  improved  and  cultivated,  doing  a 
general  farming  business  and  gradually  branch- 
ing out  into  the  cattle  business.  He  has  taken  a 
lively  interest  in  the  question  of  irrigation,  and 
has  been  connected  with  the  "New  Field  Ditch," 
of  which  he  is  at  this  time  president  and  secretary, 
for  several  years.  He  is  also  interested  in  a 
number  of  smaller  ditches  gotten  out  to  water 
the  bottom  lands.  Mr.  Walker  was  also  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Peoa  Co-operative  Mercan- 
tile Institutien,  of  which  he  was  president  and 
secretary  for  many  years,  and  has  been  identi- 
fied with  all  the  leading  enterprises  for  the  up- 
building of  the  town  since  he  has  lived  there. 

He  was  married  in  1866  to  Miss  Lydia  Eliza- 
beth Marchant,  daughter  of  Bishop  Abraham 
Marchant.  By  this  marriage  eleven  children 
have  been  born,  of  whom  but  four  are  now  liv- 
ing— Stephen  M.,  Counselor  to  Bishop  Maxwell, 
and  at  present  absent  on  a  mission  to  the  Samoan 
Islands ;  Abraham,  Superintendent  of  the  Peoa 
Sunday  school ;  Mary  M.,  teachine,  and  Louisa 
M.,  at  home  with  her  parents.  Mary  M.  also 
holds  the  office  of  one  of  the  Stake  Presidents 
of  the  Primary  Association,  while  Louisa  M.  is 
one  of  the  local  Presidents  of  the  Young  Ladies' 
Mutual  Improvement  Association. 

In  politics    Mr.  Walker    is  a  member  of     the 


Republican  party,  and  has  held  a  number  of 
minor  offices  in  his  town.  He  has  been  an  act- 
ive party  worker  since  its  organization  in  this 
State. 

While  residing  in  Cincinnati,  Mr.  Walker  was 
ordained  a  Deacon  and  member  of  the  Lesser 
Priesthood,  and  shortly  after  coming  to  Peoa  be- 
came an  Elder,  and  was  also  Superintendent  of 
the  Sunday  schools  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
was  ordained  High  Priest  at  the  organization  of 
the  Summit  Stake,  and  set  apart  as  Second  Coun- 
selor of  tlishop  Abraham  Marchant,  of  the  Peoa 
Ward,  succeeding  to  that  office  at  the  death  of 
Bishop  Marchant,  May  15,  1882.  He  held  the 
Bishopric  until  the  Stake  was  re-organized  in 
May,  1901,  when  he  was  set  apart  as  First  Coun- 
selor to  President  Ward  E.  Pack  of  the  High 
Priests'  Quorum  of  Summit  Stake.  He  has  also 
since  then  labored  as  Priest  of  the  Ward  and  a 
teacher  of  religious  classes.  The  life  of  Mr. 
Walker  has  been  crowded  with  stirring  incidents 
and  he  has  taken  his  place  in  the  thick  of  the 
fight  and  ever  stood  for  the  right.  He  has  been 
foremost  in  every  good  work  in  his  county,  taken 
an  active  part  in  developing  the  town  in  which 
he  has  lived,  and  is  today  one  of  the  staunch  men 
of  that  locality,  looked  up  to  and  highly  re- 
spected by  all  who  know  him. 


(  )HN  HORTIX.  No  country  of  the  civ- 
ilized world  has  furnished  as  many 
worthy  sons  and  thoroughly  wide- 
awake, energetic  and  enterprising  citi- 
zens for  Utah  as  has  England.  From  the 
days  of  the  early  pioneers  to  the  present  time, 
they  have  ever  played  a  leading  part  in  the  vast 
work  of  transforming  this  new  country  from  a 
wild  and  most  desolate  land  to  its  present  won- 
derful state  of  prosperity.  x\mong  the  native  sons 
of  England  who  settled  in  Utah  in  i860,  and 
whose  history  has  been  closely  linked  with  many 
of  the  leading  enterprises  of  the  State,  John  Hor- 
tin,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  worthy  of  spe- 
cial mention. 

He   was  born   in   Leamington,   Warwickshire, 
March  29,   1835.     His    father,  Edmund  Hortin, 


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was  born  in  Brailes,  Warwickshire,  in  1808.  He 
became  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  in  1853,  and  two  years  later  emi- 
grated with  his  wife  and  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren to  America,  living  for  the  first  two  years  in 
Kentucky,  from  which  place  he  moved  to  Omaha, 
Nebraska,  where  he  lived  three  years,  and  in  i860 
crossed  the  plains  in  ox  teams,  locating  on  the 
present  site  of  Rockport,  where  he  took  up  gov- 
ernment land  and  began  life  as  a  farmer.  At  the 
time  of  the  Black  Hawk  War  he  moved  his  fam- 
ily to  Wanship,  where  he  remained  during  the 
rest  of  his  life,  dying  in  1890.  Our  subject's 
mother  was  Maria  Meades,  a  native  of  the  same 
part  of  England.  She  died  si.x  months  previous 
to  her  husband's  death. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah,  our  subject  took  up 
government  land  and  built  a  home,  on  which  he 
has  continued  to  reside  up  to  this  time,  doing  a 
general  farming  business.  For  a  time  he  worked 
in  Salt  Lake  City  to  obtain  means  to  improve  his 
place,  and  was  engaged  in  1862  in  bringing  em- 
igrants across  the  plains  from  the  Missouri  river, 
putting  his  farm  out  on  shares.  He  moved  his 
family  onto  the  farm  in  1864  and  during  the  In- 
dian troubles  in  1866  moved  to  Wanship,"  where 
he  remained  for  three  years,  making  another  se- 
ries of  trips  to  the  Missouri  river  for  emigrants. 
He  again  moved  his  family  to  the  farm,  and  they 
have  since  resided  there. 

Mr.  Hortin  was  married  December  3,  1864,  to 
Miss  Maria  Wilkenson.  She  died  in  1882,  leav- 
ing a  family  of  seven  children — John  W.  W., 
Elizabeth  E.,  Maria,  wife  of  John  B.  Rhead ; 
Joseph  E.,  Grace  E.,  wife  of  Joseph  E.  Jensen ; 
Arthur  Charles,  at  this  time  absent  on  a  mission 
to  the  South  Sea  Islands,  and  Clara  W.,  living 
at  home.  Mr.  Hortin  married  again  in  Febru- 
ary, 1883,  to  Mrs.  Fannie  (Proberb)  Johnson, 
by  whom  he  has  had  four  children — John  Meade, 
Fannie,  deceased ;  Alary  B.  ,  deceased,  and 
Hazel  J. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Hortin  is  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  party,  and  the  present  chairman  of 
the  Democratic  Committee,  and  a  member  of  the 
County  Committee.  He  held  the  office  of  Con- 
stable for  six  years,  and  for  eight  years  was 
Justice  of  the  Peace.     He  has  also  been  a  school 


trustee  for  a  number  of  years  past,  and  has  done 
much  towards  building  up  the  county  and  town 
in  which  he  resides.  He  was  for  twenty  years 
water  master,  and  has  been  actively  identified 
with  all  irrigation  matters  in  his  district.  In  the 
Church  he  has  held  the  office  of  a  member  of  the 
Thirteenth  Quorum  of  Seventies,  a  High  Priest 
and  member  of  the  High  Council  of  Summit 
Stake,  filling  that  office  until  May,  1901.  He  has 
for  a  number  of  years  been  foremost  in  all  work 
pertaining  to  the  Sunday  school,  and  is  now  a 
teacher. 

Mr.  Hortin  has,  by  dint  of  hard  work  and  un- 
wearying perseverance,  worked  his  way  up  from 
a  Dosition  in  which  his  only  capital  was  a  pair  of 
strong  hands  and  an  undaunted  determination  to 
succeed,  until  today  he  is  among  the  prosperous 
and  leading  farmers  in  his  county,  commanding 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated. 


'.RAHAM  O.  WOODRUFF,  one  of 
the  youngest  of  the  Twelve  Apostles 
in  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Lat- 
ter Day  Saints,  is  a  son  of  President 
Wilford  and  Emma  (Smith)  Wood- 
ruff, biographical  sketches  of  whom  appear  else- 
where in  this  work.  He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah, 
and  while  yet  in  the  sunrise  of  his  career,  bids 
fair  to  stand  at  no  distant  date  as  high  in  the 
ranks  of  Church  and  business  life  as  did  his  illus- 
trious father. 

Abraham  O.  \\'oodrufif  was  born  in  the  south- 
ern part  of  the  city,  November  23,  1872,  and  still 
resides  in  the  old  home  where  he  was  bort:.  He 
grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's  farm  and  re- 
ceived his  early  education  from  the  district  school 
in  the  vicinity  of  his  home,  which  is  still  stand- 
ing, though  it  is  not  now  occupied  for  any  pur- 
pose, and  at  the  age  of  thirteen  entered  the  pre- 
paratory department  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints' 
College,  conducted  in  the  old  schoolhouse  which 
President  Brigham  Young  had  erected  for  the 
purpose  of  giving  instruction  to  his  children,  and 
which  stands  just  within  the  enclosure  near  the 
Eagle  Gate.  He  completed  his  education  in  this 
institution  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Zion's 


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Savings  Bank  and  Trust  Company,  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  a  clerk,  remaining  there  three  years,  at 
the  end  of  which  time  he  was  called  by  the  heads 
of  the  Church  to  go  on  a  mission  to  Europe.  He 
had  at  this  time  just  attained  his  majority.  Dur- 
ing an  absence  of  a  little  more  than  two  and  a  half 
years,  he  labored  for  seven  months  in  the  city  of 
Frankfort-on-the-Main,  and  there  established  the 
first  branch  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  that  sec- 
tion. From  there  he  was  called  to  Dresden,  Sax- 
ony, where  he  remained  seven  months.  He  next 
labored  in  Berlin,  where  he  was  made  President 
of  the  Berlin  Conference,  and  in  that  capacity  vis- 
ited the -cities  of  Hanover,  Stettin,  Drouskau,  So- 
rau,  in  Gennany,  and  made  a  trip  to  Vienna,  Aus- 
tria, Venice  and  Rome,  in  Italy,  and  did  mission- 
ary work  in  those  places.  He  also  visited  Pompeii 
and  Switzerland.  He  returned  to  Berlin,  and 
later  visited  the  missions  of  London,  Edinburgh 
and  Glasgow.  He  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  in 
the  spring  of  1896,  and  at  once  resumed  his  du- 
ties in  the  Zion's  Savings  Bank.  On  October  7th 
of  the  following  year  he  was  ordained  one  of  the 
Twelve  Apostles  by  his  father.  Counselors  and  the 
Twelve  Apostles,  and  has  since  been  engaged  in 
ministering  to  the  needs  of  the  Church,  princi- 
pally in  the  outlying  Stakes. 

During  President  Snow's  administration,  Mr. 
Woodruff  was  made  Colonization  Agent  for  the 
Church,  and  has  devoted  most  of  his  time  for  the 
past  two  years  to  that  work,  laboring  in  Mexico, 
Arizona  and  Wyoming.  In  the  latter  State  he 
organized  the  Big  Horn  Basin  Colonization  Com- 
pany, having  for  its  object  the  securing  of  con- 
tract work  on  railroads,  and  the  furnishing  of 
employment  to  the  members  of  the  colony,  there- 
by enabling  them  to  get  a  start  in  their  work  of 
opening  up  and  developing  this  new  country.  This 
company,  of  which  Mr.  Woodruff  is  president, 
has  already  been  the  means  of  distributing  over 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars  among  the  people 
of  that  valley.  He  is  also  at  this  time  a  director 
in  the  Zion's  Savings  Bank  and  Trust  Company 
and  president  of  the  Wood  River  Live  Stock 
Company. 

Apostle  Woodruff  was  married  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  1897,  to  Miss  Helen  M.  Winters,  of  Pleas- 
ant Grove,  Utah  countv,  a  daughter  of  Oscar  and 


Mary  Ann  Winters.     By  this  union  he  has  two 
children — Wilford  Owen  and  Helen  Mar. 


RANK  HIXSON,  Bishop  of  Wanship 
Ward,  Stake  of  Zion,  Summit  county. 
Piishop  Hixson  is  a  native  son  of  Utah, 
having  been  born  in  the  same  Ward  over 
which  he  presides  as  Bishop  of  his 
Church.  He  has  always  been  a  progressive  and 
enterprising  citizen,  giving  of  his  time  and  means 
for  the  building  up  and  development  of  his 
county,  and  today  ranks  among  the  leaders  in  his 
community. 

Bishop  Hixson  was  born  on  February  28,  1869, 
and  is  the  son  of  James  M.  Hi.xson,  a  native  of 
Indiana,  who  came  to  Utah  about  1862  and  first 
setttled  on  Mill  Creek  and  became  associated  with 
Henry  Alexander  and  President  John  W.  Tay- 
lor. He  remained  there  about  ten  years,  when 
he  moved  to  Wanship  and  bought  land  and  ran 
a  sawmill,  and  also  engaged  in  farming  and  stock 
raising.  During  his  younger  days  he  was  quite 
prominent  in  all  the  affairs  of  his  community,  be- 
ing for  several  years  Counselor  to  Bishops  J.  C. 
Roundy  and  E.  R.  Young.  He  died  March  2, 
1902.  His  wife  was  Margaret  Rank,  daughter 
of  Peter  Rank,  of  East  Mill  Creek.  They  had  a 
family  of  eight  children — Monroe,  now  on  his 
second  mission  to  New  Zealand;  Elizabeth,  wife 
of  Arthur  Brown ;  Vantyle,  living  in  Park  City ; 
Frank,  our  subject;  Peter,  ^lark,  Lyle,  Carl,  and 
Hazel. 

Our  subject  was  raised  on  his  father's  farm, 
and  received  his  education  from  such  schools  as 
the  district  afforded,  working  on  the  farm  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  and  attending  school  for 
a  few  weeks  in  the  winter.  He  still  lives  on  the 
old  homestead,  having  an  interest  in  the  stock 
raising  and  farming  business. 

He  was  married  in  1901  to  Miss  Priscilla  Judd, 
daughter  of  Charles  Judd  of  Wanship.  Mrs. 
Hixson  is  president  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual 
Improvement  Association  and  a  member  of  the 
Ladies'  Relief  Society,  of  which  her  husband's 
mother  is  president. 

Bishop  Hixson  is  but  a  young  man,  but  he  has 
all  his  life  been  a  zealous  worker  in  the  Church, 


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and  has  risen  rapidly  from  one  position  of  trust 
and  honor  to  another,  until  he  now  enjoys  the 
distinction  of  being  Bishop  of  his  Ward.  He  was 
ordained  an  Elder  in  1892  and  became  a  Ward 
teacher.  In  the  following  year  he  was  made  a 
member  of  the  Twenty-second  Quorum  of  Seven- 
ties and  in  1896  ordained  a  High  Priest  by  Presi- 
dent W.  W.  ClufT  and  set  apart  as  second  Coun- 
selor to  Bishop  E.  R.  Young,  and  when  the  Ward 
was  reorganized  in  May,  1901,  was  made  Bishop 
of  the  Wanship  Ward.  He  has  been  a  teacher 
in  the  Sunday  School  for  ten  years,  and  is  also 
President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association.  He  comes  of  one  of  the 
staunch  families  of  the  Church,  his  brothers  hav- 
ing filled  a  number  of  missions  for  the  Church, 
and  his  brother  Peter,  while  on  a  mission  to  Ar- 
kansas, was  President  of  the  East  Arkansas  Con- 


S.  McCORNICK.  The  dean  of 
the  financial  world  of  Utah,  and 
his  great  wealth  and  the  wide  ex- 
gion  as  well,  both  by  reason  of 
of  the  entire  inter-mountain  re- 
tent  of  his  operations,  is  undoubtedly  W'.  S.  Mc- 
Cornick.  Many  men  have  creditably  performed 
their  tasks  in  the  development  of  Utah  and  in 
the  work  of  bringing  Salt  Lake  City  to  its  pres- 
ent importance  as  the  distributing  center  for  the 
region  covered  by  Utah,  Idaho,  Wyoming,  Mon- 
tana, Nevada  and  Arizona,  but  few  have  equalled 
the  record  of  this  great  captain  of  the  industrial 
forces  of  the  West. 

Born  in  Ontario,  Canada,  his  early  days  were 
spent  upon  the  paternal  farm,  but  imbued  with 
the  opportunities  of  the  great  western  portion 
of  the  United  States,  he  emigrated  to  Califor- 
nia in  i860,  where  his  first  work  was  on  a  ranch, 
which  he  followed  for  two  years. 

At  this  time,  the  atte'ntion  of  young  and  ven- 
turesome men  was  turned  to  the  possibilities  of 
Nevada,  then  being  unfolded,  and  to  that  Ter- 
ritory Mr.  McCornick  moved.  His  capital  at 
that  time  consisted  of  a  splendid  physique,  a 
clear  head,  calm  judgment,  and  a  pair  of  wil- 
ling  hands.      These   assets    were    so    judiciously 


invested  there,  that  the  foundation  of  his  pres- 
ent great  fortune  was  soon  commenced.  As  his 
capital  increased,  his  operations  were  on  a  larger 
scale,  and  soon  embraced  the  territory  covered 
by  and  tributary  to  Virginia  City,  Austin,  Ham- 
ilton, Belmont,  and  the  other  important  and 
promising  centers  of  Nevada. 

From  Nevada,  Mr.  McCornick  moved  to  Utah 
and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1873,  where  he 
at  once  engaged  in  the  banking  business  and 
laid  the  cornerstone  of  the  great  institution 
which  now  stands  as  the  first  private  banking 
house  west  of  Chicago,  and  whose  credit  is  sec- 
ond to  none  in  the  United  States.  From  a  small 
beginning,  made  under  extreme  difficulty,  it  has 
now  grown  to  large  proportions,  and  the  bank  oc- 
cupies the  first  floor  of  the  spacious,  seven-story, 
gray  stone  building,  known  as  the  McCornick 
Block,  on  First  South  and  Main  streets.  Salt 
Lake  City.  From  the  very  beginning  of  his  res- 
idence in  Utah.  Mr.  McCornick  evinced  a  deep 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  State,  both  finan- 
cially and  industrially.  He  did  not  confine  his 
interest  entirely  to  banking,  but  took  part  in  all 
the  industries  of  the  State.  His  residence  in 
Nevada  and  the  knowledge  he  acquired  of  min- 
ing properties  there  stood  him  in  good  stead  in 
L'tah,  and  in  his  mining  investments  he  has  been 
singularly  fortunate.  He  now  owns  large  inter- 
ests in  the  Silver  King  mine,  the  most  valuable 
mining  property  in  Utah,  the  Daily  West,  Cen- 
tennial, Eureka  and  Grand  Central.  In  addi- 
tion to  these  properties,  he  is  also  interested  in 
a  number  of  mines  of  lesser  value,  and  has  large 
holdings  in  mining  property  in  both  Nevada  and 
Idaho.  He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  American 
Smelting  and  Refining  Company,  which  corpo- 
ration controls  nearly  all  of  the  smelters  in  the 
United  States  and  Mexico,  and  has  large  inter- 
ests in  other  industries  throughout  Utah.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  presidency  of  the  bank  he  founded, 
he  also  holds  the  office  of  president  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Logan,  at  Logan,  Utah,  vice- 
president  of  the  First  National  l!ank  of  Nephi, 
treasurer  and  director  of  the  Silver  King  Min- 
ing Company,  treasurer  and  director  of  the 
Lucky  Boy  Mining  Company,  treasurer  and  di- 
rector of  the  Daly  West   Mining  Company,  di- 


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rector  and  treasurer  of  the  Rocky  Mountain 
Bell  Telephone  Company,  president  of  the  Gold 
Belt  Water  Company  of  Utah,  president  of  the 
Raft  River  Land  and  Cattle  Company  of  Idaho, 
and  holds  large  blocks  of  stock  and  interests  in 
many  of  the  leading  mercantile  organizations  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  indeed  throughout  Utah- 
director  in  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Ma- 
chine Company,  director  in  the  Utah  Sugar 
Company,  director  in  the  Utah  Light  and 
Power  Company,  director  in  the  Bear  River 
Land  and  Water  Company,  director  in  the  San- 
itarium Company,  director  in  the  Bingham  Con- 
solidated Mining  and  Smelting  Company.  His 
business  sagacity  and  his  unimpeachable  record 
for  honesty  and  integrity  have  won  for  him  his 
position  as  leader  in  the  industrial  and  commer- 
cial development  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  of  the 
State  as  well.  His  wealth  has  been  the  result 
of  judicious  investments  in  legitimate  enter- 
prises, he  never  having  believed  in  or  practiced 
speculation.  He  is  also  a  large  owner  of  real 
estate  in  Utah,  the  constant  increase  in  valua- 
tion of  which  has  added  to  a  considerable  extent 
to  his  present  wealth. 

In  addition  to  his  mining  interests,  he  has  also 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  development  of  the 
agricultural  resources  of  Utah,  and  has  aided 
greatly  in  bringing  the  State  Agricultural  Col- 
lege of  Utah  to  its  present  high  standard  and 
efficiency.  Eleven  years  since  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  that  insti- 
tution, which  is  supported  in  part  by  the  Fed- 
eral Government  and  by  the  State  of  Utah,  there 
being  but  a  nominal  fee  charged  the  students, 
'ihe  able  faculty  which  has  administered  the  af- 
fairs of  that  college,  and  the  reputation  which 
it  has  won  for  excellent  results — a  reputation 
not  bounded  by  State  lineS' — is  due  largely  to 
his  ability  and  judgment  in  selecting  the  right 
man  for  the  right  place. 

Although  his  attention  and  energies  have  been 
almost  wholly  devoted  to  the  pressing  needs  of 
his  enormous  business,  he  has  yet  found  time  to 
participate  in  the  political  affairs  of  the  State 
of  his  adoption.  He  has  always  been  a  -staunch 
Republican,  and  while  never  active  in  the  work, 
so  far  as  the  solicitation  of  offices  is  concerned, 


has  always  aided  that  party  in  its  work.  When 
Salt  Lake  City  was  organized  and  a  council 
elected,  he  was  one  of  the  first  non-Mormons  to 
be  elected  to  that  body,  and  his  ability  and  worth 
have  become  so  generally  recognized  through- 
out the  city  that  on  two  occasions,  when  the  af- 
fairs of  the  city  had  become  complicated  beyond 
the  hope  of  unravelling,  the  people,  without  ref- 
erence to  party  lines,  selected  him  a  Councilman, 
confident  in  the  belief  that  if  any  one  could 
straighten  the  tangle,  Mr.  McCornick  could. 
This  confidence  was  also  shared  by  the  other 
members  of  the  Council,  who  unanimously 
elected  him  chairman.  With  his  ability  and 
clear  comprehension  of  the  difficulties  of  the 
task,  he  discharged  his  office  with  rare  sagac- 
ity and  successfully  completed  the  task  to  which 
he  had  been  set  by  his  fellow  citizens. 

When  the  Salt  Lake  City  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce was  organized,  he  was  unanimously  called 
to  its  presidency,  and  during  his  tenure  of  office 
he  successfully  inaugurated  and  carried  to  com- 
pletion several  badly  needed  reforms.  Promi- 
nent among  these  were  the  changes  he  secured 
in  the  transportation  rates  and  the  abolition  of  the 
discriminating  rates  from  which  the  city  suffered. 
During  his  administration  he  accomplished  nw^^. 
good  for  the  city  and  aided  materially  in  accel- 
erating the  impetus  which  Salt  Lake  City  had 
already  begun  to  feel  and  which  has  resulted  in 
its  satisfactory  growth.  Upon  the  organization 
of  the  Alta  Club,  an  association  of  the  wealthy 
men  of  Utah,  and  which  now  owns  one  of  the 
finest  club  houses  west  of  Chicago,  he  was  elected 
Jt5  first  president,  and  did  much  to  make  assured 
the  prominent  position  the  club  has  since  ac- 
quired. 

Mr.  McCornick  is  a  believer  in  the  future  im- 
portance of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  is,  therefore, 
interested  in  securing  for  it  better  transportation 
facilities.  He  is  a  director  in  the  San  Pedro, 
Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Railroad,  designed 
to  connect  Utah  with  the  Pacific  coast  and  fur- 
nish a  direct  route  to  Southern  California.  Be- 
sides his  interest  as  director,  he  is  one  of  the 
promoters  of  this  new  route  and  thoroughly  be- 
lieves in  the  benefit  that  will  accrue  to  the  south- 
ern part  of  Utah  through  its  completion.    Even 


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this  interest  did  not  blind  him  to  the  increased 
faciUties  that  would  be  afforded  by  the  construc- 
tion of  another  line  into  Salt  Lake,  and  he  was 
at  the  head  of  a  movement  of  the  business  men 
of  the  city  to  induce  the  Southern  Pacific  road  to 
build  a  connection  to  Salt  Lake. 

His  home  life  has  been  as  clear  and  as  much 
above  reproach  as  his  business  life.  Believing 
in  the  advantages  of  education  and  travel,  he 
had  his  wife  and  their  eight  children  spend  sev- 
eral years  in  Europe,  and  he  owns  one  of  the 
most  palatial  residences  in  Utah,  which,  at  the 
head  of  Main  street  in  Salt  Lake,  overlooks 
the  Temple  and  the  entire  city.  His  wife  has 
been  an  ideal  helpmeet  to  him  in  his  career,  and 
has  won  for  herself  a  reputation  for  charity  and 
goodness  that  makes  her  beloved  by  all  the  cit- 
izens of  the  city  and  State.  Several  of  his  sons 
are  associated  with  him  in  his  varied  business 
enterprises. 

His  career  has  been  almost  without  a  parallel 
in  LUah,  and  he  easily  stands  at  the  head  of  the 
men  of  wealth  and  influence  in  this  State.  His 
wealth  has  been  garnered  by  his  own  unflagging 
industry,  and  by  his  ability  to  do  with  all  his 
might  whatever  he  undertook.  His  genial  and 
pleasant  manner  and  his  ability  and  integrity 
have  secured  for  him  a  lasting  place  in  the  an- 
nals of  Utah,  and  his  career  is  one  that  the  State, 
as  well  as  his  posterity  may  well  be  proud  of. 


RKSIDENT  RULON  SEYMOUR 
WELLS.  In  the  development  of  Utah 
and  in  the  building  up  of  its  commer- 
cial and  industrial  resources,  there  have 
been  many  opportunities  for  men  of 
ability  to  acquire  prominence  in  its  affairs.  These 
opportunities  have  been  grasped  and  turned  to 
account  by  many  men  who  have  succeeded  in  ac- 
cumulating wealth,  and  in  aiding  the  State  in 
its  work  of  development.  There  are  many  men 
who  by  their  life  work  have  aided  in  bringing 
Utah  to  the  fore  in  the  ranks  of  the  Western 
States,  and  prominent  among  these  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  a  Utahn,  born  within  the  con- 
fines of  this  city. 

Rulon   Seymour   \\'ells,   the   son   of   President 


Daniel  H.  and  Louisa  F.  Wells,  was  born  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  July  7,  1854,  at  a  site  inside  the  stone 
wall,  east  of  the  Deseret  News  corner.  He  has 
spent  his  whole  life  within  this  city,  except  when 
absent  on  foreign  missions.  In  1861  the  family 
moved  to  the  Wells  home,  just  across  the  street 
from  where  their  son  was  born,  and  here  he  lived 
until  his  marriage  in  1883.  He  was  baptized  by 
his  father  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  and  con- 
firmed as  a  member  of  the  Church  by  Elder  John 
V.  Long.  His  early  education  was  derived  from 
the  private  schools  which  then  existed  in  this 
city.  He  first  attended  school  in  the  old  Des- 
eret Museum  building,  and  later  attended  the 
schools  of  Doctor  Doremus  at  the  Union  Acad- 
emy ;  Doctor  Standard,  at  the  Thirteenth  Ward 
Meeting  House;  Bartlett  Tripp,  in  the  Fifteenth 
Ward  Granary;  O.  H.  Riggs,  in  the  Fourteenth 
Ward  Meeting  House,  and  later  in  the  Seven- 
ties' Hall  on  State  street,  and  still  later  in  the 
old  Union  Academy.  Passing  from  these  pri- 
mary schools,  he  attended  Morgan  and  Macau- 
ley's  night  school  of  penmanship,  and  after  a 
course  there  entered  the  Deseret  University, 
then  under  the  direction  of  Elder  David  O.  Cal- 
der  as  a  commercial  college.  Our  subject  was 
in  attendance  here  when  Doctor  John  R.  Park 
changed  the  commercial  college  to  a  collegiate 
institution,  and  in  the  new  school  President 
Wells  took  a  scientific  and  classical  course  of 
study.  He  was  ordained  an  Elder  of  the  Church 
on  August  15,  1868,  by  Elder  W.  J.  Smith,  and 
on  April  i,  1871,  gave  up  his  studies  to  accept 
employment  with  a  party  of  engineers,  under 
the  leadership  of  Jesse  W.  Fox.  who  started 
from  Salt  Lake  City  to  locate  and  survey  the 
route  of  the  L^tah  Southern  Railway,  which  now 
forms  a  part  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  system. 
His  next  work  was  in  a  public  capacity,  and  in 
1873-74  he  was  appointed  engrossing  clerk  by 
the  Territorial  Legislature ;  in  the  latter  year  be- 
ing employed  in  the  Assessor  and  Collector's  of- 
fice for  Salt  Lake  City,  this  office  at  that  time  be- 
ing held  by  John  R.  Winder.  In  the  next  year 
he  was  employed  at  the  saw  mills  in  the  Big 
Cottonwood  Canyon,  belonging  to  his  father. 
It  was  while  engaged  there  as  a  book-keeper  in 
October,   1875.   that  he  received  the  assignment 


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to  his  first  mission  for  the  Church,  and  on  the 
22nd  day  of  that  month  he  was  ordained  a  Sev- 
enty and  assigned  to  missionary  work  in  Eu- 
rope by  President  Brigham  Young. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Liverpool  he  was  as- 
signed to  the  Swiss  and  German  mission,  in 
company  with  Elder  Martin  Lenzi.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  assisted  Elder  Theodore  Brand- 
ley  in  holding  a  public  meeting  in  Berlin,  Ger- 
many, at  which  meeting  were  present  dienitaries 
of  the  German  Empire,  members  of  the  Reich- 
stag, the  royal  police  and  several  representatives 
of  the  State  Church.  He  returned  to  the  United 
States  in  1877  in  company  with  Elder  Lenzi  and 
a  number  of  emigrants,  these  two  elders  being 
in  charge  of  the  Swiss  and  German  branch  of 
the  company.  They  held  meetings  on  board  the 
steamer  "Wisconsin,"  and  continued  the  work 
of  the  education  of  the  new  members  of  tTie 
Church  until  their  arrival  in  New  York  City  on 
July  7th  of  that  year.  Here  Elder  Wells  was 
met  by  his  mother  and  sister,  and  after  a  visit 
with  his  father's  relatives  in  that  State  contin- 
ued his  journey,  arriving  in  Utah  on  July  23, 
1877.  His  missionary  work  did  not  cease  with 
this  journey,  and  he  continued  to  be  active  as  a 
home  missionary  for  a  number  of  years. 

Upon  his  return  to  Salt  Lake  City,  our  sub- 
ject secured  employment  in  the  Zion  Co-opera- 
tive Mercantile  Institution,  where  he  remained 
until  1880,  during  which  time  he  also  acted  as 
book-keeper  for  John  Brooks,  then  operating  the 
Chicago  Smelter,  at  Rush  Lake,  Tooele  county. 
Like  so  many  of  the  men  who  have  taken  an  act- 
ive part  in  the  work  of  the  State,  he  turned  his 
attention  to  railroad  work,  and  in  1881  had 
charge  of  the  books  and  clerks  of  John  W. 
Young,  in  Arizona,  on  the  line  of  the  Atlantic 
and  Pacific  Railroad  Company,  on  which  Mr. 
Young  had  a  contract  for  building  one  hundred 
miles  of  the  road,  in  addition  to  getting  out  ties 
and  timber. 

Our  subject  returned  to  Salt  Lake  Citv  in  De- 
cember, 1882,  and  on  January  the  i8th  of  the 
following  year  he  was  married  to  Miss  Jose- 
phine E.  Beatie,  daughter  of  H.  S.  and  Marian 
T.  Beatie,  and  his  family  now  consists  of  seven 
children — two  sons  and  five  daughters.     In  the 


first  year  of  his  married  life  he  built  his  present 
home  in  the  Eighteenth  Ward,  and  occupied  it 
for  the  first  time  on  January  9,  1884,  and  has 
resided  there  ever  since.  Lfpon  taking  up  his 
residence  in  that  Ward,  he  identified  himself 
with  its  work  and  has  served  in  the  capacity  of 
teacher  in  the  Sunday  schools.  Ward  teacher. 
President  of  the  Mutual  Improvement  Associa- 
tion, and  second  Assistant  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  School.  During  this  time  he  was  also 
employed  by  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile 
Institution,  in  which  service  he  continued  until 
March,  1886,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of 
secretary  of  the  Co-operative  Wagon  and  Ma- 
chine Company,  then  known  as  Grant,  Odell  & 
Company.  He  held  this  oosition  and  also  acted 
as  treasurer  and  director  of  this  institution  until 
1896,  with  the  exception  of  one  year — 1891 — 
during  which  time  he  had  charge  of  the  office 
work  of  Heber  J.  Grant  &  Company.  He  was 
Secretary  of  Zion's  Benefit  and  Building  Society, 
and  was  elected  Secretary  of  the  Home  Fire  In- 
surance Company  of  Utah  also,  holding  this  latter 
position  until  1896. 

L'pon  the  death  of  President  Jacob  Gates,  he 
was  chosen  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  First  Coun- 
cil of  the  Seventy  on  April  5,  1893,  and  was 
ordained  on  the  same  day  to  that  position  by 
President  George  O.  Cannon,  assisted  by  Presi- 
dent Woodruflf,  President  Lorenzo  Snow  and 
several  of  the  Apostles.  His  next  active  work 
for  the  Church  in  the  missionary  field  was  in 
1896.  On  May  the  8th  of  that  year  he  was 
unanimously  chosen  by  the  First  Presidency,  and 
the  Twelve  Apostles,  to  succeed  Apostle  A.  H. 
Lund  in  the  Presidency  of  the  European  mis- 
sion, and  he  departed  for  this  field  in  company 
with  Elder  Joseph  W.  McMurrin,  on  June  29, 
1896.  During  this  mission  he  visited  the  various 
Conferences  of  Great  Britain  five  or  six  times, 
and  those  of  the  continental  missions  three  or 
four  times,  most  of  the  time  in  companv  with 
President  Joseph  W.  McMurrin,  his  co-laborer 
in  the  Presidency  of  the  mission.  He  returned 
home  with  President  McMurrin  and  arrived  in 
New  York  on  December  18,  1898,  where  he  was 
met  by  his  wife  and  oldest  daughter,  and  reached 
Salt   Lake   City  on   Christmas  eve.      Soon   after 


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his  return  to  Utah  he  engaged  in  the  insurance 
business,  and  on  December  i,  1899,  was  made 
manager  for  Utah  at  Salt  Lake  City  of  the  Mu- 
tual Life  Insurance  Company  of  New  York, 
which  position  he  still  holds.  Since  his  return 
from  Europe  he  has  visited  many  of  the  Stakes 
of  the  Church  at  the  Quarterly  Conferences,  and 
taken  his  full  share  of  the  work  devolving  upon 
the  Seventies.  He  is  also  one  of  the  General 
Board  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association. 

The  confidence  of  the  people  of  Utah  in  his 
integrity  and  ability  was  shown  by  his  election 
in  November,  1900,  to  the  lower  house  of  the 
Fourth  Legislature  of  Utah,  and  he  served  in 
that  capacity  from  January  14th  to  IMarch  14, 
1901.  President  Wells  is  essentially  a  business 
man,  and  has  brought  to  his  work  in  the  Church 
the  same  ability,  energs'  and  application  which 
has  made  him  a  success  in  business  enterprises 
in  L^tah.  In  his  chosen  field  of  work  he  is  one 
of  the  leaders  of  the  State  and  has  built  up  for 
himself  a  reputation  for  honesty  and  unim- 
peachable integrity.  His  work  among  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  has  won  for  him  the  love  and 
confidence  of  all  its  members,  and  his  career  as 
a  business  man  has  been  marked  with  the  confi- 
dence and  respect  of  all  the  people  of  Utah.  He 
is  still  in  the  prime  of  life  and  has  already 
achieved  such  success  as  to  make  him  as  one 
of  the  helmsmen  of  the  State  and  of  the  Church 
of  his  choice. 


ILLIAM  NEWJEXT  WILLIAMS. 
Few  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City  are 
more  thoroughly  representative  or 
more  devoted  to  the  promotion  of 
her  welfare  than  is  William  New- 
jent  Williams,  whose  name  has  become  a  house- 
hold word,  not  only  in  the  homes  of  the  city,  but 
throughout  the  State  on  account  of  the  promi- 
nent part  he  has  taken  not  alone  in  the  devel- 
opment and  growth  of  Salt  Lake,  but  for  the 
hearty  support  he  has  given  to  the  mining,  ag- 
ricultural and  other  business  enterprises  of 
Utah.     His  means  and  influence  have  been  un- 


sparingly used  in  the  fostering  of  infant  enter- 
prises and  improvements  which  he  believed 
would  be  of  permanent  benefit  to  the  city  or 
State.  The  high  position  which  Mr.  Williams 
today  occupies  in  the  commercial  world  of  the 
West  is  the  result  of  long-continued,  indefati- 
gable industry,  perseverance  and  a  determina- 
tion to  make  an  honorable  career,  and  those  who 
have  been  in  closest  touch  with  his  long  life  in 
Utah  are  highest  in  their  praise  of  the  bravery 
and  pluck  with  which  he  has  met  and  conquered 
everv  obstacle  in  the  pathway  of  success.  Mr. 
Williams  is  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  strength 
of  character,  which  he  has  undoubtedly  inherited 
from  his  mother,  a  woman  of  rare  mental  attain- 
ments and  great  will  power  and  force  of  charac- 
ter. Hers  was  one  of  those  noble  natur'es  that 
seem  able  not  only  to  stand  quite  alone  in  the 
battle  of  life,  but  also  to  guide  and  direct  and 
strengthen  those  of  a  weaker  nature.  In  the 
woman  this  trait  creates  the  ideal  mother,  coun- 
sellor and  friend;  in  the  man  it  becomes  the  pil- 
lar of  strength  on  which  large  and  substantial 
business  and  commercial  enterprises  are  built, 
cities  founded,  and  around  which  men  and 
women  instinctively  gather  in  times  of  peril  to 
home  and  community.  Defeat  is  a  word  of 
which  he  does  not  know  the  meaning,  and  to 
secure  his  co-operation  is  to  insure  success  in 
any  enterprise. 

Air.  Williams  was  born  in  Llanegwad  Parish, 
near  Brechfa,  Carmarthenshire,  South  Wales, 
March  17,  1851.  and  is  the  son  of  Evan  and 
Sarah  (Jeremy)  Williams,  who  belonged  to  very 
old  and  respected  families  of  that  locality.  His 
father  was  born  in  1807,  and  lived  to  be  almost 
eighty-three  years  old,  dying  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1890.  He  and  his  wife  had  become  converts 
to  the  Mormon  Church  at  an  early  day,  his  wife 
joining  in  1848.  However,  they  did  not  come 
to  America  until  1861,  traveling  by  sailing  vessel 
from  Liverpool  to  New  York,  thence  by  rail  to 
St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  by  steamboat  to  Flor- 
ence, Nebraska.  They  crossed  the  plains  by  ox 
teams,  the  children  walking  the  greater  part  of 
the  distance,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  Sep- 
tember 23rd  of  the  same  year,  where  the  family 
continued  to   reside.     The   senior   Mr.   Williams 


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first  became  an  Elder  in  the  Church  after  coining 
to  Utah,  and  for  years  acted  in  the  capacity  of 
teacher.  He  was  later  ordained  a  High  Priest, 
which  office  he  held  up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 
Our  subject's  maternal  grandmother  was  the 
eleventh  generation  born  in  the  farm  house, 
Llystin,  and  her  daughter,  the  mother  of  our 
subject,  was  the  eighth  generation  born  in  the 
neighboring  farm  house,  Crybinau ;  also  our  sub- 
ject was  born  there,  which  makes  nine  generations 
born  there.  Mrs.  Williams  was  one  of  the  earli- 
est adherents  to  the  Church  in  her  native  town. 
She  became  prominent  in  Church  work  after 
coming  to  Utah,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
eight,  beloved  and  mourned  by  the  entire  com- 
munity. 

Our'  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  obtained  his  education  in  the  public 
schools,  ^Morgan's  College  and  the  Deseret  Uni- 
versity, now  the  University  of  Utah.  His  life 
in  this  new  State  was  much  the  same  as  of  other 
sons  of  pioneers,  and  he  performed  the  various 
tasks  allotted  to  him  with  the  same  energy,  zeal 
and  attention  to  detail  that  has  since  character- 
ized his  business  career.  He  learned  the  carpen- 
ter trade  at  an  early  age,  and  his  business. ability 
was  soon  manifested  when  he  launched  out  into 
the  business  of  contracting  and  building,  in  which 
undertaking  he  was  very  successful.  However, 
this  work  was  not  congenial  to  him,  and  he  de- 
cided to  enter  the  commercial  world,  believing 
the  opportunities  to  be  better.  In  1883,  in  com- 
pany with  a  few  others,  he  organized  the  Co- 
operative Furniture  Company,  which  has  done  a 
constantly  increasing  business  ever  since,  and  is 
to-day  one  of  the  leading  houses  in  its  line  in 
the  whole  inter-mountain  region.  During  the 
first  five  years  of  the  organization  Mr.  Williams 
was  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  company, 
and  since  then  he  has  acted  in  the  capacity  of 
Manager,  and  its  most  astonishing  growth  dur- 
ing these  years  is  undoubtedly  due  to  his  able 
and  efficient  management.  Mr.  Williams  is  the 
largest  individual  owner  of  stock  in  the  concern. 

He  was  married,  July  17,  1877,  to  Miss  Clar- 
issa W.  Smith,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Presi- 
dent George  A.  and  Susan  E.  (West)  Smith. 
Mrs.  Williams  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  April 


21,  1859,  in  the  Historian's  Office,  where  her 
parents  resided.  She  received  the  best  education 
the  Territory  could  then  afiford,  her  father  being 
a  progressive,  liberal-minded  man,  believing  in 
the  higher  education  of  women.  Her  earliest 
education  was  received  in  the  Social  Hall  build- 
ing, on  State  street,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
she  occupied  the  position  of  pupil-teacher  in  Miss 
Mary  E.  Cook's  school,  then  the  best  in  the  city 
She  graduated  with  the  Normal  Class  of  1876, 
from  the  Deseret  University,  now  the  University 
of  Utah,  which  was  the  first  class  ever  graduated 
from  that  institution.  From  the  time  of  her 
grsauation  until  she  was  married  to  Mr.  Wil- 
liams she  followed  school  teaching.  She  has 
always  been  a  firm  adherent  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  an  active  Church  worker.  For  the 
past  five  years  she  has  held  the  position  of  Presi- 
dent of  the  Seventeenth  Ward  Relief  Society, 
and  is  also  General  Treasurer  of  the  National 
Woman's  Relief  Society.  Mrs.  Williams'  father 
was  first  cousin  to  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith, 
their  fathers  being  brothers.  Her  father  and  the 
Prophet  were  close  associates  and  very  warm 
friends.  Mr.  Smith  was  one  of  the  original  pio- 
neers of  Utah,  and  assisted  very  materially  in 
the  organization  and  building  up  of  the  new  Ter- 
ritory. He  founded  the  counties  of  Washington. 
Iron  and  Utah.  He  also  was  called  the  Father  of 
Southern  Utah.  He  also  served  the  Territory  in 
various  official  capacities.  On  April  12,  1839, 
Mr.  Smith  was  ordained  one  of  the  Twelve 
Apostles,  which  position  he  held  until  October, 
1868,  at  which  time  he  was  called  to  act  as  First 
Counsellor  to  President  Brigham  Young,  con- 
tinuing in  that  position  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  also  Church  Historian  from  1854 
until  his  death,  in  September,  1875.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Williams  have  had  a  large  family  born  to 
them,  of  whom  seven  daughters  and  two  sons 
are  now  living.  They  are  Clarissa,  Sarah,  Jo- 
sephine, Hetty,  Eva,  Georgia,  George  Albert, 
Bathsheba  and  Lyman.  During  their  married 
life  thev  have  lived  in  their  present  beautiful 
home,  opposite  Temple  Square. 

In  political  belief  Mr.  Williams  is  a  staunch 
and  consistent  Republican,  and  has  been  an  active 
worker  m  the  ranks  of  that  party.     In  igoo  he 


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was  elected  to  the  fourtli  session  of  the  Legisla- 
ture of  the  State,  as  a  Re])resentative  from  the 
Eiglith  District,  and  his  sound  judgment  and 
large  business  ability  made  him  a  valued  mem- 
ber of  that  body. 

Like  his  parents  he  has  ever  been  a  faithful 
follower  of  the  teachings  and  doctrines  of  the 
Mormon  Church.  He  was  baptized  at  the  age 
of  ten  years  by  Elder  George  Teasdale,  at  Flor- 
ence, Nebraska,  the  ceremony  occurring  June 
lo,  1861,  while  he  was  enroute  to  Utah  with  his 
parents.  Since  then  he  has  been  an  active  worker 
in  religious  circles.  Elder  George  C.  Reiser  or- 
dained him  an  Elder  on  February  21,  1875,  and 
on  March  11.  1876.  he  was  ordained  a  Seventy 
by  Elder  \\'illiam  Robertson,  and  is  at  this  time 
a  member  of  the  Third  Quorum  of  Seventies. 
He  was  called  on  a  mission  to  his  native  country, 
South  Wales,  in  1877,  ^"d  left  home  on  the 
1 8th  of  July,  thirty-six  hours  after  receiving  the 
first  intimation  of  the  call.  He  labored  in  the 
Welsh  Conference  during  the  whole  of  the  time, 
during  the  latter  part  of  which  he  presided  over 
the  Conference,  and  after  a  most  successful  mis- 
sion returned  home  in  company  with  sixteen 
other  returning  missionaries,  of  whom  he  was 
the  youngest,  having  charge  of  a  company  of 
six  hundred  and  twenty-two  converts.  They  ar- 
rived in   Salt  Lake  July   16,   1879. 

Mr.  Williams  is  closely  identified  with  the 
mining,  agricultural  and  other  business  interests 
of  the  State,  in  which  he  has  large  holdings, 
and  is  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  Utah. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Commercial  Club  of  this 
city,  and  was  one  of  the  promoters  and  organ- 
izers of  the  Cambrian  Association,  being  Vice- 
President  of  the  State  organization  and  a  Direc- 
tor of  the  local  organization.  He  was  also  one 
of  the  Directors  who  so  successfully  conducted 
the  great  Eisteddfod  held  in  the  Mormon  Tab- 
ernacle October  3rd  and  4th,  1895.  This  Eistedd- 
fod exceeded  in  scope  and  attendance  any  musical 
and  literary  event  of  its  kind  ever  held  in  the 
United  States,  with  the  single  exception  of  the 
Eisteddfod  held  during  the  World's  Fair  in 
Chicago. 

While  an  article  of  this  nature  has  to  deal 
principally  with  the  commercial  side  of  a  man's 


career,  we  may  with  perfect  propriety  note  in 
passing  the  high  social  position  held  by  Mr.  and 
]\Irs.  Williams  and  their  interesting  fainily.  As 
a  leader  in  Church  circles,  Mrs.  Williams  is  well 
known,  and  the  accomplishments  of  the  daugh- 
ters make  them  welcome  members  of  the  best 
social  life  of  the  city.  Personally  Mr.  Williams 
is  a  man  of  most  genial  and  winning  address, 
and  both  in  public,  private  and  business  life  num- 
bers his  friends  by  the  score. 


1ILLIAM  MONTAGUE  FERRY. 
But  few  young  men  who  have  of 
recent  years  settled  at  Salt  Lake 
City  have  taken  a  more  intelligent 
interest  in  the  afTairs  of  the  State 
and  in  the  development  of  its  latent  resources, 
especially  in  the  exploitation  of  its  mineral 
wealth,  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and 
while  yet  but  a  young  man.  having  just  passed 
hia  thirty-first  year,  he  has  demonstrated  his 
ability  to  manage  and  control  large  financial  mat- 
ters and  successfully  carry  to  completion  projects 
involving  the  distribution  of  large  sums. 

He  is  a  son  of  Edward  P.  Ferry,  whose  sketch 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume,  and  was  born 
in  Grand  Haven  Michigan,  March  12th,  1871, 
where  his  boyhood  days  were  spent.  He  was  ed- 
ucated in  the  schools  of  his  native  State,  and  at- 
tended the  military  academy  there  for  two  years, 
later  entering  Olivet  College,  where  he  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  in  1891. 
The  same  year  he  removed  to  Utah  and  became 
identified  in  business  with  his  father,  who  had 
resided  here  for  a  number  of  years  previous. 
His  first  work  was  in  connection  with  the  famous 
Silver  King  Mine.  After  being  connected  with 
that  enterprise  for  some  time,  he  entered  the 
State  School  of  Mines,  at  Denver,  Colorado,  and 
took  a  special  course  in  mining  and  metallurgy 
Upon  returning  to  Utah  he  became  connected 
with  the  Marsac  Mill,  in  the  leaching  and  refin- 
ing process,  and  later  continued  in  the  refining 
department  of  that  company.  At  this  time  and 
later  he  became  interested  in  various  mining 
companies   of   this    State,    among   the   most   im- 


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portant  of  which  is  the  Anchor  Mining  Com- 
pany, in  which  he  is  a  Director.  He  is  also  Pres- 
ident and  Director  of  the  Boss  Mining  Com- 
pany, of  Park  City ;  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of 
the  Crescent  Hill  Mining  Company,  and  Director 
of  the  Woodside  Mining  Company,  also  located 
in  Summit  county,  Utah,  and  he  is  a  Director 
and  Secretary  of  the  Salt  Lake  Mining  and  Im- 
provement Association.  These  companies  are 
among  the  important  mining  corporations  in 
Utah,  and  afford  employment  to  a  large  number 
of  men.  In  the  development  of  these  properties 
there  have  been  expended  large  sums  of  money, 
and  a  considerable  amount  of  machinery  has 
been  purchased  and  installed  for  their  more  eco- 
nomical operations.  Mr.  Ferry  is  also  President 
and  Director  in  the  Ferry-Baker  Lumber  Com- 
pany of  Everett,  Wash.,  in  which  capacity  he 
represents  his  father,  Edward  P.  Ferry,  who  con- 
trols the  corporation. 

Mr.  Ferry  was  married,  in  i8(j6,  in  Michigan, 
to  Miss  Ednah  Truman,  daughter  of  George  A. 
and  Julia  F.  (Frink)  Truman.  They  have  twin 
sons,  three  years  old — William  Montague  and 
Sanford  Truman. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Ferry  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and  while  he 
takes  an  active  part  in  the  general  affairs  of  his 
party,  he  has  as  yet  never  sought  public  office, 
nor  does  he  desire  such  distinction,  his  whole 
time  being  monopolized  by  his  business  enter- 
prises. Personally  Mr.  Ferry  is  a  very  genial, 
pleasant  gentleman,  and  but  few  young  men  in 
this  city  rank  as  high  in  business  and  social  life 
as  does  he.  His  genera!  office  is  in  the  McCor- 
nick  Building,  at  the  corner  of  JMain  and  First 
South  streets. 


N.  BARRATT.  The  development  of 
the  industrial  and  commercial  resources 
of  Utah  and  the  increasing  of  the  mate- 
rial prosperity  of  Salt  Lake  City  has 
been  a  task  fraught  with  difficulty  and 
hardship,  and  to  the  men  who  have  so  signally 
discharged  their  duties  much  credit  is  due. 
Prominent  among  these  men  is  I.  N.  Barratt, 
who  now  controls  and  directs  the  affairs  of  per- 
haps the  largest  firm  of  its  kind  in  the  western 


country,  known  as  "The  Western  Arms  Sporting 
Goods  Company."' 

Mr.  Barratt  was  born  in  Cecil  county,  Mary- 
land, and  spent  his  early  life  in  that  State.  He 
is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Americans  who  fought 
in  all  the  wars  in  which  this  country  has  been 
engaged  since  its  independence.  His  father,  An- 
drew, was  a  prosperous  fanner  in  Cecil  county, 
Maryland,  and  lived  in  that  State  all  of  his  life. 
He  served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  he  and  his 
father  built  the  chapel  known  as  the  "Barratt 
Chapel,"  for  years  an  old  landmark  in  Delaware, 
and  at  the  time  of  the  Chicago  Exposition,  in 
1893,  a  model  was  exhibited  there.  The  struc- 
ture is  still  standing. 

The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
Rosa  Lort.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Lort, 
and  belonged  to  one  of  the  oldest  and  best  known 
families  in  Maryland.  Her  father  also  partici- 
pated in  the  War  of  1812. 

The  early  education  of  our  subject  was  de- 
rived from  the  common  schools  of  Cecil  county, 
Maryland.  In  his  boyhood  days  he  was  of  a 
delicate  and  apparently  weak  constitution,  and 
at  the  age  of  twelve  years,  upon  the  advice  of 
his  family  physician,  his  father  decided  that  he 
should  take  a  sea  voyage.  The  sea  voyage  lasted 
four  years,  and  the  lad  returned  home  at  the  age 
of  sixteen. 

Two  years  after  his  return  from  the  sea  he 
secured  employment  as  a  clerk  in  a  wholesale 
grocery  business  in  Philadelphia.  Finding  that 
this  business  was  uncongenial,  he  soon  left  that 
and  secured  employment  in  the  construction  and 
building  of  bridges  on  the  Philadelphia,  Wil- 
mington and  Baltimore  Railroad.  Prominent 
among  the  important  works  of  the  early  days  of 
railroading  was  the  railroad  bridge  across  the 
Susquehanna,  between  Perryville  and  Havre  de 
Grace,  Maryland,  which  completed  the  connec- 
tion between  the  North  and  the  South,  in  the 
building  of  which  Mr.  Barratt  was  employed. 

Shortly  after  the  Civil  War  ended  Mr.  Barratt 
determined  to  remove  to  the  great  West,  at  that 
time  a  new  and  sparsely  settled  country.  He 
came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1868,  having  crossed 
the  plains  and  the  mountains  by  mule  team,  after 
a  long  and  arduous  trip.     Hostile  Indians  were 


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encountered  several  times,  and  although  often 
attacked,  Mr.  Barratt  got  through  with  the  loss 
of  two  teams,  there  being  no  sacrifice  of  human 
life.  Finding  the  speed  of  the  wagon  train  too 
slow  to  satisfy  his  desire  to  get  to  the  end  of  his 
journey,  he  parted  company  with  it,  and  for  five 
hundred  miles  traveled  alone,  reaching  here 
ahead  of  the  train. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah  Mr.  Barratt  engaged 
in  the  general  mercantile  business  with  his 
brother,  the  latter  being  established  under  the 
firm  name  of  Ross  &  Barratt.  In  this  employ- 
ment our  subject  remained  for  some  time,  and 
upon  the  death  of  ]\Ir.  Ross,  in  1869,  the  firm 
was  reorganized,  and  was  thereafter  known 
as  C.  R.  Barratt  &  Company.  The  op- 
erations of  this  firm  were  not  confined  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  possibilities  aris- 
ing from  the  prosecution  of  mining  led  to 
the  establishment  of  a  branch  house  at  Corinne 
in  1869.  Here  Mr.  Barratt  remained  in  charge 
for  three  years,  when  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake 
and  again  took  up  his  work  in  the  firm  of  Bar- 
ratt Brothers. 

It  was  at  this  time  that  the  feeling  ran  high 
between  the  Mormons  and  the  Gentiles,  and  the 
boycott  established  by  the  Church  against  the 
non-Mormon  firms  seriously  crippled  the  re- 
sources of  this  firm.  With  the  passing  of  years 
this  feeling  died,  and  to-day  there  is  as  much 
liberty  of  trade  between  the  members  and  the 
non-members  of  the  Church  as  between  the  peo- 
ple of  any  other  section  of  any  State  of  the 
L^nion. 

The  firm  of  Barratt  Brothers  continued  in  ex- 
istence until  1892,  when  they  disposed  of  their 
business.  Leaving  the  general  merchandise  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Barratt  was  made  Manager  of  the  Gar- 
field Beach  property,  owned  by  the  L'nion  Pacific 
Railroad  Company,  and  remained  in  that  employ- 
ment for  five  years. 

After  the  explosion  in  the  Pleasant  Valley  Coal 
Mining  Company's  works,  when  over  two  hun- 
dred men  were  killed,  a  fund  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  was  raised  in  the  State  to  pro- 
vide relief  for  the  families  of  the  suflferers.  For 
the  distribution  of  this  money  the  Governor  of 
the   State   chose   Mr.   Barratt,   and   he   was   sent 


into  that  region  to  take  entire  charge  of  the  re- 
lief forces  and  to  direct  the  work  of  bringing 
order  out  of  chaos.  The  magnitude  of  the  work 
may  perhaps  be  realized  from  the  fact  that  he 
had  to  provide  for  ninety-two  families,  number- 
ing over  four  hundred  people.  The  first  day 
after  his  arrival  at  the  scene  of  the  explosion 
he  superintended  the  burying  of  one  hundred  and 
nineteen  men  who  had  been  killed  in  the  catas- 
trophe. He  successfully  discharged  the  duties  of 
this  sad  task,  and  restored  conditions  to  their 
normal  state.  Immediately  after  the  completion 
of  this  work  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  and 
at  once  began  the  organization  of  the  Western 
Arms  Sporting  Goods  Company,  which  is  now 
the  leading  firm  of  this  kind  in  the  inter-moun- 
tain region.  Mr.  Barratt  was  elected  Secretary 
and  General  JNIanaeer  of  that  company,  and  has 
continued  to  fill  those  positions  ever  since. 

j\lr.  Barratt  was  married,  in  Denver,  to  Laura 
M.  Watson,  daughter  of  Joseph  W.  Watson,  of 
an  old  Ohio  family,  prominent  both  socially  and 
politically  in  that  State.     His  wife  died  in  1884. 

In  the  administration  of  the  political  affairs 
of  the  State  Mr.  Barratt  has  taken  the  part  that 
the  man  of  business  should  take  in  the  regulation 
of  the  affairs  of  the  community  of  which  he  is  a 
citizen.  He  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of  the 
Democratic  party,  but  has  never  participated  in 
the  active  work  of  that  party,  so  far  as  running 
for  office  is  concerned.  His  brother  was  post- 
master of  Salt  Lake  City  for  two  years  before 
his  death.  Mr.  Barratt,  in  social  life,  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Elks. 

Mr.  Barratt's  life  has  covered  the  most  stir- 
ring periods  in  the  history  of  the  United  States. 
He  has  seen  the  East  developed  and  brought 
closer  together  by  the  construction  of  the  steam 
railroads,  and  the  West  consolidated  with  the 
East  by  the  great  arteries  of  the  transcontinental 
lines.  His  success  has  been  due  to  his  own  en- 
ergy, his  ability  to  work  and  to  do  well  what- 
ever presented  itself,  and  to  grasp  and  make  the 
most  of  opportunities.  His  education  has  been 
derived  from  the  great  school  of  experience,  and 
the  character  and  reputation  he  has  built  up  for 
honesty  and  integrity  is  a  record  of  which  his 
posterity  may  well  be  proud.     His  genial,  kindly 


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manner,  together  with  his  broad  experience  in 
the  settHng  of  the  great  West  and  the  active 
part  which  he  has  taken  in  that  work,  has  made 
him  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  country 
and  brought  him  the  enjoyment  of  a  wide  popu- 
larity. 


ODXEY  HILLAjNI.  The  Zion  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution  is  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  leading  commer- 
cial concerns  west  of  Chicago.  The 
vast  business  carried  on  by  this  insti- 
tution is  the  wonder  of  the  whole  business  world, 
located  as  it  is  in  the  heart  of  the  inter-moun- 
tain region,  which  at  one  time  was  considered 
almost  uninhabitable  by  white  men,  but  as  time 
has  passed  and  rapid  progress  has  been  made 
in  America  by  the  assistance  of  the  steam  engine 
and  the  most  wonderful  electrical  appliances,  it 
is  no  longer  remote  from  the  seat  of  civilization. 
The  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution 
was  established  in  1869  by  President  Brigham 
Young  and  his  associates.  Among  the  many  de- 
partments of  this  great  business  house  the  shoe 
and  clothing  factories  and  the  wholesale  shoe  de- 
partment constitute  one  of  its  important  branches. 
As  general  manager  of  these  departments  Rod- 
ney Hillam,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  deserves 
special  mention.  For  over  a  quarter  of  a  century 
he  has  been  identified  with  various  positions  in 
the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution, 
and  for  many  years  has  been  manager  of  the 
shoe  and  clothing  factories  and  the  wholesale 
shoe  department,  and  under  his  able  management 
these  departments  have  grown  to  wonderful  pro- 
portions and  been  placed  on  a  sound  financial 
basis,  and  are  to-day  considered  among  the  most 
profitable  adjuncts  to  the  Institution. 

Rodney  Hillam,  the  son  of  Abraham  and  Han- 
nah (Helliwell)  Hillam,  was  born  in  Bradford, 
Yorkshire,  England,  October  16,  1844.  While 
yet  an  infant  his  parents  moved  to  the  village 
of  Horseforth,  Woodside,  near  Leeds,  Yorkshire, 
and  there  he  received  his  early  education,  attend- 
ing St.  Stephen's  National  School,  Kirkstall, 
until   the  spring  of    1855,  when   he   was  out   to 


work  in  the  silk  factory  for  half  of  each  day, 
the  other  half  being  devoted  to  study.  He  re- 
mained at  this  occupation  until  the  early  part  of 
1856,  when,  on  the  loth  of  February,  his  parents 
sailed  for  the  United  States,  starting  from  Liver- 
pool on  board  the  Caravan.  There  were  four 
hundred  and  fifty-four  people  on  board  this  ves- 
sel, and  the  trip  of  six  weeks  was  a  most  dan- 
gerous one,  a  terrific  storm  being  encountered, 
in  which  one  of  the  sailors  lost  his  life.  Upon 
landing  in  New  York,  they  were  taken  to  Castle 
Garden,  where  they  remained  two  days.  They 
came  by  boat  as  far  as  Cleveland,  Ohio,  at  which 
point  our  subject's  father  left  the  rest  of  the 
company  and  went  to  Cincinnati,  reaching  there 
April  1st.  Here  they  were  met  bv  a  friend  of 
the  father's,  Mr.  John  Hill,  who  had  advanced 
the  money  for  them  to  come  to  this  country.  The 
family  lived  in  Cincinnati  until  1859,  our  sub- 
ject continuing  his  studies,  working  one  day  iii 
the  week  in  the  office  of  the  Gazette.  He  com- 
pleted his  scholastic  education  in  this  city.  When 
our  subject  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  the  family 
started  for  Utah,  taking  passage  on  the  river 
boats  as  far  as  Florence,  where  they  remained 
some  weeks,  and  on  June  26,  1859,  started  across 
the  plains  in  ox  teams,  in  a  company  of  fifty-four 
wagons,  under  Captain  Edward  Stevenson.  Dur- 
ing the  trip  of  eleven  weeks,  our  subject  took  his 
turn  with  the  men  detailed  to  guard  the  camp  and 
cattle  from  the  Indians.  They  arrived  in  Salt 
Lake  in  September,  and  went  to  live  with  the 
family  of  W.  W.  Burton,  on  the  County  Road, 
near  the  Sugar  House  Ward,  the  father  and  son 
running  threshing  machines  and  doing  whatever 
they  could  get.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  they 
made  their  first  trip  into  the  canyons  with  Mr. 
Burton,  after  wood,  and  had  some  very  uncom- 
fortable experiences,  their  food  being  stolen  while 
they  were  absent  from  camp,  and  the  men  hav- 
ing to  go  without  food  until  the  boy  could  be 
sent  back  to  the  farm  for  a  new  supply.  On  the 
return  trip  a  severe  storm  came  up,  and  thinking 
best  to  send  our  subject  home,  where  he  could 
be  sheltered,  the  cattle  were  unhooked  from  the 
wagon,  which  the  severity  of  the  storm  made  it 
impossible  for  them  to  haul,  and  he  was  sent 
ahead,    the    men    remainins:    with    the    wagons. 


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However,  he  became  lost  in  the  bhnding  storm, 
and  was  compelled  to  lie  out  all  night  without 
shelter  of  any  kind.  The  experience  was  a  ter- 
rible one  for  a  young-  boy,  fresh  from  a  large 
city  and  unused  to  the  hardships  and  dangers 
of  the  western  wilds,  but  fortunately  no  bad  re- 
sults came  from  his  experience. 

In  the  spring  of  i860  the  family  moved  to  the 
Tenth  Ward,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  our  subject  began  work  in  the  tannery 
belonging  to  Mr.  Jennings,  at  which  he  remained 
for  four  years.  In  the  spring  of  1866  he  was 
sent  to  the  Missouri  river  to  assist  emigrants 
across  the  plains,  and  on  the  return  trip  the  In- 
dians were  very  hostile,  burning  a  number  of 
the  mail  stations  and  driving  off  cattle.  They 
stole  a  hundred  head  from  the  train  of  Captain 
Chipman,  and  it  was  only  by  doubling  the  num- 
ber of  guards  and  exercising  the  utmost  vigil- 
ance that  the  emigrants  were  able  to  reach  Salt 
Lake  in  safety.  From  this  time  until  1872  Mr. 
Hillam  alternated  between  hauling  timber  from 
the  canyons  and  working  in  the  tannery.  In 
1870  he  moved  to  Brigham  City,  and  for  two 
and  a  half  years  worked  at  the  tannery  business. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Grimsdell 
on  January  26,  1868,  and  in  1872  moved  his 
family  to  Salt  Lake,  where  he  found  employ- 
ment on  the  Temple  Building.  His  connection 
with  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institu- 
tion began  in  1874,  when  he  was  engaged  as  a 
teamster.  From  that  he  rose  to  the  position  of 
checking  all  the  freight  received  by  the  Institu- 
tion, and  while  engaged  in  this  received  a  very 
bad  injury.  Upon  his  recovery  he  was  given  a 
clerkship  in  the  retail  shoe  department.  In  1881 
he  was  sent  on  a  mission  to  England,  and  on  his 
return  was  transferred  to  the  wholesale  depart- 
ment, and  later  sent  out  as  a  traveling  salesman. 
His  work  alternated  for  some  years  between  that 
of  traveling  salesman  and  assistant  manager  of 
the  wholesale  shoe  department.  He  was  pro- 
moted to  his  present  position  on  November  i, 
1897,  which  he  has  since  continuously  filled. 
With  the  exception  of  about  a  year,  during 
which  time  he  served  on  a  mission  to  his  native 
country,  laboring  in  the  Leeds  Conference  and 
in  the  Bradford  District.   Mr.   Hillam  has  been 


a  continuous  resident  of  Utah  from  the  time  he 
came  here  as  a  boy  until  now. 

Mr.  Hillam  is  a  self-made  man,  having  started 
out  in  life  with  no  capital  except  a  strong  body, 
willing  hands  and  a  determined  mind.  He  is 
thoroughly  acquainted,  by  actual  experience,  with 
the  hardships  and  many  discouragements  incident 
to  settling  in  a  new  country.  By  patience  and 
perseverance  he  has  carved  out  a  successful  ca- 
reer, of  which  any  man  might  well  be  proud.  By 
his  long,  honorable  and  upright  life  in  Utah  he 
has  won  and  retained  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  all  the  people  of  Utah. 


OSEPH  E.  T.\YLOR,  the  pioneer  un- 
dertaker of  Salt  Lake  City,  was  born 
December  11,  1830,  at  Horsham,  Sussex 
county,  England,  and  received  his  edu- 
cation in  his  native  land.  At  the  age 
of  seventeen  he  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  traveling  as  a  missionary  for  three 
years. 

On  January  4,  1851,  he  sailed  from  England 
for  America,  and  after  being  detained  for  a  year 
on  account  of  sickness  in  St.  Louis,  he  came 
to  Utah,  traveling  overland  with  ox  teams,  ar- 
riving in  Salt  Lake  City  September  6,  1852.  In 
those  early  days  trades  and  professions  were  of 
little  avail  to  the  possessors;  consequently  Mr. 
Taylor,  like  many  others,  labored  at  various  oc- 
cupations. In  1858  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
his  father-in-law,  William  Capener,  and  began 
the  manufacture  of  furniture  from  the  native 
wood,  in  which  business  they  continued  until 
1863,  at  which  time  he  started  his  present  busi- 
ness of  undertaker,  embalmer  and  funeral  di- 
rector; also  the  manufacturing  of  undertakers' 
supplies.  During  a  period  of  forty  years  Mr. 
Taylor  has  furnished  the  necessary  outfits  and 
prepared  the  bodies  of  over  twenty  thousand  per- 
sons for  burial. 

He  is  recognized,  as  one  of  the  leaders  in  his 
line  of  business,  and  has  done  much  to  bring  the 
undertaking  profession  to  its  present  high  stand- 
ard. He  has  also  been  active  in  building  up  the 
city  and  State,  building  in  both  the  residence  and 
business  sections. 

In  1853  he  was  married  to  Miss  L.  R.  Capener, 


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a  daughter  of  his  former  partner.  He  has  con- 
tracted other  marriages,  and  is  the  father  of 
twenty-two  Hving  children,  all  residents  of  this 
State.  He  and  his  entire  family  are  members  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  and  several  of  his  sons  have 
served  on  missions  for  the  Church,  one  son,  Alma 
O.,  being  at  this  time  on  a  mission  to  Japan.  ]Mr. 
Taylor  has  at  different  times  filled  offices  in  the 
priesthood,  from  that  of  Priest  to  High  Priest. 
Upon  his  return  from  a  mission  in  the  East,  in 
April,  1876,  he  was  set  apart  as  Counselor  to 
Angus  M.  Cannon,  President  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stake,  which  office  he  still  holds.  He  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the 
Church,  and  is  a  liberal  contributor  to  educa- 
tional enterprises,  being  the  founder  and  sup- 
porter of  many  of  the  Church  institutions.  He 
has  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion since  its  organization  in  1896. 

In  politics  Mr.  Taylor  is  a  Democrat,  and  in 
1896  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature  and 
served  one  term.  He  was  for  thirty  years  Sex- 
ton and  Recorder  of  Vital  Statistics.  He  has 
been  one  of  the  successful  men  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  those  who  have  come  in  contact  with 
him  have  learned  to  recognize  his  force  of  char- 
acter, and  his  reputation  is  above  reproach.  He 
has  won  a  high  rank  in  the  business  world  of 
this  community,  and  is  regarded  as  a  man  of 
unimpeachable  integrity. 


FENCER  CLAWSON.  Prominent 
among  the  men  who  have  developed  the 
commercial  resources  of  Utah  and  have 
so  materially  aided  in  bringing  Salt 
Lake  City  to  its  present  satisfactory 
condition,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  A  com- 
paratively young  man,  he  has  already  demon- 
strated his  ability  to  stand  in  the  front  ranks  of 
the  leaders  of  the  State,  and  his  business  suc- 
cesses have  been  such  as  to  make  him  easily  one 
of  the  most  prominent  men  in  the  business  world 
of  the  West. 

Spencer  Clawson  is  the  son  of  Bishop  Hiram 
B.  Clawson,  and  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1862;  was  educated  in  the  private  schools  of  this 


citv,  and  completed  his  education  at  the  Deseret 
University,  graduating  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 
On  the  completion  of  his  education  he  secured 
employment  with  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercan- 
tile Institution,  where  he  remained  for  ten  years. 
During  the  decade  covered  by  the  years  from 
1872  to  1882  he  had  charge  of  all  the  purchases 
made  by  this  Institution  in  the  Eastern  markets, 
and  it  was  in  this  work  that  he  developed  his 
business  ability  and  gave  promise  of  his  future 
success.  In  1882  he  left  the  service  of  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  and  engaged 
in  the  dry  goods  business,  locating  at  55  South 
Temple.  This  establishment  he  continued  until 
he  built  his  new  store  on  Broadway  in  1889. 
For  the  following  ten  years  he  remained  at  this 
site,  and  then  removed  to  Southwest  Temple, 
where  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Building  stood, 
and  there  he  remained  until  the  entire  block  was 
consumed  by  fire,  in  September,  1901.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  wholesale  dry  goods  business,  he  also 
found  time  to  engage  to  a  greater  or  less  degree 
in  other  business  enterprises  in  this  city,  and 
erected  the  Aztec  Block,  now  occupied  by  the 
offices  of  the  Mine,  Smelter  and  Supply  Com- 
pany. After  the  fire  in  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
Building,  he  secured  a  lot  on  the  old  "Walker 
Grounds,"  on  Main  street,  above  Second  South, 
where  he  is  erecting  a  commodious  building, 
thirty-five  by  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  feet  and 
two  stories  high. 

Mr.  Clawson  was  married  in  1876  to  Aliss 
Xabbie  Young,  daughter  of  Brigham  Young, 
and  has  six  children.  His  wife  died  in  1894. 
His  children  are :  Spencer,  Junior,  at  present  in 
Leipsic,  Germany;  Claire,  who  is  now  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Benedict ;  Curtis,  Grace,  John  and  Neels. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Clawson  is  a  member  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  is  at  present  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Public  Works.  In  addition 
to  this  office,  he  was  elected  City  Counsellor, 
which  position  he  held  for  a  term  of  years.  He 
has  witnessed  Salt  Lake  grow  from  a  -small  in- 
land town  to  its  present  metropolitan  standing, 
and  has  aided  considerably  in  its  growth.  He 
is  a  Trustee  of  the  Brigham  Young  Trust  Com- 
pany, in  the  incorporation  of  which  he  also  as- 
sisted.    It  is  capitalized  for  five  hundred  thou- 


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sand  dollars,  and  owns  valuable  real  estate 
throughout  the  city.  He  is  also  one  of  the  Di- 
rectors of  the  Consolidated  Railway  and  Power 
Company,  which  owns  and  operates  all  the  street 
railway  systems  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

In  the  affairs  of  the  Church  of  his  choice,  Mr. 
Clawson  has  been  very  active,  and  has  contrib- 
uted materially  to  its  development.  His  success 
in  life  has  been  due  entirely  to  his  own  efforts, 
and  the  career  which  he  has  built  up  stamps  him 
as  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  this  city, 
and,  in  fact,  of  the  entire  West.  Whatever  en- 
terprises he  undertook  he  successfully  carried  to 
completion,  by  reason  of  his  untiring  energy  and 
unflagging  application  to  the  work  in  hand.  Salt 
Lake  City  and  L'tah  owe  a  great  deal  to  the  men 
of  Mr.  Clawson's  stamp,  who  have  done  so  much 
for  them  in  the  development  of  their  commercial 
and  industrial  resources. 


OSEPH  L.  HOLBROOK.  Through- 
out the  State  of  L^tah  there  is  no  more 
highly  respected  citizen  than  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  Coming  to  Utah 
among  the  pioneers  of  1848,  he  has  suc- 
cessfully followed  agriculture  from  an  unprom- 
ising beginning  until  now  he  is  one  of  the  most 
successful  farrtjers  in  Davis  county. 

Joseph  L.  Holbrook  was  born  in  Caldwell 
county,  Missouri,  January  31,  1837.  He  is  the 
son  of  Joseph  and  Nancy  (Lampson)  Holbrook, 
who  were  among  the  first  members  of  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints.  His  father 
was  a  native  of  New  York,  but  was  reared  in 
Massachusetts  and  later  moved  to  Ohio,  where 
he  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  and  joined  his  fortunes  with  it  and 
journeyed  to  its  headquarters,  then  in  Missouri. 
He  was  first  married  in  ^Massachusetts,  but  be- 
lieving in  the  doctrine  of  plural  marriages,  mar- 
ried two  other  wives.  By  the  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject he  had  six  children,  of  whom  Joseph  L.  is 
the  only  one  now  living.  By  his  other  wives  he 
h.id  families,  but  of  them  only  eight  children  re- 
main alive  at  this  writing. 

When  their  son  Joseph  was  yet  a  child  his 
parents  removed  from  Missouri,  with  the  migra- 


tion of  the  members  of  the  Church,  and  settled 
at  Nauvoo,  residing  there  when  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith  was  killed,  of  whom  our  subject's 
father  was  a  close  friend.  When  the  exodus  of 
the  members  of  the  Church  took  place  from 
Nauvoo,  the  Holbrook  family  went  with  them  to 
Winter  Quarters,  but  passed  on  to  Ponco,  where 
they  spent  that  hard  winter.  In  the  following 
spring  they  returned  to  Iowa,  and  settled  on 
J^Iosquito  creek,  where  they  remained  until  1848, 
when  they  made  the  long  overland  journey  to 
the  valley  of  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  being  members 
of  a  portion  of  Brigham  Young's  company  of 
five  hundred  wagons,  they  being  under  the  lead- 
ership of  Captain  Isaac  Morley,  who  had  charge 
of  one  hundred  wagons. 

Upon  their  arrival  in  Utah  the  family  settled 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  they  spent  the  first  win- 
ter, moving  to  Bountiful  in  the  following  spring. 
The  family  at  once  took  an  active  part  in  the 
settlement  of  this  new  region,  our  subject's  father 
being  elected  the  first  Probate  Judge  of  Davis 
county,  in  which  office  he  served  four  terms, 
aggregating  eight  years.  He  at  once  took  up 
farming,  and  made  a  success  of  that  avocation, 
and  his  reputation,  which  he  acquired  by  his  in- 
dustry, integrity  and  honesty,  made  him  one  of 
the  most  respected  men  in  his  community.  He 
died,  beloved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew 
him,  on  November  14,  1886.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  died  when  he  was  quite  young,  passing 
away  shortly  after  the  arrival  of  the  family  at 
Nauvoo  from  Missouri. 

Joseph  L.  Holbrook  was  married  on  July  23, 
1854,  to  Catherine  Watterson,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  Colvin  Watterson.  Her  family 
were  natives  of  the  Isle  of  ilan,  where  she  was 
also  born,  and  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  days, 
arriving  here  in  1850,  and  settling  in  Bountiful. 
Her  father  died  in  that  town  in  1855,  and  her 
mother  lived  there  until  her  death  in  1887.  The 
family  of  Mrs.  Holbrook  has  been  widely  scat- 
tered throughout  the  West ;  one  sister,  Margaret 
Parks,  is  now  a  resident  of  Idaho,  and  her 
brother,  William  Watterson,  lives  at  Logan,  in 
this  State. 

Mr.  Holbrook  was  baptized  into  the  Church 
at  the  age  of  eight  years,  at  Nauvoo,  and  has 


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been  a  consistent  and  faithful  follower  of  it  all 
his  life.  He  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  for 
the  Church  in  1880,  and  was  assigned  to  Eng- 
land, where  he  labored  in  the  Newcastle  Confer- 
ence for  two  years.  Upon  his  return  to  Utah  he 
again  took  up  his  business  as  a  farmer,  and  has 
devoted  his  time  and  attention  to  that  and  to  his 
work  in  the  development  of  his  Church.  In  this 
organization  he  is  now  acting  as  Second  Coun- 
selor to  Bishop  Stoker  of  East  Bountiful  Ward. 

In  the  affairs  of  State  he  has  always  taken  a 
lively  interest,  and  believes  in  the  principles  of 
the  Democratic  party.  He  was  elected  County 
Commissioner  of  Davis  county  in  1888,  and  again 
in  1898.  He  was  also  selected  by  the  citizens  to 
s.erve  as  Mayor  of  the  town  of  Bountiful,  which 
position  he  filled  with  satisfaction  for  a  period  of 
five  years.  His  wife  takes  a  prominent  part  in 
the  work  of  the  Church,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Ladies'  Relief  Society. 

Mr.  Holbrooks'  career  has  stamped  him  as  one 
of  the  substantial  men  of  Davis  county,  and  the 
.=uccess  he  has  achieved  in  his  chosen  work  has 
brought  him  the  reward  that  follows  industry 
and  hard,  unflagging  application,  and  he  is  now 
looked  upon  as  one  of  the  most  substantial  men 
of  his  community. 


I  SHOP  JABEZ  W.  WEST,  member 
of  the  wholesale  house  of  Knight  & 
Company,  and  Bishop  in  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
of  the  Ninth  Ward  of  Zion.  Bishop 
West  has  spent  most  of  his  life  in  Utah,  having 
crossed  the  Atlantic  Ocean  and  the  great  Ameri- 
can Desert  in  his  mother's  arms  when  he  was 
but  four  years  of  age.  During  his  long  resi- 
dence in  LTtah  he  has  proved  an  important  factor 
in  developing  many  of  the  successful  enterprises 
in  this  inter-mountain  region.  He  is  well  ac- 
quainted with  many  of  the  hardships  incident  to 
settling  in  a  new  country,  but  these  difficulties 
have  only  tended  to  make  him  a  stronger  and  bet- 
ter man.  His  eflforts  here  have  been  crowned 
with  a  reasonable  degree  of  success,  and  his  long 
and  honorable  career  in  this  State  has  won  for 


him  a  large  circle  of  friends,  among  all  classes 
and  creeds,  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  vicinity. 

A  native  of  England,  born  in  London  in  1859, 
he  is  the  son  of  Charles  H.  J.  and  Eliza  (Dan- 
gerfield)  West,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1863.  They 
became  connected  with  the  Mormon  Church  in 
the  time  of  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  The  father 
labored  in  England  as  a  missionary,  and  in  1863 
crossed  the  plains  in  ox  teams,  accompanied  by 
his  family.  They  located  in  Provo,  where  he 
taught  school  for  two  years,  and  later  returned 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  taught  for  two  years 
in  the  Sixth  Ward.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  and  still  re- 
sides here.  He  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  in 
1896,  and  has  been  an  active  member  of  the 
Church  since  its  infancy. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
obtained  his  education  here,  attending  schools 
usually  about  tliree  months  out  of  the  year,  the 
rest  of  the  time  being  employed  in  herding  cattle 
and  sheep  and  hauling  wood  from  the  canyons, 
experiencing  many  of  the  hardships  encountered 
by  the  sons  of  pioneers.  In  1877,  at  the  age  of 
eighteen,  he  engaged  in  the  retail  meat  business, 
in  partnership  with  W.  H.  Peterson,  and  one  year 
later  dissolved  partnership  with  Mr.  Peterson 
and  conducted  the  business  alone  for  three  years. 
In  1883  the  firm  of  Knight  &  Co.  was  organ- 
ized as  wholesale  and  retail  butchers,  Mr.  West 
becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  at  that  time. 
The  firm  has  discontinued  the  retail  department, 
and  now  does  an  exclusively  wholesale  trade. 
They  have  a  complete  plant,  with  ample  cold 
storage  facilities  and  a  slaughter  house  in  North 
Salt  Lake,  and  furnish  employment  to  thirty 
men.  They  have  built  up  a  large  trade  in  and 
out  of  the  State;  and  furnish  largely  to  the  retail 
dealers  of  this  city. 

In  1881  Mr.  West  married  Miss  Jessie  Hog- 
gan,  daughter  of  Walter  and  Agnes  Hoggan, 
who  came  to  Utah  in  1863.  By  this  marriage 
they  have  seven  living  children  and  three  de- 
ceased. 

Bishop  West  has  all  his  life  been  an  active 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  was  ordained 
an  Elder  by  Joseph  Felt  in  1881.  In  1897  he 
was  called  on  a  mission  to   Great   Britain,   and 


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labored  in  the  Manchester  Conference  for  a  year, 
and  for  eight  months  was  President  of  the  Lon- 
don Conference.  He  was  ordained  a  Seventy  in 
1893,  and  called  to  preside  as  Bishop  of  the  Ninth 
Ward  on  April  16,  1890.  His  Counselors  are 
A.  H.  Woolley  and  John  Holt. 

Mr.  West  is  an  entirely  self-made  man,  and  in 
spite  of  a  number  of  serious  accidents  has  per- 
severed over  all  obstacles,  and  by  energy  and  de- 
termination fought  his  way  to  a  place  of  promi- 
nence among  the  business  men  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
When  but  a  child  of  four  years  he  was  severely 
injured  by  a  large  van  falling  on  him,  and 
the  injury  was  thought  to  be  permanent,  but 
his  health  was  restored  by  the  voyage  across  the 
ocean.  While  the  family  were  en  route  to  Utah 
the  little  fellow  was  run  over  by  a  large  freight 
wagon  and  his  knee  crushed,  and  in  later  years, 
when  driving  a  delivery  wagon,  he  was  severely 
injured  by  his  horse  falling  on  him.  However, 
he  recovered  from  these  various  mishaps,  and  has 
been  able  to  pursue  his  usual  avocations  through 
life. 


ARTIX  CHRISTOPHERSEN.  A 
city  may  have  fine  homes  and  have 
a  grand  climate,  and  yet,  if  it  be 
unadorned  with  nature's  most  beau- 
tiful gifts,  flowers  and  trees,  it  will 
be  a  desolate  place.  In  the  beautifying  of  a 
home  flowers  form  a  very  important  part,  and 
there  are  but  few  people  who  are  not  lovers  of 
beautiful  flowers.  The  lovely  rose,  chrysanthe- 
mum, geranium  and  magnolia  have  each  held  an 
important  part  in  the  beautifying  of  many  homes, 
delighting  the  senses  by  their  color  and  perfume. 
Martin  Christophersen,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
has  perhaps  done  more  towards  decorating  and 
enhancing  the  beauty  of  Salt  Lake  City  than  any 
other  man  who  has  ever  lived  here,  and  too  much 
praise  cannot  be  bestowed  in  behalf  of  his  work, 
and  today  our  city  is  noted  for  the  abundance  and 
beauty  of  its  shade  trees,  as  well  as  the  well-kept 
lawns  and  elegant  flower  gardens  which  adorn 
the  homes  of  its  people. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Christiania,  Norway, 
on  April  13,  1850.  and  was  the  son  of  Christopher 


Peterson  and  Ellen  (Hansen)  Christophersen. 
His  father  died  when  he  was  but  twelve  years  of 
age,  and  the  mother  being  left  alone  to  support 
her  family,  was  unable  to  give  them  any  but  a 
scant  education,  which  our  subject,  however, 
made  the  most  of,  and  being  possessed  of  a  great 
thirst  of  knowledge,  has  improved  every  oppor- 
tunity to  gain  an  education,  and  to-day  is  a  well- 
read  man,  as  well  as  a  man  of  wide  observation, 
and  during  his  trips  abroad  has  availed  himself 
of  the  opportunities  afforded  to  broaden  his 
knowledge  of  men  and  things.  He  spent  his 
early  life  in  Norway,  and  learned  the  trade  of 
florist  and  landscape  gardening,  which  he  fol- 
lowed until  his  twentieth  year,  being  assistant 
gardener  at  the  King's  palace.  At  the  age  of 
sixteen  he  bcame  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  and  four  years  later  re- 
ceived a  call  from  tlie  Church  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion in  his  own  land,  giving  up  his  position  at 
the  King's  palace  to  obey  this  call.  He  served 
fourteen  months  on  this  mission,  and  in  August, 
1871,  sailed  for  America,  landing  at  New  York 
City,  and  came  direct  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where 
he  obtained  employment  as  florist  for  the  Walker 
family,  which  position  he  filled  for  twelve  years, 
during  which  time  he  received  several  medals  for 
keeping  the  best  lawns  and  gardens  in  the  State. 
He  was  again  called  on  a  mission  in  1883,  to  go 
to  his  native  country,  and  after  his  return  he 
located  at  his  present  home,  where  he  has  since 
built  a  beautiful  residence  and  engaged  in  the 
nursery  business,  having  some  of  the  finest  gar- 
dens and  lawns  in  the  city.  His  attention  has 
not  been  wholly  given  to  private  lawns  and 
grounds,  but  he  has  supplied  millions  of  trees 
to  the  State,  and  was  the  man  chosen  to  lay  out 
the  plans  for  the  beautiful  grounds  around  the 
City  and  County  Building,  and  also  the  grounds 
at  the  Ogden  Reform  School.  He  is  regarded 
as  without  a  peer  in  his  line  of  work. 

Mr.  Christophersen  was  married  December  26, 
1874,  to  Miss  Jeanette  Ledingham,  daughter  of 
Alexander  and  Jeanette  (Forquer)  Ledingham, 
and  of  this  marriage  nine  children  have  been  born. 
They  are :  M.  E.,  who  served  on  a  mission  for 
two  years  in  Norway,  being  called  there  in  1895 ; 
Willard  .\.,  now  on  a  mission  to  Xorwav ;  Vic- 


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tor,  Jessie,  Walter,  Ella,  Norma,  Alvin  and  Edna. 
The  children  are  all  of  high  musical  ability,  all 
being-  well-known  singers,  and  his  son  M.  E.  is 
now  a  teacher  of  vocal  music  at  Mount  Pleasant, 
in  this  State. 

Mr.  Christophersen  is  a  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  its 
work.  He  was  elected  a  County  Commissioner  in 
1893,  and  it  was  during  his  term  of  office  that 
the  City  and  County  Building  was  completed. 
\\'hen  that  Board  of  Commissioners  took  their 
positions  the  county  was  financially  embarrassed, 
and  Mr.  Christophersen  and  his  colleagues  did  a 
great  deal  towards  placing  the  county  on  a  sound 
financial  basis.  Mr.  Christophersen  was  the  first 
Precinct  Chairman  of  the  Republican  party  after 
its  organization  in  this  State,  when  there  were 
but  few  members,  and  before  his  term  expired 
its  membership  had  grown  until  it  held  the  bal- 
ance of  power,  and  has  since  been  the  dominant 
party.  Mrs.  Christophersen,  as  well  as  all  the 
children,  are  also  members  of  the  Mormon  faith, 
being  members  of  the  Relief  and  Aid  Societies  in 
their  Ward,  and  have  ever  been  active  in  the 
service  of  the  Church.  Thev  are  prominent  not 
only  in  their  immediate  neighborhood,  but  in 
the  city  and  State  as  well,  and  Mr.  Christopher- 
sen enjoys  a  wide  reputation,  not  alone  as  an 
artist  in  his  particular  line  of  work,  but  as  an 
upright  and  conscientious  business  man,  and  his 
integrity,  honesty  and  pleasant  and  genial  man- 
ner have  won  for  him  a  host  of  friends. 


ISHOP  REUBEN  MILLER.  No  pio- 
neer or  early  settler  in  Utah  but  knew 
Bishop  Reuben  Aliller,  whose  well-spent 
life  leaves  only  kindly  memories  of  use- 
fulness and  activity  in  the  early  history 
of  Salt  Lake  county.  He  died  where  he  first 
settled,  on  the  banks  of  Big  Cottonwood  creek, 
but  the  scene  had  undergone  a  transformation 
from  bleak  and  arid  sagebrush  desert  to  fertile 
meadow  and  fallow  land.  In  the  early  fifties  Reu- 
ben Miller  built  for  himself  and  his  family  a 
two-story  adobe  dwelling  house,  which  is  now 
occupied  by  the  widow  of  one  of  his  sons,  Mrs. 


D.  L.  Miller.  The  building  has  been  remodeled 
of  late  years,  but  the  walls  are  still  the  same  old 
walls  which  Reuben  Miller  built  a  half  century 
ago.  It  was  within  those  walls  that  his  family 
grew  up  to  manhood  and  womanhood.  All  of 
the  sons  settled  on  or  around  the  old  homestead 
and  followed  up  the  business  of  sheep  and  cattle 
raising. 

Reuben  Aliller  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  De- 
cember 4,  181 1.  As  a  young  man  he  settled  in 
La  Salle  county,  Illinois.  Mormonism  was  then 
in  its  infancy,  and  Mr.  Miller  being  carried  away 
by  the  zeal  and  earnestness  of  the  proselytes  to 
the  new  doctrine,  joined  their  ranks.  He  re- 
mained true  to  the  teachings  he  then  imbibed  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  July  22,  1882,  and  dur- 
ing his  life  was  an  earnest  laborer  in  the  faith. 
He  was  at  Nauvoo  when  the  Mormons  were  ex- 
pelled from  the  State.  He  wandered  to  Wal- 
worth county,  Wisconsin,  and  from  there  to 
Pottawotamie  county,  Iowa.  In  the  year  1849 
he  started  out,  with  a  large  family,  to  the  almost 
unknown  mountain  home  of  tlie  Mormons  in  the 
valley  of  Salt  Lake.  Their  store  of  worldly  goods 
was  small,  but  their  hearts  were  stout  and  brave. 
Mr.  Miller  settled  down  in  the  sagebrush  in  Big 
Cottonwood  creek,  and  went  into  a- deserted  dug- 
out and  lived  there  eighteen  months.  A  man  of 
energy,  he  began  to  prosper  and  make  his  pres- 
ence felt  in  the  sparsely  peopled  settlement.  He 
cleared  his  land,  built  himself  a  home,  and  began 
to  raise  stock.  In  the  first  winter  after  his  ar- 
rival in  the  new  Jilormon  settlement  Mr.  Miller 
was  made  a  County  Commissioner.  Term  after 
term  he  was  re-elected  Commissioner,  and  he 
held  this  office  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1882. 
In  the  fall  of  the  year  1849  ^^r.  Miller  was  or- 
dained Bishop  of  Mill  Creek  Ward,  and  this 
Church  position  he  also  retained  till  his  death. 
His  term  as  County  Commissioner  (thirty-four 
years)  was  the  longest  unbroken  term  of  public 
office  ever  held  in  Utah. 

Not  only  as  a  man  of  upright  and  honorable 
character  was  Reuben  Miller  a  man  for  his  fel- 
lows to  emulate,  but  he  was  a  financier  of  no 
mean  ability,  and  his  teachings,  both  in  matters 
spiritual  and  temporal,  were  eagerly  absorbed  by 
his    children,   have   borne     fruit     in   their    lives. 


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And  not  only  his  own  family,  but  all  who  came 
in  contact  with  him,  were  benefited  by  the  pre- 
cepts promulgated  by  this  good  man. 

Deeply  attached  to  her  husband,  and  equally 
beloved  with  the  Bishop,  was  his  wife,  who  mar- 
ried him  back  in  Ottawa,  La  Salle  county,  Illi- 
nois, April  17,  1836.  Her  maiden  name  was 
Rhoda  Ann  Letts,  and  she  was  born  in  Knox 
county,  Ohio,  November  25,  1814.  She  only 
survived  her  husband  one  year,  passing  away 
August  9,  1883.  The  Bishop  and  his  wife  were 
buried  in  the  city  cemetery  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  a  handsome  monument  was  erected  to  their 
memory  by  their  children,  of  whom  there  were 
eight. 


EBER  J.  GRANT.  The  first  Utahn 
to  be  called  to  an  Apostleship  in  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  and  the  thirty-third  one  chosen, 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Born  in 
this  State  in  1856,  his  whole  life  has  been  de- 
voted to  the  work  of  developing  the  Church  and 
in  building  up  and  utilizing  the  industries  and 
resources  of  his  native  State.  Few  men  have 
participated  more  actively  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  and  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  prosperity 
of  the  State  than  has  Heber  J.  Grant. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  November  22, 
1856,  on  the  present  site  of  the  Zion  Co-operative 
■Mercantile  Institution,  then  the  home  of  his 
father.  He  was  the  only  son  of  Jedediah  ^Morgan 
Grant  and  Rachael  Ridgeway  (Ivins)  Grant. 
His  early  education  and  business  training  were 
secured  by  his  own  efforts  and  the  sheer  force 
of  determination  which  has  since  brought  him 
such  success  in  life.  The  first  school  he  attended 
was  taught  by  the  mother  of  Matthias  F.  Cowley, 
and  he  later  attended  the  school  directed  by  the 
father  and  mother  of  A.  F.  Doremus,  situated 
in  the  old  Deseret  Hospital  building,  opposite 
the  University.  He  later  attended  the  sessions  in 
President  Young's  school  house,  in  the  Eight- 
eenth Ward,  and  the  school  in  the  Thirteenth 
Ward.  From  here  he  went  to  the  Deseret  Uni- 
vesitv,   then   occupying  the   Council   House,   the 


Deseret  Museum  and  the  Deseret  Hospital  build- 
ings. He  was  also  a  pupil  of  Mary  E.  and  Ida 
lone  Cook. 

Apostle  Grant  is  pre-eminently  a  business  man, 
and  would  doubtless  have  devoted  his  entire  time 
and  attention  to  financial  matters  had  not  the 
call  to  the  Apostleship  changed  the  trend  of  his 
life  from  its  natural  course  and  awakened  in  him 
that  strongly  rooted  religious  feeling  that  pos- 
sesses his  soul.  He  began  his  business  career 
as  an  office  boy  in  an  insurance  office,  and  rose 
step  by  step. 

As  a  boy  he  dreamed  of  being  an  insurance 
agent,  and  determinedly  bent  all  his  energies  to 
the  mastery  of  that  business,  with  the  result  that 
he  succeeded,  and  is  to-day  President  of  the 
largest  insurance  agency  in  the  inter-mountain 
region.  His  aspirations  did  not  cease  with  be- 
coming an  agent :  he  dreamed  of  becoming  a 
president  of  a  company,  and  in  this  he  also  suc- 
ceeded, and  to-day  is  President  of  the  Home  Fire 
Insurance  Company  of  Utah.  While  at  work 
in  the  insurance  office  he  decided  to  learn  the 
banking  business  because  of  what  he  saw  in  the 
bank  of  A.  W.  White  &  Co.,  located  in  the  same 
building,  and  to  this  end  devoted  all  his  spare 
time  in  assisting  the  book-keepers  and  others. 
Subsequently  the  insurance  office  was  removed 
to  Wells,  Fargo  &  Co.'s  bank  building,  where  he 
followed  the  same  course,  and  in  this  way  ac- 
quired a  considerable  knowledge  of  the  business 
of  banking.  His  close  attention  to  his  work, 
and  his  energy  and  ability  were  recognized  by 
his  employer,  Henry  Wads  worth,  w'ho  w'as  also 
agent  of  the  banking  house  of  Wells,  Fargo  & 
Co.,  and  on  New  Year's  Day  presented  him  with 
one  hundred  dollars.  His  efforts  to  learn  the 
banking  business  led  to  his  securing  the  position 
of  Assistant  Cashier  in  the  Zion's  Savings  Bank 
and  Trust  Company,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  departure  of  Assistant  Cashier  B.  H. 
Schettler  on  a  mission  for  the  Church.  This 
position  led  him  to  desire  the  presidency  of  a 
bank,  and  this  was  gratified  in  1890,  when  he 
was  chosen  President  of  the  State  Bank  of  Utah, 
then  organized,  which  position  he  held  until  he 
resigned,  just  prior  to  departing  on  a  mission  to 
Japan.     He  is  at  present  President  of  the  Home 


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Fire  Insurance  Company  of  Utah,  Vice-President 
of  the  Salt  Lake  Theatre  Company,  President 
of  the  insurance  company  of  H.  J.  Grant  &  Co., 
Director  of  the  Utah  Sugar  Company,  and  also 
of  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine  Com- 
pany. He  was  elected  a  Director  of  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  in  1887,  and 
later  became  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  that  institution,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  His  business  maxims  are  promptness  in 
keeping  appointments  and  in  fulfilling  promises. 
He  has  always  aimed  to  give  value  received  to 
those  who  employed  him,  and  since  he  has  be- 
come an  employer  has  always  endeavored  to  treat 
his  employes  with  respect  and  consideration. 

An  illustration  of  his  persistency,  application 
and  determination  to  succeed  is  to  be  found  in 
his  relations  with  the  Salt  Lake  Theatre  Com- 
pany. He  was  passionately  fond  of  the  theatre, 
and  being  too  poor  to  pay  the  admission  price 
to  the  cheapest  seats,  secured  admittance  by  car- 
rying water  to  the  third  gallery.  Because  of  his 
faithfulness,  he  was  soon  promoted  to  the  second 
gallery,  where  he  was  employed  in  the  same 
work.  From  that  he  has  now  risen  to  be  one  of 
the  principal  stockholders  in  the  company,  which 
carries  with  it  the  privilege  of  occupying  a  pri- 
vate box  whenever  he  so  desires. 

Apostle  Grant  has  filled  a  number  of  important 
financial  missions  for  the  Church,  as  well  as  for 
the  institutions  with  which  he  is  connected.  In 
the  panic  of  1890-91,  he  visited  several  of  the 
leading  Western  and  Eastern  cities,  and  secured 
several  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  aid  institu- 
tions in  Utah  that  were  in  financial  difficulties. 
In  the  dark  days  of  1893  he  crossed  the  continent 
on  such  missions  four  times,  and  succeeded  in 
securing  over  half  a  million  dollars  for  the 
Church  and  his  business  establishments. 

He  held  the  offices  of  Elder  and  Seventy  prior 
to  his  ordination  to  a  High  Priest  in  October, 
1880.  He  was  ordained  an  Apostle  under  the 
hands  of  the  First  Presidency  and  the  Apostles 
on  October  16,  1882,  President  George  Q.  Can- 
non being  mouth  in  his  ordination.  His  missions 
for  the  Church  have  been  to  the  various  Stakes  of 
the  Church  in  Utah,  in  many  of  the  States  and 
Territories  of  the  Linion,  and  to  Mexico  as  well, 


and  he  is  now  engaged  in  opening  a  mission  in 
Japan.  He  accompanied  Apostle  Brigham  Young 
and  other  members  of  the  Church  to  Sonora, 
Mexico,  before  any  of  the  members  of  the  Church 
had  located  in  that  country.  Their  mission  was  to 
preach  the  Gospel  to  the  Yaqui  Indians.  In  1883 
he  again  accompanied  Apostle  Young  on  another 
mission  to  the  Indians,  this  time  to  the  Navajo 
Nation,  the  Mocjuis,  Zuni  and  Pappago,  and  this 
mission  resulted  in  active  operations  being  begun 
by  the  Church  for  the  conversion  of  these  people. 

Apostle  Grant's  efforts,  both  in  business  and 
religion,  have  been  inspired  largely  by  his  strong 
love  for  his  mother.  His  father  died  when  he 
was  nine  days  old,  and  out  of  the  poverty  in 
which  his  mother  reared  him  he  has,  by  his  own 
efforts,  placed  her  in  comfort  and  happiness. 

Apostle  Grant  was  married,  in  St.  George,  on 
Noyember  i,  1877,  to  Miss  Lucy  Stringam, 
who  died  some  years  ago,  leaving  behind  her  a 
small  family.  Her  only  son,  Heber  Stringam 
Grant,  died  a  few  years  later.  He  married  again, 
to  his  present  wife.  Miss  Augusta  Winters,  on 
May  26,   1884.     He  has  ten  daughters. 

In  the  administration  of  political  affairs 
Apostle  Grant  has  had  considerable  e.xperience, 
having  served  one  term  in  the  Territorial  Legis- 
lature and  several  terms  in  the  City  Council  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party. 

He  is  now  in  the  prime  of  life,  tall  and  erect 
in  figure,  with  prominent  features,  indicating 
energy  and  ability.  His  desire  to  aid  others  has 
inculcated  within  him  a  love  for  his  fellow  man, 
and  to-day  there  is  not  a  more  loving,  helping 
heart  throughout  Utah  than  that  of  Heber  J. 
Grant.  One  of  his  most  prominent  traits  of  char- 
acter is  his  determination  to  overcome  obstacles 
and  defects  that  bars  his  way  to  a  perfect  charac- 
ter. When  discovered,  he  devotes  all  his  ener- 
gies to  overcoming  it,  with  a  persistency  that  few 
can  command.  He  has  gained  the  love,  confi- 
dence and  respect  of  his  friends  and  business 
associates  by  his  upright  life  and  his  honesty  and 
integrity.  The  authorities  of  the  Church  repose 
perfect  confidence  in  him,  and  he  is  assigned  to 
the  most  responsible  trusts.  He  is  an  active 
worker  in  the  Church,  and  besides  his  position 


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as  Apostle,  is  a  member  of  the  General  Boards 
of  the  Sunday  Schools  and  the  Improvement 
Associations,  being  First  Assistant  to  General 
Superintendent  Joseph  F.  Smith  of  the  Young 
Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Associations.  Be- 
fore being  chosen  President  of  the  Japanese  Alis- 
sion,  he  was  constantly  among  the  people,  guid- 
ing and  assisting  them  with  his  practical  advice 
and  his  counsel,  in  both  temporal  and  spiritual 
afifairs. 


\COB  MORONI  SECRIST.  The  suc- 
cess of  any  county  or  State  depends 
almost  wholly  upon  the  character,  en- 
ergy, perseverance  and  determination  of 
its  citizens.  Few  counties  in  the  State 
of  Utah  have  had  a  more  enterprising  and  thor- 
oughly progressive  people  than  has  Davis  county. 
While  one  of  the  smallest  counties  in  the  State, 
from  the  standpoint  of  area,  it  is  among  the  most 
prosperous  and  highly  developed  counties  of 
Utah.  Among  the  men  who  have  taken  a  promi- 
nent and  active  part  in  its  development  from  a 
wild  and  barren  waste  to  its  present  prosperous 
and  thriving  condition,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
deserves  special  mention. 

Bishop  Jacob  Moroni  Secrist  is  a  native  son 
of  Utah,  having  been  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
August  15,  1850.  He  is  a  son  of  Jacob  Foutz 
and  Eliza  (Logan)  Secrist,  his  father  being  born 
in  Franklin  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  his  mother 
in  Waynesboro,  in  the  same  county,  where  they 
spent  their  early  life  and  were  married.  Later 
they  settled  in  Illinois,  where  they  resided  for 
about  two  years,  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormon 
people  in  1846.  With  the  main  body  of  the 
Church  they  moved  to  Winter  Quarters,  on  the 
Missouri  river,  and  came  to  Utah  in  the  second 
company  to  cross  the  plains.  The  first  few  years 
they  spent  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  our  subject 
was  born.  They  later  moved  to  Davis  county, 
which  was  in  a  comparatively  wild  state.  Here 
the  senior  Mr.  Secrist  took  up  and  improved 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  on  which 
he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  this  land 
is  now  in  the  possession  of  our  subject.  In  1852 
Jacob   F.   Secrist   was  called   to   serve    in    Great 


Britain  on  a  mission  for  the  Church,  and  spent 
three  years  in  that  work.  On  his  way  home  he 
died  while  crossing  the  plains,  and  was  buried 
at  what  was  known  as  the  Blue  River.  He  left 
a  family  of  four  children,  two  sons  and  two 
daughters — Louisa,  married  Charles  Parker  and 
died  some  years  ago ;  Mary  E..  now  Mrs.  Emory 
W.  Soule;  Jacob  Moroni,  our  subject,  and  Heber 
Xephi,  now  engaged  in  business  in  Idaho. 

Our  subject  married,  September  13,  1879, 
Miss  Polly  Estella  Smith,  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Polly  (Clark)  Smith,  her  people  having  come 
to  Utah  among  the  early  pioneers  in  1848.  Mrs. 
Secrist  was  born  in  Farmington,  and  died  De- 
cember 12,  1882,  leaving  six  children — Jacob 
Moroni,  married  Ruth  Barber  and  died,  leaving 
two  children,  Ralston,  who  was  killed  by  a  kick- 
ing horse,  and  Moroni.  Their  mother  later  mar- 
ried James  Smith.  Our  subject's  second  child, 
Thomas  E.,  married  Lillian  Wood,  and  they  have 
three  children — Edwin,  Sterling  and  Wallace. 
The  third  child  is  Polly  Estella,  now  Mrs.  Frank 
D.  Welling,  and  they  have  five  childrn — Frank- 
lin, Ray,  Emory,  Estella  and  David  Ralston,  who 
died  in  infancy.  The  others  are  Charles  Albert, 
who  has  been  serving  on  a  two  and  a  half  years' 
mission  to  California ;  Annie  L.,  who  married 
George  C.  Layton  (she  has  two  children,  Vera 
and  Ralph),  and  Horace,  attending  the  Brigham 
Young  Academy  at  Provo,  preparatory  to  taking 
a  medical  course.  Mr.  Secrist's  second  wife  was 
Monica  A.  Potter,  daughter  of  Gardner  and  Eve- 
line (Hinman)  Potter.  By  this  union  he  has  two 
chil'dren — Henry  and  Ethlyn. 

Notwithstanding  all  the  hardships  and  trials 
which  Bishop  Secrist  has  passed  through,  his  life 
has  been  crowned  with  success.  He  now  owns 
one  of  the  best  farms  in  Davis  county,  which  con- 
sists of  one  hundred  and  seventy  acres,  located 
two  and  a  half  miles  north  of  Farmington  post- 
office,  which  by  energy  and  perseverance  he  im- 
proved mostly  himself.  His  splendid  brick  house, 
barns,  orchards,  etc.,  all  indicate  that  thrifty 
hands  have  had  it  in  charge.  Farming,  stock 
raising  and  the  dairy  business  have  been  his 
chief  avocations.  He  was  ordained  Bishop  of 
his  Ward  July  2,  1882.  For  a  man  who  has 
passed    through    as    many    hardships    and    trials 


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and  led  so  busy  and  active  a  life,  Bishop  Secrist 
is  wonderfully  well  preserved,  his  appearance  in- 
dicating that  he  is  about  thirty  years  of  age.  He 
participated  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  and  in 
nearly  all  of  the  Indian  troubles  of  the  early  days. 
Few  men  of  Davis  county  have  been  more  active 
or  taken  a  more  prominent  part  in  the  develop- 
ment of  that  section ;  and  few  are  considered 
more  substantial,  wide-awake  and  business-like 
by  those  who  are  intimately  acquainted  with  him 
than  is  Bishop  Secrist,  and  he  enjoys  the  esteem 
and  respect  of  the  entire  community. 

In  politics  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Re- 
publican party  ever  since  its  organization  in  the 
State.  During  1890  he  was  nominated  to  run  for 
the  Legislature,  and  later  was  nominated  for 
County  Commissioner  on  the  Republican  ticket, 
but  was  defeated  in  Davis  county.  He  is  Presi- 
dent of  the  Farmington  Commercial  and  Manu- 
facturing- Company  and  a  Director  in  the  Davis 
County  Bank  of  Farmington. 


\MES  R.  MILLER.  Two  trains  of 
wagons  (fifty  in  each  train)  crossed 
the  plains  in  1849  to  the  new  Mormon 
settlement  in  the  Great  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley. With  the  party  was  James  R. 
Miller,  then  a  boy  of  eleven  years,  and  a  son 
of  Reuben  ]\liller,  who  soon  afterward  became 
Bishop  of  Mill  Creek  Ward.  The  tedious  jour- 
ney occupied  from  June  2nd  to  September 
24th,  and  cholera  carried  off  the  capatin  and 
seven  of  the  party.  His  tender  years  did  not 
hinder  the  lad  from  pitching  in  to  help  his 
father,  and  in  the  second  year  after  his  father 
had  taken  up  a  hundred-acre  tract  of  land  on 
the  Big  Cottonwood  creek  James  was  driving  a 
team,  and  hauled  forty  cords  of  wood  down  the 
canyon  to  his  father's  farm.  This  active,  stren- 
uous life  suited  the  boy,  and  the  time  devoted 
to  his  studies  was  limited  to  such  portions  of  the 
winter  when  the  weather  was  too  severe  to  work 
— from  thirty  to  sixty  days  each  year.  The  first 
winter  he  attended  school  thirty  days,  and  the 
second  winter  sixty  days.  There  was  much  work 
before  the  Millers  in  order  to  convert  the  sage- 
brush desert  into  arable  farming  land,  and  a  little 


adobe  school  house,  where  split  logs  served  for 
writing  desks  and  slabs  did  duty  for  seats,  had 
but  slight  attraction  for  James.  It  was  but  nat- 
ural, then,  with  such  surroundings,  that  he  should 
develop  into  a  rancher  and  sheep  raiser,  as  did 
all  his  brothers. 

James  R.  jMiller  was  born  at  Ottawa,  La  Salle 
county,  Illinois,  on  October  2,  1838.  He  is  a 
son  of  the  late  Bishop  Reuben  Miller  of  Mill 
Creek  Ward,  by  his  first  wife,  Rhoda  Ann  Letts. 
The  family  came  here  from  Omaha  in  1849,  and 
for  a  while  camped  on  the  present  site  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  later  moving  out  to  the  Big  Cotton- 
wood creek,  where  Bishop  Miller  took  up  a  gov- 
ernment claim  after  the  fall  conference.  Shortly 
afterwards  he  was  ordained  Bishop  of  Mill  Creek 
Ward  and  County  Commissioner,  which  offices 
he  held  until  his  death  in  1882.  The  Bishop  had 
become  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  Nau- 
voo  about  the  time  of  the  death  of  the  Prophet, 
Joseph  Smith. 

At  the  age  of  twenty  years  our  subject  started 
out  in  life  for  himself.  He  married  Mary  Jane 
Gardner,  a  daughter  of  Robert  Gardner,  a 
pioneer  who  came  to  Utah  in  1847,  when  Mrs. 
Miller  was  only  four  years  old.  Of  this  union 
fourteen  children  were  born,  seven  of  whom  are 
still  living,  all  in  Utah.  Reuben  G.,  the  oldest, 
is  now  President  of  the  Emery  County  Stake ; 
Mary  Jane,  the  wife  of  James  F.  Whitney,  lives 
at  Mendon,  in  Cache  county;  William  E.  is  a 
sheep  raiser  at  Mill  Creek;  Leroy  C.  is  superin- 
tendent of  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine 
Company,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  his  headquarters  be- 
ine  at  Montpelier,  Idaho.  The  three  younger 
children,  ]\Iaude  L.,  Leonard  M.,  and  Eva  M., 
live  at  home.  Leonard  is  a  student  at  the  State 
University.  James  Miller  built  his  home  about 
a  mile  to  the  east  of  Murray,  and  here  he  has 
lived  for  forty-two  years.  The  house,  which  is 
built  of  brick,  is  beautifully  situated  on  a  hill. 
It  has  been  fitted  up  with  all  the  modern  im- 
provements, has  spacious  barns  and  an  up-to-date 
creamery,  with  water  power  to  do  the  churning. 
There  is  also  a  steam  laundry  on  the  premises. 
Water  from  an  artesian  well  irrigates  the  garden 
and  lawn.  The  farm,  consisting  of  eighty  acres, 
is  irrigated  from  the  Tanner  ditch. 


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Mr.  Miller  has  always  been  in  the  sheep  busi- 
ness. He  has  a  farm  on  the  Provo  bench  and 
one  in  Cache  county.  In  February,  1900,  he 
established  the  firm  of  J.  R.  Miller  &  Co.  at  Mur- 
ray, which  carries  on  a  lumber,  coal,  hardware 
and  stove  business.  In  politics  Mr.  Miller  is  a 
Republican.  He  was  First  Counselor  to  Bishop 
James  C.  Hamilton  of  Mill  Creek  Ward  for  ten 
years,  after  which  he  became  First  Counselor  to 
President  F.  Y.  Taylor  of  Granite  Stake  of  Zion, 
and  this  office  he  still  holds. 

No  less  than  seven  times  has  Mr.  Miller 
crossed  the  plains  freighting.  He  has  never  for- 
gotten the  advice  of  Brigham  Young  about  treat- 
ing the  Indians — that  is  to  feed  them  and  not  to 
kill^  them — and  as  a  consequence,  he  has  never 
been  molested  by  them.  On  one  occasion  a  band 
of  Indians  on  the  war  path  rode  into  his  camp. 
After  looking  over  the  train  the  chief  said  to  his 
warriors  the  word,  "Momidy,"  and  then  all  the 
bucks  dismounted.  Miller  ordered  his  men  to 
divide  their  rations  with  them,  and  that  night  the 
Indians  camped  with  them  and  parted  at  two 
o'clock  in  the  morning-. 


FL'BEN  PARLEY  MILLER,  son  of 
tlie  late  Bishop  Miller  and  Rhoda  Ann 
(  Letts)  Miller,  was  born  in  La  Salle 
CL)unty,  Illinois,  on  December  22,  1844. 
His  parents  had  joined  the  Mormon 
church  prior  to  their  removal  to  Utah,  and  were 
among  the  earlv  pioneers  to  this  State  in  1849, 
where  they  settled  ih  Mill  Creek  Ward,  and  where 
our  subject  lived  until  the  time  of  his  death,  on 
March  27,  1901.  In  the  pioneer  days  of  Utah 
he  was  one  of  the  most  active  men.  He  will- 
ingly performed  all  of  the  tasks  that  were  allotted 
to  him  and  cheerfully  did  all  the  work  required 
of  him  and  of  the  other  pioneers  in  assisting  in 
the  building  up  of  the  State  and  in  the  mainte- 
nance of  the  people.  He  was  engaged  in  cross- 
ing the  plains  and  brineing  emigrants  to  Utah, 
and  twelve  of  these  trips  were  made  by  him  after 
he  reached  manhood.  The  dangers  of  traveling 
across  the  plains,  from  the  hostile  Indians,  were 
then  very  great,  and  he  participated  in  many  skir- 
mishes with  the  savages.    Although  always  ready 


to  fight  when  the  occasion  demanded,  he  was  a 
believer  in  the  doctrine  of  peace,  and  believed  in 
settling  differences  amicably  rather  than  resort 
to  more  stringent  measures.  He  was  noted  for 
his  sterling  character  and  for  the  kindness  of 
his  disposition  and  the  willingness  with  which  he 
assisted  those  whom  he  could  help.  He  num- 
bered his  friends  by  the  legion,  and  won  the  con- 
fidence and  trust  of  all  with  whom  he  was  asso- 
ciated, by  his  energy  and  upright  dealings,  and 
by  the  integrity  of  his  life,  which  was  character- 
istic of  the  entire  family  of  his  father,  Bishop 
Reuben  Miller.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuits  and  was  a  stockholder  in  the  Co- 
operative Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  and 
was  also  the  president  and  manager  of  the  Inter- 
Mountain  Milling  Company.  In  addition  to  these 
commercial  enterprises,  he  also  owned  large  herds 
of  cattle  and  sheep,  and  for  many  years  conducted 
a  live  stock  business,  being  associated  with  his 
brothers,  James  R.  and  M.  M.  Miller,  and  cen- 
tered all  his  energ}'  and  industry  in  amassing  a 
considerable  fortune. 

He  was  married  on  October  10.  1868,  in  the 
Temple  at  Salt  Lake  City,  to  Miss  Margaret 
Gardner,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Jane  ( AlcCune) 
Gardner,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by  Dan- 
iel H.  Wells.  His  wife's  parents  were  natives  of 
Scotland.  Mrs.  Miller  was  born  in  Canada,  and 
when  three  years  of  age,  her  parents  left  that 
country  in  1847  ^nd  made  the  journey  across  the 
plains  to  Utah  with  the  pioneers.  In  this  mar- 
riage there  were  born  eight  children,  four  of 
whom  are  still  living — Reuben  Edgar,  manager 
of  the  Inter-Mountain  Milling  Company ;  Uriah 
G.,  Bishop  of  the  Murray  Ward ;  Edith  L.,  and 
Melvin  Parley,  now  on  a  mission  to  the  South- 
ern States.  Robert  G.  died  aged  seven  years 
past ;  David  O.  died  in  infancy ;  Maggie  M.  died 
in  infancy;  Ernest  F.  died  at  the  age  of  eight 
years  past.  After  this  marriage  Mr.  Miller  re- 
moved to  what  was  then  the  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
on  State  street,  between  Sixteenth  and  Seven- 
teenth South,  now  known  as  Murray  Ward, 
where  he  built  a  comfortable  home  and  improved 
the  homestead  upon  which  it  stood. 

He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  but  his  duties 
in  the  Church    and    his  business  interests  pre- 


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vented  any  active  participation  in  the  affairs  of 
the  party.  He,  like  his  parents,  was  a  staunch 
member  of  the  Alormon  Church,  and  lived  and 
died  in  that  faith.  His  integrity  and  ability  had 
won  for  him  a  prominent  place  in  the  business 
world  of  Utah,  and  he  had  won  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  not  only  the  leaders  of  the  Church 
to  which  he  belonged,  but  his  faithful  service  had 
also  brought  to  him  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all 
the  citizens  of  his  community.  He  died  on  March 
27,  1901,  from  a  severe  attack  of  long-continued 
stomach  trouble,  beloved  and  honored  by  all  who 
knew  him. 


;LVIN  mormon  miller.  The 
full  history  of  Salt  Lake  county 
cduld  not  be  properly  written  with- 
out giving  due  notice  to  the  Miller 
family  founded  here  in  1849  by  Reu- 
ben Miller.  .\s  agriculture  is  the  principal  avoca- 
tion of  the  residents  of  this  county,  so  the  lives  of 
this  family  run  like  a  scarlet  thread  through  its 
history  for  a  period  of  more  than  fifty  years, 
standing  for  advancement,  uprightness  and  the 
highest  ideals  of  citizenship. 

Reuben  Miller,  the  founder  of  this  family,  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania,  and  after  migrating  to  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  country,  finally  became  a  con- 
vert to  the  teachings  of  Mormonism,  and  there- 
after cast  his  lot  with  this  people,  passing  with 
them  through  all  the  vicissitudes,  trials  and  per- 
secutions of  the  days  in  Illinois,  and  finally  cross- 
ing the  plains  to  Utah  in  1849  and  taking  up  his 
abode  on  the  banks  of  the  Big  Cottonwood,  that 
being  his  home  during  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
and  is  now  occupied  by  the  widow  of  his  son,  D. 
L.  Miller.  A  complete  biographical  record  of  the 
life  of  this  remarkable  man  will  be  found  else- 
where in  this  work,  as  also  of  his  wife,  Rhoda 
Ann  (Letts)  Miller,  the  mother  of  our  subject. 
Melvin  Mormon  Miller  was  born  in  Walworth 
county,  Wisconsin,  October  17,  1846,  and  there- 
fore all  his  conscious  life  has  been  spent  within 
the  confines  of  this  State.  He  grew  to  manhood 
in  the  locality  where  his  father  settled,  attending 
schools  such  as  the  district  afforded  during  the 
winter  months,  and  worked  at  farm  life  in  the 
summers,   following  much   the   same   routine   as 


the  sons  of  other  pioneers.  L^p  to  the  age  of 
twenty-four  years  he  spent  his  time  between  his 
father's  farm,  working  in  the  canyons  and  herd- 
ing cattle  and  sheep  on  the  plains. 

In  February,  1872,  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Alartha  j\I.  Shurtliff,  daughter  of  Venson  and 
Alary  Shurtliff.  This  family  also  came  to  Utah 
in  the  latter  forties.  Nine  children  have  been 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller— Melvin  L.  died  at 
the  age  of  three  years ;  Efifie  M.,  Nettie  and  Let- 
tie,  twins :  Martha,  Arthur  V.,  James  A.,  Clar- 
ence G.,  died  aged  one  year;  Dorus  C. 

After  his  marriage  he  setttled  at  his  present 
home  on  the  banks  of  the  Big  Cottonwood,  near 
Seventeenth  South  street,  and  on  a  part  of  the 
old  homestead.  Here  he  has  since  built  a  hand- 
some fourteen-room  pressed  brick  house,  fitted 
up  with  hot  and  cold  water,  electric  lights,  and 
all  the  conveniences  that  go  to  make  up  the  mod- 
ern home.  The  house  is  surrounded  by  a  beauti- 
ful lawn,  embellished  with  flowers,  shrubs,  shade 
trees,  etc.,  and  the  water  is  supplied  from  an  ar- 
tesian well.  Aside  from  this  home  place,  which 
consists  of  fifty  acres  of  fine  farming  land,  Mr. 
Aliller  owns  a  second  place  of  one  hundred  acres 
in  Cache  valley.  He  has  been  engaged  in  rais- 
ing live  stock,  both  cattle  and  sheep,  ever  since 
he  began  life  for  himself,  and  has  met  with  ex- 
cellent success.  Almost  twenty-five  years  of  his 
life  has  been  spent  in  the  saddle.  He  is  also  a 
stockholder  in  a  number  of  paying  business  en- 
terprises in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  ever  been 
foremost  in  all  that  has  tended  to  the  upbuilding 
or  advancement  of  his  county  or  State. 

When  but  a  lad  of  fifteen  years  he  made  two 
trips  to  the  Missouri  river,  driving  four  yoke  of 
o.xen  and  assisting  to  bring  back  emigrants.  In 
1864  he  spent  a  year  on  the  trail  bringing  sheep 
from  California. 

In  political  life  his  sympathies  and  support 
have  been  given  to  the  Democratic  party,  but  he 
has  never  been  an  active  participant  in  its  work, 
nor  sought  to  hold  office. 

He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Alormon  faith 
and  was  baptized  in  Mill  Creek  Ward.  He  was 
ordained  a  Seventy  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  is 
now  a  High  Priest  and  Second  Counselor  to 
Bishop  Hamilton  of  Mill  Creek  Ward. 


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Mr.  Miller  has  through  life  exemplified  the  no- 
ble example  of  true  manhood  left  him  by  his 
father,  and  has  in  every  way  proven  himself  a 
worthy  offspring  of  such  a  parent.  He  has  ever 
stood  ready  to  assist  his  fellow-men  in  any  way 
possible,  and  has  had  the  growth  of  his  commu- 
nity very  near  his  heart.  In  his  business  and  pri- 
vate life  his  life  has  been  such  as  to  win  only 
words  of  praise  and  commendation,  and  he  is  one 
of  the  substantial  men  of  this  countv. 


IILION  L.  MILLER.  The  pioneers 
who  fought  through  all  the  trying 
scenes,  difificulties  and  hardships  in- 
cident to  crossing  the  great  Ameri- 
can plains  in  the  earlj-  days  and  set- 
tling in  a  new  country,  at  that  time  so  remote 
from  the  seat  of  civilization,  are  one  by  one  fast 
dropping  off  the  scene  of  action.  But  the  great 
work  which  they  accomplished  4n  the  now  pros- 
perous and  great  State  of  Utah  Vvill  continue  to 
live  throughout  all  the  succeeding  generations 
yet  to  come. 

Chilion  L.  Miller,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  Pottowatomie  county,  Iowa,  Novem- 
ber 29,  1848.  He  is  a  son  of  Reuben  and  Rhoda 
Ann  ( Letts j  Miller,  whose  biography  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  volume.  They  were  among  the 
early  members  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  Nauvoo 
during  the  trying  scenes  and  difficulties  which  the 
Church  encountered  in  that  section.  In  1846, 
when  the  Mormons  were  driven  out  of  Nauvoo, 
they  wandered  to  Walworth  county,  Wisconsin, 
and  from  there  removed  to  Pottowatomie  county, 
Iowa,  where  the  subject  of  our  father  continued 
to  reside  until  the  spring  of  1849,  when  they  fit- 
ted out  ox  teams  and  prepared  to  make  the  jour- 
ney across  the  plains  to  Salt  Lake  City.  The 
difficulties  and  hardships  which  were  encountered 
in  making  that  tedious  and  long  trip  will  never 
be  fully  known,  only  to  those  who  participated  in 
the  journey. 

The  family  arrived  in  the  Great  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley in  the  autumn  of  1849,  ^"^  setttled  in  what 
is  known  as  Mill  Creek  Ward,  where  our  subject 
spent  his  boyhood  days.  Like  most  boys  in  the 
early  history  of  Utah,  his  education  was  neces- 


sarily limited,  attending  school  for  a  few  weeks 
during  the  winter  months  and  assisting  on  the 
farm  herding  sheep,  hauling  wood  from  the  can- 
yon and  performing  every  duty  to  assist  his  father 
in  making  a  living  in  this  new  country.  In  these 
modern  times  the  young  girls  and  boys  can  hardly 
appreciate  what  their  parents  passed  through, 
the  many  inconveniences,  and  crude  ways  in 
which  they  have  existed. 

The  school  house  in  which  our  subject  re- 
ceived most  of  his  school  education  consisted  of 
adobe  school  house  equipped  with  split  logs  for 
seats  and  writing  desks  and  flooring.  Notwith- 
standing the  inconvenience  which  they  have  ex- 
perienced and  the  limited  means  for  an  education, 
Mr.  Miller  has,  by  his  own  efforts,  determina- 
tion and  perseverance,  carved  out  a  successful 
and  honorable  career.  In  1869  he  started  out  for 
himself  and  engaged  in  tlie  business  of  freight- 
ing and  running  threshing  machines,  and  in  fact 
all  kinds  of  business  connected  with  farming.  In 
1886  he  became  interested  in  the  sheep  business, 
with  his  brother  David,  who  was  his  youngest 
brother,  and  for  many  years  they  were  partners 
in  that  business. 

Mr.  Miller,  in  1885,  was  called  to  serve  on  a 
mission  for  two  years,  during  which  time  his  bus- 
iness was  looked  after  by  his  sons.  He  was  ab- 
sent about  nineteen  months,  and  on  returning,  he 
took  up  the  sheep  business,  which  he  continues 
to  follow  successfully.  He  has  ranged  his  herds 
in  Utah. 

January  24,  1870,  he  married  Harriet  Jane 
Webb,  daughter  of  Chauncey  G.  and  Elizabeth 
(Taft)  Webb.  As  the  result  of  this  union,  nine 
children  have  been  born,  seven  of  whom  are  still 
living— Chilion  W.,  Seth  R.,  Maggie  M.,  Har- 
riet E.,  Letts  T.,  Rhoda  E.,  and  Fern;  Ethel 
died  aged  twelve  years ;  Loura  died  in  infancy. 

In  politics  Mr.  Miller  has  always  been  a  staunch 
Democrat,  but  has  never  sought  office  of  any 
kind. 

He  has  always  been  a  faithful  members  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and 
he  owes  his  success  in  life  to  the  moral  training 
which  he  received  from  his  father,  and  he  thor- 
oughly believes  that  any  religion  which  would  as- 
sist his  father  in    leading    such  a  splendid  life, 


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would  also  assist  his  sons  in  following  in  his 
footsteps.  His  son,  C.  W.  Miller,  was  called  to 
fill  a  mission  in  the  Northern  States  some  years 
ago,  but  was  taken  sick  and  was  compelled  to 
return  home,  after  an  absence  of  several  months. 

Mrs.  Miller  is  a  member  of  the  Relief  Society, 
and  takes  a  prominent  part  in  that  society.  Their 
daughter,  Harriet  Edna,  now  Mrs.  A.  H.  Turner, 
is  serving  on  a  mission  with  her  husband  in  En- 
gland. 

In  1870  Mr.  Miller  setttled  on  his  present  place, 
which  is  considered  one  of  the  finest  farms  in  that 
vicinity,  being  located  on  State  street,  between 
Sixteenth  and  Seventeenth  South. 


.WID  LETTS  MILLER  was  born  on 
the  banks  of  the  Big  Cottonwood    in 
the  Mill  Creek  Ward,  October  8,  1856, 
and  was    the  youngest  of  a  family  of 
eight    children  of    Reuben  and  Rhoda 
Ann   (Letts)   Aliller,  and  lived  in  that  neighbor- 
hood throughout  his  whole  life,  until  his  death, 
on  June  6,   1901.     He  was  associated  with    his 
father  all  through  the  latter's  life,  and  engaged 
in  business  with  his  brother,  Chilion  L.,  in  the 
sheep  and  cattle  industry,  for  many  years.     '1  he 
old  homestead  was  built  by  his  father  over  fifty 
years  ago,  and  to  this  our  subject  has  made  im- 
provements and  additions  until,  when  completed, 
it  was  a  splendid  two-story  adobe  building,  sur- 
rounded by  well-kept  lawns  and  fields  and  sup- 
plied with  water  from  artesian  wells.     The  boy- 
hood days  of  our  subject  were  spent  on  the  farm 
of  his  father,  and  his  education  was  received  from 
the  schools  that  then  existed  in  that  locality.    He 
early  entered  upon  his  business  career  in  the  rais- 
ing of  sheep  and  cattle,  which  he  carried  on  until 
his  death. 

He  was  married  on  December  27,  1877,  "i  Salt 
Lake  City,  to  Miss  Emmeretta  Boyce,  daughter 
of  William  and  Phoebe  (Speere)  Boyce,  one  of 
the  old  families  of  Utah,  coming  here  in  1849. 
His  wife  was  born  in  South  Cottonwood  Ward, 
of  Salt  Lake  county.  By  this  marriage  ten  chil- 
dren were  born,  nine  of  whom  are  still  living. 
They  are:  Emmeretta,  now  the  wife  of  George 
T.  Brown,  of  Grant  Ward,  Salt  Lake  county; 


Rhoda  Ann,  now  Mrs.  Ephraim  Gaufin;  Phoebe 
L.,  Grace  I.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  seven  years; 
Cora  E.,  David  P..  Alargaret  E.,  Mary  G.,  Katie 
L.,  and  Claude.  Air.  Miller  was  a  successful 
farmer,  and  at  his  death  left  a  fine  farm  of  sev- 
enty-seven acres,  and  the  farm  clear  of  all  in- 
debtedness. 

In  political  affairs  he  was  a  believer  in  the  Dem- 
ocratic principles,  and  held  several  minor  offices 
in  his  district.  He  was  also  actively  interested 
in  educational  matters  and  was  school  trustee  for 
his  district  for  several  terms.  Like  all  the  mem- 
bers of  his  family,  he  was  a  believer  in  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Seventies.  He  was  called  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion to  the  Southwestern  States  on  March  3, 
1898,  and  labored  in  that  field  until  May,  1900. 
He  was  a  prominent  man  in  Church  affairs,  and 
held  the  office  of  High  Priest  and  Second  Coun- 
selor to  Bishop  Hamilton,  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  also  one  of  the  most  p;-ominent  home  mis- 
sionaries, and  was  prominent  in  the  Sunday 
Schol  work  of  the  Ward,  being  Sunday  School 
teacher,  as  well  as  a  Ward  teacher.  He  left  be- 
hind him  a  reputation  as  an  honorable,  upright 
and  honest  man,  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him. 
To  his  family  he  was  a  noble  husband  and  a  kind 
father,  and  has  left  a  name  of  which  his  posterity 
may  well  be  proud. 


ESSE  M.  SMITH.  The  name  Smith  is 
a  common  one  throughout  the  United 
States,  and  has  been  associated  with  the 
history  of  America  ever  since  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers  landed  in  this  country.  The  fam- 
ily from  which  Jesse  M.  Smith  descended  has 
made  a  name  and  record  which  can  never  be  ob- 
literated from  the  fair  pages  of  the  history  of 
this  country. 

Jesse  AI.  Smith  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  No- 
vember 21,  1858,  and  is  the  son  of  Elias  and  Amy 
J.  (King)  Smith.  His  father  was  born  in  Roy- 
alton,  Vermont,  September  6,  1804,  and  his 
mother  was  born  in  Portage  countv,  Ohio.  Elias 
Smith  became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  New  York.  He  was  a  first 
cousin  to  the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  their  fat!  ers 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


299 


being  brothers,  and  all  lived  in  the  same  part  of 
New  York  State.  He  was  with  the  Prophet  from 
the  beginning  of  the  Church  and  left  Xauvoo  with 
the  main  body  of  Mormons.  When  they  arrived 
in  Iowa  the  grandparents  of  our  subject,  being 
old  and  feeble,  succumbed  to  the  hardships  and 
privations  they  had  endured,  and  our  subject's 
father  remained  there  with  them  until  their  death, 
coming  to  Utah  in  1852,  settling  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  He  had  the  distinction  of  being  the  first 
Probate  Judge  in  Salt  Lake  City,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  for  thirty-two  years.  During  his  life 
time  he  was  one  of  the  most  active  and  well 
known  men  of  this  city,  and  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  constructing  many  of  the  canals  of  Salt 
Lake  county,  and  was  ably  seconded  by  his  son, 
Jesse  M.,  the  subject  of  our  sketch.  He  died  in 
this  city  after  an  eventful  and  honorable  life,  full 
of  years  and  widely  mourned.  His  death  oc- 
curred June  24,  1888.  His  widow  is  still  living 
in  the  city. 

Our  subject  received  his  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  began  life  for  himself,  doing  teaming  and 
freighting.  He  was  married  February  19,  1880, 
to  Miss  Harriette  E.  Smith,  daughter  of  John 
Sivel  and  Jane  (Waddley)  Smith,  of  Kaysville, 
where  his  wife  was  born.  Although  of  the  same 
name,  the  two  families  were  not  related. 

Mr.  Smith  lived  at  Riverton  for  some  years, 
and  in  1890  bought  his  first  home  in  Layton,  one 
mile  west  of  the  depot,  where  he  now  resides. 
This  place  consists  of  ninety  acres  of  well  im- 
proved land  under  irrigation  and  highly  culti- 
vated, on  which  he  has  built  a  comfortable  home. 
Although  he  has  followed  farming  in  a  general 
way  and  has  been  very  successful  in  this  line,  his 
principal  business  for  many  years  has  been  sheep 
raising,  and  he  has  come  to  be  one  of  the  largest 
sheep  owners  in  this  northwestern  country,  tak- 
ing a  prominent  part  in  all  conventions  of  sheep 
and  cattle  men,  and  is  perhaps  better  known 
throughout  this  region  than  any  other  individual 
sheep  owner.  He  is  especially  enthusiastic  over 
the  future  of  Utah  as  a  wool  producing  State, 
and  believes  there  is  a  fortune  awaiting  the  man 
who  will  follow  this  industry  and  give  it  the  at- 
tention it  deserves.     He  ranges  his  sheep  prin- 


cipally in  northern  Utah  and  southern  Idaho,  and 
is  one  of  the  leading  sheep  men  of  Davis  county. 
He  has  been  for  several  years  president  of  the 
Utah  Wool  Growers'  Association,  and  is  now 
president  of  the  Pacific  Northwest  Wool  Grow- 
ers' Association.  At  this  time  a  new  corpora- 
tion, to  be  known  as  the  Associated  Wool  Grow- 
ers' Company,  is  being  formed.  The  object  of 
this  new  company  is  to  give  the  growers  of  wool 
facilities  for  carrying,  handling  and  marketing 
their  own  wool.  Mr.  Smith  has  been  appointed 
to  represent  this  organization  in  Utah  and  vicin- 
ity, and  it  is  the  generally  expressed  opinion  that 
the  company  could  not  have  made  a  better  selec- 
tion, as  he  is  not  only  one  of  the  best  informed 
men  on  the  wool  question  in  this  section,  but  is 
widely  known  and  enjoys  in  the  highest  degree 
the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  stockmen  of  the 
northwest. 

In  political  life  Air.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  has  always  actively  par- 
ticipated in  its  work;  although  he  is  a  staunch 
party  man,  his  large  business  interests  have  de- 
manded most  of  his  time,  yet  he  has  acted  on 
State  and  county  committees  at  dififerent  times. 

Both  he  and  his  wife  are  loyal,  consistent  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  which  faith  they 
were  raised.  Mr.  Smith  has  served  as  Counsel 
to  the  Bishop  in  Riverton,  and  at  this  time  is  a 
High  Priest.  He  served  on  a  two  years'  mission 
to  the  Southern  States,  returning  in  1884. 


VA<RY  S.  HEATH,  publisher  and  gen- 
eral manager  of  The  Salt  Lake  Tribune, 
is  a  comparative  stranger  to  Western 
iiewspaperdom,  his  connection  with  this 
publication  only  dating  back  to  the  fall 
of  1901,  since  which  time,  however,  his  time  has 
been  spent  in  Salt  Lake  City,  looking  after  the 
paper  which  he  now  owns.  Mr.  Heath  has  been 
prominently  connected  with  newspaper  work  in 
the  Central  and  Eastern  States  for  many  years, 
and  is  a  well-known  man  in  literary  circles 
throughout  the  East.  He  was  President  McKin- 
ley's  First  Assistant  Postmaster  General,  and  is 
now  Secretary  of  the  Republican  National  Com- 
mittee.     His   connection    with   newspaper  life   in 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Salt  Lake  City  means  much  for  the  State,  and 
assures  the  future  prosperity  of  Tlie  Tribune, 
which  is  undoubtedly  among  the  leading  daily 
newspapers  of  the  West. 

The  Salt  Lake  Tribune  was  started  on  Janu- 
ary 17,  1868,  by  William  S.  Godbe,  as  the  finan- 
cial backer,  and  E.  L.  T.  Harrison  as  editor.  It 
was  in  those  days  a  Mormon  publication,  and 
issued  in  magazine  form  under  the  name  of  The 
Utah  Magazine,  its  object  being  to  advocate  lib- 
eral ideas  and  independent  thought  among  the 
members  of  the  Church,  and  also  to  give  a  true 
interpretation  to  the  religion  of  Mormonism. 
However,  the  magazine  soon  grew  into  a  news- 
paper, and  its  tone  gradually  assuming  an  antag- 
onism towards  President  Brigham  Young,  the 
publishers  were  tried  by  the  Church  on  the 
charge  of  starting  a  spirit  of  apostacy.  Among 
the  others  who  left  the  Church  at  that  time  on 
this  account  was  Henry  W.  Lawrence,  then  a 
prosperous  merchant,  and  who  later  became  the 
largest  financial  backer  of  the  publication  known 
as  The  Salt  Lake  Tribune.  The  Utah  Magazine 
was  changed  to  The  Mormon  Tribune  on  Janu- 
ary I,  1870,  and  on  April  15,  1871,  the  paper  was 
issued  under  the  name  of  The  Salt  Lake  Tribune, 
which  it  has  since  retained.  J\Ir.  Godbe  put  fully 
fifty  thousand  dollars  into  the  three  papers — a 
large  sum  in  those  days  for  a  small  city — realiz- 
incr  nothing  in  return,  and  towards  the  last  Mr. 
Lawrence  carried  the  greater  part  of  the  finan- 
cial burden,  it  being  customary  for  the  book- 
keeper, George  W.  Reed,  to  draw  upon  Mr.  Law- 
ernce  every  Saturday  for  the  deficit,  which  ran 
all  the  way  from  twenty-five  to  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars. 

The  paper  changed  hands  on  July  24,  1873,  the 
owners  realizing  practically  nothing  out  of  their 
investment,  and  it  was  about  this  time  that  the 
paper  became  the  organ  of  the  Liberal  Party  and 
the  open  antagonist  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in- 
augurating the  journalistic  battle  which  brought 
wide-spread  fame  to  the  publication ;  but  it  was 
not  until  1880  that  its  ascending  star  began  to 
mount  rapidly  towards  its  zenith.  In  that  year 
the  paper  once  more  changed  hands.  Mr.  P.  H. 
Lannon  and  his  associates  bought  four-fifths  of 
the   stock,  the  other  fifth  being  retained  by  O. 


J.  Hollister.  On  April  23rd  of  that  same  year 
the  announcement  was  made  that  the  editorial 
department  would  hereafter  be  in  charge  of  Judge 
C.  C.  Goodwin,  at  that  time  an  already  widely- 
known  and  popular  editorial  writer,  connected 
with  the  Enterprise  of  Virginia  City,  Nevada. 
His  first  editorial  appeared  on  April  25,  1880,  and 
from  that  time  forward  the  success  of  the  paper 
was  assured,  Judge  Goodwin  towering  head  and 
shoulders  above  any  other  newspaper  man  in  the 
entire  western  countrj',  his  brilliant  articles  be- 
ing copied  in  every  newspaper  of  the  West,  and 
bringing  to  the  paper  thousands  of  subscribers. 
He  continued  with  The  Tribune  for  over  twenty- 
one  years,  resigning  his  position  when  the  paper 
changed  hands  in  the  fall  of  1901,  at  which  time 
Mr.  Heath  became  the  owner  of  the  plant. 

The  Tribune  is  the  organ  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  has  a  wide  circulation  throughout  this 
and  the  neighboring  States.  While  it  was  at  first 
bitterly  anti-Mormon,  it  began  gradually  to 
change  its  policy  many  years  ago,  and  is  today  as 
popular  with  the  Mormons  as  with  the  Gentile 
population. 


TSTER  'M.  LUCRETIA,  Sister  Superior 
of  St.  Mary's  Academy,  Sisters  of  the 
Holy  Cross.  Among  the  noble  Sister- 
hood of  the  Catholic  Church  are  to  be 
found  women  from  almost  every  walk 
in  life ;  filled  with  the  desire  to  devote  their  lives 
to  the  uplifting  and  betterment  of  humanity,  they 
come  from  Catholic  and  Protestant  families  alike ; 
from  among  the  rich  and  the  poor,  the  highly 
educated  and  those  whose  education  has  been 
limited.  In  the  scope  covered  by  this  great  work 
there  is  a  niche  for  each  one,  and  as  each  steps 
into  her  appointed  place  and  takes  up  her  part  of 
the  common  burden,  she  puts  away  forever  what- 
ever honor  may  have  come  to  her  in  the  world 
from  family  connection,  education  or  wealth,  and 
merges  her  individuality  into  the  life  of  those 
about  her,  becoming  henceforth  only  a  part  of 
the  great  whole,  and  as  she  comes  and  goes  about 
her  daily  tasks  and  ministrations  of  love,  there  is 
nothine  to  indicate  to  those  with  whom  she  comes 


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in  contact  that  she  might  if  she  desired  take  her 
place  among  the  great  ones  of  earth. 

Sister  M.  Lucretia,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  at  Coldwater,  Michigan,  and  is  a 
daughter  of  Judge  Esbon  G.  Fuller,  for  many 
years  on  the  bench  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Mich- 
igan. Judge  Fuller  was  a  native  of  Vermont, 
and  through  his  mother  a  direct  descendant  of 
Benjamin  Franklin.  He  settled  in  Michigan  in 
the  early  forties,  and  became  one  of  the  most 
prominent  lawyers  and  best  known  judges  in  the 
United  States.  His  son,  Colonel  J.  B.  Fuller,  of 
San  Francisco,  served  with  distinction  through- 
out the  Civil  War,  and  was  commander  of  the 
Department  of  California,  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, and  Department  Commander  at  the  Na- 
tional Encampment  held  in  Washington.  D.  C. 
He  is  e.x-Bank  Examiner  of  San  Francisco,  and 
at  present  is  at  the  head  of  the  United  States  Pen- 
sion Bureau  at  that  place.  His  wife  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Beech,  and  was  related 
to  Commodore  Perry,  of  Lake  Erie  fame. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  the  Episcopal 
school  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  her  parents  being  mem- 
bers of  that  church.  In  1863  she  entered  the 
Mother  House,  Sisters  of  the  Holy  Cross,  at 
South  Bend,  Indiana,  graduating  from  that  insti- 
tution in  1865.  In  1867  she  took  up  the  work  of 
teaching  at  the  ^Mother  House,  and  in  1872  was 
given  charge  of  the  vocal  music  department, 
teaching  the  Italian  and  French  methods,  which 
she  continued  with  wonderful  success  for  several 
years,  some  of  her  pupils  having  since  made  a 
wide  reputation  as  vocalists.  In  1881  she  became 
head  of  the  Academy  at  the  Mother  House,  which 
position  she  filled  for  five  j-ears. 

In  1886  she  came  West  to  open  schools  in  Cali- 
fornia. At  this  time  there  were  no  schools  con- 
ducted by  the  Sisters  of  the  Holy  Cross  west  of 
Utah.  She  established  the  Holy  Rosary  Acad- 
emy at  Woodland,  Yolo  county,  California,  and 
remained  in  charge  of  that  institution  for  nine 
years.  This  being  the  first  school  opened  in  the 
State,  it  was  necessary  to  begin  at  the  very  bot- 
tom, and  she  built  up  what  is  today  one  of  the 
most  prosperous  and  well  known  educational  in- 
stitutions on  the  Pacific  coast. 

In  1895  she  took  charge  of  the  Sacred  Heart 


Academy  at  Ogden,  Utah,  and  from  there  came 
to  Salt  Lake  in  1897,  becoming  Sister  Supe- 
rior of  the  Saint  Mary's  Academy  at  this  place. 
Under  her  wise  and  able  administration  the  school 
has  been  built  up  and  put  on  a  good  financial 
basis.  When  she  took  charge  there  were  about 
si.xty  pupils  attending  the  school,  and  this  num- 
ber has  been  increased  until  at  this  time  the 
boarders  number  about  ninety,  and  there  is  an 
attendance  at  the  day  school  of  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty  pupils  coming  from  the  homes  of  the 
city.  Sister  Lucretia  has  four  departments  under 
her  charge— the  Academy,  Literary,  Art  and  Mu- 
sical departments^ — each  one  being  under  com- 
petent instructors,  there  being  a  staff  of  twenty 
teachers  in  the  institution.  She  has  also  made 
some  needed  improvements  in  the  building,  com- 
pleting some  unfinished  departments,  erecting  a 
new  steam  laundry  and  doing  everj-thing  possi- 
ble to  make  the  place  attractive  and  homelike  for 
the  students.  Sister  Lucretia  is  a  woman  of 
broad  intellect  and  sympathies ;  she  makes  no  dis- 
tinction between  the  Catholic  and  non-Catholic 
pupils,  but  endeavors  to  win  the  friendship  and 
confidence  of  all,  and  it  is  her  aim  to  make  the 
students  realize  that  in  her  they  have  a  wise  and 
sympathetic  friend — one  who  is  at  all  times  ready 
and  willing  to  give  them  the  advice  or  assistance 
they  need,  and  the  parents  who  place  their  daugh- 
ters in  this  institution  do  so  with  the  full  assur- 
ance that  they  are  giving  them  into  safe  and  kind 
hands. 


TCHARD  J.  EVANS.  Utah  has  a 
world-wide  reputation  as  one  of  the 
most  prolific  States  of  the  Union,  and 
within  her  confines  are  to  be  found  not 
only  people  from  every  land  under  the 
sun,  but  citizens  from  every  quarter  of  the  United 
States,  attracted  hither  not  alone  by  the  desire 
to  gain  wealth  or  position,  but  because  in  this 
less  densely  populated  district  there  is  an  oppor- 
tunity afforded  for  operating  on  a  broader  scale ; 
in  this  rare  and  invigorating  atmosphere  men 
may  expand  and  grow,  untrammeled  by  custom, 
and    here    every    man    must    stand    or    fall,    ac- 


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cording  to  liis  merits,  unsupported  by  wealth  or 
social  prestige.  Among  the  successful  and  prom- 
inent young  men  who  have  cast  their  lot  with  the 
fortunes  of  this  State,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
a  well-known  stock  broker  and  mining  man  of 
Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Evans  was  born  in  1865,  in  Calumet,  Mich- 
igan, and  grew  up  in  a  mining  atmosphere.  His 
father  was  James  Evans,  one  of  the  operators 
of  the  famous  Calumet  mine,  and  when  but  fif- 
teen years  of  age  our  subject  commenced  his 
mining  operations  in  this  mine  as  drill  boy,  in 
which  department  he  remained  for  seven  years, 
and  at  the  end  of  this  time,  under  the  direction 
and  advice  of  his  father,  began  to  take  contracts 
on  his  own  account.  Mr.  Evans,  senior,  organ- 
ized the  first  mining  club  in  Calumet,  which  is 
now  one  of  the  wealthiest  clubs  in  the  world,  and 
for  years  was  one  of  its  executive  committee  up 
to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  took  a  prominent 
part  in  nearly  all  of  the  large  conventions  and 
meetings  held  in  the  interests  of  the  mining  men. 
usually  attending  as  a  delegate.  His  wife,  and 
the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  before  her  mar- 
riage Miss  Eliza  Gundry.  She  was  a  native  of 
England,  her  father  being  a  prosperous  foun- 
dryman  of  that  country.  She  was  the  only  one  of 
the  family  to  come  to  America. 

Our  subject  obtained  his  early  scholastic  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  Calumet,  and  in 
1888  gave  up  his  mining  operations  and  entered 
the  International  Business  College  at  Saginaw, 
Michigan,  from  which  institution  lie  graduated 
and  took  charge  of  the  college  as  manager,  re- 
maining in  that  position  until  1891,  at  which  time 
he  severed  his  connection  with  the  college  and 
assumed  charge  of  the  Sagiiiaii'  Courier  Herald, 
a  Republican  paper.  He  has  to  his  name  the 
credit  of  running  the  first  exclusive  newspaper 
train  across  the  State  of  Michigan,  in  the  year 
1894.  At  that  time  the  paper  was  the  leading 
Republican  publication  in  Northern  Michigan, 
and  is  still  the  leading  paper  in  that  section.  Mr. 
Evans  built  it  up  from  a  comparatively  small 
sheet  to  a  forty-six  page  paper.  His  connection 
with  that  paper  covered  a  period  of  about  four 
years. 

In  1896  Mr.  Evans  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  as 


secretary  of  the  Primrose  Mining  Company  of 
Tintic,  which  position  he  still  holds,  and  is  also 
president  of  the  Creole  Mining  Company  of  Park 
City,  the  mines  of  which  company  are  in  the  same 
district  as  those  of  the  Silver  King.  Since  com- 
ing to  Utah,  he  has,  among  other  mining  ven- 
tures, developed  the  C)phir  mines,  on  the  State 
line,  which  he  sold  to  Detroit  parties  for  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  which  property  is 
at  this  time  valued  at  half  a  million  dollars. 

Mr.  Evans  married  a  Michigan  girl.  Miss 
Bertha  M.  La  Due,  whose  father,  John  La  Due, 
was  one  of  the  prominent  lumber  merchants  of 
that  State.  Two  children  have  been  born  to  them 
—Richard  J.,  Junior,  and  Gladys  May. 

In  politics  our  subject  has  all  his  life  been  iden- 
tified with  the  Republican  party,  although  since 
coming  to  Utah  he  has  not  been  an  active  par- 
cipant  in  the  work  of  that  party,  nor  sought  pub- 
lic preferment,  devoting  his  time  to  the  building 
up  of  his  business  interests.  In  fraternal  circles 
he  is  a  member  of  the  IMasonic  order,  in  which  he 
is  a  Knights  Templar  and  Shriner.  He  also  has 
his  membership  with  the  Elks'  Lodge  in  this  city. 

Mr.  Evans  is  still  a  young  man,  just  at  the 
dawn  of  his  career,  but  he  has  already  displayed 
a  rare  talent  for  business  enterprises  of  magni- 
tude, and  it  is  confidently  expected  that  he  will 
yet  rank  among  the  leaders  in  financial  and  min- 
ins;  circles  of  the  West. 


L'DGE  SAMUEL  FRANCIS.  With  jus- 
tice the  subject  of  this  article  is  conceded 
to  fill  a  most  important  position  among 
the  prominent  professional  men  of  Utah. 
Although  he  had  but  limited  means  when 
a  young  man,  and  had  no  influence  to  aid  him  ex- 
cept his  own  good  name  and  his  upright  conduct, 
with  these,  and  by  indomitable  perseverance  and 
the  exercise  of  wise  judgment  he  has  steadily  risen 
until  now  he  occupies  a  place  of  consideration 
both  on  the  bench  and  at  the  bar.  Since  he  came 
to  L^tah  he  has  enjoyed  uninterrupted  success. 

Judge  Francis  is  a  native  of  England.  He  was 
born  July  3,  1830,  in  Trowbridge,  Weltshire,  and 
grew  to  manhood  in  that  place,  receiving  his  ed- 
ucation in  the  public  schools.     He  followed  the 


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trade  of  manufacturing?  woolen  goods  up  to  1847, 
when  he  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  was  ordained  an  Elder,  and  from 
that  time  traveled  as  a  missionary  for  the  Church, 
through  England,  Switzerland  and  Italy.  He 
came  to  the  United  States  with  his  family  in  1861, 
sailing  from  Liverpool  on  the  ship  Monarch  of 
the  Sea,  landing  in  New  York.  He  came  by  rail 
to  Florence,  and  from  that  point  to  Salt  Lake 
City  by  ox  team.  He  spent  the  first  winter  in 
Salt  Lake,  and  in  the  spring  of  1862  went  to 
Farmington,  where  he  ran  a  carding  machine. 
In  the  spring  of  the  following  year  he  moved  his 
family  to  Cottonwood,  expecting  to  run  a  card- 
ing machine,  in  which  he  met  with  disappoint- 
ment. In  the  fall  of  1863  he  moved  to  Morgan 
county,  locating  his  farm  on  what  afterwards  be- 
came the  site  of  Morgan  City,  and  where  he  still 
lives.  He  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising, 
which  he  has  followed  to  a  greater  or  less  extent 
ever  since,  and  is  at  this  time  interested  with  his 
sons  in  the  cattle  business.  They  have  a  ranch 
of  seven  thousand  acres  on  Lost  creek. 

Judge  Francis'  public  career  began  in  1866, 
when  he  was  elected  a  school  trustee  and  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  He  took  up  the  study  of  law  about 
this  time,  and  has  since  been  admitted  to  the  bar. 
In  1870  he  was  appointed  County  Clerk  by  the 
Probate  Judge,  and  held  that  office  for  sixteen 
years ;  he  also  served  nineteen  years  as  County 
Recorder.  During  this  time  he  also  filled  the  of- 
fice of  County  Attorney.  He  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  Probate  Judge  in  1886,  and  held  that 
office  until  it  became  appointive  by  the  Presi- 
dent, and  was  re-appointed  by  President  Cleve- 
land. He  took  up  the  practice  of  law  at  the  expi- 
ration of  his  term  of  office,  and  has  had  the  bulk 
of  the  practice  in  that  county  ever  since.  Dur- 
ine  the  years  1880  to  1886  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Territorial  House  of  Representatives,  and  in 
1886  was  a  member  of  the  Territorial  Council. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention in  1895,  and  assisted  in  drafting  the  Con- 
stitution of  Utah. 

Judge  Francis  was  married  in  Geneva,  Switz- 
erland, to  Miss  Esther  C.  E.  Weisbrot,  and  by 
this  marriage  has  had  seven  sons  and  three  daugh- 
ters— Samuel,   Junior;  Joseph  E.,   Alonzo,  \\'il- 


liam  W.,  Hannah  L.,  Arthur  W.,  Amelia  L.,  wife 
of  James  S.  Hopkin ;  Eliza,  wife  of  Frank  B. 
Hopkin;  Walter  E.,  and  Albion.  Judge  Fran- 
cis has  nineteen  grandchildren. 

He  has  also  been  prominently  identified  with 
the  work  of  the  Church  in  this  country.  When 
the  Morgan  Stake  was  organized,  in  1877,  '^^  1'^' 
came  Counselor  to  President  \V.  G.  Smith,  who 
was  succeeded  by  Richard  Fry.  He  remained  in 
the  Stake  Presidency  until  September,  1900.  He 
has  also  been  a  member  of  the  Quorum  of  Sev- 
enties and  local  missionary  for  Utah.  The  Judge 
has  always  taken  a  lively  interest  in  anything  per- 
taining to  the  building  up  of  the  State  or  county, 
and  has  been  prominent  in  all  public  matters  in 
his  community.  By  his  advice  in  legal  matters 
he  has  always  been  the  friend  of  the  people,  and 
has  given  much  professional  service  gratis.  In 
business  life  he  was  for  two  years  prior  to  1899 
superintendent,  manaarer  and  director  of  the  Mor- 
gan Branch  of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile 
Institution,  and  is  also  president  of  the  Morgan 
Mill  and  Elevator  Company.  His  life  has  brought 
him  prominently  before  the  public,  and  by  his 
uprightness,  honesty  and  strict  integrity  he  has 
won  not  only  the  confidence  of  the  public,  but 
the  warm  admiration  and  friendship  of  hundreds 
with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact. 


EMUEL  U.  COLBATH.  Among  the 
men  who  have  achieved  success  in  the 
I)rofession  of  mining  engineering,  and 
who  by  their  work  have  made  the  mines 
of  Utah  among  the  first  in  the  world, 
both  in  size  and  wealth,  none  holds  a  higher  po- 
sition than  does  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The 
career  that  he  has  made  for  himself  in  the  West 
marks  him  as  a  leader  in  his  profession,  and  one 
of  the  most  valued  men  of  the  State  in  his  call- 
ing. 

Lemuel  U.  Colbath  was  born  in  New  York,  but 
when  he  was  three  months  old  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Ohio,  settling  near  Toledo.  His  father 
secured  a  farm  near  that  city,  and  on  it  the  boy- 
hood days  of  his  son  were  spent.  His  early  ed- 
ucation was  obtained  in  the  district  schools,  and 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  secured  his  first  work. 


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being  employed  in  a  wholesale  dry  goods  estab- 
lishment in  West  Liberty,  Ohio.  He  followed 
that  business  until  his  twenty-second  year,  but 
finding  the  opportunities -limited  in  his  contracted 
sphere,  he  decided  to  try  his  fortunes  in  the  West, 
and  removed  to  California,  where  he  undertook 
mining  in  the  Gold  Gulch.  He  followed  this 
for  fourteen  years,  operating  in  both  California 
and  Nevada,  but  confining  his  attention  for  the 
most  part  to  lode  mining.  He  became  interested 
in  the  Comstock  Lode  in  i860,  and  remained  there 
for  eight  years,  when  he  sold  his  interest  in  that 
property  and  went  to  Wyoming  Territory  in  1868, 
where  he  remained  until  1870,  mining  and  pros- 
pecting. In  this  latter  year  he  removed  to  Salt 
Lake  City  and  turned  his  attention  to  mining 
in  Utah.  He  developed  the  Vallejo  mine,  and 
other  valuable  properties  in  the  Little  Cotton- 
wood, and  acquired  a  large  interest  in  the  City 
Rock  group.  He  was  also  interested  in  mining 
properties  in  Idaho,  and  with  R.  C.  Chambers 
owned  the  Wood  River  Company  in  that  State, 
and  was  also  interested  in  ?old  mining  in  Baker 
county,  Oregon. 

He  married  in  1873  to  Miss  Carrie  Simons,  a 
native  of  Philadelphia,  who  died  ten  years  ago. 
His  family  consists  of  five  children — Lemuel, 
Harry,  Alexander,  Carrie  and  Harriett. 

In  political  life,  Mr.  Colbath  is  a  believer  in 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  having  cast 
his  first  vote  for  John  C.  Fremont  for  President 
on  that  ticket  in  1856,  when  the  first  ticket  by 
that  party  was  put  in  the  field.  He  has,  how- 
ever, never  participated  in  the  active  work  of  the 
party,  so  far  as  the  solicitation  of  office  is  con- 
cerned, although  he  has  been  elected  School 
Trustee  and  has  been  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Works.  In  fraternal  life  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order,  and  has  passed  through  all 
the  degrees  of  that  fraternity. 

Mr.  Colbath  is  essentially  a  self-made  man. 
He  has  carved  a  fortune  and  success  in  life  by 
his  own  efforts  and  by  the  exhibition  of  rare  in- 
dustry and  application.  When  he  came  west  he 
drove  an  ox  team  across  the  plains  in  1854.  He 
has  seen  Salt  Lake  City  burst  from  the  bonds  that 
held  it  to  the  narrow  life  of  a  border  settlement 
and  grow  to  its  present  proportions  of  wealth  and 


prosperity.  He  is  thoroughly  imbued  with  the 
future  importance  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  believes 
in  the  great  position  Utah  is  bound  to  assume  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Western  States. 

The  father  of  our  subject  was  a  school  teacher 
in  his  early  life,  but  later  abandoned  that  calling 
to  take  up  agriculture  in  the  West  65  years  ago. 
Mr.  Colbath's  mother  died  when  he  was  a  small 
boy,  leaving  behind  her  a  family  of  ten  children, 
of  which  he  is  now  the  only  surviving  member. 

The  courage  and  zeal  which  Mr.  Colbath 
brought  to  the  accomplishment  of  every  task 
which  he  has  undertaken  has  brought  him  the 
high  position  he  now  holds  in  the  regard  and  con- 
fidence of  his  fellow  citizens.  His  integrity  and 
ability  have  made  him  one  of  the  most  respected 
citizens  of  this  State,  and  few  men  enjoy  as  wide 
popularity  as  does  he. 


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HOMAS  J.  NIPPER.  To  a  great  ex- 
tent the  material  well  being  and  devel- 
opment of  a  city  depends  upon  the  char- 
acter of  its  food  supply,  and  in  the  pro- 
visioning of  the  citizens  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  indeed  of  the  entire  State  of  Utah,  few 
men  occupy  as  important  a  position  as  does  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Thomas  J.  Nipper  was  born  in  Georgia,  about 
twenty-five  miles  from  i\tlanta,  in  1858,  and  a 
few  years  after  his  birth  his  parents  removed  to 
Fort  Worth,  Texas.  Here  his  father,  Jacob,  en- 
gaged successfully  in  stock  raising,  but  owing  to 
his  early  death,  his  prosperous  career  was  brought 
to  a  sudden  end.  His  wife,  Susie  (Mitchell)  Nip- 
per, also  died  when  their  son  was  but  a  small  boy. 
Thrown  on  his  own  resources  and  forced  to 
earn  his  living  at  an  early  age,  our  subject  took 
hold  of  the  problem  of  life  with  an  energy  and 
industry  that  foreshadowed  his  future  success  in 
mercantile  projects.  His  early  education  was  de- 
rived from  the  schools  of  Fort  Worth,  but  at 
fifteen  he  was  at  work  in  the  stock  raising  busi- 
ness, which  he  followed  until  he  reached  his  ma- 
jority. 

Believing  in  the  greater  opportunities  afforded 
by  the  great  Northwest,  he  left  Texas,  upon 
reaching  manhood's  estate,  and  removed  to  Idaho. 
Here  he  spent  a  number  of  years,  being  success- 


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fully  engaged  in  the  raising  of  cattle  and  sheep 
in  both  Idaho  and  what  was  then  Washington 
Territory.  In  addition  to  his  stock  raising  in- 
terests, he  was  extensively  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits  in  Boise  City,  Idaho,  and  made  as  great 
a  success  in  that  business  as  he  did  in  stock  rais- 
ing. He  remained  in  Idaho  and  Washington  until 
1899,  when,  in  the  beginning  of  that  year,  he 
removed  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  engaged  in  the 
wholesale  and  retail  meat  business.  He  pur- 
chased the  entire  establishment  of  J.  IM.  Marriott, 
one  of  the  oldest  firms  of  that  nature  in  this  city, 
and  his  enterprise  and  business  sagacity  has  in- 
creased that  business  over  one-half  of  its  orig- 
inal extent.  It  is  now  the  largest  market  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  indeed  in  Utah,  giving  em- 
ployment to  about  twenty-eight  hands.  His  busi- 
ness extends  over  the  entire  State  and  parts  of 
the  neighboring  States  as  well,  and  he  enjoys  a 
large  wholesale  and  retail  business.  The  indus- 
try and  ability  he  has  exhibited  in  his  business 
affairs  and  the  confidence  that  the  people  of  Utah 
repose  in  him,  mark  him  as  one  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Nipper  was  married  in  Boise,  Idaho,  to 
Miss  Bertie  Oilman,  daughter  of  William  J-  and 
Savariah  Oilman,  and  they  have  one  daughter — 
Susie  May. 

While  Mr.  Xipper  has  never  taken  an  active 
part  in  politics,  in  the  sense  of  competing  for  pub- 
lic office,  he  has  been  a  consistent  and  staunch  Re- 
publican. In  social  aft'airs  he  has  taken  great 
interest,  and  is  a  member  of  all  the  branches  of 
the  Masonic  order,  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Elks  and  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 

The  success  that  Mr.  Xipper  has  achieved  is 
due  to  his  own  efforts.  Starting  out  early  in  life 
to  earn  his  own  living,  his  career  has  been  built 
by  his  own  hands  and  by  his  untiring  energy  and 
his  application  to  business.  Today  he  is  one  of 
the  leading  merchants  of  Utah,  self-educated  and 
self-made,  he  has  won  his  place  by  dint  of  hard 
work  and  the  ability  to  turn  to  account  whatever 
work  his  hands  found  to  do.  His  enterprise  and 
integrity,  coupled  with  a  pleasing  and  genial  man- 
ner, have  brought  him  wide  popularity  and  a  large 
circle  of  friends  throughout  the  West. 


AMES  A.  ELDREDOE.  So  closely  iden- 
tified with  the  history  and  development 
of  Utah  has  been  the  Eldredge  family 
that  to  attempt  a  compilation  of  a  work 
of  this  kind  without  a  proper  men- 
tion of  the  family  would  indeed  prove  materially 
lacking. 

^Ir.  Eldredge  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having 
been  born  in  the  Thirteenth  Ward  of  Salt  Lake 
City  on  February  15,  1857.  He  is  the  son  of 
Horace  and  Hannah  (Adams)  Eldredge,  whose 
history  appears  in  the  biographical  sketch  of  Ben. 
R.  Eldredge,  in  this  volume.  Our  subject  spent 
the  first  five  years  of  his  life  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
when  he  and  his  mother  and  the  rest  of  the  chil- 
dren moved  to  Bountiful,  where  our  subject  grew 
to  manhood,  being  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  Davis  county,  and  later  completing  his 
studies  in  the  Deseret  University,  now  the  Uni- 
versity of  Utah.  Most  of  his  education  was  se- 
cured during  the  winter  months,  the  summers 
having  been  spent  on  his  father's  farm  and  as- 
sisting in  conducting  its  affairs.  He  is  the  oldest 
son,  and  has  four  brothers  and  one  sister  living, 
two  of  the  brothers  living  in  Utah  and  two  in 
Idaho.  Christie  E.,  the  sister,  is  now  the  wife 
of  Mr.  John  L.  Fackrell,  of  West  Bountiful. 

Our  subject  married  on  June  23,  1879,  to  Miss 
Jane  Jennings,  oldest  daughter  of  William  and 
Jane  Jennings.  They  have  two  children — Susie 
E.,  now  the  wife  of  George  Hendricks,  of  Logan, 
and  Afton,  at  home  with  his  parents. 

Early  in  life  our  subject  became  interested  in 
the  stock  business  in  Idaho,  which  he  has  fol- 
lowed successfully  ever  since.  Two  years  ago 
the  business  was  consolidated  under  the  firm  name 
of  the  Eldredge  Brothers  Live  Stock  Company, 
of  Southern  Alberta,  Canada,  where  they  own  an 
immensely  large  live  stock  interest,  being  one  of 
the  largest  in  that  country.  In  addition  to  the 
stock  business,  they  do  general  farming  as  well. 
Mr.  Eldredge's  residence  in  Davis  county  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  finest  in  the  vicinity,  and  which 
he  designed  and  planned  himself,  and  which  is 
a  model  of  convenience,  being  furnished  with 
electric  lights,  hot  and  cold  water,  etc.,  and  is 
modern  in  every  particular.  Aside  from  his  farm- 
ing business  he  is  a  director  and  vice-president 


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of  the  Woods  Cross  Canning  Company,  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  promoters.  This 
was  one  of  the  first  canning  companies  to  be  or- 
ganized in  Utah,  their  principal  product  being 
tomatoes.  They  enjoy  a  large  trade  throughout 
Utah  and  the  entire  inter-mountain  region,  giv- 
ing employment  to  over  one  hundred  hands  dur- 
ing the  season,  and  so  noted  has  their  brand  be- 
come that  during  the  past  year  they  were  unable 
to  fill  their  orders. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Eldredge  has  always  iden- 
tified himself  with  the  Republican  party.  He  is 
essentially  a  business  man,  however,  and  gives 
but  very  little  of  his  time  or  attention  to  politics. 
He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith,  as 
was  also  his  wife,  and  they  have  always  been 
prominent  and  faithful  members  of  that  church. 
In  1883  he  was  called  to  serve  on  a  mission  to 
the  Southern  States,  where  he  labored  for  a  pe- 
riod of  two  years,  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the 
Church.  In  1896  he  was  again  called  to  go  on  a 
mission  to  California,  and  this  time  took  his  fam- 
ily with  him  and  spent  several  months  in  that 
State  and  Nevada,  his  headquarters  being  at  Los 
Angeles. 

BRAHAM  PARKER.  The  history  of 
Abraham  Parker  is  that  of  a  man  who 
has  made  the  best  use  of  the  oppor- 
tunities that  have  come  to  him.  He 
came  to  Utah  poor  and  unknown,  be- 
ing compelled  to  walk  the  greater  part  of  the 
way  across  the  plains,  and  having  no  friends  in 
this  country,  and  beginning  at  the  very  lowest 
rung  of  the  ladder  he  has  successfully  climbed  it, 
rung  by  rung,  until  today  he  is  one  of  the  wealth- 
iest sheep  men  of  his  county,  and  able  to  loan 
money  to  those  in  distress.  His  long  and  some- 
times bitter  struggle  with  adverse  circumstances 
has  not,  as  is  so  often  the  case,  dried  up  the  milk 
of  human  kindness  in  his  breast,  but  has,  on  the 
contrary,  imbued  him  with  a  tender  sympathy  for 
the  poor,  the  struggling  and  the  friendless,  and 
he  is  today  noted  not  only  for  his  kindly  and  sym- 
pathetic manner,  but  for  his  many  charitable 
deeds. 

Mr.  Parker  was  born  in  Yorkshire,  England, 
October  18,  1825.  and  served  a  seven  years'  ap- 


prenticeship under  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  stud- 
ying mineralogy,  becoming  an  expert  on  that  sub- 
ject, and  for  a  number  of  years  followed  lead 
mining.  He  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Mormon  Church  in  1862,  and  three  years  later 
emigrated  to  America,  crossing  the  great  Ameri- 
can plains  on  foot  from  Omaha  to  Carbon,  Wyom- 
ing, where  he  stopped  three  months,  working  in 
the  coal  mines  as  an  expert  miner.  He  came  to 
Henefer,  March  i,  1870,  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  as  his  means  permitted  invested  in  sheep, 
gradually  enlarging  his  business  until  at  this 
time  he  has  two  thousand  head  on  the  winter 
range.  He  has  been  successful  to  a  very  marked 
degree  in  all  his  business  ventures  since  coming 
to  L^tah,  and  now,  in  the  declining  years  of  his 
life,  is  enjoying  the  fruits  of  a  most  honorable 
and  well  spent  life,  living  a  practically  retired 
life,  loaning  money  out  to  those  in  less  fortunate 
circumstances. 

;Mr.  Parker  was  married  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  to  Miss  Sarah  Baldwin,  a  native  of  York- 
shire, who  died  in  England,  leaving  no  family. 
He  again  married  in  Yorkshire  to  a  Miss  Barbary 
Scott,  who  came  to  Utah  with  him  and  died  in 
Henefer  April  20,  1890,  leaving  a  family  of  four 
children — Alice,  wife  of  John  Arbottla ;  Mary, 
died  aged  twenty-three  years ;  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
R.  A.  Jones,  and  Isabella,  wife  of  Thomas  Brit- 
ton.  His  next  -wife  was  Mrs.  Ellen  (White) 
Nichols,  who  died  in  Coalville  on  February  7, 
1901,  leaving  no  family.  He  was  again  married 
to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Edwards)  Ditcher,  a  native  of 
Leamington,  Warwickshire,  England,  who  is  still 
living.  They  have  no  family.  Mrs.  Parker  lived 
for  some  years  in  Saint  Louis,  prior  to  coming 
to  Utah.  Her  brother,  Solomon  Edwards,  is 
Counselor  to  President  Steele  of  Bingham  county, 
Idaho. 

Since  he  became  a  member  of  the  Church,  Mr. 
Parker  has  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks,  and 
has  held  the  office  of  Elder  and  High  Priest  since 
1873,  ^""^  h^  1''^^  taken  a  lively  interest  in  every- 
thing that  pertained  to  the  promotion  of  the  inter- 
ests of  the  Church,  having  been  an  active  worker 
in  the  Sunday  schools  in  his  day.  In  1893  he  met 
with  a  very  painful  accident,  having  his  leg  broken 
in  two  places. 


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TDGE  JOSEPH  E.  FRICK.  Among  the 
prominent  members  of  the  bar  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Utah,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  has  taken  a  prominent  position. 
He  is  now  one  of  the  most  successful  law- 
yers in  Salt  Lake  City,  enjoying  a  lucrative  prac- 
tice, and  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  associ- 
ates. 

He  was  bom  in  Tiffin.  Seneca  county,  Ohio, 
and  when  but  a  few  years  of  age  his  parents  re- 
moved to  Iowa,  being  among  the  early  settlers  of 
that  region,  and  on  his  father's  farm  in  that  State 
he  spent  his  boyhood  days.  The  Frick  family  set- 
tled in  Iowa  when  it  was  necessary  to  hew  out 
the  lines  of  the  farm  from  the  thick  growth  of 
timber  ;  and  in  the  cultivation  of  the  farm  our  sub- 
ject assisted  his  father,  attending  school  in  the 
winter  months,  and  receiving  his  education  from 
these  schools  and  from  private  tutors.  Like  all 
the  sons  of  pioneers,  he  early  turned  his  attention 
to  the  means  of  gaining  a  livelihood,  and  at  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  began  to  learn  the  building 
trade,  and  from  nineteen  to  twenty-four  he  was 
engaged  in  contracting  and  building.  He  later 
went  to  Toledo,  Iowa,  and  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business,  which  he  followed  for  a  few 
years.  Finding  this  uncongenial,  and  opportuni- 
ties for  the  exercise  of  his  ability  scarce,  he  aban- 
doned that  and  took  up  the  study  of  the  law. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Iowa  and  practiced  in  that  State  until  1880.  He 
then  removed  to  Fremont,  Nebraska,  and  prac- 
ticed his  profession  there  for  eighteen  years ;  dur- 
ing that  time  being  County  Attorney  of  Dodge 
county  for  the  years  of  1884  and  1885.  He  was 
also  assistant  attorney  for  the  Fremont  and  Elk- 
horn  Valley  Railroad,  now  forming  a  part  of  the 
Northwestern  system,  and  was  also  counsel  for  a 
number  of  other  large  corporations.  He  was  a 
candidate  for  a  position  on  the  Supreme  bench  of 
Nebraska  in  1893.  but  was  defeated.  In  July, 
1897,  he  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City,  coming  here 
to  represent  the  Mercer  Gold  Mining  Company, 
and  when  that  was  consolidated  with  the  De  La 
Mar  Company,  he  was  made  general  attorney  for 
the  new  corporation.  He  is  also  attorney  for  the 
Salt  Lake  and  Mercer  Railroad,  and  for  a  number 


of  other  large  corporations  in  the  inter-mountain 
region. 

The  Judge  was  married  in  Iowa,  in  1872,  to 
Miss  Lena  Kunz,  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  and  an 
accomplished  and  highly  educated  woman.  They 
have  three  children — Laura  E. ;  Frederick  O.,  who 
assists  his  father  in  his  law  office,  and  Etta  L. 

M.  A.  Frick,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  a  farmer  in  Iowa,  where  he  settled. 
He  was  a  native  of  Alsace  Loraine,  France,  whicli 
was  ceded  to  Germany  in  1871,  and  came  to  Amer- 
ica when  a  young  man.  Mary  (Kuen)  Frick  was 
a  native  of  the  same  section  of  the  country  as  her 
husband. 

In  political  affairs  Judge  Frick  has  always  been 
a  staunch  Republican,  and  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  affairs  of  that  party.  In  fraternal  life 
he  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows ; 
belongs  to  the  Knights  of  P)thias,  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  to  the  Woodmen 
of  the  World.  The  reputation  which  the  Judge 
made  for  himself  in  the  East  has  been  duplicated 
by  his  success  in  Utah.  He  has  not  only  won  for 
himself  a  prominent  place  in  the  State,  but  he  is 
also  one  of  the  most  highly  respected  citizens  in 
the  community.  His  integrity  and  honesty,  to- 
gether with  his  ability  and  industry,  have  won  for 
him  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  the  people. 


ENRY  WELSH,  secretary  of  the  Welsh, 
Driscoll  &  Buck  Company,  one  of  the 
leading  mercantile  houses  of  Park  City. 
-Mr.  Welsh  has  spent  over  a  quarter  of 
a  century  of  his  life  in  the  West,  and 
twelve  years  of  that  time  has  been  spent  in  Park 
City,  and  while  he  has  had  many  obstacles  to 
overcome,  yet  by  patience  and  a  firm  determina- 
tion he  has  successfully  overcome  every  discour- 
agement, and  today  is  considered  one  of  Park 
City's  most  substantial  business  men. 

He  was  born  in  Southbridge,  Massachusetts,  in 
1855,  and  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(White)  Welsh,  both  natives  of  Ireland.  His 
father  came  to  the  United  States  as  a  boy  in  1828, 
and  located  at  Watertown,  New  York,  where  he 
took  up  the  manufacture  of  woolen  goods,  being 


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an  expert  in  that  line.  This  business  he  followed 
through  life,  until  he  finally  retired  from  active 
business.  He  settled  in  Massachusetts  in  the 
early  fifties,  and  about  1870  went  to  Concord, 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of 
ninety-one  years.  He  always  enjoyed  good  health. 
He  was  a  life-long  member  of  the  Democratic 
party,  being  one  of  the  pioneer  members  of  that 
organization.  His  wife  is  still  living,  at  the  age 
of  sixty-seven.  Their  family  consisted  of  eight 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  now  living — Henry, 
our  subject ;  Mrs.  James  Ivers,  of  Salt  Lake  City ; 
James  W.,  living  in  Concord;  Mrs.  Conners,  liv- 
ing in  Concord;  John  F.,  Mrs.  Miles  Sweeney, 
of  Concord,  and  Mrs.  Lovelley,  of  the  same  place. 
At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  he  ofifered 
his  services  to  his  country,  but  was  not  allowed 
to  enlist.  He  then  moved  to  Salem,  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

Our  subject  received  his  early  education  and 
training  at  Salem,  and  worked  for  a  number  of 
years  in  his  father's  woolen  mills.  He  was  work- 
ing in  the  mills  at  Salem  when  the  news  came  of 
the  assassination  of  President  Lincoln.  He  moved 
to  Concord  with  his  family  and  remained  there 
until  1877,  at  which  time  he  emigrated  to  the 
West  and  landed  in  central  Nevada,  where  he 
obtained  work  on  the  railroad  as  a  common  la- 
borer. He  later  became  stationary  engineer,  and 
while  engaged  in  this  work  became  familiar  with 
the  process  of  reducing  ore  by  amalgamation, 
and  became  amalgamator  and  roaster  for  Simeon 
Wenbon,  at  Cartes,  Nevada,  where  he  remained 
'for  twelve  years,  part  of  that  time  being  store- 
keeper for  J\Ir.  Wenbon.  He  later  took  charge 
of  the  books  of  the  concern,  and  after  Mr.  Wen- 
bon had  made  his  fortune  out  of  the  property 
and  returned  to  London  our  subject  assumed 
charge  of  the  entire  business,  which  was  very  suc- 
cessful under  his  management.  He  devoted  his 
time  during  these  years  to  the  study  of  survey- 
ing, but  never  put  his  knowledge  to  any  prac- 
tical use,  except  in  a  general  way. 

Mr.  Welsh  came  to  Park  City  in  1891  and  or- 
ganized the  mercantile  firm  of  Conlon,  Welsh  & 
Company,  which  lasted  but  a  few  months,  when 
INIr.  Conlon  died,  and  the  firm  was  reorganized 
under  the  name  of  Driscoll,  Welsh  &  Company, 


which  firm  continued  until  Mr.  William  J.  Buck 
became  a  partner  in  1895,  when  the  name  was 
changed  to  Welsh,  Driscoll  &  Buck.  Their  trade 
increased  rapidly,  and  on  October  7,  1898,  the 
business  was  incorporated,  Mr.  Buck  being  made 
president  and  Mr.  Welsh  secretary  and  mana- 
ger. Mr.  Welsh  has  been  the  leading  man  in  the 
business  since  its  organization  in  1893.  They 
carry  a  complete  line  of  merchandise  and  do  an 
immense  trade.  When  they  began,  the  business 
made  about  four  hundred  dollars  a  month,  and 
it  is  estimated  the  business  of  1901  exceeded  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars.  They  give  employ- 
ment to  twenty  clerks. 

He  was  married  in  1891  to  Miss  Mary  Murphy, 
daughter  of  Michael  and  Mary  Murphy,  of  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire.    They  have  no  family. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Welsh  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party,  in  whose  ranks  he  has  always 
been  an  active  worker,  tor,  a  number  of  years 
he  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  County  Com- 
mittee and  a  member  of  the  Executive  Commit- _ 
tee.  He  also  served  as  Commissioner  of  Summit 
county  from  1895  to  1897,  and  in  the  latter  year 
was  a  candidate  for  office  in  the  State  Legisla- 
ture. At  the  time  of  the  split  in  the  party  upon 
the  silver  question  Mr.  Welsh  took  sides  with  the 
Silver  Republicans. 

In  fraternal  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Ordfer  of  United  Workmen.  Mr.  Welsh  is  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  best  known  of  Park 
City's  business  men,  active  in  all  social  affairs, 
popular  as  a  speaker  and  often  called  upon  to 
make  addresses  of  welcome,  etc.  He  is  also  a 
contributor  to  the  newspapers,  and  has  done  con- 
siderable writing  on  political  subjects.  He  is  ge- 
nial and  courteous  in  his  manner,  warm  hearted 
and  hospitable,  and  has  won  for  himself  a  host 
of  friends  among  those  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated,  both  in  public  and  private  life. 


D.  MATHIS,  one  of  the  leading 
druggists  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
one  of  the  most  prominent  mining 
men  of  Utah.  The  varied  re- 
sources of  this  State  have  attracted 
to  her  confines  men  from  all  over  the  world.  The 
man  in  search  of  wealth,  the  pleasure  seeker  and 


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the  invalid  all  turn  to  this  as  the  Mecca  where 
all  these  may  be  found,  and  if  he  seek  honestly, 
he  is  but  very  seldom  disappointed.  Few  men 
seeking  wealth  have  been  as  successful  as  has 
Mr.  Mathis,  and  while  he  has  only  spent  the  past 
ten  or  twelve  years  of  his  life  in  Utah,  during 
that  time  he  has  assisted  largely  in  the  edvelop- 
ment  of  the  commercial  interests  of  the  city  and 
State,  giving  largely  of  his  means  for  the  fur- 
thering of  those  interests.  He  has  perhaps  been 
identified  with  more  mining  enterprises  in  this 
inter-mountain  region  than  any  other  man  who 
has  lived  in  the  State  for  the  same  period  of  time, 
until  today  he  is  considered  one  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial and  successful  men  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Mathis  was  born  in  Randolph  county 
Missouri,  in  August,  1853,  and  spent  his  early 
life  on  his  father's  farm,  attending  the  district 
schools  and  later  entering  the  University  of  Mis- 
souri. He  also  attended  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Institute  for  some  time.  He  started  out  for  him- 
self quite  early  in  life,  beginning  as  a  drug  clerk 
at  the  age  of  seventeen.  After  serving  an  ap- 
prenticeship of  two  years,  he  entered  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  where  he  took  a 
course  in  pharmacy.  LTpon  leaving  college,  he 
opened  a  drug  store  in  Saint  Louis,  which  he 
successfully  conducted  for  ten  years.  Being  of 
an  adventurous  and  ambitious  turn  of  mind,  Mr. 
Mathis  became  imbued  with  a  desire  to  seek  new 
fields,  where  he  might  have  better  opportunities, 
and  during  the  "boom"  days  of  Minneapolis  sold 
out  his  interests  in  Saint  Louis  and  moved  to  the 
latter  city,  where  he  established  himself  in  busi- 
ness and  built  up  a  prosperous  trade.  However, 
he  did  not  feel  quite  satisfied  with  his  prospects 
in  that  city,  and  resolved  to  go  farther  West, 
going  to  Denver,  Colorado,  and  spending  a  year 
in  that  State,  principally  in  travel  and  sight-see- 
ing. He  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1893,  and 
has  since  made  his  home  here.  Upon  coming 
here  he  purchased  the  business  of  \V.  A.  Nel- 
den,  located  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Second 
South  and  West  Temple  streets,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  do  business  for  a  period  of  seven  years, 
and  in  1900  moved  to  his  present  place  of  busi- 
ness at  No.  324  South  ]\Iain  street. 

Mr.   Mathis  has  not  confined  himself  entirely 


to  the  drug  business  since  coming  to  Salt  Lake. 
While  he  has  perhaps  built  up  one  of  the  lead- 
ing businesses  in  that  line  in  the  city,  he  has 
also  been  identified  with  many  other  enterprises 
and  industries  for  the  upbuilding  and  develop- 
ment of  the  city  and  State,  prominent  among 
which  has  been  his  connection  with  the  mining 
life  of  the  State.  The  best  known  of  the  mines 
with  which  he  is  identified  may  be  mentioned  the 
Park  Gold  Mining  Company,  whose  properties 
are  located  in  Marysville,  Utah,  and  of  which 
company  Mr.  Mathis  is  president  and  treasurer. 
This  property,  while  it  has  not  as  yet  paid  any 
dividends  to  its  owners,  is  considered  a  very  val- 
uable one,  and  has  bright  prospects.  During  the 
time  Mr.  Mathis  has  been  president  a  very  large 
amount  of  work  has  been  accomplished  and  much 
development  done.  It  has  been  successfully 
worked  without  the  loss  of  a  single  day  for  the 
past  three  years,  and  they  have  done  over  twelve 
hundred  feet.  The  property  is  in  the  same  belt 
as  the  famous  Annie  Laura  mine.  He  is  also 
treasurer  of  the  Blaine  Gold  and  Silver  Mining 
Company,  located  in  the  Erickson  district,  in 
Tooele  county,  about  thirty-five  miles  from  the 
Tintic  mines.  These  mines  were  incorporated, 
and  have  been  sucessfully  managed  by  Mr.  Ma- 
this, being  constantly  worked.  They  give  prom- 
ise of  being  among  the  leading  mines  of  that 
vicinity.  Another  company  in  which  he  is  inter- 
ested is  the  Northern  Gold  Alining  Company,  of 
which  he  is  treasurer.  He  was  the  founder  of 
this  company,  and  has  been  its  leading  spirit  since 
its  organization.  He  is  also  a  director  in  some 
mines  located  in  the  Detroit  district,  in  Juab 
county.  The  company  has  a  shaft  of  over  eight 
hundred  feet  on  this  property,  and  have  done 
considerable  development  work.  He  is  also  treas- 
urer of  the  Wandering  Jew  Mining  Company,  in 
Davis  county.  This  mine  also  has  a  bright  fu- 
ture. The  company  has  developed  the  property 
to  a  depth  of  seven  or  eight  hundred  feet,  at  a 
cost  of  as  many  thousand  dollars,  and  while  it 
has  not  as  yet  paid  any  dividends,  it  promises  to 
equal  any  of  the  mines  in  Davis  county.  Mr. 
Mathis  has  been  treasurer  of  this  company  for 
the  past  four  years.  These  are  but  a  few  of  the 
mines  with  which  he  is  connected,  his  interests 


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extending  all  over  this  inter-mountain  region. 

Mr.  Mathis  married  his  first  wife  in  Bloom- 
ington,  Illinois,  and  she  died  some  years  later. 
His  present  wife  was  a  Mrs.  V.  R.  Hughes.  He 
has  four  children — Laura  May,  at  home ;  George 
W.,  check  clerk  of  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande 
Western  Railway ;  S.  J.,  interested  with  his  father 
in  the  mining  business,  being  principally  con- 
nected with  the  Blaine  property,  and  June,  the 
child  wonder  of  stageland.  This  little  daughter, 
though  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  has  captivated 
the  amusement  loving  public  of  America  by  her 
wonderful  acting.  Almost  from  babyhood  this 
little  girl  has  displayed  remarkable  talent  along 
this  line.  At  the  age  of  ten  years  she  had  memor- 
ized "Ingomar,"  and  was  giving  scenes  between 
the  bandit  and  Parthenia,  his  Grecian  love.  As 
young  as  seven  years  she  began  to  astonish  Salt 
Lake  audiences  by  her  clever  interpretation  of 
characters  from  standard  plays,  and  1  efore  she 
had  entered  her  teens  she  had  memorized  "As 
You  Like  It,"  and  could  give  extracts  from  al- 
most all  of  Shakespeare's  plays.  About  a  year 
ago  her  parents  yielded  to  her  ambition  and 
placed  her  under  the  tutorship  of  Professor 
Cooper  of  San  Francisco,  California,  and  later 
they  signed  a  contract  for  a  thirty-five  weeks' 
tour  under  the  management  of  Archie  Levy, 
of  the  "Orpheum"  company,  which  is  at  this 
time  touring  the  East,  Mrs.  Mathis  accom- 
panying her  daughter.  Mr.  Levy  was  anxious 
to  secure  a  five  years'  contract,  but  this  her 
parents  would  not  consent  to.  It  is  predicted 
that  she  will  become  one  of  the  brightest  stars 
the  theatrical  world  has  yet  known,  and  her  par- 
ents are  very  justly  proud  of  her. 

Mr.  Mathis'  people  came  from  North  Carolina, 
his  father  being  George  A.,  who  went  to  Mis- 
souri during  the  early  settlement  of  that  State, 
in  1836,  and  was  identified  with  the  interests  of 
that  community  for  the  balance  of  his  life.  He 
was  at  one  time  one  of  the  largest  slave  owners 
of  Missouri,  but  liberated  all  his  slaves  long  be- 
fore the  Civil  War  broke  out,  and  at  the  out- 
break of  that  war  entered  the  army  under  Gen- 
eral Fisk,  where  he  did  valiant  service  for  the 
Union.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Par- 
thena   Parmalee  Dameron,   and  also  came   from 


North  Carolina.  Our  subject's  grandfather  was 
the  first  Judge  in  Missouri,  and  tried  and  con- 
victed the  first  man  accused  of  murder  in  that 
State,  an  Indian.  A  brother  of  Mr.  Mathis  at 
present  owns  the  old  homestead  in  Missouri, 
which  has  never  been  transferred,  e-xcept  by 
probate  will,  from  the  time  George  Washington 
signed  the  papers  giving  the  title  of  the  place  to 
the  Mathis  family. 

In  political  life  i\ir.  Mathis  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  Democratic  party,  but  has 
never  desired  nor  sought  public  office,  although 
interested  in  politics  to  the  extent  that  every  good 
citizen  should  be.  The  only  government  position 
he  has  ever  filled  was  during  his  residence  in 
Minneapolis,  when  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  as  postmaster  of  South  !Minne- 
apolis. 

Mr.  Mathis  is  essentially  a  self-made  man, 
having  started  out  for  himself  at  an  early  age, 
and  has  since  made  his  own  way  without  assist- 
ance from  any  one.  Personally  he  is  a  most  pleas- 
ant, genial  and  courteous  gentleman,  which  has 
perhaps  been  the  secret  of  his  marked  success  in 
life,  and  he  is  today  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  wide 
circle  of  friends. 


:\I.  LOCKHART.  There  are  few  mem- 
bers of  the  bar  who  are  more  widely 
known  in  Utah  than  J.  M.  Lockhart. 
Endowed  with  a  keen  mentality,  broad 
and  liberal  views,  he  readily  masters  the 
intricacies  of  any  situation,  however  involved  and 
difficult,  and  presses  his  advantage  to  a  success- 
ful issue  in  most  cases.  He  maintains  a  high 
standard  of  professional  ethics  and  has  never 
been  induced  to  descend  to  petty  methods. 

Mr.  Lockhart  has  been  a  resident  of  Park  City 
for  the  past  fifteen  years,  coming  here  in  April, 
1887,  from  Donovan,  Nebraska.  He  is  a  native 
of  Nashua,  Lawrence  county,  Pennsylvania, 
where  he  was  born  in  1867,  and  is  the  son  of 
Oliver  C.  and  Louisa  J.  (Nutt)  Lockhart.  Ol- 
iver C.  Lockhart  was  a  well  known  newspaper 
man  of  Pennsylvania.  For  several  years  he  edited 
a  wecklv  paper  at  Beaver  Falls,  in  that  State,  and 


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was  one  of  the  representative  men  of  his  town. 
He  crossed  the  plains  in  1852  and  spent  two  years 
prospecting  around  the  mining  camp  of  Placer- 
ville,  in  CaHfornia,  after  which  he  again  returned 
to  Pennsylvania  and  remained  there  engaged  in 
newspaper  work  for  ten  years.  He  again  got  the 
Western  fever,  and  went  to  Confederate  Gulch, 
in  Montana,  but  only  remained  eighteen  months, 
returning  once  more  to  his  Eastern  home  and  . 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  on  a  farm  he 
owned  in  Pennsylvania.  His  widow,  and  the 
mother  of  our  subject,  is  still  living  on  the  old 
home  place,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  She 
is  the  mother  of  seven  children,  of  whom  four  are 
residents  of  Park  City — Oliver  C. ;  Walter  S., 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  Park  City  ;  Mrs.  E.  J.  Boggs, 
whose  husband  is  in  the  contracting  and  building, 
business  in  Park  City;  J.  M.,  our  subject:  J.  L. 
C,  Mrs.  Edward  Porter  and  ^I.TS.  F.  W.  Hutch- 
inson, both  living  in  Pennsylvania. 

Mr.  Lockhart  received  his  early  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  his  native  State,  and  later 
entered  Westminster  College.  After  completing 
his  education  he  went  to  Donovan,  Nebraska, 
where  he  did  clerking  for  a  year,  and  from  there 
came  to  Park  City.  Upon  arriving  here  he  ob- 
tained a  position  as  bookkeeper  and  also  clerked 
for  different  firms  in  this  city  for  about  four 
years.  In  1891  he  entered  the  University  of 
Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  graduating  from  the 
law  department  in  the  class  of  1893.  He  re- 
turned to  Park  City,  where  he  at  once  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  has  since 
built  up  a  very  lucrative  practice.  He  has  be- 
come interested  in  mining  to  a  considerable  ex- 
tent and  is  at  this  time  secretary  and  a  director 
in  the  Creole  Mining  Company  and  also  a  direc- 
tor in  the  Boss  Mining  Company. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  staunch  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party 
and  since  living  in  Park  City  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  the  work  of  that  party.  He  has  been 
secretary  of  the  Republican  Central  Committee 
for  a  number  of  years. 

He  was  married  in  1896  to  Miss  Emma  C. 
\'an  Orsdell,  a  resident  of  Park  City,  but  a  native 
of  Kentucky. 

Although  but  a  young  man,  Mr.  Lockhart  has 


given  evidence  of  possessing  an  unusually  bright 
legal  mind,  and  his  friends  predict  that  he  will 
in  the  near  future  rank  with  the  leading  lawyers 
of  the  West.  He  is  courteous  and  gentlemanly 
in  his  bearing  and  during  his  residence  here  has 
won  a  host  of  friends,  both  socially  and  in  the 
profession. 


LTDGE  JOHN  FISHER.  There  is  no 
country  in  the  world  where  the  people 
as  a  whole  are  as  broad-minded,  liberal, 
frank  and  honest  in  political  and  private 
life,  as  well  as  in  business  life,  as  are  the 
people  of  Utah.  They  are  known  far  and  wide 
for  their  hospitable,  generous  and  kindly  man- 
ners, and  among  this  class  of  men  stands  the 
name  of  Judge  John  Fisher.  He  has  been  closely 
identified  with  the  State,  and  more  especially  with 
Davis  county,  from  its  earliest  history.  He  has 
not  only  been  an  eye  witness  to  the  great  trans- 
formation which  has  taken  place  in  this  new 
country  during  the  past  half  a  century,  but  has 
taken  a  prominent  and  active  part  in  every  en- 
terprise which  has  been  for  the  upbuilding  and 
the  development  of  the  country. 

Born  in  Woolwich,  England,  February  7,  1842, 
he  is  the  son  of  Thomas  F.  and  Jane  (Christon) 
Fisher,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  England. 
His  mother  died  January  17,  1902,  at  the  age 
of  about  eighty-nine  years.  They  raised  a  fam- 
ily of  four  children — three  sons  and  one  daughter 
— our  subject  being  the  youngest  son.  The  fam- 
ily emigrated  to  America  in  1854,  crossing  the 
ocean  in  an  old  sailing  vessel,  and  later  making 
the  journey  across  the  great  American  plains  un- 
der the  command  of  Captain  Robert  L.  Camp- 
bell, arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  October  28,  1854, 
and  at  once  settled  in  Bountiful.  The  senior  Mr. 
Fisher  had  been  for  many  years  a  ship  builder  in 
England,  working  for  the  English  Government 
for  twentv  years,  for  which  he  received  a  small 
pension  the  remainder  of  his  life.  After  com- 
ing to  Utah  he  followed  the  carpentering  trade 
and  also  engaged  in  farming  in  a  small  way. 

Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his 
father's  farm,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
schools  such  as  existed  in  Davis  county  at  that 


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time.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  started  out  in 
life  for  himself,  his  first  avocation  being  carrying 
the  mails  between  Salt  Lake  City  and  Carson 
City,  Nevada,  which  he  followed  for  a  number 
of  years.  This  was  known  as  the  Pony  Express, 
and  was  inaugurated  for  the  sole  purpose  of 
securing  the  daily  mail  service  on  the  central 
route,  over  which  the  Pony  Express  ran,  it  be- 
ing in  competition  with  the  southern  route.  He 
was  later  employed  on  a  stage  line  and  for  a 
number  of  years  drove  the  mail  stage  between 
Salt  Lake  and  Shell  Creek,  Nevada,  a  distance  of 
two  hundred  and  fifty  miles.  This  was  the  first 
daily  mail  stage  that  ever  ran  across  the  conti- 
nent. While  employed  by  the  Pony  Express  and 
running  into  Carson  City,  Nevada,  he  had  many 
thrilling  experiences,  losing  his  horses  on  a  num- 
ber of  occasions  and  several  of  the  soldiers  who 
were  appointed  to  protect  the  mails  along  the 
route  being  killed. 

After  serving  in  this  capacity  for  a  number  of 
years  he  returned  to  Bountiful,  where  he  marrie'd 
Miss  Josephine  R.  Lyon,  on  August  i6,  1863. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Windson  and  Silver 
P.  Lyon.  By  this  union  ten  children  were  born, 
six  of  whom  are  now  living.  His  second  mar- 
riage was  to  Harriett  Knighton,  in  April,  1878. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
Knighton.  Of  this  marriage  ten  children  were 
born,  of  whom  one  died.  They  are :  George  H., 
Joseph  R.,  Albert  R.,  Victor  E.,  Frederick  M., 
Ray  C,  William  M.,  Rulon  W.,  Hattie  Elizabeth, 
and  David  L. 

In  political  affairs  Judge  Fisher  has  always 
been  an  active  member  of  the  Democratic  party. 

In  1878  he  was  elected  to  the  Territorial  Leg- 
islature from  Davis  county  and  re-elected  in  1880. 
In  1896  he  was  elected  a  County  Commissioner 
of  his  county,  being  Chairman  of  the  Board.  In 
1898  he  was  again  elected  to  a  seat  in  the  Legis- 
lature. He  has  also  held  many  minor  positions 
of  trust  and  honor  in  his  county,  such  as  Justice 
of  the  Peace,  Mayor,  etc.  He  has  always  been  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints,  as  has  also  his  whole  fam- 
ily. One  of  his  sons  by  his  first  marriage,  Irvin 
F.,  served  on  a  mission  to  the  Sandwich  Islands, 
and  Thomas  L.  served  on  a  mission  to  England. 


Judge  Fisher  owns  one  of  the  finest  farms  in  Da- 
vis county,  containing  two  hundred  and  twenty 
acres  of  highly  improved  land.  He  is  a  stock- 
holder and  director  in  the  People's  Opera  House 
and  Mercantile  Company  of  Bountiful,  of  which 
he  has  been  secretary  and  treasurer  for  many 
years.  As  his  twelve  sons  have  grown  to  man- 
hood he  has  donated  to  each  one  a  home.  He 
has  by  his  long  and  honorable  life  in  Davis  county 
won  the  esteem  and  respect  of  all  the  people  who 
have  known  him,  both  in  private,  public  and  bus- 
iness life,  and  few  men  in  Utah  today  enjoy  a 
larger  circle  of  friends  than  does  Judge  Fisher. 


ISHOP  M.  F.  HARRIS,  a  resident  of 
Utah  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  has  witnessed  the  marvelous 
growth  of  the  State  during  that  time, 
and  has  himself  contributed  in  no  small 
degree  towards  bringing  it  up  to  its  present  high 
position  among  the  States  of  the  Union. 

Bishop  Harris  is  a  native  of  South  Wales,  his 
birth  occurring  at  Nanty  Gloe  in  1848,  and  is  the 
son  of  Thomas  and  Ann  (Williams)  Harris,  both 
natives  of  South  Wales,  who  emigrated  to  the 
LTnited  States  in  1853  and  settled  for  a  time  in 
St.  Louis,  moving  from  there  to  Nebraska  City, 
where  they  lived  until  1863,  when  they  went  to 
what  is  now  Bozeman,  Montana,  at  which  place 
the  father  is  still  living  in  the  enjoyment  of  good 
health  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-six  years. 
The  mother  died  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1873,  leav- 
ing three  sons — Thomas,  living  at  Henefer;  M. 
F.,  our  subject,  and  Dan  R.,  living  in  Montana. 
Our  subject's  early  life  was  spent  in  Nebraska 
City  and  there  he  received  his  principal  education. 
He  came  as  far  as  Utah  with  his  parents  in  1863 
and  in  the  following  year  went  to  Henefer,  where 
he  worked  by  the  month,  attending  school  for  a 
few  weeks  during  the  winter,  as  opportunity 
offered,  and  by  close  economy  was  able  to  buy 
five  head  of  sheep,  which  formed  the  nucleus  of 
his  present  thriving  business.  He  followed  the 
stock  raising  business  for  twenty-five  years, 
handling  both  cattle  and  sheep,  but  paying  es- 
pecial attention  to  sheep,  and  at  times  his  herd 
has  numbered  as  high  as  three  thousand  head. 


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He  has  made  his  home  in  Henefer  since  1864, 
and  has  done  much  towards  building  up  the 
town,  assisting  in  laying  it  out  and  doing  con- 
siderable building.  He  is  interested  in  the  Hene- 
fer Irrigation  Company,  in  which  he  was  at  one 
time  a  director,  and  is  at  this  time  president  of 
the  Upper  Henefer  Irrigation  Company ;  and  is 
now  president  of  the  Henefer  Irrigation  Canal 
Company,  incorporated. 

Bishop  Harris  was  married  January  73,  1868, 
to  Miss  Mary  Jane  Bond,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  Ann  (Barker)  Bond.  The  result  of 
this  union  has  been  a  family  of  eleven  children — ■ 
George  R. ;  Eldora,  wife  of  William  G.  Richins  ; 
Joseph  B. ;  David  Oscar;  Mary  Ida;  Hyrum  B., 
and  Myrtle  J.  Four  children  died  in  infancy. 
Bishop  and  Mrs.  Harris  have  four  grandchildren, 
one  of  whom,  Jane  Elizabeth  Harris,  has  lived 
with  them  since  she  was  a  baby  of  two  weeks. 

The  Bishop  became  a  Ward  Teacher  in  1867 
and  was  later  ordained  an  Elder.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Quorum  of  Sev- 
enties in  1876,  and  in  1889  was  ordained  High 
Priest  and  set  apart  as  First  Counselor  to  Bishop 
John  C.  Paskett  of  Henefer  Ward,  whom  he  suc- 
ceeded May  25,  1901.  He  was  for  a  number 
of  years  president  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual 
Improvement  Association.  He  assisted  in  build- 
ing the  Stake  Tabernacle  at  Coalville  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Summit  Stake  High  Council  for 
two  years ;  also  filled  the  position  of  home  mis- 
sionary for  some  time. 

Bishop  Harris  began  at  the  very  bottom  of  the 
ladder  and  his  career  has  been  one  that  would 
be  an  honor  to  any  man.  Upright  and  honorable 
in  all  his  dealings,  he  has  by  his  own  unfaltering 
devotion  to  duty  and  determination  to  succeed 
climbed  the  ladder  rung  by  rung  until  today  he 
stands  among  the  leading  men  of  his  county,  and 
enjoys  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated  through  a  long 
life,  as  well  as  the  friendship  and  admiration  of 
a  large  circle  of  acquaintances. 


R.  E.  P.  LeCOMPTE,  one  of  the  pio- 
neers in  the  medical  profession  in  Park 
City.     He  has  been   closely  identified 
with    the    leading    enterprises    of    the 
place  for  the  past  eighteen  years,  and 
6y  his  long  and  honorable  career  has  built  up 
a  splendid  practice. 
He   was   born   in   Cambridge,   on   the   eastern 


shore  of  Maryland,  in  1850,  and  is  the  son  of 
Samuel  D.  LeCompte,  who  was  a  graduate  of  the 
law  department  of  Yale  College  and  for  several 
years  practiced  his  profession  in  Baltimore.  In 
1854  he  was  appointed  by  President  Buchanan 
as  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Kan- 
sas, with  headquarters  at  Leavenworth.  At  the 
time  Judge  LeCompte  went  to  Kansas  there  was 
a  great  deal  of  agitation  going  on  over  the  slav- 
ery question.  Judge  LeCompte  arranging  himself 
on  the  pro-slavery  side  of  the  question,  and  taking 
an  active  part  in  all  political  matters.  He  served 
two  terms  on  the  bench  and  after  returning  to 
private  life  formed  a  law  partnership  with 
Messrs.  Methias  and  Burns,  at  Leavenworth,  at 
which  place  he  was  for  a  time  city  attorney. 
With  several  others  he  assisted  in  laying  out  the 
town  of  LeCompton,  on  the  Kaw  river,  which 
was  named  for  him.  He  accumulated  a  fortune 
and  was  a  wealthy  man  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  owned  ten  acres  of  land  in  the  heart  of  Kan- 
sas City  at  the  site  where  the  depot  and  the 
Armour  packing  houses  now  stand.  Judge  Le- 
Compte was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  best- 
known  men  of  his  day  in  that  section  of  the 
country,  and  became  the  personal  friend  of  Jim 
Lane.  He  died  of  apoplexy  in  1888,  aged  seventy- 
three  years.  His  wife  was  Miss  Camilla  F.  Cos- 
ton,  a  native  of  Easton,  Maryland.  She  died  in 
1878,  leaving  a  family  of  four  children — Eugene, 
living  in  Butte,  Montana;  E.  P.,  our  subject; 
Mrs.  Farnam,  of  New  Orleans,  and  Tripp  Le- 
Compte. 

Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  Kansas  and 
there  received  his  early  education.  He  first 
studied  medicine  under  Dr.  Brock  of  Leaven- 
worth, and  later  entered  the  Missouri  Medical 
College  at  St.  Louis,  graduating  from  that  in- 
stitution in  1873,  later  taking  a  post-graduate 
course.  In  1875  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
United  States  army,  as  assistant  surgeon,  with  a 
rank  of  First  Lieutenant.  He  received  his  com- 
mission at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and  was 
sent  to  Fort  Riley,  in  that  State.  He  went  with 
the  Seventy-sixth  Company  under  General  Crook 
to  the  Indian  war  in  the  Black  Hills,  and  was 
on  the  Little  Big  Horn  river  on  the  morning  of 
Custer's   last   fight.     He  camped    with    General 


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Crook  on  the  scene  of  the  massacre  at  sundown 
that  night.  The}-  followed  the  Indians  for  six- 
teen days,  living  on  raw  meat  and  having  no 
salt  during  the  entire  time,  and  Dr.  LeCompte 
served  all  through  the  Seventy-sixth's  campaign 
against  the  Indians.  From  1879  to  1882  he  was 
stationed  at  Fort  Douglas,  and  while  there  fought 
a  duel  with  Captain  Weston,  of  the  Fourteenth 
Infantry.  Revolvers  were  used  as  weapons  and 
both  combatants  were  wounded,  one  ball  going 
through  the  doctor's  body.  In  1882  he  went  to 
White  river,  in  Colorado,  and  became  post  trader 
at  Fort  Meek,  being  recommended  by  the  officers 
of  the  Fourteenth  Infantry.  In  accepting  this 
position  it  became  necessary  for  him  to  resign  as 
assistant  surgeon,  which  he  did.  He  remained 
there  for  two  years  and  had  a  large  store.  The 
post  was  abandoned  in  1884  and  the  doctor  came 
to  Park  City,  where  he  entered  upon  the  active 
practice  of  his  profession,  in  which  he  has  been 
very  successful,  building  up  a  large  and  lucra- 
tive practice. 

Since  coming  to  Park  City  Dr.  LeCompte  has 
become  largely  interested  in  the  mining  industry 
of  this  State,  and  is  interested  in  a  number  of 
mining  properties  in  Park  City  and  vicinity, 
among  others  being  the  Constellation  Mining 
Company,  of  which  he  is  president. 

The  doctor  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  while  stationed  at  Fort  Douglas,  to  Miss 
Lydia  Wells,  daughter  of  James  and  Hannah 
Wells.  They  have  two  children — Edward  Dex- 
ter, born  at  White  River,  Colorado,  and  who  is 
a  graduate  of  West  Point,  entering  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  and  graduating  in  1894;  and  Hannah. 

In  politics  Dr.  LeCompte  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  the  present  City  Physician  of  Park  City. 


OLONEL  MAURICE  M.  KAIGHN. 
Among  the  members  of  the  bar  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  Utah, 
few  men  hold  a  more  prominent  posi- 
tion, and   few  have  won  the  respect 

and  confidence  of  his  fellow  practitioners  more 

thoroughly  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

He  is  now  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Salt 

Lake  Citv  and  of  Utah. 


Colonel  Kaighn  was  born  in  Camden,  New 
Jersey,  in  1844,  and  his  boyhood  days  were  spent 
in  that  city,  where  he  attended  the  district 
schools.  He  later  attended  the  Columbian  Uni- 
versity in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  graduated  from 
the  law  department  of  that  institution  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
District  of  Columbia  in   1869. 

During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  was  active- 
ly engaged  in  that  conflict,  serving  during  that 
time  in  two  regiments  from  Pennsylvania,  form- 
ing a  part  of  the  Sixth  Corps  of  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac.  He  arrived  at  Gettysburg  on  the 
day  that  the  battle  closed  and  was  also  present  at 
Antietam  and  South  Mountain. 

His  father,  W.  S.  Kaighn.  was  also  a  native  of 
New  Jersey,  and  was  extensively  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  agricultural  implements.  The 
Kaighn  family  were  early  settlers  of  the  United 
States,  and  the  paternal  great-grandfather  of  our 
subject,  Elias  Kaighn,  was  an  officer  in  the  Amer- 
ican force  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  his  sons 
participated  in  the  war  of  1812.  The  Kaighn 
family  were  originally  from  the  Isle  of  Man,  and 
from  the  arrival  of  the  first  members  of  the  family 
in  this  country  have  always  been  a  prosperous, 
successful  and  aggressive  people. 

The  mother  of  Colonel  Kaighn,  Mrs.  Nancy 
S.  (McElroy)  Kaighn.  was  a  native  of  New 
Jersey,  and  her  family  were  also  among  the  early 
settlers  of  that  State,  coming  to  this  country  some 
years  before  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Colonel  Kaighn,  after  his  admission  to  the 
bar  in  1869,  was  appointed  to  the  position  of  law 
clerk  in  the  Department  of  the  Interior  at  Wash- 
ington, which  he  held  until  1877,  when  he  re- 
signed his  position  to  enter  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  for  the  past 
twenty- four  years  has  been  one  of  the  most  prom- 
inent citizens  of  this  State.  In  addition  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  he  also  found  time  to 
engage  in  mining  in  different  parts  of  the  State, 
devoting  the  most  of  his  attention  to  the  develop- 
men  of  properties  near  Bingham,  in  Salt  Lake 
county,  where  he  acquired  large  interests  and 
employed  a  number  of  men.  His  application  to 
the  work  of  his  profession  has  won  for  him  the 
reputation  of  being  among  the  first  mining  law- 


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yers  of  Utah,  and  his  practice  is  largely  confined 
to  mining  and  corporation  law,  and  extends  to 
the  adjoining  States  of  Wyoming,  Idaho  and  Ne- 
vada. 

In  the  political  affairs  of  Utah  he  has  always 
taken  an  active  and  prominent  part.  During  the 
life  time  of  the  Liberal  party  he  was  a  staunch 
member  and  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks,  and 
upon  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party  in 
this  State,  transferred  his  allegiance  to  it. 

Colonel  Kaighn  has  had  four  children :  Jean 
F.,  wife  of  A.  H.  Gawler,  of  Washington,  D.  C. ; 
Herbert  D.,  in  the  United  States  Navy;  Maurice 
E.,  engaged  in  business  in  this  city;  and  Merrill 
McElroy,  who  is  a  student  in  the  University  of 
Utah.  Colonel  Kaighn  is  a  member  of  the  Odd 
Fellows  and  is  also  a  prominent  member  of  the 
Masonic  order.  He  is  also  an  active  and  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic and  is  Past  Department  Commander  of  the 
Department  of  Utah.  His  industry  and  ability 
have  brought  to  him  the  success  that  always  fol- 
lows the  consistent  application  of  its  principles 
to  the  business  in  hand. 

Endowed  with  a  splendid  physique,  tall  and 
erect  figure,  his  commanding  person,  together 
with  his  geniality  and  kindness,  has  made  him  one 
of  the  most  popular  men  in  this  city  and  State. 
He  has  had  a  lucrative  practice  and  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom 
he  has  come  in  contact.  His  office  is  at  No.  76 
West  Second  South  street.  Salt  Lake  City,  where 
he  has  one  of  the  finest  law  libraries  in  the  West. 


I. FRED  BEST.  There  have  been 
many  men  in  Utah  and  in  the  vSalt 
I,ake  Valley  who  by  their  eft'orts 
lave  assisted  materially  in  the  devel- 
opment of  its  present  prosperity,  and 
in  this  number  there  are  few  men  who  have 
taken  a  more  active  part  or  been  more  actively 
interested  in  the  development  of  the  whole  State, 
as  well  as  in  the  building  up  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Thrown  upon  his  own  resources  at  an  early  age 
by  the  failure  of  his  father  in  business,  starting 
with  a  meagre  education,  he  has  fought  his  way 


through  all  the  difficulties  that  encompassed  him, 
and  has  finally  rounded  out  a  successful  career  as 
one  of  the  pioneer  business  men  of  L^tah. 

Alfred  Best  was  born  in  Glostershire,  Eng- 
land, in  1829.  He  is  the  son  of  Richard 
and  Dinah  (Peart)  Best,  who  were  both  born, 
reared  and  lived  in  that  part  of  England,  and 
died  in  New  York  City.  Their  son  Alfred  was 
the  youngest  but  one  of  the  family,  and  in  his 
boyhood  days  received  a  meagre  education  in 
the  common  schools,  and  was  early  apprenticed 
to  the  trade  of  tin  plate  worker.  He  came  to 
America  upon  the  failure  of  his  father  in  busi- 
ness, and  started  on  his  career  at  the  age  of 
twelve.  The  entire  Best  family  removed  to  New 
York,  and  made  their  home  at  Utica,  in  that 
State,  where  their  relatives  were  engaged  as 
practical  builders. 

Our  subject  remained  in  New  York  but  a  short 
time,  and  then  traveled  over  a  large  portion  of 
the  country  in  the  following  year.  He  joined  a 
wagon  train  at  Council  Bluffs  which  was  headed 
for  the  settlement  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  and 
whose  members  were  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church.  Among  the  company  he  joined  was 
Apostle  Orson  Pratt,  who  was  on  his  way  back 
to  Utah  from  missionary  work  in  England.  The 
wagon  train  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  the 
early  part  of  185 1,  and  our  subject  lived  for  the 
next  three  or  four  years  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He 
was  married  here  in  the  early  fifties  to  ]\Iiss  Mar- 
garet Oakley,  daughter  of  Ezra  and  Elizabeth 
Oakley,  natives  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Best  established  himself  in  the  tin  plate 
business  at  No.  124  Main  street,  and  remained 
there  for  a  number  of  years,  doing  a  lucrative 
business,  which  he  successfully  conducted  until 
a  few  years  ago.  In  the  early  sixties  Mr.  Best 
made  several  trips  across  the  plains,  and  also 
went  back  to  England  as  a  missionary  for  the 
Church.  The  trips  that  he  made  across  the  plains 
to  the  Missouri  river  were  for  the  purpose  of 
conducting  emigrants  into  Utah.  The  railroads 
had  not  then  been  completed,  and  the  onlj'  mode 
of  travel  was  by  wagon  train.  The  dangers 
which  encompassed  travelers  in  those  days  can 
scarcely  be  realized  by  the  occupants  of  the  Pull- 
man car  of  to-day  as  he  speeds  across  the  plains 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


of  Iowa  and  Nebraska.  The  dangers  from  the 
Indians,  and  frequently  the  attacks  by  the  rene- 
gade white  men,  made  it  a  necessity  on  those 
trips  to  have  men  of  only  the  greatest  experi- 
ence, as  well  as  the  highest  courage.  At  this 
place,  on  Ninth  East,  between  Thirteenth  and 
Fourteenth  South  streets,  Mr.  Best  has  a  home- 
stead of  thirty  acres,  and  there  some  of  his  chil- 
dren live.  He  also  has  another  residence  at  Sev- 
enth East  and  Twelfth  South  streets ;  the  home- 
stead lot  there  comprising  five  acres,  and  upon 
which  is  his  fine  residence  where  he  now  lives. 

In  political  life  he  has  always  been  a  staunch 
believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  has  given  his  support  to  it  since  its  forma- 
tion in  this  State.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  1849,  ^nd  since  that  time  has 
been  a  consistent  member  of  it,  but  has  never 
held  any  office  in  the  Church.  His  wife  and 
family  are  also  believers  of  the  Mormon  doc- 
trines. During  the  crusade  that  followed  the  en- 
actment of  the  Edmunds-Tucker  act,  in  1884-85, 
Mr.  Best  was  arrested,  tried  and  convicted  of  a 
violation  of  that  law,  and  served  his  sentence  in 
the  penitentiary.  He  preferred  to  serve  his  full 
term,  rather  than  take  advantage  of  the  amnesty 
offered  by  the  government  and  violate  what  to 
him  was  the  most  sacred  oath  which  a  man  could 
take,  and  at  the  same  time  desert  his  dependent 
families.  He  is  one  of  the  most  respected  men 
in  his  community  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  the  people  in  his  neighborhood. 

Mr.  Best  has  been  married  three  times.  By 
his  first  wife,  Margaret  Oakley,  he  had  thirteen 
children,  of  whom  eight  are  now  living.  His 
second  wife  was  Eliza  Conk,  who  bore  him  six 
children.  He  married  as  his  third  wife  a  sister 
of  his  second  wife,  Amanda  Conk.  She  has  three 
children,  all  living. 


ISHOP  W.  J.  BEATIE  was  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City  December  31,  1849,  ^nd 
has  spent  the  most  of  his  life  within 
the  confines  of  this  State.  His  parents 
were  members  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  he  has  followed  that  religion  all  his  life.  He 
is  the  eldest  son  of  Hampton  Sidney  Beatie,  who 
was  a  native  of  Virginia,  but  spent  his  early  life 


in  Missouri.  He  became  a  convert  to  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Church  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  be- 
fore he  came  to  Utah,  and  was  identified  with  it 
throughout  his  life.  He  was  for  years  a  sales- 
man in  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Insti- 
tution, and  by  his  faithful  service  rose  finally  to 
be  the  head  of  the  dry  goods  department  of  that 
establishment.  In  the  early  days  of  his  residence 
in  Utah  he  worked  for  N.  S.  Ransahoff  &  Co., 
and  left  that  service  to  become  associated  with 
the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution 
when  it  was  organized,  and  remained  with  it 
until  1876.  He  then  left  its  service  and  was 
employed  in  various  places,  first  in  Ogden  and 
later  in  Idaho.  He  died  at  Salt  Lake.  He  was 
one  of  the  first  to  go  to  Carson  City,  Nevada, 
being  one  of  the  pioneers  who  began  the  settle- 
ment of  that  new  country,  and  participated  in  all 
the  troubles  with  the  Indians  in  that  State  and 
throughout  the  troublesome  times  which  followed 
the  entrance  of  the  white  man  into  the  region 
heretofore  dominated  by  the  Indians.  His  wife, 
Marion  T.  (Mumford)  Beatie,  the  mother  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  also  a  native  of  the 
eastern  part  of  the  United  States.  Her  mother 
was  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  emigrated  from 
there  to  New  York,  and  the  family  came  by  ox 
team  to  Utah  in  1849.  Her  father  was  a  car- 
penter and  builder,  and  followed  that  business 
in  this  State,  as  well  as  devoting  time  to  farm- 
ing, which  he  followed  all  his  life.  Mrs.  Beatie 
is  still  living  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Their  son,  W.  J.  Beatie,  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  took 
a  course  in  John  Morgan's  Commercial  School. 
He  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  the  city  of  his 
birth,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  began  his 
mercantile  career.  He  secured  employment  with 
the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  as 
invoice  clerk,  and  remained  with  that  institution 
for  upwards  of  twenty-two  years,  except  the 
period  between  the  spring  of  1877  and  the  spring 
of  1879,  and  during  his  service  of  over  a  score 
of  years  with  this  great  mercantile  establishment 
he  has  risen  by  his  faithful  service  and  his  atten- 
tion to  his  duties  to  a  high  rank  in  the  confidence 
of  the  leaders  and  managers  of  that  institution. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  in 


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the  spring  of  1877  was  sent  to  England  on  a  mis- 
sion for  the  Church,  and  while  there  was  Presi- 
dent of  a  Church  Conference  in  that  country. 
Upon  his  return,  in  the  spring  of  1879,  he  again 
took  up  his  position  in  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Institution,  and  from  that  time  until 
1890  was  cashier  of  the  general  office.  This  is 
one  of  the  most  important  subordinate  positions, 
charged  as  it  is  with  the  responsibility  for  the 
moneys  received  and  expended  in  the  transaction 
of  its  vast  volume  of  business.  He  left  this  serv- 
ice in  1890  to  accept  a  position  as  Secretary  of 
the  Bullion-Beck  Mining  Company,  and  held  that 
position  for  ten  years.  In  June,  1901,  he  was 
appointed  Bank  Examiner  for  the  State  of  Utah, 
which  position  he  still  holds. 

Bishop  Beatie  was  married,  in  1872,  to  Miss 
Phoebe  L.  Young,  daughter  of  President  Brig- 
ham  Young  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  by  this 
marriage  has  four  children  living — Josephine  B., 
wife  of  Charles  S.  Burton;  Haze!,  Nelson  R.  and 
Walter   Sidney. 

In  the  administration  of  the  political  affairs  of 
the  State,  Bishop  Beatie  is  a  Republican,  and  has 
been  a  member  of  that  party  since  the  time  of  its 
organization  in  this  State.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
to  sign  a  call  for  its  formation  when  the  State  was 
admitted  to  the  Union,  and  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  it  ever  since.  In  the  Church  of  his 
choice  he  has  risen  to  be  a  Bishop  by  his  faith- 
ful and  devoted  service,  and  for  six  or  seven 
vears  past  has  been  a  Bishop  of  the  Seventeenth 
Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  has  spent  his  whole 
life  within  the  confines  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
lives  at  present  on  North  West  Temple,  in  the 
house  he  has  occupied  since  he  was  married. 
The  work  he  has  done  for  his  Church  has  won 
for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  leaders 
of  that  organization,  and  his  faithful  and  efficient 
services  in  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  In- 
stitution marks  him  as  one  of  the  most  progressive 
business  men  of  this  place,  which  was  justified 
by  the  work  he  did  for  the  mining  company  of 
which  he  was  Secretary  for  over  ten  years,  and 
at  present  by  his  work  as  Bank  Examiner.  Per- 
sonally, he  is  a  very  genial  and  pleasant  man, 
and  has  won  the  friendship  of  all  the  people 
with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact,  and  enjoys 
a  wide  popularity  throughout  the  State. 


IIARLES  A.  HARPER.  Among  the 
early  pioneers  who  came  to  Utah  in  the 
late  forties,  none  took  a  more  promi- 
nent part  in  the  settlement  of  this  re- 
gion or  in  the  development  of  the  Salt 
Lake  Valley  than  did  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
our  sketch.  The  work  which  his  father  begun  has 
been  ably  carried  on  by  his  son,  and  he  is  at  pres- 
ent one  of  the  most  substantial  and  prosperous 
farmers  of  his- neighborhood,  and  enjoys  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom 
he  has  been  associated. 

Charles  A.  Harper  was  born  near  Laramie, 
Wyoming,  July  23,  1848.  He  is  a  son  of  Charles 
A.  and  Lavina  (Dillworth)  Harper.  His  parents 
were  both  natives  of  Pennsylvania.  His  mother 
was  born  in  Chester  county,  near  Philadelphia. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Jesse  Harper,  also  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  spent  his  early  life 
and  grew  to  manhood  on  a  farm  in  Pennsylvania, 
and  also  learned  the  carriage  and  wagon-making 
trade.  He  removed  to  Illinois  early  in  1840  and 
became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  at  Nau- 
voo  before  the  death  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith. 
He  was  through  all  the  trials  incident  to  the  es- 
tablishing of  this  new  religion  and  came  with  the 
pioneers  to  Utah  in  1847,  in  the  same  train  of 
which  Brigham  Young  was  in  command.  He 
returned  the  same  year  with  President  Young, 
and  returned  again  in  1848  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  he  continued  to  live  until  1855,  when  he 
was  called  to  go  to  England  on  a  mission,  and 
upon  his  return  was  sent  to  Carson  valley  to 
colonize  that  region  with  members  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  and  while  absent  there  was  recalled 
by  President  Young  to  take  part  in  the  defense 
of  Utah  against  the  advance  of  the  Federal  troops 
under  command  of  General  Johnston.  He  was  a 
prominent  man  in  the  pioneer  days  and  was  one 
of  the  pilots  who  successfully  brought  emigrants 
from  England  across  the  plains,  being  captain 
of  forty-eight  wagons  in  the  train.  He  also  par- 
ticipated actively  in  the  settlement  of  the  southern 
part  of  Utah,  and  in  the  establishment  of  members 
of  the  Church  there.  He  took  an  active  part  in 
the  Indian  troubles,  and  was  all  through  the 
Black  Hawk  war,  as  well  as  all  the  other  depre- 
dations caused  by  the  uprising  of  the  red  men. 


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He  was  closely  associated  with  the  leaders  of  the 
Church,  especially  with  Brigham  Young  and 
Bishop  Hunter.  The  latter  was  a  resident  of  the 
same  part  of  Pennsylvania  as  was  Mr.  Harper, 
and  he  formed  a  close  friendship  with  him  which 
lasted  throughout  his  life.  His  early  life  in 
Utah  was  spent  in  close  association  with  the 
leaders  of  the  Church,  and  he  was  considered  one 
of  its  ablest  advocates  and  staunchest  members. 
His  first  permanent  settlement  in  'the  Salt  Lake 
Valley  was  made  in  the  Big  Cottonwood  Ward 
and  he  lived  in  a  dugout  on  Spring  Creek 
throughout  his  first  winter.  He  occupied  the 
position  of  Counsel  to  the  Bishop  of  that  Ward 
for  many  years,  and  lived  in  the  Big  Cottonwood 
Ward  until  his  death  in  1900,  aged  eighty-three 
years.  His  life  had  been  so  closely  interwoven 
with  the  aiifairs  of  this  Ward  that  it  would  be 
impossible  to  disassociate  him  from  its  estab- 
lishment and  growth,  and  he  died  in  the  fullness 
of  his  years,  honored  and  respected  by  all  the 
people.  He  was  the  father  of  eleven  children, 
five  of  whom  are  still  living.  His  wife  is  still 
alive  in  Big  Cottonwood  Ward,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-three. 

Our  subject  was  the  second  son  of  this  family 
and  spent  his  early  life  in  the  Big  Cottonwood 
Ward,  and  settled  on  his  present  homestead  in 
1878,  and  has  brought  it  to  a  high  state  of  culti- 
vation and  prosperity.  It  comprises  fifty  acres 
of  well-cared-for  land  and  the  buildings  are  all 
substantial  and  of  modern  architecture. 

He  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  August 
22,  1870,  to  Mary  Boyes,  daughter  of  George  and 
Elizabeth  (Taylor)  Boves.  Mrs.  Harper's 
mother  was  a  sister  of  John  W.  Taylor,  who  was 
one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
Her  father  was  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  England, 
and  died  in  this  city  on  August  i,  1874.  Her 
mother  is  still  alive  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-two,  having  been  born  in  1819,  and  is 
younger  than  was  President  Taylor.  By  this 
marriage  Mr.  Harper  has  eleven  children,  five 
of  whom  are  living.  They  are  Mary,  now  Mrs. 
Albert  Marchant,  residing  in  Big  Cottonwood 
Ward  ;  Joseph  B.,  now  on  a  mission  in  the  eastern 
states  for  the  Church,  on  which  he  has  been  ab- 
sent for  sixteen  months ;  Levina ;  Edwin  B.,  and 
William. 


In  political  affairs  Air.  Harper  is  a  member  of 
the  Democratic  party,  to  which  his  father  also 
belonged.  He  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  was  sent  to 
the  Sandwich  Islands  as  a  missionary,  but  was 
forced  to  return  after  the  lapse  of  a  year,  on  ac- 
count of  the  climate.  He  was  also  the  President 
of  the  Quorum  of  Elders  for  fourteen  years,  and 
is  now  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Thirty-fourth  Quorum  of  the  Seventies.. 
Mrs.  Harper  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Relief 
Society  of  the  Big  Cottonwood  Ward  and  has 
also  held  the  office  of  President  of  the  Primary 
Association  for  ten  years.  All  of  his  sons  and 
daughters  are  active  members  of  the  Mutual  Im- 
provement Associations  of  the  Church,  and  are 
also  active  participants  in  the  Sunday  School 
work  of  their  Ward.  The  Harper  family  is 
one  of  the  most  prominent  in  that  section 
of  Salt  Lake  county,  and  especially  in  the 
aft'airs  of  the  ]\Iormon  Church.  They  have 
been  intimately  associated  with  the  heads  of 
the  Church,  both  through  the  paternal  and 
maternal  sides  of  the  family.  The  prominent 
part  which  their  immediate  ancestors  took  in  the 
development  of  Salt  Lake  county  and  in  the 
building  up  of  the  resources  of  that  section  of  the 
valley,  has  been  carried  on  by  their  descendants, 
and  today  there  is  no  more  highly  respected  man 
in  the  Mormon  Church  nor  in  the  Big  Cotton- 
wood Ward  of  Salt  Lake  county,  than  is  Mr. 
Harper.  , 


(  )HN  G.  LABRUM.  Among  the  thrifty 
and  well-kept  farms  of  South  Cotton- 
wood, located  about  ten  miles  south  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  none  is  more  pleasing  to 
the  eye  than  that  of  John  G.  Labrum, 
with  its  sixty  acres  of  well-improved  land,  all 
under  a  good  system  of  irrigation,  highly  culti- 
vated, and  surrounding  a  modern  brick  house,  in 
which  are  to  be  found  all  the  comforts  and  con- 
veniences which  the  life  of  this  day  demands. 

Mr.   Labrum   was  born   in    Buckinghamshire, 
England,  on  November  29.  1849,  ^'""^1  '*  tl"?  son 


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of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (George)  Labrum, 
both  natives  of  that  country.  The  family,  con- 
sisting of  the  mother  and  si.x  children,  who  came 
to  America  in  1862,  the  father  having  come  in 
1 85 1,  and  he  died  in  Saint  Louis  of  cholera.  In 
1862  the  mother  brought  three  of  her  children 
across  the  plains  to  Utah,  making  the  trip  in  a 
company  of  sixty-two  wagons,  under  charge  of 
Captain  Joseph  Home,  and  she  herself  walking 
almost  the  entire  distance.  She  has  always  been 
a  woman  of  marked  vitality  and  is  now  at  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty-four  years,  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  good  health,  at  her  home  in  Butlerville. 
The  family  reached  Salt  Lake  City  on  October 
I,  1862,  and  spent  that  winter  in  Mill  Creek 
Ward.  The  following  year  they  settled  in  South 
Cottonwood  Ward,  where  the  other  children 
joined  them,  and  this  continued  to  be  the  family 
home. 

^^'hen  the  father  died,  the  oldest  son,  Henry 
G.,  assumed  the  care  of  his  mother  and  the 
younger  children  as  soon  as  he  was  of  an  age 
to  do  so,  and  continued  to  look  after  them  until 
the  children  were  of  an  age  to  support  themselves. 
Our  subject  engaged  in  general  farming  and 
sheep  raising,  when  about  twenty-three  years  of 
age,  and  has  met  with  marked  success,  coming 
to  be  one  of  the  solid  men  of  this  commvmity. 
Of  recent  years  he  has  practically  given  up  the 
active  duties  of  life,  and  his  sons  have  relieved 
him  of  many  of  the  cares  of  business,  especially 
in  the  live  stock  line.  In  the  early  days  Mr.  La- 
brum did  considerable  teaming  from  the  canyons, 
and  otherwise  took  an  active  and  prominent  part 
in  the  settlement  of  this  section  of  the  State. 

]\Ir.  Labrum  was  married  on  December  q, 
1872,  to  Miss  Ann  E.  Wheeler,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  A.  and  Ann  (Walker)  Wheeler.  Twelve 
children  have  been  born  to  them,  of  whom  nine 
are  now  living:  Eva  E. ;  Sarah  I.;  John  W. ; 
Lulu  E. ;  Thomas  O. ;  George  F. ;  Rulon  H. ; 
Mable  G. ;  and  Fern  L.  All  live  at  home  with 
the  exception  of  the  two  eldest,  who  are  married. 
Ann  E.,  Leona  and  Alta  all  died  in  infancy. 

Our  subject  has  been  in  politics  more  or  less 
all  his  life,  and  is  an  ardent  Democrat.  He  has 
held  the  important  office  of  Chairman  of  the  Pre- 
cinct   Democratic    Committee    on    Organization, 


and  has  frequently  been  chosen  as  a  delegate  to 
Conventions.  At  the  time  of  the  division  on 
party  lines  he  was  the  choice  of  his  party  for 
County  Commisioner,  but  went  down  to  defeat 
with  the  other  members  of  his  party,  although 
he  ran  ahead  of  his  ticket.  He  has  always  taken 
a  deep  interest  in  all  municipal  matters,  and  was 
school  trustee  for  many  years,  being  a  friend  of 
education.  He  also  filled  the  position  of  Deputy 
Water  Commissioner  on  the  Little  Cottonwood 
Creek  for  thirteen  years,  and  was  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Water  Division  of  the  Little 
Cottonwood  for  some  years. 

He  was  born  and  bred  in  the  doctrines  of  the 
Mormon  religion,  and  when  he  was  old  enough 
to  understand  its  teachings  became  a  member 
of  the  Church,  since  which  time  he  has  been  a 
consistent  and  faithful  follower  of  that  faith. 
For  twelve  years  he  served  as  Counselor  to  the 
Late  Bishop  Rawlins,  and  has  held  other  posi- 
tions of  honor  and  trust  in  the  Church. 

Mr.  Labrum  is  a  man  of  rare  qualities  of  mind 
and  heart;  of  sterling  worth  and  sincerity,  his 
frank,  open  countenance  at  once  wins  the  confi- 
dence of  the  stranger,  and  these  qualities  have 
endeared  him  to  the  people  among  whom  his  lot 
has  been  cast  for  a  long  period  of  time.  The 
family  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  this  com- 
munity, and  very  popular.  The  home  is  an  ideal 
one  in  every  respect,  the  home  ties  being  very 
close  and  tender,  and  affection  reigning  supreme. 


ARRY  BO\\'EX.  In  a  country  which 
has  developed  as  rapidly  as  has  Utah 
(luring  the  past  few  years,  there  are 
many  enterprises  which  spring  up  and 
develop  to  large  proportions  before  the 
great  masses  of  people  are  aware  of  their  exist- 
ence. Among  the  most  successful  and  new  un- 
dertakings which  have  been  built  up  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Salt  Lake  City,  is  the  fishery  and  hatchery, 
of  which  our  subject  is  the  owner. 

Harry  Bowen  was  born  in  Portland,  Maine, 
April  29,  1856,  and  is  the  son  of  Charles  and 
Sarah  Bowen.  He  came  to  Utah  in  1879,  having 
grown  to  manhood  and  received  his  education 
in  his  native  State.    After  spending  several  years 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


in  Utah  he  went  to  Globe,  Arizona,  where  he  be- 
came identified  with  the  mining  interests  of  that 
State,  and  where  he  prospected  and  located  a 
number  of  mines,  developing  a  number  around 
Globe,  among  the  most  successful  being  the  Buck- 
eye and  the  Last  Chance.  Besides  these  he  sold 
ninety-one  mines  before  returning  to  Utah  some 
years  later.  In  July,  1900,  Mr.  Bowen  purchased 
his  fishery  and  hatchery  business  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  located  opposite  Calder's  Park,  one  of 
the  suburbs  of  the  city,  that  business  being 
established  in  1891  by  Mr.  Shurlock.  Since 
taking  possession  Mr.  Bowen  has  built  and 
equipped  a  new  hatchery,  with  a  capacity  of 
400,000 ;  he  has  also  built  a  new  pool,  which 
gives  him  four  pools,  the  water  being  sup- 
plied by  six  fine  artesian  wells  and  it  is 
his  ambition  to  make  this  one  of  the  finest 
hatcheries  and  fish  farms  in  the  entire  West. 
This  is  now  the  largest  hatchery  in  the  State, 
aside  from  that  supported  by  the  Government. 
Mr.  Bowen  has  here  about  seventy-thousand  fish, 
ranging  from  four  months  old  to  fish  that  weigh 
five  pounds.  He  is  devoting  his  entire  time,  en- 
ergy and  means  to  the  development  of  his  busi- 
ness, and  expects  to  raise  the  number  of  fish  to 
half  a  million  by  next  summer. 

Mr.  Bowen  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  on 
October  14,  1901,  to  Miss  Mary  Rosencranz,  a 
native  of  this  place. 

In  political  life  he  is  a  believer  in  the  princi- 
ples of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  been 
active  in  its  ranks.  He  is  essentially  a  business 
man  and  puts  his  whole  spirit  in  whatever  he  has 
in  hand.  Visitors  to  the  hatchery  always  find 
Mr.  Bowen  courteous  and  willing  to  show  them 
around.  He  is  especially  proud  of  his  rainbow 
trout,  of  which  he  has  about  five  thousand,  some 
of  them  weighing  five  pounds.  His  hospitable 
and  kindly  manner  to  visitors  makes  the  time 
spent  there  enjoyable  as  well  as  profitable,  and 
visitors  come  away  with  not  only  a  wide  fund  of 
useful  knowledge,  but  also  with  a  kinder  fellow- 
feeling  for  mankind,  from  being  thrown  into 
association  with  one  who  is  ever  ready  to  do  a 
courteous  or  kindlv  act. 


OHN  FORD,  JUNIOR.  Among  the 
many  beautiful  and  thriving  homes  to 
be  found  in  Davis  county,  there  is  per- 
haps none  lovelier  than  that  owned  by 
John  Ford,  Junior,  near  the  town  of 
Centerville.  Here  he  has  two  hundred  and  twen- 
ty-four acres  of  valuable  land,  all  under  a  splen- 
did system  of  irrigation,  highly  cultivated,  em- 
bellished with  shade  and  other  trees.  His  home 
is  a  handsome  and  commodious  brick,  and  the 
barns  and  other  outbuildings  are  roomy  and  con- 
venient, making  it  one  of  the  most  desirable 
places  to  be  found  in  this  locality. 

The  Fords  are  one  of  the  oldest  families  in 
Centerville,  having  located  here  in  1854,  and  this 
has  since  been  the  family  home.  Our  subject 
is  the  third  son  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Chandler) 
Ford.  The  father  was  born  in  Cambridgeshire, 
England,  March  8,  1807,  being  one  week  younger 
than  the  late  President  Wilford  Woodruff  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints. 
His  parents  were  Thomas  and  Sarah  Terner 
(Mayson)  Ford,  both  of  whom  died  in  England. 
There  were  five  daughters  and  two  sons  in  this 
family,  Mr.  Ford  being  the  only  one  now  living; 
his  last  remaining  sister  died  recently.  He  be- 
came converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
religion  in  the  early  fifties,  in  England,  and  in 
1854  emigrated  to  America  with  his  family,  com- 
ing across  the  plains  by  ox  teams,  and  at  once 
locating  in  Salt  Lake  for  one  year,  and  in  the  fall 
of  1855  located  in  Centerville.  The  trip  across  the 
plains  was  made  under  the  leadership  of  Captain 
Job  Smith,  starting  from  the  landing  place  on 
the  Missouri  River  then  known  as  Westport,  but 
which  formed  the  site  of  what  is  now  Kansas 
City.  Upon  his  arrival  in  Centerville  Mr.  Ford 
rented  sixty  acres  of  land,  which  he  cultivated 
for  three  years,  until  the  general  move  south  at 
the  time  of  the  Johnston  army  trouble,  at  which 
time  the  family  was  sent  to  the  southern  part  of 
the  State,  and  the  father  and  three  oldest  sons, 
William,  John  and  Joseph,  enlisted  in  the  Mor- 
mon ranks.  After  the  trouble  had  passed  away 
and  the  families  returned  to  their  different  homes 
the  Ford  family  located  upon  the  old  Standish 
place,  which  the  father  leased  for  five  years.  Dur- 
ing this  time  the  father  and  older  sons  bouerht 


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the  old  Ricks  farm  and  went  into  the  stock  rais- 
ing business  under  the  name  of  Ford  &  Sons. 
They  continued  together  until  about  six  years 
ago,  at  which  time  the  father  withdrew  from  the 
firm  and  has  since  lived  a  retired  life,  making 
his  home  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  sons.  He 
has  now  reached  the  remarkable  age  of  ninety- 
five  years,  and  is  still  a  well-preserved  and  heal- 
thy old  gentleman.  He  has  been  twice  married. 
His  first  marriage  occurred  in  England,  where 
he  was  united  in  1833  to  Rebecca  Chandler,  who 
bore  him  eleven  children,  of  whom  six  are  now 
living.  Mrs.  Ford  died  in  April,  1880,  and  three 
years  later,  March  29,  1883,  Mr.  Ford  married 
as  his  second  wife  Mary  Ann  Wright,  daughter 
of  James  and  Mary  Ann  (Stearns)  Wright,  na- 
tives of  Warwickshire,  England,  where  their 
daughter  was  also  born.  They  emigrated  to 
America  at  an  early  day.  Mrs.  Rigby,  a  sister 
of  Mrs.  Ford,  is  living  near  them  at  this  time. 
Mr.  Ford  is  a  firm  believer  in  education  and  gave 
his  children  every  advantage  that  the  schools  of 
Davis  county  afforded,  aiding  them  as  they  grew 
up  to  get  a  good  start  in  life,  and  they  are  now 
all  with  one  exception  located  in  Davis  county, 
in  the  neighborhood  of  Centerville,  interested  to- 
gether in  their  business  enterprises,  and  a  most 
happy  and  highly  respected  family,  commanding 
the  esteem  and  respect  of  their  neighbors  as  men 
of  high  honor  and  undoubted  business  integrity. 
Of  those  now  living,  John,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  August  27,  1843;  William  lives 
in  Iron  county;  Eliza,  now  Mrs.  N.  T.  Porter, 
lives  in  Centerville;  Joseph  lives  in  Centerville; 
Esther  is  now  Mrs.  W.  W.  Roundy,  of  Benson, 
in  Cache  Valley;  James  Hyrum,  the  youngest, 
lives  in  Centerville. 

After  the  father  withdrew  from  the  firm  of 
Ford  &  Sons,  the  sons  continued  for  a  time  under 
the  name  of  Ford  Brothers  Live  Stock  Com- 
pany, and  have  since  incorporated  under  the  name 
of  Ford  Brothers  Land  and  Live  Stock  Company 
of  Centerville,  with  a  capitalization  of  twenty- 
five  thousand  dollars.  There  are  eight  members 
of  this  firm,  three  of  the  sons  of  John  Ford, 
Senior,  constituting  the  older  members,  and  five 
of  their  sons  the  younger.  Phillip  Ford  is  Pres- 
ident, Joseph,  Vice-President,  and  Joseph  N.,  Sec- 


retary and  Treasurer.  They  incorporated  in 
May,  1902,  what  is  known  as  the  Ford  Sheep 
Company,  with  a  capital  of  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars, their  headquarters  being  at  Centerville,  and 
ranging  ten  thousand  sheep  in  Utah,  Wyoming 
and  Idaho.  The  firm  make  a  specialty  of  .breed- 
ing blooded  stock,  raising  the  Short  Horn  cattle, 
and  owning  some  valuable  bulls,  and  they  sold 
fifteen' fine  bulls  recently  at  private  sale,  and  re- 
tained twenty  on  their  stock  firm.  They  also 
have  some  registered  Leicester  and  Ramberlay 
sheep.  Their  fine  cattle  and  sheep  were  imported 
from  Toronto,  Canada,  in  1899,  and  last  year 
they  shipped  away  a  car  load  of  high  grade  stock. 
This  large  and  flourishing  business  enterprise 
has  been  built  up  from  a  small  beginning  through 
the  untiring  enterprise  and  close  attention  of  the 
senior  Mr.  Ford  and  his  sons,  and  it  is  perhaps 
the  largest  private  stock  concern  in  the  county, 
if,  indeed,  not  in  the  entire  State.  While  the 
members  of  the  firm  have  their  stock  interests 
in  common,  they  each  own  their  own  farm,  and 
between  them  have  some  of  the  most  valuable 
and  productive  land  in  Davis  county,  owning 
handsome  and  comfortable  homes. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1868  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Gams,  daughter  of  Phillip  and  Mary 
M.  Garns,  who  came  to  Utah  from  Pennsyl- 
vania in  1854.  Five  sons  and  two  daughters  have 
been  born  of  this  marriage — John  W.,  was  mar- 
ried to  Alice  Rollins,  by  whom  he  has  five  chil- 
dren. He  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  to  Eng- 
land in  1895,  and  spent  two  years  in  the  foreign 
field;  Phillip  J.,  was  married  to  Amanda  Rollins; 
Joseph  N.,  called  to  go  to  England  on  a  mission 
in  1899,  and  spent  two  years  in  that  work; 
Thomas,  and  Albert,  who  married  Alice  Haight ; 
he  is  now  on  a  mission  to  England,  laboring  in 
the  Birmingham  conference ;  they  have  one  child. 
Esther,  now  Mrs.  Nathan  Clark,  and  ]Mary,  now 
Mrs.  Stanley  Parrish,  of  Centerville;  they  have 
adopted  a  little  girl  from  Kentucky,  little  Ora 
Ford. 

The  entire  family  are  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  in  whose  faith  they  have  been  reared. 
Mr.  Ford  served  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern 
States  in  1876,  spending  five  months  in  Ken- 
tucky, and  has  otherwise  been  active  in  Church 
work,  as  have  also  his  wife  and  daughters. 


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Mr.  Ford  passed  through  the  Aaronic  Priest- 
hood, was  several  years  a  member  of  the  Seven- 
tieth Quorum  of  Seventies,  and  in  1878  was  or- 
dained High  Priest  and  set  apart  as  first  Coun- 
selor to  Bishop  Nathan  Cheeney,  of  Centerville, 
where  he  remained  for  several  years.  He  is  now 
Superintendent  of  the  North  Centerville  Sunday 
School,  and  active  in  all  the  workings  of  the 
Church. 


ILLIAM  P.  RICHARDS,  Bishop  of 
Oakley  Ward,  Summit  Stake  of 
Zion,  Summit  county.  Having  been 
born  in  this  county,  his  whole  life 
with  the  exception  of  a  few  years, 
has  been  spent  here.  His  boyhood  days  were 
spent  on  the  fann  and  his  early  education  received 
from  the  common  schools  of  Summit  county.  He 
early  in  life  started  to  make  his  own  way,  taking 
up  farming  and  stock  raising,  which  he  has  suc- 
cessfully followed,  and  is  today  reckoned  among 
the  most  prosperous  and  successful  men  of  this 
county. 

Bishop  Richards  was  born  in  Wanship,  in  the 
Weber  Valley,  on  i\Iay  18,  1864.  He  is  the  son 
of  Franklin  D.  and  Susan  Sandford  (Pierson) 
Richards.  He  started  out  in  life  for  himself  in 
1885,  when  he  and  his  brother  Albert  D.  went 
to  Little  Wood  River  in  Blaine  county,  Idaho, 
where  they  engaged  in  farming  and  stock  raising 
for  five  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  they 
closed  out  their  interests  and  moved  to  Oakley, 
where  they  purchased  land  from  the  railroad 
company  and  again  engaged  in  the  cattle  busi- 
ness, handling  cattle  for  the  local  markets.  Their 
ranch  is  located  on  the  Weber  river.  They  have 
been  alive  to  the  importance  of  good  irrigation 
for  this  country  and  were  prominent  in  the  or- 
ganization and  promoting  of  the  Richards  & 
Company  Irrigation  Canal,  which  waters  three 
hundred  acres  of  land  at  Oakley.  Their  own 
ranch  is  well  irrigated,  and  they  raise  large  crops 
of  hav,  feeding  a  large  amount  of  stock  at  a 
time.  When  they  purchased  this  land  it  was  in  a 
wild  state,  mostly  covered  by  sage  brush,  and  has 
had  to  be  cleared  ofif  and  cultivated. 

Our  subject  was  married  January  9,   1805,  to 


Miss  Leah  Smithies,  daughter  of  James  and 
Hannah  (Crowther)  Smithies.  They  have  two 
children,  Jennie  JMarie  and  Karl  Raymond. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Richards  owes  allegiance 
to  the  Republican  party,  and  has  been  constable 
of  Oakley  for  two  years. 

Bishop  Richards  has  given  his  time  largely  to 
the  work  of  the  Church  of  which  is  a  member, 
and  has  held  a  number  of  offices  in  its  Priest- 
hood. He  passed  through  the  offices  of  Deacon, 
Elder  and  High  Priest  and  was  set  apart  as 
Bishop  of  Oakley  Ward  June  7,  1901,  by  Apostle 
Reed  Smoot.  He  has  also  acted  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  First  Counselor  to  President  John 
H.  Seymour,  of  the  Young  Men's  ]\Iutual 
Improvement  Association,  and  was  for  a  number 
of  years  Secretary  of  the  Oakley  Sunday  School. 

Bishop  Richards  is  a  man  of  broad  and  gen- 
erous mind,  hospitable,  and  has  made  many 
friends  among  those  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated  through  life. 


DWIN  BENNION.  Among  the  sub- 
stantial and  successful  business  men  of 
Taylorsville  Ward,  Salt  Lake  county, 
Utah,  who  have  assisted  largely  in 
building  up  this  section,  should  be  men- 
tioned Edwin  Bennion,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born 
in  the  same  Ward  where  he  has  spent  the  greater 
portion  of  his  life.  He  was  born  April  8,  1868. 
He  is  a  brother  of  Heber  Bennion,  and  a  son  of 
John  and  Mary  (Turpin)  Bennion,  whose  bio- 
graphical sketches  appear  elsewhere  in  this  vol- 
ume. Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  on  the 
farm  with  his  father  and  his  education  was  de- 
rived in  the  common  schools  of  Taylorsville 
Ward,  later  at  the  Brigham  Young  academy  at 
Provo;  completing  his  scholastic  education  in 
the  State  University  of  Utah.  The  death  of  his 
father  occurred  when  our  subject  was  about  eight 
years  of  age,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
started  out  on  his  own  hook.  He  first  pur- 
chased forty  acres  of  land  in  Granger  Ward, 
which  has  alwavs  been  his  home,  to  this  he  has 


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added  until  he  now  lias  seventy-four  acres,  coin- 
prising  one  of  the  best  farms  of  its  size  in  the 
county.  At  the  time  Mr.  Bennion  took  charge 
of  this  land  it  was  in  a  wild  state,  being  almost 
covered  with  sage  brush.  Since  that  time  he 
has  developed  it,  built  a  fine  residence,  barns, 
fences,  and  set  out  fruit  orchards  and  has  it 
under  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  While  Mr. 
Bennion  has  given  considerable  attention  to  farm- 
ing and  stock-raising,  yet  this  has  not  been  his 
principal  life-work.  For  many  years  he  has 
owned  a  large  interest  in  the  J.  S.  Lindsay  & 
Company  store  at  Taylorsville,  located  on  the 
Redwood  road.  With  this  company  he  has  been 
identified  not  only  in  a  financial  way  but  has  been 
its  manager  for  many  years.  This  company  has 
always  done  a  large  and  thriving  business,  which 
has  been  largely  built  up  by  the  good  manage- 
ment which  Mr.  Bennion  has  given  to  it. 

On  October  12,  1892,  he  led  to  the  marriage 
altar  Miss  Mary  E.  Lindsay,  daughter  of  Jos- 
eph, Senior,  and  Emma  (Bennion)  Lindsay. 
There  have  been  five  children  born  to  them — 
Edwin  A.,  Lavon,  Laura,  Erma  and  Elma. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Bennion  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  Republican  party  since  its  organiza- 
tion in  this  State.  He  has  always  taken  a  promi- 
nent part  in  the  work  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  in  which  he  was 
raised,  and  early  taught  its  principles.  His  wife 
is  also  a  member  of  the  same  Church.  He  was 
ordained  a  High  Priest  and  served  his  Church  on 
a  mission  to  Holland,  Belgium  and  the  Nether- 
lands. During  this  time  he  was  President  of  the 
mission  and  had  his  headquarters  at  Rotterdam, 
Holland,  where  he  learned  the  Dutch  language. 
He  was  called  on  this  mission  three  days  after 
his  marriage  and  his  wife  accompanied  him.  He 
has  also  served  as  Second  Counselor  to  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  Granite  Stake  since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Stake.  He  has  taken  an  active  in- 
terest in  the  Sunday  School  work  and  for  many 
years  was  a  teacher  in  his  Ward.  Besides  being 
largely  interested  in  the  J.  S.  Lindsay  &  Com- 
pany store  he  is  also  a  director  in  the  Canaan 
Live  Stock  Company,  which  is  beyond  a  doubt 
one  of  the  largest  live  stock  companies  in  the 
State.     For  many  years  he  has  been  manager  of 


this  company,  which  necessarily  takes  him  away 
from  his  home  for  a  considerable  portion  of  his 
time.  While  Granger  Ward  is  his  home,  his  vast 
interests  have  called  him  a  great  deal  of  the  time 
to  different  sections  of  the  country. 


OHN  GABBOTT.  The  very  atmosphere 
of  this  inter-mountain  region  seems  to 
inspire  men  with  a  craving  to  subdue 
and  develop  the  vast  resources  which  na- 
ture has  so  bountifully  supplied,  and 
among  the  men  who  have  taken  an  active  and 
prominent  part  in  overcoming  the  almost  insur- 
mountable obstacles  and  in  bringing  this  State 
up  to  its  present  prosperous  condition,  may  be 
mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  has 
faithfully  performed  his  part  along  this  line. 

John  Gabbott  is  a  native  American,  having 
been  born  in  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  on  October  4, 
1842,  and  is  the  son  of  Edward  and  Sarah  (Rig- 
by)  Gabbott.  His  parents  were  natives  of  Lan- 
cashire, England,  near  Preston.  They  became 
converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  in  England  and  came 
to  America  in  1841,  settling  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois, 
and  were  at  that  place  during  all  the  trying  and 
troublesome  days  before  the  Mormons  were 
driven  out  of  the  State.  There  they  met  and 
became  close  friends  of  the  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith,  and  in  later  years  Mr.  Gabbott  was  ever 
ready  to  speak  in  terms  of  praise  and  endearment 
of  Joseph  Smith.  When  the  Mormons  left  Nau- 
voo the  Gabbott  family  moved  to  a  place  known 
as  Little  Pigeon,  Iowa.  On  the  way  to  this  latter 
place  Mrs.  Gabbott  was  run  over  and  killed.  The 
father  continued  his  journey  alone  with  his  little 
family,  and  remained  for  one  year  in  Little 
Pigeon,  coming  to  Utah  in  1848.  Upon  arriving 
in  Salt  Lake,  Mr.  Gabbott  took  up  farming  and 
resided  in  the  Seventh  W^ard  of  Salt  Lake  City 
until  a  few  years  before  his  death,  when  he  moved 
to  State  street,  where  his  son  Amos,  a  half  brother 
of  our  subject,  now  lives.  Mr.  Gabbott  conducted 
a  very  successful  business  during  his  life,  dealing' 
largely  in  real  estate,  both  in  the  city  and  among 
farming  lands.  He  was  an  active  and  faithful 
member  of  the  Church  of  his  choice,  and  filled 


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the  position  of  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six,  honored  and  loved 
by  all  who  knew  him. 

Our  subject  has  spent  his  entire  life  within  the 
confines  of  this  State,  and  received  his  education 
from  the  schools  and  academies  that  then  existed 
here.  He  remained  with  his  father  until  his  mar- 
riage at  the  age  of  twenty-five  years  to  Miss 
Emma  Twiggs,  daughter  of  William  and  Mary 
Twiggs,  in  1868.  The  Twiggs  family  came 
to  Utah  in  1857,  ahead  of  Johnston's  army. 
By  this  marriage  Mr.  Gabbott  had  four  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  are  still  living — Sarah 
E. ;  William  E. ;  John  T.,  and  Martha,  who 
died  aged  four  years.  Mrs.  Gabbott  died  in 
1879,  and  Mr.  Gabbott  again  married  in  1880 
to  Olive  Cosgrove,  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Theresa  Cosgrove,  and  the  result  of  this  mar- 
riage was  also  four  chidren,  of  whom  two 
are  still  living.  They  are  Lewis,  died  aged 
twenty-one  years ;  Adam ;  Bayard,  died  aged 
eight  years;  Emma.     Their  mother  died  in  1889. 

Mr.  Gabbott  followed  farming  until  1893, 
when  he  became  interested  in  the  nursery  busi- 
ness, locating  on  South  West  Temple  street,  be- 
tween Tenth  and  Eleventh  South.  He  purchased 
the  entire  block  but  has  since  sold  a  number  of 
lots,  on  which  some  handsome  residences  have 
been  erected.  He  has  done  a  wholesale  business 
only  in  the  fruit  tree  line,  and  has  supplied  deal- 
ers in  this  and  adjoining  States.  Aside  from  this 
property  he  also  owns  several  farms  in  Salt  Lake 
county. 

In  political  life  our  subject  has  been  a  staunch 
member  of  the  Democratic  party  since  its  organ- 
ization in  this  State,  and  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  public  affairs,  filling  the  position  of 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  also  serving  as  school 
trustee.  He  and  all  his  family  are  members  of 
the  Mormon  Church  and  his  son,  John  T.,  served 
two  and  a  half  years  on  a  mission  for  the  Church 
in  Indiana,  in  1896,  returning  in  1899.  Mr.  Gab- 
bott has  also  been  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Church,  having  been  selected  as  Second  Coun- 
selor to  the  Bishop  of  Farmers'  Ward,  when 
that  Ward  was  first  organized.  The  name  Far- 
mers' Ward  was  given  from  the  fact  that  at  the 
time  of  the  organization,   the   residents   of  that 


portion  of  the  city  were  all  farmers.  Today, 
however,  almost  every  line  of  business  is  repre- 
sented in  this  ward  and  many  of  the  business 
men  of  the  city  have  their  homes  there.  He  at 
this  time  holds  the  position  of  First  Counselor  to 
the  Second  Bishop  of  the  Ward.  Mr.  Gabbott 
has  been  eminently  sucessful  in  his  business  ca- 
reer and  is  today  one  of  the  wealthy  men  of  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  is  known  as  a  man  of  high  in- 
tegrity, undaunted  courage,  and  perseverance, 
and  by  his  energy  and  foresight  has  built  up  a 
profitable  and  thriving  business.  His  genial  and 
courteous  manner  has  won  for  him  a  host  of 
friends,  and  today  there  is  no  man  who  stands 
higher  in  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  people 
and  the  leaders  of  the  Church  than  he. 


OSEPH  D.  MUIR,  one  of  the  success- 
ful young  business  men  of  Salt  Lake 
County,  was  born  near  Evanston,  Wy- 
oming, on  April  27,  1875.  He  is  a  son 
of  Joseph  and  Ellen  (Dobby)  Muir,  who 
were  natives  of  Edinborough,  Scotland.  They 
came  to  Utah  about  40  years  ago,  and  now  re- 
side at  looi  East  i2th  South  Street. 

Our  subject  took  up  his  residence  in  Sugar 
House  Ward  twenty-two  years  ago  where  he  has 
continued  his  residence  ever  since.  He  married 
February  28th,  1901,  to  Miss  Ellen  H.  Smith, 
daughter  of  John  R.  and  Mary  Smith,  who  re- 
side  at   1 301   East    I2th   South   Streets. 

Mrs.  Muir  was  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith 
from  childhood  and  has  always  been  a  faithful 
member  of  that  church  ever  since.  She  and  her 
husband  were  school  children  together.  On  Oct- 
ober 20th,  1897,  Mr.  Muir  purchased  his  pres- 
ent home,  where  he  owns  five  acres  of  choice 
land,  and  in  connection  with  his  home  he  farms 
extensively  outside  of  it,  having  charge  of  650 
acres  in  the  vicinity  of  his  home  farm.  His  own 
home,  while  small  in  acreage,  is  considered  one  of 
the  prettiest  country  residences  in  Salt  Lake 
County,  with  all  modern  improvements,  electric 
lights,  bath,  hot  and  cold  water.  Outside  of 
farming  Mr.  Muir  has  also  been  associated  with 
his  brother,  J.  T.,  in  the  stock  business.  They 
own  a  ranch  of  280  acres,  known  as  the  "O.  K." 


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brand,  at  Weiser,  Idaho,  and  where  they  are  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  the  stock  business.  Mr. 
Muir  deserves  much  credit  for  what  he  has  ac- 
complished during  his  short  business  life,  hav- 
ing started  out  on  his  own  hook  at  the  very  bot- 
tom of  the  ladder.  He  has  thoroughly  demon- 
strated his  ability  as  a  business  man. 

Mr.  Muir  was  ordained  an  Elder  in  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  and  he  and  his  wife  are  faithful, 
conscientious  members  of  that  faith.  They  have 
one  child,  a  daughter,  born  March   17,   1902. 


HARLES  TURNER,  Bishop  of  South 
^Morgan  Ward,  Morgan  Stake  of  Zion, 
is  a  native  of  England,  in  which  coun- 
try he  received  his  early  education  and 
grew  to  manhood.  He  was  born  in 
Leamington  Spa,  Warwickshire,  in  1827,  and 
when  five  years  of  age  his  parents  moved  to  Ry- 
ton,  in  the  same  Shire.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  he  became  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  shortly 
after  his  baptism  was  ordained  a  Priest.  He 
labored  in  the  Coventry  branch  of  the  Church 
for  seven  years,  and  was  made  an  Elder  in 
1854.  He  traveled  for  three  years  as  a  mission- 
ary ^n  England  and  Scotland,  and  was  for  sev- 
enteen months  President  of  the  Dundee  Confer- 
ence. 

In  1861  he  became  imbued  with  a  desire  to 
come  to  America  and  in  April  of  that  year  took 
passage  on  the  steamer  Undenvriter.  landing  in 
New  York.  He  went  to  Florence  where  he  spent 
a  month  preparing  for  the  long  and  arduous  trip 
across  the  great  American  plains,  and  made  the 
trip  by  o.x  teams,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City 
September  15th,  where  he  remained  seven  weeks, 
and  then  went  to  the  Weber  valley,  locating  on 
what  is  now  the  site  of  Morgan  City.  For  the 
two  years  following  he  worked  at  whatever  he 
could  obtain  to  make  a  livelihood.  At  the  end 
of  this  time  he  engaged  in  brick  making,  manu- 
facturing the  brick  from  the  native  clay,  and 
furnished  the  first  brick  in  Morgan  City,  many 
of  the  houses  now  in  use  being  built  from  these 
brick.     He  also  burnt  the  native  lime  stone  and 


engaged  in  this  business  for  over  thirty  years, 
still  retaining  his  farm,  which  he  operated  in  a 
small  way.  Since  1896  he  has  given  his  time 
more  particularly  to  farming  and  ranching,  and 
owns  a  ranch  about  seventeen  miles  up'  Lost 
Creek,  where  he  has  one  hundred  and  thirty  head 
of  cattle  and  horses.  He  built  his  present  home 
in  Morgan  City  in  1888,  and  also  built  a  house 
for  his  oldest  son.  He  also  purchased  a  house 
in  Morgan  which  he  gave  to  his  second  son. 

Bishop  Turner  was  married  December  8,  i86t, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Wilkens,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Elizabeth  Wilkens.  Mrs.  furner  died  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1865,  leaving  one  child,  which  also  died. 
He  married  again  on  October  14,  1865,  to  Miss 
Annie  Boash,  who  is  still  living.  She  has  been 
the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  of  whom  eleven 
are  living.  He  married  a  third  time  in  1872  to 
Hannah  Jones,  who  is  also  living,  and  who  bore 
him  six  children.  The  Bishop  has  fourteen  liv- 
ing children  and  seven  grand-children. 

In  political  life  Bishop  Turner  is  an  ardent 
Republican  and  has  given  much  of  his  time  to 
the  work  of  that  party.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
Councilmen  of  Morgan  and  has  served  eight 
terms  as  Councilman  and  one  term  as  Mayor. 
He  has  been  identified  with  most  of  the  public 
enterprises  of  Morgan  City;  assisted  in  taking 
out  the  two  main  water  ditches,  and  also  one 
from  Canon  creek.  Before  the  admission  of  Utah 
into  the  Union  he  served  for  two  terms  as  Se- 
lectman of  his  county,  and  has  been  largely  in- 
strumental in  building  up  the  community  in  which 
he  has  lived. 

Since  coming  to  Utah  he  has  been  ordained 
a  High  Priest  and  presided  over  the  North  Mor- 
gan district  before  the  Stake  was  organized,  and 
at  the  time  of  the  organization  of  the  Stake  in 
1877  was  set  apart  as  Bishop  by  Apostle  Lorenzo 
Snow  to  preside  over  the  South  Morgan  Ward. 
He  has  been  noted  for  his  liberality  and  generos- 
ity. He  left  home  and  began  life  for  himself 
at  the  age  of  thirteen,  and  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen took  the  entire  care  of  his  younger  broth- 
ers and  sisters,  giving  them  an  education  and 
fitting  them  to  earn  their  own  living.  His  life 
since  coming  to  L^tah  has  been  above  reproach 
and   he   has   always   stood   ready   to   relieve   the 


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needy  or  give  aid  to  the  distressed.  He  has 
won  and  retained  the  confidence  not  only  of  the 
heads  of  the  Church,  but  of  all  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated. 


(  )HN  H.  RICH,  one  of  the  wealthiest 
and  most  influential  citizens  of  Morgan 
county,  is  a  man  honored  for  his  sterling 
worth  and  integrity.  Possessing  more 
than  ordinary  business  ability,  he  has 
by  the  exercise  of  his  own  ingenuity  been  able 
to  gain  for  himself  financial  prosperity,  and  that 
which  is  still  more  to  be  desired,  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  his  associates.  His  energy  is  one  of 
the  conspicuous  traits  of  his  character,  and  to  this 
quality,  combined  with  his  ability,  is  due  the 
success  which  has  attended  every  enterprise  with 
which  he  has  been  identified. 

Mr.  Rich  is  a  native  of  England,  having  been 
born  in  Trowbridge,  Weltshire,  September  i, 
1832,  and  is  the  son  of  James  and  Jemimah 
(Holliday)  Rich.  Our  svibject  remained  in  Eng- 
land until  he  attained  his  majority,  receiving  his 
education  from  the  schools  of  that  country  and 
working  as  an  operator  in  a  woolen  factory.  He 
became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church  in  1850,  and  on  February  5,  1853,  sailed 
with  his  wife  for  America,  on  board  the  vessel 
Jcrscx,  landing  in  New  Orleans  after  a  voyage  of 
six  weeks.  From  New  Orleans  they  went  by 
boat  to  Saint  Louis,  and  thence  to  Florence, 
where  they  joined  the  train  known  as  "The  Texas 
Independent  company,"  and  started  across  the 
great  American  plains  for  Utah.  At  the  last 
crossing  of  the  North  Platte  River  their  first 
child  was  born.  They  reached  Salt  Lake  City 
September  29,  1853,  and  that  fall  moved  to  Cen- 
terville  and  spent  the  w-inter  with  the  family 
of  Thomas  Thurston.  Mr.  Rich  continued  to  re- 
side in  Centerville  until  1861,  and  four  of  his 
children  were  born  in  that  place.  In  the  spring 
of  the  latter  year  he  moved  to  Morgan  county 
and  settled  on  the  site  of  what  was  afterwards 
called  Richville,  being  one  of  the  first  men  to 
settle  in  that  place.  He  took  up  a  squatter's 
claim  and  bought  land  of  the  Ute  Indians,  and 
later  when  the  land  was  surveyed  he  pre-empted 


his  claim.  He  engaged  in  general  farming,  which 
he  has  since  followed.  He  has  added  to  his 
original  piece  of  land  until  at  this  time  he  owns 
two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  valuable  land. 
He  built  his  present  home  in  1869  and  at  that 
time  it  was  considered  the  largest  and  most  de- 
sirable residence  in  the  valley.  It  is  still  a  very 
comfortable  dwelling,  and  one  of  the  pleasantest 
homes  in  the  Ward.  He  became  identified  with 
the  stock  raising  industry  and  raises  cattle,  sheep 
and  horses.  Mr.  Rich  also  owns  property  in 
Morgan  City,  and  is  altogether  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial  and  solid  men  of  Morgan  county. 

In  1852  our  subject  married  Miss  Lydia  Pond, 
of  Trowbridge,  England.  They  have  had  six 
children  born  to  them,  three  of  whom  are  now 
living, — Franklin  John,  born  on  the  plains.  He 
died  leaving  a  widow,  Sarah  Ann  (Rowle)  Rich, 
and  six  children ;  James  T.,  William  H.,  Lucy 
Jane,  wife  of  Joseph  Florence ;  jNIelissa.  deceased 
wife  of  F.  E.  Whitear.  and  Louisa,  who  died  at 
two  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Rich  has  been  a  follower  of  the  Democratic 
party  since  its  organization  in  Utah,  and  was 
active  in  public  life  before  the  admission  of  Utah 
into  the  Union.  He  was  for  several  years  Se- 
lectman of  his  county,  and  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  growth  and  development  of 
the  county  since  his  first  residence  in  it.  In  local 
enterprises  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Morgan  mill,  in  which  he  is  still  a  director ; 
owns  stock  in  the  Morgan  branch  of  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution,  and  also  the 
Fr\'  Mercantile  company,  in  all  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  promoters  and  assisted  in  organizing 
them.  He  has  also  done  much  towards  securing 
good  roads  and  bridges  for  the  county,  and  is  in 
every  way  a  liberal  and  public  spirited  man. 

He  has  also  been  very  active  in  Church  mat- 
ters and  has  filled  many  offices  in  the  Church. 
He  has  been  ordained  Deacon  and  Elder  and  is 
Counselor  to  President  R.  G.  Welch,  of  the  Eld- 
ers' Quorum.  When  Morgan  Stake  was  organ- 
ized in  1877  he  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and 
set  apart  as  a  member  of  the  High  Council  of 
Morgan  Stake,  and  is  the  second  oldest  member 
of  the  Council  at  this  time.  His  family  have 
also  always  been  very  prominent  in  Church  work. 


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Mrs.  Rich  was  prior  to  the  organization  of  the 
Morgan  Stake  President  of  the  Ladies'  ReHef 
Society  of  South  Morgan  Ward,  and  in  1878  was 
made  President  of  the  Stake  organization.  The 
son  James  T.  has  served  on  a  mission  to  Flor- 
ida, and  is  a  member  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Quorum 
of  Seventies.  William  H.  has  also  served  on  a 
mission,  laboring  in  the  southern  States  and  is 
at  this  time  First  Counselor  to  President  Heiner, 
of  the  INIorgan  Stake.  Prior  to  this  v^^as  Second 
Counselor  to  President  Richard  Fry,  now  de- 
ceased, during  his  presidency.  The  family  is  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  well  known  in  Rich- 
ville,  not  only  in  Church  work,  but  in  social 
life,  and  enjoy  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  resi- 
dents of  their  communitv. 


LIZABETH  PIXTON.  When  the 
early  history  of  Utah  shall  have  been 
fully  written  it  will  reveal  many  in- 
stances of  undaunted  determination, 
perseverance  and  self-sacrifice  among 
the  women  who  came  across  the  plains  with  the 
pioneers  and  assisted  their  husbands  and  sons 
in  subduing  and  cultivating  this  wild  region,  and 
in  laying  the  foundations  for  one  of  the.  most 
beautiful  and  prosperous  States  in  the  Union. 
Among  these  women  there  is  perhaps  none  more 
worthy  of  recognition  for  the  high  courage  she 
displayed  and  for  the  love  and  devotion  to  duty 
and  to  the  principles  of  her  religion  which  im- 
bued her  with  the  strength  to  perform  the  diffi- 
cult task  of  bringing  her  family  across  the  plains 
and  sustaining  them  in  this  wild  and  barren  re- 
gion until  the  return  of  her  husband  from  the 
Mexican  War,  than  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
■Mrs.  Elizabeth  Pixton,  widow  of  the  late  Rob- 
ert Pixton. 

Robert  Pixton  was  born  in  iManchester,  Eng- 
land, March  27,  1818,  and  was  the  son  of  George 
and  Mary  (Hankeson^  Paxton.  who  both  lived 
and  died  in  the  old  country.  His  paternal  grand- 
parents were  residents  of  Lancashire,  England, 
and  were  well  known  people  of  that  place.  They 
lived  to  a  great  age,  having  been  married  seven- 
ty-two years,  living  that  length  of  time  in  one 
and  the  same  house,   and  where  both  of  them 


died ;  and  his  grandfather  was  ninety-eight  years 
of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Pixton  was 
brought  up  in  England,  living  there  until  twenty- 
two  years  of  age.  He  received  but  a  meagre 
school  education,  but  was  of  a  studious  turn  of 
mind  and  turned  all  his  spare  time  to  the  ac- 
quiring of  knowledge,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  considered  an  able  scholar,  being  an 
excellent  mathematician  and  having  a  wide 
knowledge  of  books,  which  he  read  with  avidity- 
He  was  married  in  Lancashire  county,  Eng- 
land, on  May  5,  1838,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Cooper, 
daughter  of  John  and  Charlotte  (Hallotte) 
Cooper,  whose  parents  also  lived  all  their  lives 
in  England.  Mrs.  Pixton  was  born  February 
8,  18 1 8,  the  same  year  as  her  husband.  They 
lived  in  England  three  years  after  their  marriage 
and  here  two  of  their  ten  children  were  born. 
These  children  are:  Charlotte  C,  George,  Rob- 
ert, Elizabeth,  Willard,  Mary,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy ;  Joseph  C,  Sariah,  now  Mrs.  Henry  J. 
Wheeler.  Charlotte  is  now  Mrs.  William  Van- 
dyke, and  Elizabeth  married  Henry  Harker,  of 
Taylorsville,  at  present  one  of  the  County  Com- 
missioners of  Salt  Lake  county,  and  a  sketch  of 
whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Airs. 
Pixton  now  has  fifty-four  grandchildren  living 
in  Utah,  besides  forty-four  great-grandchildren, 
and  one  great-great-grandson,  all  of  whom  are 
bright  and  of  sound  mind  and  body. 

In  1841  Mr.  Pixton  came  to  America,  settling 
in  Nauvoo,  and  there  went  to  work  to  earn  pas- 
sage money  to  bring  his  family  to  this  country, 
where  they  joined  him  in  1843.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Pixton  were  both  members  of  the  ]Mormon 
Church  and  while  in  Nauvoo  became  close  friends 
of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  They  also  met 
and  were  friends  of  Willard  Richards,  who  was 
in  jail  with  the  Prophet  and  his  brother  Hyrum 
on  the  day  the  latter  were  killed,  and  who  re- 
ceived four  bullets  in  his  clothing,  but  escaped 
without  serious  injury.  Mrs.  Pixton  has  a  pic- 
ture of  Mr.  Richards,  which  she  values  highly. 
In  1846  they  left  with  the  first  train  of  emi- 
grants who  came  to  Utah,  traveling  in  the  same 
train  as  Brigham  Young,  and  when  the  train  was 
near  Council  Blufifs,  Iowa,  Colonel  Kane  of  the 
United  States  army  caught  up  with  them  and  de- 
manded a  battalion  to  serve  under  the  Govern- 


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ment  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  This  demand 
was  made  by  the  Government  for  the  purpose  of 
ascertaining  whether  the  Mormons  were  loyal  to 
the  Government,  or  as  charged  by  those  opposed 
to  them,  were  traitors.  The  manner  in  which 
they  responded  put  at  rest  this  unjust  charge. 
There  was  a  call  made  for  five  hundred  men,  and 
Brigham  Young  advising  them  to  respond,  and 
promising  to  personally  watch  over  their  families, 
five  hundred  and  forty-nine  men  volunteered,  and 
they  were  mobilized  on  the  banks  of  the  Mis- 
souri river,  near  Council  Bluffs.  The  story  of  the 
sufferings,  hardships,  and  heroism  of  the  men 
composing  this  battalion  must  ever  form  one  of 
the  most  pathetic  pages  in  the  history  of  our 
country,  and  among  those  brave  men,  none  bore 
his  part  with  more  heroism,  fortitude  and  un- 
complaining devotion  to  duty  than  did  Robert 
Pixton.  In  addition  to  the  usual  hardships  of 
this  long  and  arduous  trip,  they  had  trouble  with 
the  Indians  who  at  one  time  stampeded  and  drove 
off  their  stock,  and  they  spent  three  days  chas- 
ing and  fighting  the  Indians  before  the  stock  was 
recovered.  They  also  had  trouble  with  the  vast 
herds  of  buffalo  which  roamed  at  will  over  this 
western  country,  and  many  of  the  men  were 
trampled  aqd  gored  by  these  vicious  animals.  No 
provision  was  made  for  water  to  last  them  over 
the  desert,  aside  from  what  they  could  carry  in 
their  canteens,  and  this  gave  out  when  they  were 
eighty  miles  from  any  stream,  and  many  of  the 
men  had  to  be  carried  the  latter  part  of  the 
journey  by  their  stronger  brethren.  After  reach- 
ing Santa  Fe  they  were  sent  to  the  relief  of  Cap- 
tain Carney,  in  Southern  California,  and  here  re- 
mained until  discharged  from  service.  Some  of 
the  men  remained  in  California,  gold  having 
been  found  in  the  channel  of  the  old  Captain  Sut- 
ter mill  race,  and  the  story  of  the  great  gold 
excitement  that  followed  a  few  years  later  is  too 
well  known  to  need  repeating  here.  Mr.  Pix- 
tion  with  others  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  and 
joined  his  family  here.  Among  these  men  were 
Mr.  Cox,  Mr.  Allen  and  D.  Browitt,  who,  in 
company  with  some  Indians,  who  professed  to  be 
friendly  to  the  white  men,  left  the  company  and 
started  to  discover  a  better  route  home.  They 
were  later  found  near  a  spring,  where  they  had 


been  murdered,  and  their  bodies  stripped  of  cloth- 
ing and  filled  with  arrows.  This  spring  was 
named  Tragedy  Springs,  in  commemoration  of 
this  event.  Around  the  neck  of  Mr.  Allen  was 
found  a  small  bag  of  gold,  which  was  brought 
back  to  his  widow  by  Mr.  Pixton. 

At  the  time  her  husband  volunteered  to  go  with 
the  battalion  Mrs.  Pixton  was  left  with  all  the 
household  effects,  consisting  of  wagons,  ox  teams, 
etc.,  and  their  children,  near  Council  Bluffs,  and 
she  drove  the  teams  all  the  way  across  the  plains, 
yoking  and  unyoking  the  oxen  and  having  the 
full  care  of  them  during  the  entire  trip.  They 
reached  Salt  Lake  City  one  week  ahead  of  the 
men  who  went  with  the  battalion  to  California. 
Mr.  Pixton  remained  for  some  time  in  Salt  Lake 
City  and  built  and  occupied  the  places  where  S. 
P.  Teasdale  and  J.  P.  Gardner  are  now  engaged 
in  business.  At  the  time  of  the  Johnston  army 
trouble  he  moved  south.  Later  Mr.  Pixton  was 
called  to  help  colonize  Dixey,  where  he  spent  sev- 
eral years,  and  in  the  early  sixties  returned  to  the 
family  home  near  Taylorsville,  and  there  built 
a  house  at  the  foot  of  the  hill.  This  was  an 
adobe  house,  and  there  the  family  lived  until  the 
death  of  Mr.  Pixton,  on  November  23,  1881. 

l\trs.  Pixton  still  has  the  deed  to  the  first  piece 
of  land  they  owned  in  this  State,  which  was  writ- 
ten on  a  piece  of  paper  two  by  three  inches, 
and  the  wording  of  which  was  as  follows  :  "Rob- 
ert Pixton,  lot  7,  block  69.  Recorded  on  county 
record.  Thomas  Bullock,  Salt  Lake  County  Re- 
corder. Conveyed  March  3,  1856."  After  the 
death  of  her  husband  Mrs.  Pixton  built  a  com- 
fortable brick  house  just  at  the  top  of  the  hill 
from  where  the  old  house  stood,  and  she  is  still 
living  there  at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  in  the 
full  possession  of  all  her  faculties,  and  is  the 
possessor  of  a  truly  wonderful  memory,  being 
able  to  relate  the  most  minute  details  of  her  trip 
across  the  great  American  plains,  and  the  inci- 
dents that  went  to  make  up  the  history  of  her 
life  from  then  to  the  present  time.  Her  daugh- 
ters have  all  married  men  of  sterling  worth  and 
pi-ominence  in  their  communities  and  her  sons 
all  live  in  the  same  community  as  their  mother, 
and  are  worthy  descendants  of  such  parents. 
Mrs.  Pixton  has  for  over  half  a  centurv  been  a 


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staunch  adherent  to  the  principles  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  all 
Church  work  in  her  neighborhood,  and  today  is 
held  in  high  esteem  by  all  who  know  her. 


ILLARD  PIXTON.  In  this  coun- 
try, where  each  man  or  woman  must 
carve  out  their  own  fortunes  and 
be  judged,  not  by  what  their  an- 
cestors have  done,  but  by  what  they 
themselves  accomplish,  it  is  a  gratifying  thing 
to  find  a  whole  family  taking  first  rank  in  their 
community  as  men  of  sterling  worth  and  business 
integrity,  and  this  may  be  truthfully  said  of  the 
Pixton  family,  of  which  the  subject  of  our  sketch 
is  a  member.  His  father,  Robert  Pixton,  was 
one  of  the  early  pioneers  to  this  country,  and  a 
member  of  the  famous  Mormon  battalion,  and 
for  many  years  a  well-known  and  popular  resi- 
dent of  the  Taylorsville  Ward,  doing  much  to 
aid  in  the  development  of  the  resources  of  that 
district,  and  taking  a  keen  interest  in  anything 
that  pertained  to  the  welfare  of  his  community. 
He  died  loved,  honored  and  mourned  by  a  large 
circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances,  and  leaving 
a  widow  and  family  of  children  who  have  since 
held  high  the  standard  of  living  of  which  he  set 
a  worthy  example. 

Willard  Pixton  was  born  on  Main  street.  Salt 
Lake  City,  on  November  4,  1854,  and  spent  his 
early  life  on  his  father's  farm  in  Taylorsville, 
receiving  his  education  from  the  schools  that  then 
existed  in  this  country.  When  he  was  fifteen 
years  of  age  he  accompanied  his  father  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Dixey.  In  his  early  manhood  he  set- 
tled at  Leeds,  living  there  until  he  was  twenty- 
six  years  of  age,  when  he  returned  to  this  county 
and  established  himself  on  his  present  farm  near 
the  old  homestead  of  his  father.  Here  he  owns 
fifty  acres  of  well  improved  land  on  which  he 
has  a  comfortable  home. 

Mr.  Pixton  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss  Isa- 
bella Carter,  daughter  of  William  and  Harriette 
(Uttley)  Carter,  who  were  among  the  early  pio- 
neers to  this  State,  coming  with  the  first  com- 
pany to  cross  the  plains,  and  her  father  plowed 
the   first    half   acre   of   ground    ever   plowed    in 


Salt  Lake  City,  on  what  is  now  the  site  of  the 
Knutsford  Hotel  in  July,  1847.  By  this  mar- 
riage they  have  had  eleven  children.  They  are: 
Williard  C,  who  was  killed  December  20,  1900, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-three  years  and  eight 
months,  by  the  caving  of  the  bank  while  he  was 
engaged  in  hauling  gravel;  Lafayette  C,  John 
E.,  Samuel,  Norton  R.,  Hazel  I.,  Grace,  Mary 
E.,  Robert,  Ephraim  and  George  M. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party  and  an  active  worker  in  its 
ranks,  being  registrar  of  his  precinct.  He  and 
his  entire  family  are  devout  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church  and  active  in  its  work.  In  1895 
our  subject  was  called  to  go  to  Southern  Illi- 
nois on  a  mission  for  the  Church,  but  owing 
to  sickness  was  compelled  to  return  home  before 
his  term  had  expired.  He  occupies  a  prominent 
place  in  local  Church  circles,  having  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual 
Association,  and  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  Schools. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Presidency  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Fifteenth  Quorum  of  Seven- 
ties. 

•Mr.  Pixton  is  known  as  a  staunch  and  upright 
business  man  and  is  respected  for  his  integrity, 
honesty  and  the  untiring  industry  and  energy 
he  has  displayed  in  building  up  his  business.  He 
had  to  make  his  own  way  in  life  and  the  suc- 
cess he  has  achieved  has  been  due  to  his  own 
efforts,  unaided  by  any  one,  save  for  the  splendid 
example  which  was  left  him  by  his  father,  whose 
companion  he  was  in  the  days  of  his  youth,  and 
from  whom  he  imbibed  the  staunch  principles 
which  he  has  since  displayed,  and  today  there  is 
no  more  popular  man  than  he  in  the  circles  where 
he  is  known.  Elsewhere  in  this  work  may  be 
found  a  full  sketch  of  this  interesting  family. 


<  »BERT  PIXTON.  It  is  perhaps  safe 
to  say  that  no  part  of  the  globe  is  in- 
habited by  a  people  of  more  democratic 
temper  than  is  that  portion  of  the 
United  States  known  as  "The  West." 
Here  a  man's  ancestors  avail  him  nothing;  he 
must  carve  out  his  own  fortune  and  stand  or  fall 
on  his  own  merits,  and  yet,  even  in  this  free  and 


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independent  atmosphere  there  is  ahvays  a  tribute 
of  respect  and  admiration  paid  to  the  memory  of 
the  man  or  woman  who  has  successfully  carved 
a  niche  for  themselves  in  the  field  wherein  they 
labored,  and  the  career  of  their  posterity  is  al- 
ways watched  with  more  or  less  interest.  Among 
the  children  of  the  pioneers  to  Utah  there  is 
today  no  more  worthy  son  of  a  noble  ancestor 
than  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Robert  Pix- 
ton. 

Our  subject  was  born  on  November  6,  1850, 
on  what  is  now  Main  street,  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Utah,  where  he  spent  the  first  seven  years  of  his 
life.  The  family  later  moved  to  Lehi  for  a  short 
time,  and  from  there  went  to  Taylorsville  Ward, 
where  our  subject  grew  to  manhood,  obtaining 
his  education  in  the  schools  that  then  existed 
in  his  locality,  and  has  made  his  home  in  that 
place  since.  He  is  the  son  of  Robert  and  Eliza- 
beth Pixton.  Robert  Pixton,  Senior,  was  a  na- 
tive of  England  and  came  to  this  country  in  1841, 
and  being  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  came  with  that  people  when  they 
were  driven  out  of  Nauvoo,  traveling  as  far  as 
Council  Blufifs,  Iowa,  with  his  family,  at  which 
place  he  volunteered  as  a  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon battalion  and  served  with  that  body  until 
they  were  discharged  from  service,  filling  his 
place  with  honor  and  distinction.  A  full  account 
of  this  period  of  his  life,  as  also  that  of  his  brave 
and  noble  wife,  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this 
work. 

Mr.  Pixton  was  married  to  Miss  Amelia  At- 
wood,  only  sister  of  William  and  Henry  Atwood, 
of  Murray,  in  .April,  1871,  and  they  have  had 
nine  children  born  of  this  marriage.  They  are : 
Robert  S.,  Parley,  now  Mrs.  Alfonso  Bayton ; 
Tasy,  now  Mrs.  George  Rhoades,  of  Mill  Creek ; 
Elizabeth  C,  William  T.,  Albert,  Pearl,  Nora  and 
Le  Roy.  Mr.  Pixton  owns  forty  and  a  half 
acres  of  land  in  the  neighborhood  of  his  home, 
which  is  situated  at  the  corner  of  the  Redwood 
and  Taylorsville  roads,  and  has  lived  at  his  pres- 
ent home  for  twenty-three  years.  On  this  place 
he  has  built  a  fine  brick  residence  and  the  farm 
is  well  improved  with  good  outbuildings,  fences, 
etc.  In  addition  to  his  real  estate  holdings  Mr. 
Pixton  is  largelv  interested  in  the  cattle  and  sheep 


industry,  leasing  his  sheep  to  herders  in  Idaho. 
He  and  his  whole  family  are  consistent  members 
of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  his  oldest  son,  Rob- 
ert, has  been  on  a  mission  for  the  Church  in  the 
northern  States  for  the  past  sixteen  months. 
Some  of  his  children  have  married  and  he  has 
had  five  grandchildren,  two  of  whom  have  died. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  are  active  in  local  Church 
matters,  Mrs.  Pixton  being  a  member  of  the 
Ladies'  Relief  Society  of  that  Ward,  in  which  she 
is  deeply  interested,  and  their  daughter  Elizabeth 
is  a  member  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Im- 
provement Association.  Mr.  Pixton's  mother  is 
still  living  in  Taylorsville  Ward,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-four  years,  and  is  in  the  enjoyment 
of  good  health. 

In  politics  our  subject  is  an  adherent  of  the 
orinciples  of  the  Republican  party,  in  whose  work 
he  has  always  taken  an  active  interest,  although 
he  has  not  held  nor  sought  public  office,  pre- 
ferring to  devote  his  time  to  his  large  and  grow- 
ing business  interests.  In  addition  to  his  other 
Church  work  Mr.  Pixton  is  also  a  Ward  teacher 
and  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  He  is  a  man 
who  stands  high  in  the  confidence  and  respect, 
not  only  of  the  leaders  and  members  of  his 
Church,  but  also  of  all  who  know  him,  irre- 
spective of  religious  or  political  creeds,  and  is  a 
member  of  a  well-known  familv. 


OX.  GEORGE  M.  CANNON  is  a  mem- 
l)er  of  one  of  the  most  prominent  fam- 
ilies in  the  history  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  his  father  being  President 
Angus  M.  Cannon,  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stake  of  Zion,  a  biographical  sketch  of  whom 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Although  our 
subject  appeared  upon  the  stage  of  life  a  good 
manv  years  after  the  pioneers  had  first  taber- 
nacled in  this  fertile  valley,  yet  the  real  growth 
of  the  State  has  taken  place  within  his  memory 
and  he  has  been  closely  connected  with  much 
that  has  been  done  to  bring  it  to  its  present  high 
position.  He  is  today  one  of  the  youngest  bank- 
ers in  Salt  Lake  City  and  one  of  the  best  known 
men  in  the  State. 

George   M.    Cannon   was   born   December   25, 


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1861,  in  Saint  George,  Washington  countv,  and 
was  the  first  white  child  to  be  born  in  that  place. 
When  he  was  seven  years  of  age  his  parents 
moved  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  this  has  since  been 
his  home.  His  education  was  obtained  from  the 
common  schools  of  the  city,  from  which  he  en- 
tered the  Deseret  University,  now  the  Univer- 
sity of  Utah,  and  took  a  normal  course,  gradu- 
ating in  1878.  After  his  graduation  he  took  a 
two  years'  course  in  the  scientific  department  of 
the  University,  completing  his  education  at  the 
age  of  nineteen  years.  The  institution  at  that 
time  did  not  confer  any  degrees,  hence  Mr.  Can- 
non did  not  receive  his  degree  upon  completing 
the  scientific  course.  He  has  remained  in  close 
touch  with  the  L^niversity  all  these  years  and  was 
the  first  secretary  of  the  Alumni  Association.  He 
also  served  as  President  of  the  Association,  and 
has  acted  as  toastmaster  and  in  other  promi- 
nent positions  at  annual  reunions  and  banquets 
given  by  the  Association.  Upon  leaving  school 
Mr.  Cannon  spent  one  season  in  the  field  work- 
ing under  Civil  Engineer  Jesse  W.  Fox,  one  of 
the  prominent  men  in  his  line  in  the  West,  at 
one  time  chief  engineer  for  the  Utah  Central, 
as  well  as  the  Utah  Southern  Railroad.  Mr. 
Cannon  also  assisted  in  engineering  work  on 
what  is  now  the  Oregon  Short  Line  from  Og- 
den  to  Frisco.  In  1880  he  accepted  a  position  as 
teacher  of  a  school  founded  by  his  uncle.  Presi- 
dent George  O.  Cannon,  for  his  own  children. 
A  number  of  the  neighboring  children  also  at- 
tended this  school. 

Mr.  Cannon  was  married  in  1884  to  Miss  Ad- 
die  Morris,  a  daughter  of  Elias  and  Mary  Lois 
Morris,  and  by  this  marriage  eight  children  have 
been  born  to  them — Addie  M.,  George  M.,  Jun- 
ior.;  Marian  M.,  Lucile  M.,  Gene  M.,  Vaughan 
M..  Nora  M.  and  Lois  M. 

During  the  time  Mr.  Cannon  was  a  student 
at  the  University  he  had  spent  a  year  in  the  of- 
fice of  the  County  Recorder,  and  in  1882  he 
gave  up  teaching  and  again  entered  that  office 
as  deputy,  holding  that  position  until  1884,  when 
he  was  elected  County  Recorder,  remaining  there 
for  six  years.  During  this  time  he  perfected  the 
system  of  abstract  records  and  made  many 
needed  changes  in  the  office.    In  December,  1891, 


he  received  the  appointment  of  Cashier  of  the 
Zions  Savings  Bank,  which  position  he  assumed 
January  I,  1892,  and  has  since  filled.  This  is 
the  oldest  and  one  of  the  leading  establishments 
of  the  kind  in  Utah,  and  was  established  in 
1873.  Mr.  Cannon  was  also  one  of  the  organiz- 
ers of  the  sugar  industry  in  Utah  and  has  been 
closely  connected  with  that  enterprise  up  to  the 
present  time,  being  one  of  the  original  incor- 
porators of  the  Utah  Sugar  Company,  and  for 
many  years  a  director  therein. 

He  has  always  been  a  prominent  figure  in  the 
political  life  of  the  State,  and  before  the  separa- 
tion upon  national  political  lines  was  identified 
with  the  People's  party.  In  1890  he  stumped 
the  central  and  southern  part  of  the  State  in  the 
interest  of  that  party's  candidate  for  Congress. 
The  following  year,  1891,  he  cast  his  lot  with 
the  Republican  party  and  became  one  of  the 
original  organizers  of  the  Republican  clubs.  At 
that  time  the  State  was  overwhelmingly  Dem- 
ocratic, and  at  the  request  of  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  Republican  party  Mr.  Cannon  ran 
for  the  legislature,  but  was  defeated.  He  was 
nominated  by  the  Republicans  in  the  same  dis- 
trict in  1894,  and  elected  a  member  of  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention  and  assisted  in  framing 
the  present  State  Constitution.  Two  of  the  most 
important  articles  therein,  those  on  "Revenue  and 
Taxation,"  and  on  "Public  Debt,"  were  framed 
by  committees  of  which  he  was  chairman.  The 
latter  article  limited  the  amount  of  debt  that 
could  be  incurred  by  the  State.  He  was  elected 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  State  Committee 
and  conducted  the  campaign  in  which  Repub- 
licans were  elected  to  all  of  the  State  offices. 
The  legislature,  being  Republican,  elected  two 
LTnited  States  Senators.  Mr.  Cannon  was  elected 
to  the  State  Senate  and  had  the  honor  of  being 
the  first  President  of  the  State  Senate  of  Utah. 
Since  then  he  has  practically  retired  from  polit- 
ical life  and  has  since  devoted  his  time  to  his 
private  business. 

In  1890  Mr.  Cannon  laid  out  the  town  of  For- 
est Dale,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  suburbs  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  located  his  home  and 
has  since  lived,  owing  the  old  Brigham  Young 
farmhouse  and  building,  one  of  the  finest  homes 


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in  that  suburb.  He  has  been  actively  identified 
with  the  work  of  the  Church  during  all  these 
years  and  has  successively  held  the  offices  of 
Deacon,  Teacher,  Priest,  Elder  and  High  Priest. 
He  has  been  closely  associated  with  the  work  of 
the  Sunday  Schools  and  is  at  this  time  a  mem- 
ber of  the  General  Board  of  the  Deseret  Sunday 
School  Union,  and  also  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  Schools  of  the  Granite  Stake  with  a  mem- 
bership of  over  four  thousand  enrolled  officers, 
teachers  and  pupils. 


OSEPH  O.  NYSTROM.  Perhaps  no 
man  of  his  age  has  had  a  more  interest- 
ing or  varied  career  than  has  the  sub- 
ject of  this  article.  He  was  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  May  6,  1874,  and  is  the 
youngest  son  of  P.  T.  and  Johanna  (Roos)  Ny- 
strom.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Sweden,  where 
he  grew  to  manhood  and  learned  the  trade  of 
carpenter  and  carriage  maker,  which  he  followed 
prior  to  coming  to  this  country.  He  became  a 
convert  to  the  doctrines  and  teachings  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
and  in  company  with  his  parents  emigrated  to 
America  in  1850,  locating  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
dying  there  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years.  After 
coming  to  Utah  he  spent  six  years  in  mission- 
ary work  in  Sweden.  His  father,  and  the  grand- 
father of  our  subject,  died  in  the  early  part  of 
this  year,  1902.  Our  subject's  mother  was  a  na- 
tive of  Sweden,  where  she  was  a  member  of  one 
of  the  most  prominent  families  of  that  country, 
different  members  of  the  family  occupying  posi- 
tions of  trust  and  honor  in  public  life.  Mrs. 
Nystrom  came  to  Utah  with  her  people  some 
years  prior  to  the  time  of  her  husband's  ar- 
rival. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  Salt  Lake  City  and 
received  his  early  education  from  the  common 
schools  of  this  place,  completing  his  studies  at 
the  University  of  Utah.  At  the  age  of  eighteen 
years  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Co-operative 
Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  having  charge 
of  the  invoice  and  shipping  department. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Spanish-American  War 
Mr.    Nvstrom    enlisted    in    Batterv    A,    United 


States  Light  Artillery,  and  participated  in  the 
first  battle  in  Manila  Harbor,  on  July  3,  1898, 
under  Alajor  Richard  W.  Young.  He  was  also 
engaged  in  a  number  of  the  battles  and  skir- 
mishes which  followed  in  that  country,  and  at 
the  end  of  a  year  was  promoted  with  the  rank  of 
First  Sergeant.  Upon  being  mustered  out  of 
service  Mr.  Nystrom  returned  to  this  city  and 
resumed  his  position  with  the  Co-operative 
Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  remaining  with 
them  until  January  i,  1900,  when  he  accepted 
the  Chief  Deputyship  under  R.  C.  Naylor,  City 
Recorder.  In  December  of  that  year  he  received 
the  appointment  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the 
resignation  of  ;\Ir.  Naylor,  which  position  he 
filled  with  much  credit  to  himself  and  to  the 
entire  satisfaction  of  his  constituents,  until  the 
fall  of  1 90 1,  when  he  was  elected  by  a  large  ma- 
jority on  the  Republican  ticket  to  fill  the  office 
of  City  Recorder. 

Mr.  Nystrom  has  been  affiliated  with  the  Re- 
publican party  since  reaching  his  majority  and 
has  done  some  good  work  for  the  party.  While 
he  was  reared  in  the  faith  and  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  Mr.  Nystrom  has  never  identi- 
fied himself  with  any  religious  body,  although  his 
preference  is  towards  the  Church  in  which  he 
was  raised. 


1 

] 

()1IN  HOLT.  The  present  Deputy 
County  Recorder  of  Salt  Lake  County 
is  among  those  men  who  have  seen  Utah 
grow  from  a  wild  and  vmsettled  region 
to  one  of  the  most  prosperous  States  in 
the  western  part  of  this  country.  He  has  taken 
his  full  share  in  its  development  and  has  an  in- 
timate knowledge  of  the  unfavorable  conditions 
that  confronted  the  pioneers,  and  of  the  manner 
in  which  the  resources  of  the  State  were  utilized 
to  build  up  the  present  satisfactory  conditions 
of  Utah.  He  was  born  in  Dorsetshire,  Eng- 
land, in  1858.  His  father,  Albert  Holt,  emigrated 
to  the  United  States,  and  eight  of  the  family 
came  to  Utah  a  year  later,  crossing  the  plains 
and  mountains  by  ox  team.  His  father  followed 
the  business  of  railroad  contractor  for  upwards 
of  twenty-five  years.     jMaria  Mabey,  wife  of  Al- 


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bert  Holt,  and  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  also  a  native  of  England.  Her  pa- 
rents were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Davis 
county. 

Our  subject's  boyhood  days  were  like  those 
of  the  other  sons  of  the  pioneers  and  the  first 
settlers  in  Utah.  As  early  as  eight  years  of  age 
he  was  driving  teams  in  Utah  and  in  his  twelfth 
year  had  charge  of  a  team  working  on  the 
"dump."  His  scholastic  education  was  received 
in  the  schools  that  then  existed  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  he  later  entered  the  Deseret  Univer- 
sity, now  the  University  of  Utah,  graduating 
from  that  institution  in  1882.  Upon  the  comple- 
tion of  his  education  he  entered  business  with 
his  father,  who  then  had  extensive  contracts  for 
the  building  of  the  different  railroads  in  this 
section.  Since  his  connection  with  railroad  con- 
tracts he  has  superintended  nearly  all  of  the  work 
which  he  and  his  father  had  secured.  His  father 
had  made  extensive  contracts,  and  built  a  large 
portion  of  the  John  W.  Young  road,  now  a  part 
of  the  Rio  Grande  Western  system,  and  was  also 
in  charge  of  construction  for  the  American  Fork 
Railroad.  He  also  built  portions  of  the  line  of 
the  Union  Pacific  and  of  the  Santa  Fe  from 
Pueblo  to  Denver. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  1879  to  Miss  Mary 
A.  Soffe,  daughter  of  Nimrod  G.  and  Mary  A. 
Soffe.  Her  family  were  among  the  pioneers  who 
came  to  Utah  across  the  plains  in  ox  teams. 
Her  father,  itpon  his  arrival  in  Utah,  engaged  in 
farming.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Holt  has  a  large 
family   of   children. 

In  the  administration  of  political  afifairs  in 
Utah,  Mr.  Holt  has  been  a  consistent  Democrat, 
and  has  served  as  Deputy  County  Recorder  since 
January  ist,  1901.  Aside  from  this  office  he  has 
served  several  terms  as  School  Trustee;  been 
Justice  of  the  Peace  and  was  for  seven  years 
Postmaster  in  this  county.  He  has  been  in  the 
past  a  school  teacher  in  both  this  county  and 
city,  spending  twelve  years  in  that  work.  In 
the  Church  he  has  filled  the  offices  of  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday  School  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Church 
of   Tesus  Christ  of  Latter  Dav  Saints  and  is  a 


Counselor  to  Bishop  Jabez  W.  West,  of  the  Ninth 
Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Holt's  success  in  life  has  been  due  entirely 
to  his  own  energy  and  to  his  industry  and  ap- 
plication. He  early  learned  in  life  the  necessity 
of  relying  entirely  upon  his  own  resources  and 
in  making  the  best  of  the  opportunities  that  pre- 
sented themselves.  His  genial  and  pleasant  man- 
ner has  endeared  him  to  a  wide  circle  of  friends 
throughout  the  State,  and  his  ability  has  won 
for  him  the  reputation  of  unimpeachable  integ- 
rity, and  gained  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the 
people. 


ILLIAM  HA  WES  CHILD,  one  of 
the  most  successful  mining  men  and 
stock  brokers  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
one  of  the  corps  who  have  aided  ma- 
terially in  the  development  of  the 
mining  properties  of  Utah  and  Nevada  through 
the  dissemination  of  stock  in  those  companies  to 
investors  and  capitalists,  was  born  in  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  in  1878.  He  is  a  son  of  Morris 
W.  Child,  who  was  a  native  of  Hartford,  Con- 
necticut, now  a  resident  of  Boston,  and  engaged 
in  maritime  business  there,  chartering  vessels  and 
conducting  enterprises  in  that  and  allied  branches 
of  industry.  The  Cliild  family  is  one  of  the 
oldest  in  the  United  States  and  in  addition  to 
being  early  settlers  of  Connecticut,  trace  their 
lineage  in  England  back  to  \Mlliam  the  Con- 
queror, when  even  then  they  were  one  of  the 
powerful  and  influential  families  of  England.  Air. 
Child,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
is  an  influential  man  of  affairs  in  Boston.  His 
wife,  Maria  W.  (Hawes)  Child,  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  one  of  the  old  families  of  Massachusetts. 
Their  son  started  on  his  business  career  on 
September  the  loth,  1898,  when  he  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City  and  engaged  in  the  mining  and  brok- 
erage business,  participating  actively  in  all  the 
different  branches  of  this  work,  and  has  been 
closely  identified  with  the  growth  of  the  City 
and  State  ever  since.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Salt  Lake  Stock  and  Mining  Exchange.  He 
has  also  become  interested  in  mining  properties 


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throughout  the  State.  He  is  at  this  time  Secre- 
tory and  Treasurer  of  the  Shebe  Gold  and  Sil- 
ver Mining  Company,  in  the  Star  mining  dis- 
trict. This  is  one  of  the  famous  mines  of  the 
Western  country  and  is  located  in  Humboldt 
county,  Nevada,  and  has  produced  since  active 
operations  were  begun  over  three  and  a  half  mil- 
lion dollars  worth  of  ore. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Child  is  a  believer  in 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has 
not  participated  actively  in  its  work  and  has 
never  been  a  candidate  for  public  office.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church.  The 
integrity  of  his  business  career  while  in  Utah, 
marks  him  as  one  of  the  most  successful  men 
in  business  life,  and  foreshadows  the  future  suc- 
cess which  will  undoubtedly  come  to  him  in  the 
exercise  of  his  abilitv  and  talents. 


^IITH  PARKER.  Utah  has  become 
noted  for  many  things,  but  in  the  phe- 
nomenal advancement  she  has  made  to- 
ward civilization  during  the  past  half 
a  century  her  live  stock  industry  has 
kept  pace  with  the  other  lines  until  today  there 
are  as  fine  blooded  stock  to  be  found  within  the 
confines  of  Utah  as  perhaps  any  State  in  the  Un- 
ion. No  man  has  done  more  towards  bringing 
the  live  stock  industry  up  to  its  present  high 
standing  than  has  Smith  Parker,  the  subject  of 
this  article. 

He  was  born  in  Douglas,  Massachusetts, 
March  lo,  1849,  and  is  the  son  of  Able  and  Sarah 
(Darling)  Parker,  both  natives  of  that  State. 
When  our  subject  was  but  eight  years  of  age 
his  parents  moved  to  Rockford,  Illinois,  where 
they  remained  a  year,  and  then  went  to  Jefferson 
City,  Bremer  County,  Iowa,  where  Able  Parker 
engaged  in  farming,  and  remained  in  this  place 
for  five  years.  At  the  expiration  of  this  time 
Mr.  Parker  and  his  family,  with  the  exception  of 
one  son,  who  is  yet  at  the  old  homestead  in 
Massachusetts,  crossed  the  plains  in  a  company 
of  one  hundred  wagons,  traveling  by  ox  team, 
on  their  way  to  California.  When  they  reached 
Salt  Lake  Citv  Mr.  Parker  traded  his  oxen  for 


horses  and  continued  his  journey  to  California, 
where  he  settled  in  Lasson  county,  and  took  up 
farming,  which  he  followed  until  his  death. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  died  many  years  ago,  leav- 
ing a  family  of  ten  children,  of  whom  our  sub- 
ject was  the  youngest,  and  seven  of  whom  are 
still  living.  Our  subject  was  the  only  one  to 
leave  California,  the  others  making  their  home 
in  that  State. 

Mr.  Parker  spent  three  years  in  Nevada  and 
then  came  to  Utah,  where  he  has  continued  to 
reside  ever  since.  Upon  coming  to  Utah  he  at 
once  went  into  the  cattle  business,  which  he  has 
made  his  life  work,  beginning  in  Juab  county, 
where  he  remained  three  years  and  then  removed 
to  Piute  county,  and  at  one  time  was  the  owner 
of  a  very  large  herd  of  cattle,  which  he  has  since 
reduced.  He  is  still  interested  in  horses,  of  which 
he  has  quite  a  number  in  Piute  county.  In  1885 
Mr.  Parker  imported  a  carload  of  Holstein  cat- 
tle, which  were  the  first  of  that  class  of  cattle 
to  be  brought  into  the  State.  He  paid  five  hun- 
dred dollars  per  head  for  these  cattle  in  Syra- 
cuse, all  of  them  being  yearlings,  and  later  bred 
from  them,  receiving  two  hundred  dollars  each 
for  his  calves  at  three  months  old.  He  also  pur- 
chased a  fine  Hamiltonian  stallion,  for  which  he 
paid  twelve  hundred  dollars.  This  stallion  took 
a  premium  at  the  State  Fair  in  New  York,  and 
later  won  two  prizes  at  the  Utah  State  fairs. 
Appreciating  the  work  he  was  doing  in  this  di- 
rection the  legislature  appointed  Mr.  Parker  a 
director  of  the  D.  A.  and  M.  Society,  which  posi- 
tion he  filled  for  four  years.  He  was  also  Vice- 
President  of  the  South  Utah  Range  Association, 
at  Koosharem,  Piute  county.  He  bred  some  fine 
stock  from  his  Hamiltonian  stallion,  some  of 
which  he  still  owns,  and  had  a  race  course  con- 
structed on  his  place. 

Our  subject  settled  at  his  present  place  about 
1895,  purchasing  six  and  a  quarter  acres  of  land 
and  a  fine  house.  His  home  is  located  on  Sev- 
enth East  between  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth 
South  streets,  and  is  known  as  Number  3325 
Seventh  East.  In  addition  to  this  place  he  also 
owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  good  land 
across  the  Jordan  river,  which  is  well  improved. 

Mr.  Parker  married  on  October   14,    1875,  to 


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Miss  Ellen  Curtis,  daughter  of  John  and  Matilda 
(Minor)  Curtis,  she  being  born  in  Springville, 
Utah.  The  result  of  this  marriage  has  been  ten 
children,  one  of  whom  died.  Th?y  are:  Ellen 
R.,  now  Mrs.  Edward  Vest,  living  in  Piute 
county ;  Ralph,  at  home  with  his  parents ;  Frank, 
ajso  at  home ;  Eudora,  Ida,  Don  C,  who  died 
when  four  years  old ;  Albert  S.,  Mable,  Stella, 
Iva  M. 

He  is  an  adherent  of  the  principles  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  in  whose  work  he  has  been  active 
since  its  organization  in  this  State,  and  has  held 
a  number  of  minor  offices,  having  been  Register 
of  Piute  county  and  Postmaster  at  that  place  for 
twelve  years.  He  also  served  as  a  County  Com- 
missioner. In  addition  to  these  lesser  offices  he 
also  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  Fifty-fourth  Con- 
gress and  was  a  delegate  to  the  Territorial  Con- 
vention in  1894,  just  prior  to  the  time  Utah  was 
admitted  into  the  Union.  Mr.  Parker  has  ever 
been  found  the  friend  of  education,  and  while 
living  in  Piute  county  hired  teachers  from  the 
East  and  carried  on  the  schools  for  five  years 
at  his  own  expense,  afterward  donating  the 
building  and  twenty  acres  of  land  to  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  church  for  school  and  church  pur- 
poses. 

Utah  owes  much  to  j\Ir.  Parker  for  the  lib- 
eral spirit  he  has  ever  displayed  in  advancing  the 
interests  of  the  State  and  of  the  communities 
in  which  he  has  lived,  and  he  has  by  his  hon- 
esty, integrity  and  honorable  business  dealings 
won  a  high  place  in  public  as  well  as  private  life, 
and  today  no  man  in  the  State  stands  higher 
than  he  in  the  esteem  of  his  fellow  men. 


ILLIAM  J.  SILVER.  In  building 
up  a  commonwealth  there  are  two 
distinctively  separate  factors  to  be 
considered,  each  a  complement  of 
the  other,  and  each  in  its  way  an 
important  feature:  The  advance-guard  or  pio- 
neers ;  brave  men  and  women  who  willingly  face 
every  hardship,  danger  and  disappointment  in 
their  work  of  opening  up  the  paths  of  civiliza- 
tion ;  founding  homes  in  an  uninhabited  coun- 
try and   paving  the  way   for  the  industrial  life 


that  is  to  follow.  Close  upon  the  footsteps  of 
these  come  the  men  who  open  up  avenues  of 
trade  and  establish  intercommunication  with  the 
outside  world,  promoting  enterprises  of  various 
kinds  and  inviting  investment  of  outside  capital, 
until  in  the  course  of  time  the  State  takes  its 
place  in  the  life  of  the  country  as  a  commercial 
center.  In  this  latter  class  is  to  be  found  the 
gentleman  whose  name  appears  at  the  head  of 
this  article,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1859  ^"d  later 
established  what  has  since  grown  to  be  the  lead- 
ing iron  works  foundry  in  the  State. 

Mr.  Silver  is  an  Englishman  by  birth  and  was 
born  on  September  i,  1832,  in  the  city  of  Lon- 
don. He  is  the  son  of  William  and  Miriam 
H.  (Ives)  Silver,  both  natives  of  that  country, 
the  families  on  both  sides  having  been  England- 
born  for  generations  past.  Our  subject  attended 
the  common  and  high  schools  of  England,  com- 
pleting with  a  classic  education  in  mechanical 
drawing  and  engineering,  which  profession  he 
followed  in  his  native  country  for  some  years 
before  coming  to  the  United  States ;  being  con- 
nected with  the  Great  Western  Railway  and  later 
with  the  Stothert  and  Pitt  Iron  Works  at  Bath, 
a  noted  watering  resort  in  England.  This  es- 
tablishment employed  from  two  to  three  hundred 
men  and  was  one  of  the  largest  in  England  at 
that  time,  their  specialties  being  steam  engines; 
railroad  supplies,  turn-tables,  bridges,  etc. 

In  1855  our  subject  resigned  his  position  and 
crossed  the  ocean,  landing  in  New  York  and  re- 
mained in  that  city  for  four  years,  during  which 
time  he  followed  his  profession  as  mechanical 
engineer.  In  1859  he  started  for  Utah,  coming 
as  far  as  Saint  Joseph,  Missouri,  by  rail,  the 
company  with  whom  he  was  traveling  being  the 
second  to  come  to  Saint  Joseph  in  that  manner. 
From  Saint  Joseph  they  went  up  the  river  to 
Florence,  Nebraska,  then  the  rendezvous  for  the 
Mormons ;  and  from  there  started  by  ox  teams 
for  Utah,  being  eight  weeks  on  the  way,  driving 
his  own  team  most  of  the  time. 

Upon  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  he  at  once 
went  to  work  in  the  Church  shop  in  Sugar  House 
Ward,  where  he  remained  for  one  year,  at  the 
end  of  which  time  he  engaged  in  business  for 
himself  in  the  iron  works  line,  and  continued  to 


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increase  the  business  from  time  to  time  until 
he  finally  sold  it  out  to  his  sons  in  the  late 
eighties.  They  have  followed  the  policy  adopted 
by  the  father  and  the  plant  is  at  this  time  the 
largest  in  the  State  of  Utah,  employing  more 
than  one  hundred  men.  Sketches  of  these  three 
sons  and  the  scope  of  work  they  are  engaged 
in  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

On  November  20,  1868,  Mr.  Silver  constructed 
the  first  steam  engine  ever  built  in  the  State. 
He  also  put  the  engines  into  the  first  steamboat 
that  plied  on  the  Great  Salt  Lake,  the  Kafe 
Connor,  named  in  honor  of  the  daughter  of  Gen- 
eral Conner,  its  principal  owner.  Besides  these 
he  has  equipped  many  other  plants  in  this  and 
adjoining  States  with  engines,  etc. 

Our  subject  was  converted  to  the  Mormon 
faith  in  185 1  while  in  England,  and  has  passed 
through  all  the  different  offices  from  that  of 
Elder  to  High  Priest,  always  taking  an  active 
part  in  the  affairs  of  the  Church. 

Mr.  Silver  has  had  six  wives.  The  wife  of 
his  youth  was  Mary  Askie,  of  Staffordshire,  Eng- 
land. Her  father,  William  J.  Askie,  was  also 
an  iron  manufacturer,  as  was  his  ancestors  for 
some  generations  back.  Our  subject  has  been 
the  father  of  twenty-one  children,  of  whom  ten 
are  now  living.  They  are :  Frank,  the  young- 
est, is  now  on  a  mission  to  Hawaii,  where 
he  has  been  laboring  for  the  past  two  years ; 
George  is  instructor  of  mechanical  science  in  the 
University  of  Utah ;  William,  engaged  in  job 
printing  at  Provo;  Hyrum,  Joseph  and  John,  en- 
gaged in  the  iron  foundry  business  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  Of  the  four  daughters  now  living,  Mary 
Ann  is  the  wife  of  A.  Harding  of  Provo ;  Althea 
is  now  Mrs.  John  Sheets,  of  Salt  Lake  City; 
Caroline  is  the  wife  of  Albert  W.  Bullough,  also 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  Laura  is  living  at  home. 

In  politics  our  subject  is  independent,  never 
having  tied  to  any  of  the  dominant  parties,  and 
has  never  sought  or  held  public  office. 

Mr.  Silver,  while  he  sold  out  his  interest  in 
the  business  to  his  sons  many  years  ago,  has 
never  wholly  severed  his  connection  with  the  con- 
cern, and  is  at  this  time  mechanical  engineer  and 
an  important  factor  in  the  work.  He  has  made 
the  acquaintance  of  people  from  all  parts  of 
the  West  and  enjoys  a  high  standing  in  the  busi- 
ness and  social  world. 


RSON  DAY  is  a  native  son  of  Utah, 
having  been  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
Alay  8,  1872,  and  while  yet  a  young 
man  he  has  thoroughly  demonstrated 
his  ability  as  a  successful  and  enterpris- 
ing business  man.  He  is  the  son  of  David  and 
Elizabeth  (Davis)  Day,  both  natives  of  Eng- 
land. The  father  was  born  in  Luton,  Bedford- 
shire, England,  in  1825,  and  emigrated  to  the 
United  States  in  1850,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City 
on  October  5th  of  that  year.  The  mother  was 
born  in  Herefordshire,  England,  and  with  her 
people  came  to  Utah  in  185 1.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Day  were  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  raised 
a  family  of  ten  children,  our  subject  being  next 
to  the  youngest  child.  Of  this  family  six  are 
now  living.  The  father  of  our  subject  came  to 
Davis  county  in  an  early  day  and  invested  in  a 
considerable  amount  of  land.  He  later  returned 
to  Salt  Lake  City  and  opened  up  a  general  mer- 
chandise business,  and  was  at  one  time  the  lead- 
ing merchant  in  Salt  Lake.  He  was  also  a  large 
owner  of  mining  property  in  the  State,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  in  1877,  was  one  of  the 
most  prosperous  and  successful  business  men  in 
the  city.  His  widow  still  lives  there.  Our  sub- 
ject was  but  a  child  when  he  came  to  Kaysville 
Ward  with  his  mother  and  this  has  been  his 
home  ever  since.  He  obtained  his  education  prin- 
cipally from  the  schools  of  this  district  and  has 
followed   farming  all  his  life. 

Mr.  Day  married  February  8,  1898,  to  Aliss 
Ruth  A.  Barnes,  daughter  of  Lorenzo  and  Sarah 
Ann  Barnes.  The  Barnes  family  came  to  Utah 
in  an  early  day  and  their  daughter  was  born  in 
Kaysville.  Mr.  and  Airs.  Day  have  one  child 
— Le  Roy.  The  place  where  Mr.  Day  now  re- 
sides was  left  to  him  and  his  mother  by  his 
father,  David  Day,  and  he  has  by  energy  and 
perseverance  improved  it  to  a  high  degree.  He 
has  a  comfortable  home,  the  site  being  an  un- 
usually pretty  one,  near  the  historic  Salt  Lake, 
and  Mr.  Day  has  spent  much  time  in  beautify- 
ing the  place.  He  is  a  very  successful  cattle 
and  sheep  owner  and  among  Kaysville's  most 
wide-awake  and  enterprising  business  men.  Both 
he  and  his  wife  were  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith 
and  Mr.  Day  has  alwavs  been  active  in  Church 


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work.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Seventies  and  in 
Februar)-,  1898,  was  called  and  set  apart  for  mis- 
sionary work  in  Great  Britain,  serving  twenty- 
eight  moiiti»,  most  of  the  time  being  spent  in 
the  iiondon  Conference.  During  his  absence  he 
visited  many  points  of  interest  in  Europe,  spend- 
ing fourteen  days  at  the  Paris  Exposition,  and 
was  also  at  the  Glasgow  fair,  and  the  Pan-Amer- 
ican Exposition.  He  also  took  advantage  of  this 
opportunity  to  secure  a  genealogy  of  the  family, 
which  he  prizes  highly.  Mr.  Day  is  largely  in- 
terested in  Sunday  School  work  and  an  active 
worker  in  that  line  at  home. 

In  political  life  he  is  independent,  preferring 
to  vote  for  the  man  whom  he  considered  best 
qualified  for  the  office.  While  he  is  interested  in 
the  political  life  of  his  community  he  has  never 
sought  nor  held  public  office,  preferring  to  de- 
vote his  time  to  his  business  interests  and  to  the 
work  of  the  Church. 


KXRY  HARKER,  at  present  one  oi 
the  county  commissioners  of  Salt  Lake 
county.  Among  the  native  sons 
of  Utah  there  are  but  few  men  who 
have  figured  as  prominently  and  whose 
influence  and  operations  have  been  so  wide  and 
far-reaching  in  the  developing  of  the  vast  re- 
sources of  this  State,  as  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

Mr.  Harker  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the 
first  white  child  born  west  of  the  Jordan  river, 
ana  within  a  few  miles  of  his  present  home, 
which  is  located  in  Taylorsvillc  Ward.  His  birth 
occurred  November  5,  1849.  He  is  the  fifth  son 
of  Joseph  and  Susannah  (Sneath)  Harker.  His 
father  and  mother  were  both  natives  of  Lan- 
caster, England,  and  came  to  the  United  States 
and  settled  in  Utah  in  1847.  The  marriage  of 
Mr.  Harker,  Senior,  occurred  in  his  native  coun- 
try, where  he  continued  to  reside  for  several 
years  after  his  marriage.  There  were  three  chil- 
dren born  to  him  in  England.  On  their  jour- 
ney from  Nauvoo  to  Omaha  one  of  their  chil- 
dren was  drowned  in  the  Mississippi  river,  near 
New  Orleans,  and  one  died  in  Winter  Quarters. 
In  Echo  canyon,  L^tah,  a  child  was  born  to  them, 


whom  they  named  ^\'illiam,  and  who  lives  in 
Taylorsville  Ward,  he  being  the  first  male  white 
child  born  in  Utah.  The  following  spring  his 
father  put  in  his  first  crop  in  Utah  in  the  out- 
skirts of  what  is  now  Salt  Lake  City.  In  the 
spring  of  1849  h^  crossed  the  Jordan  river  and 
built  a  log  cabin,  but  on  account  of  the  dangers 
which  they  were  subject  to  from  the  Indians, 
they  abandoned  this  cabin  and  located  at  the  old 
English  Fort,  which  he  assisted  in  building. 
Here  he  lived  for  a  number  of  years,  and  built 
a  log  and  brick  house  at  the  foot  of  the  hill 
near  Taylors  road,  on  the  Jordan  river,  and  here 
his  wife,  and  the  mother  of  our  subject,  still 
lives.  His  father  died  at  a  ripe  old  age  in  1898. 
He  had  been  prominently  connected  with  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints 
nearly  all  of  his  life,  and  for  years  was  Bishop 
of  Taylorsville  W^ard.  He  assisted  largely  in 
colonization,  being  among  those  who  were  sent 
to  colonize  the  Salmon  river  country  in  Idaho, 
where  he  helped  construct  the  Lemhi  Fort.  On 
the  entering  of  the  Johnston  army  into  Utah  in 
1857  he  was  recalled  to  Utah  by  the  heads  of  the 
Church.  Mr.  Harker  was  known  throughout  the 
State  as  an  honorable,  generous  and  kind  gen- 
tleman, and  a  faithful  husband  and  father.  For 
honor  and  veracity  he  had  no  peer  in  the  State. 

Our  subject  began  for  himself  at  the  early  age 
of  sixteen  years  and  his  life  has  been  crowned 
with  success  from  almost  the  very  first ;  he  at 
once  began  to  accumulate  means  and  went  into 
business  for  himself.  Mr.  Harker  owns  a  part 
of  the  old  homestead  which  his  father  had  spent 
so  much  time  and  so  many  years  in  improving, 
and  where  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  this  State.  Our  subject  has  one  of  the  fin- 
est homes  to  be  found  outside  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  this  State,  and  a  home  that  would  be  a  credit 
to  many  of  the  eastern  cities.  It  is  elegantly 
furnished.  His  Salt  Lake  county  homestead  con- 
sists of  one  hundred  acres,  and  he  is  also  largely 
interested  in  real  estate  and  ranches  in  Wyom- 
ing, where  he  keeps  the  most  of  his  stock.  Mr. 
Harker  is  largely  identified,  not  only  with  the 
farming  and  stock  business,  but  also  in  mining 
in  L^tah,  Idaho  and  the  adjoining  States. 

He  married  November  8,  1869,  to  Miss  Eliz- 


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abeth  Pixton,  daughter  of  that  grand  old  cou- 
ple, Robert  and  Elizabeth  Pixton,  her  father  hav- 
ing been  a  member  of  the  Mormon  battalion,  and 
her  mother  now  resides  in  the  Taylorsville  Ward 
and  is  a  very  intelligent  and  hearty  old  lady  of 
eighty-two  years  of  age.  There  have  been  ten 
children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harker — Lov- 
enia,  Mary  E.,  Rozella,  Charlotte  A.,  Henry, 
Emma,  Lenora,  Bruce,  Horace  and  Douglas. 
Five  of  the  children  are  married.  Two  of  JNIr. 
Harker 's  sons-in-law  are  identified  with  him  in 
the  sheep  business,  which  Mr.  Harker  has  suc- 
cessfully followed  the  greater  portion  of  his  life. 
The  family  are  all  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church.  Many  years  ago  Mr.  Harker  was  or- 
dained a  member  of  the  Seventies  and  has  held 
the  office  of  High  Priest  and  at  present  holds 
the  office  of  High  Council  of  Granite  Stake. 

In  political  life  our  subject  has  always  been 
a  staunch  Republican,  having  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  the  history  of  that  party  ever  since  it 
was  organized  in  this  State.  In  November, 
1900,  he  was  elected  a  county  commissioner  of 
Salt  Lake  county  for  a  term  of  two  years,  which 
he  is  at  present  filling.  For  many  years  he 
has  been  road  supervisor,  having  been  elected 
by  the  Republican  party.  The  work  that  has 
been  accomplished  by  the  present  quorum  of 
county  commissioners  has  been  entirely  satisfac- 
tory, not  only  to  the  constituents  of  Mr.  Harker, 
but  to  the  people  of  Salt  Lake  county  as  well. 
It  is  estimated  that  they  have  saved  the  county 
at  least  twelve  thousand  dollars  by  the  economic 
way  in  which  they  have  conducted  the  affairs  of 
the  county  during  1901.  At  present  the  county 
commissioners  are  building  a  bridge  across  the 
Jordan  river,  opposite  the  Highland  Boy  smelter, 
which  will  prove  a  great  benefit  to  the  citizens 
in  that  vicinity,  many  of  the  men  working  in  the 
smelting  works  living  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
river  from  the  works  and  being  compelled  to  go 
miles  around  in  order  to  get  to  their  work.  Mr. 
Harker  takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  afifairs  of 
the  county  which  he  is  called  to  look  after  by 
virtue  of  his  office,  and  nothing  is  done  in  a 
haphazard  way,  but  a  system  is  required  and 
economy  demanded  in  everything  that  is  under- 
taken for  the  improvement  of  Salt  Lake  county. 


Mrs.  Harker  is  an  active  member  of  the  Re- 
lief societies  of  the  Church,  in  which  she  has 
taken  a  prominent  part,  and  has  assisted  largely 
in  the  development  of  this  society  in  her  Ward. 
Two  of  her  daughters  who  are  residing  in  the 
home  are  members  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Aid 
Society.  Mr.  Harker  has  also  taken  an  active 
and  prominent  part  in  the  history  of  the  Church, 
having  served  on  a  mission  to  Great  Britain,  go- 
ing there  in  1891  and  returning  in  1893.  He 
also  served  in  the  same  capacity  in  Arizona  in 
1873.  He  was  the  first  to  cross  Lees  Ferry  over 
the  Colorado  river.  That  summer  the  ferry 
went  down  on  account  of  the  high  water,  and 
Mr.  Harker  with  a  cargo  of  thirty-si.x  wagons 
was  left  on  the  other  side  of  the  river  and  had 
to  ferry  across  its  banks,  having  to  take  the 
wagons  apart,  which  he  successfully  accom- 
plished and  landed  his  cargo  on  the  opposite  side. 
He  also  served  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  in  1866. 
In  1 868  he  freighted  in  behalf  of  the  Church, 
going  as  far  East  as  what  is  now  Fort  Steele, 
in  Wyoming,  at  which  point  he  took  charge  of 
the  emigrant  trains  and  conducted  them  across 
the  plains  to  Salt  Lake  City. 


HARLES  HENRY  SPENCER  is 
one  of  those  whose  lives  has  been 
closely  associated  with  that  of  the 
Church  since  the  time  of  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith.  His  parents  were 
among  the  early  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  Mr.  Spencer  himself  has  passed 
through  almost  all  the  vicissitudes  incident  to 
the  lives  of  this  people.  He  is  one  of  the  pion- 
neers  of  this  country  and  his  memory  is  a  store- 
house of  many  thrilling  and  also  sad  incidents 
in  connection  with  the  subduing  and  cultivating 
of  this  vast  tract  of  barren  land,  transforming 
it  into  its  present  high  state  of  cultivation. 

He  comes  of  an  old  Massachusetts  family, 
both  his  parents  being  born  in  that  State,  and 
his  own  birth  occurring  in  Stockbridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  December  i,  1827.  His  parents 
were  Hiram  and  Mary  (Spencer)  Spencer,  the 
mother  bearing  the  same  name  as  her  husband 
previous  to  her  marriage.     The  parents  became 


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converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  reli- 
gion, and  after  the  death  of  the  mother,  which 
occurred  in  Massachusetts,  the  father  started 
West  with  his  family  of  six  children.  The  fam- 
ily remained  at  Xauvoo  until  after  the  exodus 
in  1846  and  were  there  at  the  time  of  the  killing 
of  the  Prophet.  They  remained  at  Winter 
Quarters  until  1848,  when  they  started  across 
the  plains  for  Utah,  an  uncle  of  our  subject, 
David  Spencer,  being  one  of  the  party.  The 
father  w.as  taken  sick  and  died  during  the  jour- 
ney, and  was  buried  on  the  plains,  the  uncle 
assuming  the  care  of  the  family  until  they 
reached  the  end  of  the  trip.  Here  they  were 
thrown  upon  their  own  resources,  the  older  ones 
assisting  those  who  were  younger. 

Our  subject  was  just  twenty-one  years  of  age 
when  he  came  to  Utah,  and  his  education  had 
been  received  from  the  schools  in  his  native 
State  and  later  in  Nauvoo.  He  at  once  began 
life  as  a  farmer,  doing  at  first  anything  which 
came  to  his  hand,  in  order  to  enable  him  to  make 
a  living  and  get  a  start  in  the  world.  He  has 
by  close  attention  to  his  business,  hard  and  un- 
tiring perseverance  and  industry,  accumulated  a 
fair  amount  of  this  world's  goods,  and  while 
he  is  less  wealthy  than  some  of  his  neighbors, 
yet  he  has  sufficient  to  make  his  declining  days 
comfortable,  and  has  won  and  retained  the  high- 
est esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  asso- 
ciated  throughout   his   long   and    useful   career. 

He  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  to  ]\Iiss 
Margaret  Miller,  daughter  of  W'illiam  and 
Elizabeth  E.  (Watson)  Miller,  who  came  to 
Utah  in  1849,  from  the  Isle  of  Man.  Six  of  the 
children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Spencer  are  now 
living — Charles  H.,  Nellie,  now  Mrs.  Joseph 
Cornwall ;  Orson,  Bryant,  Philip  and  Daisy,  the 
wife  of  Albert  Smith. 

In  the  Church  our  subject  has  filled  the  offices 
of  Elder  and  High  Priest,  and  his  wife  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society.  Their  chil- 
dren are  also  members  of  the  Church. 

Coming  here  at  an  early  day,  Mr.  Spencer 
was  one  of  those  who  helped  to  put  down  the 
bordes  of  Indians  who  infested  these  \\^estern 
plains  and  made  the  life  of  the  white  settlers 
hazardous     in    the    extreme,    making    periodical 


raids  when  they  not  only  carried  off  the  stock 
and  stole  the  provisions  of  the  white  people,  but 
often  in  the  battles  that  ensued  killed  many  of 
them.  Today  there  is  not  a  spot  in  this  West- 
ern country  where  the  white  man  may  not  dwell 
in  perfect  safety.  The  fifty-three  acres  of  land 
which  Mr.  Spencer  has  accumulated  stands  as 
a  fine  mounment  to  his  skill  and  industry ;  it  is 
all  under  a  good  state  of  cultivation,  well  fenced 
and  improved,  and  he  owns  a  comfortable  and 
pretty  home.  While  their  work  has  been  ardu- 
ous and  the  way  often  steep  and  discouraging, 
yet  Mr.  Spencer  and  his  estimable  wife  have 
never  lost  heart  nor  grown  dissatisfied  with 
their  lot,  but  have  with  a  cheerfulness  that  has 
proven  contagious  brought  sunshine  not  only 
into  their  own  lives  but  into  the  lives  of  scores 
of  others  around  them,  and  proved  bulwarks  of 
strength  to  the  Church  of  which  they  have  ever 
been  staunch  adherents. 


EXTAMIN  MATHIAS  HARM  AN. 
Since  Utah  has  come  to  the  fore  as  one 
of  the  leading  States  in  almost  every 
line  of  natural  productions,  she  has 
also  been  closely  emulating  her  sister 
States  in  many  other  directions,  among  which 
may  be  mentioned  the  raising  of  blooded  stock ; 
high-grade  Cotswold  sheep ;  Poland-China  hogs : 
Durham  cattle,  and  blooded  horses.  Among  the 
breeders  of  the  latter  class  of  animals,  Benjamin 
Mathias  Harman,  the  gentleman  whose  name 
heads  this  article,  stands  foremost  as  one  of  the 
most  successful,  owning  one  animal  which  has 
taken  first  prize  at  every  State  Fair  since  first 
exhibited,  and  a  number  of  others  which  have 
also  been  prize  winners. 

Mr.  Harman  is  one  of  eight  brothers  who 
came  to  America  leaving  their  parents,  Charles 
and  Mary  (Mathias)  Harman,  in  South  Wales. 
They  landed  on  American  soil  in  1855,  and  after 
spending  a  year  in  Pennsylvania,  went  from 
there  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  he  was  mar- 
ried in  1857.  The  following  year  the  parents 
came  to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  Kays- 
ville,  Illinois,  where  the  family  was  reunited, 
and   in    1859  crossed   the  plains  by  oxen   team, 


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separating  at  Council  Bluffs.  Iowa,  the  boys 
making  the  trip  in  a  train  under  command  of 
Horton  Haight,  which  left  there  in  June  and 
reached  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  4th,  while 
the  parents  came  in  company  with  Captain 
James  Brown.  The  family  lived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  and  for  the  first  ten  years  the  father  and 
sons  spent  most  of  their  time  engaged  in  dig- 
ging and  building  ditches ;  doing  contract  work. 
Both  the  father  and  mother  died  in  the  Sixteenth 
Ward  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

In  1874  our  subject  began  his  life  as  a  farmer, 
taking  a  farm  in  the  west  end  of  Mill  Creek 
Ward,  on  which  he  has  since  continued  to  live, 
and  on  which  he  has  erected  a  handsome  and 
commodious  house  surrounded  by  beautiful 
shade  trees,  and  the  grounds  embellished  with 
flowers,  a  good  lawn,  etc.  He  also  has  large 
and  well  built  barns  and  outbuildings,  and  the 
place  is  well  fenced  and  under  a  good  system  of 
irrigation.  He  has  paid  considerable  attention 
to  farming,  a  large  part  of  his  sixty-two  acres 
being  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  He  also 
has  a  fine  cattle  ranch  of  fifty-nine  acres  three 
miles  west  of  the  home  place,  and  here  the  most 
of  his  blooded  stock  is  kept.  Mr.  Harman 
takes  a  great  pride  in  his  stock  and  certainly 
has  one  of  the  finest  lot  of  thoroughbreds  in  the 
county.  Among  them  are  two  stallions,  one  a 
standard  bred  three-year-old  colt,  which  has 
been  broken  to  drive,  and  the  other  a  Belgian 
draft  horse.  This  latter  horse  has  taken  first 
prize  at  every  State  fair  since  being  put  on  ex- 
hibition, and  a  number  of  the  colts  bred  by  him 
have  also  been  prize  winners.  During  the  fair 
of  1901  Mr.  Harinan  had  six  horses  and  colts 
on  exhibition,  each  one  of  which  won  a  prize. 
Any  one  familiar  with  the  fine  animals  yearly 
exhibited  at  the  State  fair  in  Utah  will  appre- 
ciate the  grade  of  these  horses.. 

For  the  past  twenty  years  he  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  mining  afifairs  of  the  State.  He 
is  a  director  in  three  companies :  The  Cleve- 
land, in  the  Tintic  district ;  the  Saint  Joe,  in 
the  Brigham  district,  and  the  Gold  Dust  Mining 
Company,  located  at  Leesburg,  Idaho.  He  is 
also  president  of  the  latter  company,  and  general 
manager  of  the  Saint  Joe. 


He  has  never  participated  to  any  great  extent 
in  politics,  his  private  business  demanding  all 
his  attention,  but  is  one  of  the  staunch  support- 
ers of  the  Republican  ticket.  All  his  family  are 
members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  whose  doc- 
trines they  have  been  reared,  and  Mr.  Harman 
himself  has  done  valiant  service  in  the  cause. 
He  spent  two  and  a  half  years  in  Wales,  en- 
gaged in  missionary  work,  and  from  a  lay  mem- 
ber has  risen  to  a  position  as  member  of  the 
Seventies.  During  the  time  he  spent  in  Illinios 
he  was  President  of  the  branch  of  the  Church  in 
that  State. 

Mr.  Harman's  marriage  occurred  in  St.  Louis, 
when  in  1857  he  was  united  to  Miss  Ann  Powell, 
a  daughter  of  John  and  Margaret  Powell.  Both 
of  Mrs.  Harman's  parents  died  in  Mill  Creek 
Ward,  within  a  year  of  each  other.  They  made 
their  home  during  the  latter  part  of  their  lives 
with  Mr.  Harman.  Three  children  have  blessed 
their  marriage — John,  Anna,  now  Mrs.  Edward 
Smith,  and  living  in  the  neighborhood,  and 
Isaac.  Both  the  sons  are  also  married  and  live 
on  farms  of  their  own  in  close  proximity  to 
that  of  our  subject.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harman 
have  thirteen  grandchildren. 


OX  C.  TUFTS.  Among  the  numerous 
sterling  citizens  who  have  settled  in 
Utah  during  its  early  struggling  pe- 
riod, and  who  have  assisted  materially 
in  its  development,  is  the  gentleman 
whose  name  heads  this  sketch.  His  long  and 
honorable  record  is  well  known  in  Salt  Lake 
county.  He  was  born  in  Ouincy.  Illinois,  April 
17,  1842,  and  is  a  son  of  Elbridge  and  Elmira 
(Pinkham)  Tufts.  They  were  both  natives  of 
Maine,  and  both  born  in  the  year  1812.  The 
senior  Mr.  Tufts  spent  his  earl)-  life  on  a  farm 
in  Maine,  where  he  continued  to  live  until  the 
early  part  of  1830.  The  Pinkham  family  trace 
their  ancestors  back  to  the  settlement  of  Plym- 
outh Rock.  Our  subject's  father  and  mother 
were  married  in  their  old  native  town  in  Maine, 
and  in  1830  they  emigrated  to  Illinios,  first  set- 
tling in  Quincy.    They  later  moved  to  St.  Joseph, 


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Missouri,  when  our  subject  was  only  four  years 
of  age.  They  had  early  become  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  Maine,  and  in  1848  fitted  out 
ox  teams  and  prepared  to  cross  the  plains  to  Utah, 
traveling  in  the  train  of  which  Arastus  Snow 
was  captain,  where  they  might  enjoy  the  associ- 
ations and  fellowship  of  their  Church  people. 
There  were  five  children  at  the  time,  and  our  sub- 
ject, being  the  fourth  child,  three  of  whom  are 
living — Josiah,  the  oldest,  is  now  living  in  Rich 
county,  this  State ;  Elizabeth,  now  a  resident  of 
California. 

On  arriving  in  Utah,  our  subject's  father  took 
up  land  in  this  vicinity,  but  only  lived  for  two 
years.  He  died  in  1850.  He  had  also  taken  up 
land  in  Davis  county.  This,  however,  was  lost 
after  his  death.  Our  subject's  mother  died  in 
1883,  our  subject  having  remained  with  her  until 
the  last. 

By  his  first  marriage  three  children  were  born 
— Leona,  now  Mrs.  Henry  Burnett,  resident  of 
Mill  Creek  Ward ;  Geneva  and  Bessie. 

Mr.  Tufts  married  his  second  wife,  Miss  Ann 
Domett,  September  26,  1899.  They  have  one 
child — Sumner  P. 

In  1887  Mr.  Tufts,  in  company  with  T.  H. 
Morton,  purchased  forty-five  acres  of  land  be- 
tween Twelfth  and  Thirteenth  South.  Later  all 
of  this  land  was  sold  by  Mr.  Tufts  with  the  ex- 
ception of  five  acres,  which  he  now  occupies,  and 
where  he  built  a  splendid  home;  a  portion  of  the 
balance  of  the  land  being  occupied  by  the  Keams 
St.  Ann's  Orphanage. 

In  politics  Mr.  Tufts  has  always  been  a  staunch 
Republican,  but  has  never  sought  public  office. 

In  the  Church  he  has  always  taken  a  prominent 
and  active  part,  and  by  his  straightforward  busi- 
ness principles  has  won  the  respect  of  all  who 
have  been  associated  with  him  through  life. 


OHX  .\.  SILX'ER.  Among  the  varied 
industries  which  have  grown  in  Utah 
ii  ir  the  proper  utilization  of  the  resources 
of  the  State,  none  hold  a  higher  posi- 
tion in  the  business  v/orld  than  does  the 
iron  foundry  whose  operations  are  directed  by 
the   subject   of   this    sketch.      Beginning   with   a 


srtiall  establishment  and  crude  apparatus,  it  has 
been  so  developed  that  it  is  now  one  of  the  lead- 
ing foundries  of  the  West.  The  men  who  have 
conducted  its  affairs  have,  by  their  industry  and 
ability,  made  the  Silver  Brothers  Iron  Foundry 
and  Machine  Works  of  this  city  one  of  the  most 
substantial  enterprises  of  Utah. 

John  A.  Silver  was  born  on  the  Atlantic 
ocean,  August  the  7th,  1855,  while  his  parents 
were  en  route  to  America,  and  when  but  four 
years  of  age  his  parents  removed  from  New 
York  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  here  he  spent  his 
boyhood  days.  His  early  education  was  derived 
from  the  common  schools  that  then  existed  in 
this  city,  but  with  the  demand  for  workers  that 
was  then  made  by  the  West,  and  especially  Utah, 
where  every  hand  was  needed  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources  and  the  sustenance  of  the 
people,  he  early  started  to  work  in  his  father's 
foundry,  where  he  learned  the  machine  business. 

His  father,  William  J.  Silver,  was  born  in 
London,  England,, in  1832,  and  lived  there  until 
he  reached  his  majority.  He  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  of  London,  and  in  Bath, 
England.  He  secured  employment  on  the 
Southwestern  Railroad,  where  he  remained  for 
about  three  years.  He  emigrated  to  the  United 
States  and  settled  in  New  York,  where  he  re- 
mained for  four  years,  coming  to  Utah  in  1859. 
Upon  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  he  secured 
employment  at  different  occupations,  and  finally 
laid  the  foundations  for  the  establishment  of  the 
present  leading  iron  works  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
The  first  site  of  his  establishment  was  on  Cen- 
ter street,  which  he  occupied  until  1879,  when 
he  moved  to  his  present  location.  From  a  very 
small  beginning,  his  shop,  at  first  covering  a 
space  of  only  twelve  feet  square,  and  with  no 
other  help  than  his  own,  his  ability  and  industry 
soon  led  to  the  increase  of  his  business,  and  in 
1868  he  constructed  the  first  steam  engine  ever 
built  in  Utah.  This  engine  was  built  without  the 
aid  of  any  improved  machinery  or  appliances,  but 
so  thorough  was  his  work  that  it  is  still  in  opera- 
tion. The  business  that  Mr.  Silver  had  begun 
continued  to  grow  with  the  passing  years,  and 
he  remained  at  its  head,  directinj^  its  affairs, 
until  1886,  when  it  was  transferred  and  the  en- 


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tire  business  sold  to  his  three  sons.  At  that  time 
he  employed  about  twenty-five  men  and  from 
the  time  that  his  sons  have  managed  the  property 
its  force  has  been  increased  until  it  now  numbers 
on  its  rolls  between  one  hundred  and  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  workmen.  Upon  his  retire- 
ment from  the  iron  foundry  he  went  to  Provo 
and  successfully  established  iron  works  there, 
but  continued  that  establishment  only  about 
three  years.  Since  his  return  from  Provo  he 
has  devoted  his  time  almost  exclusively  to  the 
preparations  of  plans  and  designs  for  machin- 
ery. 

Mr.  Silver  was  married  in  London,  England, 
to  Mary  Askie,  a  native  of  StaiTordshire,  En- 
gland, and  by  this  marriage  he  had  four  sons 
and  one  daughter — William,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  twelve  years;  John  A.,  Joseph  A.,  Hyrum 
A.,  and  his  daughter,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
two  years.  Mr.  Silver  became  a  convert  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Lat- 
ter Day  Saints  in  England,  in  1851,  at  the  time 
of  the  great  Exposition.  During  his  residence 
in  LUah  he  married  four  wives,  in  accordance 
with  the  teachings  of  his  Church.  By  these 
marriages  he  has  now  six  sons  and  four  daugh- 
ters living,  this  number  being  about  one-half  of 
the  number  of  children  born  to  him. 

Mr.  Silver  was  the  only  son  of  William  and 
Miriam  Ives  (Wright)  Silver,  natives  of  Yar- 
mouth, England.  He  has  been  a  faithful  and 
consistent  member  of  the  church  of  his  choice 
since  the  time  he  joined  it,  and  is  now  one  of 
the  Seventies.  His  time  has  been  largely  de- 
voted to  his  business,  but  he  has  also  found  time 
to  take  an  active  interest  in  the  development  of 
his  Church.  His  business  has  not  only  aided  in 
the  support  of  about  four  hundred  families,  but 
has  been  of  great  advantage  to  the  youth  of  LUah 
in  the  teaching  of  the  iron  business.  He  has 
been  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  ever  since  he  came 
to  Utah,  with  the  exception  of  the  three  years 
spent  in  Provo.  He  is  essentially  a  self  made 
man,  and  the  success  he  has  achieved  for  him- 
self through  his  industry,  perseverance  and  ap- 
plication, has  won  for  him  the  respect  and  con- 
fidence of  the  entire  business  world  of  the  West. 
He  is  at  present  in  the  enjoyment  of  good  health 


and  lives  in  his  present  home  on  Center  street, 
which  he  erected  about  three  years  ago. 

The  zeal  which  John  A.  Silver,  our  subject, 
has  shown  in  his  business  enterprises  was  dem- 
onstrated in  the  facility  with  which  he  mastered 
the  intricacies  of  the  machine  business.  After 
spending  a  time  in  his  father's  works,  during 
which  he  was  thoroughly  equipped  in  that  trade, 
he,  together  with  his  brothers,  Hyrum  A.  and 
Joseph  A.,  now  also  oi^cers  in  the  Silver  Broth- 
ers Iron  and  Foundry  Works,  spent  about  nine 
years  in  the  various  mining  camps  in  Utah  and 
adjoining  States,  erecting  pumps  and  installing 
mills.  He  also  spent  about  nine  years  in  the 
shops  of  the  LTnion  Pacific  Railroad  Company, 
which  are  now  under  the  control  of  the  Oregon 
Short  Line  system.  He  entered  the  shops  as  a 
journeyman,  and  rising  through  the  intermedi- 
ate steps  to  foreman,  was  finally  made  master 
mechanic,  which  position  he  resigned  in  1886. 
In  this  year  he  and  his  two  brothers  purchased 
his  father's  foundry  and  machine  works.  At 
that  time  the  works  were  limited.  These  works 
had  been  started  by  his  father,  and  were  not 
very  extensive.  When  the  three  brothers  secured 
the  business  they  did  all  the  work  themselves. 
It  was  a  hard,  long  pull,  but  the  firm  of  young 
men  stuck  to  their  tasks,  notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  they  had  to  go  in  debt  for  their  entire 
business.  With  unflagging  industry  they  worked 
night  and  day  until  they  got  the  works  well  un- 
der way,  and  it  has  since  grown  year  by  year 
until  at  the  present  writing  it  is  the  largest 
foundry  and  machine  shops  west  of  Omaha.  The 
plant,  from  a  small  shop  of  twelve  feet,  has 
now  grown  until  it  covers  several  acres  of  land. 
The  business  is  located  at  No.  149  West  North 
Temple,  and  the  buildings  run  from  that  street 
through  to  South  Temple,  and  gives  employment 
to  more  than  one  hundred  people,  supplying  al- 
most all  of  the  steel  and  iron  used  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region.  The  development  of  this  plant  is 
one  of  the  most  striking  of  the  successes  which 
the  people  of  Utah  have  made  in  their  conflict 
with  the  unpromising  natural  conditions.  The 
Silver  Brothers'  foundry  is  run  on  systematic 
line.s,   and   with   such    rare   ability   and   precision 


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that  it  easily  stands  high  in  the  ranks  of  such  in- 
dustries throughout  the  United  States. 

John  A.  Silver  was  married  on  Xovember  28, 
1880,  to  Miss  Orthena  Pratt,  daughter  of  Apos- 
tle Orson  Pratt.  By  this  marriage  he  has  five 
children — Eugena,  Glenn,  Alzina,  Edith  and 
Leland.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  to  which 
his  father  gave  his  allegiance,  and  has  shown  the 
same  zeal  and  industry  in  his  work  for  the 
Church  as  has  marked  his  career  as  a  business 
man.  He  has  the  trust  and  confidence  of  its 
leaders,  and  is  now  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Ninth  Quorum  of  Seventies 
in  that  Church. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  never  taken  an  act- 
ive interest,  so  far  as  the  solicitation  of  office  is 
concerned,  but  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Democratic  party.  The  career  which  he  has 
built  up  in  Utah  marks  him  as  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative business  men  of  this  State.  He  is  pre- 
eminently a  self  made  man,  having  won  his  pres- 
ent standing  in  the  financial  and  business  world 
by  his  own  ability.  His  genial  and  courteous 
manner,  together  with  his  reputation  for  integ- 
rity and  honesty,  have  won  for  him  the  confi- 
dence and  esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom 
he  has  come  in  contact.  He  is  the  owner  of  one 
of  the  handsome  homes  in  this  city,  it  being 
located  at  No.  952  South  Eighth  West  street. 


r.RAHAM  HELM,  deceased.  He  was 
born  in  Cumberland  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, February  22,  1813,  and  was  the 
son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Book- 
man) Helm — David  being  the  son  of 
Jacol).  The  Helm  family  were  among  the  first  to 
locate  in  Pennsylvania,  originally  hailing  from 
Holland.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  the 
oldest  son  of  David.  He  was  left  an  orphan  when 
only  eight  years  old,  his  father  and  mother  both 
having  died.  He  was  raised  by  a  man  named 
John  \"andersall  until  sixteen  years  of  age.  By 
that  time  he  had  received  a  fair  common  school 
education  in  Pennsylvania.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
years  he  started  out  to  learn  the  carpentering 
business.      After   following   this    for   some   time 


and  not  being  satisfied  with  the  gentleman  by 
whom  he  was  employed,  he  quit  that  business  and 
left  Pennsylvania,  settling  in  Stark  county,  Ohio. 
The  first  summer  in  Ohio  was  spent  in  working 
by  the  month  in  a  tan  yard,  where  he  remained 
with  one  man  for  a  period  of  two  years.  It  was 
in  this  vicinity  that  he  met  Miss  Mary  Richards, 
who  at  that  time  was  doing  housework  in  the 
same  vicinity.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Phillip 
and  Mary  (Seider)  Richards,  and  was  born  in 
Alsace,  Germany,  July  30,  18 12,  coming  to  Amer- 
ica with  her  parents  in  1826.  Her  parents  lived 
and  died  in  Ohio.  Mr.  Helm  and  Miss  Richards 
were  married  October  20,  1836,  in  Stark  county. 
Soon  after  marrying,  Mr.  Helm  and  his  wife 
moved  to  Sandusky  county,  Ohio,  where  they 
lived  for  a  period  of  eighteen  years.  Eleven  chil- 
dren were  born  to  them  in  that  county  and  one 
after  they  came  to  Utah — Joseph,  died  at  the 
age  of  fifty-six  years ;  John,  at  the  present  time 
lives  on  the  old  homestead  with  his  mother ;  Bar- 
tram  is  a  stockman  in  Idaho;  Susannah  is  now 
the  wife  of  Thomas  Clayton ;  Mary  A.  is  the  twin 
of  Susannah,  widow  of  James  Gordon;  Samuel 
died  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight  years;  Caroline  is 
now  the  widow  of  R.  P.  Lemmon ;  Marshal  and 
Andrew  D.  live  in  Mill  Creek  Ward;  Levi  P., 
a  resident  of  Colorado ;  Johanna,  now  Mrs.  Sam- 
uel Brinton ;  Abraham  D.,  who  died  in  infancy. 
In  1855  this  family  left  their  old  home  in  Ohio, 
and  under  Captain  Moses  Thurston  started  for 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  after  a  long  and  hazardous 
trip  across  the  plains  they  arrived  in  this  city 
September  28,  1855.  They  at  once  settled  in  Mill 
Creek  Meadow,  where  they  only  remained  about 
one  week,  when  they  located  on  the  old  home- 
stead, where  Mr.  Helm  spent  the  balance  of  his 
life,  and  where  his  widow  now  resides.  The  place 
is  located  near  State  street,  on  the  banks  of  the 
Big  Cottonwood  creek.  She  now  has  six 
acres  of  land,  well  improved;  besides  these 
there  are  a  number  of  other  places  which 
her  husband  owned  during  his  life  time,  and 
which  the  children  now  own.  Mr.  Helm  was  an 
industrious  and  hard-working  man,  a  good  hus- 
band and  a  kind  father,  and  when  he  died,  on 
October  26,  1894,  he  left  many  friends  and  rela- 
tives to  mourn  his  demise.    He  had  been  success- 


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ful  in  Utah,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  left  a 
large  estate  to  the  family.  Of  his  sons  there  are 
now  three  residing  in  this  county,  all  engaged  in 
farming. 

John,  the  oldest,  resides  on  the  home  place  with 
his  mother.  By  trade  he  is  a  blacksmith,  but 
has  followed  farming  most  of  his  life.  He  was 
married  April  21,  1866,  to  Miss  Emily  Very, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Very.  They 
have  had  three  children — John  A.,  died  aged  six 
months;  Joseph  R.,  died  in  infancy,  and  William 
Andrew  is  living  in  Utah  county.  The  mother  of 
these  children  died  in  1882.  All  of  the  Helm 
family  have  been  faithful  and  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  and  have  taken  an  active  interest  in  its 
upbuilding,  as  well  as  in  the  development  of  the 
country.  Bartram  was  Second  Counselor  to  the 
Bishop  in  Idaho.  John,  Bartram  and  Joseph  all 
took  part  as  guards  when  Johnston's  army  landed 
in  Utah.  They  also  took  part  in  the  Black  Hawk 
war,  and  during  1864  and  1866  John  went  to  the 
Missouri  river  after  a  company  of  emigrants, 
whom  he  successfully  brought  to  Utah.  In  1862, 
when  the  Governor  called  for  volunteers  to  pro- 
tect the  freight  and  mails,  he  furnished  a  com- 
pany for  this  department,  fitted  them  out  with 
mules,  and  all  their  equipments,  he  himself  ac- 
companying them.  Mr.  Helm,  during  his  long, 
honorable  and  successful  career  in  Utah,  won  the 
confidence  and  respect  of  the  people  with  whom 
he  associated  in  his  private  or  business  life. 


OSEPH  WARBURTON,  Bishop  of  the 
First  Ward,  Salt  Lake  City  Stake  of 
Zion.  Bishop  Warburton  was  not  a 
pioneer  to  Utah,  in  the  strict  meaning  of 
that  term,  and  yet  over  forty  years  of 
the  most  valuable  period  of  his  life  have  been 
spent  in  this  State,  and  while  it  is  true  that  many 
people  preceded  him  in  this  new  country,  yet  at 
the  time  he  located  in  Salt  Lake  City,  in  the  fall 
of  i860,  he  found  the  country  in  an  undeveloped 
state,  compared  to  the  great  work  of  develop- 
ment and  rapid  advancement  which  it  has  made 
in  the  past  forty  years.  The  old  adobe  buildings 


have  given  place  to  spacious  mansions,  and  splen- 
did red  sandstone,  granite  and  brick  business 
blocks  have  taken  the  place  of  the  one-story  frame 
structures  in  which  the  business  of  the  city  was 
once  carried  on,  until  today  Salt  Lake  City  oc- 
cupies the  most  important  position  of  any  city  in 
the  whole  inter-mountain  region.  Through  the 
vast  work  of  development  Bishop  Warburton  has 
played  a  most  important  part.  He  has  been  and 
is  still  identified  with  many  enterprises  for  the 
building  up  of  not  only  Salt  Lake  City,  but  the 
entire  State  as  well,  and  through  his  untiring 
efforts  his  life  has  been  blessed  with  a  reasona- 
ble degree  of  success.  He  stands  high  in  the 
councils  of  his  church,  as  well  as  among  the  busi- 
ness men  of  the  State. 

He  is  a  native  of  England,  having  been  born 
in  Radclifife,  Lancashire,  September  21,  1831,  and 
is  the  son  of  James  and  Sarah  (Warburton)  War- 
burton, natives  of  the  same  shire,  but  of  no  kin. 
Our  subject  is  the  seventh  son  among  a  family 
of  fifteen  children,  but  two  of  whom  are  now 
living. 

Bishop  Warburton  was  reared  in  the  town 
where  he  was  born,  and  there  received  his  educa- 
tion and  was  apprenticed  to  the  dyer's  trade,  fol- 
lowing his  trade  in  the  skein  factories.  In  1847 
he  first  heard  the  doctrine  of  Mormonism  ex- 
pounded. He  was  at  that  time  a  member  of  the 
Swedenborgians,  and  it  was  not  until  four  years 
later  that  he  was  convinced  of  the  truth  of  the 
Mormon  teachings.  He  presented  himself  to 
Elder  Thomas  Allen  in  1851,  and  received  the 
ordinance  of  baptism,  being  the  only  member  of 
the  family  to  join  this  Church.  In  the  same  year 
he  was  ordained  a  teacher  and  in  the  same  year 
an  Elder,  preaching  in  the  streets  of  his  native 
town  and  presiding  over  the  Radcliffe  and  Pendel- 
bury  Branches. 

He  was  married  in  1854  to  INIiss  Emma  Wat- 
mough,  a  native  of  the  same  place.  By  this  mar- 
riage ten  children  have  been  born,  seven  of  whom 
are  living— Joseph  C,  William  H.,  Joshua  E., 
Samuel,  Ellen,  now  Mrs.  George  Kingborn; 
Emman,  wife  of  Thomas  Powell;  Mary,  wife 
of  Thomas  Shannon ;  Sarah,  the  deceased  wife 
of  Jasper  Fletcher,  and  two  sons  who  died  in 
infancy. 


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On  May  20,  1856,  he  and  his  wife  set  sail  from 
Liverpool  on  board  the  vessel  IVellfleet,  landing 
in  Boston,  where  they  remained  but  a  few  days, 
and  then  went  to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts. 
There  our  subject  and  his  wife  found  employ- 
ment in  the  Pacific  Mills.  He  remained  in  Law- 
rence until  i860,  and  during  that  time  pre- 
sided over  the  Lawrence,  Lowell  and  Groveland 
Branches  of  the  Church.  In  September,  i860, 
in  company  with  his  wife  and  two  children,  he 
left  Massachusetts  and  traveled  by  rail  to  Saint 
Joseph,  Missouri ;  thence  by  boat  to  Florence, 
and  from  there  to  Utah  by  ox  team,  traveling  in 
a  train  of  forty-four  wagons,  under  command  of 
Captain  Jesse  Murphey,  landing  in  Salt  Lake  City 
late  on  the  2nd  of  October  of  that  year.  His  first 
home  was  an  old  granary,  ten  by  sixteen  feet, 
where  his  first  son  was  born.  For  a  time  he  did 
whatever  he  could  find  in  order  to  support  him- 
self and  family. 

About  six  months  after  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Institution  was  organized  he  opened 
the  First  Ward  branch  of  that  organiza- 
tion. Several  years  ago  the  stockholders  sold 
their  interests  to  him,  and  he  now  con- 
ducts it  as  an  individual  concern.  He  first 
became  President  of  the  branch  store,  and 
several  years  afterward  purchased  the  in- 
terests of  the  other  stockholders,  and  conducted 
the  business  alone  for  a  number  of  years.  He  still 
owns  the  business,  but  has  turned  the  manage- 
ment of  it  over  to  his  son  Samuel.  He  has  also 
dealt  in  real  estate  from  time  to  time,  building 
a  number  of  houses,  and  at  this  time  has  thirty- 
five  good  building  lots  just  outside  the  city  limits. 

In  June,  1861,  he  was  ordained  a  Seventy  and 
a  member  of  the  Sixty-second  Quorum,  and  in 
March  of  the  next  year  was  called  upon  to  act 
as  First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Moon  of  the  First 
Ward.  This  necessitated  his  being  ordained  a 
High  Priest  and  givine  up  his  membership  in  the 
Seventies.  Desiring  to  retain  his  membership  in 
that  body,  he  received  permission  from  President 
Brigham  Young  to  act  as  Counselor  without  be- 
ing ordained  High  Priest,  and  retained  his  mem- 
bership in  the  Seventies  until  1870.  At  that  time 
Bishop  Moon  moved  out  of  the  Ward  and  our 
subject  was  ordained  High  Priest  and  set  apart 


as  Bishop  of  the  Ward,  which  position  he  still 
retains,  his  Counselors  being  John  T.  Thorup  and 
Niels  Rasmussen.  In  May,  1895,  he  began  work 
in  the  Temple,  and  after  completing  the  work  for 
the  deceased  members  of  his  own  family,  he  was 
set  apart  by  President  Snow  as  a  worker  in  the 
Temple,  where  he  still  works  four  days  of  each 
week.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  the  First  Ward 
since  October  2,  i860,  since  which  time  he  has 
devoted  himself  to  the  work  of  the  Church. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  never  as- 
pired to  office.  Beginning  in  1861,  he  was  for 
several  years  a  Captain  in  the  militia,  under  com- 
mand of  General  Burton. 


UGH  D.  PARK  came  here  with  the  sec- 
ond company  of  pioneers  in  1847,  when 
a  very  small  boy,  and  from  that  time 
forward  for  many  years  his  life  was 
one  of  severe  toil  and  close  privation. 
He  has  not  only  been  one  of  the  noble  band  who 
began  at  the  bottom  under  the  most  discouraging 
circumstances  and  transformed  the  barren  and 
desert  wilderness  into  a  State  of  exceptional  fer- 
tility and  beauty,  but  in  this  stupendous  task  he 
has  laid  his  health  upon  the  altar  of  his  Church 
and  State,  and  now  in  his  mature  manhood,  when 
he  should  not  yet  think  of  growing  old  for  many 
years  to  come,  he  is  wrecked  in  health  and  unable 
to  enjoy  the  affluence  which  has  come  to  his  fam- 
ily through  his  industry  and  frugality.  However, 
illness  has  not  soured  his  disposition,  but  rather 
made  him  the  more  gentle  and  considerate,  and 
while  surrounded  by  all  that  love  of  wife  and 
children,  or  that  money  can  procure  for  his  com- 
fort, he  is  spending  his  life  in  the  secure  knowl- 
edge of  having  faithfully  earned  all  the  honors 
and  wealth  that  have  come  to  him,  and  is  en- 
titled to  the  deepest  gratitude  of  the  citizens  of 
Utah  for  the  part  he  has  played  in  this  grand 
achievement. 

Mr.  Park  was  born  in  Canada  in  1840,  and  is 
the  son  of  William  and  Jane  (Duncan)  Park, 
both  of  whom  were  born  in  Scotland  and  emi- 
grated to  Canada  in  1821.  In  1846  the  family 
came  to  the  United  States,  and  crossed  the  plains 


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to  Utah  in  1847  with  the  second  company  of 
pioneers,  under  the  guidance  of  Captain  John 
Taylor,  who  had  command  of  the  train.  They 
arrived  in  the  Salt  Lake  valley  on  October  2nd, 
and  that  winter  and  the  following  year  lived  in 
the  Old  Fort,  which  had  been  erected  for  the 
protection  of  the  people  against  the  raids  of  wild 
animals  and  the  no  less  savage  Indians.  In  the 
spring  of  1849  they  moved  to  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
where  the  father  had  taken  up  some  government 
land,  and  this  forms  a  part  of  the  homestead 
owned  by  the  subject  at  this  time.  The  first  home 
of  the  family  was  an  adobe  house,  which  stood 
until  after  the  death  of  the  parents,  and  has  since 
been  replaced  by  a  handsome  modern  residence, 
where  Mr.  Park  makes  his  home.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  died  at  the  old  home  in  October, 
1873,  and  the  father  died  there  March  11,  1890. 

Owing  to  the  necessity  for  each  member  of  the 
family  to  aid  in  the  family  maintenance,  and  to 
the  crude  nature  of  the  schools  which  first  ex- 
isted in  Utah,  the  education  of  our  subject  was 
of  a  naturally  limited  nature.  His  life  was  spent 
in  much  the  same  manner  as  that  of  other  sons 
of  pioneers,  working  on  the  farm,  herding  stock 
and  doing  the  chores  about  the  place  until  he  was 
of  an  age  to  undertake  heavier  duties,  and  it  was 
largely  owing  to  his  ambition  to  accomplish  much 
and  do  the  work  of  the  men,  lumbering  in  the 
canyons,  and  doing  other  heavy  work,  that  his 
health  is  today  impaired.  He  saved  his  scanty 
earnings,  and  from  titne  to  time  invested  them  in 
land  or  sheep,  and  gradually  passed  from  a  state 
of  poverty  and  at  times  almost  absolute  want,  to 
one  of  affluence,  in  which  no  reasonable  wish  of 
his  or  his  family  might  not  be  gratified.  In  addi- 
tion to  his  home  place,  he  has  four  other  fine 
houses  and  lots,  which  he  rents,  and  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  acres  of  valuable  farming  land 
in  this  Ward.  He  has  been  largely  interested  in 
the  sheep  industry,  and  his  sons  are  now  in  that 
line. 

Mr.  Park  was  married  on  November  26,  1862, 
to  Miss  Agnes  Hill,  a  daughter  of  Alexander  and 
Agnes  Hill.  Nine  of  the  children  born  of  this 
marriage  are  living— Wiliiam  H.,  Agnes,  now 
the  wife  of  Edward  Margan ;  Alexander  J., 
Laura,  now  Mrs.   Charles  Smith ;  Hugh,  James, 


Raymond,  John,  and  Lillian  F.  The  last  three 
named  are  at  home  with  their  parents.  The  fourth 
child,  Jane,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine  years. 

He  is  in  political  belief  a  staunch  adherent  of 
the  Republican  principles,  and  has  never  lost  an 
opportunity  to  cast  his  vote  since  reaching  his 
majority. 

Mr.  Park  joined  the  Mormon  Church  at  the 
tender  age  of  seven  years,  and  since  then  has 
been  a  true  and  consistent  follower  of  its  teach- 
ings, but  owing  to  his  broken  health  has  not  been 
called  upon  to  take  part  in  the  active  work  of  the 
Church.  Mrs.  Park  has  also  been  a  member  since 
childhood,  having  been  baptized  at  the  age  of 
eight  years,  and  is  one  of  the  charter  members  of 
the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  of  her  Ward.  The 
daughter,  Lillian,  is  a  member  of  the  Young  La- 
dies' Mutual  Improvement  Society. 

About  fifteen  years  ago  Mr.  Park  suffered  from 
a  severe  attack  of  nervous  prostration,  compli- 
cated with  rheumatism,  and  has  never  regained 
his  health,  being  at  this  time  an  invalid  and  prac- 
tically helpless. 


OLOMON  F.  KIMBALL,  the  son  of 
Apostle  Heber  C.  Kimball,  a  sketch  of 
whose  life  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work,  was  born  in  Winter  Quarters, 
Nebraska,  in  1847,  during  the  migration 
of  his  parents  from  Nauvoo  to  Utah,  and  when 
the  family  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  their  son 
Solomon  was  just  one  year  old.  He  spent  his 
boyhood  days  here,  and  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  the  city,  and  he  resided  here  until 
the  death  of  his  father  in  1868.  His  father  had 
been  one  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  his  children  were  reared  in 
that  faith.  His  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
has  followed  in  his  father's  footsteps,  and  has 
taken  a  wide  and  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of 
the  Mormon  Church.  In  1869,  when  he  was 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  he  was  called  to  go  to 
Bear  Lake  Valley  on  a  mission,  with  others,  to 
assist  in  settling  that  country.  He  returned  to 
Salt  Lake  City  upon  the  completion  of  the  work 
there,  and  remained  here  until  1877,  when  he  was 


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again  called  on  a  mission,  this  time  to  Arizona, 
in  company  with  his  brother  David,  and  remained 
in  that  Territory  for  nine  years,  assisting  in  mak- 
ing the  first  settlement  at  Mesa  City,  in  Salt 
River  Valley  and  building  up  the  Church  settle- 
ment there.  He  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1886,  and  secured  employment  as  the  City  Jailer, 
which  position  he  has  held  ever  since,  with  the 
exception  of  a  term  of  four  years. 

Mr.  Kimball  was  married  in  Arizona  in  1881 
to  Miss  Ursulia  Pomeroy,  daughter  of  Martin 
Pomeroy,  one  of  the  first  pioneers  to  come  to 
the  Salt  Lake  Valley  and  one  of  the  first  Bear 
Lake  expedition  to  settle  that  country.  He  erected 
the  first  saw  mill  in  that  valley,  and  was  one  of 
its  prominent  and  influential  men.  Mr.  Kimball's 
wife  died  in  1891.  By  this  marriage  he  had  seven 
children — Solomon  F.,  junior,  Roy  David  Pome- 
roy, Helen  Mary,  Heber  C,  Sarah  Vilate,  Vilate 
Murray  and  Murray  G.  Of  these  seven  children 
four  died  and  three  grew  to  maturity.  Mr.  Kim- 
ball was  married  in  1893  to  Miss  Caroline  Fillup, 
a  resident  of  Provo  and  daughter  of  Peter  Fillup, 
one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  that  region. 

Our  subject  has  participated  in  all  the  work 
which  has  been  done  in  settling  Utah,  and  in 
building  up  the  industries  of  the  State.  He  has 
been  through  all  the  troubles  with  the  Indians 
and  with  the  renegade  white  men,  and  through- 
out the  Black  Hawk  War,  in  1866,  was  actively 
engaged  in  operations  against  the  Indians.  His 
brother,  Heber  P.  Kimball,  was  in  charge  of 
the  force  from  Utah,  being  placed  in  command 
in  1865  in  southern  Utah  by  President  Young, 
and  served  throughout  the  entire  time  the  con- 
flict lasted.  Our  subject  went  out  with  that  force 
on  May  11,  1866,  and  remained  there  all  that 
summer.  The  command  lost  but  two  men  in  the 
engagement  with  the  Indians.  In  the  work  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  in  addition  to  being  absent 
on  important  missions,  our  subject  is  now  a  High 
Priest.  In  political  life  he  was  a  strong  adherent 
of  the  Democratic  party  until  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can war,  when  he  changed  to  the  Republican 
party,  whose  doctrines  he  has  since  followed,  and 
he  is  now  almost  the  only  Republican  in  his 
family. 

The   Kimball   familv  is  one  of  the  oldest  and 


most  important  in  Utah,  and  were  natives  of  Ver- 
mont, in  America,  their  forefathers  being  natives 
of  England.  The  first  Kimball  to  settle  in  this 
country  was  Richard,  who  was  born  in  Rattles- 
den,  Suffolk  county,  England,  in  1595,  and  he 
came  to  America  in  1634  and  settled  in  Massa- 
chusetts. He  was  the  fourth  great  grandfather 
of  Heber  C.  Kitnball,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  The  prominent  part  which  Heber  C. 
Kimball  took  in  the  Church  left  a  striking  ex- 
ample to  his  sons,  and  his  career  has  been  dupli- 
cated, to  a  large  extent,  by  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  He  has  won  for  himself  a  prominent  place 
in  that  organization,  and  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  trust  of  its  leaders,  and  his  integrity  and 
ability  have  won  for  him  the  respect  and  esteem 
of  all  the  citizens  of  Utah. 


k. 


OSEPH  A.  SILVER,  Secretary,  Treas- 
urer and  General  Manager  of  the  Silver 
Brothers  Iron  Foundry  and  Machine 
Company,  and  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent business  men  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  1857,  and 
came  to  Utah  with  his  parents  when  only  three 
and  a  half  years  old,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  most  of  the  time  working  in 
his  father's  shop.  He  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later  in  the  Deseret  Uni- 
versity, now  theUniversity  of  Utah.  When  he  was 
seventeen  years  old  he  started  on  his  business 
career,  and  the  successful  establishment  which 
he  and  his  brothers  have  erected  through  their 
own  efforts  and  by  the  exercise  of  their  ability 
and  industry,  makes  him  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent business  men  in  Utah,  and  their  foundry  the 
largest  one  in  the  inter-mountain  region.  From  a 
very  small  beeinning  this  establishment  has  grown 
into  large  proportions ;  employing  in  the  begin- 
ning no  one  except  the  three  brothers,  it  now 
affords  employment  to  over  one  hundred  men, 
and  its  reputation  has  spread  from  the  confines 
of  Salt  Lake  City  throughout  the  entire  West. 
Its  success  has  been  achieved,  not  through  any 
lucky  chance,  or  through  financial  backing,  but 
by  the  unflagging  industry  and  application  which 
these  three  brothers  brought  to  the  performance 


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of  the  tasks  which  confronted  them   in  making 
their  business  a  success. 

The  first  work  which  our  subject  did  was  in 
the  carpenter  trade,  which  he  followed  for  eight 
months,  later  securing  employment  in  the  mill- 
wright department  of  the  Ontario  Alill,  and  there 
he  devoted  a  like  period,  later  being  promoted  and 
put  in  charge  of  the  machinery  of  the  mill,  and 
then  acting  as  its  Superintendent  for  over  three 
years.  He  resigned  this  position  and  returned  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  for  eight  months  was 
engaged  in  building  his  home  at  No.  633  North 
First  West,  and  also  working  for  his  father  in 
the  foundry.  After  remaining  two  years  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  he  returned  to  West  Jordan,  bordering 
on  the  Sandy  District,  and  took  charge  of  all  the 
smelters  and  machinery  of  the  different  works 
there,  giving  his  time  largely  to  the  care  of  the 
Telegraph  smelters  and  visiting  other  works.  He 
again  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  secured  a  posi- 
tion in  the  shops  of  the  Utah  Central  Railroad, 
where  he  remained  for  three  years,  leaving  there 
and  entering  the  service  of  the  Union  Pacific  Rail- 
road at  Logan,  where  he  was  made  foreman  of 
the  locomotive  department  of  that  company, 
where  he  remained  about  ten  months.  He 
resigned  this  position  to  accept  a  better  one 
on  the  Rio  Grande  ^^'estern,  in  the  same 
department  of  that  road  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
later  being  placed  in  entire  charge  of  that 
work.  He  returned  to  the  Utah  Central 
Railroad,  and  was  made  Assistant  Superintendent, 
but  resigned  that  position  two  years  later  to  take 
his  share  in  the  partnership  of  the  Silver  Broth- 
ers Iron  Works,  with  which  business  he  has  ever 
since  been  identified.  Much  of  this  city's  growth 
is  due  to  his  wide  experience  in  the  iron  business 
and  to  the  capacity  which  he  had  acquired  for 
the  handling  of  large  contracts  and  the  solving  of 
difficult  engineering  problems. 

He  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Miss  Mary 
Ellen  Watson,  daughter  of  Bishop  James  Wat- 
son, of  the  Nineteenth  Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
They  have  one  son,  James,  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  now  absent  in  New  Zealand  on  a  mission  for 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints. 
The  other  membersof  the  familyare  Mary.Leona, 
Joseph  W.,  John  W.,  Clarence  W.,  Watson;  one 


daughter,  Gertrude,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three 
years,  and  William,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  also 
Moralie  W.  Our  subject  has  always  been  identi- 
fied with  the  Mormon  Church,  and  has  taken  a 
prominent  part  in  its  work,  and  has  also  been  one 
of  the  seven  Presidents  of  the  Thirtieth  Quorum 
of  Seventies,  but  was  later  transferred  to  the  same 
position  of  the  One  Hundredth  Quorum,  which 
position  he  continues  to  fill. 


\RD  E.  PACK.  In  reviewing  the 
history  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  from  the  time 
it  was  first  started  by  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith  down  to  the  present 
time,  and  the  lives  of  the  men  who  have  guided 
its  destinies  and  presided  over  its  affairs,  it  forms 
a  most  interesting  chapter  in  the  annals  of  Ameri- 
can history.  The  planting  of  the  Church  in  Mis- 
souri and  Illinois ;  the  building  of  the  Temple  at 
Xauvoo  ;  the  period  of  prosperity  ;  the  final  expul- 
sion :  tile  westward  march  across  the  plains  to 
Utah ;  the  early  hardships  endured  by  the  pio- 
neers, and  the  wonderful  progress  which  has  been 
made  under  the  most  difficult  and  trying  circum- 
stances in  this  new  country,  will  ever  be  a  tribute 
to  the  memory  of  those  whose  lives  have  been 
spent  in  its  service.  Among  the  strong  advocates 
of  the  doctrines  and  principles  taught  by  the 
Church,  Ward  E.  Pack  ranks  among  the  highest. 
Our  subject  was  born  in  Watertown,  New 
York,  April  17,  1834.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and 
Julia  ( Ives)  Pack.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Saint  John's,  New  Brunswick,  and  was  born  in 
1809.  He  located  in  Watertown,  New  York, 
when  a  young  man,  and  in  1836  became  a  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church  at  that  place.  He  moved 
to  Kirkland,  Ohio,  in  1838,  and  went  with  the 
Saints  to  Far  West,  Missouri,  from  where  they 


were  driven  out  by 
Pike  county,  Illinios, 
moved  into  Hancock 
witnessed  the  growth 
voo,  taking  part  in 
Temple  at  that  place. 


a  mob  and  settled  in 
for  a  year.  He  then 
county,  that  State,  and 
of  the  town  of  Nau- 
the  building  of  the 
He  went  with  the  main 


body  of  the  Church  to  Winter  Quarters  in  li 


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and  came  to  Utah  in  the  first  train  of  one  hundred 
and  forty-three  men  and  three  women,  under  com- 
mand of  Brigham  Young,  and  was  one  of  the  few 
who  came  into  the  valley  before  the  main  body  of 
emigrants.  He  located  in  what  is  now  the  Sev- 
enteenth Ward  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  began  cut- 
ting timber  for  a  house.  He  got  his  home  ready 
that  fall,  and  returned  to  Winter  Quarters  and 
brought  his  family  out  the  following  spring.  He 
built  the  first  dance  hall  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
it  was  in  that  room  that  the  first  store  was  opened 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  by  Kincaid  &  Livingston.  Mr. 
Pack  later  took  up  a  farm  in  Farmington,  Davis 
county,  but  remained  there  only  one  year,  when 
he  sold  out  and  took  up  a  farm  at  West  Bountiful, 
in  the  same  county.  His  family  continued  to  re- 
side in  Salt  Lake  during  this  time.  In  1849  he 
went  with  a  company  over  the  plains  to  Omaha, 
and  from  there  went  to  France,  where  he  spent 
three  years  in  missionary  work,  laboring  a  part 
of  the  time  on  the  Channel  Islands.  Upon  his 
return  home  he  again  took  up  his  farm  work  in 
West  Bountiful,  and  lived  there  until  1861,  at 
which  time  he  came  to  what  is  now  Kamas,  and 
constructed  the  first  saw  mill  in  Beaver  Canyon, 
taking  up  land  and  bringing  part  of  his  family 
here.  The  remainder  of  his  life  was  spent  be- 
tween Kamas  and  Salt  Lake,  and  he  became  an 
active  figure  in  the  public  life  of  the  State,  hav- 
ing large  interests  in  farming  land  and  in  stock, 
and  was  one  of  the  leading  spirits  in  the  Deseret 
Fair  Association.  He  was  also  prominent  in 
Church  work,  being  President  of  the  Eighth  Quo- 
rum of  the  Seventies  from  the  days  of  Nauvoo 
up  to  1875,  and  was  then  ordained  a  High  Priest, 
which  position  he  held  to  the  time  of  his  death 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  April  4,  1886.  He  had  five 
wives,  three  of  whom  are  now  living,  and  was 
the  father  of  forty-three  children,  of  which  num- 
ber thirty-nine  are  now  living. 

Our  subject  came  to  Utah  with  his  parents  in 
1848,  and  obtained  his  education  in  this  State. 
He  remained  at  home  until  1853,  when,  at  the 
age  of  nineteen  years,  he  was  married  to  Eliza- 
beth Still,  who  died  in  1878,  leaving  no  family. 
The  year  following  his  marriage  Mr.  Pack  was 
called  on  a  mission  to  the  Sandwich  Islands, 
where    he    spent   three    years    and   nine   months, 


laboring  on  five  of  the  largest  islands  of  the 
group  and  presiding  over  the  Conference  of  the 
Islands  of  Hawaii  and  Kauai.  He  returned  to 
Salt  Lake  City  in  1858,  and  three  years  later 
moved  to  Kamas  with  his  family,  taking  up  gov- 
ernment land,  and  followed  farming  and  stock 
raising.  He  made  a  trip  across  the  plains  in 
1862,  and  assisted  in  bringing  a  company  of 
emigrants  to  Utah,  and  in  1876  was  again  called 
on  a  mission  to  the  Sandwich  Islands,  where  he 
remained  twenty-two  months  as  President  of  the 
mission,  having  charge  over  the  whole  of  the 
islands  and  superintending  the  sugar  plantations 
belonging  to  the  Church.  In  1869  he  went  on  a 
mission  to  New  York,  and  in  company  with  his 
parents  spent  some  time  visiting  old  friends.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  and  became  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Kamas  Co-operative  Mercantile  In- 
stitution, which  position  he  filled  for  a  number  of 
years.  In  1889  he  went  on  his  third  and  last  mis- 
sion to  the  Sandwich  Islands,  where  he  again 
had  charge  of  the  sugar  plantation. 

Mr.  Pack  has  had  four  wives.  His  second  wife 
was  Laura  Cravath,  who  is  still  living.  She  was 
the  mother  of  ten  children — Ward  E.,  junior; 
^Marvin  E.,  of  the  police  department.  Salt  Lake 
City ;  Leon  R.,  living  in  Vernal ;  Ella  E.,  died  at 
age  of  thirteen  years;  Julia  V.,  who  died  when 
sixteen  years  of  age;  Mary  Agnes,  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Ingham;  John  Austin,  Grace  E.,  Pearl  I. 
and  L.  E.  His  third  wife  was  Agnes  Lowry, 
who  bore  him  seven  children,  four  of  whom  are 
living — George  W. ;  Agnes  B.,  wife  of  F.  Young; 
James  O.,  and  Margaret  Ann,  now  Mrs.  Richard 
Fowler  of  Vernal.  His  fourth  wife  was  Salena 
Carpenter.  By  her  he  had  two  children — Wehrli 
D.,  born  in  1889  on  the  Sandwich  Islands,  and 
Jesse  G. 

Mr.  Pack  has  always  been  an  ardent  believer 
in  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party  and  quite 
active  in  public  life  in  his  community.  His  first 
public  office  was  that  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  at 
Kamas,  and  he  later  served  for  two  terms  as  a 
Selectman  of  that  county.  He  was  four  years 
Probate  Judge  of  Summit  county,  and  in  1876 
a  member  of  the  Territorial  Legislature,  and  was 
again  sent  to  the  Legislature  after  his  second  mis- 
sion to  the  Sandwich  Islands.    He  has  also  taken 


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an  active  part  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  irriga- 
tion in  that  valley,  and  assisted  in  building  many 
of  the  canals  and  ditches  in  Summit  county. 

Mr.  Pack  has  been  active  in  local  Church  mat- 
ters, and  held  a  number  of  offices  in  the  Priest- 
hood. He  was  baptized  in  the  Temple  at  Nauvoo 
in  1842;  ordained  an  Elder  in  1854  and  attached 
to  the  Eighth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  In  1879  he 
was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set  apart  as 
Second  Counselor  to  President  W.  W.  Clufif  of 
the  Summit  Stake,  serving  in  that  capacity  until 
1901,  when  the  Stake  was  reorganized  and  he 
became  President  of  the  High  Priests'  Quorum 
of  Summit  Stake,  which  position  he    still  holds. 

Mr.  Pack  has  been  one  of  the  most  earnest  and 
indefatigable  workers  in  the  Church  during  his 
long  life,  and  has  had  many  positions  of  trust  and 
honor  conferred  upon  him,  not  only  in  the  Church, 
but  by  the  citizens  of  his  community.  His  life, 
both  public  and  private,  has  been  such  as  to  win 
the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  who  have  known 
him,  and  today  he  is  one  of  the  best  known  and 
most  popular  men  in  Summit  county. 


ILLIAM  G.  TIMMINS.  In  Salt 
Lake  county  there  are  perhaps  few 
better  known  men  who  have  devoted 
their  lives  to  fanning,  than  is  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  William  G. 
Timmins.  He  was  born  in  Staffordshire,  Eng- 
land, in  1829.  He  is  the  son  of  Richard  and 
Mary  (Richmond)  Timmins,  and  spent  his  early 
life  in  England,  and  lived  there  until  i860,  when 
he  emigrated  to  America,  and  crossed  the  plains 
by  ox  team  from  Florence,  Nebraska,  under  Ira 
Eldredge,  who  was  Captain  of  the  wagon  train, 
and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  Valley  on  September 
15,  i860.  ]\Ir.  Timmins  resided  in  Salt  Lake  but 
a  few  days,  and  removed  to  Bountiful,  and  from 
there  removed,  a  short  time  later,  to  Sugar  House 
Ward,  where  he  took  up  his  permanent  residence, 
and  in  the  employment  of  the  Church  in  conduct- 
ing a  nail  factory.  He  prospered  so  well  with  this 
industry  that  he  was  enabled  to  purchase  a  home 
in  Sugar  House  Ward,  where  he  lived  for  twenty- 
eight  years.     He  came  to   Mill   Creek  Ward   in 


1889,  and  purchased  a  home  at  the  corner  of  Ninth 
East  and  Fourteenth  South  streets.  The  home- 
stead comprised  twenty  acres,  and  on  it  he  built 
a  comfortable  brick  residence  for  himself,  and  has 
also  built  a  good  house  for  his  son,  who  now  man- 
ages the  farm  for  his  father. 

In  1864  Mr.  Timmins  sent  for  his  parents,  and 
they  emigrated  to  America  and  crossed  the  plains. 
The  journey  which  they  made  from  the  outposts 
of  civilization  was  one  of  the  hardest  which  any 
of  the  emigrants  ever  undertook,  and  so  severe 
were  the  privations  and  hardships  which  they  un- 
derwent that  they  resulted  in  the  death  of  Mr. 
Timmins'  father,  and  his  mother  died  the  follow- 
ing year,  her  death  being  superinduced  by  the 
dreadful  experiences  which  she  had  undergone  in 
crossing  the  plains. 

Our 'subject  was  married  in  England,  in  1853, 
to  Miss  Emma  Jane  Lewis,  daughter  of  George 
and  ]\Iargaret  Lewis.  By  this  marriage  they  have 
had  nine  children,  four  of  whom  are  now  living — 
William  W.,  a  locomotive  engineer  in  Southern 
California;  Frederick  M.,  in  Salt  Lake  City; 
David  E.,  engaged  in  ranching  in  Wyoming; 
Edwin  T.,  on  the  farm  at  home. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Timmins  is  a  believer  in  the 
Republican  principles,  and  has  been  a  member  of 
that  party  since  its  formation  in  this  State.  He 
has  been  Road  Supervisor  of  Salt  Lake  county  for 
five  years,  and  by  his  work  in  the  party  is  re- 
o-arded  as  one  of  the  most  able  men  in  Salt  Lake 
county.  The  present  position  which  Mr.  Timmms 
has  achieved  has  been  due  entirely  to  his  untiring 
energy  and  to  the  perseverance  which  he  has 
brought  to  the  overcoming  of  the  difficulties  which 
have  presented  themselves  in  his  travels  through 
life.  When  he  arrived  in  Utah  he  had  a  capital 
of  five  dollars,  and  not  only  had  to  secure  em- 
ployment in  order  to  maintain  himself,  but  had  to 
provide  at  once  a  means  for  his  livelihood.  He 
took  whatever  work  presented  itself,  and  did  with 
all  his  might  whatever  his  hands  found  to  do.  He 
found  employment  in  helping  to  haul  the  material 
used  in  the  erection  of  Fort  Douglas,  and  was 
also  one  of  the  contractors  who  built  a  good  many 
of  the  buildings  of  Salt  Lake  and  vicinity.  He 
aided  in  getting  out  timbers  in  the  mountains,  to 
be  used  in  the  erection  of  manv  of  the  old  build- 


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ings,  and  also  assisted  in  the  erection  of  those 
structures.  He  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  development  of  this  county,  and  espe- 
cially of  the  region  where  he  is  now  located,  and 
throughout  his  life  has  ever  had  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  all  the  people  with  whom  he  has 
resided. 


EORGE  WEBSTER.  Among  the  men 
who  came  to  Utah  in  their  youth  and 
have  since  identified  themselves  with 
her  history,  giving  their  best  thought 
and  endeavor  to  the  building  up  and 
promoting  of  many  laudable  enterprises,  and  from 
small  beginnings  fostering  gigantic  business  en- 
terprises, that  will  not  only  redound  to  the  good 
of  the  State  at  large,  but  stand  as  a  lasting  monu- 
ment to  their  skill  and  financial  ability,  none  are 
more  worthy  of  special  mention  than  is  George 
Webster,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

He  was  born  in  1836,  in  Bedfordshire,  England, 
and  is  the  son  of  William  and  Hannah  (Day) 
Webster,  both  natives  of  England.  They  had  a 
family  of  nine  children,  four  of  whom  died  in 
England.  When  our  subject,  who  was  the  oldest 
child,  was  nineteen  years  of  age,  the  family  emi- 
grated to  Utah,  and  crossed  the  plains  in  Milo 
Andrus'  company.  They  came  direct  to  Kays- 
ville,  and  settled  within  half  a  mile  of  the  place 
where  our  subject  now  lives,  the  father  taking 
up  a  quarter  section  of  government  land.  Here 
the  parents  lived  until  the  time  of  their  deaths 
in  1894,  the  husband  surviving  the  faithful  com- 
panion of  his  labors  by  only  eleven  months. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  the  city  of 
his  birth,  and  there  obtained  a  meagre  education, 
it  being  necessary  for  him  to  assist  in  obtaining 
the  means  of  support  for  the  large  family  of 
younger  children.  However,  he  was  of  a  natu- 
rally quick  turn  of  mind  and  ambitious  to  learn, 
as  a  result  of  which  he  has  educated  himself,  and 
is  at  this  time  a  fine  mathematician,  being  able 
to  work  out  a  problem  in  his  head  as  quick  as 
most  men  can  on  paper.  He  is  also  well  posted 
on  current  events  of  the  day,  keeping  abreast  of 
the  times  through  the  medium  of  the  newspapers. 


His  first  work  in  America  was  performed  at  Mor- 
mon Grove,  near  Atchison,  Kansas,  where  he 
drove  oxen  for  his  father  in  plowing  a  piece  of 
ground.  After  reaching  Kaysville  he  worked  for 
some  years  at  whatever  he  could  find,  saving  his 
earnings,  and  in  1869  was  able  to  buy  his  present 
place  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres.  At  the 
time  he  purchased  this  land  it  was  in  a  barren 
condition,  and  he  has  taken  great  pride  in  culti- 
vating and  improving  it,  bringing  it  up  to  its 
present  high  state  of  fertility  by  years  of  hard 
labor  and  unremitting  care.  He  also  bought  other 
land  from  time  to  time,  and  when  his  sons  mar- 
ried was  able  to  give  them  a  good  farm  and  estab- 
lish them  in  comfortable  homes.  He  also  branched 
out  in  the  cattle  and  sheep  business,  and  followed 
this  line  for  twenty  years,  in  addition  to  his  gen- 
eral farming,  accumulating  large  means,  and  be- 
came one  of  the  substantial  financial  men  of  Davis 
county. 

Like  his  father,  he  partook  of  the  early  hard- 
ships and  dangers  that  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  early 
settler,  and  participated  in  the  Black  Hawk  and 
other  Indian  wars.  He  was  one  of  those  who 
hauled  rock  for  the  Temple  at  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  has  been  active  in  many  enterprises  for  the 
advancement  of  both  Church  and  State. 

Mr.  Webster  was  married  in  May,  1859,  to 
Miss  Christiania  Helliett,  daughter  of  Luke  Hel- 
liett.  They  had  two  children— George  W.  and 
John  Alford — both  of  whom  are  at  this  time  en- 
gaged in  farming,  the  cattle  and  sheep  business 
in  this  place.  Mrs.  Webster  died  in  July,  1893. 
The  family  are  all  members  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  our  subject 
being  baptized  in  his  twenty-second  year,  and 
since  that  time  has  been  a  faithful  and  consistent 
worker  in  the  Church.  He  has  filled  the  office  of 
High  Priest  for  the  past  ten  years,  and  has  at  all 
times  stood  ready  and  willing  to  extend  a  help- 
ing hand  to  those  of  his  faith  who  are  in  need 
of  assistance.  Mr.  Webster  is  a  man  of  domestic 
tastes,  and  is  never  so  happy  as  when  seated  at 
his  own  fireside,  surrounded  by  his  family,  or 
busy  about  his  farm,  in  which  he  takes  great  pride. 
He  began  life  without  means,  but  with  a  firm  be- 
lief in  his  ability  to  succeed,  and  has  made  step- 
ping-stones of  difficulties  that  would  have  proven 


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insurmountable  obstacles  to  another  man.  While 
he  has  accumulated  wealth  to  himself,  he  has  not 
been  unmindful  of  his  less  fortunate  brother,  and 
has  drawn  around  him  a  large  circle  of  warm 
friends  through  the  exercise  of  his  charitable  and 
hospitable  nature,  winning  and  retaining  the  es- 
teem and  confidence  of  the  entire  community  by 
his  honorable  and  straightforward  dealings. 


@^^ 


HOMAS  J.  SMITH.  In  1868  Thomas 
Smith,  aged  eleven,  and  his  brother  Al- 
exander, aged  fourteen,  came  to  America 
in  the  care  of  Bishop  Preston.  They 
found  their  way  towards  Utah  as  far  as 
old  Fort  Benton,  and  from  there  the  two  children 
made  their  way  to  Salt  Lake  City  by  ox  team 
in  a  train  of  sixty-two  wagons,  each  being  fur- 
nished with  from  three  to  ten  oxen.  By  dint  of 
hard  work,  herding,  saving  up  all  the  wages  they 
made,  and  close  buying  of  stock,  they  have  worked 
themselves  up  to  a  place  among  the  substantial 
stockmen  of  Davis  county. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Elsemere  Port,  Eng- 
land, ten  miles  from  Liverpool,  on  December  24, 
1856.  He  is  a  son  of  William  and  Nancy  Ann 
(Turner)  Smith,  the  former  a  native  of  Scotland 
and  the  latter  of  Manchester,  England.  They 
lived  in  Elsemere  Port  until  our  subject  was  about 
four  years  old,  and  then  moved  to  Liverpool.  The 
father  and  mother  came  to  America  the  year  after 
their  boys  did,  waiting  till  the  railroad  was  fin- 
ished as  far  west  as  Ogden.  They  came  with  the 
first  company  of  emigrants  who  came  to  Utah  by 
rail.  The  family  settled  in  Kaysville  in  1869,  and 
the  mother  died  there  January  24,  1878,  and  the 
father  on  November  17,  1901. 

In  March,  1891,  Mr.  Smith  married  Amanda 
L.  Nance,  a  daughter  of  James  and  Mary  Nance. 
They  have  three  children — Mary  A.,  Elizabeth  R. 
and  William  J.  Mrs.  Smith  was  born  in  Wilks- 
burgh.  North  Carolina,  and  her  folks  came  to 
Utah  in  1888. 

Thomas  J.  Smith  has  lived  at  Kaysville  ever 
since  he  came  to  Utah.  Seventeen  years  ago  he 
branched  out  into  the  sheep  business,  herding 
sheep  and  buying  as  he  could.     Now  he  has  a 


large  sheep  business  and  ranges  in  Idaho.  About 
three  years  ago  he  built  a  handsome  nine-room 
two-story  brick  home,  half  a  mile  north  of  Kays- 
ville, where  he  has  ninety  acres  of  fine  farming 
land. 

In  politics  Mr.  Smith  is  a  Republican.  He  was 
born  and  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith,  and  has 
been  lately  called  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern 
States.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Re- 
lief Society  of  Kaysville  Ward. 

In  addition  to  his  other  interests  in  Kaysville, 
Mr.  Smith  is  connected  with  the  Kaysville  Can- 
ning Company,  in  which  he  is  a  Director,  and  also 
owns  a  controlling  interest,  being  the  largest 
stockholder  in  the  concern. 


TEPHEN  HENRY  NALDER.  The 
name  of  Stephen  Henry  Nalder  is  in- 
(lissoluably  associated  with  a  great  many 
of  the  enterprises  which  contribute 
to  the  prosperity  and  progress  of 
Davis  county.  He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah, 
having  been  born  in  South  Cottonwood  Ward, 
Salt  Lake  county,  December  16,  1855,  and 
is  the  son  of  Stephen  and  Esther  (New) 
Nalder.  His  parents  were  natives,  of  En- 
gland, where  they  were  married,  and  where 
their  first  child,  William  New,  was  born.  They 
emigrated  to  America  in  1853,  coming  direct  to 
Utah,  remaining  in  Salt  Lake  City  the  first  winter, 
after  which  they  went  to  South  Cottonwood, 
where  they  lived  for  two  years.  They  next  moved 
to  Kaysville,  settling  near  the  place  where  our 
subject  now  lives.  While  crossing  the  plains, 
their  only  daughter,  Elizabeth,  died,  and  our 
subject  and  his  older  brother  are  the  only  mem- 
bers of  the  family  now  living.  Stephen  Nalder 
was  a  tailor  by  trade  and  followed  his  trade  dur- 
ing the  winters,  devoting  the  summers  to  his  farm 
of  eighty  acres.  He  died  in  the  eighties  and  his 
wife  died  in  1898. 

Our  subject  remained  at  home  until  his  father's 
death.  He  married  in  November,  1877,  to  Miss 
Catherine  Forbes,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary 
Forbes,  and  of  this  marriage  seven  children  have 
lieen  the  result, — Mary  E. ;  Catherine  P. ;  Mar- 


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garet  E. ;  James  S. ;  Elizabeth  Jane ;  Hacel  Wil- 
liam, and  Joseph  Phillip. 

Mr.  Nalder  established  his  present  home  about 
twenty-two  years  ago.  He  has  a  fine  farm  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  well  improved 
land,  on  which  he  has  a  handsome  residence,  good 
barns,  outbuildings,  etc.  He  is  also  largely  in- 
terested in  cattle  and  sheep.  Mr.  Nalder  began 
herding  sheep  for  his  father  and  by  economy  and 
perseverance  gradually  accumulated  means 
enough  to  buy  sheep  on  his  own  account,  and  is 
today  one  of  the  best  known  business  men  in 
his  locality.  He  is  a  public  spirited  man  and 
aside  from  his  home  interests  is  also  a  stock- 
holder and  director  in  the  Farmers'  Union  Store, 
which  he  was  instrumental  in  establishing. 

He  also  owns  an  interest  in  the  Layton  Roller 
Mills,  and  in  the  dairy  business,  and  is  regarded 
as  one  of  the  most  energetic  and  wide-awake 
business  men  of  his  section.  He  has  won  his  own 
way  in  the  world,  and  the  success  that  has  come 
to  him  has  been  due  to  his  untiring  energy  and 
perseverance.  He  has  been  an  upright,  honest 
man,  always  trying  to  give  every  man  his  just 
due,  and  occupies  a  high  place  in  the  esteem  of 
those  who  come  in  contact  with  him.  Mr.  Nalder 
and  his  family  are  all  staunch  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  in  whose  work  they  are  actively 
interested. 


I  SHOP  JAMES  DEVALSON  CUM- 
MINGS.  In  the  entire  Salt  Lake 
county  there  is  no  man  who  occupies 
a  higher  position  in  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  the  leaders  of  the  Mormon 
Church  than  does  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He 
is  one  of  the  men  who  have  been  born  in  Utah 
and  who  have  aided  in  its  growth  by  the  work  of 
their  hands  and  by  the  application  of  the  re- 
sources they  found  to  the  building  up  of  this 
inter-mountain  region.  He  has  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  work  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  he  now  holds  the  position  of  Bishop  of  Wil- 
ford  Ward  through  his  untiring  application  to 
the  work  entrusted  to  him  and  his  devotion  to 
the  cause  which  he  believes  is  the  true  one. 


He  was  born  in  Willard,  Box  Elder  county, 
Utah,  September  30,  1859,  and  is  a  son  of  Benja- 
min F.  and  Mary  Jane  (Yearsley)  Cummings. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Maine,  being  born  in 
that  State  on  March  3,  1821,  and  his  mother  was 
born  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  Febru- 
ary 18,  1838.  The  Cummings  family  are  one  of 
the  old  settlers  of  the  United  States,  his  grand- 
father, James  Cummings,  Junior,  having  been 
born  in  Massachusetts  on  January  26,  1780,  and 
his  great  grandfather,  James  Cummings,  was  a 
native  of  Dunstable  township,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  born  May  26,  1759;  and  his  father, 
Oliver,  was  born  in  the  same  State  on  April  10, 
1728;  still  another  ancestor  back,  Nathaniel  Cum- 
mings, was  born  in  Massachusetts  on  September 
8,  1699,  and  the  ancestors  of  these  came  on  the 
Mayflower.  The  old  home  of  the  Cummings 
family  was  in  Plymouth,  where  the  first  of  the 
family  had  settled  upon  their  migration  from 
Great  Britain,  and  a  portion  of  the  family  still 
reside  in  that  State.  Our  subject's  father  left 
Maine  and  removed  to  Ohio  when  a  young  man, 
and  from  there  to  Missouri,  and  then,  following 
the  migration  of  the  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  to  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  came  from  that  place 
upon  the  expulsion  of  the  members  of  the  Church 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  arriving  here  with  the  second 
company  of  pioneers  who  crossed  the  plains  in 
1847.  W'hen  the  evacuation  of  the  members  of 
the  Church  from  Nauvoo  took  place,  Mr.  Cum- 
mings' father  was  absent  on  a  mission,  and  ar- 
rived at  Nauvoo  the  day  after  the  killing  of  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith  at  Carthage.  Our  sub- 
ject's father  was  also  associated  with  President 
Brigham  Young  and  with  the  leading  men  of  the 
Church.  From  that  time  until  his  death,  on  Oc- 
tober 22,  1899,  he  was  one  of  the  most  active  and 
faithful  members  of  the  Church,  and  enjoyed  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  the  leaders  of  that 
Church.  Upon  coming  to  Utah  he  lived  for  a 
short  time  in  Box  Elder  county,  and  removed 
from  there  to  Ogden,  and  then  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  1865,  where  he  resided  until  the  time  of  his 
death.  His  wife,  Mary  Jane  (Yearslev)  Cum- 
mings, is  still  living,  and  makes  her  home  with 
her  son,  the  Bishop.  Her  parents,  David  Dutton 
and  Mary  Ann   (Hoopse)  Yearsley,  are  still  liv- 


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ing  in  Salt  Lake  City  at  the  age  of  ninety-one. 

Our  subject,  Bishop  Cummings,  spent  his  early 
life  in  Salt  Lake  Valley,  and  was  married,  March 
4,  1880,  to  Miss  Louisa  Cufley,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam and  Jennett  (Irvine)  Cufley.  Her  parents 
came  to  Utah  in  the  early  days  of  the  migration 
to  this  State,  and  were  influential  and  prominent 
people  in  the  locality  in  which  they  settled.  By 
this  marriage  Bishop  Cummings  had  eight  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  still  living — William  D., 
a  brick-maker,  was  born  June  30,  1881 ;  Franklin 
David,  was  born  November  13,  1882;  Kufus  Le 
Roy,  was  born  September  28,  1886,  and  died  an 
infant,  his  death  occurring  on  October  loth  of 
that  year;  Horace  Elmo,  was  born  August  10, 
1888,  and  only  lived  four  days ;  Margaret  L.,  was 
born  September  19,  1889,  and  died  on  the  23rd 
day  of  that  month ;  Lawrence  and  Clarence,  were 
born  January  24,  1891,  and  Lawrence  died  on 
January  27,  189 1,  and  Clarence  is  still  living; 
Clifford  Ray,  was  born  August  15,  1895.  Bishop 
Cummings  has  lived  in  his  present  home  for  over 
twenty-four  years.  It  is  situated  on  the  County 
Road,  between  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  South 
streets,  and  the  homestead  comprises  nine  or  ten 
acres  of  well  improved  land.  The  Bishop,  in  his 
early  days,  turned  his  attention  to  school  teaching, 
and  followed  that  occupation  for  sixteen  years, 
being  employed  in  the  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
In  political  life  he  is  independent,  preferring  to 
vote  for  the  man  who  in  his  opinion  will  best  serve 
the  community.  He  has  held  the  position  of 
School  Trustee  for  upwards  of  ten  years,  and 
has  often  been  requested  to  become  a  candidate 
for  office,  but  has  always  declined  to  do  so.  His 
parents  were  Mormons,  and  he  was  born  in  that 
faith,  and  his  wife  and  children  are  also  members 
of  that  Church.  In  the  work  of  the  Church  the 
Bishop  has  been  especially  active,  and  the  first 
position  he  held  was  Assistant  Secretary  of  the 
Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Association, 
which  position  he  held  for  two  and  a  half  years. 
He  was  then  made  Secretary,  and  later  Assistant 
Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School,  which  po- 
sition he  retained  for  over  fourteen  years.  He 
was  sent  on  a  mission  to  California  for  the 
Church,  and  spent  seven  months  in  that  field 
during  the  year  1893-94.     He  also  served  on  an- 


other mission  to  Wisconsin,  being  absent  twenty- 
three  months  in  that  work.  Upon  his  return  he 
was  made  Bishop  of  Wilford  Ward,  it  being 
named  in  honor  of  President  Woodruff,  which 
was  done  in  September,  1900,  he  being  the  first 
Bishop  of  that  Ward,  which  was  organized  on 
his  forty-first  anniversary.  He  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  the  development  of  the  educational  af- 
fairs of  Utah,  and  has  practically  been  the  father 
of  all  the  improvements  made  in  the  schools  of 
the  Thirty-sixth  District  for  the  past  fourteen 
years.  He  is  a  thorough  business  man,  and  has 
successfully  completed  the  building  of  the  Wil- 
ford Ward  Meeting-house,  which  is  located  just 
across  the  road  from  the  Bishop's  home.  It  was 
built  under  his  supervision,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
modern  meeting  places  in  the  county.  It  is  built 
of  stone  and  pressed  brick,  and  fitted  with  electric 
lights  and  all  modern  improvements,  and  is  one 
of  the  finest  places  of  the  kind  in  the  entire 
county.  His  family  has  been  well  represented  in 
all  the  work  of  the  Mormon  Church,  five  members 
of  the  family  by  marriage  serving  in  the  Mormon 
Battalion  until  the  end  of  that  organization. 

The  Bishop  has  won  for  himself,  not  only  a 
high  position  in  the  Church,  but  has  won  the  con- 
fidence of  its  leaders  and  also  enjoys  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  the  people  of  Salt  Lake  county 
with  whom  he  has  daily  associated,  and  enjoys  a 
wide  popularity. 


OHN  RIDER.  Among  the  men  who 
have  aided  materially  in  the  development 
of  Salt  Lake  county  and  in  building  up 
the  prosperity  of  the  valley  which  is  lo- 
cated just  south  of  Salt  Lake  City,  there 
has  been  no  more  prominent  man  than  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  He  was  one  of  the  early  pio- 
neers to  this  region,  and  one  who  has  followed 
agriculture  from  the  time  he  came  here  until  the 
present  time.  He  has  made  a  farm  out  of  the 
barren  wilderness,  and  has  successfully  brought 
to  a  high  state  of  cultivation  the  land  which  he 
has  tilled.  His  success  has  been  due  entirely  to 
his  own  efforts  and  to  the  abilitv  with  which  he 


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has  conquered  every  difficulty  that  stood  in  the 
way  of  his  success. 

John  Rider  was  born  in  Milltown,  County 
Monghan,  Ireland,  on  November  8,  1837.  He  is 
the  son  of  Thomas  and  Jane  (Rowland)  Rider. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and 
his  mother  was  born  in  Ireland.  Our  subject  re- 
sided in  Great  Britain  until  1866,  when  he  came 
to  America.  He  had  become  converted  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  1857,  and  was 
active  in  the  work  of  spreading  the  doctrines  of 
that  Church  until  his  removal  from  England. 
Upon  landing  in  America  in  1866  he  came  direct 
to  Utah.  His  father  and  mother  had  died  in  En- 
gland, and  he  was  the  only  member  of  his  fam- 
ily who  ever  came  to  the  United  States.  He 
crossed  the  plains  by  ox  team,  "arriving  in  Salt 
Lake  City  on  October  17,  1866,  in  the  wagon 
train  of  John  D.  Holliday,  who  was  Captain. 
The  first  winter  in  Utah  Mr.  Rider  spent  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  then  moved  to  the  Cot- 
tonwood Ward,  where  he  was  employed  in 
erecting  the  distillery  for  William  Howard, 
which  at  that  time  was  the  largest  in  Utah. 
Our  subject  was  a  machinist  by  trade,  which  he 
had  learned  in  England,  and  was  also  a  locomotive 
and  marine  engineer. 

Air.  Rider  was  married  on  July  28,  1867,  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  to  Aliss  Mary  McDonald,  daugh- 
ter of  William  and  Christina  (Wallace)  McDon- 
ald of  Fauforshire,  Scotland.  Mrs.  McDonald 
was  a  descendant  of  Sir  William  Wallace.  By 
this  marriage  he  had  thirteen  children,  eleven  of 
whom  are  still  living.  They  are :  John  M.,  a  resi- 
dent of  Idaho;  Francis  J.,  a  resident  of  Kane 
county,  Utah ;  Thomas,  now  in  Laketown,  Utah ; 
David,  also  in  Kane  county ;  Oscar,  now  on  a  mis- 
sion to  the  Southwestern  States ;  Mary  Jane,  now 
in  California;  Rachel,  now  the  wife  of  John  W. 
Wright;  Florence  May,  Christina  and  Wallace 
(twins),  and  Rowland  W.  Mr.  Rider  continued 
to  live  in  the  Cottonwood  Ward  until  the  spring 
of  1870,  when  he  went  to  Kane  county,  and  lived 
there  for  twenty-five  years,  being  one  of  the  pio- 
neers of  that  county.  In  1895  he  returned  to  Salt 
Lake  county  and  settled  in  the  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
with  which  he  has  ever  since  been  identified,  tak- 
ing an  active  part  in  the  work  of  the  Church  and 


in  the  administration  of  the  political  afifairs  of  his 
ward. 

In  politics  he  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  while  in  Kane  county 
held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  was 
also  Probate  Judge  for  ten  years,  holding  the 
office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  four  years,  and 
was  also  County  Commissioner  for  two  years  in 
that  same  county,  and  served  in  the  Legislature 
from  there  for  two  terms,  during  Governor  Mur- 
ray's administration.  In  Salt  Lake  county  he  is 
now  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Notary  Public. 
He  was  elected  to  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace 
in  1900,  and  has  been  a  Notary  Public  for  five 
years.  He  was  also  a  school  director  in  Kane 
county  of  twelve  years.  In  the  Mormon 
Church  he  has  taken  an  active  part,  and 
in  Kane  county  he  was  for  a  time  the  act- 
ing Bishop,  and  has  served  on  a  mission, 
being  two  years  in  England,  leaving  Utah  in  1879 
and  returning  in  the  latter  part  of  1880,  serving 
in  reality  twenty-one  months  abroad,  and  upon 
his  return  home  was  charged  with  the  conduct  of 
a  company  of  emigrants  from  Liverpool  to  Utah. 
He  has  now  a  fine  residence  at  the  corner  of 
Eleventh  East  and  Fifteenth  South  streets,  and 
the  homestead  comprises  eleven  acres.  Mr.  Rider 
has  been  a  delegate  to  many  political  conventions, 
and  has  done  a  great  deal  of  work  for  the  Repub- 
lican party  in  its  campaigns  in  this  State.  He 
has  been  associated  with  all  the  prominent  men 
of  Utah,  and  his  appointments  have  been  issued 
to  him  and  signed  by  Governor  Thomas,  Presi- 
dent Harrison,  President  McKinley,  Governor 
Wells  and  Governor  Murray,  as  well  as  Acting 
Governor  George  A.  Black  in  1873,  Governor  G. 
W.  Emery  in  1877,  and  in  September,  1886,  by 
Governor  W.  C.  West. 

In  addition  to  the  mission  work  already  men- 
tioned, which  he  performed  in  England,  he  also 
went  on  another  one  to  that  country,  and  the  total 
time  that  he  has  been  absent  from  Utah  on  this 
work  covers  a  period  of  six  years.  During  that 
time  he  was  President  over  three  Conferences  of 
the  Church  in  Great  Britain,  viz.,  Manchester, 
Glasgow  and  Essex. 

He  has  devoted  considerable  time  to  the  culti- 
vation oi  his  farm  and  to  the  building  up  of  his 


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home,  and  he  has  now  won  for  himself  a  promi- 
nent place  among  the  men  who  have  made  Utah 
what  it  now  is.  The  agricultural  life  of  a  com- 
munity is  really  its  backbone  and  one  that  re- 
quires men  of  experience  and  untiring  persever- 
ance in  order  to  properly  carry  it  out.  The 
prominent  place  which  Mr.  Rider  has  taken,  not 
only  in  agricultural  pursuits,  but  in  all  the  walks 
of  life,  has  made  him  one  of  the  most  useful  men 
of  Salt  Lake  county. 


TOHN  P.  CAHOON.  Among  the  indus- 
tries of  Utah,  and  those  which  are  now 
becoming  a  necessity  in  the  upbuilding 
of  this  growing  inter-mountain  city,  is 
that  of  the  manufacture  of  bricks,  and  in 


this  work  there  is  no  more  successful  man  than 
the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

He  is  a  native  Utahn,  being  born  in  the  local- 
ity where  he  now  lives,  and  has  practically  spent 
his  entire  life  within  the  confines  of  this  State. 
He  has  made  his  own  way  in  the  world,  and  has 
won  for  himself  a  high  place  in  the  business  life 
of  the  Salt  Lake  valley.  John  P.  Cahoon  was 
born  on  the  banks  of  the  South  Cottonwood 
creek,  Salt  Lake  county,  in  1856.  He  is  a  son 
of  Andrew  and  Margaret  (Carruth)  Cahoon. 
His  father  was  the  son  of  Reynold  and  Theresa 
(Stiles)  Cahoon,  and  their  son,  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  spent  his  boyhood  days 
on  his  father's,  farm  in  Ohio,  and  he  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  his  native.  State.  His  father 
became  associated  with  the  Mormon  Church  in 
those  early  days,  and  his  son  Andrew  followed 
in  his  steps  early  in  life  and  became  a  convert  to 
the  teachings  of  the  Mormons,  and  was  in  Nau- 
voo  when  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  was  killed 
at  Carthage.  He  then  became  personally  ac- 
quainted with  the  leaders  of  the  Church,  and  in 
1847  was  sent  to  Scotland  as  a  missionary. 
While  there  he  met  Margaret  Carruth,  daughter 
of  William  and  Mary  (Barr)  Carruth,  and  on 
July  17,  1848,  was  married  to  her  on  the  banks 
of  the  Platte  river,  they  having  emigrated  to 
America  with  him  as  members  of  the  Mormon 


faith,  the  ceremony  being  performed  by  Presi- 
dent Brigham  Young.  He  continued  to  take  an 
active  part  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  was 
prominent  in  the  migration  of  the  members  to 
California,  and  in  fact  was  one  of  the  promi- 
nent missionaries  throughout  his  life.  He  died 
in  December,  1900,  and  his  wife  still  survives 
him  and  lives  near  her  son,  John  P. 

Our  subject,  John  P.  Cahoon,  was  the  second 
of  five  sons,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Salt  Lake  county.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  and  in  the  winter  of 
'  i874  took  up  the  manufacture  of  bricks  on  a 
small  scale,  and  in  1890  established  the  Salt  Lake 
Pressed  Brick  Company,  with  a  plant  at  Elev- 
enth East,  between  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth 
South  streets.  The  entire  plant  was  erected  un- 
der the  supervision  of  Mr.  Cahoon,  who  not  only 
made  the  plans  for  the  buildings,  but  also  su- 
perintended their  erection.  This  now  has  a  ca- 
pacity of  one  hundred  thousand  bricks  per  day, 
and  Mr.  Cahoon  is  president  of  the  company  and 
directs  its  affairs.  It  is  the  largest  brick  factory 
in  Utah,  and  in  fact  throughout  the  inter-moun- 
tain region.  It  supplies  bricks  to  all  the  promi- 
nent centers  of  population  in  Utah,  and  to  the 
surrounding  Territories  and  States  as  well.  In 
addition  to  this  business,  which  practically  takes 
up  most  of  his  time,  Mr.  Cahoon  is  also  engaged 
with  his  brother,  Reynold  E.,  in  the  lumber,  coal 
and  hardware  business,  their  establishment  being 
located  at  Murray.  He  is  also  interested  in  the 
firm  of  J.  R.  Miller  &  Company,  builders  and 
dealers  in  lumber,  coal,  hardware,  implements, 
etc. 

]\Ir.  Cahoon  was  married  at  Murray  in  1877, 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Gorden,  daughter  of  James 
and  Mary  Gorden,  and  they  have  had  born  to 
them  ten  children,  nine  of  whom  are  still  living. 
Our  subject  makes  his  home  in  Murray,  where 
he  has  built  a  residence  for  himself  and  family, 
which  is  easily  the  finest  home  in  the  county  out- 
side of  Salt  Lake  City.  In  politics  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Liberal  party  before  the  segrega- 
tion of  the  people  upon  national  political  lines, 
and  since  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party 
he  has  been  a  prominent  member  of  it. 


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Mr.  Cahoon  has  made  his  own  way  in  Ufe  ever 
since  his  boyhood,  and  has  won  a  high  place  in 
the  business  world  of  Utah  by  the  exercise  of  his 
own  ability  and  energy  and  his  untiring  perse- 
verance. He  is  now  in  the  front  ranks  of  the 
business  men  of  this  State  and  enjoys  a  wide  pop- 
ularity. 

At  the  World's  Fair  held  in  Chicago  in  1893, 
this  concern  received  the  medal  given  as  first 
prize  for  the  best  red  brick.  Also  the  first  prize 
at  the  California  Alid-Winter  International  Ex- 
position, held  in  1894.  They  also  have  five  medals 
awarded  by  the  Utah  State  Exposition,  held  in 
Salt  Lake  City.  These  medals  were  received  in 
1891,  1892,  1894,  1899  and  1901. 


ICHARD  F.  LAMBERT,  prominent 
agriculturalist  and  stockman  of  Kamas 
valley,  Summit  county.  The  early 
(lays  of  the  settlement  of  L'tah  will  ever 
be  memorable  as  days  of  hardships  en- 
dured by  the  early  pioneers  and  their  sons.  The 
vast  work  of  redeeming  this  country  from  its 
W'ild  and  undeveloped  state  w-as  no  easy  task, 
and  only  men  of  exceptionally  strong  will  power 
and  determination  could  have  ever  subdued  the 
country  and  developed  it  to  its  present  most  won- 
derful state  of  prosperity.  Among  the  State's 
worthy  sons,  and  one  who  has  cheerfully  per- 
formed his  part  in  developing  the  vast  resources 
of  Utah  and  especially  of  Summit  county,  Rich- 
ard F.  Lambert,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  de- 
serving of  much  credit. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  February  11.  1855,  and  is  the 
son  of  John  and  Adelia  (Grosbeck)  Lambert.  A 
full  account  of  his  father's  life  appears  in  the 
sketch  of  Bishop  Daniel  Lambert,  in  another  part 
of  this  work.  Our  subject  was  but  seven  years  of 
age  when  the  family  moved  to  Rhodes  valley, 
now  known  as  Kamas,  and  he  has  been  a  resident 
of  Summit  county  since  that  time,  receiving  his 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  Kamas,  and 
growing  up  on  his  father's  farm,  his  life  being 
that  of  every  son  of  the  pioneers.  L^pon  attain- 
ing his  majority  he  started  out  in  life  for  himself, 


working  in  the  timber,  and  later  engaged  in  the 
sawmill  business  with  his  brothers,  supplying  tim- 
bers for  the  Park  City  mines,  following  this  oc- 
cupation for  ten  or  twelve  years.  During  this 
period  he  purchased  his  present  farm  on  the  west 
side  of  the  valley,  near  the  county  road,  and  in 
1886  moved  his  family  onto  his  farm,  where 
he  has  since  resided.  He  has  ninety  acres  of 
valuable  land  under  irrigation,  and  devotes  his  at- 
tention principally  to  the  raising  of  oats  and  hay. 
He  has  about  fifty  head  of  cattle  on  his  place. 
He  built  a  fine  two-story  residence  on  his  farm 
in  1898  and  his  home  is  today  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  in  this  valley. 

He  was  married  April  14,  1886,  to  j\Iiss  Elva 
E.  W'olstenhulme,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary 
( Page)  Wolstenhulme.  They  have  six  children 
— Elva  E.,  Richard  F.,  Junior;  Ira  C,  Reuben, 
James  W..  and  John  Arvil. 

In  politics  Mr.  Lambert  is  a  Democrat,  but 
although  he  has  been  active  in  promoting  the 
welfare  of  his  party,  he  has  never  sought  or  held 
public  office,  his  time  aside  from  his  business  be- 
ing given  mostly  to  Church  work.  He  has  taken 
much  pride  in  assisting  to  develop  the  agricul- 
tural resources  of  his  county,  and  has  been  largely 
instrumental  in  obtaining  the  fine  irrigation  sys- 
tem now  in  operation  in  Kamas  vallej-.  He  is  in- 
terested in  two  irrigation  companies  and  assisted 
in  constructing  the  water  system  of  that  valley. 
He  is  at  this  time  a  member  of  the  Twenty-second 
Quorum  of  Seventies,  and  an  active  worker  in  his 
Ward.  Mrs.  Lambert  is  also  prominent  in  the 
work  of  the  Church  in  her  community,  being  a 
member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  was 
for  a  number  of  years  President  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association.  She 
has  also  acted  in  the  capacity  of  Counselor  to  the 
President  of  the  Primary  Department  of  the  Re- 
lief society,  and  is  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday 
Schools. 

Mr.  Lambert  has  worked  his  ow^n  way  up  to  his 
present  prominent  position  among  the  farmers 
and  stockmen  of  Summit  county,  and  has  by 
his  energ)-,  perseverance  and  undaunted  cour- 
age in  the  face  of  all  obstacles  won  the  admira- 
tion and  esteem  of  those  who  have  known  him 
throughout  a   life  of  over  forty  years. 


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OHN  WOOD  is  another  of  Utah's  native 
sons  who  has  risen  to  a  position  of  honor 
in  the  public  life  of  the  State  through 
the  exercise  of  the  abilities  with  which 
nature  endowed  him.  He  was  born  in 
Centerville,  Davis  county,  in  1858,  and  is  the 
son  of  John  and  Naomi  (Chase)  Wood.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  came  to  Utah 
in  1853,  locating  in  Centerville,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1862,  when  he  removed  to  Morgan 
county  and  located  in  the  Richville  Ward,  where 
our  subject  now  lives.  He  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  was  one  of  the  most  prosperous  and 
prominent  men  of  his  community,  active  in 
Church  work  and  assisted  in  developing  and  set- 
tling the  county,  taking  an  active  part  in  most 
of  the  road  making  and  bridge  and  canal  build- 
ing that  was  undertaken  during  his  time.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years  on  March 
21,  1890.     His  wife  died  in  Logan,  in  1889. 

Our  subject  was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of 
five  children  and  grew  up  in  this  county,  ob- 
taining his  education  from  the  schools  of  this 
district  and  in  Salt  Lake  City,  receiving  a  very 
fair  scholastic  education.  After  reaching  his  ma- 
jority he  spent  some  years  in  Bear  Lake  val- 
ley, and  in  1883  returned  to  Richville,  where 
he  became  associated  with  his  father  and  re- 
mained with  him  until  the  latter  died  in  1890, 
since  which  time  he  has  been  the  sole  owner  of 
the  old  homestead.  He  has  thirty  acres  of  land 
under  irrigation  and  carries  on  a  general  farm- 
ing business. 

Mr.  Wood  was  married  June  14,  1889,  to  Miss 
Emeline  Crouch,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Clark)  Crouch.  By  this  marriage  they 
have  had  five  children,  two  of  whom  have  died — 
John  Karl,  Grace,  Zella  M.,  deceased;  Lee  Marr, 
deceased,  and  Lyle. 

Mr.  Wood  has  followed  the  fortunes  of  the 
Democratic  party  \ever  since  its  organization  in 
Utah  and  has  been  one  of  its  most  ardent  sup- 
porters and  active  workers.  He  was  elected  a 
County  Commissioner  in  1895,  but  resigned  be- 
fore the  expiration  of  his  term  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion  for   the    Mormon   Church.     He   was   again 


holds.  He  is  also  Secretary  and  a  director  in  the 
Richville  Millrace  Irrigation  Company  and  ident- 
ified with  almost  every  public  enterprise  for  the 
upbuilding  of  his  town. 

He  is  a  leading  man  in  all  Church  work,  and 
has  filled  the  offices  of  Elder  and  member  of  the 
Thirty-fifth  Quorum  of  Seventies,  and  at  this 
time  is  a  member  of  the  High  Council  of  Morgan 
Stake.  He  is  Counselor  to  President  Walter 
Porter  of  the  Young  Alen's  Mutual  Improvement 
Association  of  the  Richville  Ward,  and  has  been 
active  in  Sunday  School  and  Ward  teaching.  In 
i8y6  he  served  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern 
States,  laboring  in  Texas  and  Louisiana  part  of 
tlie  time,  and  was  absent  two  years  and  seven 
months. 

Mr.  Wood  is  today  one  of  the  staunch  men  of 
his  county  and  town,  and  the  high  place  which  he 
iiolds  in  the  ranks  of  business  and  public  men 
has  come  to  him  by  his  own  unaided  efforts.  He 
has  by  energy,  perseverance  and  strong  determin- 
ation carved  out  for  himself  a  career  of  which  any 
man  might  be  proud,  and  enjoys  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances.  Since 
her  marriage  Mrs.  Wood  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  all  the  work  of  the  Church  in  her  Ward.  She 
was  for  twelve  years  Secretary  of  the  Young  La- 
dies' Mutual  Improvement  Association  and  is  at 
this  time  Secretary  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society 
of  Morgan  Stake  and  Counselor  to  the  President 
of  the  Richville  Primary  Association. 


TMPSON  DAVID  HUFFAKER,  DE- 
CEASED. Among  the  successful  far- 
mers and  stock  men  who  settled  in  Utah 
with  the  early  pioneers,  should  be  men- 
tioned the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He 
was  born  July  12,  1812,  in  Wayne  county,  Ken- 
tucky, and  was  the  son  of  Jacob  and  Margaret 
Huffaker.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  Kentucky 
and  obtained  his  early  training  and  education  in 
that  State.  The  Huffaker  family  later  moved 
to  Illinois,  and  when  our  subject  reached  his  ma- 
jority  he   took   up   government   land   in   Bureau 


elected  to  that  position  in   1900,  which  he  now      county,  that  State,  living  there  until  1845,  when 


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he  went  to  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  having-  become  a 
convert  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormons  while 
living  in  Bureau  county,  and  remained  in  Nauvoo 
until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  from  that  place, 
when  he  joined  the  last  train  that  came  to  Utah 
in  1847,  under  command  of  Jedadiah  M.  Grant, 
and  in  which  companj'  Willard  Snow  was  Captain 
over  fifty  wagons.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  October  of  that  year,  and  the  next  two 
years  our  subject  spent  in  the  Old  Fort.  In  the 
spring  of  1849  Mr.  Huffaker  took  up  two  hun- 
dred and  forty  acres  of  land  in  the  South  Cot- 
tonwood district,  on  which  he  lived  until  the  time 
of  his  death,  and  which  is  still  the  home  of  his 
widow.  In  those  days  what  is  now  a  beautiful 
and  highly  cultivated  farming  country  was  but  a 
barren  wilderness,  unsubdued  and  uncultivated, 
and  it  was  only  by  dint  of  much  hard  work  and 
an  undaunted  perseverance  that  the  soil  was  made 
to  yield  a  living  to  the  farmers  of  those  early 
times.  Their  tools  were  also  of  the  rudest  pat- 
tern, many  of  them  being  manufactured  at  home, 
and  too  much  praise  can  not  be  bestowed  upon  the 
hardy  pioneers  who  by  their  labor  and  untiring 
industry  made  it  possible  for  those  who  came 
after  to  found  comfortable  and  even  luxurious 
homes  for  themselves  and  their  children.  In  ad- 
dition to  his  farming  Mr.  Huffaker  also  became 
interested  in  cattle  raising,  in  which  industry  he 
was  very  successful. 

Our  subject  was  twice  married.  The  first  time 
he  was  left  with  a  family  of  five  children  to  care 
for.  He  met  his  second  wife,  then  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Richardson  in  Bureau  county,  Illinois,  and 
was  married  at  his  father's  farm  near  Peoria, 
that  State.  Miss  Richardson  was  the  daughter  of 
Stephen  and  Erepta  (Wilder)  Richardson,  and 
was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  coming  with  her 
family  to  Bureau  county,  Illinois,  in  1839.  She 
was  married  to  Mr.  Huffaker  in  February,  1846. 
In  addition  to  raising  his  family  of  five  mother- 
less children,  Mrs.  Huffaker  bore  her  husband 
fifteen  children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living 
—David  S.,  who  is  reputed  to  be  the  first  white 
male  child  born  in  Utah  of  which  there  is  any 
record,  being  awarded  a  gold  medal  at  the  Jubilee 
held  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1897,  for  being  the  first 


boy  born  in  the  State.  He  was  born  in  a  wagon 
during  a  snow  storm  on  what  is  now  known 
as  Pioneer  Square ;  Susan  E.,  Elizabeth  M., 
Welby  R.,  Wilford  D.,  Ray,  El  Roy,  Earl  P.  and 
Alferata  B.  Four  of  the  sons  are  now  engaged 
in  ranching  and  sheep  raising  in  Idaho,  and  the 
oldest  lives  at  Midway,  Summit  county,  this 
State. 

During  his  life  Mr.  Huffaker  was  a  Demo- 
crat and  was  a  firm  believer  in  the  principles  of 
that  party.  He  was  a  faithful,  consistent  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church  and  always  active  and 
energetic  in  its  work.  He  died  at  the  family 
homestead  on  October  17,  1891,  loved  and 
mourned  by  all  who  knew  him. 

Mrs.  Huffaker  still  resides  at  the  liomestead, 
and  is  an  active  worker  in  the  Church  to  which 
her  husband  belonged,  being  a  member  of  it  also, 
as  are  her  children.  She  was  the  only  member 
of  her  family  to  come  to  the  West  to  reside, 
her  parents  only  leaving  the  East  on  brief  visits, 
and  finally  dying  in  Black  Hawk  county,  Iowa. 
When  the  Richardson  family  first  went  to  Illi- 
nois, Chicago  was  only  a  small  cluster  of  shanties 
and  they  lived  to  see  it  one  of  the  first  cities  of 
the  Union.  Mrs.  Sally  R.  Dicks,  the  only  sister 
of  Mrs.  Huffaker,  and  whose  home  is  in  Men- 
dota,  Illinois,  is  at  this  writing  visiting  with  Mrs. 
Huffaker.  Mr.  Huffaker  left  his  family  in  com- 
fortable circumstances,  and  the  farm  on  which 
his  widow  resides  is  well  improved  and  is  consid- 
ered one  of  the  finest  in  the  county. 


YRUM  A.  SILVER.  Vice-President  of 
the  Silver  Brothers  Iron  Works  and 
Foundry,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York,  in  1859,  and  came  to  Utah  at 
the  age  of  six  months.  He  spent  his 
early  boyhood  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  this  county  and 
in  the  private  schools  of  the  city.  He  has  made 
his  own  way  through  life,  and  rising  from  a  very 
small  and  unpropitious  beginning,  has  made  a 
career  that  marks  him  as  one  of  the  leaders  in 
the  business  world  of  the  inter-mountain  region. 


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The  foundry  with  which  he  is  connected  has 
grown  from  a  small  plant,  operated  by  he  and  his 
brothers,  to  be  one  of  the  leadine  industries  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  of  Utah  as  well.  Its  success 
has  been  brought  about,  not  by  any  marvelous  or 
unexpected  chance,  but  by  the  steady  and  persis- 
tent exercise  of  an  untiring  industry  and  a  close 
application  to  business. 

Upon  leaving  school  Mr.  Silver  went  to  work 
in  the  machine  shop  of  his  father,  and  there 
learned  the  machinist's  trade.  He  left  school  at 
the  age  of  thirteen,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  was 
entrusted  with  the  work  of  installing  and  putting 
in  operation  pumps  and  other  machinery  in  dif- 
ferent mining  camps  throughout  Utah,  which  he 
performed  with  complete  satisfaction,  and  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years  he  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  machinery  at  the  Empire  Mine  plant  at 
Park  City,  where  he  remained  for  about  six 
months.  He  left  this  company  to  accept  employ- 
ment in  the  shops  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad 
Company,  and  remained  in  those  shops  for  about 
two  years,  at  which  time  he  took  charge  of  the 
foundry  which  had  been  established  by  his  father, 
and  in  which  he  had  learned  his  trade.  At  that 
time  it  was  but  a  small  establishment,  giving  em- 
ployment to  about  six  men.  In  1886  he  called  his 
brothers,  Joseph  A.  and  John  A.  Silver,  to  this 
city,  where  they  formed  the  partnership  to  carry 
on  the  business  begun  by  their  father,  and  this 
firm  was  known  as  Silver  Brothers  Iron  Works. 
It  was  continued  under  this  name  for  a  number  of 
years,  until  the  business  increased  to  such  an  ex- 
tent that  from  a  working  force  consisting  of  them- 
selves, they  now  give  employment  to  about  one 
hundred  men.  The  company  grew  so  large  that 
it  was  deemed  advisable  to  incorporate  it  under 
the  laws  of  the  State  of  Utah,  which  was  accord- 
ingly done,  Mr.  Silver,  our  subject,  taking  a  large 
part  in  that  work,  and  it  has  since  been  known 
under  its  present  name. 

Our  subject  was  married  to  Miss  Eleanora  K. 
Benson,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Katie  (Wickel) 
Benson.  Her  parents  came  to  Utah  at  an  early 
age,  and  her  mother  is  still  living  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  They  were  among  the  first  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  her  mother  lived  just  across 
the    street    from    the    place    where    the    Prophet 


Joseph  Smith  was  killed.  Mr.  Silver's  wife  died, 
and  he  married  Miss  May  McAllister,  daughter 
of  J.  D.  T.  McAllister.  They  have  eight  chil- 
dren living  and  three  dead.  They  are :  Eleanora, 
Hyrum  B.,  Katie,  Albert  (dead).  May,  Reny; 
and  by  his  present  wife  he  has  Amv,  Clifford  and 
Walter. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Silver  is  a  behever  in  the 
Democratic  principles,  but  owing  to  the  confining 
nature  of  his  business  he  has  not  participated  ac- 
tively in  the  work  of  the  party.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  being  an  Elder. 
His  present  wife  is  also  a  member  of  that  Church, 
and  her  father  is  President  of  the  Manti  Temple. 
Mr.  Silver  has  resided  at  No.  266  Center  street  for 
a  number  of  years,  the  site  of  his  house  being  that 
formerly  occupied  by  the  old  foundry  and  machine 
shop  established  by  his  father.  He  has  in  course 
of  erection  a  new  home  on  Fifth  East  and  Tenth 
South  streets  in  Salt  Lake  City,  which  will  easily 
take  rank  as   one  of  the  finest  residences  here. 

He  is  well  and  favorably  known  throughout 
L'tah,  and  has.  by  his  integrity,  honesty  and 
ability,  won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated  in  business,  and 
his  pleasant  and  genial  manner  has  brought  him 
the  warm  friendship  of  a  legion  of  friends 
throusrhout  the  State. 


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OHN  W.  CARPENTER.  Among  the 
prominent  and  successful  business  men 
of  Summit  county,  John  W.  Carpenter, 
the  subject  of  this  article,  ranks  as  one 
of  the  first.  He.  is  a  native  son  of  Utah^ 
been  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  January  20, 
1858.  His  whole  life  to  the  present  time  has 
been  spent  in  this  State  and  the  greater  portion 
of  it  in  Kamas,  Summit  county,  as  his  parents 
moved  to  that  place  when  he  was  only  eight 
years  of  age.  He  received  a  common  school  edu- 
cation in  such  schools  as  existed  in  that  county 
and  started  to  make  his  own  way  in  life,  be- 
ginning at  the  very  bottom  of  the  ladder,  and 
by  perseverance  and  energy  he  has  made  a  splen- 
did success  in  life. 


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His  father,  John  S.  Carpenter,  was  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania  and  emigrated  to  Utah  in  the  pio- 
neer days,  settHng  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  then 
engaged  in  farming  in  Mill  Creek,  later  mov- 
ing to  what  is  now  Kamas,  in  1866.  Here  he 
took  up  land  and  engaged  in  farming  and  stock 
raising,  and  became  one  of  the  prominent  men 
of  the  place.  He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
two  years,  in  1898.  His  wife,  Catherine  Car- 
penter, is  still  living  in  the  family  home.  She  is 
the  mother  of  eight  children. 

For  a  number  of  years  after  he  started  out 
for  himself  our  subject  worked  by  the  day,  saving 
his  earnings  and  in  1885  started  in  the  lumber 
business  in  a  small  way,  operating  a  saw  mill 
in  Beaver  canyon  and  furnishing  timber  for  the 
Park  City  mines.  He  has  followed  this  busi- 
ness to  a  certain  extent  ever  since.  In  1895  he 
started  a  small  store,  gradually  increasing  the 
business,  and  during  this  time  built  the  Carpenter 
opera  house  and  dance  hall,  and  in  1897  built  his 
present  store,  which  is  a  two-story  building,  thirty 
by  seventy  feet.  He  carries  a  full  line  of  mer- 
chandise, wagons,  farm  implements  and  hard- 
ware, having  a  stock  worth  about  ten  thousand 
dollars,  which  is  the  largest  stock  carried  by  an 
individual  in  this  county.  He  also  owns  a  ranch 
from  which  he  raises  an  excellent  crop  of  hay, 
usually  putting  up  about  two  hundred  tons  a  year, 
and  buys  and  sells  cattle,  feeding  about  seventy- 
five  head  at  a  time.  He  also  runs  a  public 
feed  stable.  He  is  the  owner  of  some  real  estate 
in  Salt  Lake  City  and  has  been  very  successful 
in   all   his  business  ventures. 

Mr.  Carpenter  was  married  in  1886  to  Miss 
Martha  J.  Turnbow,  daughter  of  John  G.  and 
Elizabeth  Turnbow  of  Kamas.  Seven  children 
have  been  born  of  this  marriage — Alphonso,  Mar- 
tin, Montclair,  Olive,  Lacy  D.,  Etta  and  the  baby. 

He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  successful 
business  men  of  Summit  county,  wide-awake  and 
energetic.  He  has  done  much  towards  aiding  in 
the  building  of  church  and  school  buildings  and 
is  actively  interested  in  all  public  enterprises. 
Besides  his  holdings  in  and  about  Kamas,  he  is 
interested  in  real  estate  in  Oak  City,  where  he 
owns  the  Maple  Hall. 


ISHOP  JOSEPH  RAWLINS,  DE- 
CEASED. In  reviewing  the  lives  of 
those  who  came  to  Utah  when  it  was 
yet  a  wild  and  undeveloped  tract  of 
land,  and  after  spending  a  life  time  in 
the  work  of  bringing  it  up  to  its  present  high 
state  of  perfection,  have  laid  aside  the  cares  of 
life  and  passed  on  to  their  reward,  we  should  not 
overlook  the  name  of  Bishop  Rawlins,  one  of  the 
most  prominent  and  influential  men  of  his  day  in 
Salt  Lake  county. 

He  was  born  in  Green  county,  Illinois,  April 
9,  1823,  and  was  the  son  of  James  and  Jane 
(Sharp)  Rawlins,  who  was  born  in  Indiana, 
and  moved  to  Green  county,  Illinois,  early  in 
life.  From  there  the  family  moved  to  Hancock 
county,  that  State,  where  our  subject  met  the 
lady  who  afterwards  became  his  wife.  Miss  Mary 
Frost,  daughter  of  John  and  Nancy  (Pate)  Frost. 
Her  father  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina,  anc} 
her  mother  came  from  Tennessee,  Mrs.  Rawlins 
also  being  born  in  the  latter  State.  The  mar- 
riage of  our  subject  occurred  in  1844.  Three 
children  were  born  of  this  union — Nancy  Jane, 
now  the  wife  of  R.  M.  Kerr,  a  resident  of  Cache 
county ;  Mary  E.  was  born  April  i,  1848,  and  died 
in  1861 ;  and  Joseph  L.,  at  this  time  serving  as 
United  States  Senator  from  Utah.  They  also 
raised  a  boy,  Orson  W.,  whom  they  have  al-- 
ways  regarded  as  a  son,  and  he  is  at  this  time 
in  the  southern  States  on  a  mission  for  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  He  makes  his  home  with  ]\Irs. 
Rawlins. 

The  year  following  their  marriage  Bishop 
Rawlins  and  his  wife  were  converted  to  the  teach- 
ings of  Mormonism,  and  joined  the  Church. 
They  came  to  Utah  in  a  train  of  fifty  wagons 
in  1848,  leaving  Omaha  on  the  12th  day  of  April 
and  after  a  journey  of  just  six  months  arrived 
in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  12th;  they  at  once 
moved  to  Mill  Creek  Ward,  where  they  lived 
about  two  years,  and  for  twenty  years  thereafter 
made  their  home  at  Draper,  nine  miles  south  of 
Murray.  During  this  time  our  subject  crossed 
the  plains  seven  times,  bringing  three  companies 
of  emigrants  to  Utah,  and  also  served  for  three 
months  as  guard  in  protecting  the  United  States 
overland  mails,  serving  under  Captain  L.  Smith, 


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with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant,  .\fter  discontinu- 
ing their  residence  in  Draper  the  family  moved 
to  a  farm  containing  fifty  acres,  in  South  Cot- 
tonwood Ward,  and  here  the  Bishop  Hved  during 
the  remainder  of  his  Hfe.  He  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  this  Ward  in  1870  and  retained  the 
position  as  long  as  he  lived. 

Politically  the  family  have  been  Democrats  for 
generations  back.  Our  subject  was  at  the  time 
of  his  death  serving  his  second  term  as  County 
Commissioner,  being  elected  both  times  on  the 
Democratic  ticket ;  and  his  son  received  his  elec- 
tion as  Senator  from  that  party. 

During  his  lifetime  the  Bishop  was  most  active 
in  all  matters  having  for  their  object  the  bet- 
terment of  conditions  in  Utah ;  he  assisted  in 
constructing  the  East  Jordan  canal  and  held  the 
office  of  President  of  the  company  as  long  as 
he  lived.  He  also  did  considerable  railroad  con- 
tracting, assisting  in  building  the  first  railroad 
to  enter  Utah  and  also  the  road  across  the  Jor- 
dan Narrows.  During  the  Johnston  army  trou- 
bles he  was  Captain  of  the  guards  sent  out  to 
guard  the  passes  in  Echo  canyon  against  the 
approach  of  the  army ;  and  also  participated  in 
many  of  the  Indian  uprisings  in  Utah.  His  death 
occurred  October  13,  1900,  and  he  was  laid  to 
Test  amidst  universal  mourning,  his  manly  and 
upright  living,  together  with  his  charitable  and 
hospitable  nature  endearing  him  to  all  who  had 
the  pleasure  of  his  acquaintance. 

His  widow  is  now  living  in  Forestdale,  a  sub- 
urb of  Salt  Lake  City,  where  she  has  a  lovely 
brick  residence.  She  is  well  known  for  her  work 
in  the  Church  societies  and  enjoys  the  highest 
esteem  and  regard  of  all  who  know  her. 


AN  LAMBERT,  Bishop  of  Kamas 
Ward,  Summit  Stake  of  Zion,  Summit 
county.  Whether  assisting  in  the  work 
of  his  Church  or  the  development  of 
the  resources  of  Summit  county ;  work- 
ing for  the  improvement  of  its  public  schools, 
or  for  the  advancement  of  the  social  and  polit- 
ical conditions  of  his  county.  Bishop  Lambert  can 
always  be  found  in  the  front  rank,  of  whom 
Summit  county  has  no  more  honored  or  highly 


respected  citizen.  While  he  was  born  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  his  whole  life  has  been  spent  in  this 
county,  and  his  upright  and  straightforward  life, 
together  with  his  enterprising  spirit  and  self- 
denial  for  the  good  of  his  fellow-men  has  won  for 
him  a  large  circle  of  friends. 

Bishop  Lambert's  father  was  John  Lambert,  a 
native  of  Yorkshire,  England,  where  he  was  born 
January  31,  1820.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  England  and  emigrated  to 
.America  in  1842,  joining  the  Mormon  colony  at 
Nauvoo,  where  he  remained  until  the  exodus  of 
1846.  He  made  the  trip  across  the  great  Amer- 
ican plains  by  ox  team  in  1850  and  settled  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  following  the  business  of  con- 
tracting and  building.  In  1861  he  moved  to 
Kamas,  where  he  took  up  land  and  established  a 
home,  his  land  being  in  the  center  of  the  present 
town.  He  successfully  followed  farming  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life,  and  was  the  father  of  a 
large  family,  being  the  husband  of  two  wives  and 
the  father  of  twenty-one  children,  sixteen  of 
whom  are  now  living.  He  was  active  in  all 
Church  work  and  a  member  of  the  Seventies. 
He  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  seventy-four 
years,  on  November  25,  1893. 

Our  subject  was  born  March  2,  1861,  and  was 
the  third  child  of  Eleanor  H.  (Larson)  Lambert, 
a  native  of  Denmark.  She  was  baptized  at  twelve 
years  of  age,  and  was  the  first  girl  to  receive  that 
ordinance  in  the  kingdom  of  Denmark.  He  grew 
up  on  his  father's  farm  in  Kamas,  and  received 
his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  that  place. 
He  began  life  for  himself  in  1882,  when  he  ancl 
his  brothers  took  a  contract  for  supplying  native 
timber  for  the  mines  of  Park  City,  and  has  fol- 
lowed this  business  largely  since  then.  He  owns 
a  fine  farm  near  town,  and  has  devoted  consider- 
able attention  to  the  raising  of  blooded  stock,  par- 
ticularly cattle. 

Bishop  Lambert  was  married  in  1885  to  Miss 
]\Iay  Young,  daughter  of  Phineas  Young,  a 
brother  of  President  Brigham  Y^oung.  They 
have  had  a  family  of  six  children — Bathara,  died 
in  infancy;  Lila  M.,  Dan  D.,  Marie,  Craig  and 
Lawrence  T. 

In  political  life  Bishop  Lambert  owes  allegiance 
to  the  Democratic  party,  in  whose  ranks  he  has 


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been  quite  active  ever  since  its  organization  in 
this  State.  He  has  served  one  term  as  a  County 
Commissioner  of  Summit  county,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Fourth  Legislature,  taking  an 
active  part  in  the  work  of  that  body.  Among 
the  committees  on  which  he  served  were  those  of 
Mines  and  Mining,  Horticulture  and  Agriculture, 
Resolutions,  Memorials,  Forestry,  etc. 

He  was  ordained  an  Elder  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen, and  in  1884  became  a  member  of  the 
Twenty-second  Quorum  of  Seventies.  In  1893 
he  served  on  a  mission  to  West  Virginia.  He 
was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set  apart  as  a 
member  of  the  High  Council  of  Summit  Stake 
in  1900,  and  in  May  of  the  following  year  was 
ordained  Bishop  of  Kamas  Ward.  He  has  given 
much  attention  to  Sunday  school  work  and  work 
among  the  young  men,  and  is  also  largely  inter- 
ested in  educational  matters  in  his  community, 
much  of  the  efficiency  of  the  present  school  sys- 
tem in  Kamas  being  due  to  his  untiring  efforts  in 
that  direction.  He  has  for  the  past  several  years 
been  agent  for  the  Ontario  and  Daly  West  Min- 
ing Companies,  and  is  one  of  the  well-known  and 
public-spirited  men  of  Summit  county. 


OBERT  HARMAN  belongs  to  one  of 
the  old  and  influential  families  of  Mill 
Creek  Ward.  He  has  been  a  resident 
'if  Utah  since  he  was  fifteen  years  of 
age,  and  since  first  coming  to  this  coun- 
try has  seen  it  developed  from  an  uninviting, 
sagebrush-covered  area  into  one  of  the  best  farm- 
ing districts  in  this  part  of  the  State,  and  has 
with  his  own  hands  labored  faithfully  towards 
this  end,  taking  a  prominent  part  in  everything 
that  has  tended  to  the  upbuilding  or  beautifying 
of  his  community. 

He  was  born  in  South  Wales  December  25, 
1844,  and  is  the  fifth  child  of  Charles  and  Mary 
(Mathias)  Harman.  The  parents  embraced  the 
Mormon  religion  in  their  own  land,  and  for  three 
generations  this  family  have  been  consistent  and 
devoted  members  of  that  Church.  They  emi- 
grated to  the  United  States  and  reached  Utah 
in  1859.  The  father  engaged  in  farming,  and 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  that  occupation. 


He  was  by  trade  a  shoemaker,  which  he  follow-ed 
in  his  native  land. 

The  most  of  our  subject's  scholastic  educa- 
tion was  received  from  the  schools  of  his  own 
country,  as  after  coming  to  Utah  he  found  it 
necessary  to  assist  in  the  support  of  the  family, 
and  the  opportunities  for  study  were  very  limited 
during  the  first  years  of  the  settlement  of  Utah. 
The  year  following  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  accom- 
panied W.  W.  Riter  on  a  trip  across  the  plains 
to  the  Missouri  river,  for  the  purpose  of  bring- 
ing emigrants  to  Utah.  They  drove  four  yoke 
of  o-xen  apiece,  except  Mr.  Riter,  who  acted  as 
night  guard,  leaving  Salt  Lake  City  on  April  6th 
and  returning  on  October  6th,  with  sixty  wagons 
of  freight  and  a  little  band  of  Mormons.  The 
train  was  under  command  of  Captain  Joseph  W. 
Young.  In  addition  to  this  trip  Mr.  Harman 
made  a  number  of  others  at  different  times,  and 
while  he  encountered  a  good  many  Indians,  meet- 
ing three  thousand  on  one  occasion,  they  were 
always  friendly,  and  he  never  had  any  trouble 
with  them. 

For  the  past  thirty-one  years  he  has  made  his 
home  in  Mill  Creek  Ward,  where  he  now  owns 
a  fine  farm  of  fifty-five  acres,  on  which  he  has 
erected  a  comfortable  brick  house,  surrounded 
by  graceful  poplars  and  other  ornamental  shade 
trees.  The  interior  decorations  of  his  home  are 
in  keeping  with  the  general  gratifying  appear- 
ance of  his  farm,  and  it  is  comfortably  and  even 
luxuriously  fitted  up,  being  supplied  with  musical 
instruments,  good  books,  pictures,  etc.,  and  is  in 
every  way  a  most  desirable  home.  Mr.  Harman 
paid  seventeen  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  for  this 
place,  and  it  was  at  that  time  covered  with  a 
dense  growth  of  sagebrush  and  other  wild  growth, 
which  all  had  to  be  cleared  off  before  the  land 
could  be  cultivated.  He  has  it  well  irrigated  from 
artesian  wells  and  under  a  good  state  of  cultiva- 
tion. For  seven  years  before  he  bought  this  place 
he  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Church,  working  on 
the  Church  farm  in  the  capacity  of  stockman, 
and  was  continuously  in  the  saddle. 

He  was  married  in  the  early  si.xties  to  Miss 
Amanda  E.  Mitchell,  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  T. 
and  Caroline  (Conrad)  Mitchell.  The  Mitchell 
family  came  to  Utah  in   1847,  wi^'^  'he  second 


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company  of  pioneers,  and  the  daughter  was  born 
two  years  later.  The  father  was  a  stone  mason 
by  trade,  and  for  many  years  had  the  superin- 
tendency  of  the  building  of  the  famous  Salt  Lake 
Temple,  which  is  one  of  the  world's  wonders 
from  an  architectural  standpoint,  and  is  estimated 
to  have  cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  four  millions 
of  dollars.  Eight  children  have  been  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Harman,  of  whom  one  is  dead — Robert 
J.,  engaged  in  sheep  raising  in  Wyoming; 
Amanda  L.,  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  years  ; 
Caroline,  wife  of  Abraham  Hill,  also  living  in 
Wyoming;  Alice,  now  Mrs.  Peter  McMillen,  of 
South  Cottonwood  Ward ;  Edwin  L. ;  Maud  M., 
now  the  wife  of  Franklin  E.  Carlisle,  of  Mill, 
Creek  Ward;  Parley  R.,  and  Mable  J.,  living  at 
home. 

Politically  Mr.  Harman  is  a  strong  Republican. 
At  this  time  he  is  Road  Supervisor  for  his  dis- 
trict, having  charge  of  fifty  miles  of  road.  He  is 
very  active  in  Church  work,  as  is  also  Mrs.  Har- 
man, who  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  So- 
ciety. Mr.  Harman  has  spent  two  years  on  a 
mission  for  the  Church  in  England,  and  is  now 
a  teacher  in  the  Ward  and  a  member  of  the  Sev- 
enties. 


OEL  PARRISH,  one  of  the  wealthy  and 
influential  agriculturalists  of  Davis  coun- 
ty,came  to  Utahwith  the  second  company 
of  pioneers,  in  1847,  ^t  the  age  of  twenty 
years.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  Cen- 
terville  since  1848,  and  has  grown  to  be  one  of 
the  substantial  men  of  this  place,  wielding  a  large 
influence  for  good  in  both  private  and  business 
life,  and  commanding  the  highest  respect  wher- 
ever known. 

Mr.  Parrish  was  born  in  Lower  Canada,  near 
^Montreal,  November  6,  1827,  and  is  the  son  of 
Samuel  and  Fannie  (Dack)  Parrish.  The  father 
was  a  native  of  Canada,  and  the  mother 
bom  in  Ireland,  but  moved  to  Canada  with  her 
people  when  but  a  small  child.  When  our  sub- 
ject was  nine  years  of  age  the  family  moved  to 
the  United  States  and  located  in  Illinois,  where 
the  father  assisted  in  organizing  the  county  of 
Starke  and  became  one  of  its  first  officers.     They 


remained  there  six  years,  and  in  1842  moved  to 
Nauvoo,  Illinois,  where  they  remained  until  the 
exodus  in  1846.  There  were  in  this  family  five 
daughters  and  one  son,  our  subject,  being  the 
fifth  child.  Three  of  the  daughters  died,  and  one 
married  and  settled  in  Wisconsin.  At  the  time 
of  the  exodus  the  family  consisted  of  the  parents, 
our  subject  and  his  youngest  sister.  They  spent 
the  winter  of  1846  in  Council  Blufifs,  and  the 
following  spring  the  father  outfitted  an  ox  team 
and  joined  the  company  under  command  of  Dan- 
iel Spencer,  in  which  P.  G.  Sessions  was  Captain 
over  fifty  wagons.  Our  subject  drove  a  wagon 
the  entire  distance,  hiring  out  to  a  member  of 
the  company.  They  reached  Salt  Lake  City  Sep- 
tember 23rd,  and  spent  that  winter  in  the  old 
fort,  which  was  built  for  their  protection  against 
the  raids  of  the  Indians.  In  the  spring  of  1848 
a  small  crop  was  planted,  and  the  family  remained 
in  Salt  Lake  until  September,  when  they  came  to 
Centerville,  being  the  first  settlers  in  this  place, 
and  there  being  at  the  time  but  one  or  two  fami- 
lies in  the  whole  county. 

In  June  of  that  year  our  subject  and  Charles 
Chase  went  to  Emigration  Canyon,  where  they 
burned  the  first  lime  in  Utah,  and  the  father  that 
same  month  went  to  North  Canyon,  where  he 
peeled  the  first  tanbark  to  be  obtained  in  the 
Territory.  That  winter  he  erected  a  corn  mill  at 
Centerville,  which  was  at  that  time  a  part  of 
Bountiful.  He  was  a  natural  mechanic,  and  fol- 
lowed the  profession  until  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1873.  His  wife  and  the  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject died  in  September,  1851. 

Our  subject  began  life  in  Centerville  as  a 
farmer,  taking  up  twenty  acres  of  land,  which 
he  has  since  increased  to  sixty  acres,  and  in  addi- 
tion owns  three  thousand  acres  of  range  and 
farming  land  in  Morgan  county.  He  has  devoted 
himself  to  the  cattle  business,  ranging  his  cattle 
in  Morgan  county,  and  has  also  carried  on  gen- 
eral farming.  His  sons  are  at  this  time  interested 
with  him  in  the  cattle  industry. 

Mr.  Parrish  was  married  in  July,  1854,  to 
Elizabeth  Bratton  of  Pennsylvania,  daughter  of 
George  and  Mary  (Palmer)  Bratton.  The  father 
died  in  the  East,  and  the  mother  and  daughter 
came  alone  to  Utah,  reaching  Salt  Lake  City  in 


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1852.  Twelve  children  have  been  born  of  this 
marriage,  of  whom  eight  are  now  living.  His 
second  wife  was  Emma  Ford,  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, and  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Chan- 
dler) Ford,  whose  biography  appears  elsewhere 
in  this  work.  She  died  March  29,  1888,  in  Cen- 
terville.  Of  the  ten  children  born  of  this  union, 
seven  are  now  living.  All  the  children  but  two 
are  now  residents  of  Utah ;  these  two  live  in 
Canada. 

All  the  family  are  strong  adherents  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  in  whose  faith  they  have  been  born 
and  reared.  In  1875  Mr.  Parrish  was  called  on 
a  mission  and  served  in  the  Northern  States. 
The  oldest  son,  Samuel  J.,  has  served  on  two 
missions :  the  first  about  twenty  years  ago,  when 
he  served  two  years  in  Georgia  and  Tennessee, 
and  again  in  1899,  when  he  spent  two  years  in 
England.  Hyrum  B.  labored  two  years  in  Ala- 
bama and  Mississippi  about  fifteen  years  ago, 
and  in  March,  1899,  he  was  also  sent  to  England, 
remaining  there  two  years.  Charles  A.  spent  the 
years  of  1895-96  in  mission  work  in  Mississippi, 
and  in  1896  Parley  P.  went  on  a  two  years'  mis- 
sion to  England.  John  served  as  Counselor  to 
the  Bishop  of  Centerville  Ward  up  to  the  time  he 
went  to  Canada,  at  which  time  he  resigned  his 
office.  Ezra  B.  served  on  a  mission  to  England 
for  two  years,  being  called  in  1898.  Joseph  A., 
another  son,  has  been  called  for  missionary  work, 
but  is  not  yet  set  apart.  Samuel  is  at  this  time  a 
member  of  the  High  Council,  and  Charles  is  As- 
sistant Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  in 
which  his  brother  Parley  is  a  teacher.  Mrs.  Par- 
rish and  the  daughters  are  also  active  workers 
in  the  Church. 

Mr.  Parrish  has  always  taken  an  active  part 
in  public  affairs,  as  did  his  father.  The  senior 
Mr.  Parrish  was  County  Commissioner  for  a 
number  of  years  prior  to  his  death,  and  after  his 
death  our  subject  was  elected  to  that  office  for 
fifteen  consecutive  years.  He  was  also  during 
this  time  Road  Commissioner,  and  for  many  years 
Justice  of  the  Peace.  He  has  never  affiliated 
with  either  political  party,  preferring  to  cast  his 
vote  for  the  man  who  is  in  his  judgment  best 
fitted  for  the  office. 

Perhaps  no  man  now  living  in  the  State  has 


had  a  more  varied  career  or  seen  more  suffering 
and  privations  among  the  Mormon  people  than 
has  our  subject.  He  went  all  through  the  John- 
ston army  troubles  and  the  Indian  wars,  and  was 
one  of  those  sent  to  the  relief  of  the  famous  hand- 
cart company.  The  rescuers  reached  the  last 
crossing  of  the  Platte  river,  where  they  found 
the  poeple  in  great  distress,  having  but  half  a 
pound  of  rations  between  them  and  starvation; 
many  of  them  sick  and  frozen  as  a  result  of  the 
unusually  severe  weather.  They  had  been  eight 
weeks  reaching  that  point. 


AMES  HYRUM  FORD,  Vice-President 
of  Ford  Brothers  Land  and  Live  Stock 
Company  and  a  stockholder  in  the  Union 
Sheep  Company,  also  owned  by  Ford 
Brothers,  ranging  in  Utah,  Idaho  and 
Wyoming,  and  capitalized,  respectively,  at  twen- 
tv-five  thousand  and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

Our  subject  is  the  youngest  of  a  family  of 
eleven  children,  and  was  born  in  Centerville,  as 
was  also  his  younger  sister;  the  rest  of  the  family 
were  born  in  England.  The  parents  of  this  fam- 
ily, John  and  Rebecca  (Chandler)  Ford,  came  to 
Utah  with  their  family  in  1854,  and  here  made 
their  home.  The  mother  died  a  number  of  years 
ago,  and  the  father  is  still  living  at  an  advanced 
age,  in  the  enjoyment  of  good  health,  surrounded 
by  his  children  and  resting  from  a  well-spent 
and  honorable  life.  He  accumulated  large  means 
as  a  stockman  and  farmer,  and  as  his  sons  grew 
to  manhood  took  them  into  business  with  himself, 
forming  a  company  under  the  name  of  Ford  & 
Sons,  which  continued  up  to  the  time  the  senior 
Mr.  Ford  retired  from  active  business  life,  about 
six  years  ago.  A  full  biographical  sketch  of  this 
interesting  family  will  be  found  in  the  sketch  of 
John  Ford,  Junior,  which  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  work. 

James  Hyrum  Ford  obtained  his  education 
from  the  schools  of  Centerville,  attending  during 
the  winter  months  and  spending  his  summers  on 
his  father's  farm,  and  herding  the  sheep  and  cattle 
on  the  ranges  in  Utah  and  neighboring  States. 
When  he  became  old  enough  he  was  taken  in  as 
a  member  of  the  firm  and  has  since  continuea, 


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being  at  this  time  Vice-President  of  the  Land 
and  Live  Stock  Company  and  a  stockholder  in 
the  Sheep  Company.  Together  with  his  brother 
Joseph,  he  owns  a  fine  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  acres  at  Centerville.  This  land  has  been 
highly  cultivated  and  put  under  a  good  system 
of  fencing,  irrigation,  etc.  He  built  a  handsome 
nine-room  modern  brick  residence  in  1893,  which 
is  fitted  up  with  all  the  latest  conveniences  and 
elegantly  furnished. 

His  marriage  occurred  February  25,  1885, 
when  he  was  united  to  Miss  Anna  Etta  Cheney, 
daughter  of  Zacharias  and  Amanda  (Evans; 
Cheney.  The  father  was  a  member  of  the  famous 
JMormon  Battalion,  and  went  through  all  the 
hardships  and  sufferings  endured  by  that  band 
of  brave  men  during  their  memorable  march 
across  the  desert.  After  the  disbanding  in  Cali- 
fornia, Mr.  Cheney  continued  to  reside  in  that 
State  for  some  years,  finally  coming  to  Center- 
ville, and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  this 
place.  Six  children  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ford,  two  of  whom  have  died — William, 
died  in  infancy ;  Ivy  Etta ;  Ailene,  died  when  a 
baby ;  Verna  F. ;  Jennett,  and  Hyrum  W. 

In  politics  jMr.  Ford  is  a  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  party,  but  owing  to  his 
large  business  interests  has  never  found  time  to 
actively  participate  in  the  work  of  his  party  or 
to  hold  public  office. 

He  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  and  since  then  has 
been  an  earnest  worker,  taking  a  lively  interest 
in  Sunday  School  work,  and  was  at  one  time  Sec- 
retary of  the  Centerville  Sunday  School.  Mrs. 
Ford  is  also  active  in  Church  work  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society.  Their  two 
oldest  children  are  members  of  the  Church. 

Mr.  Ford  has  on  his  farm  some  very  fine  im- 
ported cattle,  principally  Shorthorns,  imported 
from  Ontario  and  Wisconsin ;  also  some  which 
came  from  Scotland.  He  is  the  owner  of  a  two- 
year-old  Hereford  bull  which  is  said  to  be  one 
of  the  finest  animals  in  the  State.  The  weights 
and  ages  of  a  few  of  his  animals  will  give  a  bet- 
ter idea  of  the  value  of  his  stock :  One  of  his 
Shorthorns,  which  he  has  named  Severa,  weighs 
nineteen  hundred  and  thirty-five  pounds  at  the 


age  of  three  years ;  a  heifer,  aged  three  years, 
and  three  months,  tips  the  scales  at  thirteen  hun- 
dred and  fifty  pounds ;  one  of  his  steers  weighs 
sixteen  hundred  and  eighty  pounds  at  two  years 
and  eight  months,  and  was  a  prize  winner  at  the 
last  State  Fair.  Another  animal,  William  Bryan, 
weighs  fifteen  hundred  and  seventy  pounds,  at 
the  age  of  two  and  a  half  years.  These  animals 
may  be  taken  as  fair  samples  of  the  stock  owned 
by  the  company  of  which  Mr.  Ford  is  a  member, 
and  which  have  made  the  firm  one  of  the  most 
prominent  in  this  western  country. 


i 


AMD  HESS.  Among  the  early  pio- 
neers to  Utah  who  are  living;  at  the 
present  time,  but  few  have  had  a  more 
interesting  and  varied  career  than  has 
David  Hess,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
David  Hess  was  born  in  Ray  county,  Missouri, 
February  18,  1837,  and  is  a  brother  of  President 
John  W.  Hess  of  the  Davis  Stake.  His  father 
was  Jacob  Hess,  who  died  in  Mount  Pisgah, 
Iowa,  in  March,  1847.  A.  complete  biography  of 
the  Hess  family  will  be  found  in  the  sketch  of 
John  W'.  Hess,  which  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  The  older  brother,  John  W.,  had  joined 
the  iMormon  Battalion,  and  our  subject  was  the 
oldest  boy  left  at  home,  and  at  the  tender  age  of 
ten  years  he  was  left  by  the  death  of  his  father 
to  assist  his  mother  in  providing  for  the  three 
other  children.  They  lived  in  a  little  cottage 
made  of  bark  elm  until  1848,  when  the  oldest 
brother,  John  W.,  returned  to  take  them  to  Salt 
Lake  City.  Our  subject  had  put  in  a  small  crop 
of  buckwheat  and  corn  for  the  support  of  the 
family.  The  meeting  was  a  most  joyful  one,  as 
the  family  had  given  up  all  hopes  of  ever  seeing 
their  brother  again.  They  started  for  Utah  on 
April  1st,  1849,  ^f^d  made  the  journey  across  the 
great  American  plains,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City 
on  July  28th  of  that  year.  The  youngest  brother, 
Alma,  died  in  Farmington  many  years  ago,  but 
all  the  other  children  are  still  living.  Ann  E. 
is  now  Mrs.  Teal,  and  lives  in  Nevada ;  the  other 
sisters    are    Mrs.    Hinman    and    Mrs.    Barkdull. 


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367 


Upon  arriving  in  Utah  the  family  went  at  once 
to  Farmington,  where  our  subject  has  lived  ever 
since. 

He  was  married.  March  21,  1858,  to  Miss  Jane 
Ann  \\  ilson,  and  by  this  marriage  has  had  eleven 
children,  nine  of  whom  are  still  living.  His  sec- 
ond wife  bore  him  four  children,  two  of  whom 
died.  One  son,  John  Alma,  was  on  a  mission  to 
Germany,  having  been  called  there  in  1899  and 
remained  three  years.  Charles  is  a  graduate  of 
the  Agricultural  College  at  Logan,  as  is  Alma 
also.  Of  the  children  of  the  first  wife,  David  is 
now  in  Bear  Lake  A'alley,  Idaho,  where  he  is  en- 
gaged in  the  merchandise,  cattle-raising  and 
farming  lines  ;Mary  E.  is  now  the  wife  of  Wil- 
lard  Stoddard  of  the  same  part  of  Idaho ;  Amanda 
I.  is  now  Mrs.  Hoff,  also  in  Bear  Lake  Valley ; 
Gladdis  A.,  married  a  brother  of  Mr.  Hoflfs ; 
Sarah  E.,  now  Mrs.  Baken,  also  in  Bear  Lake 
\'alley,  Idaho ;  Hortense,  now  ]Mrs.  Albert  Gro- 
ver,  of  Garland,  Utah ;  Harriett,  at  home ;  Jacob 
F.,  died  at  six  weeks  of  age,  and  Seymore,  died 
when  five  years  old. 

In  1871  our  subject  went  to  Georgetown,  Idaho, 
having  been  called,  in  company  with  Ezra  T. 
Clark,  to  colonize  that  place,  and  Mr.  Hess  re- 
mained here  for  sixteen  years,  engaged  in 
farming  and  the  cattle  business,  which  he 
found  very  profitable.  Since  locating  in  Farm- 
ington  he  has  engaged  in  general  farming,  and 
owns  a  fine  home  between  First  and  Second 
streets.  He  also  owns  sixty-four  acres  of  valu- 
able hay  land  a  mile  and  a  half  north  of  his  home, 
which  he  takes  care  of  himself.  Mr.  Hess,  like 
all  of  the  family,  has  been  active  in  Church  work, 
having  been  baptized  into  the  Mormon  faith  at 
Mount  Pisgah  in  1846,  and  has  since  then  been 
a  consistent  and  faithful  member  of  that  Church. 
In  1882  he  was  called  on  a  mission  to  the  South- 
ern States.  His  son  David  W.  was  called  to 
serve  in  Xorth  Carolina,  but  on  account  of  his 
poor  health  returned  after  three  months.  Our 
subject  married  Luella  M.  Hyde,  a  daughter  of 
.Apostle  Orson  Hyde  and  Elizabeth  (Galliger) 
Hyde.  He  has  also  been  active  in  Sunday  School 
work,  having  been  a  teacher  for  a  number  of 
years.  All  the  children  are  believers  in  the  same 
faith  as  their  parents. 


^Ir.  Hess  came  to  this  State  with  his  mother, 
but  before  he  came  here  he  had  taken  a  man's 
responsibilities  upon  his  childish  shoulders,  and 
with  a  courage  that  men  might  be  proud  of,  had 
aided  his  mother  in  keeping  her  little  flock  to- 
gether. She  died  in  Farmington  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty  years.  The  successful  career  which 
he  has  made  has  been  by  his  own  indomitable 
will  and  untiring  energy,  and  to-day  he  stands 
among  the  front  ranks  of  the  farmers  in  his 
neighborhood,  and  by  his  consistent  and  upright 
life  has  won  a  high  place  in  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  the  leaders  of  the  Church,  as  well  as 
among  his  neighbors. 


HILO  DIBBLE  is  one  of  the  successful 
and  substantial  agriculturalists  and 
>tockmen  of  Davis  county,  his  home 
being  at  Layton,  where  he  has  spent 
man}'  of  the  best  years  of  his  life.  He 
has  taken  a  prominent  and  active  part  in  build- 
ing up  Davis  county,  and  is  among  the  most 
highly  respected  citizens  of  his  county. 

He  was  born  in  Clay  county,  Missouri,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1836,  and  is  the  son  of  Philo  and  Celia 
(Kent)  Dibble.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, but  raised  in  Connecticut,  and  his 
mother  was  born  and  raised  in  the  latter  State. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dibble  were  membes  of  the 
^lormon  faith,  Mr.  Dibble  having  been  baptized 
in  1830  and  his  wife  some  time  later.  They  were 
members  of  the  Church  in  Kirkland,  Ohio,  where 
they  had  moved  after  their  marriage,  and  from 
that  place  went  with  the  Mormons  to  Clay 
county,  Missouri,  where  our  subject  was  bom. 
The  family  moved  to  Quincy,  Illinois,  in  1839, 
and  were  in  Nauvoo  at  the  time  of  the  exodus  of 
the  ^lormon  people  in  1846.  From  Xauvoo  they 
went  to  Council  Bluffs,  where  they  remained  until 
1 85 1,  when  they  crossed  the  plains  in  an  inde- 
pendent company  with  P.  C.  Merrill,  traveling 
part  of  the  way  in  a  freight  train,  and  arriving 
in  Salt  Lake  City  in  October  of  that  year.  Upon 
their  arrival  in  Utah  the  family  settled  at  Ses- 
sions Settlement,  now  known  as  Bountiful,  where 


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they  remained  until  1858,  when  they  moved  south 
on  account  of  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  and 
from  that  time  made  their  home  in  Springville, 
where  the  father  and  mother  died. 

In  1863  our  subject  came  to  Centerville,  and 
later  took  up  some  claims  in  Kaysville  Ward, 
which  he  improved  and  where  he  lived  for  some 
years.  He  sold  these  claims  in  1883  and  bought 
his  present  place  in  Layton,  where  he  has  since 
continued  to  live.  This  place  consists  of  eighty 
acres,  which  Mr.  Dibble  has  improved,  planting 
an  orchard,  erecting  a  comfortable  home,  good 
outbuildings,  and  now  has  a  fine  farm.  He  has 
followed  general  farming  since  settling  in  Lay- 
ton,  and  aside  from  this  is  interested  in  the  Davis 
and  Weber  Canal  Company,  in  which  he  is  a 
stockholder. 

Mr.  Dibble  was  married  in  March,  1863,  to 
Miss  Antoinette  Cleveland,  daughter  of  Alanson 
and  Anna  (Slade)  Cleveland,  and  of  this  mar- 
riage nine  children  were  born,  eight  of  whom 
are  living — Philo  A.  died  in  infancy ;  Cecilia 
Ann,  Edwin  C,  Sidney  D.,  George  E.,  Laura  A., 
David  D.,  Emma  A.,  and  Rudolph  K. 

In  politics  Mr.  Dibble  has  followed  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Democratic  party,  and  has  been  a 
worker  in  the  ranks  of  that  p^rty,  holding  the 
office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  also  serving  as 
Constable  of  Centerville  for  some  time.  In  re- 
ligious life  he  is  a  member  of  the  ^Mormon 
Church,  having  been  baptized  by  his  father  in 
Nauvoo  when  but  a  child  of  eight  years,  and 
all  through  his  life  has  been  active  and  con- 
sistent in  his  relations  with  that  Church.  He 
served  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern  States  foi 
about  eight  months,  and  at  this  time  holds  the 
office  of  High  Priest.  The  members  of  his  fam- 
ily are  also  believers  in  the  doctrines  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  active  in  its  work.  Mr.  Dib- 
ble has  seen  Utah  grow  from  almost  its  begin- 
ning to  its  now  prominent  place  among  the  States 
of  the  Union,  and  during  the  early  days  partici- 
pated in  the  many  troubles  which  the  first  set- 
tlers were  called  upon  to  pass  through.  He 
served  under  Lot  Smith  through  all  the  John- 
ston army  troubles,  and  was  always  willing  and 
ready  to  serve  his  State  as  well  as  his  Church  in 
any  duty  that  devolved  upon  him. 


LEXANDER  DAWSON.  Davis 
county  has  been  developed  from  a 
wild  and  barren  waste  by  the  pioneers 
or  their  sons,  and  the  splendid  con- 
dition which  the  county  is  in  at  the 
present  time  is  a  great  tribute  to  their  efforts 
and  ability.  Among  the  most  successful  and 
largest  real  estate  owners  in  the  county  is  Alex- 
ander Dawson,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

He  was  born  in  Scotland  July  13,  1837,  and  is 
the  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Harper)  Daw- 
son, natives  of  Scotland,  where  they  lived  and 
died.  Our  subject  was  the  oldest  of  a  large  fam- 
ily and  the  only  one  to  come  to  Utah.  He  went 
to  sea  when  but  a  lad,  and  followed  that  occupa- 
tion for  over  ten  years,  beginning  as  a  cabin  boy 
and  being  an  able  seaman  when  he  quit.  During 
those  years  he  touched  at  the  principal  ports  of 
the  world,  coming  to  America  in  i860  from  the 
Cape  of  Good  Hope  and  landing  in  Boston.  He 
crossed  the  plains  in  Nephi  Johnson's  company, 
and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  October  6th  of 
that  year. 

Mr.  Dawson  was  married  at  Port  Elizabeth 
South  Africa,  February  22,  i860,  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beht  Jane  Fowle,  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth Fowle,  natives  of  England.  Mrs.  Dawson 
was  born  in  Wales.  Ten  children  have  been  born 
of  this  marriage,  eight  of  whom  are  now  living — 
William  A.,  Elizabeth  Jane,  Alexander,  Isabell, 
who  died  in  infancy,  Margaret  I.,  Anna  P., 
Effie  L.,  Eva  Ellen,  Mary,  who  died  in  infancy, 
Emma  V.  All  the  children  are  living  in  the 
neighborhood  of  their  parents  in  Layton. 

LIpon  coming  to  Utah  Mr.  Dawson  lived  for  a 
year  in  Salt  Lake  City,  at  the  end  of  which  time 
he  moved  to  Kaysville,  where  he  worked  for 
Christopher  Layton  for  three  years,  when  he 
bought  his  present  home.  He  has  spent  his  life, 
since  coming  to  Utah,  in  farming,  and  is  now  the 
owner  of  several  fine  farms  in  Davis  county,  and 
is  also  largely  interested  in  cattle  and  sheep.  His 
home  place  is  a  beautiful  spot,  three  miles  from 
the  Layton  postoffice,  and  on  which  he  has  built 
a  lovely  residence,  modern  in  every  way.  Mr 
Dawson  was  baptized  into  the  Mormon  faith 
about  1858,  and  since  he  has  been  in  Utah  he 
has  been  active  in  furthering  the  interests  of  the 


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Church  in  every  way  possible.  He  has  taken  a 
great  interest  in  the  colonization  work  in  Arizona, 
sending  a  man  there  at  an  expense  of  a  thousand 
dollars,  to  carry  on  the  work.  He  has  been  a 
Sunday  School  teacher  for  many  years.  His  son 
William  A.  spent  two  years  in  England  on  a  mis- 
sion for  the  Church,  and  Mrs.  Dawson  is  also 
active  in  Church  matters,  as  are  also  the  other 
members  of  the  family. 

The  Dawson  family  are  noted  for  their  gen- 
erous hospitality  and  broad-mindedness.  They 
are  foremost  in  every  charitable  work  in  their 
vicinity,  and  their  home  is  always  open  to  the 
stranger  or  those  in  trouble.  No  family  in  Davis 
county  is  better  known  or  more  highly  honored 
than  is  this  one,  and  deservedly  so. 


ILLIAM  B.  SMITH.  To  be  es- 
teemed beyond  the  average  and  uni- 
versally beloved;  to  have  no  harsh 
word  uttered  of  one  during  a  long 
and  useful  pilgrimage  on  earth,  and 
to  pass  beyond  the  shadows  from  whence  no  mor- 
tal ever  returns,  and  to  know  that  hearts  an(i 
lives  almost  unnumbered  will  be  lonely  beyond 
the  sound  of  one  comforting  voice,  is  a  consum- 
mation attained  by  few.  William  B.  Smith  has 
passed  from  earth's  scenes,  but  the  influences  of 
his  grand  and  noble  life  will  never  cease. 

He  was  born  in  Bedfordshire,  in  February, 
1814,  and  was  the  son  of  John  and  Lucy  (Brown) 
Smith.  His  father  and  mother  lived  and  died  in 
England.  The  Smith  family  is  a  very  old  one  in 
England,  the  ancestry  being  traced  back  for  cen- 
turies. Mr.  Smith  came  to  America  in  tRe  early 
forties,  and  settled  in  Nauvoo,  where  he  lived 
until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  from  that  place. 
He  crossed  the  plains  to  Utah  in  185 1,  with  Cap- 
tain Evans,  and  went  direct  to  Kaysville,  in  Davis 
county,  where  he  took  up  government  land  close 
to  the  lake,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Kaysville  post- 
office.  This  farm  he  improved  and  stocked  with 
cattle  and  sheep,  as  well  as  carried  on  a  general 
farming  business. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  England  to  Miss 
Ann  Barnes,  who  died  in  Kaysville  in  1871.     His 


second  marriage  occurred  January  10,  1856,  to 
Miss  Isabell  Burton,  who  was  born  in  Winsdale, 
Bradfordshire,  England,  and  was  the  daughter  of 
James  and  Isabell  Burton,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  England,  where  the  father  died.  The 
mother,  with  her  nine  children,  emigrated  to 
America,  and  came  to  Utah  in  Milo  Andrus' 
company,  arriving  here  in  1855,  and  settling  in 
Kaysville,  where  she  died  about  thirty-seven  years 
ago.  Of  the  nine  children,  seven  are  still  living ; 
two  of  the  sons  live  in  Kaysville  Ward,  three  in 
Ogden,  and  a  daughter  is  living  in  Weber  county. 
By  his  second  marriage  Mr.  Smith  had  six  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  still  living — Gabriel  W., 
a  farmer  in  Kaysville ;  Lucy  I. ;  Sarah  A.,  now 
Mrs.  Frederick  S.  Crowley ;  George  W.,  farm- 
ing in  Kaysville.  Mr.  Smith  died  in  Kaysville 
October  11,  1897,  leaving  a  large  estate  for  his 
wife  and  children.  He  was  a  staunch  believer 
in  the  principles  and  doctrines  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  having  been  baptized  into  that  faith  in 
England  by  John  Sheffield.  He  was  during  his 
lifetime  active  in  all  Church  matters,  and  caused 
several  trips  to  be  made  to  the  Missouri  river  to 
escort  emigrants  to  Utah.  He  was  one  of  those 
who  went  out  to  meet  the  first  hand-cart  brigade. 
He  also  participated  in  the  early  troubles  which 
the  settlers  encountered  in  Utah,  serving  in  the 
Johnston  army  troubles  under  Lot  Smith.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  active  and  enterprising  citi- 
zens of  his  county,  generous  to  a  fault,  and  is 
widely  remembered  to-day  for  his  many  char- 
itable deeds.  He  not  only  rendered  aid  to  the 
needy  at  his  own  door,  but  brought  many  of  his 
friends  who  had  become  converts  to  the  Mormon 
religion  to  this  country,  and  among  these  he  is 
mourned  as  a  true  friend.  He  settled  his  sons 
on  farms  of  their  own  as  they  grew  to  manhood, 
and  they  are  to-day  among  the  most  substantial 
citizens  of  Davis  county. 

Mrs.  Smith,  the  widow  of  our  subject,  has  re- 
mained in  Kaysville  since  her  marriage,  and  is 
widely  known  for  her  charity  and  hospitality. 
She  was  baptized  into  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  in  England  by  James  Dins- 
dale,  and  all  of  her  children  are  members  of  that 
faith  and  active  in  its  work,  her  son  George  bav- 
ins served  fourteen  months  on  a  mission  to  the 


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Southern  States,  being  called  in  January,  1897. 
The  oldest  daughter,  Lucy  I.,  has  never  married, 
but  remained  at  home,  making  the  declining  days 
of  her  parents  happy. 


R.  W.  M.  BROWN.  No  institution 
of  the  present  day  has  done  more  for 
the  uplifting  of  fallen  humanity  than 
has  the  Keely  Institute,  whose  chief 
aim  is  the  reclaiming  of  men  from  the 
drink  habit,  and  to-day,  wherever  one  of  these 
institutions  is  located,  there  are  to  be  found  hun- 
dreds of  men  who  owe  whatever  of  good  and  of 
happiness  there  ma}-  be  in  their  lives  to  the  hu- 
mane treatment  they  have  received  at  the  hands 
of  those  in  charge  of  the  institute. 

Dr.  W.  M.  Brown,  the  physician  in  charge  of 
the  Keely  Institute  of  Salt  Lake  City,  was  born 
in  Linn  county,  Missouri,  in  1853.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  the  Grand  River  College,  at  Edinburgh, 
Missouri,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  B. 
in  1874.  He  then  took  a  course  of  study  in  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Keokuk, 
Iowa,  and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  that 
institution  in  1881.  After  the  completion  of  his 
studies  he  located  in  Black  Hawk,  Colorado, 
where  he  practiced  his  profession  for  two  years, 
going  from  there  to  D'enver,  where  he  opened  a 
drug  store  on  Santa  Fe  avenue  and  conducted 
a  general  practice  in  connection  with  his  drug 
store  for  three  years.  From  Denver  he  went  to 
Elizabeth,  in  the  same  State,  and  there  estab- 
lished a  drug  store,  and  again  took  up  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession.  During  this  time  he  be- 
came surgeon  for  the  Denver,  Texas  and  Fort 
Worth  Railroad  and  examining  physician  for  the 
Western  Mutual  Life  Association. 

In  1890  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Keely 
Institute  at  Dwight,  Illinois,  where  he  was  a 
member  of  the  medical  staff  for  three  years.  In 
1893  he  was  sent  to  the  different  branch  institutes 
throughout  the  East,  visiting  New  York,  Penn- 
sylvania, Minnesota,  etc.,  reviewing  the  work, 
studying  and  investigating  the  course  of  treat- 
ment and  becoming  more  proficient  in  the  method 
of  treatment  adopted  by  the  Keely  Institute.  In 
1896  he  opened  a  branch  institute  for  the  benefit 
of  the  officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  L'nited 


States  army  at  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas.  He 
is  the  only  physician  who  has  ever  conducted  a 
Keely  Institute  in  the  United  States  army,  and 
to-day  is  the  second  oldest  physician  in  the  serv- 
ice of  the  Keely  Company. 

Dr.  Brown  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  took 
charge  of  the  institute  at  this  place  in  1897,  and 
has  since  attained  a  high  professional  standing, 
and  is  universally  esteemed  for  his  qualities  of 
mind  and  heart.  Success  did  not  immediately 
crown  Dr.  Brown's  efforts,  but  the  progress  of 
the  institution,  though  slow  at  first,  has  been 
steady,  and  when  the  public  once  realized  that 
the  patients  did  not  relapse,  but  that  the  cure 
was  permanent,  the  success  of  the  undertaking 
in  this  place  was  assured.  Dr.  Brown  has  twice 
been  compelled  to  move  to  larger  quarters  dur- 
ing the  four  years  he  has  been  here,  and  to-day 
the  institute  occupies  a  mansion  equal  in  size 
to  many  a  pretentious  family  hotel.  The  present 
quarters  of  this  institution  were  erected  ten  years 
ago  by  Mayor  Faramorz  Little,  in  the  flush  of 
his  prosperity,  and  is  noted  the  country  over  for 
its  attractiveness,  being  one  of  the  show  places 
of  the  city.  Today  it  rivals  in  architectural 
beauty,  and  far  surpasses  in  interior  decorations 
many  of  the  residences  of  the  wealthy  men  of 
the  mountains  and  plains  who  have  come  to  Salt 
Lake  to  establish  a  permanent  home.  It  is  sur- 
rounded by  beautiful  and  ample  grounds,  and  all 
the  attendants  are  uniformed  in  blue,  Dr.  Brown 
taking  pride  in  keeping  everything  about  the 
place  in  harmony.  The  patients  find  it  a  genuine 
home,  and  it  is  said  of  them  that  they  are  so 
contented  and  happy  here  that  they  often  feel  a 
sincere  regret  when  the  time  of  their  discharge 
comes. 

Salt  Lake  City  is  to  be  congratulated  on  the 
splendid  success  which  has  resulted  from  Dr. 
Brown's  efficient,  earnest  work  and  careful  man- 
agement, and  the  cause  is  a  most  worthy  one, 
and  should  have  the  hearty  support  of  every  citi- 
zen of  this  city. 

Dr.  Brown  was  married  in  Denver,  Colorado, 
in  1886,  to  Miss  Nannie  Nelson  of  that  city,  a 
daughter  of  William  Nelson  of  Kansas  City,  Mis- 
souri. They  have  had  one  child,  William,  who 
died  in  infancy. 


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HOMAS  STEED.  But  few  men  are 
better  or  more  favorably  known  in  Salt 
Lake  City  and  vicinity  than  is  Thomas 
Steed,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  From 
the  very  earliest  settlement  of  this  State 
to  the  present  time  he  has  been  closely  identified 
with  its  history  and  development.  He  has  passed 
through  all  the  early  hardships  and  troubles,  and 
now,  in  the  declining  years  of  his  successful  and 
eventful  life,  he  can  look  back  with  pride  to  a 
life  well  and  honorably  spent. 

He  was  born  in  Worcestershire,  Great  Mal- 
vern, England,  on  December  13,  1826,  and  is 
the  son  of  Thomas  and  Charlotte  (Burston) 
Steed.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  the  same 
place,  and  his  father  was  born  in  Herefordshire. 
At  the  early  age  of  sixteen  our  subject  became 
imbued  with  a  desire  to  see  America,  and  after 
some  time  spent  in  persuading  his  father,  he 
gained  permission  to  leave  home.  He  spent  six 
months  in  the  employ  of  J.  H.  Campbell,  a 
wealthy  Scotchman,  who  owned  a  castle  in  Scot- 
land, on  the  island  of  Inveron.  At  the  end  of  six 
months  our  subject  was  offered  passage  to  Amer- 
ica, but  his  employer  objected  and  attempted  to 
persuade  him  to  remain,  offering  him  a  position 
on  his  place  in  Scotland,  which  he  refused.  He 
remained  in  England  until  1840,  when  he  was 
converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  under  President  Woodruff,  who  was  on 
a  mission  to  England  at  that  time,  and  on  Janu- 
ary 21  of  that  year  sailed  for  America,  arriving 
in  New  Orleans  on  board  the  Fannie,  of  Boston, 
under  Captain  Patterson.  He  was  on  the  ocean 
six  weeks,  and  then  had  a  six  weeks'  trip  up  thei 
Mississippi  river  to  Xauvoo,  Illinois,  where  he 
arrived  the  13th  of  April.  There  he  met  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  and  was  guard  over  him 
for  several  weeks,  and  present  with  him  up  to  the 
end,  being  among  those  who  heard  the  Prophet's 
last  speech.  He  was  with  the  Mormons  when 
they  were  driven  out  of  Nauvoo  in  1846,  and 
from  there  went  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  he  re- 
mained four  years.  While  at  this  place  he  took 
a  contract,  with  two  other  men,  to  burn  lime  and 
build  cellars,  at  which  business  he  prospered.  On 
March  i.  1850,  he  left  for  Salt  Lake  City,  in  the 
train  of   which   Captain   Andrews   was   in   com- 


mand, arriving  in  Salt  Lake  August  28,  1850. 
Here  he  built  a  home  for  his  family. 

Our  subject  was  married  December  13,  1846, 
to  Miss  Laura  E.  Reed,  at  Keokuk,  Iowa.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  A.(Barsh) 
Reed.  Of  this  marriage  three  children  were  born 
at  Keokuk — John,  who  died  aged  six  months ; 
Arthur,  who  died  in  infancy,  and  George  H., 
who  is  now  living  in  Bear  River,  Box  Elder 
county,  Utah.  Twelve  more  children  were  born 
in  Utah,  nine  of  whom  are  still  living.  Mr.  Steed 
was  married  a  second  time,  in  1857,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Bailey,  who  died  in  1875.  Of  this 
marriage  one  child  was  born,  James  J.,  who  is 
now  a  sheepman,  residing  in  Logan. 

In  the  spring  of  1851  Mr.  Steed  bought  fifty 
acres  of  land  at  Farmington,  in  Davis  county, 
just  east  of  the  village,  and  now  has  two  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  of  land  in  that  county.  He  first 
built  an  adobe  house,  which  still  stands,  and  in 
which  the  family  lived  until  1874,  when  he  built 
a  fine  brick  residence  and  put  up  a  number  of 
good  barns  for  his  stock  and  hay.  He  has  fol- 
lowed the  farming  and  live  stock  business  ever 
since  he  came  to  this  State,  and  has  made  it  a 
successful  avocation.  His  first  wife  is  still  liv- 
ing, but  is  in  feeble  health.  Mr.  Steed  has  ever 
been  active  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  has 
served  on  a  number  of  small  missions  at  home, 
besides  which  he  was  called  in  1875  to  go  on  a 
mission  to  Australia  and  New  Zealand.  He  went 
by  way  of  England,  circumnavigating  the  globe, 
and  spending  a  considerable  time  sight-seeing  in 
England,  visiting  the  great  English  arsenal  and 
gun  yards.  He  was  fifty-six  days  on  the  trip 
from  England  to  Melbourne,  and  spent  two  years 
in  New  Zealand  and  the  Hawaiian  Islands.  He 
was  absent  for  three  years  on  this  mission.  He 
encountered  a  terrible  storm  on  the  Indian  Ocean, 
which  lasted  for  ten  days.  When  this  Stake  was 
organized  our  subject  was  made  First  Coun- 
selor to  the  President  of  the  High  Priest's  Quo- 
rum, and  in  1900  was  ordained  a  Patriarch.  His 
son  Thomas  I.  has  also  been  on  a  mission  to  the 
Northern  States.  In  addition  to  his  other  busi- 
ness interests,  Mr.  Steed  has  also  taken  an  active 
interest  in  mining,  having  developed  several 
claims  in  Davis  countv,  and  has  now  two  claims 


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which  show  a  good  deposit  of  gold  and  copper, 
and  which  he  expects  to  develop  into  a  good 
mine.  He  has  named  his  mines  the  Laura  and 
the  McKinley. 

The  same  persevering  spirit  that  he  displayed 
when  but  a  youth  and  that  brought  him  safely 
across  the  ocean  and  made  him  a  citizen  of  a 
strange  land,  has  been  with  Mr.  Steed  in  all  his 
business  ventures,  and  he  owes  his  success  to  his 
own  ability  to  grasp  the  opportunities  that  came 
to  his  hand  and  to  successfully  overcome  every 
obstacle  in  his  pathway.  To-day  he  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  the  leaders  of  his 
Church,  in  which  he  has  ever  been  a  faithful  and 
consistent  member,  and  has  a  wide  circle  of 
friends. 


VTRIARCH  EDWIN  PACE,  the  old- 
est resident  now  living  at  Woods 
Cross.  When  Patriarch  Pace  first  set- 
tled in  the  vicinity  where  he  now  re- 
sides, the  country  was  a  wild  and  bar- 
ren waste.  There  had  been  a  few  farms  settled 
in  the  vicinity  previous  to  his  arrival,  but  the 
most  were  small  and  of  a  crude  character.  He 
has  been  an  eye-witness  to  the  development  of  the 
whole  country,  and  he  has  always  taken  a  promi- 
nent and  active  part  in  every  enterprise  which 
has  been  for  the  advancement  or  improvement  of 
Davis  county.  His  life  has  been  an  interesting 
one,  filled  with  many  scenes  of  a  thrilling  char- 
acter, and  now,  in  the  declining  years  of  his  suc- 
cessful career,  he  can  look  back  with  pleasure  to 
a  life  honorably  and  well  spent  in  the  interests  of 
his  family,  his  Church  and  humanity. 

He  was  born  in  Licking  county,  Ohio,  Decem- 
ber 8,  1831.  He  is  the  son  of  Elisha  and  Eliza 
(Baldwing)  Pace.  The  father  was  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  the  mother  was  born  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. They  were  married  in  Ohio,  and 
raised  a  family  of  two  sons  and  two  daughters 
to  maturity,  our  subject  being  the  oldest  and  the 
only  one  now  living.  They  became  identified  with 
the  Mormon  Church  in  Ohio  in  its  early  history. 
In  1837  the  family  moved  to  Nauvoo,  where  the 
senior  Mr.  Pace  died  in  July,  1844,  and  the  care 
of  the   family  then   devolved  upon  our   subject, 


he  being  the  oldest  son.  Two  years  after  the 
death  of  Mr.  Pace  the  mother  and  children,  in 
1846,  moved  to  Ponca,  Nebraska,  about  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  miles  above  Winter  Quarters, 
where  they  resided  during  the  winter,  and  later 
moved  to  where  Omaha  now  stands.  In  1848 
they  joined  the  Mormon  train  bound  for  Utah 
in  company  with  the  late  President  Snow,  and  on 
this  memorable  trip  our  subject  drove  one  yoke 
of  o.xen  and  two  yoke  of  cows,  and  made  the 
entire  trip  on  foot.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  the  fall  of  that  year,  and  the  family  went 
direct  to  that  part  of  Bountiful  now  known  as 
the  South  Bountiful  Ward,  and  in  this  vicinity 
Patriarch  Pace  has  continued  to  reside  ever  since. 
His  life  has  been  crowned  with  a  reasonable  de- 
gree of  success,  he  at  the  present  time  having 
practically  retired  from  business  life.  His  home 
consists  of  a  two-story  brick  residence,  which  he 
designed  and  built  himself. 

He  was  married  in  Bountiful  May  2,  1853,  to 
Miss  Mary  Jane  Atkinson,  daughter  of  William 
and  Phoebe  Jackson,  her  people  having  come  to 
Utah  in  the  fall  of  1852.  Twelve  children  were 
born  of  this  marriage,  of  whom  ten  are  still  liv- 
ing. The  mother  of  these  children  died  in  1877. 
Our  subject's  second  marriage  was  to  Miss  Mary 
J.  Brown,  daughter  of  William  and  Phoebe 
(Odell)  Brown.  These  people  were  from  an  old 
New  York  family,  and  came  to  Utah  with  the 
pioneers  in  1847,  settling  in  Bountiful,  where 
they  lived  and  died.  Nine  children  were  born  of 
this  union,  seven  of  whom  still  live. 

It  was  while  residing  at  Nauvoo,  in  1840,  that 
our  subject  was  baptized  into  the  Mormon  faith 
by  William  Smith,  a  brother  of  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present 
he  has  been  a  consistent  and  faithful  follower  of 
that  faith.  He  was  called  to  assist  in  the  colon- 
ization of  Arizona,  where  he  spent  one  season. 
For  many  years  he  has  served  as  First  Counselor 
to  Bishop  Brown,  and  in  1897  he  was  ordained  a 
Patriarch  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints.  During  the  troubles  which  existed 
when  Johnston's  army  landed  in  Utah  he  partici- 
pated, serving  as  a  guard  in  Salt  creek.  He  also 
participated  in  many  Indian  troubles  which  oc- 
curred in  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  of  Utah. 


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He  has  been  a  large  real  estate  owner  in  Davis 
county,  but  as  he  has  advanced  in  years  he  has 
gradually  given  up  the  greater  part  of  his  real 
estate  to  his  sons  and  daughters.  He  was  among 
the  first  to  start  in  the  sheep  and  cattle  business 
in  Davis  county,  which  he  successfully  followed 
for  a  number  of  years.  He  has  always  been  con- 
sidered a  permanent  fixture  of  this  county. 

The  first  work  which  Patriarch  Pace  did  in 
Utah  was  to  build  a  wigwam  of  poles  covered 
with  brush,  which  served  as  a  shelter  for  a  time, 
and  the  following  fall  built  a  one-room  log  cabin, 
in  which  the  family  continued  to  live  for  eight 
years.  The  next  residence  was  an  adobe  house 
of  eight  rooms,  where  they  lived  until  1885,  when 
the  Patriarch  constructed  the  splendid  brick  resi- 
dence he  now  lives  in  .  His  home  place  consists 
of  nineteen  acres  of  land,  which  is  considered 
the  finest  in  Davis  county  for  its  size.  Patriarch 
■  Pace  has  had  over  one  hundred  grandchildren, 
of  whom  seventy-six  are  still  living,  and  eight 
great  grandchildren.  A  noticeable  feature  of  this 
family  is  the  fact  that  although  a  very  large  one 
nearly  every  member  of  it  has  followed  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Mormon  faith. 


EORGE  V.  STEVENSON.  In  the 
vast  undertaking  of  the  transforming 
of  Utah  from  a  wild  and  barren  waste 
to  its  present  state  of  development,  it 
has  required  men  of  strong  will  power, 
perseverance  and  determination ;  men  who  know 
no  such  word  as  fail.  Among  this  class  of  citi- 
zens of  Davis  county  George  V.  Stevenson,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  deserves  special  mention. 
Mr.  Stevenson  is  essentially  a  self-made  man, 
having  started  out  in  life  on  his  own  hook,  and 
his  success  in  life  has  been  due  to  his  own  efforts. 
His  long  and  honorable  life,  his  straightforward 
business  principles,  and  his  honesty  in  dealing 
with  his  fellow  men  has  won  for  him  a  large 
circle  of  friends  in  Davis  county. 

'He  was  born  in  Breaston,  Derbyshire,  England, 
March  18,  1847,  and  is  the  son  of  John  and  Mary 
(Vickers)  Stevenson,  both  natives  of  England. 
There  were  fourteen  children  in  this  family,  all 
born  in  England,  of  whom  eight  are  now  living. 
The  Stevenson  family  emigrated  to  America  in 


1862,  crossing  the  plains  to  Utah  with  Captain 
Home.  One  son,  James  V.,  now  living  in 
Ephraim,  Sanpete  county,  preceded  the  rest  of 
the  family,  coming  to  Utah  in  1856.  They 
crossed  the  ocean  on  the  sailing  vessel  John  J. 
Boydc.  A  few  days  after  their  arrival  in  Salt 
Lake  City  the  father  died,  and  the  care  of  the 
family  devolved  upon  our  subject  and  his  younger 
brother,  who  obtained  employment  in  the  shoe 
factory  of  Air.  Jennings,  which  trade  our  subject 
had  learned  from  his  father  in  England.  At  the 
end  of  a  year  his  health  became  so  poor  that  he 
had  to  relinquish  his  position  with  Mr.  Jennings, 
and  he  went  to  Kaysville,  where  he  worked  one 
season  for  William  B.  Smith.  After  leaving  the 
service  of  William  B.  Smith  our  subject  was  em- 
ployed by  John  S.  Smith,  with  whom  he  remained 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  whose  daughter,  Eliza 
M.,  he  married.  The  result  of  this  marriage  was 
ten  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now  living — 
Richard  S.,  Warren  S.,  Winifred  Jane,  Ida  E., 
Mary  Ellen,  Jesse  E.,  died  aged  one  and  a  half 
years,  George  S.,  died  at  eleven  years  of  age, 
John  D.,  Melvin  A.,  died  in  infancy,  and  Eliza- 
beth. 

After  his  marriage  our  subject  conducted  a 
farm  in  Skull  Valley  belonging  to  his  father-in- 
law  for  one  year,  when  he  returned  and  farmed 
his  father-in-law's  home  place  for  two  years.  He 
then  rented  a  farm  for  three  years,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  this  term  took  up  his  present  home 
of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  which  was  then 
only  a  wild  piece  of  sagebrush  land,  requiring 
much  labor  to  clear  and  cultivate  it.  By  hard 
work  and  perseverance  he  has  brought  this  land 
up  to  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  erected  a  good 
brick  residence  and  outbuildings ;  has  it  well 
fenced  and  the  land  divided  into  fields  and  pas- 
tures, and  it  is  in  every  way  a  well  improved  and 
desirable  home.  Mr.  Stevenson  is  interested  in 
cattle,  sheep  and  hogs,  and  handles  only  high- 
grade  stock.  He  has  not  confined  his  attention 
wholly  to  his  farming  and  stock-raising,  but  has 
been  active  in  promoting  the  growth  and  devel- 
opment of  his  county,  and  is  foremost  in  all  proj- 
ects for  the  betterment  of  Davis  county.  He  is 
a  stockholder  in  the  Layton  Creamery,  and  also  a 
heavy  stockholder  in  the  irrigation  company. 


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In  politics  Mr.  Stevenson  is  independent,  owing 
allegiance  to  no  political  party,  but  believes  in 
the  best  man  for  the  office.  Mr.  Stevenson  was 
baptized  into  the  Mormon  Church  on  January  i, 
1857,  in  England,  by  Joseph  Newbold.  Mrs. 
Stevenson  was  born  in  Iowa,  and  was  also  raised 
in  the  Mormon  faith,  as  have  also  been  all  their 
children,  and  the  family  has  always  been  promi- 
nent in  Church  work  in  their  community.  Mr. 
Stevenson  is  at  this  time  First  Counselor  to  the 
Bishop  of  West  Layton,  and  has  served  as  one 
of  the  Seven  Presidents  of  the  Fifty-fifth  Quo- 
rum of  Seventies.  On  October,  16,  1889,  he  was 
called  and  set  apart  for  missionary  service  in 
England,  laboring  in  Derbyshire,  Nottingham 
and  Lincolnshire  for  a  period  of  two  years.  His 
wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society 
and  President  of  the  Primary  of  their  Ward. 


OHN  TAYLOR.  We  speak  of  the  first 
ten  years  of  the  last  century  as  being 
prolific  in  the  birth  of  great  men,  who 
have  given  to  the  century  much  of  the 
brilliancy  for  which  it  was  noted ;  not 
warriors,  but  men  of  peace — historians,  poets, 
statesmen  and  men  of  religion.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  a  man  of  peace,  preaching  "peace 
on  earth,  good  will  to  all  men" ;  asking  no  one  to 
do  that  which  he  could  not  or  would  not  do  him- 
self ;  consistent  in  all  things,  gentle,  kind,  noble, 
just  and  generous.  What  better  example  do  we 
need  than  that  he  has  given  us? 

John  Taylor,  third  President  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  was  a  son  of 
James  and  Agnes  Taylor,  and  was  born  Novem- 
ber 1st,  1808,  at  Milnthorpe,  Westmoreland 
county,  England,  where  his  parents  owned  a 
small  estate  in  the  village  of  Hale  and  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  England.  When  he  was 
fifteen  years  of  age  he  joined  the  Methodists,  and 
was  soon  appointed  a  local  preacher,  and  contin- 
ued as  such  until  he  came  to  America  in  1828  or 
1829.  I  have  heard  him  tell  of  his  experiences 
as  a  boy  preacher,  and  laughingly  say  he  was 
then  so  short  that  he  had  to  stand  on  a  stool  in 


the  pulpit  so  that  he  could  be  seen  by  the  con- 
gregation. 

After  arriving  at  Toronto,  Canada,  he  joined 
with  some  educated  gentlemen  in  studying  the 
scriptures,  they  not  feeling  satisfied  that  they  had 
the  truth ;  so  that  when  Parley  P.  Pratt  presented 
a  letter  of  introduction  he  thoroughly  investi- 
gated the  principles  of  the  Gospel,  was  con- 
vinced of  the  truth,  and  was  baptized  in  1836. 
He  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  under  the  hands 
of  Joseph  Smith,  Sidney  Rigdon  and  Thomas 
B.  Marsh  in  Toronto  in  1837.  He  removed  from 
Canada  to  Kirtland  by  request  of  the  Prophet, 
and  from  there  to  Missouri  in  1838. 

We  will  quote  from  his  history:  "During  the 
great  apostacy  of  1837,  when  many  leading  men 
turned  away  and  became  so  embittered  against 
the  Prophet  that  the  lives  of  men  who  defended 
him  were  endangered.  Elder  John  Taylor  stood 
up  boldly  in  the  Kirtland  Temple,  in  the  midst  of 
foes,  and  with  that  eloquent  power  which  came 
from  God  and  which  ever  characterized  Elder 
Taylor's  speech,  declared  that  Joseph  Smith  was 
a  Prophet  of  the  living  God,  and  had  not  fallen, 
as  alleged  by  apostates." 

While  traveling  through  Missouri  he  preached 
the  Gospel  and  organized  a  Branch  at  Far  West ; 
was  ordained  to  the  Apostleship  December  19th, 
1838,  by  Apostles  Brigham  Young  and  Heber  C. 
Kimball.  He  shared  in  all  the  persecutions  of  the 
Saints  in  Missouri,  and  was  so  bold  and  powerful 
in  his  defense  of  their  rights  and  in  denunciations 
of  ihe  wicked  that  he  was  ever  after  called  the 
"Champion  of  Right." 

He  and  Bishop  Partridge  were  selected  to 
write  a  petition  to  the  General  Government,  set- 
ting forth  the  persecutions  of  his  people  and  ask- 
ing redress.  He  left  his  family  in  poor  circum- 
stances to  fulfill  a  mission  to  England  in  1838. 
He  was  sick  for  eleven  weeks  on  his  way.  He 
believed  in  preaching  the  Gospel  without  purse 
and  scrip ;  always  had  great  faith  in  God, 
and  always,  if  possible,  traveled  in  the  best  con- 
veyances, so  that  he  might  meet  and  preach  to  the 
educated  people.  He  never  asked  a  human  being 
for  help;  he  asked  the  Lord,  and  his  prayers 
were  always  answered.  He  arrived  in  Liverpool 
January  nth,  i8^o,  preaching,  baptizing  and  or- 


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ganizing  branches.  He  introduced  the  Gospel  in 
the  Isle  of  Man ;  also  preached  in  Scotland.  He 
also  published  tracts  refuting  falsehoods;  cor- 
rected the  proof  sheets  of  the  Book  of  Mormon, 
etc. 

In  1841  John  Taylor  and  Elias  Higbee  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  petition  Congress  for 
redress  of  the  wrongs  heaped  upon  the  Saints  in 
Missouri,  and  he  was  appointed  by  the  Prophet 
to  present  the  same.  He  was  also  appointed  by 
the  Prophet  editor  of  the  Times  and  Seasons; 
also  edited  and  published  the  Nauvoo  Neighbor; 
he  was  also  a  City  Councilman,  one  of  the  Re- 
gents of  the  University  and  Judge  Advocate  of 
the  Nauvoo  Legion. 

John  Taylor  was  very  firmly  attached  to  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  often  attended  him  in 
his  trials  and  persecutions,  he  and  Willard  Rich- 
ards going  with  him  to  Carthage,  and  when  the 
mob  attacked  them,  and  while  Willard  Richards 
closed  the  door  the  best  he  could,  John  Taylor 
parried  the  guns  aside  with  his  walking  cane. 
We  all  know  the  result  of  that  dreadful  day. 
The  Prophet  and  his  brother  were  murdered, 
John  Taylor  wounded  with  four  bullets,  one  of 
which  he  carried  to  his  grave,  forty-three  years 
later.  After  the  restoration  of  his  health  he  was 
one,  with  President  Young  and  the  Apostles,  in 
presiding  over  the  Church.  He  helped  the  Saints 
in  their  troubles ;  assisted  in  the  completion  of 
the  Nauvoo  Temple ;  was  driven  with  the  Saints 
from  Xauvoo,  and  journeyed  with  the  brethren 
to  Winter  Quarters ;  assisted  in  organizing  the 
Mormon  Battalion,  and  was  from  this  point 
called,  with  Orson  Hyde  and  Parley  P.  Pratt, 
on  a  mission  to  Great  Britain,  arriving  in  Eng- 
land, October  3rd,  1846.  Performed  an  excellent 
work  in  assisting  to  regulate  the  affairs  of  the 
mission. 

He  says :  "I  left  the  Camp,  in  company  with 
my  brethren,  July  3rd,  1846,  and  have  traveled 
upwards  of  seventeen  thousand  miles  in  England, 
Scotland  and  Wales.  *  *  Am  thankful  so 
much  of  my  mission  is  completed,  and  I  bless 
the  name  of  the  God  of  Israel."  He  desired  to 
reach  the  Camp  before  the  pioneer  company  left 
for  the  West,  as  he  had  with  him  some 
surveying   and   scientific    instruments    purchased 


in  England  for  them.  These  instruments 
consisted  of  two  sextants,  two  barometers, 
two  artificial  horizons,  one  circular  reflector, 
several  thermometers  and  a  telescope.  The  pio- 
neer camp  was  then  on  the  Elkhorn,  some  twenty 
or  thirty  miles  from  Winter  Quarters.  He  was 
given  charge  of  a  large  company  of  Saints,  who 
entered  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  October  5th,  1847. 
For  two  years  he  was  active  in  founding  and 
building  Salt  Lake  City.  He  built  one  of  the 
first  saw  mills  in  Utah,  and  worked  in  it  himself. 
March  12th,  1849,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  Asso- 
ciate Judges  of  the  provisional  State  of  Deseret. 
On  October  20th,  1849  he  started  on  a  mission 
to  France.  During  this  mission  the  Book  of  Mor- 
mon was  translated  into  French  and  German  un- 
der his  direction,  the  latter  being  published  in 
Hamburg,  where  he  introduced  the  gospel.  In 
France  he  published  a  monthly  paper,  called 
L'Btorle  du  Deseret,  and  in  Germany  a  periodical 
entitled  Zion's  Panier.  During  his  labors  sev- 
eral branches  of  the  Church  were  organized  in 
France.  He  purchased  and  sent  to  Utah  the 
first  machinery  for  manufacturing  beets  into 
sugar.  He  also  wrote,  while  upon  this  mission, 
"The  Government  of  God." 

In  1854  he  resigned  a  position  in  the  Territorial 
Legislative  Council  to  fill  a  mission  in  New  York 
and  to  preside  over  the  Church  in  the  Eastern 
States.  At  that  particular  time  heavy  attacks 
were  being  made  upon  the  Latter  Day  Saints 
through  the  press,  and  in  order  to  refute  these 
attacks  Elder  Taylor  published  a  paper,  called 
The  Mormon,  and  established  headquarters  near 
the  office  of  the  noted  newspaper  writer,  James 
Gordon  Bennett,  to  whose  attacks  he  replied  in 
such  a  vigorous  manner  as  to  surprise  the  anti- 
Mormon  element  in  New  Yerk  City.  He  con- 
tinued The  Mormon  until  1857,  when  he  was 
called  home  on  account  of  the  threatened  Bu- 
chanan war  against  the  Saints.  "During  this 
time  Elder  Taylor  was  active  and  fearless  in  de- 
fending the  rights  of  the  Saints  and  denouncing 
the  falsehoods  that  were  circulated  by  the  preach- 
ers and  politicians." 

From  this  time  on  his  time  was  occupied  in 
traveling,  preaching,  organizing  and  regulating 
the  Church  in  the  settlements  of  the  Saints,  and 


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he  took  part,  with  President  Young,  in  organiz- 
ing the  Stakes  of  Zion. 

He  was  a  Probate  Judge  of  Utah  county,  and 
served  many  times  as  Speaker  of-  the  House  in 
the  Territorial  Legislature.  He  was  very  active 
in  his  efforts  to  secure  the  admission  of  the  State 
of  Deseret  into  the  Union.  At  the  death  of 
President  Young  he  was  sustained,  in  1880,  as 
President  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  and  Prophet,  Seer  and  Revelator  to 
the  Church  in  all  the  world.  Apostles  George 
Q.  Cannon  and  Joseph  F.  Smith  were  chosen  as 
his  counselors. 

When  the  crusade  against  plural  marriages  was 
made  with  such  bitterness  he,  like  many  more 
of  the  Saints,  were  obliged  to  leave  their  homes, 
and  after  his  return  from  a  trip  to  Arizona  and 
California,  February  ist,  1884,  he  preached  his 
last  public  discourse  in  the  Tabernacle.  By  many 
it  was  said  to  be  a  most  powerful  address,  ex- 
horting the  Saints  to  faithfulness  and  forbear- 
ance, long  suffering  and  charity  in  all  their  trials. 
From  this  time  until  his  death  he  lived  in  exile, 
and  died  near  Kaysville,  Davis  county.  His  life 
was  shortened  by  his  exile.  Truly,  he  was  a 
double  martyr.  Counselor  D.  H.  Wells,  in  speak- 
ing at  his  funeral,  said :  "Hfe  lived  a  fearless, 
noble  and  God-like  life.  He  has  been  the  Cham- 
pion of  Human  Rights,  the  Champion  of  Liber.ty, 
Truth  and  Freedom." 

He  was  a  kind,  affectionate  father.  He  taught 
his  family  to  respect  each  other's  rights ;  he  in- 
structed them  in  the  principles  of  righteousness, 
and  placed  them  upon  their  own  responsibility  to 
act  for  themselves.  He  was  a  delightful  travel- 
ing companion, singing  hymns  and  pleasant  songs, 
always  selecting  those  with  high  moral  sentiments 
embodied  in  them.  He  was  also  fond  of  telling 
a  story,  was  cheerful  in  disposition,  and  possesed 
of  a  spirituality  and  a  veneration  for  God  and 
truth  so  great  that  few  men  in  this  world  have 
equalled  him  in  the  possession  of  these  qualities. 

The  Deseret  News,  in  speaking  of  him,  says : 
"The  soul  of  honor,  of  indomitable  energy  anc^ 
unflinching  firmness  when  convinced  of  the 
right."  President  Taylor  was  the  embodiment 
of  dignity  and  urbane  authority.  His  record  is 
without  a  stain,  and  his  name  will  be  inscribed 


in  the  archives  of  heaven  among  those  of  the 
mighty  spirits  who  have  helped  to  sway  the  des- 
tinies of  this  world.  He  has  gone  to  mingle 
with  his  brethren  of  this  last  dispensation,  who 
laid  the  foundations  of  this  great  work,  and  with 
them  he  will  shine  in  eternal  splendor  as  a  son  of 
God,  an  heir  to  the  royal  Priesthood,  a  ruler  in 
his  Father's  kingdom.  He  lived,  labored  and  died 
the  perfect  exemplification  of  his  favorite  motto, 
"The  kingdom  of  God  or  nothing." 


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ASHINGTON  LEMMON.  Among 
the  pioneers  who  came  to  Utah  and 
settled  in  the  Salt  Lake  valley 
there  have  been  few  who  have  lived 
so  long  or  participated  so  actively 
in  the  work  of  building  up  this  State  as  has  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  For  almost  a  century 
he  has  watched  the  United  States  grow  from  a 
small  and  sparsely  settled  country,  bounded  on 
the  east  by  the  Atlantic  ocean  and  the  west  ter- 
minating at  the  Mississippi  river.  He  was  among 
the  first  to  make  the  arduous  journey  across  the 
great  plains,  and  has  participated  actively  in 
building  up  Utah,  and  in  the  development  of  the 
Salt  Lake  valley,  as  well  as  taking  part  in  all 
the  work  which  the  Mormon  Church  has  done. 
He  was  with  the  Church  in  the  early  days  of  its 
existence  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  and  m  Missouri, 
and  took  part  in  all  those  troublesome  times, 
building  up  and  developing  the  Church,  strength- 
ening its  membership  and  aiding  in  the  erection 
of  buildings  for  its  work.  In  Utah  he  has  been 
a  prominent  man  in  the  Church,  and  the  position 
which  he  held  has  been  substantiated  by  his  sons, 
who  have  taken  as  active  a  part  in  the  Church 
as  their  father.  He  is  now,  at  the  hale  old  age 
of  ninety-six,  retired  from  active  business,  and 
enjoys  in  the  evening  of  his  life  the  confidence,  re- 
spect and  esteem  of  all  his  neighbors  and  friends. 
He  was  born  in  Shelby  county,  Kentucky,  Oc- 
tober 6,  1806,  and  is  the  son  of  James  and  Sarah 
(Carr)  Lemmon.  His  father  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania, and  later  moved  to  Kentuckv.  When 
our  subject  was  six  years  old  his  parents  moved 
from  Kentucky  and  settled  in  Harrison  county, 
Indiana.     There  their  son  grew  to  manhood,  and 


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in  1830  removed  to  Adams  county,  Illinois,  where 
he  resided  for  twenty  years,  when  he  went  to 
Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  where  the  headquarters 
were  at  that  time,  the  place  then  being  known  as 
Winter  Quarters.  He  had  joined  the  Mormon 
Church  in  1841,  in  Illinois,  and  assisted  in  erect- 
ing the  Temple  at  Nauvoo.  He  was  the  personal 
friend  of  the  leaders  of  the  Church  and  of  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  and  was  absent  in  In- 
diana when  the  latter  was  killed  at  Carthage. 
He  lived  two  years  at  Council  Bluffs,  and  left 
that  place,  coming  to  Utah  in  1852,  arriving 
here  on  September  loth  of  that  year,  and  has 
ever  since  made  his  home  in  Salt  Lake  county. 
He  located  a  farm  in  what  is  now  known  as  Mill 
Creek  Ward,  in  Salt  Lake  county,  and  pros- 
pered in  his  work  to  such  an  extent  that  he  is 
now  able  to  live  upon  the  results  of  his  labor 
without  doing  daily  toil  for  his  sustenance. 

Mr.  Lemmon  was  married  at  Cardian,  Indiana, 
in    August,     1826,     to     Miss    Tamer    Stephens, 
daughter  of  John  and  Stacey  Stephens,  and  by 
this   marriage   has    twelve   children — James    W., 
now  in  Idaho ;  Stacey  Ann,  wife  of  Virgil  Mer- 
rill, who  died  in  August,  1901 ;  John  W.,  now 
a  resident  of  Oregon ;  Nancy  M.,  wife  of  John 
Smith,  of  Salt  Lake  City ;  Jasper,  in  Cache  val- 
ley, LItah ;  Willis,  also  in  Cache  valley ;  Leander, 
in  Emery  county ;  Alfred,  in  Salt  Lake  county ; 
Oliver,  who  died  in  1894;  Mary  E.,  who  died  in 
1899,  and  Artimzie  C,  who  makes  her  home  with 
her  father,  and  Hyrum,  in  Payson,  Utah,  Coun- 
selor to  the  President  of  the  Nebo  Stake.   James 
W.  served  in  the  Mormon  battalion.     His  wife, 
the  mother  of  these  children,  died  on  October  4, 
1893.     Mr.   Lemmon's    father  died    on  July    4, 
1858.     Mr.  Lemmon's  sons,  Hyrum  and  Jasper, 
served  on  missions  for  the  Church  in  different 
parts  of  the  United  States.     The  present  home- 
stead of  our  subject  consists   of  sixty  acres  of 
land,  located  between   Fifteenth    and    Sixteenth 
South  streets.    The  homestead  is  well  improved, 
and-  with  him   live  two  of  his  daughters.     Mr. 
Lemmon  was  a  prominent  man  in  the  work  of 
the  Church,  and  was  Counselor  to  the  Bishop 
of  his  Ward,   Bishop    Miller,   for  over  twenty 
years,  and  was  for  many  years  a  teacher  in  the 
Ward.     His  mother  died  shortly  after  their  re- 


moval to  Indiana,  and  his  father  died  in  Texas. 
The  career  which  Mr.  Lemmon  has  made  for 
himself  has  marked  him  as  one  of  the  ablest  pio- 
neers who  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  days.  He 
has  seen  it  grow  from  a  wilderness  to  one  of  the 
most  flourishing  and  prosperous  States  of  the 
West,  and  has  aided  in  bringing  its  agricultural 
resources  up  to  their  present  high  state.  He  has 
been  prominent  in  the  work  of  the  Church  of  his 
choice,  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
all  its  members,  and  is  known  throughout  his 
community  as  a  man  of  integrity  and  upright- 
ness. He  enjoys  a  wide  popularity  and  numbers 
his  friends  by  the  legion. 


RS.  EMMELINE  B.  WELLS.  Per- 
haps no  woman  in  Utah  today  is  as 
well  known  as  Mrs.  Emmeline  B. 
Wells,  and  certainly  there  is  no  one 
more  respected  and  admired  by  all 
classes  and  creeds  than  this  editor,  author,  and 
altogether  brilliant  little  woman. 

Mrs.  Wells  is  a  typical  New  Englander;  alert 
and  progressive,  of  the  delicate  and  romantic 
temperament  which,  combined  with  the  Puritan 
practical  sense,  creates  the  finest  type- of  Ameri- 
can intellectual  womanhood.  From  her  early 
girlhood  she  has  been  a  talented  and  versatile 
writer.  She  is  the  editor  of  the  Woman's  Ex- 
ponent, established  in  1872,  and  is  the  second 
oldest  woman's  paper  in  the  United  States.  She 
has  also  written  several  books,  the  best  known 
of  which  is  "Musings  and  Memories,"  a  collec- 
tion of  poems.  She  organized  the  Woman's 
Press  Club,  and  is  Honorary  President  of  that 
body. 

Mrs.  Wells  is  a  representative  Mormon  woman 
—earnest,  loyal,  yet  wholly  independent  in 
thought  and  speech ;  frank,  cordial  and  extremely 
kind  and  generous.  No  one  ever  went  to  her 
for  help,  physical,  mental  or  spiritual,  who  did 
not  receive  it  in  full  measure.  She  is  very  frank 
in  her  expressions,  which  sometimes  gives  rise 
to  wrong  impressions,  for  the  tender  heart  which 
beats  beneath  the  silken  bodice  would  never  will- 
ingly wound  one  of  God's  creature's.  Her 
shrewd  common  sense  and  kindly  nature  has  eri- 


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abled  her  to  retain  the  good  will  and  influence 
gained  through  her  position  and  mental  gifts, 
and  she  has  done  perhaps  more  than  any  woman 
in  the  State  to  dispel  prejudice  and  unite  the 
varying  elements  of  social  and  religious  life  in 
her  native  country.  She  is  much  sought  after, 
and  her  opinions  bear  weight  with  all  Utah 
women.  The  fact  that  she  is  aunt  of  the  Gov- 
ernor does  not  account  for  her  wide  political  in- 
fluence, for  she  is  of  herself  a  wise  politician. 
She  was  on  the  legislative  ticket  three  years  ago, 
but  went  down  to  defeat  with  her  party. 

She  is  General  Secretary  of  the  Ladies'  Re- 
lief Society,  the  oldest  and  most  influential  so- 
ciety of  its  kind  in  the  West,  organized  in  1842. 
As  its  name  indicates,  the  object  of  this  society  is 
philanthropic  and  charitable.  It  has  over  thirty 
thousand  members,  composed  of  fifty  stakes,  be- 
sides numerous  missions,  and  there  are  over 
seven  hundred  branches  in  the  world,  located 
wherever  there  is  a  branch  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints.  She  is  also 
the  promoter  and  organizer  of  as  many  clubs, 
societies  and  benefits  for  women  as  any  other 
woman  living  in  Utah.  She  organized  the 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution,  and  was  for  two 
years  its  State  Regent ;  she  is  also  Honorary 
President  of  the  Reapers'  Club,  which  she  organ- 
ized, as  well  as  of  the  Press  Club,  before  men- 
tioned. She  is  also  the  only  woman  representa- 
tive on  the  State  Republican  Committee.  Three 
years  ago  the  National  Council  of  Women  of  the 
United  States,  recognizing  her  ability  and  integ- 
rity, elected  her  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Gen- 
eral Board,  in  which  capacity  she  attended  the 
International  Council  of  Women,  held  in  London 
in  June,  1899.  In  1901  she  attended  the  Min- 
neapolis Convention  of  the  National  Council  of 
Women,  and  was  appointed  Commissioner  to  the 
Philippine  Islands.  In  1873  Mi's-  Wells  was 
made  Vice-President  of  the  Utah  National  Suf- 
frage Association  of  the  United  States,  and  be- 
came widely  known  as  the  leading  e.xponent  of 
the  cause  of  suffrage  in  the  West.  She  was  act- 
ive in  securing  Statehood  for  Utah,  and  when 
the  division  was  made  on  party  lines  she  took 
sides  with  the  Republican  party.  In  1882,  pre- 
vious to  the  passage  of  the  Edmond's  bill,  she 


was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Utah  Constitu- 
tional Convention,  and  was  one  of  the  three  la- 
dies who  sat  in  the  halls  of  that  convention,  of 
which  her  husband,  Daniel  H.  Wells,  was  also  a 
member.  In  1886  she  presented  a  memorial  to 
Congress  from  the  women  nof  Utah ;  she  also  pre- 
sented memorials  from  the  women  of  Utah  to 
Presidents  Hayes  and  Cleveland.  In  1879  she 
presented  her  first  memorial  to  the  President  in 
person.  The  object  of  this  memorial  was  to  legit- 
imize the  children  of  plural  marriages,  and  she 
has  been  very  active  in  protecting  the  interests 
of  her  State  and  party. 

Emmeline  B.Wells  was  born  February  29,  1828, 
at  Petersham,  Worcester  county,  Massachusetts. 
Her  maiden  name  was  Woodward.  Her  fore- 
fathers came  to  the  L^nited  States  in  1630,  and 
settled  near  Boston,  becoming  large  land  own- 
ers. They  were  by  trade  mathematicians,  sur- 
veyors, etc.  Her  ancestors  on  both  sides  came 
from  England  at  an  early  day  and  fought  in  the 
Revolutionary  War  and  in  the  War  of  1812,  some 
of  them  being  officers  of  high  rank.  Her  brothers 
and  other  male  relatives  also  fought  in  the  Civil 
War,  and  were  closely  identified  with  the  history 
of  New  England.  She  was  married  in  1852  to 
Daniel  H.  Wells,  the  father  of  Governor  Wells. 
Daniel  H.  W'ells  figured  prominently  in  the  his- 
tory of  Salt  Lake  City  and  of  Utah,  and  a  com- 
plete biographical  sketch  of  his  interesting  life 
will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Our  subject  early  in  life  gave  promise  of  unu- 
sual talent,  and  for  a  child  had  a  most  remarka- 
ble memory.  She  became  a  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  at  a  very  early  day,  her  mother  be- 
ing converted  to  the  teachings  of  that  denomina- 
tion in  1841,  and  the  daughter  being  baptized  a 
year  later.  She  went  to  Nauvoo  in  the  spring 
of  1844,  and  there  heard  Prophet  Joseph  Smith 
preach  his  last  discourses.  During  the  winter 
following  she  was  taught  the  principle  of  celes- 
tial marriages  by-  Bishop  Newel  K.  Whitney  and 
his  wife.  The  ceremony  was  performed  by  Pres- 
ident Brigham  Young  February  14,  1845.  ^^ 
the  time  of  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  from 
Nauvoo  in  1846  her  mother  died  from  the  hard- 
ships and  fatigue  incident  to  that  journey.  Our 
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body  of  Mormons,  where  she  taught  school  for 
a  time,  and  later  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  with 
Bishop  Whitney  and  his  family,  arriving  here 
in  October,  1848,  experiencing  all  the  hardships 
of  those  trying  times,  during  which  her  husband 
died,  leaving  her  a  widow  and  mother.  She 
early  became  interested  in  woman's  cause,  travel- 
ing among  the  Saints  and  organizing  societies. 
In  1874  she  entered  the  office  of  the  IVoinan's 
Exponent,  then  edited  by  Lulu  Greed  Richards, 
and  in  July,  1877,  assumed  the  entire  responsi- 
bility of  that  publication,  which  she  has  since 
continued.  In  November,  1876,  she  was  chosen 
President  of  the  Central  Grain  Committee  for  the 
storing  of  grain  by  women  against  a  day  of  fam- 
ine. She  has  siince  filled  many  positions  of  trust 
and  honor,  being  Secretary  of  the  Deseret  Hos- 
pital for  twelve  years,  chairman  of  a  number  of 
important  committees,  a  delegate  to  Washington, 
and  attending  numerous  conventions  of  the  Na- 
tional Woman's  Suffrage  Association,  National 
Council  of  Woman's  Suffrage,  etc.,  and  is  one  of 
the  widely  known  and  greatly  beloved  women  of 
the  L^nited   States. 


F.NRY  DINWOODEY.  In  the  com- 
:in.Tcial  life  of  the  West  there  is  no 
more  important  mercantile  establish- 
ment than  the  H.  Dinwoodey  Furni- 
ture Company,  whose  headquarters  are 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  which  supplies  the  wants 
of  the  people  of  four  States.  It  has  risen  to  its 
present  high  standing  in  the  commercial  world 
by  the  ability  and  constant  hard  work  of  its 
President,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Few  of  the 
pioneers  of  Utah  who  have  risen  to  a  prominent 
position  in  the  affairs  of  the  State  have  more  suc- 
cessfully battled  with  the  adverse  conditions 
which  confronted  its  early  settlers  than  has  he. 
His  early  life  has  proved  him  to  be  a  man  who 
has  always  been  equal  to  any  emergency  that 
presented  itself,  and  has  sucessfully  overcome 
disasters  and  created  greater  successes  upon  the 
wrecks  of  his  former  trials.  From  a  very  small 
beginning  in  1857,  when  he  employed  but  one  or 
two  men,  and  his  establishment  occupied  but  one 
story  of  a  small  frame  building,  it  has  by  rapid 
strides  reached  the  commanding  position  it  now 


occupies,  and  is  easily  the  leading  furniture  es- 
tablishment west  of  Omaha  and  east  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. The  present  building  which  it  occupies  on 
First  South  street,  is  one  of  the  most  substantial 
business  buildings  in  the  city.  The  company  en- 
joys to  a  high  degree  the  confidence  of  not  only 
the  business  world,  but  of  the  people  of  the  entire 
inter-mountain  region  as  well. 

Mr.  Dinwoodey  was  born  in  Warrington,  Lan- 
cashire, England,  September  11,  1825,  and  is  now 
in  his  seventy-seventh  year  and  in  the  enjoyment 
of  good  health.  He  spent  his  early  life,  until  his 
twenty-first  year,  in  England,  receiving  his  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools  of  his  native  coun- 
try, and  in  1849  he,  with  his  family,  emigrated  to 
America.  He  had  become  a  convert  to  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Alormon  Church  in  England,  and 
since  his  removal  to  Utah  has  been  a  faithful  and 
consistent  follower  of  that  Church.  His  trip 
across  the  Atlantic  Ocean  was  filled  with  horror, 
and  was  one  which  would  try  the  soul  of  the 
bravest  man.  He  left  Liverpool  on  the  sailing 
ship  Berlin,  and  after  being  away  from  land  for 
some  days  the  dreadful  scourge  of  cholera  broke 
out  among  its  passengers,  and  Mr.  Dinwoodey 
assisted  in  burying  forty-nine  of  the  victims  of 
that  disease,  their  bodies  being  cast  into  the  sea. 
After  a  stormy  and  dangerous  voyage,  they  finally 
arrived  at  New  Orleans  in  the  fall  of  1849,  where 
he  remained  for  six  months,  and  in  the  spring  of 
1850  went  to  Saint  Louis,  where  he  lived  for  five 
years.  He  has  learned  the  cabinet  making  busi- 
ness, and  was  employed  in  Saint  Louis  in  the 
manufacture  of  mechanical  patterns.  Here  he 
remained  until  1855,  when  he  fitted  out  two  ox 
teams,  and,  with  his  family,  made  the  trip  across 
the  plains  to  Salt  Lake  City.  In  crossing  the 
plains  he  adopted  the  same  humane  plans  which 
had  proved  so  successful  with  President  Brigham 
Young.  Instead  of  treating  the  Indians  as  foes, 
intent  on  taking  their  lives.and  against  whom  the 
only  method  was  extermination,  he  treated  them 
as  fellow  beings,  feeding  and  aiding  them,  and 
was  not  molested  by  them  in  any  way  across  the 
plains.  The  only  danger  which  they  encountered 
was  from  the  vast  herds  of  buffaloes,  which  then 
occupied  the  great  prairies  in  countless  numbers. 
The  extermination  which  has  taken  place  in  the 


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past  fifty  years  has  decimated  the  ranks  of  these 
animals  until  now  the  few  specimens  of  it  that 
remain  are  guarded  in  zo-ological  collections  in 
order  to  prevent  the  extinction  of  the  species. 
So  thick  were  the  bison  that  it  was  with  diffi- 
culty that  the  wagon  trains  could  move,  and 
there  was  a  constant  danger  of  the  train  being 
entirely  demolished  by  the  rush  of  the  herds  in 
their  stampedes.  To  prevent  this  required  end- 
less vigilance  on  the  part  of  the  travelers,  and 
the  necessity  of  riding  on  horseback  to  head  off 
the  herds  from  the  direction  in  which  the  train 
was  traveling.  The  train  successfully  accom- 
plished the  entire  journey,  and  in  the  fall  of  1855 
arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Upon  his  arrival  in 
Salt  Lake,  Mr.  Dinwoodey  leased  a  piece  of  land 
on  which  was  an  orchard  and  was  surrounded  by 
a  pole  fence.  He  pulled  down  the  fence  and 
erected  a  frame  building,  in  which  he  at  once 
engaged  in  the  furniture  line,  and  thus  began 
the  foundation  of  the  enormous  business  which 
has  since  grown  from  his  efforts.  The  first 
building  he  occupied  was  on  Main  street,  in  the 
same  block  where  McCornick  &  Company's  bank 
now  stands,  being  about  the  middle  of  the  square. 
He  continued  at  this  site  for  a  number  of  years, 
increasing  the  capacity  of  his  plant  as  his  busi- 
ness prospered.  He  bought  a  piece  of  land  on 
First  South  street,  and  put  up  a  two-story  adobe 
building  in  1866,  and  five  years  later  he  had  dou- 
bled the  capacity  of  the  plant.  He  subsequently 
erected  on  the  site  of  his  adobe  building  a  three- 
story  building  in  1873,  where  he  continued  until 
its  destruction  by  fire.  This  was  a  three-story 
brick  building,  which  in  1890  gave  way  to  his 
present  six-story  structure,  which  is  now  the 
home  of  his  business.  It  is  one  of  the  hand- 
somest business  blocks  in  the  city,  and  in  it  is  car- 
ried the  most  complete  line  of  furniture  in  the 
West.  When  Mr.  Dinwoodey  first  started  in 
business  in  the  late  fifties,  money  was  a  scarce 
commodity  in  Utah,  and  such  of  it  as  was  re- 
ceived in  the  course  of  business  was  needed  for 
the  purchase  of  material  in  the  East  and  the  pay- 
ment of  freight  charges.  All  freight  was  then 
brought  into  the  Territory  by  ox  teams,  and  the 
cost  of  this  was  almost  prohibitive,  being  twenty- 
five  cents  a  pound.     The  business  was  incorpo- 


rated in  1 80 1,  under  the  name  of  the  H.  Din- 
woodey Furniture  Company,  and  with  him  is 
now  associated  his  son,  H.  M.  Dinwoodey,  as 
general  manager  of  the  company,  who,  by  his 
application  to  business  and  his  knowledge  of  its 
details,  has  made  himself  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent business  men  of  the  inter-mountain  region. 
The  company  is  capitalized  under  the  laws  of 
Utah  for  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  large  retail  business  which  this  com- 
pany carries  on,  it  also  does  an  enormous  whole- 
sale business'  and  in  addition  to  the  six-story 
building  which  it  occupies,  also  occupies  a  three- 
story  brick  building  in  the  rear  of  the  large  store, 
which  affords  ten  thousand  square  feet  of  space. 
It  also  has  a  warehouse  for  reserve  stock.  The 
entire  six  floors  and  basement  are  filled  with  the 
newest  furniture,  and  with  the  best  house  fur- 
nishings that  can  be  had.  The  present  force  of 
the  company  now  exceeds  seventy-five  people, 
in  addition  to  the  traveling  salesmen,  who  cover 
the  entire  inter-mountain  region.  Mr.  Dinwoodey 
is  also  extensively  interested  in  many  of  the 
other  prominent  enterprises  of  the  city,  and  has 
aided  largely  in  the  development  of  the  resources 
of  the  State.  Perhaps  few  men  have  taken  as 
large  an  interest  as  he  has  in  the  development 
of  all  the  various  commercial  enterprises  which 
have  made  Utah  so  prominent  and  redounded  so 
much  to  the  prosperity  of  the  State. 

He  was  married  in  1846  to  Miss  Ellen  Gore, 
a  native  of  England.  They  were  married  pre- 
vious to  Mr.  Dinwoodey's  departure  for  Amer- 
ica, and  she  made  the  entire  journey  from  En- 
gland to  Utah  with  him,  and  lived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  until  her  death  in  1885.  She  died  child- 
less. He  has  been  married  twice  since,  and  has 
had  a  family  of  nine  children. 

Mr.  Dinwoodey  had  become  identified  with  the 
Mormon  Church  in  England,  and  upon  coming 
to  Utah  continued  to  take  an  active  part  in  its 
affairs.  He  was  one  of  the  contributors  to  the 
Temple  and  one  of  the  men  associated  in  erect- 
ing several  of  the  Church  buildings  in  this  city. 
In  all  of  his  religious  work  he  has  been  broad 
minded  and  liberal,  and  has  always  been  noted 
for  his  consideration  to  men  holding  opinons 
from  whch  he  himself  differs.     He  has  held  all 


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the  different  offices  of  the  Church  up  to  the  rank 
of  High  Priest,  to  which  he  was  ordained  May 
9,  1873,  and  has  held  that  position  ever  since. 
In  national  politics  Mr.  Dinwoodey  is  a  believer 
in  Democratic  principles,  but  in  the  administra- 
tion of  local  politics  and  the  direction  of  the  mu- 
nicipality he  believes  in  voting  for  the  man  who 
will  best  serve  the  interests  of  the  community, 
irrespective  of  political  or  religious  affiliations. 
He  has  also  been  liberal  in  donations  to  other 
churches. 

In  addition  to  the  building  up  of  his  large  es- 
tablishment and  to  the  ecclesiastical  work  which 
he  has  undertaken  in  the  Church,  he  has  also 
been  prominently  identified  with  the  civil  life  of 
Utah,  and  has  been  one  of  the  men  who  have 
created  the  present  standing  of  the  State.  On 
October  10,  1869,  he  was  elected  Captain  of  the 
First  Infantry  of  the  Second  Brigade,  Second 
Division  Xauvoo  Legion  of  L'tah  Territory  ]\Ii- 
Htia.  He  received  his  commission  from  Acting- 
Governor  Mann.  He  has  also  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  municipality  of  Salt  Lake, 
and  on  September  8,  1874,  was  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  the  City  Council,  and  served  in  that  ca- 
pacity until  1879.  Ii^  1876  he  was  elected  Al- 
derman of  the  Second  Municipal  Ward  of  this 
city,  and  in  August,  1877,  was  re-elected  to  the 
same  position,  holding  this  office  from  that  time 
until  1882.  He  was  one  of  the  principal  sup- 
porters of  the  Deseret  Agricultural  and  Manu- 
facturing Society  of  Utah,  and  on  March  4,  1874, 
was  appointed  one  of  its  directors,  which  office 
he  held  for  a  period  of  ten  years,  leaving  that 
society  in  1884.  He  has  also  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  educational  development  of 
Utah,  and  by  the  Legislature  of  1880  was  ap- 
pointed a  regent  of  the  Deseret  University,  and 
also  one  of  the  building  committee.  The  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  is  also  an- 
other of  the  great  enterprises  of  Utah  in  which 
he  is  largely  interested,  being  elected  one  of  its 
directors  on  October  5,  1890,  and  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  it  ever  since  as  one  of  its  directors. 
So  wide  a  field  has  his  experience  covered,  and 
so  broad  is  his  general  knowledge  of  the  require- 
ments of  a  new  city,  that  in  1873  he  was  ap- 
pointed Assistant  Engineer  of  the  Salt  Lake  Fira 


Department,  on  account  of  his  previous  experi- 
ence in  that  work,  and  in  1889  he  took  still  an- 
other field  for  his  activity,  and  in  that  year  was 
elected  a  director  of  the  Salt  Lake  Street  Rail- 
way Company.  He  has  traveled  extensively 
throughout  the  United  States,  and  has  made 
two  trips  to  Great  Britain  on  business  and  pleas- 
ure. He  is  one  of  the  most  influential  men  in 
the  business  world  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  of 
Utah,  and  was  a  director  in  the  Deseret  Savings 
Bank  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  a  director  in 
the  Deseret  National  Bank,  being  also  a  director 
of  the  Home  Fire  Insurance  Company,  which  po- 
sition he  held  for  a  number  of  years.  He  is  a 
firm  believer  in  the  future  growth  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  of  the  importance  to  which  Utah  will 
surely  come  in  the  future.  Mr.  Dinwoodey  is 
one  of  the  building  committee  of  the  Latter  Day 
Saints'  Colleges  on  Main  street,  between  North 
and  South  Temple.  Two  of  the  buildings  are 
completed  and  the  third  one  is  in  progress. 

j\Ir.  Dinwoodey 's  father  dying  when  he  was 
very  young,  he  is  essentially  a  self-made  man, 
and  has  won  his  own  way  by  dint  of  hard  work 
and  unswerving  perseverance.  Coming  to  Utah 
when  the  Territory  was  in  its  infancy ;  when  its 
industries  were  but  on  a  small  scale  and  the  re- 
sults of  his  toil  bartered  for  the  necessaries  of 
life,  he  has  built  up  a  business  which  takes  first 
rank  in  the  commercial  world  of  this  region.  His 
honesty  and  integrity  have  won  for  him  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  the  entire  business  world, 
and  his  broad-mindedness,  together  with  his  sin- 
cere and  upright  life,  have  won  for  him  the  con- 
fidence and  love  of  all  the  people  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated.  He  is  one  of  the  promi- 
nent members  of  the  Church  to  which  he  has  de- 
voted his  life,  and  has  aided  materially  in  bring- 
ing it  to  its  present  satisfactory  condition.  Few 
people  who  came  here  in  the  pioneer  days  have 
so  successfully  triumphed  over  obstacles  and  dif- 
ficulties and  carved  for  themselves  a  career  that 
ranks  as  high  as  does  that  of  Mr.  Dinwoodey. 
His  life  and  the  work  which  he  has  accomplished 
make  him  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  city,  and 
the  credit  which  he  has  won  redounds  not  only  to 
his  benefit,  but  to  the  family  and  the  State  as 
well. 


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nO^IAS  G.  WIMMER  is  without 
doubt  the  owner  of  one  of  the  finest 
ranches  to  be  found  in  the  entire  State 
of  Utah,  located  on  Bear  river,  in  Rich 
county,  and  near  the  town  of  Woodruff. 
This  ranch  was  located  many  years  ago  by  a 
wealthy  firm  of  stockmen  living  in  Evanston, 
Wyoming,  and  upon  the  death  of  two  members 
of  the  firm  the  property  came  into  the  hands  of 
Mr.  Wimmer,  who  has  turned  it  into  a  sheep 
ranch,  and  there  ranges  his  large  herds  of  sheep. 
While  not  born  in  Utah,  Mr.  Wimmer  has 
spent  almost  his  entire  life  in  this  State,  com- 
ing here  with  his  parents  when  but  five  years  of 
age,  in  1852.  He  was  born  in  Harrison  Grove, 
Harrison  county,  Iowa,  and  is  the  son  of  Robert 
and  Elizabeth  (Wilkerson)  Wimmer,  both  de- 
scendants of  old  American  families.  The  early 
ancestors  of  Robert  Wimmer  came  from  Ger- 
many and  settled  in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was 
born.  Mrs.  Wimmer  was  a  native  of  Kentucky, 
and  her  grandfather  fought  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  and  was  with  General  Morgan  and  his  sev- 
enty-five men  who  made  the  charge  against 
Tarleton  at  Cliflford  Court  House,  North  Caro- 
lina. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wimmer  became  converts 
to  the  Mormon  Church,  and  with  their  family  of 
three  boys  and  two  girls  crossed  the  plains  with 
ox  teams  in  1852  and  located  in  the  Mill  Creek 
Ward,  and  the  following  spring  moved  to  Pay- 
son,  where  the  parents  spent  the  remainder  of 
their  lives,  the  father  becoming  a  succssful  far- 
mer. Mrs.  Wimmer  died  in  1869,  and  her  hus- 
band survived  her  a  number  of  years,  living  to 
the  advanced  age  of  eighty-eight  years. 

Our  subject  received  his  education  from  the 
common  schools  of  Utah  and  started  out  for  him- 
self at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  beginning  in  a 
small  way  in  the  stock  business,  which  he  has 
followed  up  to  the  present  time,  making  that  his 
principal  industry,  although  he  has  been  identified 
to  a  large  extent  with  many  other  enterprises  in 
the  State.  He  has  made  a  specialty  of  raising 
fine  sheep  and  blooded  stock,  raising  short  horn 
cattle  and  also  some  fine  horses.  About  twelve 
years  ago  he  helped  to  establish  the  Payson  Ex- 
change and  Savings  Bank,  of  which  institution 
he  has  been  president  up  to  the  present  time.    He 


has  also  taken  a  lively  interest  in  mining,  and  he 
and  one  of  his  brothers  located  the  Mammoth 
mine,  the  first  mine  to  be  located  in  Utah,  and 
which  has  been  probably  the  largest  producer  in 
the  Tintic  district,  and  is  still  one  of  the  leading 
mines  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Wimmer  was  married  in  Payson,  Utah, 
to  Elizabeth  Simons,  daughter  of  Orawell  and 
Martha  (Dixon)  Simons.  He  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  in  Utah,  coming  here  in  1854,  and 
became  identified  with  many  of  the  leading  in- 
dustries of  that  portion  of  Utah,  being  connected 
with  all  of  the  co-operative  institutions  and 
known  throughout  the  Territory,  in  which  he  was 
a  man  of  some  considerable  influence.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  of  which  he 
was  a  staunch  supporter,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  universally  mourned  as  the  friend  of 
Church  and  people.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wimmer  have 
had  born  to  them  a  family  of  thirteen  children — 
Thomas  G.,  junior,  interested  with  his  father 
in  the  cattle  business ;  Emily ;  Orawell,  died  aged 
three  years ;  Ethel ;  Robert  S.,  holding  the  respon- 
sible position  of  cashier  of  the  Payson  Bank; 
Martha ;  William  L.,  in  charge  of  the  Bear  River 
ranch;  Lyle;  Wayne;  Remus,  died  aged  two 
years ;  Ina,  died  in  infancy ;  Hazel,  and  Reed. 

In  politics  Mr.  Wimmer  is  a  member  of  the 
Republican  party,  but  not  particularly  active  in 
its  work,  preferring  to  devote  his  time  to  his  large 
business  interests. 

The  Wimmer  family  is  one  that  has  been 
largely  connected  with  the  life  and  history  of 
this  western  country.  Not  only  did  some  of  the 
members  of  it  come  to  Utah  at  an  early  day,  and 
by  taking  part  in  the  Indian  wars  and  waging  a 
hand  to  hand  conflict  with  the  seemingly  insur- 
mountable obstacles  that  stood  in  the  pathway 
of  success,  assist  in  subduing  this  wild  region 
and  bringing  it  up  to  its  present  state  of  prolific- 
ness,  but  other  members  of  this  family  performed 
the  same  service  for  the  State  of  California,  and 
in  the  history  of  that  State  may  be  found  an  ac- 
count of  how  the  wife  of  our  subject's  uncle, 
Peter,  tested  the  first  nugget  of  gold  found  in 
California,  at  Sutter's  mill  race,  by  boiling  it  in 
a  kettle  of  soap  all  night  to  discover  what  it  was, 
and   the   impurities   being  boiled   away   and   the 


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nature  of  the  rock  discovered,  started  the  rush 
to  the  gold  fields  of  that  State. 

The  success  that  has  crowned  Mr.  Wimmer's 
life  has  been  due  wholly  to  his  own  indomitable 
energy,  perseverance  and  determination,  coupled 
with  a  native  ability.  He  began  at  the  very  bot- 
tom of  the  ladder,  handicapped  with  but  a  meager 
education  and  without  financial  assistance,  and 
has  worked  his  way  up  to  a  position  of  honor 
and  influence,  giving  a  large  impetus  not  only 
to  the  live  stock  industry,  but  to  many  other 
equally  important  enterprises,  and  is  at  this  time 
one  of  the  wealthy  men  of  the  State.  For  the 
last  two  years  he  has  made  his  home  at  No.  601 
East  Third  South  street,  this  city. 

Mr.  Wimmer  is  a  veteran  of  the  Black  Hawk 
Indian  war,  in  which  he  took  an  active  part. 


EORGE  WILLIAM  CLEVELAND 
has  always  been  a  pillar  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  He  was  baptized  at 
Nauvoo  when  he  was  only  eight  years 
old,  and  did  yeoman  service  for  the 
Church  when  he  was  in  England  on  a  mission, 
from  1864  to  1866.  He  was  born  at  Far  West, 
Missouri,  on  May  20,  1837,  and  is  a  son  of  Allen- 
sen  and  Ann  Slade  (Rodgers)  Cleveland.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  New  England,  and  he  mar- 
ried a  Mrs.  Rodgers.  a  w'idow  with  two  children. 
The  result  of  this  marriage  was  three  children, 
two  boys  and  a  girl — Henry,  George  and  Antoi- 
nette. Mr.  Cleveland  was  among  the  first  one 
hundred  and  fifty  converts  to  the  Mormon  faith, 
and  after  becoming  a  Saint  he  followed  the  Mor- 
mons through  the  Eastern  States  and  went  to  Far 
West,  Missouri.  Here  he  received  a  bad  wound 
from  a  rifle  bullet  in  the  shoulder,  and  he  car- 
ried the  scar  with  him  to  the  grave.  The  Cleve- 
lands  lived  for  a  time  at  Pittsfield,  Missouri,  af- 
ter which  they  made  their  home  three  miles  from 
Nauvoo,  and  lived  there  till  the  exodus  in  1846, 
when  they  moved  across  the  Missouri  river  and 
stayed  at  a  small  settlement  during  the  summer. 
Mr.  Cleveland  cradled  wheat,  and  his  son,  George 
William,  drove  an  ox  team,  breaking  land.  From 
here  they  moved  to  Garden  Grove  and  stayed 
there  until  the  spring  of   1847,  when  they  took 


winter  quarters  at  Florence,  Nebraska,  remain- 
ing there  two  years.  Their  ne.xt  move  was  to 
Willow  Creek,  where  they  cleared  and  improved 
a  farm  and  lived  on  it  till  1852.  In  the  spring 
of  that  year  the  Clevelands  joined  Captain  Wei- 
ner's  ox  train  for  Utah,  starting  from  Florence. 
The  Clevelands  had  two  wagons,  and  Mrs.  Cleve- 
land's daughter,  Hortense,  and  her  husband,  had 
another.  George  William  drove  one  of  the  wag- 
ons. The  train  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  Oc- 
tober 3,  1852,  and  the  Clevelands,  after  stop- 
ping over  in  Salt  Lake  City  for  ten  days,  moved 
out  to  Centerville,  where  ]\Ir.  Cleveland  bought 
ten  acres  of  land  and  rented  a  house  for  the  win- 
ter. In  the  spring  of  '53  he  built  him  a  house, 
but  the  Indians  proving  troublesome,  he  moved 
it  to  the  present  site  of  Centerville.  In  1862  our 
subject  went  to  Florence,  returning  the  same 
year,  with  four  ox  teams.  In  one  of  the  wagons 
returning  he  had  eighteen  or  twenty  emigrants 
and  the  other  was  loaded  with  stoves.  Our  sub- 
ject was  with  Lot  Smith  during  the  Johnston 
army  trouble.  He  rode  out  beyond  Fort  Bridger, 
and  many  nights  was  in  the  saddle  all  night. 

Allensen  Cleveland  and  his  brother,  Henry, 
went  out  on  the  Salmon  river  mission,  and  were 
sent  back  by  Brigham  Young,  who,  it  appears, 
was  not  aware  that  they  had  been  sent  there  until 
on  one  of  his  tours  of  inspection  he  met  them 
and  ordered  them  home.  Allensen  Cleveland 
was  a  farmer  all  his  life,  and  died  in  the  spring 
of  1867.  Our  subject  worked  with  his  father 
until  his  return  from  the  Missouri  river.  On 
March  9,  1867,  he  married  Angelina  (Slade) 
Burke,  the  widow  of  Marshall  Burke.  His  wife 
was  born  in  Far  West,  where  he  himself  came 
from.  They  had  seven  children,  five  of  whom 
are  living.  The  children's  names  are :  Georgina, 
now  Mrs.  Joseph  Rawlins ;  Angelina,  married  to 
John  Capener,  and  living  in  Canada;  Florence, 
died  in  infancy ;  Estelle,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years;  Luella,  now  Mrs.  Gaulett  of 
Salt  Lake  City;  Anna  H.,  living  at  home  with 
her  parents ;  William  E.,  in  Canada,  who  died  on 
February  6,  1891. 

Mr.  Cleveland  has  been  teaming  and  farming 
most  of  his  life.  He  has  a  small  general  mer- 
chandise business  at  Centerville.    All  of  his  fam- 


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ily  are  Latter  Day  Saints.  On  .\pril  28,  1864, 
he  was  sent  on  a  mission  to  Great  Britain,  and 
served  there  till  the  fall  of  1866.  He  was  at 
the  Norwich  Conference,  and  labored  at  Loest- 
oft  on  the  seacoast,  at  Beckles,  Bunge  Hock- 
ham,  Shipdam,  Palormarket,  Thudford  and  Bran- 
don. He  was  afterwards  promoted  to  preside  over 
the  Lincolnshire  Conference,  but  here  his  health 
began  to  fail,  and  he  was  ordered  to  Liverpool.  In 
the  three  months  of  his  stay  in  that  city  his 
health  did  not  improve,  and  he  was  called  home. 
Mr.  Cleveland  has  for  a  long  time  been  \\'ard 
teacher  at  Centerville.  He  has  also  been  a  school 
trustee  for  several  years.  In  politics  he  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat. 


OHX  HUGH  MOSS,  one  of  the  native 
Suns  of  L'tah,  and  who  has  done  his  full 
share  towards  advancing  the  industrial 
interests  of  his  county  and  community. 
He  was  born  in  South  Bountiful,  No- 
vember 16,  1852,  and  is  the  son  of  John  and  Re- 
becca (\\'ood)  ]\Ioss.  His  father  was  born  in 
March,  1820,  and  came  of  an  old  English  fam- 
ily who  lived  for  many  years  in  Lancashire,  En- 
gland. John  Moss  was  the  originator  and  pro- 
moter of  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company,  which 
was  incorporated  after  his  death,  and  is  today 
one  of  the  largest  companies  of  the  kind  in  L'tah. 
He  was  also  a  heavy  sheep  owner  and  a  promi- 
nent man  in  Davis  county.  A  full  account  of  this 
family  will  be  found  in  the  sketches  of  Mr.  Moss' 
brothers,  which  appears  elsewhere  in  this '  work. 
Our  subject's  whole  life  has  been  spent  within 
the  confines  of  his  native  State,  principally  in 
Davis  county,  where  he  obtained  his  education, 
which  was  of  but  a  meager  character,  the  schools 
at  that  time  being  poor,  and  he  began  early  in 
life  to  earn  his  own  living,  beginning  as  a  sheep 
herder  for  his  father,  and  little  by  little  accumu- 
lated and  saved,  investing  his  means  as  oppor- 
tunity presented,  until  today  he  is  one  of  the 
leading  farmers  and  stock  men  of  Davis  county. 
His  home  in  Woods  Cross  consists  of  twenty- 
seven  acres  of  highly  cultivated  land,  on  which  he 
has  built  a  fine  two-story  twelve-room  house, 
which  is  a  model  of  convenience  and  comfort. 
His   first   home   was   a   four-room  house   on   the 


lot  adjoining  the  place  where  he  now  lives,  which 
gave  way  to  his  present  commodious  residence. 
In  addition  to  this  land  he  also  owns  other  land 
in  the  county,  having  one  hundred  and  eight 
acres  altogether. 

ilr.  AIoss  was  married  May  29,  1876,  to  Miss 
Missouri  V.  Lincoln,  daughter  of  George  W. 
and  Jane  M.  (Babcock)  Lincoln.  The  Lincoln 
family  came  to  Utah  in  1857,  Mrs.  Moss  being 
born  in  Saint  Joseph,  Missouri.  Her  parents 
were  natives  of  Massachusetts.  By  this  mar- 
riage Mr.  Moss  has  ten  children,  seven  of  whom 
are  now  living.  They  are :  John  W.,  living  in 
Syracuse ;  Stella,  now  Airs.  Ira  Wait,  of  Boun- 
tiful ;  Sylva  V.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three 
years ;  Walter  Hugh,  who  died  when  a  year  and 
a  half  old;  George  Willard,  Elva  J.,  who  died 
aged  eleven  years;  Iva  L.,  Alice  Isl.,  Le  Roy,  and 
Elsie  V. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Moss  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Republican  party  since  its  organization  in 
this  State,  and  served  for  nine  years  as  Consta- 
ble in  Davis  county.  He  and  his  family  were 
all  born  and  reared  in  the  Mormon  faith,  and  Mr. 
Moss  has  ever  been  a  prominent  and  active 
worker  in  Church  circles.  He  was  called  and 
set  apart  in  February,  1896,  for  missionary  work 
in  England,  where  he  served  two  years,  labor- 
ing in  the  Manchester  Conference.  He  has  also 
served  on  two  home  missions.  In  addition  to  his 
missionary  work,  he  has  been  a  Ward  teacher 
for  about  twenty  years,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Seventies.  His  wife  is  also  active  in  Church 
work,  being  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  So- 
ciety. 

In  addition  to  his  home  interests,  Mr.  Moss  is 
also  identified  with  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Com- 
pany, of  which  his  father  was  the  organizer,  and 
was  for  over  eight  years  president  of  that  com- 
pany, being  its  first  president.  He  held  that  po- 
sition until  he  was  called  on  his  mission  to  En- 
gland, at  which  time  his  brother,  William,  was 
elected  to  fill  the  vacancy,  and  still  occupies  the 
position.  Our  subject  is  now  a  director  in  this 
company.  His  Church  and  business  interests 
have  brought  him  prominently  before  the  j>eople 
of  Davis  county,  by  whom  he  is  held  in  high  es- 
teem. 


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(  niN  R.  BARNES.  So  closely  identified 
with  the  history  and  development  of  this 
w  hole  inter-mountain  region  is  the  name 
of  John  R.  Barnes  that  to  attempt  a 
compilation  of  a  work  of  this  kind  with- 
out proper  mention  of  him  and  his  vast  enter- 
prises would  prove  materially  lacking. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Sandy,  Bedfordshire, 
England,  July  28,  1833,  and  is  the  son  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  (Jeffries)  Barnes,  both  natives  of 
England,  who  came  to  Utah  with  their  family  of 
two  sons  in  1853.  The  oldest  son,  William  J., 
died  in  Kaysville  in  1895.  The  family  settled  in 
Kaysville,  where  the  parents  both  died. 

Mr.  Barnes  began  life  in  Utah   as   a   school 
teacher,  teaching  for  six  months,  at  the  end  of 
which  time  he  took  up  farming,  with  which  he 
has   ever    since    been    identified,    teaching    again 
for  a  second  term  during  the  second  year  of  his 
farming.     In  1866  he  opened  up  a  general  mer- 
chandise business,  using  a  part  of  his  residence 
for  store  purposes,  and  this  he  conducted  until 
1869,  when  he  sold  his  business  to  the  K^iysville 
Co-operative    Mercantile    Institution,    becoming 
manager  of  that  establishment,  which  position  he 
still   retains.     This   institution   was   incorporated 
in    1890   for  thirty   thousand   dollars.      When   it 
was  started,  in   1869,  the  capital  was  but  seven 
thousand  dollars,  and  its  rapid  growth  has  been 
largely  due  to  the  able  and  efficient  management 
of  Mr.  Barnes.    From  the  beginning  the  business 
has  been  made  to 'pay  good   dividends,   on   one 
occasion  paying  three  hundred  per  cent.    In  1891, 
on  January  13th  of  that  year,  they  opened  up  a 
banking  business,  which  is  conducted  in  the  mer- 
cantile establishment.     This  was  capitalized   for 
twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  and  Mr.  Barnes  is 
President   of   the   bank   and  owns   a   controlling 
interest  in  it,  as  he  does  also  in  the  merchandise 
establishment.     As  his  sons  have  grown  to  man- 
hood they  have  become  interested  in  the  business 
with  their  father,  and  at  this  time  one  son,  R. 
W.,   is   Cashier  of  the   bank,   and   another   son, 
J.   G.   is  Assistant   Superintendent  of  the  entire 
business,  taking  much  of  the  weight  of  responsi- 
bility  away   from   his    father,    who   is   becoming 
somewhat  advanced  in  years,  although  he  exer- 
cises a  watchful  care  over  both  establishments. 


Mr.  Barnes  has  been  married  three  times,  his 
first  marriage  occured  in  England,  in  1853  on  the 
eve  of  his  departure  for  America,  when  he  be- 
came united  to  Miss  Emily  Shelton,  and  by  her 
had  ten  children,  four  of  whom  are  now  living. 
His  second  wife  was  Elizabeth  Geeves,  by  whom 
he  had  one  son,  George  W.,  who  is  now  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  general  merchandise  busi- 
ness. His  third  wife,  Emily  Stewart,  bore  him 
eight  children,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  They, 
are.  Royal  C,  at  present  Paying  Teller  in  the 
Deseret  National  Bank,  in  Salt  Lake  City ;  Claude 
T.  a  student  at  the  University  of  Utah,  and  six 
daughters,  all  highly  educated  ladies.  Of  the  first 
wife's  children,  John  G.,  is  acting  superintendent 
of  his  father's  business  interests  in  the  mercantile 
establishment ;  Arthur  F.  is  manager  of  the 
Barnes-Hardy  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City  :  R.  \V. 
is  cashier  of  the  bank  in  Kaysville  ;  Wilford  S.  is 
employed  in  the  office  of  the  Zion  Co-operative 
^Mercantile  Institution  at  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Barnes  has  always  taken  a  lively  interest  in 
the  growth  of  the  State  and  has  done  much  to  for- 
ward new  enterprises.     In  the  early  days  of  his 
residence  here  he  associated  himself  with  William 
Stewart,  and  together  they  established  and  oper- 
ated a  tannery,  until  the  reduced  freight  rates  of 
railroad  transportation  made  it  unprofitable,  and 
they  were  compelled  to  abandon  the  enterprise. 
He  is  at  this  time  largely  interested  in  a  number 
of  prominent  enterprises  outside  of  Davis  county, 
among  them  being  the  Barnes-Hardy  Company 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  of  which  he  is  President.     He 
also  holds  a  directorate  in  the  Deseret  National 
Bank  and  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Insti- 
tution,   both    of    Salt    Lake    City,    being    also  a 
member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  latter 
institution,    and    is    a    director    in    the    Home 
tire    Insurance    Company.     Also    in   the    Lay- 
ton     Milling    and     Elevator     Company,     whose 
headquarters   are   at   Layton,   in   Davis    County. 
-A.ISO    is    a    Director    in    the    Davis    and    Weber 
Canal   Company,   the  Provo   Woolen   Mills  and 
the   Deseret   Savings    Bank   of   Salt   Lake   City. 
At  this  time  he  is  organizing  a  company,  to  be 
known   as   the   Kaysville   Canning  Company,   of 
which   he   will   be  the    President.     At   one   time 
David  Day  and  D.  L.  Davis  were  interested  with 


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Mr.  Barnes  in  his  general  merchandise  business, 
but  after  some  years  withdrew  from  the  com- 
pany. Mr.  Barnes  is  also  a  heavy  real  estate 
owner  in  Davis  county,  having  about  eight  hun- 
dred acres  of  fine  farming  land,  and  he  and  his 
sons  all  own  fine  brick  residences  in  Kaysville, 
where  they  make  their  homes. 

Mr.  Barnes'  life  has  been  a  wonderful  example 
of  what  pluck,  energy  and  untiring  perseverance, 
coupled  with  honesty  and  integrity,  may  attain 
to.  He  came  to  this  country  a  young  man  with- 
out means,  and  began  life  as  a  school  teacher, 
working  for  meagre  wages,  and  with  a  family  to 
support  from  his  earnings.  To-day  he  is  one  of 
the  best  known  men  in  the  State,  a  leading  busi- 
ness man,  and  one  whose  word  is  as  good  as 
his  bond,  looked  up  to  and  respected  wherever 
known.  He  has  reared  his  children  to  be  self- 
supporting,  self-respecting  men  and  women,  given 
them  every  advantage  of  education,  and  to-day 
there  is  no  better  known  or  more  highly  respected 
family  in  the  community  than  this  one.  Mr. 
Barnes  is  justly  entitled  to  whatever  honors  men 
may  confer  upon  him,  and  his  career  is  one  to 
which  his  children  and  future  posterity  may  well 
point  with  pride. 

In  politics  he  is  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
party,  and  has  been  quite  active  in  its  ranks.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
and  Senator  in  the  first  State  Legislature.  His 
son,  John  G.  M.,  is  at  this  time  Senator  for  the 
counties  of  Morgan,  Davis  and  Rich. 


UDGE  WILLIAM  H.  KING.  Salt  Lake 
City  has  perhaps  a  larger  proportion  of 
eminent  lawyers  than  any  city  of 
its  size  in  the  LInited  States ;  men 
deeply  versed  in  the  intricacies  of 
the  law  and  used  to  handling  big  cases  upon 
which  grave  issues  hinge ;  many  of  whom 
have  won  a  national  reputation  for  their  learning 
and  legal  ability.  It  is  safe  to  say,  however, 
that  in  this  galaxy  of  brilliant  minds  there  is 
none  more  worthy  of  notice  than  that  of  William 
H.  King,  ex-Congressman  and  one  of  the  keen- 
est  and   most    sagacious   lawyers    of   the    entire 


West.  While  his  scholastic  education  was  com- 
pleted at  the  early  age  of  seventeen,  he  has  all 
his  life  been  a  profound  student  and  has  taken 
advantage  of  every  opportunity  that  has  pre- 
sented itself  for  adding  to  his  book  knowledge, 
and  his  extensive  travels  at  home  and  abroad 
have  made  him  an  excellent  student  of  human 
nature.  He  is  a  ready  and  fluent  speaker,  hold- 
ing the  closest  attention  of  his  hearers,  and  has 
won  an  enviable  reputation  not  only  as  a  pleader 
before  the  bar  of  Justice,  but  as  an  advocate  in 
the  halls  of  legislation,  where  he  has  rendered 
most  valuable  services  to  his  State  and  the  na- 
tion. .As  a  crimianl  lawyer,  he  is  perhaps  without 
a  peer  in  this  inter-mountain  region,  although 
he  has  given  his  attention  more  especially  to  cor- 
poration and  mining  law,  and  sought  to  confine 
himself  to  a  general  law  practice,  in  which  he 
has  met  with  most  flattering  success,  being  the 
senior  member  of  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
popular  law  firms  in  the  State.  Judge  King  is 
still  a  young  man,  not  yet  forty  years  of  age, 
and  has  a  long  life  ahead  of  him  in  which  he  will 
undoubtedly  rise  to  greater  heights  in  the  legal 
world.  He  has  already  on  a  number  of  occasions 
been  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for  posi- 
tions carrying  the  highest  honors  of  any  out- 
side the  Presidency,  and  when  the  Democratic 
party  again  comes  into  power  it  is  safe  to  predict 
that  Judge  King  will  discover  that  his  popularity 
has  not  waned. 

While  he  is  a  native  of  Utah,  the  Judge  comes 
of  some  of  the  oldest  and  proudest  families  of 
the  Union,  being  descended  from  the  Hancock, 
King  and  Rice  families  of  the  New  England 
States,  one  of  his  ancestors  in  the  Hancock  fam- 
ily being  one  of  the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence.  Our  subject  was  born  in  Fill-  ■ 
more  City,  Millard  county,  Utah,  June  3,  1863, 
and  is  the  son  of  William  and  Josephine  (Henry) 
King,  born  in  Syracuse,  New  York,  and  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  respectively.  The  parents 
came  to  Utah  in  1850  as  boy  and  girl,  and  here 
grew  up  and  were  married.  The  father  was  a 
well  known  merchant  of  Fillmore,  and  also  owned 
some  farm  property  in  the  vicinity  of  that  city. 
He  was  a  devoted  member  of  '  the  Mormon 
Church,  in  which  he  was  a  Bishop,  and  for  twelve 


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years  was  in  charge  of  the  Mormon  missions  in 
the  Sandwich  Islands. 

The  boyhood  days  of  Judge  King  were  spent 
in  his  father's  home  in  Fillmore,  and  on  the 
farm,  attending  the  schools  of  that  place  and 
later  at  Brigham  Young  Academy  at  Provo, 
and  the  University  of  Utah,  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  From  this  latter  institution  he  went 
to  the  University  of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor, 
graduating  from  that  institution.  When  but 
seventeen  years  of  age  he  was  sent  on  a  three 
years'  mission  to  Europe  in  the  interests  of 
the  Mormon  Church.  At  the  end  of  this  time 
he  returned  to  his  home  in  Fillmore,  and  at 
once  entered  upon  the  active  duties  of  life,  being 
in  the  next  few  years  elected  to  various  civil  po- 
sitions in  Millard  county  and  Fillmore  City.  In 
1885  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature,  be- 
ing returned  at  the  end  of  two  years.  He  had 
been  studying  law  prior  to  his  graduation  from 
Ann  Arbor,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1887. 
Two  years  later  he  located  at  Provo,  where  he 
formed  a  law  partnership  with  S.  R.  Thurman 
and  George  Sutherland. 

As  early  as  1884  the  best  informed  men  in  the 
public  life  of  the  Territory  began  agitating  the 
question  of  a  division  upon  national  political 
lines,  believing  that  to  be  the  wisest  solution  of 
the  troubles  that  were  already  beginning  to 
darken  the  political  horizon,  and  in  that  year  Mr. 
King  "stumped"  a  portion  of  the  Territory  in  the 
interests  of  the  Democrats,  urging  such  a  divis- 
ion. He  was  later  identified  with  what  was  known 
as  the  "Sage  Brush"  Democratic  movement,  and 
canvassed  Utah  in  behalf  of  the  Democratic  can- 
didate for  Congress. 

Judge  King  was  elected  to  the  Legislature 
again  in  1891,  serving  as  President  of  the  Senate. 
He  also  filled  the  position  of  County  Attorney 
for  Utah  county,  and  was  City  Attorney  for  a 
number  of  the  cities  of  that  county.  The  winter 
of  1892-93  was  spent  in  Washington,  and  in  the 
latter  year  President  Cleveland  appointed  him 
Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Utah, 
which  appointment  was  declined,  only  to  be  re- 
peated the  following  year,  and  this  time  the  ap- 
pointment was  accepted,  and  he  served  in  that 
capacity  until  the  admission  of  L^tah   into     the 


Union.  He  was  then  urged  by  his  friends  to  ac- 
cept the  nomination  for  the  Bench,  but  declined, 
and  moved  his  residence  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where 
he  entered  into  a  law  partnership  with  Senator 
Brown  and  Judge  Henderson. 

In  1896  he  was  elected  to  Congress  by  the 
Democratic  party,  receiving  over  twenty-thou- 
sand majority.  He  declined  nomination  two  years 
later,  and  entered  the  race  for  the  United  States 
Senate.  A  deadlock  ensuing,  no  one  was  elected. 
In  April,  1900,  he  was  again  elected  to  Congress 
by  the  Democrats.  The  following  election  he 
was  again  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for 
Congress,  but  the  State  went  Republican,  Bryan 
being  defeated  by  about  thirty-five  hundred.  Mr. 
King,  however,  ran  ahead  of  his  ticket,  being 
defeated  by  about  only  two  hundred  votes. 

While  in  Congress  in  1896,  Judge  King  in- 
troduced the  first  resolution  bearing  upon  the 
annexation  of  Hawaii,  and  later  went  to  Cuba 
for  the  purpose  of  investigating  the  situation,  in 
the  interests  of  the  Democratic  party.  Upon  his 
return  he  advocated  the  intervention  of  the 
United  States  in  behalf  of  Cuba  for  the  purpose 
of  destroying  Spain's  sovereignty  in  that  island. 
He  was  among  the  first  in  Congress  to  sup- 
port such  a  policy. 

He  formed  his  first  partnership  with  Judge 
John  W.  Burton  and  his  brother,  Samuel  A. 
King,  in  January,  1898,  and  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  having 
offices  in  both  Salt  Lake  City  and  Provo. 

Judge  King  was  married  April  17,  1889,  to 
Miss  Annie  L.  Lyman,  daughter  of  Apostle  F. 
M.  Lyman.  Their  union  has  been  blessed  by 
four  children,  of  whom  three  are  now  living — 
Romola,  aged  ten  years ;  Paul  Browning,  aged 
eight  years,  and  Adrieinne,  aged  four  years. 

He  has  all  his  life  been  a  consistent  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  in  which  he  was  born  and 
raised,  and  has  rendered  it  such  service  as  'he 
could,  and  has  held  a  number  of  ecclesiastical 
positions  therein. 

Personally  Judge  King  is  one  of  the  most  ap- 
proachable of  men ;  courtly  in  his  address,  his 
genuine  sincerity  and  apparent  unaffectedness  at 
once  puts  the  stranger  at  his  ease  and  makes  him 
realize  that  he  is  in  the  presence  of  one  whom 


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fortune  has  not  spoiled ;  the  truest  kind  of  a  gen- 
tleman. His  career  thus  far  has  brought  him 
into  close  relations  with  the  best  men  of  our 
land,  among  whom  he  numbers  some  warm 
friends,  and  in  his  own  home  State  counts  his 
friends  by  the  score. 


IIOAIAS  F.  ROUECHE.  Of  all  the 
pioneers  who  undertook  the  develop- 
ment of  the  vast  resources  of  Utah,  none 
IS  more  closely  linked  than  is  Mr. 
Ruuechc  with  the  rapid  growth  of  the 
institutions  and  enterprises  which  constitute  the 
upbuilding  of  their  different  communities.  While 
his  endeavors  have  been  largely  along  the  line 
of  agriculture  and  the  live  stock  business,  he 
has  nevertheless  been  identified  with  all  lines  of 
progress,  and  his  sound  judgment  has  tided  over 
many  shoals  incident  to  a  growing  and  enthusi- 
astic community,  and  in  public  affairs  few  men 
of  this  State  have  taken  a  more  prominent  or  act- 
ive part  or  been  more  highly  honored  along  this 
line  in  Utah  than  has  Air.  Roueche. 

Thomas  F.  Roueche  is  an  American,  having 
been  born  in  Lincoln  county.  North  Carolina, 
February  9,  1833,  and  is  the  son  of  John  B.  and 
Catherine  C.  (Skelly)  Roueche.  The  father  was 
born  in  Germany  and  the  mother  in  Ireland. 
They  were  married  in  North  Carolina  and  lived 
there  until  1847,  when,  with  their  family  of  four 
children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  oldest, 
they  moved  to  Saint  Louis,  Missouri,  where  two 
of  the  children  died,  and  where  the  fourth  child 
still  lives.  The  father  met  with  an  accident  on 
the  Mississippi  river  in  1849,  ^"'i  ^'^'^  ^^  ^  ^^' 
suit  of  his  injuries.  His  wife  survived  him 
twelve  years  and  died  in  Vienna,  Missouri,  in 
1861. 

Our  subject  received  his  education  in  North 
Carolina  and  Missouri  and  lived  with  his  mother 
until  twenty-two  years  of  age.  He  was  con- 
verted to  the  teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  in  Saint  Louis  in 
1854,  and  in  the  following  year  started  for  Utah, 
crossing  the  plains  with  the  Livingston  and  Bell 
Mercantile  Company,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  Au- 
gust 15th  of  that  year.    He  at  once  went  to  Kays- 


ville,  Davis  county,  and  has  since  made  his  home 
here.  For  twenty  years  he  conducted  a  coal  bus- 
iness, and  with  the  exception  of  that  time,  has 
followed  farming  during  his  residence  in  L'tah. 
He  is  an  extensive  real  estate  owner,  having  one 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  acres  of  well  improved 
and  valuable  farm  land  in  Kaysville,  on  which  he 
has  built  a  substantial  and  comfortable  home. 
Besides  this,  he  has  property  in  Logan,  Cache 
county,  and  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
land  in  Alberta,  Canada.  Mr.  Roueche  has  re- 
tired from  active  business  life,  and  is  now  en- 
joying the  fruits  of  a  long  and  well  spent  life. 

He  was  married  in  Saint  Louis,  August  22, 
1854,  to  i\Iiss  Margaret  Comish,  and  of  this  mar- 
riage six  children  have  been  born — Joseph  P., 
who  died  aged  seventeen  years:  Thomas  F.,  ju-- 
nior,  now  ranching  in  Wilford,  Idaho ;  Josephine, 
living  at  home  and  keeping  house  for  her  fa- 
ther; John  E.,  a  merchant  in  Millville,  Cache 
county ;  Jacob,  ranching  in  Fremont  county, 
Idaho ;  William  H.,  living  on  the  old  homestead 
in  Kaysville.     The  mother  died  June  23,  1893. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Roueche  is  a  Democrat, 
and  during  his  residence  in  Kaysville  has  been 
an  active  participant  in  the  political  life  of  his 
community.  He  was  the  first  Mayor  of  Kays- 
ville, and  held  that  office  for  seven  terms.  He 
was  also  Road  Commissioner  for  three  terms. 
In  1882  he  was  appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy 
as  County  Commissioner,  and  at  the  expira- 
tion of  that  term  was  elected  to  the  same  office, 
and  twice  re-elected  after  that,  serving  in  all 
seven  years  in  that  capacity.  During  his  term 
as  County  Commissioner  the  splendid  brick  court 
house  was  built  in  Farmington,  Mr.  Roueche 
drawing  the  ground  plans  for  the  same.  So  well 
had  Mr.  Roueche  fulfilled  the  duties  allotted  to 
him  in  the  different  offices  to  which  he  has  been 
apoointed  and  elected,  and  so  faithful  and  con- 
scientious had  been  his  service,  that  the  people  of 
Davis  county  sent  him  to  represent  them  in  the 
Territorial  Legislature  in  1887.  He  was  alscv 
appointed  a  trustee  of  the  State  reform  School 
in  1894,  and  served  one  term.  All  of  his  family 
but  one  are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
active  in  its  work.  His  son  John  served  two 
years  on  a  mission  for  the  Church  to  the  South- 


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ern  States,  and  is  at  this  time  Bishop  of  the  Mill- 
ville  Ward  in  Cache  county.  For  the  past  twenty- 
five  years  Mr.  Roueche  has  been  Counselor  to 
the  Bishop  of  his  Ward,  and  now  holds  the  of- 
fice of  High  Priest. 

Davis  county  has  the  reputation,  well  earned, 
of  being  the  home  of  more  substantial  business 
men  than  any  other  county  in  the  State,  although 
it  is  the  smallest  in  point  of  population.  Its 
live  stock  industry  is  a  source  of  large  reve- 
nue to  the  State,  and  it  is  also  a  rich  farm- 
ing district.  Mr.  Roueche  ranks  among  the 
leading  men  of  Davis  county,  both  in  business 
and  public  life,  and  during  his  residence  here 
has  made  for  himself  an  enviable  career  and  won 
a  reputation  as  a  man  of  unusual  veracity  and 
integrity  of  purpose.  It  is  said  he  was  never 
known  to  cast  a  vote  in  his  county  or  in  the  Leg- 
islature without  first  being  positive  that  it  was 
for  the  best  interests  of  the  masses,  and  he  has 
for  many  years  been  regarded  as  the  people's 
friend.  No  man  in  Davis  county  stands  higher 
in  the  estimation  of  the  citizens  than  does  he, 
and  had  he  so  chosen  he  could  have  filled  any  of- 
fice in  the  gift  of  the  people  for  which  he  might 
have  indicated  a  preference,  so  great  is  their 
confidence  in  him,  but  he  feels  that  he  has  served 
both  his  Church  and  State  well  in  years  past, 
and  that  younger  hands  and  heads  are  better  fit- 
ted for  the  work  of  the  present  day. 


( )HN  BENNETT  is  one  of  the  substan- 
tial and  successful  men  of  Davis  county. 
Ills  residence  is  in  Kaysville,  where  he 
has  spent  the  past  fifty  years  of  his  life. 
He  has  been  identified  with  nearly  every 
enterprise  which  has  been  for  the  improvement 
and  development  of  Davis  county,  and  by  energy, 
perseverance  and  determination  has  made  a  splen- 
did success  in  life.  His  long  and  honorable  ca- 
reer in  Davis  county  has  won  for  him  a  host  of 
friends. 

Mr.  Bennett  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England, 
December  15,  1834,  and  is  the  son  of  James  and 
Ellen    (Pincock)    Bennett,  both  natives  of  Lan- 


cashire. There  were  fourteen  children  in  this 
family,  of  whom  our  subject  is  the  oldest  living. 
Eleven  of  the  fourteen  grew  to  maturity,  and  are 
still  living.  James  Bennett  came  to  America 
with  his  family  in  1841,  and  settled  at  Nauvoo, 
where  he  worked  for  three  years  on  the  Mormon 
temple,  and  remained  in  that  place  until  the  exo- 
dus of  the  Mormons  in  1846.  H  was  a  wood 
worker  and  wheelwright  by  trade.  His  parents 
were  Thomas  and  Ann  (Parker)  Bennett.  James 
Bennett  was  baptized  in  Lancashire,  England, 
on  December  29,  1837,  by  Heber  C.  Kimball,  and 
was  ordained  to  the  Priesthood  in  July,  1840.  He 
was  married  June  10,  1832,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  the  grandfather  of  eighty-eight 
children  and  the  great  grandfather  of  thirty-two 
children.  The  Bennett  family  passed  through 
all  the  early  troubles  of  the  Mormon  people  in 
Xauvoo.  and  after  leaving  that  place  settled  in 
Iowa,  near  Bluff  City,  where  James  Bennett 
made  the  wagons  for  Kinnard  &  Livingston, 
which   brought    the    first  merchandise   to   Utah. 

The  family  crossed  the  plains  in  1852  in  War- 
ren Snow's  company,  and  arrived  in  Utah  Oc- 
tober 10,  1852.  They  at  once  settled  in  Kays- 
ville, which  at  that  time  consisted  of  but  a  few 
scattered  houses.  The  senior  Mr.  Bennett  was 
ordained  a  High  Priest  in  1869,  by  Edward  Phil- 
lips. He  was  a  hard  working  man,  and  by  en- 
ergy and  perseverance  was  able  to  accumulate  a 
considerable  amount  of  property  before  he  died. 
His  death  occurred  December  14,  1888.  Mrs. 
Bennett  was  the  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
(Marsdens)  Pincock.  Her  parents  died  in  1844 
at  Nauvoo,  the  dates  of  their  death  being  but 
twelve  days  apart,  and  they  are  buried  at  Nau- 
voo, near  Castor  creek.  Mrs.  Bennett  was  born 
May  14,  1816,  and  died  April  20,  1886. 

Our  subject  remained  at  home  with  his  par- 
ents until  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age,  when 
he  married  on  February  22,  1858,  to  Miss  Ellen 
Ellison,  daughter  of  James  and  Alice  (Hallo- 
well)  Ellison,  natives  of  England,  where  the 
daughter  was  born  in  Copple,  Lancashire.  The 
Ellison  family  emigrated  to  .America  in  1853  on 
board  the  ship  Alvira  Owen,  and  landed  in  New 
Orleans ;  then  went  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and  came 
across  the  great  American  plains  to  Utah  in  the 


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company  under  command  of  Cyrus  Wheeler. 
They  remained  in  Salt  Lake  City  for  one  year, 
after  which  they  moved  to  what  is  now  Layton, 
in  Davis  county,  and  in  1858  the  parents  moved 
to  Nephi,  where  the  father  died  in  1877,  and  the 
mother  died  April  19,  1896.  To  our  subject  has 
been  born  thirteen  children  by  this  marriage,  nine 
of  whom  are  still  living.  They  are :  Alice  A., 
now  Mrs.  James  L.  Whitesides ;  Mary  L.,  now 
Mrs.  M.  M.  Whitesides;  Lucy  I.,  now  the  wife 
of  J.  W.  Morgan ;  Elizabeth  I.,  now  Mrs.  J.  G. 
Watson;  John  J.,  living  in  Syracuse;  Marga- 
ret L.,  who  married  John  Forbes,  and  later  died ; 
George  H.,  living  in  Syracuse;  Charles  T.,  liv- 
ing in  Kaysville;  Lettie  M.,  Phillip  A.,  who  died 
when  four  years  old ;  Wilford  E.,  died  at  the  age 
of  one  and  a  half  years ;  William  E.,  at  home, 
and  Amelia  P.,  who  died  when  two  years  of  age. 
In  this  home  is  also  the  little  daughter  of  Mrs. 
John  Forbes,  Margaret  E.,  who  is  being  raised  by 
her  grandparents.  She  was  just  past  three  weeks 
old  at  the  time  of  her  mother's  death. 

Mr.  Bennett  settled  on  his  present  place  in 
1862.  He  has  seventy  acres  of  well  improved 
land  here  and  twenty  acres  in  Syracuse.  He  has 
carried  on  a  general  farming  business,  but  is  also 
largely  interested  in  outside  concerns,  being  a 
stockholder  in  the  Davis  &  Weber  Canal  Com- 
pany, and  also  interested  in  the  creamery  busi- 
ness. He  is  also  interested  in  the  Co-operative 
store  at  Kaysville  and  in  the  Kaysville  Bank. 

In  politics  Mr.  Bennett  is  a  Democrat,  but  has 
never  participated  actively  in  the  work  of  that 
party,  devoting  all  his  time  outside  of  his  busi- 
ness to  his  Church  work.  He  was  baptized  into 
the  Mormon  Church  at  Nauvoo  when  but  a  child 
of  eight  years,  and  has  ever  since  been  a  loyal 
and  consistent  member  of  that  faith.  His  family 
are  also  members  of  this  Church,  his  son,  John 
J.,  having  been  called  to  serve  on  a  mission  in 
the  Eastern  States  in  1897,  and  remaining  in  that 
field  for  two  years.  Mr.  Bennett  is  a  High  Priest 
in  the  Church  and  active  in  its  work  at  home. 
He  made  a  trip  to  the  Missouri  river  in  1863  and 
conducted  a  train  of  emigrants  to  Utah,  and  in 
1858  was  also  called  to  assist  in  getting  emi- 
grants away  from  the  seat  of  the  Indian  troubles, 
being  sent  to  Fort  Limhigh  for  that  purpose. 


DWARD  T.  ASHTON,  Bishop  of  the 
Twenty-fourth  Ward  of  Salt  Lake 
Stake  of  Zion.  Utah  has  been  largely 
liuilt  up  from  a  wild  and  undeveloped 
country  during  the  early  days  of  set- 
tlement, inhabited  only  by  the  savage  red  men 
and  wild  animals  that  roved  at  will  through  the 
valleys,  hills  and  mountains,  by  the  pioneers  and 
their  sons,  and  the  splendid  record  that  they  have 
made  along  the  lines  of  civilization  and  advance- 
ment is  a  tribute  to  their  energy  and  persever- 
ance. As  one  of  the  State's  native  sons,  "who 
has  taken  part  in  her  onward  march  of  civiliza- 
tion, and  who  has  been  alive  to  every  enterprise 
and  issue  for  her  advancement,  Bishop  Edward 
T.  Ashton  is  deserving  of  special  mention. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  July 
14,  1855.  His  father,  Edward  Ashton,  a  native 
of  Monmouthshire,  Wales,  was  born  in  1820.  He 
was  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  which  he  followed  in 
his  native  country.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church  in  1849  ^"d  emigrated  to 
America  two  years  later,  crossing  the  plains  to 
Utah  in  a  company  under  command  of  Captain 
Dan  Jones.  Upon  his  arrival  in  this  City,  he  lo- 
cated in  the  western  part,  which  was  at  that  time 
mostly  under  water.  He  became  interested  with 
a  number  of  others  in  reclaiming  this  land,  in 
which  he  was  very  successful,  and  is  still  liv- 
ing near  his  son,  in  the  enjoyment  of  good 
health.  His  wife  was  Jane  Treharne,  also  a  na- 
tive of  Wales.  She  died  in  this  city,  leaving  a 
family  of  seven  children — Edward  T.,  Jedediah 
W..  Brigham  W.,  whose  sketch  appears  else- 
where in  this  work ;  Elizabeth  Ann,  Sarah  Jane, 
since  deceased ;  Emily,  and  George  S. 

Bishop  Ashton  was  the  oldest  of  the  family  and 
grew  up  in  the  Fifteenth  Ward,  receiving  his 
education  in  the  common  schools  of  the  city,  and 
becoming  apprenticed  at  the  age  of  sixteen  to 
Morris  &  Evans,  stone  and  brick  contractors,  and 
after  the  completion  of  his  apprenticeship  was 
employed  for  some  time  by  that  firm,  by  whom 
he  was  held  in  high  esteem,  he  being  presented 
by  them  with  a  handsomely  engraved  silver 
watch  in  recognition  of  his  efficient  services. 
He  began  the  general  contracting  business  for 
himself  in   1881  and  continued  alone  until  1892, 


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when  he  took  his  brother,  George  S.,  into  part- 
nership, and  the  firm  has  since  been  known  as 
Ashton  Brothers.  In  addition  to  their  contract- 
ing work  they  deal  in  all  kinds  of  stone  for  build- 
ing and  monumental  purposes,'  and  have  fur- 
nished the  material  for  many  of  the  large  struct- 
ures of  this  city.  In  1899  our  subject  became 
President  of  the  Ashton,  White  Skillikorn  Com- 
pany, successors  to  Watson  Brothers,  the  largest 
building  stone  works  in  the  State.  Among  other 
buildings  for  which  they  have  furnished  the 
building  material  may  be  mention  the  Dcscrct 
Nezcs  building  and  the  Catholic  Cathedral,  now 
in  course  of  construction.  Mr.  Ashton  was  also 
one  of  the  originators  and  incorporators  of  the 
Ashton  Fire  Brick  and  Tiling  Company. 

On  April  4,  1878,  Bishop  Ashton  was  married 
to  Miss  Effie  Morris,  by  whom  he  has  seven  chil- 
dren— Edward  M.,  with  the  Zion's  Savings  Bank; 
Elias  C,  connected  with  the  Fire  Brick  Company; 
Marvin  O.,  Raymond  J.,  Efifie  M.,  Jane  L.  and 
Lowell  S.,  who  died  in  infancy.  He  was  again 
married,  in  1884,  to  Miss  Cora  Lindsay,  daugh- 
ter of  Henry  P.  Lindsay  of  this  city,  who  also 
bore  him  seven  children — Cora  L.,  Ina  J.,  Amy 
M.,  Elmer  T.,  Jed  and  Eva. 

Bishop  Ashton  has  been  very  active  in  building 
up  the  western  portion  of  the  city,  and  especially 
the  Twenty-fourth  Ward.  In  company  with  a 
few  others,  he  purchased  a  vacant  block  on  First 
South  and  Seventh  West  in  1900,  and  laid  out 
the  Franklin  subdivision,  on  which  block  they 
have  erected  forty  substantial  brick  houses.  He 
is  also  interested  in  the  Elias  Morris  Company, 
the  West  Side  Mercantile  Association,  a  success- 
ful enterprise  of  that  Ward.  He  drew  the  plans 
of  the  State  Normal  School  at  Cedar  City,  and 
had  general  charge  of  the  construction  of  that 
edifice.  He  has  also  erected  many  of  the  elec- 
trical plants  for  the  Telluride  Power  Company, 
and  has  built  the  plants  at  the  Big  Cottonwood 
and  the  Jordan  Narrows ;  Logan ;  Provo ;  Tellu- 
ride, Colorado,  and  Butte,  Montana.  As  an  archi- 
tect he  has  proved  very  successful,  and  is  original 
in  his  ideas. 

During  his  busy  life  he  has  given  much  time 
and  attention  to  furthering  the  interests  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  has  passed  through  many 


of  the  offices  of  the  Priesthood.  He  was  ordained 
an  Elder  in  1875,  and  became  a  member  of  the 
Second  Quorum  of  Seventies  in  1885,  subse- 
quently becoming  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents  of 
that  Quorum.  In  1891  he  went  to  Great  Britain 
■on  a  mission  for  the  Church,  and  for  thirteen 
months  presided  over  the  Welsh  Mission.  He 
was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set  apart  as 
Bishop  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Ward  in  1897,  by 
President  George  Q.  Cannon,  and  has  all  his 
life  been  prominent  in  the  work  of  the  Young 
A'len's  Associations  and  in  Sunday  School  work. 
His  two  oldest  sons  have  also  served  on  missions 
to  Colorado  and  Germany. 

The  success  to  which  the  Bishop  has  attained 
has  been  won  through  his  own  unaided  efforts, 
and  he  is  justly  entitled  to  the  place  which  he 
occupies  in  the  ranks  of  the  business  men  of  the 
city  and  State. 


DMUND  WEBB  has  long  been  one  of 
Kaysville's  honored  and  respected  citi- 
zens'. He  has  assisted  in  no  small  de- 
gree in  building  up  and  developing  the 
commercial  and  agricultural  interests 
of  Davis  county,  and  by  his  straightforward  busi- 
ness principles  and  fair  and  honorable  treatment 
of  his  fellow  men  he  has  won  the  respect  of  the 
entire  community. 

Edmund  Webb  was  born  in  Linton,  Cambridge- 
shire, England,  July  26,  1822,  and  is  the  son  of 
Robert  and  Ann  (Empelton)  Webb,  both  natives 
of  England,  the  father  being  born  in  Ickelton, 
Cambridgeshire,  and  the  mother  in  Linton. 
There  were  nine  children  in  this  family,  our  sub- 
ject being  the  only  one  to  join  the  Mormon 
Church  or  migrate  to  this  country.  He  was  bap- 
tized in  1852  by  Pres.  Bawed,  and  in  the  follow- 
ing year  took  passage  at  Liverpool  for  America 
on  board  the  sailing  vessel  Golconda,  landing  in 
New  Orleans,  and  going  from  there  by  river  to 
Keokuk,  Iowa,  from  where  he  went  to  Winter 
Quarters,  and  crossed  the  great  American  plains, 
arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  September  19,  1853. 
He  remained  in  the  city  that  winter,  and  spent 
the  following  summer  on  the  Jordan  river,  going 
to  Kaysville  in  1854,  but  he  did  not  remain  there 


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long.  He  spent  seventeen  months  in  Carson  Val- 
ley, Nevada,  doing  colonization  work,  but  was 
called  home  by  the  heads  of  the  Church  on  ac- 
count of  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  and  was 
for  a  time  in  Brigham  City,  remaining  there  until 
the  call  came  in  the  spring  of  1858  for  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  to  go  south.  He  returned  to 
Kaysville  in  the  same  year,  and  has  since  made 
this  his  home. 

Mr.  Webb  has  been  twice  married.  His  first 
marriage  occurred  in  England,  when  he  was 
united  to  Miss  Sarah  Mathews.  Of  this  mar- 
riage seven  children  were  born — Rosa  Ellen,  now 
Mrs.  William  Barnes,  living  in  Kaysville ;  Pris- 
cilla,  died  in  England  in  infancy ;  Ziba,  died  in 
infancy;  Ether,  Edmund  M.,  Sarah  Ann,  Mary 
E.  The  mother  of  these  children  died  many  years 
ago.  His  second  marriage  occurred  in  1866,  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  Colemere,  daughter  of  George 
and  Rachael  Colemere,  and  by  this  marriage 
eleven  children  were  bom,  eight  of  whom  are 
now  living — George  E.,  in  Idaho ;  Harriette  E., 
now  Mrs.  John  Hodgson  of  Layton ;  Charles, 
died  in  1892 ;  Rachael  R.,  now  the  wife  of  Wil- 
liam H.  Roueche  of  Kaysville ;  one  child,  died 
in  infancy ;  Martha  M. ;  Zina ;  Alice,  who  died  at 
three  years  of  age ;  James  R. ;  Amy  G.  and  Ann, 
twins.  The  mother  of  this  family  died  September 
16,   1884. 

Mr.  Webb  has  seventy-seven  acres  of  well 
improved  land  on  his  home  place,  and  has  it 
well  improved  with  a  good  brick  house,  barns, 
outbuildings,  etc.  He  has  devoted  his  time,  out- 
side of  farming,  to  the  cattle  and  sheep  business, 
which  has  proved  profitable.  All  the  family  are 
members  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  active  in 
its  service.  At  the  present  time  Mr.  Webb  is  a 
High  Priest  and  a  Teacher. 


\NIEL  LUNN.  Few  of  the  pioneers 
who  settled  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley 
have  had  a  more  varied  career  than  has 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  not  only 
crossed  the  plains  in  the  pioneer  days, 
making  the  entire  journey  by  ox  teams  from  the 
outposts  of  civilization  to  Utah,  but  he  crossed 
the  deserts  of  Nevada  and  Western  Utah  to  Cali- 


fornia, and  suflfered  all  the  perils  and  dangers  of 
travel  by  sea  in  those  early  days,  being  ship- 
wrecked on  his  voyage  from  California,  by  way 
of  the  isthmus  of  Panama,  to  New  York.  He  is 
one  of  the  oldest  settlers  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley, 
and  one  who  has  accomplished  a  great  deal  in  the 
work  of  bringing  its  agricultural  and  commercial 
resources  to  their  present  high  state. 

Daniel  Lunn  was  born  in  Hampshire,  England, 
on  December  6,  1831.  He  is  the  son  of  Richard 
and  Jane  (Collins)  Lunn,  who  were  both  born  in 
the  same  place  in  England.  Their  son  spent  his 
early  life  in  Great  Britain,  and  in  1853  emigrated 
to  America,  sailing  in  the  winter  time  and  arriv- 
ing in  New  Orleans  in  February,  1854.  Here  he 
remained  but  a  few  months,  and  then  joined  a 
company  of  young  men  and  traveled  with  them  to 
Holt  county.  Missouri,  where  he  resided  for  the 
following  six  months.  He  then  went  to  Atchison, 
Kansas,  and  assisted  in  organizing  and  outfitting 
a  wagon  train  to  make  the  journey  across  the 
plains  to  Utah.  The  outfit  of  wagons  was  ready 
for  service  in  July,  1855,  and  in  that  month  they 
left  for  the  Salt  Lake  Valley.  They  arrived  here 
in  the  late  fall  of  that  year,  and  spent  the  winter 
of  that  year  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  our  subject 
employed  his  time  in  hauling  wood  from  the  can- 
yons to  supply  the  settlers  in  the  new  city,  which 
had  sprung  up  like  magic  out  of  the  wilderness. 
In  the  following  spring-  he  was  at  the  head  of  a 
train  of  eight  wagons,  hauled  by  oxen,  and  made 
the  trip  across  the  desert  to  California.  The  jour- 
ney in  those  days  across  the  great  Salt  Lake 
desert  and  through  the  desert  regions  of  Nevada, 
was  a  journey  of  which  the  traveler  of  to-day 
can  form  no  conception.  He  successfully  con- 
ducted the  train' to  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  re- 
mained there  for  six  months.  After  the  comple- 
tion of  that  journey,  the  wagon  train  was  dis- 
banded, and  for  six  months  Mr.  Lunn  worked 
on  a  farm  in  order  to  gain  a  livelihood.  He  then 
determined  to  return  to  the  East,  and  took  pas- 
sage on  a  ship  bound  for  New  York  by  way  of 
the  isthmus,  and  intended  to  cross  at  Nicaragua. 
The  heavy  storms  they  encountered  finally  resulted 
in  the  wrecking  of  the  ship,  and  it  was  driven 
to  take  refuge  in  the  port  of  Virginia  City.  Mr. 
Lunn  continued  his  journey,  and  arrived  in  New 


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York,  and  from  there  he  went  to  Albany,  in  that 
State,  and  then  to  Ranselear  county,  and  located 
at  Sand  Lake,  where  he  met  Ann  Donahue,  whom 
he  married.  His  wife  was  a  native  oflreland,  and 
came  to  America  at  the  early  age  of  eight  years. 
Her  father,  John  Donahue,  died  when  she  was 
but  a  child,  and  her  mother,  Ann  Donahue,  set- 
tled at  Sand  Lake,  and  they  lived  there  for  nine 
years.  In  this  marriage  ten  children  were  born, 
of  whom  six  are  now  living.  They  were :  Jane, 
now  the  wife  of  L.  Park ;  George,  who  died  aged 
twenty-eight  years  ;  Elizabeth,  who  died  when  she 
was  seventeen  years ;  Daniel,  who  at  present  is  a 
resident  of  Idaho ;  Anna,  the  wife  of  William  Gor- 
den ;  Stephen,  died  in  infancy ;  David,  who  lives 
in  the  Mill  Creek  Ward ;  Joseph  H.,  who  died  in 
infancy ;  Louisa,  now  the  wife  of  James  Gorden ; 
Queen  Esther,  the  wife  of  N.  J.  White.  Mr. 
Lunn  now  has  nineteen  grandchildren  living. 

Our  subject  resided  in  Sand  Lake,  New  York, 
until  1864,  when  he  moved  to  Saint  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, and  resided  there  for  three  years.  Whilq 
in  New  York  he  sent  for  his  father  and  eight 
other  members  of  the  family  and  sent  them  the 
money  to  pay  for  their  transportation,  and 
brought  them  to  Saint  Louis,  where  his  father 
and  two  sisters  died,  one  sister  having  died  in 
New  York  State.  The  rest  of  the  family  he 
brought  with  him  to  Utah  in  1868.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  settled  in  the  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
now  Wilford  Ward,  and  has  resided  there  ever 
since.  He  has  a  homestead  in  that  Ward  of  nine 
acres,  located  on  the  County  road  at  Fourteenth 
South.  When  he  located  his  farm  here  there  was 
nothing  but  a  desert  region,  and  from  this  un- 
promising region  Mr.  Lunn  has  made  for  himself 
a  competence  that  insures  him  against  adversity, 
and  owns  a  fine  adobe  house. 


EORGE  QUAYLE  CANNON  was 
born  at  Liverpool,  England,  January 
iith,  1827.  His  parents,  George  and 
Ann  (Quayle)  Cannon,  were  natives 
of  Peel,  on  the  Isle  of  Man.  Their 
forefathers  were  probably  originally  from  the 
borders  of  Scotland,  although  the  old  family 
names  give  evidence  of  Irish  as  well  as  Scandi- 


navian ancestry.  George  Q.  was  the  eldest  of 
seven  children,  of  whom  five  others  reached  ma- 
turity— Mary  Alice,  Ann,  Angus  M.,  David  H. 
and  Leonora.  In  his  boyhood  he  was  a  diligent 
student  of  the  Bible,  and  soon  was  able  to  detect 
the  great  lack  in  modern  Christendom  of  the 
divine  inspiration  and  authority  and  gifts  enjoyed 
by  the  early  Saints.  In  January,  1840,  Elder  John 
Taylor,  who  had  married  George  Q.'s  aunt,  Leo- 
nora, daughter  of  Captain  George  Cannon,  and 
had  joined  the  Church  in  Canada,  landed  in  Liv- 
erpool on  a  mission  in  Great  Britain.  The  Can- 
nons at  once  received  him  and  the  Gospel  mes- 
sage he  bore,  and  the  father  and  mother  were 
baptized  in  February  and  the  older  children  in 
June  of  that  year.  The  family  sailed  from  Liver- 
pool for  Xauvoo  September  17,  1842,  but  the 
mother  died  on  the  way  and  was  buried  in  the 
ocean,  as  had  been  foreseen  by  her  husband  and 
herself  before  their  departure. 

On  reaching  Nauvoo  George  Q.  recognized  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  although  he  had  never 
seen  his  portrait.  On  August  17,  1844,  the  father 
of  the  Cannons  died  at  St.  Louis.  George  Q. 
entered  the  office  of  the  Times  and  Seasons  and 
Nauvoo  Neighbor,  which  was  in  charge  of  his 
uncle.  Elder  John  Taylor,  and  he  there  learned 
the  printing  business  and  was  a  member  of  Elder 
Taylor's  household.  Under  his  hands  George  Q. 
was  ordained  an  Elder,  February  9th,  1845,  ^nd 
on  the  same  day  was  ordained  a  Seventy  and  was 
received  as  a  member  of  the  Nineteenth  Quorum. 
In  1846,  when  the  expulsion  from  Nauvoo  took 
place,  he  traveled  with  the  main  body  of  the 
Saints  to  Winter  Quarters,  and  crossed  the  plains 
in  1847,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  October  3rd 
of  that  year.  There  he  labored  for  a  living  and 
endured  the  hardships  of  the  times  with  the  rest 
of  the  pioneers. 

In  the  fall  of  1849  he  was  sent  on  a  mission  to 
California,  under  the  direction  of  Elder  Charles 
C.  Rich.  He  suffered  great  privations  on  the 
way,  and  in  the  summer  of  1850  was  called,  with 
nine  others,  to  take  a  mission  to  the  Hawaiian 
Islands.  They  landed  December  12,  1850.  No 
success  being  had  among  the  whites,  most  of  the 
Elders  determined  to  return,  but  Elder  Cannon, 
who  conceived  that  there  was  no  reason  why  the 


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natives  should  remain  in  ignorance  of  the  Gospel, 
declared  he  would  stay  and   preach  to  them,   if 
he  had   to   remain   alone;    four  of   the   mission- 
aries elected  to  stay  with  him.     He  accjuired  the 
language  in  a  marvelously  short  time.by  diligence 
and  study  and  the  gift  of  God,  and  was  soon  able 
to  proclaim  the  Gospel  in  the  native  tongue.    He 
also  translated  the   Book  of  Mormon  into   Ha- 
waiian.    He  and  his  brethren  were  greatly  suc- 
cessful, and  when  they  left  the  islands  for  San 
Francisco,  July  29,  1854,  there  were  more  than 
four  thousand  members   of  the   Church  in   that 
country.     He  reached  Salt  Lake  City  November 
28th  of  that  year,  and  was  ordained  one  of  the 
Presidents  of  the  Thirtieth  Quorum  of  Seventy. 
He  was  soon  notified  to  take  another  mission, 
and  on  May  loth,  1855,  he  left  Great  Salt  Lake 
City,  with  his  wife  and  Elders  Joseph  Bull  and 
Matthew  F.  Wilkie,  for  California,  where  he  was 
set  apart  by  Elder  Parley  P.  Pratt  to  preside  over 
the  mission  in  California  and  Oregon.     He  there 
published   the    Western  Standard,   and   also   the 
Book    of    Mormon    in    the    Hawaiian    language, 
which  he  had  previously  translated.     In  conse- 
quence of  the  approach  of  Johnston's  army   to 
Utah,  President  Young  advised  Elder  Cannon  to 
close    up    the    mission    and    return    home.      He 
reached  Salt  Lake  City  January  19th,  1858,  and 
was  appoined  Adjutant  General  in  the  army  of 
defence.    He  was  then  sent  to  Fillmore  with  the 
printing  press  and  material  of  the  Deseret  Nczvs, 
which   he   published    from    .April   to    September, 
1858.     On  his  way  back  to   Salt  Lake  City  he 
was   notified   to   take   a  mission   to   the   Eastern 
States,  for  which  he  made  himself  ready  in  three- 
quarters  of  an  hour.     On  this  mission  he   was 
gone  nearly  two  years,  during  which  he  labored 
diligently  among  the  leading  editors  and  promi- 
nent members  of  Congress,  to  correct  the  mis- 
representations  concerning   the    Mormon    people 
which  had  been  made  by  their  enemies  and  had 
caused  the  sending  of  the  army  to  Utah.     He 
also  took  charge  of  the  branches  of  the  Church 
in  the  East  and  acted  as  emigration  agent  at  New 
York   for  the   purchasing   of   supplies   and   for- 
warding the   immigrating   Saints.      While   there 
he  was  notified  of  his  selection  to  fill  a  vacancy 
in  the  Quorum  of  the  Twelve  .Apostles.     On  his 


return  he  was  ordained  to  that  office.  .August  26, 
i860. 

In  six  weeks  from  that  time  he  was  appointed 
to  go  on  a  mission  to  England,  to  take  charge  of 
the  Millenial  Star  and  the  emigration  business  at 
Liverpool,  where  he  landed  December  21,   i860, 
and  established  a  Church  printing  office.    He  was 
associated  with  Apostle  Amasa  j\I.  Lyman  and 
Charles   C.   Rich  in  the   Presidency  of  the  Eu- 
ropean mission  until  May  14,  1862,  when  he  was 
called  to  Washington,  D.  C,  to  join  with  Captain 
W.  H.  Hooper  in  endeavoring  to  obtain  the  ad- 
mission  of   the   Territory   into   the   Union   as   a 
State,   they   having   been   elected   United    States 
Senators  by  the  inchoate  commonwealth.     When 
Congress  adjourned  he  returned  to  England,  ar- 
riving July   26,    1862,    where   he   presided   over 
the    European    mission    until    1864,    visiting   the 
branches  of  the  Church  in  Scandinavia,  Germany, 
Holland,    Switzerland    and    France.      He    sailed 
from   Liverpool   August   27,    1864,   but   was   de- 
tained by   the  way  through   Indian  troubles,   so 
that  he  did  not  reach  home  until  October  12th  of 
that  year.     He  then  became  the  private  secretary 
for   President  Brigham  Young   for  three  years. 
In   the    winter   of    1864-1865    he   organized   and 
taught  a  Sunday  School  in  the  Fourteenth  Ward. 
In  January,  1866,  he  commenced  the  publication 
of  the  Juvenile  Instructor,  of  which  he  remained 
the  editor  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.     In  the 
fall  of  1867  he  took  charge  of  the  Deseret  News, 
which  was  then  issued  weekly  and  semi-weekly, 
but  on  November  21st  he  issued  the  first  number 
of  the  daily,  under  the  title  of  The  Deseret  Even- 
ing Nezi's,  of  which  he  was  for  several  years  the 
editor  and  publisher,  but  traveled  a  great   deal 
through  the  various  settlements   with   the   First 
Presidency  and  Apostles,  holding  meetings  and 
giving  counsel  to  the  people.     In   1871   he  was 
sent,  with  President  George  A.  Smith,  to  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  where  he  spent  some  time  defend- 
ing the  people  of  Utah  from  the  attacks  of  their 
enemies.     At  the  adjournment  of  Congress  for 
the  holidays  he  returned  home.      He  was  elected 
a   member  of   the  .Constitutional    Convention   in 
February,    1872,  and  helped  to   frame  the   Con- 
stitution then  adopted,  and  went  to  Washington, 
with  Hon.  Thomas  Fitch  and  Hon.  Frank  Fuller, 


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to  present  the  Constitution  and  apply  for  tlie  ad- 
mission of  the  State,  having  been  again  chosen 
United  States  Senator. 

In  August,  1872.  he  was  elected  Delegate  to 
Congress  to  succeed  Hon.  W.  H.  Hooper,  and 
was  re-elected  for  four  successive  terms,  making 
five  in  all.  He  became  a  noted  character  in  Con- 
gress, serving  Utah  with  marked  ability  and  suc- 
cess, and  from  his  excellent  memory  of  measures 
and  persons  and  names,  he  became  an  authority 
and  a  source  of  information  in  Congressional 
matters  to  new  members  from  session  to  session. 
In  1881,  although  he  received  18,568  votes  and 
Allen  G.  Campbell  but  1,357  votes,  Governor 
Eli  H.  Murray  refused  him  the  cehificate  of  elec- 
tion and  gave  it  to  his  competitor.  However,  the 
scheme  to  deprive  him  of  his  seat  failed ;  but  sub- 
sequently the  Edmunds  Act  of  March  22,  1882, 
was  made  retroactive  in  his  case,  and  the  coun- 
try having  been  greatly  aroused  against  the  Lat- 
ter Day  Saints,  the  House  of  Representatives 
decided  against  his  retention  of  the  seat,  and  de- 
clared it  vacant  by  a  vote  of  one  hundrd  and 
twenty-two  against  seventy-nine,  on  April  19, 
1882.  He  had  the  opportunity  of  defending  his 
position,  which  he  did  in  a  magnificent  speech, 
that  was  listened  to  with  the  most  intense  inter- 
est, and  in  which  he  vindicated  his  own  course 
and  the  cause  of  the  people  whom  he  represented. 

When  President  Brigham  Young  departed  this 
life,  August  29,  1877,  George  Q.  Cannon  became 
the  principal  executor  of  his  will,  and,  with  Brig- 
ham  Young,  Junior,  and  Albert  Carrington,  the 
co-executors,  he  was  engaged  for  several  years 
in  the  settlement  of  the  estate.  A  few  of  the 
heirs  were  dissatisfied,  and  in  1879  commenced 
suit  against  the  executors.  They  had  given  enor- 
mous bonds,  and  Judge  Jacob  S.  Boreman  wanted 
to  put  them  under  additional  bonds,  which  they 
refused  to  give.  He  adjudged  them  guilty  of 
contempt,  and  they  went  to  the  Penitentiary, 
August  4th,  1879,  where  they  remained  three 
weeks,  until  released  by  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Utah,  which  set  aside  the  decision  of  the  lower 
court.  In  October,  1880,  the  Church  having  been 
under  the  Presidency  of  the  Twelve  Apostles  for 
a  little  more  than  three  years,  the  First  Presidency 
was  reorganized,  with  John  Taylor  as  President, 


George  Q.  Cannon  as  First  Counselor  and  Joseph 
F.  Smith  as  Second  Counselor.  In  1885,  when 
the  anti-polygamy  raid  under  the  Edmunds  Act 
was  inaugurated,  President  Cannon  accompanied 
President  Taylor  into  seclusion,  and  they  directed 
the  afifairs  of  the  Church  in  secrecy,  their  resi- 
dences being  searched  for  them  by  Deputy  Mar- 
shals on  several  occasions.  Under  counsel  from 
President  Taylor,  President  Cannon  took  the 
train  for  California,  but  was  arrested  at  Hum- 
boldt Wells.  On  the  way  back  he  fell  from  the 
train  while  in  rapid  motion,  and  injured  his  face 
somewhat  and  was  badly  shaken  up.  Marshal 
Ireland  sent  for  a  company  of  soldiers  to  guard 
his  prisoner,  and  he  was  brought  into  Salt  Lake 
City  under  military  escort.  He  was  placed  under 
bonds  for  $25,000,  and  again  for  $20,000,  under 
"segregated"  counts  in  the  indictment,  making 
the  enormous  sum  of  $45,000,  while  he  was  only 
charged  with  a  simple  misdemeanor,  namely,  liv- 
ing with  his  wives,  but  under  three  indictments 
for  the  same  oflfense.  The  feeling  against  the 
Mormon  leaders  was  so  bitter  that  President  Tay- 
lor counseled  him  not  to  appear  when  his  case 
was  called,  so  his  excessive  bail  was  declared  for- 
feited. But  subsequently  the  amount  was  re- 
stored, by  act  of  Congress  being  passed  to  re- 
imburse him,  he  having  previously  settled  in  full 
with  his  sureties.  In  1888,  affairs  having  as- 
sumed a  less  passionate  state  in  the  courts.  Presi- 
dent Cannon  surrendered  himself  to  L'nited  States 
Marshal  Dyer,  September  17,  1888,  and  he  was 
sentenced  by  Judge  Sandford  to  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  days'  imprisonment  and  a  fine  of 
$450.  He  served  the  time  and  paid  the  fine,  and 
was  released  February  21,  1889. 

At  the  decease  of  President  Taylor,  the  Twelve 
Apostles  again  took  charge  of  the  Church,  and 
Presidents  Cannon  and  Smith  resumed  their 
places  in  the  Quorum  of  the  Apostles.  On  the 
acession  of  Wilford  Woodruff  to  the  Presidency 
of  the  Church,  April  7,  1889,  George  Q.  Cannon 
was  chosen  again  as  First  Counselor  and  Joseph 
F.  Smith  as  Second  Counselor.  After  the  death 
of  President  Woodruff,  President  Lorenzo  Snow 
succeeded  to  the  Presidency,  September  13,  1898; 
he  also  selected  George  O.  Cannon  as  his  First 
Counselor  and  Joseph   F.    Smith   as  his   Second 


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Counselor.  This  was  ratified  at  the  General  Con- 
ference on  October  9th  of  the  same  year.  Presi- 
dent Cannon  remained  in  this  important  position 
until  his  demise. 

President  Cannon's  name  lias  always  been  iden- 
tified with  the  Sunday  School  movement.  At  the 
organization  of  the  Sunday  School  Union  in  1867 
he  was  made  General  Superintendent,  which  posi- 
tion he  held  until  the  last  days  of  his  earthly  ca- 
reer. His  heart  was  in  this  work,  and  thousands 
upon  thousands  of  the  children  of  Zion  will  revere 
his  name  and  memory.  He  was  also  a  strong 
supporter  of  the  other  Church  schools.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  General  Board  of  Education 
from  the  day  of  its  organization,  April  5,  1888, 
and  never  relaxed  his  interest  or  energies  in  that 
capacity.  Besides  his  labors  on  the  Juvenile  In- 
structor, he  wrote  many  interesting  works,  such 
as  "My  First  Mission,"  "Life  of  Joseph  Smith," 
"Life  of  Nephi,"  etc.,  and  assisted  in  writing 
"The  Life  of  Brigham  Young,"  "Brief  History 
of  the  Church,"  and  other  publications. 

In  addition  to  the  onerous  duties  of  his  posi- 
tion as  one  of  the  First  Presidency  of  the  Church, 
in  which  he  traveled  very  extensively  among  the 
Stakes  of  Zion,  attending  conferences,  dedicat- 
ing meeting-houses,  counseling  the  people  in 
things  temporal  and  spiritual,  he  was  engaged  in 
many  enterprises  of  importance  to  the  public. 
He  was  a  director  in  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad 
Company  and  in  the  Salt  Lake  and  Los  Angeles 
Company.  He  was  Vice-President  and  Director 
of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution 
for  many  years.  He  founded  the  publishing  and 
book  firm  of  George  Q.  Cannon  &  Sons  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  President.  He  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Utah  Sugar  Company,  Vice-President 
and  Director  of  Zion's  Savings  Bank  and  Trust 
Company,  Director  of  the  Co-operative  Wagon 
and  Machine  Company,  President  of  Brigham 
Young  Trust  Company,  President  of  the  Utah 
Light  and  Power  Company,  Director  of  the  Bul- 
lion-Beck and  Champion  Mining  Company,  also 
•of  the  Grand  Central  Mining  Company.  He  re- 
cently organized  the  George  O.  Cannon  Associa- 
tion, of  which  he  was  the  President,  and  in  which 
he  placed  all  his  property.  In  the  interest  of  these 
associations  he  took  repeated  trips  to  the  East 


and  West,  and  gave  them  each  the  benefit  of 
his  wisdom  and  experience.  He  was  President 
of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Commercial  Congress 
for  one  term,  and  attended  all  of  its  sessions  as 
a  member  with  great  regularity.  He  was  also 
President,  and  afterwards  Vice-President,  of  the 
Irrigation  Congress,  and  addressed  its  meetings 
on  several  occasions  as  an  authority  on  irrigation 
and  kindred  affairs. 

On  November  29,  1900,  President  Cannon,  ac- 
companied by  a  few  friends,  left  Salt  Lake  to  at- 
tend the  Jubilee  of  the  Sandwich  Islands  mission, 
which  was  held  December  12  and  13.  He  landed 
at  Honolulu  December  10,  and  the  next  day  re- 
ceived the  most  magnificent  greeting  ever  ac- 
corded a  guest  of  those  islands.  The  native 
Saints  fairly  adored  him  as  the  instrument  in 
the  hands  of  God  in  the  introduction  of  the  Gos- 
pel among  them.  Some  of  them  he  baptized  fifty 
years  before.  He  was  crowned  with  yellow  lei, 
the  emblem  of  royalty.  Several  prominent  peo- 
ple in  the  present  and  former  governments  also 
waited  upon  him.  During  the  festivities,  lasting 
several  days,  he  was  honored,  and  almost  wor- 
shipped, bv  the  islanders.  Ex-Queen  Lilioukalani 
also  attended  a  meeting  at  which  he  spoke  half 
an  hour  in  the  Hawaiian  tongue, .  which  he  was 
able  to  recall  in  a  surprising  manner.  President 
Cannon  afterwards  visited  the  ex-Queen,  and  at 
her  request  blessed  her.  On  the  day  of  his  de- 
parture to  return  home  he  was  literally  covered 
with  flowers.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  Jari- 
uary  16,  and  half  an  hour  after  alighting  from 
the  train  he  addressed,  by  special  request,  the 
great  National  Live  Stock  Convention,  then  in 
session  in  the  Assembly  Hall,  and  was  received 
with  immense  applause. 

The  health  of  President  Cannon  had  been  oc- 
casionally interrupted  by  spells  of  sickness  for 
some  time  before  the  fatal  attack.  He  had  been 
robust  and  strong  until  the  fall  from  the  train 
already  mentioned.  After  that  he  experienced, 
once  in  a  while,  a  weakness  in  contrast  to  his 
former  vigor.  While  on  visits  to  the  East  he 
was  seized  with  serious  symptoms.  At  New 
York,  in  November,  1899,  he  was  severely  at- 
tacked with  pneumonia,  and  but  for  his  abstemi- 
ous  life   and   good   constitution   would   probably 


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have  succumbed.  This  undoubtedly  prepared  the 
way  for  the  last  illness  that  laid  low  this  stal- 
wart servant  of  the  Church.  In  March,  1901, 
he  left  for  California,  whose  milder  climate  and 
the  lower  altitude  it  was  hoped  would  benefit 
his  health.  But  the  hope  proved  fallacious ;  and 
surrounded  by  several  members  of  his  family, 
his  pure  and  lofty  spirit  took  its  flight  in  the 
early  morning  hours  of  April  12.  From  the 
peaceful,  drowsy,  little,  old  tow^n  of  Monterey, 
where  he  died,  his  remains  were  at  once  conveyed 
to  San  Francisco,  where  they  were  prepared  for 
burial.  From  there  the  sad  return  journey  was 
begun  two  days  later,  and  on  the  17th,  with  the 
most  imposing  services  ever  held  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  his  tired  body  was  laid  to  rest. 


lELS  DANIEL  JENSEN  was  born  in 
Asmildgaarde,  Wiborg  county,  Den- 
mark, March  4,  1852.  He  is  the  son 
of  Jens  J.  and  Karen  (Sorensen)  Jen- 
sen, both  natives  of  Denmark,  and  who 
lived  and  died  in  that  country.  Mr.  Jensen  joined 
the  Mormon  Church  in  Denmark  in  1876,  at 
which  time  he  was  serving  in  the  army  of  his 
country.  He  left  his  native  land  and  emigrated 
to  America  in  1883,  being  one  of  eleven  hundred 
Mormons  to  come  to  Salt  Lake  in  that  year  under 
Captain  O.  J.  Magleby,  and  arrived  here  on  July 
8th  of  that  year.  Their  ship  arrived  in  New  York 
City  on  July  ist,  and  they  came  by  rail  to  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  remained  in  Salt  Lake  City  only 
one  year,  and  then  moved  to  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
now  Wilford  Ward,  and  a  year  later  bought  his 
present  home  of  sixteen  acres,  located  at  Four- 
teenth East  on  Fourteenth  South  street.  He  es- 
tablished himself  in  the  dairy  business,  and  for 
four  years  successfully  conducted  that  business. 
He  has  erected  a  nice  house,  with  good  out-build- 
ings, and  has  planted  out  an  orchard  and  shade 
trees,  and  now  has  a  good  home.  He  left  the 
dairy  business  and  engaged  in  real  estate  trans- 
actions, and  at  Mill  Creek  was  also  engaged  in 
the  lumber  and  brick  business.  He  built  several 
houses  on  the  homestead  which  he  had  taken  up, 
and  on  the  first  sixteen  acres  of  the  land  he 
bought  there  are  now  nine  houses. 


•  Mr.  Jensen  married  in  Denmark,  in  1882,  to 
Miss  Mary  Goodmanson,  and  has  had  four  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  are  dead — Daniel,  who  died 
at  one  year  of  age ;  Clara  E.,  now  sixteen  years 
of  age,  and  two  other  children  who  died  at  birth. 
In  political  life  Mr.  Jensen  has  been  a  follower 
of  the  Republican  party,  and  has  been  Chairman 
of  the  Republican  Committee,  and  also  held  the 
office  of  Fruit  Tree  Inspector,  and  is  now  Deputy 
Assessor;  he  has  also  been  a  School  Trustee  for 
four  years,  and  has  held  the  office  of  Water 
Master  for  ten  years.  He  has  taken  a  prom- 
inent part  in  all  the  affairs  of  Utah,  espe- 
cially in  the  Mormon  Church,  and  was  Clerk 
of  the  Mill  Creek  Ward  before  its  division, 
and  is  now  Clerk  of  the  Wilford  Ward.  He 
has  been  statistical  correspondent  of  the  United 
States  Government  for  ten  years  for  Salt  Lake 
county,  and  is  also  Secretary  of  the  Salt 
Lake  County  Horticultural  Society.  He  has 
aided  in  every  way  the  development  of  his 
portion  of  the  country,  and  assisted  in  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Agricultural  Society,  of  which 
he  was  made  President.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Church  on  May  21,  1876,  in  Denmark,  and 
spent  three  years  in  that  land  before  he  came  to 
the  United  States,  and  presided  over  several 
branches  of  the  Church  in  that  country.  Since 
he  settled  in  Mill  Creek  he  has  presided  over  the 
Scandinavian  meetings  which  have  since  been 
held  there.  He  was  a  Clerk  of  the  Thirteenth 
Quorum  of  Elders  for  many  years,  and  is  now 
President  of  the  Eleventh  Quorum  of  Elders  of 
Granite  Stake. 


ILLIAM  H.  McINTYRE,  for  many 
years  President  of  the  great  Mam- 
moth Mine,  in  the  Tintic  Mining 
District  of  Utah,  was  born  in  Grimes 
county,  Texas,  in  1848,  and  when 
but  a  child  crossed  the  plains  with  his  father, 
mother  and  sister,  and  came  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
arriving  in  Utah  in  the  fall  of  1853.  His  early 
life  was  spent  on  a  farm,  and  he  attended  such 
schools  as  existed  at  that  time  for  a  few  weeks 
in  the  winter,  spending  the  balance  of  the  year 
working  on  the  farm.     His  father,  William  Mc- 


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Intyre,  died  when  our  subject  was  only  four 
months  old.  He  had  been  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Texas,  and  was  engaged  in  the  stock- 
raising  and  farming  business,  which  he  operated 
with  considerable  success.  He  was  also  in  the 
United  States  forces  in  the  Mexican  War,  and 
participated  in  one  of  the  battles  at  Alamo, 
under  General  Sam  Houston.  His  mother  later 
married  John  Moody,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Donahue,  whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
volume. 

Mr.  Mclntyre  early  started  out  for  himself, 
and  was  engaged  in  freighting  during  the  early 
days  of  the  settlement  of  California  and  Utah, 
and  also  hauled  freight  from  the  Missouri  river 
to  Utah  and  from  Utah  to  the  Blackfoot  country. 
He  only  operated  this  business  for  a  few  years, 
when  he  branched  out  into  the  stock  business, 
securing  a  ranch  in  what  is  now  the  Tintic  Min- 
ing District.  As  early  as  1873  or  1874,  the  Mc- 
Intyres  became  identified  with  the  Mammoth 
Mine,  which  was  at  that  time  in  its  infancy,  but 
very  little  work  having  been  done  by  the  Cris- 
mons  upon  it.  There  was  a  shaft  two  hundred 
feet  deep  and  a  tunnel  six  hundred  feet  long. 
All  of  the  work  which  has  since  been  done,  and 
the  driving  of  the  shaft  to  a  depth  of  two  thou- 
sand feet,  together  with  the  tunneling  and  the 
enlargement  of  the  different  levels,  has  been  the 
work  which  Mr.  Mclntyre  and  brother  have  suc- 
cessfully carried  on  in  that  property.  This  is 
one  of  the  largest,  and  in  its  time  has  been  the 
most  profitable,  mine  in  Utah,  having  paid  in 
the  neighborhood  of  two  million  dollars  in  divi- 
dends to  its  stockholders,  and  it  is  now  one  of 
the  best  investments  in  the  Tintic  Mining  Dis- 
trict. Mr.  Mclntyre  came  to  Utah  when  the  first 
settlers  were  tilling  the  soil  and  endeavoring  to 
sustain  life  from  the  barren  and  unyielding  wil- 
derness. He  has  seen  Salt  Lake  City  grow  from 
a  small  village  to  its  present  metropolitan  impor- 
tance, and  has  seen  Utah  developed  from  a  wild 
and  unknown  Territory  to  one  of  the  most  pros- 
perous and  growing  States  of  the  West. 

He  married  Miss  Phoebe  Chase,  daughter  of 
George  Chase,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  this 
country,  who  was  engaged  here  in  farming.  By 
this  marriage  they  have  six  children — lune,  Bes- 


sie, Margaret,  Marion,  William  and  Robert,  all 
of  whom  are  at  home,  except  one  daughter,  who 
is  attending  school  in  the  East. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Mclntyre  has  been  a  Demo- 
crat, but  owing  to  the  pressure  of  his  business 
has  never  taken  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  his 
party.  His  whole  time  has  been  given  to  the 
development  of  his  business  and  to  its  care.  In 
addition  to  his  mining  property,  he  also  owns  one 
of  the  largest  ranches  in  Canada,  consisting  of 
si.xty-five  thousand  acres,  which  is  stocked  with 
horses  and  cattle. 

The  success  which  Mr.  Mclntyre  has  made  in 
life  and  the  prominent  position  he  now  occupies, 
marks  him  as  one  of  the  ablest  business  men  in 
Utah.  He  started  out  early  in  life  as  a  poor  boy 
and  has  made  his  own  way  without  help  from 
any  one,  and  the  success  which  has  come  to  him 
has  been  won  by  his  untiring  industry  and  con- 
stant hard  work.  His  home  is  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
he  having  recently  purchased  the  Gill  S.  Peyton 
home,  on  Seventh  and  B  streets,  which  is  one 
of  the  finest  residences  in  this  city. 


OHN  MILNER  was  born  in  Newport, 
Mommothshire,  England,  June  13,  1827, 
and  spent  his  early  life  in  his  native  land. 
His  education  was  derived  from  the 
schools  of  Newport,  and  during  his  boy- 
hood days  he  worked  on  his  father's  farm.  He 
was  twenty  years  of  age  when  he  finally  left  Eng- 
land and  came  to  the  United  States.  He  landed 
at  New  Orleans  on  March  3,  1847,  and  from  there 
he  made  the  trip  to  Wisconsin,  settling  at  Lan- 
caster, the  county  seat  of  Grant  county.  He  there 
joined  an  elder  brother,  who  had  come  to  the 
L^nited  States  a  few  months  previous  to  Mr.  Mil- 
ner's  arrival,  and  settled  in  Wisconsin.  Upon  his 
arrival  in  Wisconsin  Mr.  Milner  at  once  took  up 
Government  land  and  began  active  work  as  a 
farmer,  and  also  buildine  up  a  live  stock  busi- 
ness. The  land  which  he  took  up  was  at  that  time 
in  its  native  state  of  wildness,  and  was  the  usual 
prairie  land  of  the  great  plains  of  the  West,  ac- 
companied by  woods.  The  building  up  of  this 
farm  necessitated  the  hewing  of  this  timber  and 
the  breaking  up  of  the  soil,  which  had  never  been 


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touched  by  a  plow.  The  same  energy  which  he 
later  displayed  in  his  business  enterprises  he  suc- 
cessfully brought  to  the  conduct  of  this  work,  and 
was  a  prosperous  and  prominent  man  of  that  sec- 
tion of  Wisconsin  for  over  twenty-three  years. 
He  finally  disposed  of  his  farm  in  Wisconsin  and 
moved  to  the  southwestern  portion  of  Iowa,  lo- 
cating in  Adair  county,  near  Fontanelle,  its  then 
county  seat.  This  migration  took  place  in  1870, 
and  here  he  again  improved  another  farm 
and  made  his  home  here  for  five  years.  At 
this  time  he  also  took  up  the  stock  busi- 
ness, and  made  as  great  a  success  of  it  in 
Iowa  as  he  had  in  Wisconsin.  He  then  sold 
his  property  in  Adair  county  and  moved  to 
Atlantic,  Cass  county,  west  of  Adair  county, 
and  went  into  the  lumber  business,  giving  up  en- 
tirely his  farming.  In  this  business  he  associated 
with  him  his  second  son,  Elliott  A.  Milner,  and 
this  firm  continued  to  do  a  flourishing  business 
for  five  years,  at  which  time  Mr.  Milner  prac- 
tically retired  from  active  business,  and  has  since 
lived  on  the  results  of  the  early  labors  of  his 
youth  and  manhood.  He  moved  to  Salt  Lake 
City  in  March,  1892,  and  for  the  pas"  ten  years 
this  city  has  been  his  home,  where  he  has  lived 
enjoying  the  wealth  that  he  has  amassed  and  not 
participating  actively  in  business  affairs.. 

Mr.  Milner  married  Miss  Selina  Sarah  Bark, 
who  was  a  native  of  Worcestershire,  England. 
Mrs.  Milner  came  to  the  United  States  in  1848 
with  one  of  her  brothers  and  her  sisters  to  visit 
friends  in  this  country,  and  while  in  Wisconsin 
she  met  Mr.  Milner  and  they  were  married.  Her 
father,  George  Bark,  was  a  prosperous  merchant, 
and  amassed  considerable  wealth  during  his  early 
life,  and  was  able  to  live  on  the  income  from  his 
business  in  his  later  years  at  Worcestershire,  Eng- 
land. Mrs.  Milner's  mother  was  a  Miss  Rowe, 
but  she  died  when  her  daughter  was  very  young. 
Mrs.  Milner  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Worcestershire,  where  her  father  lived  until  his 
death,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  Mr.  Milner's 
father,  James,  was  a  farmer,  and  lived  in  New- 
port, Mommothshire.  England,  the  greater  por- 
tion of  his  life,  and  it  was  here  that  his  son  was 
born.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  a  Miss 
Elliott,  and  her  people  were  also  among  the  prom- 


inent families  of  England.  By  this  marriage  Mr. 
Milner  has  eight  children  living.  They  are: 
Colonel  Stanley  B.  Milner,  a  sketch  of  whose  life 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  work ;  Elliott  A.,  a  resi- 
dent of  Iowa;  Florence,  now  the  wife  of  M.  M. 
Rutt  of  Utah ;  Mary,  the  wife  of  L.  M.  Rutt  of 
Salt  Lake  City ;  Charles,  who  died  at  Tuscarora, 
Nevada,  in  1899,  aged  thirty-nine  years ;  James, 
in  the  sheep  businss  in  Montana ;  Nellie  M.,  now 
the  wife  of  James  Whitney,  a  resident  of  Atlantic, 
Iowa ;  Harley  O.,  engaged  in  the  mining  business 
at  Tuscarora,  Nevada,  and  Grace  M.,  wife  of  P. 

A.  Hawkins,  principal  of  the  schools  of  Colum- 
bus, ^lontana.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milner  now  have 
twenty-one  grandchildren  living.  In  February, 
1899,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milner  celebrated  their  golden 
wedding  at  the  home  of  their  son.  Colonel  Stanley 

B.  Milner,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  there  were  pres- 
ent all  their  children,  with  the  exception  of  their 
daughter  Florence  W.  and  their  son  Charles,  who 
died  at  Tuscarora  just  previous  to  this  celebra- 
tion. Their  grandchildren  were  also  present  at 
this  reunion. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Milner  has  of  recent  years 
been  a  member  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  is  a 
firm  believer  in  the  doctrine  of  tariff  for  revenue 
only.  While  a  resident  of  Wisconsin  he  held 
many  of  the  minor  offices  in  his  county  and  town- 
ship, among  which  were  Justice  of  the  Peace  and 
School  Trustee. 


R.  ANDREW  J.  HOSMER.  Every- 
where throughout  the  length  and 
lireadth  of  America  are  to  be  found 
men  who  have  worked  their  own  way 
upward  from  humble  and  lowly  begin- 
nings to  positions  of  leadership,  renown  and  high 
esteem,  and  it  is  still  one  of  the  proudest  boasts 
of  our  fair  land  that  such  victors  over  circum- 
stances are  accounted  of  thousand-fold  more 
value  to  the  commonwealth  than  is  the  aristocrat 
with  his  inherited  wealth,  standing  and  distin- 
guished name.  When  even  a  reasonable  degree 
of  success  has  been  attained  by  one  who  has  been 
obliged  to  battle  with  many  adversities,  we  are 
inclined,  as  a  people,  to  award  him  the  palm  of 
honor,  and  doubtless  this  very  spirit  of  "giving 


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honor  to  whom  honor  is  due,"  in  its  true  sense, 
is  one  of  the  secrets  of  our  prosperity  as  a  nation, 
as  well  as  individually. 

Andrew  J.  Hosmer  was  born  at  New  Boston, 
Michigan,  October  2,  1858,  and  is  the  son  of  An- 
drew J.  and  Martha  (Eldred)  Hosmer.  Dr. 
Hosmer  was  one  of  eleven  children.  In  his 
father's  family  there  were  seven  sons  and  four 
daughters,  and  as  the  father  was  not  over  rich 
in  this  world's  goods,  he  was  compelled  at  an 
early  age  to  do  for  himself.  He  was  raised  in 
New  Boston  until  the  age  of  eleven ;  then  his 
parents  moved  to  Jackson,  in  the  same  State, 
where  he  attended  the  country  district  schools 
and  worked  on  his  father's  farm.  In  1875  he 
moved,  with  his  parents,  to  Romulos,  Michigan, 
where  he  attended  the  district  schools  in  the  win- 
ter, working  on  the  farm  in  the  summers,  and 
finally  entered  the  high  school. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  he  began  his  life  work 
by  teaching  at  Spring  Harbor,  Michigan,  during 
the  winter  months  and  attending  the  State  Nor- 
mal School  in  the  summer,  and  by  close  economy 
was  able  to  save  sufficient  to  enter  the  Michigan 
State  University  at  Ann  Arbor  in  1880,  where 
he  took  a  literary  course,  and  in  1882  entered 
the  medical  department  of  that  institution,  grad- 
uating with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1885.  He 
then  took  up  practical  work  at  the  Wayne  County 
Insane  Asylum  and  County  Poor  House,  where 
he  remained  about  a  year.  In  1886  he  took  up 
the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Plymouth,  a 
small  country  town  of  Michigan,  and  during  the 
following  eighteen  months  had  remarkable  suc- 
cess, considering  the  size  of  the  place.  He  then 
moved  to  Ashland,  Wisconsin,  where  he  prac- 
ticed his  profession  for  eight  years,  devoting  him- 
self almost  exclusively  to  surgery.  During  this 
time  he  was  surgeon  for  the  Wisconsin  Central 
Railroad  Company,  the  Northern  Pacific  and  the 
Saint  Joseph  Hospital.  In  spite  of  these  arduous 
duties  he  found  time  to  take  a  post-graduate 
course  at  the  New  York  and  Chicago  post-gradu- 
ate schools,  devoting  most  of  his  time  to  patho- 
logical surgery,  being  associated  with  eminent 
surgeons  of  New  York  and  Chicago.  In  1894 
he  went  to  Europe,  and  spent  one  year  at  the 
Vienna   Hospital;   then   visited   London,   Berlin, 


Dresden  and  Paris,  viewing  the  work  and  gather- 
ing statistical  data  of  surgical  operations  in  the 
leading  European  hospitals. 

LTpon  his  return  from  Europe  he  located  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  where  he  began  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  1897.  For  three  years  he  was  associ- 
ated with  Dr.  P.  S.  Keogh  in  the  founding  and 
management  of  the  Keogh-Hosmer  Private  Hos- 
pital. In  March,  1901,  he  was  appointed  a  mem- 
ber of  the  stafY  of  surgeons  at  the  Holy  Cross 
Hospital.  Dr  .Hosmer  has  been  a  successful  prac- 
titioner, and  stands  high  in  the  profession.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Salt  Lake  City  Medical  So- 
ciety, the  Utah  State  Medical  Society,  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Inter-State  Medical  Society  and  the 
American  Medical  Association,  and  has  still  con- 
tinued his  membership  in  the  Wisconsin  Medical 
Association. 

On  December  17,  1890,  he  married  Miss  Letitia 
Fell,  who  came  to  Salt  Lake  at  the  same  time  he 
did.  He  has  been  a  thoroughly  self-made  man, 
coming  up  from  the  bottom  round  of  the  ladder, 
and  has  taken  pleasure  in  assisting  three  of  his 
brothers  to  secure  a  medical  education,  and  of 
the  seven  sons  four  are  now  practicing  that  pro- 
fession. One  is  located  in  Detroit,  one  in  Ash- 
land, Wisconsin;  the  other  has  just  finished  his 
post-graduate  course.  The  doctor  also  comes 
from  a  medical  family  on  his  mother's  side,  there 
having  been  several  physicians  in  the  maternal 
ancestry,  dating  back  for  several  gnerations. 

During  his  residence  in  this  city  Dr.  Hosmer 
has  ever  been  found  ready  to  respond  to  the  call 
of  duty,  and  is  never  so  happy  as  when  alleviat- 
ing suiTering.  He  has  not  only  won  a  high  place 
in  the  medical  profession,  but  stands  high  in  the 
esteem  and  confidence  of  those  with  whom  he  has 
been  associated  in  social  life. 


R.  FRANCIS  SANBURN  BASCOM. 
As  the  representative  of  the  medical 
profession,  perhaps  no  physician  in 
Salt  Lake  City  is  more  worthy  of 
'  special  mention  than  is  Dr.  Bascom, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  comes  from  an 
old  and  honorable  American  family,  his  ances- 
tors coming  to  America  with  the  Pilgrim  Fathers, 


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and  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  country, 
Thomas  Bascom,  belonged  to  one  of  the  oldest 
and  most  prominent  families  of  England,  leaving 
there  on  account  of  his  religion.  Our  subject's 
father  was  Carlos  Lyman  Bascom,  a  native  of 
Shoreham,  Vermont,  who  married  Emily  Sanburn. 
They  moved  to  Illinois,  settling  in  Rock  Island, 
and  there  our  subject  was  born  in  1857. 

He  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  the  vicinity  of 
his  home,  and  received  his  early  education  from 
the  schools  of  that  place,  completing  his  medical 
studies  in  Rush  Medical  College,  in  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, from  which  institution  he  graduated  in  1882. 
After  spending  some  time  in  the  Chicago  hos- 
pitals, he  came  to  Utah,  and  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  Government  as  physician  and  surgeon  on 
the  LTintah  Indian  Reservation,  but  resigned  his 
position  and  went  abroad,  where  he  took  a  post- 
graduate course,  studying  in  the  medical  colleges 
of  Vienna,  Edinburgh  and  London.  He  returned 
to  the  United  States  in  1884,  locating  in  Salt  Lake 
City  the  same  year,  where  he  has  since  conducted 
a  general  practice  and  built  up  a  most  enviable 
reputation,  not  only  as  a  physician  and  surgeon, 
but  as  a  writer  of  authority  upon  subjects  of  in- 
terest to  the  medical  world.  He  is  at  this  time 
a  member  of  the  staff  of  physicians  of  Saint 
Mark's  Hospital  and  Medical  Director  of  that 
institution. 

In  medical  circles  Dr.  Bascom  is  ex-President 
of  the  State  and  County  Medical  Societies  and 
ex- Vice— President  of  the  American  Medical  As- 
sociation, having  served  in  that  capacity  during 
1893.  He  has  been  surgeon  for  the  Rio  Grande 
Western  Railway  since  1886,  and  was  for  some 
years  President  of  the  State  Board  of  Medical 
Examiners,  receiving  his  first  appointment  from 
Governor  Thomas,  and  being  re-appointed  by 
Governor  Wells.  He  resigned  this  position,  how- 
ever, and  accepted  that  of  President  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  which  he  has  since  held.  In 
addition  to  the  State,  County  and  National  Med- 
ical Societies,  Dr.  Bascom  was  honored  with  the 
appointment  as  representative  of  Utah  at  the  Pan- 
American  Medical  Congress,  held  in  1893,  and 
has  served  the  scientific  and  medical  world  in 
many  other  capacities.  Dr.  Bascom  has  been  a 
contributor   to   manv    of   the   leading-   masrazines 


and  medical  journals,  furnishing  statistics  to  sci- 
ence and  writing  a  number  of  articles  on  the 
climatic  conditions  in  this  country,  and  other  data. 
In  politics  he  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  participated 
actively  in  its  work,  devoting  the  greater  portion 
of  his  time  to  study  and  the  prosecution  of  his 
practice.  In  business  circles  he  occupies  the  im- 
portant position  of  Vice-President  of  the  Bank  of 
Commerce,  and  is  well  known  among  the  business 
men  of  the  city,  with  whom  he  enjoys  a  high 
standing.  He  has  not  only  built  up  a  large  and 
lucrative  practice,  but  has  come  to  be  one  of  the 
leading  physicians  of  Salt  Lake  City,  enjoying 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  wi*.h  whom  he 
has  been  associated,  and  has  acquired  a  reputa- 
tion for  honor  and  integrity  with  his  medical  as- 
sociates, among  whom  he  numbers  many  warm 
friends. 


OHN  WILLIAM  CLARK.  The  story 
of  the  early  settlers  in  Utah  may  be  re- 
lated  in  part,  but  its  full  history  can 
never  be  recorded.  The  hardships  en- 
dured, the  privations  sustained  and  the 
splendid  record  of  those  who  by  determined  pur- 
pose conquered  in  the  face  of  every  obstacle,  can 
only  be  fully  realized  and  understood  by  those 
who  personally  took  an  active  part  in  its  scenes. 
Among  those  who  settled  in  Utah  in  its  early 
period,  and  who  has  passed  through  all  the  trials 
incident  to  settling  in  a  new  country,  especially 
LTtah  at  that  time,  so  far  removed  from  the  seat 
of  civilization,  John  William  Clark  deserves  spe- 
cial mention. 

He  was  born  in  Herefordshire,  England,  Janu- 
ary 12,  1826,  and  is  the  son  of  Thomas  S.  and 
Charlotte  (Galey)  Clark,  both  natives  of  that 
place.  Our  subject  was  the  oldest  of  a  family 
of  nine  children,  two  of  whom  were  born  in 
America,  and  four  of  whom  are  now  living.  The 
parents  were  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  the  father  was  baptized  by 
President  Wilford  Woodruff,  later  baptizing  his 
children,  our  subject  being  baptized  in  1841.  On 
April  6th  of  that  year  the  family  left  their  native 
land  and  emigrated  to  America,  coming  over  on 


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board  the  Catherine,  which  was  lost  at  sea  on  her 
next  voyage.  They  went  directly  to  Nauvoo,  ar- 
riving there  on  July  8th  of  the  same  year,  and  re- 
mained there  until  the  Mormons  were  driven  out 
of  the  State.  At  the  time  of  the  exodus  the  Clark 
family  were  notified  at  two  o'clock  in  the  after- 
noon to  leave  by  six  o'clock  the  following  morn- 
ing, and  being  unable  to  collect  all  their  things 
in  the  short  time  given,  were  compelled  to  leave  a 
large  portion  of  their  possessions.  One  of  their 
Gentile  friends  took  them  in  for  one  night  and  as- 
sisted them  across  the  river,  when  they  went  with 
the  main  body  of  the  Church  to  Winter  Quarters. 
Here  the  father  and  the  older  sons  went  to  work 
haying.  The  following  spring  the  father  was  sent 
on  a  mission  to  England,  where  he  remained  until 
the  fall  of  1849,  the  family  being  cared  for  by  our 
subject.  Upon  Mr.  Clark's  return  from  England, 
in  company  with  Henry  Smith  and  Emory  Bar- 
rus,  he  built  a  ferry  boat,  which  they  run  at  Flor- 
ence, six  miles  above  Omaha,  for  two  years,  and 
which  they  owned  jointly,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  Mr.  Clark  sold  out  his  interest  and  with  our 
subject  came  to  Utah,  arriving  here  in  the  spring 
of  1852,  the  remainder  of  the  family  coming  the 
next  year.  The  father  was  Captain  of  ten  wagon? 
in  this  company,  and  a  few  days  after  starting 
cholera  broke  out,  and  all  of  those  over  whom 
Mr.  Clark  was  in  command  succumbed  to  the 
disease,  he  alone  escaping.  Upon  arriving  in 
Utah  the  Clarks  at  once  went  to  Grantsville, 
which  continued  to  be  the  family  home.  Here 
Mr.  Clark  took  up  land,  and  he  and  his  son  at 
once  went  to  work  getting  out  timber  from  the 
canyon  with  which  to  build  a  house.  The  In- 
dians were  very  troublsome,  and  under  the  ad- 
vice of  Brigham  Young  the  settlers  of  Grants- 
ville united  in  building  a  large  adobe  fort,  the 
walls  of  which  were  twelve  feet  high.  The  In- 
dians continued  to  annoy  them  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  it  was  the  custom  of  the  settlers  to  lock 
the  Indian  prisoners  in  cellars,  sometimes  chain- 
ing them  together.  Our  subject  also  participated 
in  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  and  at  this  time 
owns  one  of  the  wagon  beds  used  by  Johnston's 
army.  Mr.  Clark,  Senior,  died  in  Grantsville 
October  14,  1873,  his  wife  having  passed  away 
on  April  18,  1869. 


Our  subject  was  married  in  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa,  August  2,  1850,  to  Miss  Ann  Mickel 
Wright,  and  by  this  marriage  eight  children  were 
born — Thomas  H.,  living  in  Tooele  county;  Lucy, 
now  Mrs.  J.  A.  Elison ;  William  J.,  Counselor 
to  the  Bishop  of  Grantsville;  George  M.,  ranch- 
ing in  Idaho ;  Emma  J.,  now  Mrs.  William  Jef- 
feries.  Junior;  Hanna  C,  the  wife  of  Eugene  T. 
Woolley;  Sarah  A.,  died  aged  eight  years; 
Charles  M.,  died  in  infancy.  The  mother  of  this 
family  died  May  13,  1900. 

Mr.  Clark's  principal  occupation  in  Utah  has 
been  farming  and  cattle  raising,  as  well  as  being 
interested  to  some  extent  in  sheep.  He  has  been 
very  successful  in  all  his  ventures,  and  has  now 
retired  from  active  business  life,  and  is  enjoying 
the  competence  he  has  accumulated.  He  has  in 
his  life  time  been  identified  with  a  number  of  local 
enterprises,  having  at  this  time  an  interest  in 
the  Tooele  Milling  Company,  which  he  assisted 
to  build,  and  also  assisted  in  establishing  the  co- 
operative store  at  this  place,  in  which  he  is  a 
Director.  His  family  are  also  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church  and  active  in  its  work  in  their 
locality.  Mr.  Clark  has  held  a  number  of  offices 
in  the  Church,  having  been  Counselor  to  the 
Bishop,  an  Elder,  High  Priest,  a  member  of  the 
Seventies,  and  is  at  this  time  a  Patriarch.  His 
broad  mindedness,  integrity  and  high  and  busi- 
ness-like methods  have  won  for  him  the  confi- 
dence of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  associated 
in  business  life,  while  his  genial  and  pleasant 
manner  has  made  friends  of  those  who  have  met 
him  in  social  life,  and  to-day  he  stands  high  in 
the  good  will  of  the  people  of  his  city  and  county. 


I'FUS  ADAMS.  Among  the  promi- 
nent people  of  Layton,  Davis  county, 
none  rank  higher  than  the  Adams  fam- 
ilv.  They  run  a  general  merchandise 
store  of  which  Rufus  Adams  is  the 
superintendent,  his  father  is  the  president  and  one 
of  his  brothers  assists  in  the  store.  Four  of  the 
other  brothers  are  stockholders  in  the  firm  of 
Adams  &  Sons  Company,  the  remainder  of  the 
stock  being  held  by  farmers  and  residents  of 
Lavton. 


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Rufus  Adams  was  born  in  Layton,  April  23, 
1861.  His  father,  George  W.  Adams,  is  a  native 
of  Illinois,  and  his  mother,  Mary  A.  (Pilling) 
Adams,  a  native  of  England.  Rufus  was  brought 
up  on  a  farm,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one 
became  a  clerk  in  a  general  merchandise  store  and 
has  remained  in  this  line  of  business  ever  since. 
After  he  had  clerked  for  nine  years  his  father 
bought  out  Barton  &  Co.'s  store,  the  pioneer 
general  store  of  Layton,  and  this  they  operated 
until  a  disastrous  fire  wiped  out  both  their  stock 
and  building  about  six  years  ago.  They  did  not 
carrv  a  cent's  worth  of  insurance,  which  proved 
to  be  a  disastrous  mistake..  But  they  are  not  the 
kind  of  men  to  sit  down  and  pine  over  troubles, 
and  at  once  began  looking  around  to  see  how  they 
could  build  up  a  new  business  on  the  ashes  of 
their  burnt  stock.  Moreover  the  wholesale  houses 
with  whom  they  had  dealt  assured  them  of  every 
help  that  they  could  afYord  them.  A  large  new 
store  was  built  and  the  firm  of  Adams  &  Sons 
Company  incorporated.  The  store  contains  as 
complete  a  line  of  general  merchandise  as  can  be 
found  in  any  country  store  in  the  State  and 
does  a  first  rate  business,  so  that  under  the 
careful  management  of  Rufus,  the  heavy  loss 
he  and  his  father  and  company  sustained  by  fire 
has  now  been  overcome. 

In  November,  1883,  Rufus  Adams  was  married 
to  Sarah  A.  Hill,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Ellen 
Hill  of  Layton.  Of  the  seven  children  born  to 
them  six  are  living:  Ethel  A.,  Chloe  V.,  Alta  L., 
Jenness  L.,  died  at  the  age  of  six  years  and  five 
months ;  Melvin  J\I.  and  Spencer  D.  The  oldest 
of  the  family,  Delbert  R.,  died  when  he  was  a 
year  and  a  half  old.  The  Adams  home  is  a  hand- 
some brick  structure  with  modern  conveniences. 
Mr.  Adams  also  has  two  farms — one  of  ninety 
and  the  other  of  sixty  acres — and  has  experi- 
mented considerably  in  the  raising  of  live  stock. 
In  politics  he  has  pinned  his  faith  to  the  Repub- 
lican party. 

Rufus  Adams  and  all  of  his  family  believe 
implicitly  in  the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon  faith, 
in  which  they  were  born.  Both  father  and 
mother  take  a  strong  interest  in  Church  mat- 
ters and  are  highly  respected  in  their  commun- 
ity.    Mr.  Adams   is  a  man  of  untiring  energy 


and  has  taken  part  in  almost  every  local  enter- 
prise which  has  been  promoted  in  this  part  of 
Utah,  to  which  he  has  lent  not  only  financial  but 
moral  support. 


TLLIAM  MOSS.  In  the  develop- 
ment of  the  vast  resources  of  Utah 
it  has  required  the  combined  eflforts 
of  men  of  energy-,  brains,  persever- 
ance and  determination  along  the 
lines  of  various  enterprises  and  industries  to 
transform  this  one  time  barren  and  wild  waste  of 
country  into  its  present  wonderful  prosperous 
condition.  One  of  the  greatest  industries  of 
Davis  county,  which  has  likely  assisted  more 
small  men  in  this  county  to  obtain  a  livelihood 
for  themselves  and  their  families,  and  to  lay  aside 
a  competence  for  old  age,  than  has  any  other,  has 
been  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company,  of  which 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  president  and  gen- 
eral manager.  The  foundations  for  this  pros- 
perous company  were  laid  by  John  Moss,  the 
father  of  our  subject,  who  was  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Davis  county,  and  was  for  many 
years  the  leading  character  in  every  laudable 
enterprise  in  this  county. 

William  Moss  was  born  in  South  Bountiful, 
June  21,  1855.  His  mother  was  Rebecca  Moss. 
He  was  raised  on  his  father's  farm  in  that 
place  and  obtained  such  education  as  the  schools 
of  his  vicinity  afiforded.  He  was  married  in  1879 
to  Miss  Grace  A.  Hatch,  daughter  of  Orin  and 
Elizabeth  Hatch,  a  biographical  sketch  of  whom 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  work,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage has  had  ten  children,  eight  of  whom  are 
now  living.  They  are :  Grace,  died  in  infancy ; 
Leonard  W.,  died  aged  eight  years ;  Ethel.  Gertie 
M.,  Florence,  Chloe.  Ralph.  Delilah,  Ezra  O.  and 
Amelia. 

Mr.  Moss  lives  one-quarter  of  a  mile  from 
the  Woods  Cross  postoffice,  and  his  home  place 
is  considered  one  of  the  finest  in  Davis  county. 
His  beautiful  brick  residence  is  modern  in  every 
particular,  as  are  also  his  barns  and  outbuild- 
ings, and  the  place  is  highly  cultivated  and  im- 
proved. He  owns  altogether  one  hundred  and 
fortv-one  acres  of  land  in  Davis  countv.     The 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


company  of  which  he  is  the  head  is  capitalized 
for  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  and 
the  stockholders  are  almost  exclusively  small  far- 
mers and  cattle  owners  of  Davis  county.  They 
own  vast  ranges  in  Rich,  Morgan  and  Summit 
counties,  in  this  State,  and  besides  their  cattle 
and  sheep  also  run  some  horses,  although  of  late 
years  this  industry  has  not  been  as  profitable 
in  the  western  country  as  it  once  was.  The 
company  employs  about  sixty  sheep  herders  the 
year  round.  They  also  own  a  large  brick  store 
building  in  Woods  Cross,  where  they  do  a  gen- 
eral merchandising  business,  giving  employment 
to  four  clerks.  All  this  vast  interest  is  directly 
under  the  management  of  our  subject,  who  does 
most  of  the  buying  as  well  as  the  selling  in  the 
live  stock  department,  and  gives  his  entire  time 
almost    exclusively    to    this    work. 

In  politics  ]\Ir.  Moss  is  a  Republican,  but 
owing  to  his  large  business  interests  has  never 
been  actively  identified  with  the  work  of  that 
party.  He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  faith  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  as  were  also  his  wife  and 
children,  and  they  are  all  faithful  and  consistent 
followers  of  the  teachings  of  that  body.  Air. 
Moss  is  a  member  of  the  Seventy-fourth  Quorum 
of  Seventies. 

Although  still  a  young  man,  Mr.  ]\Ioss  has 
shown  a  high  order  of  business  ability,  and  has 
won  his  position  in  the  business  world  by  the 
exercise  of  his  own  untiring  application  to  the 
task  in  hand,  being  ever  willing  to  grasp  and 
make  the  most  of  the  opportunity  that  presented, 
and  today  occupies  an  enviable  position,  not 
only  in  business  ranks,  but  in  the  esteem  and 
confidence  of  his   friends  and  associates. 


SRAEL  BARLOW.  The  early  scenes  in 
Hancock  county  and  the  noted  and  ever 
memorable  village  of  Nauvoo,  at  one  time 
the  seat  and  garden  spot  of  the  Mormon 
people,  can  never  be  obliterated  from  the 
fair  pages  of  history,  and  what  occurred  dur- 
ing their  early  life  in  that  section  will  be  handed 
down  in  history  for  future  generations  to  peruse. 
In  Hancock  county,  Illinois,  not  far  from  Nau- 
voo,  Israel   Barlow,  the  subject  of  this   sketch. 


was  born  September  5,  1842.  He  is  the  son  of 
Israel  and  Elizabeth  (Haven)  Barlow,  his  father 
having  been  born  in  Granville,  Hampden  county, 
Massachusetts,  September  13,  1806,  and  his 
mother  at  Holeston,  Massachusetts.  They  were 
married  at  Quincy,  Illinois,  and  eight  children 
were  born  to  them,  six  of  whom  are  still  living, 
our  subject  being  the  oldest  living  child.  The 
family  resided  in  Nauvoo  at  the  time  of  the  ex- 
odus of  the  Mormon  people  and  the  senior  Mr. 
Barlow  was  a  close  friend  and  body  guard  of 
the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith.  In  the  arms  of  his 
mother  our  subject  listened  to  the  last  memorable 
speech  of  the  Prophet.  Standing  erect  on  a  high 
platform  overlooking  the  vast  concourse  of  peo- 
ple, both  friends  and  foes,  with  his  right  arm 
extended  towards  the  noon-day  sun,  he  declared 
in  the  most  solemn  and  emphatic  terms  that  as 
long  as  he  had  the  use  of  that  strong  right  arm 
he  would  never  leave  nor  forsake  his  religion  or 
the  principles  and  doctrines  he  advocated. 

In  the  spring  of  1846  the  family  left  Nauvoo 
with  the  main  body  of  the  Church  and  located  in 
Iowa,  where  they  spent  one  winter  and  in  the  fall 
of  1847  '^'i^y  migrated  to  Winter  Quarters,  where 
they  remained  vmtil  the  spring  of  1848.  After 
much  preparatory  work  in  equipping  ox  teams 
and  providing  provisions,  etc.,  for  the  long  trip 
across  the  plains  to  Utah,  they  started  in  company 
with  President  Brigham  Young's  train  which  ar- 
rived in  Salt  Lake,  September  23,  1848.  The 
first  winter  was  spent  in  the  Old  Fort,  which  was 
erected  for  the  protection  of  the  emigrants  against 
the  savage  red  man.  In  the  spring  of  1849  the 
Senior  Mr.  Barlow  located  in  Bountiful,  where 
he  secured  a  piece  of  land  which  he  improved  and 
where  he  spent  the  balance  of  his  life.  This  land 
has  always  been  in  the  family  and  is  now  partly 
owned  by  our  subject.  At  the  time  the  family 
settled  upon  the  place  it  was  largely  covered  by 
willows  and  sage  brush,  which  required  much 
hard  work,  perseverance  and  determination  to 
convert  it  from  its  wild  condition  to  its  present 
wonderful  state  of  cultivation.  The  original 
place  contained  forty  acres.  During  the  years 
which  the  Senior  Mr.  Barlow  lived  on  this  farm 
he  was  called  by  the  heads  of  the  Church  to 
serve  on  a  mission  to  England,  where  he  remained 


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two  years  and  a  half,  and  in  company  with  Cap- 
tain Andrus  returned  to  Utah  with  a  large  com- 
pany of  emigrants.  He  was  ordained  one  of  the 
Coimcilmen  of  the  Sixth  Quorum  of  the  Seventies 
when  that  body  was  first  organized,  over  which 
he  presided  until  his  death,  his  term  of  office  cov- 
ering a  period  of  thirty  years.  He  died  in  1883 
and  his  wife  died  September  25,  1892.  They  are 
laid  side  by  side  in  the  cemetery  at  Bountiful. 

Our  subject's  early  life  and  boyhood  days  were 
spent  on  his  father's  farm ;  his  education  was 
meagre,  being  obtained  in  the  schools  such  as  then 
existed  in  Davis  county,  but  throughout  his  life 
he  has  lost  no  opportunity  to  gain  knowledge,  be- 
ing a  close  student  of  nature,  as  well  as  of  men 
and  affairs. 

He  began  for  himself  in  1863,  and  on  April 
26th  of  that  year  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Annie  Yeates,  daughter  of  John  and  ]\Iary  Ann 
(Ledburn)  Yeats.  Jonathan  Yeats  was  born 
July  I,  1769,  and  his  wife  in  1786.  She  died  Aug- 
ust II,  1853.  The  Yeates  family  came  to  Utah  in 
1862.  Mrs.  Barlow,  our  subject's  wife  was  born 
in  Hampton,  Worcestershire,  England,  August 
8,  1843.  To  our  subject  and  his  wife  have  been 
born  twelve  children,  ten  of  whom  still  live.  Mrs. 
Barlow  died  April  26,  1901.  The  children  are: 
Israel,  born  May  17,  1864,  now  residing  in 
Bountiful ;  Anna  L.,  born  June  10,  1866 ;  Mary 
E.,  born  October  6,  1867;  Clara  E.,  born  Octo- 
ber 10.  1869,  and  died  September  12,  1870;  Pa- 
mela E.,  born  June  9,  1872 ;  John  Yeates,  born 
March  4,  1874;  Eva  Antoinette,  born  February  3, 
1876;  Edmund  F.,  born  June  14,  1878,  and  is  now 
serving  on  a  mission  to  the  eastern  States ;  Alice 
J.,  born  June  2,  1880;  Janthius  W.,  born  Jan- 
uary 3,  1881 ;  Rosetta  M.,  born  November  21, 
1885.  and  Jennie  H.,  born  November  10,  1887, 
and  died  May  12,  1891. 

In  the  fall  of  1869  our  subject  was  called  to 
serve  on  a  colonization  mission  to  Nevada.  He 
took  his  family  with  him  and  spent  some  eight 
years  in  this  work,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he 
returned  home  to  Utah.  A  few  years  previous  to 
this,  in  1862,  he  was  called  to  go  to  the  Missouri 
river  to  assist  the  emigrants  on  their  journey 
across  the  plains,  and  it  was  while  on  this  trip 
that  he  met  his  wife  in  Captain  Horton  Haight's 


train.  He  was  ordained  a  member  of  the  Sixth 
Quorum  of  Seventies  and  later  one  of  the  Seven 
Presidents  of  the  Seventieth  Quorum  of 
Seventies  at  Bountiful.  He  also  served  as  Sec- 
ond Counselor  to  Bishop  Joseph  H.  Grant  of 
Bountiful  for  a  number  of  years,  and  then,  in 
1890,  at  the  time  of  the  dissolution  of  the  Bishop- 
ric, he  went  to  Cache  valley,  where  he  purchased 
a  farm  and  resided  there  for  five  years,  when  he 
again  returned  to  his  home  in  Davis  county.  On 
March  19,  1900,  he  was  ordained  a  Patriarch, 
which  position  he  holds  at  the  present  time.  His 
oldest  son,  Israel,  was  called  on  a  mission  in  1886 
to  the  southern  States,  where  he  labored  prin- 
cipally in  Mississippi.  John  Y.  went  on  a  mission 
to  the  eastern  States  in  August,  1895,  laboring 
in  Pennsylvania,  Western  Virginia  and  Ohio  for 
a  period  of  two  years.  For  the  past  two  years 
he  has  been  President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mut- 
ual Improvement  Association  of  Emery  Stake. 


OHX  D.  CAMPBELL  HAMILTON. 
The  most  important  branch  of  industry 
in  the  building  up  of  a  State  and  in  mak- 
ing a  State  prosperous,  is  unquestion- 
ably agriculture,  and  for  its  prosecution 
is  required  not  only  ability,  but  untiring  appli- 
cation and  industry.  These  qualities  the  pioneers 
who  came  out  in  the  early  fifties  have  clearly  dis- 
played by  the  successful  management  of  the 
farms  which  they  located  and  cultivated,  and  by 
the  making  of  prosperous  farms  from  a  barren 
wilderness.  Prominent  among  these  people  was 
the  Hamilton  family,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1852. 
They  settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  by  the  untiring  industry  which  they  displayed 
have  won  for  themselves  a  high  place  in  the  an- 
nals of  L'tah. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Canada,  in  1844.  He 
was  a  son  of  James  L.  and  Mary  Ann  (Camp- 
bell) Hamilton.  His  father  was  born  in  Ireland 
and  his  mother  in  Canada.  Mr.  Hamilton  emi- 
grated to  America  and  settled  in  Canada,  later 
coming  to  the  United  States  in  1846,  with  the 
Park  and  Gardner  families,  and  settled  in  Mis- 
souri, where  they  spent  the  winter  of  1847.  They 
had  become  converts  to  the  teachingfs  of  the  Mor- 


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mon  Church  before  their  arrival  in  the  United 
States,  and  journeyed  west  to  join  the  headquar- 
ters of  the  Church  in  Missouri.  They  remained 
in  that  State  until  1852,  when  they  came  to  Utah 
in  a  wagon  train  under  command  of  Captain  Rob- 
ert Wimmer,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  October 
6th  of  that  year.  They  did  not  tarry  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  but  moved  at  once  to  the  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
where  our  subject  has  ever  since  resided.  The 
Hamilton  family  is  a  prominent  one  in  the  affairs 
of  the  Mormon  Church  and  a  brother  of  our  sub- 
ject, James  C.  Hamilton,  is  a  Bishop  in  the 
Church. 

Our  subject  was  married  on  August  18,  1866, 
in  Utah,  to  Miss  Maria  Seaburn  Nott,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  Henry  and  Maria  Nott.  She  was 
born  in  England  and  came  to  this  country  and 
settled  here  with  her  parents  at  an  early  age,  her 
family  being  among  the  early  pioneers  to  this 
State.  By  this  marriage  our  subject  has  had  six 
children,  four  of  whom  are  still  alive.  They  are : 
James  N.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
months ;  Florence  M.,  who  died  when  she  was 
five  years  old ;  Reuben  S.,  at  present  residing  in 
Riverton,  Utah ;  Thomas  M.,  at  present  absent  on 
a  mission  for  the  Church  in  Kansas  City  and 
western  Missouri;  John  F.,  Launcelot  R.,  and  in 
their  family  is  also  an  adopted  daughter,  Ida 
Ethel.  Mr.  Hamilton  resides  in  Mill  Creek,  on 
Ninth  East,  between  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth 
South  streets,  where  he  has  a  handsome  frame 
and  brick  house  on  a  homestead  site  of  thirty 
acres  of  land.  He  is  occupied  in  agricultural 
pursuits  and  deals  in  grain  and  hay. 

In  political  affairs  he  is  a  believer  in  the  Dem- 
ocratic principles,  but  has  never  been  an  appli- 
cant for  public  office.  He  is  a  devoted  member 
of  the  Church  of  his  choice,  which  he  joined  at 
the  age  of  seven  years,  and  his  wife  and  children 
are  also  members  of  the  Mormon  Church.  Three 
of  his  sons  have  served  on  missions  and  his  son 
Reuben  served  two  years  in  central  Texas,  and 
in  the  Austin  Conference.  John  F.  served  in 
Kentucky  on  a  similar  work  for  twenty-seven 
months,  and  Thomas  M.  is  now  absent  in  Mis- 
souri, where  he  has  been  for  the  past  year,  act- 
nig  as  President  of  the  Missouri  Conference. 
This  son  is  also  a  teacher  in  the  Sundav  School 


and  is  the  presiding  Ward  teacher.  The  adopted 
daughter,  Ida  Ethel,  is  a  member  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association.  The 
entire  family  of  children  have  had  the  advantage 
of  a  good  education  and  the  Hamilton  family  is 
one  of  the  most  respected  in  their  community. 
Their  adopted  daughter,  Ida  Ethel,  is  a  general 
favorite  with  all  the  people  and  is  a  highly  ac- 
complished young  lady.  Mr.  Hamilton  has  made 
for  himself  a  prominent  place  in  the  agricultural 
life  of  Utah  and  enjoys  a  wide  popularity 
throughout  the  entire  community  and  has  the 
trust  and  confidence  of  the  leaders  of  his  Church. 
He  participated  in  almost  all  the  hardships  and 
trials  of  the  early  days,  taking  part  in  the  Black 
Hawk  war  of  1866,  and  bore  his  full  share  of 
the  burden  in  bringing  order  out  of  chaos. 


OHN  ELLISON  has  always  been  con- 
sidered one  of  the  piers  in  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  as 
well  as  one  of  the  substantial  farmers 
and  stockmen  of  Davis  county.  He  has 
taken  a  very  active  part  in  transforming  his 
county  from  a  desolate  and  barren  waste  to  its 
present  splendid  condition. 

He  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England,  May  23, 
1 81 8,  and  is  the  son  of  Matthew  and  Jennie  (Wil- 
son) Ellison,  both  natives  of  England.  Our  sub- 
ject grew  to  manhood  in  England,  where  he  re- 
ceived his  education,  and  there  learned  the  trade 
of  pressman.  He  emigrated  to  America  in  1841. 
settling  in  Nauvoo,  where  his  parents  joined 
him  in  1843,  and  where  they  both  died.  He  left 
Nauvoo  in  1846,  going  to  Saint  Louis,  where  for 
six  years  he  was  pressman  for  the  Union  Print- 
ing Company.  He  crossed  the  plains  in  company 
with  Captain  Howe  in  1852  and  remained  in  Salt 
Lake  City  until  the  fall  of  the  following  year, 
when  he  removed  to  Kaysville  and  located  a  piece 
of  land,  on  which  he  built  a  home,  and  has  since 
lived  there.  His  first  house  was  built  of  logs, 
which  was  replaced  in  1864  by  an  adobe  building. 
Mr.  Ellison  married  in  England  before  coming 
to  America,  to  Miss  Alice  Pilling,  and  they  have 
had  born  to  them  eleven  children,  of  whom  four 
boys  and  three  girls  are  still  living.     They  are: 


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Margaret,  John  A,  deceased;  David  S.,  deceased; 
:^phraim  P.,  Mathew  T.,  Susanna  E.,  Elija  E., 
Mary  A.,  Sarah  A.,  dead;  Joseph  H.  and  ElHson. 
All  of  his  children  have  married  and  he  has  had 
seventy-five  grand-children,  of  whom  fifty- 
seven  are  now  living.  Mr.  Ellison  was  the  hus- 
band of  four  wives,  three  of  them  being  now 
dead.  His  present  wife  is  Grace  (Crawford)  El- 
lison. A  number  of  his  grandsons  have  been 
called  on  missions,  and  some  of  them  are  now 
absent  on  missionary  work  for  the  Mormon 
Church.  All  the  family  are  members  of  this 
Church,  our  subject  having  been  baptized  Jan- 
uary 6,  1838,  in  England,  by  Joseph  Fielding 
Smith.  His  son  Joseph  has  served  on  a  mission 
to  Canada.  Mr.  Ellison  was  for  sixteen  years 
Assistant  Superintendent  of  the  Stake  Sunday 
Schools,  and  spent  the  most  of  his  time  traveling 
from  one  Stake  to  another,  in  the  interest  of 
Sunday  School  work.  During  the  time  he  was  in 
Saint  Louis  he  was  Counselor  to  the  Bishop  at 
that  place. 

Mr.  Ellison  has  had  a  very  successful  career 
since  coming  to  Utah,  his  success  being  entirely 
due  to  his  own  indominitable  energy  and  to  the 
fact  that  he  has  always  persevered  in  every  under- 
taking, allowing  no  obstacles  to  thwart  his  pur- 
pose. He  has  been  an  upright,  honorable  man  at 
all  times  and  is  today  one  of  the  substantial  men 
of  his  county.  He  has  been  prominently  inter- 
ested in  cattle  and  sheep  and  has  assisted  his 
sons  in  getting  a  start,  and  they  are  among  the 
large  cattle  owners  of  Davis  county  at  this  time. 


OCTOR  THOMAS  ALFRED  CLAW- 
SON  is  a  native  son  of  Utah  and 
among  its  most  prominent  self-made 
men.  Nearly  his  whole  life  has  been 
spent  in  this  State  and  by  his  honora- 
ble and  straightforward  manner  in  business,  pro- 
fessional and  private  life,  he  has  won  a  host 
of  admirers. 

He  was  born  in  this  city  on  October  19.  1862, 
and  is  a  son  of  Bishop  Hyrum  B.  and  Margaret 
Gay  (Judd)  Clawson.  The  Clawson  family  are 
among  the  most  prominent  and  well  known  peo- 
ple   in    L^tah ;    the    sons    taking    rank    with    the 


leading  artists  and  professional  men  of  this  in- 
ter-mountain region.  A  complete  biographical 
sketch  of  Bishop  Hyrum  B.  Clawson  will  be 
found  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Our  subject's 
mother  was  a  native  of  Upper  Canada  and  was 
born  in  the  Province  of  Ontario,  and  was  the 
daughter  of  Thomas  A.  and  Theresa  (Hastings) 
Judd.  The  Judd  family  came  to  Utah  in  1849, 
and  camped  in  their  wagon  box  on  the  site  where 
the  Kenyon  Hotel  now  stands  for  a  few  weeks, 
after  which  they  were  fortunate  enough  to  get 
one  small  room  in  the  home  of  William  Brown, 
on  the  corner  of  First  South  and  Second  West 
streets.  This  wagon  box  was  made  of  black  wal- 
nut, and  was  preserved  by  the  family.  In  1899, 
at  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of 
their  coming  to  Utah,  ;Mrs.  Clawson  presented 
each  of  her  children  with  a  small  cabinet,  suitably 
engraved,  made  from  this  box.  She  was  the 
mother  of  four  sons — Dr.  Stanley  H  Clawson,  of 
this  city;  Apostle  Rudger  Clawson;  Sidney  B. 
Clawson,  and  our  subject. 

Dr.  T.  A.  Clawson  was  the  fourth  son,  and 
was  born  in  the  old  house,  built  in  1853  by  Presi- 
dent Lorenzo  Snow,  which  now  stands  as  a  land- 
mark, opposite  the  Cathedral,  at  the  corner  of 
Third  East  and  East  South  Temple  streets.  He 
grew  up  in  this  city,  and  received  his  education 
at  the  public  schools  and  at  the  private  schools 
conducted  by  Mrs.  Pratt  and  Mrs.  Watmough. 
He  began  life  at  an  early  age,  being  first  em- 
ployed as  a  call  boy  in  the  Salt  Lake  Theatre. 
He  later  became  cash  boy  in  the  Zion  Co-opera- 
tive Mercantile  Institution,  and  also  worked  for 
a  time  in  the  drug  department  of  the  institution, 
and  it  was  while  here  that  he  decided  upon  his 
life  work,  and  in  1878  began  an  apprenticeship 
under  his  brother,  Stanley  H.,  who  was  practic- 
ing dentistry  in  the  city  at  that  time.  He  re- 
mained with  his  brother  until  1884,  taking  a 
course  of  three  years  at  the  University  of  Deseret, 
now  the  University  of  Utah,  during  that  time. 
He  was  for  a  short  time  associated  with  Dr.  L. 
Berg  in  Brigham  City  and  Logan,  and  upon  his 
return  to  the  city  again  entered  his  brother's  of- 
fice, remaining  there  a  year,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  entered  the  New  York  College  of  Den- 
tistry, and  graduated  with  honors  in  March,  1887, 


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coming  home  to  practice  during  the  summer 
months,  and  thus  earning  the  means  to  carry  him 
througli  school.  He  received  the  second  high- 
est average  in  his  class,  and  was  one  of  four  in 
the  class  to  receive  honorable  mention.  Upon 
returning  home  he  entered  into  partnership  with 
his  brother,  which  continued  two  years,  when  our 
subject  again  returned  to  New  York  and  took  a 
special  course  in  crown  and  bridge  work  under 
Dr.  Robinson.  He  purchased  his  brother's  inter- 
est in  the  spring  of  1889,  and  conducted  the  busi- 
ness alone,  employing  his  brother  and  Dr.  W. 
S.  Depew  of  New  York  as  his  assistants,  be- 
sides having  two  other  assistants.  He  acquired 
a  large  and  lucrative  business,  and  was  enabled 
to  pay  off  all  the  debts  he  had  been  compelled 
to  contract. 

In  March,  1891,  he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion   to    Great    Britain,    and,    together   with    his 
brother  Sidney  B.,  was  set  apart  under  the  hands 
of  President  Woodruff  and  George  Q.  Cannon. 
He  left  his  business  in  care  of  Drs.  J.  Fred  Sne- 
deker  and  C.  W.  Gates,  and  on  May  19,  1891, 
sailed  in  company  with  his  brother.     Upon  ar- 
riving in  Liverpool  they  were  ordered  to  proceed 
to  London,  but  before  entering  upon  his  mission- 
ary work  Dr.  Clawson  visited  his  brother  John 
W.,  who  was  studying  art  in  Paris.    Upon  reach- 
ing London  he  was  assigned  to  work  in  Brighton, 
in  Sussex,  his  brother  being  sent  to  Luton,  in  Bed- 
fordshire.   In  the  spring  of  1892  our  subject  was 
assigned   to   Finsbury  District,   in   the  north  of 
London,  where  he  held  over  forty  meetings  in  a 
month  and  distributed  about  fifty  thousand  tracts. 
He  was  then  called  to  preside  over  the  London 
Conference,  succeeding  George  Osmond,  remain- 
ing there  until  May  5,  1893,  when  he  left  Lon- 
don,   in   company    with   his   brother,    for   a    trip 
through   Scotland  and   Ireland,  and   on  the   22d 
of  that  month  sailed  for  New  York,  where  they 
were  met  by  their  mother,  wives  and  aunt.     The 
party  made  a  tour  of  the  Eastern  cities,  taking  in 
the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago,  and  reached  home 
on  June  30th,   1893.     His  business  having  been 
run  at  a  loss  during  his  absence,  he  had  ordered 
the  office  closed,  and  upon  reaching  home  opened 
an  office  in  the  Hooper  building,  remaining  there 
until  1895,  when  he  purchased  his  present  home, 


at  No.  20  North  State  street,  and  moved  his  of- 
fice to  his  home. 

Dr.  Clawson  was  married  April  30,  1891,  just 
prior  to  his  departure  for  Europe,  to  Miss  Eliza- 
beth Groesbeck,  daughter  of  William  and  Eleanor 
(Pack)  Groesbeck,  and  by  this  marriage  he  has 
four  children — Eleanor,  aged  eight;  Alfred, 
aged  five;  Virginia,  aged  three,  and  Florence, 
the  baby. 

Dr.  Clawson  has  always  been  an  ardent  believer 
in  the  principles  and  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  being  especially  attracted  by  the  tithing 
system  from  his  childhood,  and  ascribes  his  suc- 
cess in  life  to  the  fact  that  he  has  always  been 
conscientious  and  faithful  in  the  matter  of  tithing 
paying.     He  has  always  been  an  active  worker 
in  the  Church,  and  has  held  numerous  offices  in 
it.    He  passed  through  a  very  severe  illness  when 
a  child  of  thirteen  years,  and  his  life  being  de- 
spaired of,  was  ordained  an  Elder  by  Robert  Nel- 
son.    Since  then  he  has  been  ordained  a  Seventy 
by  President  B.  H.  Roberts,  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fifth  Quorum.    He 
was  later  a  member  of  the  Thirteenth  Quorum, 
and  still  later  a  member  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-fourth  Quorum,  of  which  he  was  a  Presi- 
dent.    On   March   12   ,1901,  he  was  ordained  a 
High  Priest  by  President  Angus  M.  Cannon,  and 
set  apart  as  a  member  of  the  High  Council  of 
the  Salt  Lake  Stake.    He  was  at  one  time  Presi- 
dent of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement 
Association  of  the  Eighth  Ward  and  a  member 
of  the  Programme  Committee  of  the  Sugar  House 
Ward.     He  has  also  been  active  in  the  work  of 
the  Sunday  Schools  of  the  Wards  in  which  he  has 
lived,  and  is  at  this  time  in  charge  of  the  theo- 
logical department  of  the  Sunday  School  Union 
of  Salt  Lake  Stake,  and  assistant  to  Superintend- 
ent James  W.  Saville  of  the  Eighteenth  Ward, 
and  an  aid  to  Superintendent  George  A.  Smith 
of  the  Stake  Superintendency  of  the  Young  Men's 
Mutual  Improvement  Association. 

In  1897  Dr.  Clawson  formed  a  partnership 
with  Drs.  Julian  E.  Young  and  Ezra  O.  Tay- 
lor, in  the  Templeton  Block,  where  they  have 
since  built  up  a  lucrative  practice.  In  September, 
1901,  he  purchased  the  business  of  the  Utah  State 
Dental  Supply  House  from  his  brother,  Stanley 


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li.,  and  has  since  conducted  it  under  the  name  of 
The  State  Dental  Supply  Depot,  doing  a  whole- 
sale and  retail  trade.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Utah  Dental  Association.  Dr.  Clawson  has  also 
become  interested  in  mining-  to  a  certain  ex- 
tent, and  is  a  Director  in  the  Victor  Gold  and 
Silver  Mining  Company,  whose  properties  are 
at  Eureka. 


TIARLES  L.  ANDERSON.  Success 
IS  determined  by  one's  own  ability  to 
recognize  opportunities  and  to  pursue 
;his  with  a  resolute  and  unflagging 
energy.  It  results  from  continued  ef- 
fort, and  the  man  who  thus  accomplishes  his  pur- 
pose usually  becomes  an  important  factor  in.  the 
business  circles  of  the  community  with  which  he 
is  connected.  Mr.  Anderson,  through  such  means, 
has  obtained  a  leading  place  among  the  repre- 
sentative citizens  of  Tooele  county,  and  to-day 
is  recognized  by  all  as  the  wealthiest  man  in  his 
county. 

Charles  L.  Anderson  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Northern  Sweden  April  11,  1846,  and  is  the  son 
of  Andrus  and  Kasja  Anderson,  a  sketch  of 
whom  appears  in  the  biographical  sketch  of  Gus- 
tave  Anderson,  a  brother  of  our  subject.  Charles 
L.  Anderson  was  the  fifth  son  in  a  family  of  eight 
children,  and  has  three  brothers  living  in  this 
place.  He  obtained  his  education  in  this  locality, 
and  started  on  his  life's  career  early  in  life,  doing 
freighting  for  a  time,  and  made  three  trips  to 
the  Missouri  river  for  emigrants.  He  began  as 
a  sheep  man  in  i86g,  when  he  took  one  hundred 
and  forty  head  of  old  sheep  on  shares.  From  this 
unpropitious  beginning  his  interests  have  grown 
and  his  business  expanded  until  to-day  he  is  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  the  wealthiest  man 
in  his  county,  owning  vast  herds  of  sheep,  which 
he  ranges  in  Wyoming  principally,  and  being  also 
a  heavy  land  owner  in  Tooele  county.  He  owns 
a  farm  of  six  hundred  acres  in  the  vicinity  of 
Grantsville,  on  which  he  has  erected  a  beautiful 
modern  home,  and  has  it  well  stocked,  building 
large  and  commodious  barns  and  outbuildings  for 
his  stock.  Although  Mr.  Anderson  is  noted  prin- 
cipally  for  his  large  holdings  in  sheep,  he  has 


not  given  his  entire  time  to  this  industry,  but  is 
prominent  in  the  business  life  of  the  State  at 
large,  especially  in  mining,  in  which  he  has  ex- 
tensive holdings.  He  was  the  organizer  and  prin- 
cipal promoter  of  the  famous  Clara  Copper  Mill- 
ing and  Mining  Company,  in  Grand  county,  Utah, 
which  owns  the  Gardner  Mill,  Mr.  Gardner  be- 
ing interested  in  this  property,  of  which  Mr.  W. 
C.  Tracy  of  Salt  Lake  City  is  President  and  our 
subject  Vice-President.  This  company  is  now 
making  active  preparations  to  begin  work  on 
their  claims.  Aside  from  these  mines  Mr.  Ander- 
son is  interested  in  a  group  of  mines  in  the  Park 
Valley,  and  also  in  the  Sumpter  District,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Baker  City,  Oregon,  situated  at  Sump- 
ter Terminus,  which  gives  promise  of  becoming 
one  of  the  richest  mining  districts  of  the  State. 
In  local  affairs  our  subject  is  President  of  the  Co- 
operative Store  at  Grantsville,  in  which  he  is  also 
a  Director;  Vice-President  of  the  North  Willow 
Irrigation  Company,  and  a  Director  in  the  Rich- 
ville  Milling  Company. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  married  in  1866  to  Miss 
Ellen  O.  Okelberry,  daughter  of  Martin  and 
Christy  Okelberry,  and  by  this  marriage  they 
have  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters — Charles 
L.,  Junior,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Brigham  Young 
College  of  Provo,  and  is  at  this  time  absent  on 
a  mission  for  the  Mormon  Church  in  Sweden ; 
John  A.,  is  a  professor  of  music  in  Salt  Lake 
City ;  he  spent  six  years  in  Germany  and  Austria, 
perfecting  his  musical  education,  and  stvidied  un- 
der the  great  teacher  Leschetizky ;  he  is  also  a 
graduate  of  the  Brigham  Young  Academy.  Ellen 
M.,  is  the  wife  of  E.  W.  Early,  at  this  time  con- 
ducting a  large  and  successful  brokerage  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City.  Mr.  Early  is  a  highly 
educated  man ;  he  is  at  this  time  President  of  the 
Red  Boy  Milling  and  Mining  Company  of  Ogden. 
Hortense  makes  her  home  in  New  York  City 
with  her  sister ;  Beatrice  at  home,  studying  music 
under  her  brother;  Czeny,  the  youngest  child,  is 
still  at  home. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Anderson  owes  allegiance 
to  the  Republican  party,  and  has  displayed  the 
same  zeal  in  the  work  of  that  organization  as  he 
has  in  his  business  life.  He  has  for  a  number  of 
years  been  a  member  of  the  City  Council;  is  a 


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member  of  the  Educational  Board  of  his  State, 
and  was  for  two  terms  Mayor  of  the  city.  Be- 
sides these  minor  offices,  he  represented  the  peo- 
ple of  Tooele  county  for  two  terms  in  the  Legisla- 
ture. In  Church  circles  he  has  been  First  Coun- 
sel to  the  President  of  the  Tooele  Stake  of  Zion 
for  the  past  twenty  years.  He  was  called  by  the 
heads  of  the  Church  to  go  on  a  mission  to  Swe- 
den in  1878,  where  he  labored  for  two  years  to 
the  entire  satisfaction  of  his  superiors,  and  dur- 
ing that  time  visited  the  whole  of  his  native  coun- 
try. He  began  at  that  time  to  assist  his  poorer 
countrymen  who  had  been  converted  to  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Mormon  Church  to  come  to  Utah, 
and  has  continued  this  benevolence  ever  since, 
having  brought  dozens  of  Swedish  families  to  this 
country.  His  kindly,  genial  nature  is  best  attested 
to  by  the  fact  of  his  having  had  one  man,  Arthur 
Bates,  in  his  employ  for  eighteen  years.  He  is 
the  soul  of  hospitality  and  good-fellowship,  and 
no  man  is  more  popular  or  enjoys  a  wider  circle 
of  friends  and  admirers  than  does  Charles  L. 
Anderson. 


R.  WILLIAM  TENNEY  CANNON. 
In  tracing  the  career  of  the  successful 
physician  it  is  usually  found  that  he 
possesses  certain  marked  characteris- 
tics, in  addition  to  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  medicine,  and  good  financial  ability. 
There  must  be  a  readiness  to  sympathize  and  a 
power  of  entering  into  the  feelings  of  others, 
united  to  that  self-poise  and  conscious  strength 
which  naturally  emanates  from  a  strong,  self- 
reliant  soul.  Dr.  Cannon  is  fortunate  in  being 
gifted  with  many  of  the  qualities  of  the  success- 
ful physician,  and  his  cheery,  helpful  optimism 
is  a  source  of  hope  and  comfort  in  many  a  home 
shadowed  by  sickness  and  suffering. 

Dr.  Cannon  is  the  son  of  the  late  President 
George  O.  Cannon,  and  was  born  in  this  city 
September  5,  1870.  He  spent  his  early  life  here, 
and  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  this 
place,  and  later  attended  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo.  He  began  life  for  himself 
in  1889,  in  the  life  insurance  business,  which  he 
successfully   followed  until    1895,   during  which 


time  he  was  also  associated  with  his  father  in  the 
publishing  house  of  George  Q.  Cannon  &  Sons, 
Company,  taking  an  active  part  in  the  manage- 
ment of  that  large  institution. 

In  1895  he  entered  JeiTerson  Medical  College, 
Philadelphia,  and  completed  his  studies  at  the 
Medical  Collegiate  Institute  in  1899.  As  a  stu- 
dent he  was  associated  with  Dr.  J.  Chalmers 
De  Costa,  of  Philadelphia,  as  his  assistant,  thus 
having  the  advantage  of  practical  work  during 
his  college  days,  which  has  availed  him  much 
in  later  years.  After  his  graduation  he  came 
direct  to  Utah,  and  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  Brigham  City,  where  he  re- 
mained a  short  time,  when  he  was  sent  on  a 
mission  for  the  Mormon  Church  to  Europe,  and 
while  there  took  a  course  of  study  at  Bevier  Hos- 
pital, Belgium,  where  he  studied  thirteen  months, 
taking  up  the  study  of  g}-necology  and  patholog- 
ical surgery.  He  then  went  to  Paris,  and  de- 
voted his  entire  time  to  study  at  the  Paris  Uni- 
versity for  four  months.  In  April,  1901,  he  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake  City  and  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  and  to-day  enjoys  a  very  re- 
munerative practice,  devoting  his  entire  time  to 
study  and  the  practice  of  his  profession. 

In  1892  he  married  Miss  Ada  Young  Croxall, 
a  native  of  this  city,  and  a  granddaughter  of 
President  Brigham  Young.  They  have  three 
children.  Dr.  Cannon  was  born  and  raised  a 
Mormon,  and  comes  of  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  prominent  families  in  the  Church,  a  his- 
tory of  the  family  at  length  appearing  in  the 
sketch  of  his  father.  President  George  O.  Can- 
non, which  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  He 
is  active  in  Church  matters,  and  is  at  this  time 
an  Elder  in  the  Church. 


ENS  HANSEN  was  born  in  the  village 
of  Gjerslov,  Holbeck  county,  Denmark, 
March  15,  1837.  He  is  the  son  of  Hans 
and  Margaret  (Christensen)  Hansen, 
both  natives  of  the  same  part  of  that 
country.  His  father  died  in  his  native  land, 
and  his  mother  came  to  America  with  her  son 
and  died  in  Salt  Lake  county  in  1885. 

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to  come  to  Utah,  and  became  converted  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  his  native 
land.  He  left  Denmark  in  December,  1862,  and 
arrived  in  New  York  City  in  that  year,  where  he 
stayed  but  one  day.  He  then  came  by  railroad 
to  Saint  Louis,  Missouri,  then  by  the  Mississippi 
river  to  Hannibal,  and  from  there  by  rail  to  Saint 
Joseph,  then  by  river  to  Florence,  formerly  known 
as  Winter  Quarters,  where  the  members  of  the 
Church  took  refuge  after  their  expulsion  from 
Nauvoo.  At  Florence  he  prepared  for  the  long 
and  arduous  trip  across  the  plains,  and  arrived 
in  Salt  Lake  City  on  September  22nd  of  the  same 
year.  The  wagon  train  was  under  the  command 
of  Captain  Lillienquist,  and  was  composed  of 
forty  wagons,  each  wagon  being  equipped  with 
two  or  three  yoke  of  oxen.  This  was  an  inde- 
pendent train,  but  the  members  of  it  belonged  to 
the  Mormon  Church.  Mr.  Hansen  has  taken  a 
very  actitve  part  in  the  development  of  Salt  Lake 
county,  and  upon  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City 
engaged  as  a  miller  for  four  and  a  half  years, 
being  employed  by  President  Kimball,  and  at  the 
expiration  of  that  time  he  bought  his  present 
home,  at  the  corner  of  Thirteenth  South  street, 
on  the  County  Road,  where  he  moved  in  1867, 
He  had  been  a  miller  in  Denmark,  and  success- 
fully carried  on  that  business  upon  his  arrival  in 
Utah.  He  bought  forty  acres  of  land,  which  at 
that  time  was  practically  a  desert.  He  has  cul- 
tivated the  land  successfully,  and  now  has  erected 
on  it  a  good  adobe  house.  Two  of  his  sons  have 
also  built  houses  on  their  father's  place,  and  there 
is  now  on  the  original  homstead  four  brick  resi- 
dences and  a  good  orchard,  which  is  well  cared 
for. 

Mr.  Hansen  married,  on  March  24,  1862,  in 
Denmark,  to  Miss  Birthe  Jorgensen,  who  was 
born  and  reared  in  the  county  of  Fredericksburg, 
Denmark,  and  by  this  marriage  they  had  seven 
children,  six  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  are : 
Josephine  ;  Margaret ;  Jens,  Junior  ;  Anna  C,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  nine;  nliza ;  Sarah,  and  Leah. 
Mr.  Hansen  married  his  second  wife,  Kirsten 
Hendricksen,  and  the  issue  of  this  marriage  was 
four  children — Joseph ;  Christina ;  Mary,  and 
Zina. 

In   political   life   Mr.    Hansen    is   independent, 


preferring  to  exercise  his  own  judgment  as  to 
the  fitness  of  a  man  for  the  office,  rather  than 
the  dictates  of  a  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  having  joined  it  on  April  5, 
1857,  and  he  soon  became  an  earnest  worker  in 
the  cause  of  the  unpopular  faith,  and  traveled 
as  missionary  for  more  than  four  years  before 
leaving  his  native  land,  and  was  instrumental  in 
bringing  a  number  of  representative  people  to  a 
belief  in  his  teachings,  many  of  whom  also  emi- 
grated to  Utah,  and  did  much  by  way  of  assist- 
ing to  build  up  this  great  State,  and  has  been  one 
of  its  staunchest  members  ever  since.  His  family 
are  also  members  of  that  Church.  He  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and 
spent  two  years  in  the  missionary  field,  one  year 
of  which  was  spent  in  the  Northwestern  States 
and  the  rest  of  the  time  in  Denmark.  His  son 
Joseph  has  served  as  a  missionary  in  the  north- 
western portion  of  the  United  States,  and  Jens 
has  also  performed  the  same  service  in  the  South- 
western States.  Our  subject  was  ordained  a 
Seventy,  and  is  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents  of 
that  organization  in  the  Church,  which  position 
he  has  held  for  over  twenty  years.  He  was  made 
Second  Counselor  to  Bishop  Hamilton  of  Mill 
Creek  Ward  March  29,  1884,  and  has  served  in 
that  capacity  for  sixteen  and  a  half  years.  He 
has  also  held  several  of  the  minor  positions  in  the 
Church,  and  has  participated  actively  in  all  of  its 
work.  He  is  a  staunch  believer  in  the  doctrines  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  and  on  account  of  his  plural 
marriages  was  one  of  the  members  of  this  Church 
who  were  arrested,  tried  and  convicted  for  viola- 
tion of  the  Edmunds-Tucker  Act,  and  served 
seven  months  in  the  penitentiary  for  violation  of 
that  law.  He  is  a  broad-minded  man,  and  has 
taught  his  children  the  necessity  of  being  broad 
and  generous  in  their  religious  and  political  life. 
He  is  one  of  the  staunch  men  of  his  community, 
and  by  his  work  in  the  Church  has  won  for  him- 
self the  confidence  and  trust  of  its  leaders. 

He  is  essentially  a  self-made  man,  and  has 
made  his  own  way  through  life  in  spite  of  all 
discouraging  circumstances,  and  is  now  a  well- 
to-do  resident  of  his  Ward,  and  enjoys  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  all  his  neighbors.  His 
wife  was  made  a  member  of  the  Church  in  Den- 


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mark.  All  his  children  have  been  reared  in  that 
faith,  and  he  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  staunch 
and  valued  members  of  that  Church.  The  arduous 
life  which  he  has  led,  the  struggles  through  which 
he  has  passed,  and  the  triumphant  close  to  which 
he  has  brought  his  career,  marks  him  as  one  of 
the  ablest  pioneers  who  undertook  the  subjuga- 
tirn  of  the  barren  lands  and  made  Utah  one  of 
the  most  prosperous  of  the  Western  States. 


YRUM  STEWART,  one  of  the  most 
prosperous  and  influential  business  men 
of  this  city,  was  born  here,  and  his  en- 
tire life  has  been  spent  within  the  con- 
fines of  this  State.  His  people  came 
to  Utah  from  England  among  the  earliest  set- 
tlers, and  here  made  their  home.  They  had  a 
family  of  five  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was 
the  oldest.  He  was  born  in  Kaysville  December 
22,  1851,  and  is  the  son  of  William  and  Alary 
Ann  (Marriott)  Stewart.  His  boyhood  days 
were  spent  in  this  place,  and  here  he  obtained  his 
early  education  from  the  common  schools  then 
existing.  He  left  school  to  accept  a  position  as 
first  clerk  in  the  Kaysville  Co-operative  Store, 
and  after  two  years  went  to  Sah  Lake  City,  where 
he  took  a  two  years'  course  in  the  Morgan  Busi- 
ness College.  He  returned  to  Kaysville  and  took 
charge  of  the  Kaysville  Co-operative  Store  dur- 
ino"  the  absence  of  the  manager,  who  was  on  a 
tour  in  England. 

Upon  the  return  of  Mr.  Barnes  from  England, 
Mr.  Stewart  went  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he 
was  for  some  years  employed  by  the  Zion  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution  and  other  large 
mercantile  establishments  in  the  capacity  of  clerk 
and  bookkeeper.  In  March,  1879,  he  and  his 
brother  bought  out  the  mercantile  business  in 
Kaysville  established  by  Christopher  Layton.  The 
brother  died  in  December  of  that  year,  and  the 
following  year  he  took  in  Mr.  C.  S.  Tingey  as 
a  partner.  This  firm  did  a  very  successful  busi- 
ness from  the  start,  and  continued  until  1884,  at 
which  time  our  subject  bought  out  the  interests 
of  his  partner,  and  has  since  conducted  the  busi- 
ness alone.  He  began  in  a  small  way,  and  by 
dint  of  hard  work,  honorable  business  methods 


and  close  attention  to  business  has  built  up  one 
of  the  most  solid  and  prosperous  mercantile  estab- 
lishments in  this  city. 

Mt.  Stewart  has  not  confined  his  attention  en- 
tirely to  business  life,  but  has  invested  largely  in 
real  estate  in  this  city  and  county,  and  at  this 
time  he  owns  a  number  of  fine  farms  in  Davis 
county,  and  has  an  interest  in  a  large  ranch,  also 
having  a  large  amount  of  live  stock.  He  is  a 
Director  in  the  canning  company,  and  was  the 
originator  of  the  first  creamery  established  in 
Kaysville.  In  fact,  there  is  scarcely  an  enter- 
prise of  any  importance  in  this  place  with  which 
he  has  not  been  associated  or  given  his  influence 
in  some  measure. 

Our  subject  was  married,  on  October  30,  1881, 
in  Kaysville,  to  Miss  Cynthia  A.  Hyde,  a  resident 
of  Xephi.  Five  children  have  been  born  to  them 
—Mary  E.,  Luella  T.,  Douglass  H.,  Hyrum  J. 
and  Cleveland  H. 

In  political  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  has,  since  its  organization  in 
Utah,  taken  an  active  part  in  all  its  work  and 
filled  a  number  of  important  offices  in  both  the 
city  and  county.  For  eight  years  he  served  the 
city  of  Kaysville  as  its  Mayor,  and  in  1897  was 
elected  to  represent  his  county  in  the  State  Legis- 
lature. Aside  from  these  offices  he  has  also  been 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  City  Councilman,  and  for 
a  number  of  years  was  on  the  Board  of  School 
Trustees,  and  was  postmaster  ®f  Kaysville  from 
1879  to  1 89 1,  having  been  appointed  during  Pres- 
ident Hayes'  administration. 

He  is  a  staunch  member  of  the  INIormon 
Church,  in  whose  doctrines  he  has  been  reared 
from  birth,  and  has  brought  his  children  up  in 
that  belief.  When  about  seventeen  years  of  age 
he  went  with  a  train  to  meet  emigrants  at  Lara- 
mie, Wyoming,  and  there  saw  his  first  railroad 
train.  Since  then  he  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  all  Church  work,  and  filled  a  number  of  offices, 
being  at  this  time  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents 
of  the  Fifty-fifth  Quorum  of  Seventies. 

j\lr.  Stewart  began  life  at  an  early  age,  and 
has  since  then  been  wholly  dependent  upon  his 
own  exertions  for  his  living.  He  has  steadily 
climbed  the  ladder  of  success,  and  is  to-day  one 
of  the    public-spirited  and  liberal-minded  men  of 


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his  city,  honored  among  business  men  for  his 
strict  integrity,  and  commanding  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated 
throughout  a  long  and  eventful  life. 


EORGE  HAMILTON  TAYLOR.  The 
life  of  a  truly  successful  man  cannot 
help  but  lend  inspiration  to  the  young 
and  rising  generation.  The  obstacles 
which  he  has  overcome,  the  difficulties 
surmounted,  not  only  makes  the  man  himself 
stronger  and  better,  but  it  serves  to  inspire  con- 
fidence and  courage  in  those  who  study  his  his- 
tory and  career.  Among  the  successful  self-made 
men,  who  by  perseverance  and  indomitable  will 
power  have  year  by  year  paved  the  way  for  a 
successful  career,  is  George  H.  Taylor,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch. 

Bishop  Taylor  is  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  and 
was  born  at  Mount  Clair,  Essex  county,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1829.  The  Taylor  family  had  lived  in  New 
Jersey  for  many  generations,  our  subject's  grand- 
father beins:  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812.  He  was 
born  in  Orange,  New  Jersey,  in  1759,  and  died 
at  an  advanced  age.  His  son  was  Samuel  Tay- 
lor, father  of  our  subject,  who  was  born  in  Mount 
Clair  in  1800,  spending  all  his  life  there  and  dying 
in  1875.  He  was  a  master  builder  by  profession. 
Our  subject's  mother  was  also  born  in  New  Jer- 
sey. She  was  Lydia  (Osborn)  Taylor,  and  her 
ancestors  were  early  settlers  of  Long  Island.  Her 
mother  was  a  Baldwin,  and  descendant  of  the 
famous  Baldwin  family  which  dates  back  for 
seven  generations  in  this  country,  coming  orig- 
inally from  England,  and  being  the  first  settlers 
in  Hadley,  Massachusetts. 

Our  subject  was  the  second  son  of  the  family, 
and  was  reared  in  New  Jersey,  receiving  but  a 
limited  education.  When  a  mere  boy  he  learned 
the  calico  engraver's  trade  at  Haverstrow  Mill. 
At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  became  a  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church  at  Haverstrow,  New  York, 
and  was  baptized  by  Elder  John  Druce  on  Sep- 
tember 22,  1849,  ^"d  fo''  the  next  ten  years  fol- 
lowed his  trade  and  assisted  Elder  Druce  in  the 
small  church  in  Haverstrow. 

In    1859   he  came   to   Utah   by  way  of   Saint 


Joseph,  Missouri,  going  from  thence  by  boat  to 
Omaha,  and  started  across  the  plains  from  Flor- 
ence on  June  26th  of  that  year.  He  came  with 
an  ox  train  of  sixty-four  wagons,  under  command 
of  Edward  Stephenson,  reaching  the  Salt  Lake 
Valley  September  i6th.  Here  he  soon  found  em- 
ployment in  the  saw  mill  in  Big  Cottonwood  Can- 
yon. In  1864  he  became  associated  with  Mr.  Lat- 
timer,  and  together  they  borrowed  five  thousand 
dollars,  paying  five  per  cent  per  month  for  three 
thousand  and  three  per  cent  per  month  for  the 
remainder.  They  sent  East  and  bought  wood- 
work machinery,  which  they  freighted  over  the 
plains  at  a  cost  of  twenty  cents  a  pound,  and  set 
up  a  mill  in  the  Eighth  Ward.  They  made  all 
kinds  of  building  materials,  and  paid  off  nearly 
all  of  their  indebtedness,  and  when  they  had  run 
about  a  year  the  mill  was  destroyed  by  fire  and 
they  lost  everything.  They  then  collected  the 
remnants  of  the  machinery  together  and  formed 
a  partnership  with  Fulsom  &  Romney,  and  estab- 
lished the  firm  of  Taylor,  Romney,  Armstrong 
Company,  which  is  the  oldest  lumber  mill  in  the 
city.  In  1881,  at  the  death  of  Mr.  Lattimer,  the 
company  was  reorganized,  and  Mr.  Taylor  became 
President,  which  office  he  still  occupies.  He  is 
also  a  Director  in  the  Utah  Sugar  Company. 

In  1855  he  was  married  to  Aliss  Elmina  Shep- 
herd, of  New  York,  who  is  still  his  companion, 
and  she  is  now  President  of  the  Young  Women's 
Mutual  Improvement  Association  in  all  the  world, 
and  has  foe  twenty  years  been  Secretary  of  the 
Fourteenth  Ward  Relief  Society.  In  these  ca- 
pacities she  has  attended  the  National  Women's 
Councils  in  Chicago  and  Washington.  Mr.  Tay- 
lor has  also  had  two  other  wives,  and  been  the 
father  of  fourteen  children,  of  whom  eleven  are 
still  living.  His  sons,  George  S.  and  Clarence 
W.,  served  on  a  two  and  a  half  years'  mission 
to  New  Zealand,  where  they  mastered  the  lan- 
guage of  that  countrj-. 

Mr.  Taylor  was  ordained  a  member  of  the 
Seventies  in  1859,  and  in  1876  ordained  a  High 
Priest  and  set  apart  as  Counselor  to  Bishop 
Thomas  Taylor  of  the  Fourteenth  Ward,  whom 
he  succeeded  in  1886.  He  has  also  been  active 
in  Sunday  School  work,  and  for  several  years  was 
Superintendent  of  the  Schools  in  his  Ward.     He 


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is  a  Trustee  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints  University, 
and  in  1879  was  called  on  a  mission  to  Europe, 
where  he  presided  over  the  London  Conference 
for  two  years.  He  has  worked  in  the  Temple 
for  the  past  four  years,  and  is  a  prominent  man 
in  Church  circles. 

Throughout  a  long  and  successful  life  Bishop 
Taylor  has  been  a  man  of  high  business  ability, 
honest,  upright,  and  has  tried  to  give  every  mat? 
his  due.  He  has  done  much  towards  the  upbuild- 
ing of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  it  to-day  one  of  its 
staunch  business  men,  and  stands  high,  not  only 
in  the  esteem  of  the  leaders  of  his  Church,  but  in 
the  business  world,  and  in  private  life  numbers 
his  friends  bv  the  score. 


R.    FRED   STAUFFER.     During  the 
few  years  which  mark  the  period  of 
Stauffer's   professional    career   he 


Dr. 


has  met  with  gratifying  success,  and 
while  he  has  but  recently  taken  up  his 
residence  in  Salt  Lake  City,  he  is  no  stranger  in 
Utah,  nor  to  the  people  of  Salt  Lake,  being  a 
Utahn  by  birth  and  spending  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  within  the  confines  of  this  State. 

He  is  the  son  of  John  Stauffer,  a  native  of 
Switzerland,  who  came  to  the  L^nited  States  in 
the  early  fifties,  coming  direct  to  Utah.  He  set- 
tled in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  remained  until 
about  i860,  when  he  moved,  with  his  family,  to 
Willard,  this  State,  being  one  of  the  very  first 
to  settle  there  and  to  take  up  Government  land. 
Here  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life  as  a  farmer, 
doing  much  towards  supporting,  building  up  and 
impioving  that  portion  of  the  State.  He  was  an 
Elder  in  the  Mormon  Church,  which  position  he 
held  at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1873.  His  wife, 
Elizabeth  (Neussli)  Staufifer,  was  also  a  native 
of  Switzerland.  She  came  to  Utah  in  the  early 
days,  and  was  married  to  Mr.  Stauffer  in  Utah. 
She  died  in  1872,  leaving  a  family  of  four  chil- 
dren, of  whom  our  subject  was  the  second  child. 
He  was  born  at  Willard,  October  24,  1866,  and 
was  left  an  orphan  at  the  age  of  seven  years, 
since  which  time  he  has  been  compelled  to  make 
his  own  way  in  life.  At  the  age  of  thirteen  he 
went  to  Idaho,  where  he  worked  on  farms  and 


ranches,  attending  the  district  schools  whenever 
possible,  saving  his  small  earnings,  in  the  hope 
of  one  day  being  able  to  secure  a  better  educa- 
tion. In  1887  he  returned  to  Utah  and  entered 
the  State  University,  taking  the  literary  course, 
after  which  he  was  made  bookkeeper  and  ac- 
countant for  one  of  the  well-known  wholesale 
houses  of  this  city. 

In  1 889  he  was  sent  by  the  heads  of  the  Church 
on  a  mission  to  Turkey,  where  he  remained  two 
years  and  eight  months,  spending  eight  months 
of  that  time  in  Constantinople.  He  then  traveled 
through  Asia  Minor,  Palestine  and  Syria,  preach- 
ing the  Mormon  doctrines  to  the  natives,  and  for 
two  years  of  this  time  was  the  only  missionary  of 
the  Mormon  Church  in  the  whole  of  Turkey.  In 
December,  1891,  he  returned  to  Utah,  and  the 
following  January  entered  the  Kentucky  School 
of  Medicine,  at  Louisville,  Kentucky,  graduating 
as  a  physician  and  surgeon  in  the  class  of  1893. 
He  then  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  prac- 
ticed his  profession  for  eighteen  months,  at  the 
end  of  which  time  he  gave  up  his  practice  here 
and  removed  to  Eureka,  where  he  accepted  a  po- 
sition as  surgeon  for  the  Centennial  Eureka  and 
Bullion-Beck  Mining  Companies.  He  also  be- 
came interested  in  mining  to  some  extent,  and 
took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  Eureka,  serv- 
ing one  term  as  its  Mayor. 

In  the  spring  of  1900  he  went  to  Europe,  and 
spent  considerable  time  in  study  at  the  Vienna 
Hospital,  where  he  took  special  courses  to  pre- 
pare himself  as  an  oculist  and  aurist.  He  then 
visited  London  and  Paris,  studying  the  work  in 
the  larger  European  hospitals,  and  became  a 
specialist  in  diseases  of  the  eye,  ear,  throat  and 
nose.  He  returned  to  the  United  States  and  es- 
tablished himself  in  this  city  in  May,  1901,  as  an 
oculist  and  aurist,  and  has  since  been  very  suc- 
cessful. 

Dr.  Stauffer  was  married,  in  1892,  to  Miss 
Alary  Leaver,  daughter  of  H.  S.  Leaver,  of  this 
city.  His  residence  is  No.  208  North  State  street, 
where  he  is  surrounded  by  his  wife  and  two  chil- 
dren. He  is  quite  extensively  interested  in  the 
early  history  of  this  city,  and  owns  several  fine 
residences  here.  He  has  also  taken  a  prominent 
part   in  the  development  of  the  oil  industrv  in 


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the  Green  River  and  Uintah  Districts,  and  is  a 
Director  of  the  Milton  Oil  and  Land  Company, 
which  owns  forty  thousand  acres  in  the  Green 
River  District.  In  Church  circles  he  is  an  Elder, 
and  takes  an  active  part  in  all  the  work  of  that 
j^reat  institution.  In  professional  life  Dr.  Stauffer 
is  a  member  of  the  Salt  Lake  Medical  Society, 
the  Utah  State  Medical  Society  and  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  ."Xssociation. 


ILLIAM  HENRY  CORBRIDGE, 
a  well-to-do  farmer  of  Davis  county, 
was  born  in  Lancashire,  England, 
on  August  9,  1844.  He  was  a  son 
of  Edward  and  Alice  (Parker)  Cor- 
bridge  of  Lancashire,  the  oldest  of  a  family  of 
nine  children,  five  of  whom  grew  to  maturitv. 
The  family  came  to  America  in  1850,  and  stayed 
in  Saint  Louis  for  two  years.  In  1852  they 
crossed  the  plains  with  an  independent  train  of 
nine  wagons.  They  stayed  in  Salt  Lake  City 
but  a  few  months  before  they  moved  to  Davis 
county,  and  here  the  father  died  on  January  7, 
1883,  and  the  mother  in  i8go. 

William  was  raised  at  East  Bountiful,  and 
owned  the  farm  where  he  now  lives  for  several 
years  before  he  married,  which  was  on  February 
14.  1870.  His  wife  was  Emma  Howard,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Sheldon)  Howard.  She 
was  born  in  Brimingham,  England,  and  came  to 
America  with  her  folks  in  1864.  Seven  of  their 
eleven  children  are  living — Emma  A.,  now  Mrs. 
Birmingham  of  Wyoming;  William  E.,  a  Wyom- 
ing cattle  man ;  Joseph  H.,  farming  in  Layton ; 
John  T.,  now  on  a  mission  in  the  Society  Islands ; 
Caroline  E.,  at  school :  Samuel  R.  and  Lucinda  M. 
Mr.  Corbridge  settled  at  Layton  ten  years  ago. 
He  has  a  well  improved  farm  of  two  hundred 
acres,  on  which  he  raises  horses.  He  is  well  sup- 
plied with  water  on  his  farm,  having  two  fine 
artesian  wells,  a  reservoir  and  a  fish  pond.  He  is 
independent  politically,  voting  for  the  best  man, 
according  to  his  judgment. 

His  second  son,  Joseph,  was  called  on  a  mis- 
sion to  the  Southern  States  in  1898.  and  served 
two  years.  In  1883  Mr.  Corbridge  went  on  a 
two  vears'  mission  to  England,  laboring  mostly 


in  the  Birmingham  Conference.  He  is  now  a 
High  Priest  in  the  Mormon  Church.  His  wife 
is  President  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  of  Lay- 
ton  Ward,  and  his  daughters  are  members  of  the 
Young  Ladies  Mutual  Aid  Society.  Mr.  Cor- 
bridge served  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  under 
General  Wells  and  Bishop  Winder.  He  went, 
in  1868,  back  to  Laramie  for  emigrants,  being 
five  or  six  months  on  the  trip.  He  was  one  of 
the  colonizers  of  Star  Valley,  Wyoming,  and  was 
there  for  eight  years.  For  three  years  he  was 
Bishop  of  Auburn  W'ard,  in  Uintah  county. 

In  1880  Mr.  Corbridge  took  a  second  wife, 
Olive  C.  Sessions,  a  daughter  of  David  and 
Phoebe  Sessions.  They  had  six  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living — Olive  E.,  now  Mrs.  W.  Rob- 
erts of  Canada ;  Phoebe  C,  now  Mrs.  H.  Layton ; 
David  W.,  died  at  the  age  of  eighteen  months ; 
Lawrence   C,   Isabella  and   Calvin. 


R.  P.  S.  KEOGH.  Years  of  thorough 
and  painstaking  preparation,  together 
with  subsequent  practical  experience, 
qualified  Dr.  Keogh  to  fill  a  high  po- 
sition in  the  medical  profession  and  to 
maintain  a  deserved  reputation  for  skill  and  pro- 
ficiency, and  while  his  residence  in  Salt  Lake  City 
has  only  been  a  few  years,  yet  he  has  become 
known  as  one  of  the  most  skillful  and  successful 
physicians  in  the  city. 

Dr.  Keogh  was  born  in  Belleville,  in  the  Prov- 
ince of  Ontario,  Canada,  in  1850,  and  there  spent 
his  early  life,  obtaining  his  education  in  the  gram- 
mar schools  and  university  of  that  place.  He  re- 
ceived his  medical  training  in  the  Bellevue  Med- 
ical College  of  New  York  City,  graduating  from 
that  institution  in  1883,  after  which  he  became 
an  interne  at  the  Kings  County  Hospital,  Brook- 
lyn, New  York.  From  Brooklyn  he  removed  to 
Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  he  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  and  was  for  four  and 
a  half  years  County  Physician  of  Douglas  county. 
In  the  formation  of  the  John  A.  Creighton  Med- 
ical College,  which  institution  he  assisted  in  or- 
ganizing, he  was  selected  as  Dean,  and  filled  that 
chair  from  1893  to  1897,  and  had  the  degree  of 
A.  M.  conferred  upon  him  by  that  college.     He 


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next  took  a  course  of  eighteen  months,  working 
in  the  laboratory  of  the  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity, in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  where  he  completed 
his  studies  in  surgery  and  gynecology. 

At  the  expiration  of  this  time  Dr.  Keogh  came 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  again  took  up  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  and  became  a  member 
of  the  staff  of  the  Holy  Cross  Hospital,  as  gyne- 
cologist. During  this  period  he  founded  and 
opened  the  Keogh- Wright  private  hospital,  where 
he  has  since  been  one  of  the  physicians  and  sur- 
geons.. He  served  as  City  Physician  of  Salt 
Lake  City  for  two  years,  and  at  this  time  has  a 
membership  in  the  Salt  Lake  County  Medical 
Association,  Utah  State  and  American  Medical 
Associations,  the  Inter-Mountain  Association  and 
the  Missouri  Valley  Association.  He  has  also 
contributed  several  original  articles  for  the  benefit 
of  the  medical  societies  on  microscopical  and 
pathological  subjects,  and  is  considered  a  verv 
bright  man  in  his  profession. 

Dr.  Keogh  is  devoted  to  his  profession,  and 
spends  all  his  spare  time  in  study  and  research, 
keeping  pace  with  the  advancement  made  by  sci- 
ence in  the  line  of  medicine  and  surgery,  and  is 
to-day  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  wide  practice. 


OHX  T.  FLINDERS  is  one  of  the 
prominent  and  on-coming  young  men  of 
Tooele  county,  at  present  holding  the  im- 
portant position  of  General  Manager  of 
the  Grantsville  Co-operative  Store  of 
Grantsville.  He  is  a  native  of  England,  having 
been  born  in  London  September  ii,  1870,  where 
he  passed  the  first  nineteen  years  of  his  life.  He 
received  a  good  education  in  the  schools  of  Lon- 
don. He  is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Ann 
(Tharby)  Flinders,  both  natives  of  England,  and 
is  the  oldest  of  a  family  of  six  children,  he  and 
his  brother  Thomas  being  the  only  ones  to  come 
to  this  country. 

Mr.  Flinders  emigrated  to  America  in  1889, 
and  came  direct  to  Utah,  working  for  six  months 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  doing  whatever  he  could  find 
to  do,  and  then  for  two  years  being  in  the  em- 
ploy of  William  Wood  &  Son.  At  the  end  of 
this  time  he  came  to  Grantsville,  which  he  has 


since  made  his  home.  In  Grantsville  he  began 
as  a  teamster,  later  securing  a  clerkship,  and  in 
1896  was  made  Manager  of  the  Grantsville  Co- 
operative Store,  of  which  he  is  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  also  owning  some  stock  in  the  con- 
cern. He  has  taken  a  most  prominent  and  active 
interest  in  the  industrial  affairs  of  this  place,  aside 
from  the  positions  which  he  holds  in  the  above 
institution.  He  is  a  director  in  the  Richville 
-Milling  Company,  and  is  interested  in  both  the 
North  and  South  Willow  Irrigation  Companies ; 
also  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Grantsville 
Creamery,  in  which  he  has  a  large  interest. 

Mr.  Flinders  is  a  man  of  family,  having  been 
married,  March  i,  1893,  i"  this  place,  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Fawson.  They  have  three  children — ■ 
Mary  L.,  Sarah  E.  and  Samuel  A. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  member  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  under  its  reign  has 
held  the  offices  of  City  Treasurer  and  Deputv 
Recorder,  and  during  his  residence  in  Grants- 
ville has  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks. 

While  Mr.  Flinders  makes  his  home  in  Grants- 
ville, where  he  owns  a  beautiful  home,  he  is  also 
the  owner  of  a  fine  farm  of  two  hundred  acres, 
mostly  grazing  land,  and  has  a  half  interest  in 
a  large  band  of  sheep  in  this  vicinity.  Both  he 
and  his  wife  are  staunch  adherents  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  in  whose  work  they  take  a  foremost 
part,  and  Mr.  Flinders  holds  the  office  of  Coun- 
selor to  the  President  of  the  Elder's  Quorum. 
In  England  he  was  a  member  of  the  First  Lon- 
don Royal  Engineers,  V.  B.,  who  went  to  Africa 
to  take  part  in  the  Boer  War,  and  there  some  of 
his  comrades  gave  up  their  lives  for  their  coun- 
try. Mr.  Flinders  naturally  takes  a  great  interest 
in  any  thing  pertaining  to  his  old  life,  but  is  at 
heart  a  thorough  American,  believing  firmlv  in 
the  principles  of  the  government  of  this,  his 
adopted  country. 

The  success  that  has  attended  Air.  Flinders' 
career  in  this  place  has  been  little  less  than  phe- 
nomenal. Coming  to  L^tah  less  than  thirteen 
years  ago,  he  began  with  scarcely  any  other  cap- 
ital than  the  will  to  do,  and  these  years  have 
proved  that  success  comes  to  the  man  who  has 
the  courage  to  go  forward  with  undaunted  de- 
termination and  conquer  whatever  obstacles  may 


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417 


present  themselves  in  the  patliway  that  leads  to 
success.  He  is  to-day  regarded  as  one  of  the 
wide-awake  and  aggressive  business  men  of 
Tooele  county,  being  prominent  in  business, 
political,  Church  and  private  life,  and  his  life 
during  this  time  has  been  above  reproach,  in 
whatever  capacity.  The  success  that  has  come 
to  him  has  been  due  entirely  to  himself,  and  to- 
day he  is  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  wide  circle  of 
friends,  with  a  future  stretching  out  before  him 
that  is  full  of  promise. 


I' STAY  ANDERSON.  Among  the 
>uccessful  and  enterprising  citizens  of 
Tooele  county,  and  one  who  has  by 
perseverance  and  determination  carved 
out  a  splendid  career  for  himself  and 
taken  a  prominent  and  active  part  in  transform- 
ing Tooele  county  from  a  wild  and  barren  waste 
to  its  present  prosperous  condition,  and  whose 
history  is  closely  linked  with  almost  every  enter- 
prise for  the  building  up  of  his  community,  Gus- 
tav  Anderson,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  deserves 
special  mention. 

He  is  the  son  of  Andrus  and  Kajsa  Anderson, 
both  natives  of  Sweden,  where  our  subject  was 
born  January  5,  1850.  His  parents  became  con- 
verts to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and.  with  the  older  children,  were  baptized  in 
their  native  country,  our  subject  being  baptized 
at  the  age  of  eleven  years.  When  he  was  twelve 
years  of  age  his  parents  emigrated,  with  their 
family  of  six  children,  to  America,  coming  direct 
to  Utah,  crossing  the  plains  in  the  train  com- 
manded by  Captain  Home  in  1862.  They  at  once 
settled  in  Grantsville  Ward,  where  they  continued 
to  reside  until  the  time  of  their  death. 

Gustav  Anderson  spent  his  boj'hood  days  on 
his  father's  farm,  and  assisted  in  supporting  the 
family,  obtaining  but  a  meagre  schooling,  but  he 
has  always  been  a  close  student  of  nature,  as  well 
as  a  wide  reader  of  books,  and  has  kept  abreast 
of  the  times.  He  early  began  to  do  for  himself, 
and  hired  out  to  herd  sheep,  following  this  occu- 
pation the  greater  part  of  his  youth. 

He  was  married,  February  22,  1873,  to  Miss 
Emily  J.  Hunter,  daughter  of  Bishop  Edward 
Hunter.  Junior,  of  Grantsville  \\'ard,  and  by  this 


marriage  has  had  eight  children — Gustav  Ed- 
ward, William  H.,  Emily  J.,  Ethel  M.,  Lewis  E., 
George  N.,  Sarah  V.  and  Mira  M. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  at  this  time  a 
believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party, 
having  come  into  this  party  from  the  Democratic 
ranks,  being  a  staunch  believer  in  protection.  He 
has  been  twice  elected  Mayor  of  Grantsville,  his 
first  election  occurring  in  1897,  being  again  elected 
in  1901.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  City 
Council  for  the  past  fourteen  years,  and  is  also 
identified  with  a  number  of  local  enterprises,  own- 
ing stock  in  the  Richville  Milling  Company,  in 
v.^hich  concern  he  is  one  of  the  Directors,  and  is 
clso  a  Director  in  the  Co-operative  Store  at  this 
place.  Mr.  Anderson  and  his  family  are  active  in 
the  work  of  the  Church,  Mr.  Anderson  having 
filled  the  offices  of  both  Second  and  First  Coun- 
selor to  the  Bishop  of  his  Ward,  and  from  1882 
to  [884  served  on  a  mission  to  his  native  country. 
His  oldest  son  is  at  present  in  Boston,  where  he 
has  been  for  the  past  twenty-seven  months  la- 
boring in  the  interests  of  the  Mormon  Church. 
Mrs.  Anderson  is  President  of  the  Ladies'  Relief 
Society  of  the  Tooele  Stake  and  prominent  in  the 
work  of  that  organization.  Mr.  Anderson  has 
lived  in  his  present  place  in  Grantsville  since  his 
marriage,  and  in  addition  thereto  owns  a  number 
of  other  pieces  of  land  in  this  county.  He  has 
erected  a  fine  house  on  his  home  place,  and  has 
it  well  improved  with  good  barns,  sheds,  fences, 
etc.  Our  subject  belongs  to  one  of  the  best-known 
and  most  influential  families  in  Tooele  county, 
his  brother  Charles,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  work,  being-  regarded  as  the 
wealthiest  man  in  the  county,  and  Mr.  Gustav 
Anderson  is  said  to  be  fast  following  in  his 
brother's  footsetps  in  this  respect. 


the 


K.  C.  M.  BENEDICT.  Although  com- 
paratively a  young  man,  and  while  he 
has  only  been  practicing  his  profession 
in  Salt  Lake  City  for  a  short  time,  yet 
by  close  study  and  application  along 
ine  of  his  chosen  profession,  he  has  won  a 


high  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  medical  fraternity. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  LTtah,  having  been  born 

in  vSalt  Lake  City  December  15.  1875,  and  is  the 


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son  of  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Benedict,  who  came  to  this 
city  in  1871.  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Benedict  was  born 
in  North  Canan,  Connecticut,  April  29,  1844.  In 
1850  his  father,  Francis  K.  Benedict,  moved  with 
his  family  to  Freeport,  Long  Island,  where  he 
kept  the  County  Asylum  for  a  number  of  years. 
His  son,  and  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  raised 
at  Jamaica,  and  received  his  early  education  at 
boarding  schools.  He  graduated  from  the  New 
York  University  in  1865  with  the  degree  of  A.  B., 
and  in  1867  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  He  then 
took  a  special  course  and  took  the  Valentine  Mott 
prize  medal  for  dissection.  In  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  he  settled  in  Hoboken,  New  Jersey,  where 
he  practiced  for  one  year,  and  then  moved  to 
Freeport,  Long  Island,  where  he  remained  three 
years.  He  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  on  one  of  the 
first  trips  made  by  the  railroad  into  the  city  in 
1871,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  baby.  Here 
he  entered  into  practice  with  his  brother.  Dr.  F. 
Denton  Benedict,  under  the  name  of  Benedict 
Brothers.  They  practiced  together  until  the  death 
of  Dr.  F.  Denton  Benedict,  when  our  subject's 
father  continued  to  practice  alone  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death,  July  24  ,1896.  These  two  brothers, 
with  Drs.  Seymour  B.  Young  and  W.  F.  Ander- 
son, attended  the  late  President  Brigham  Young 
during  his  last  illness. 

During  his  lifetime  Dr.  Joseph  AI.  Benedict 
was  prominent  in  medical  circles  in  the  city.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Holy  Cross  Hos- 
pital, of  which  he  was  physician  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  was  also  surgeon  for  the  Denver  and 
Rio  Grande  Railway  for  three  years.  The  first 
organization  of  the  Salt  Lake  Medical  Associa- 
tion was  effected  at  his  home,  and  he  was  an  active 
member  of  this  association  during  the  remainder 
of  his  life.  In  1886  he  took  a  trip  to  England, 
Scotland  and  France,  and  in  1894,  with  his  son, 
our  subject,  made  a  trip  around  the  world,  sail- 
ing from  San  Francisco  to  Japan,  China,  Singa- 
pore, Island  of  Ceylon,  India,  Red  Sea,  Suez 
Canal,  Joppa,  Jerusalem,  Alexandria  and  Cairo, 
Italy,  Switzerland,  France,  England,  and  home 
by  the  way  of  New  York  City.  He  also  took  a 
very  active  part  in  the  founding  of  the  Utah  In- 
sane Asvlum,  and  in  that  connection  visited  the 
asylums  of  New  York  and  Connecticut,  securing 


plans  which  he  submitted  to  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees. He  was  married,  on  June  5,  1867,  to  Miss 
Sarah  E.  Pierson,  a  native  of  West  Field,  New 
Jersey,  and  a  daughter  of  William  J.  Pierson,  a 
prominent  merchant  and  real  estate  owner  of  that 
place.  By  this  marriage  Dr.  Benedict  had  three 
children — Mrs.  C.  S.  Cowan,  of  this  city ;  Dr. 
C.  M.  Benedict,  our  subject,  and  Nellie  May,  who 
died  in  infancy.  He  was  a  Royal  Arch  Mason 
and  prominent  in  fraternal  life  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  had  made  many  friends  during  his  long  pro- 
fessional career  in  this  place,  and  was  popular, 
not  only  with  the  residents  of  this  city,  but  also 
with  himdreds  of  people  from  the  adjoining  States 
who  had  come  to  him  for  treatment,  and  was  well 
known  throughout  the  inter-mountan  region,  leav- 
ing a  wide  circle  of  friends  to  mourn  his  demise. 

Our  subject  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  city  and  at  Hammond  Hall. 
In  1890  he  entered  the  Deseret  National  Bank, 
and,  with  the  exception  of  the  time  which  he 
spent  with  his  father  on  his  trip  around  the  world, 
was  in  that  institution  for  the  following  five  years. 
In  1896  he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the 
New  York  University,  where  he  studied  for  two 
years,  completing  his  medical  education  in  the 
maiden  year  of  Cornell  Medical  College,  receiv- 
ing his  degree  June  7,  1899.  He  then  worked  for 
a  time  in  the  Bellevue  Hospital.  New  York,  and 
in  1899  began  the  active  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  the  examining  physician 
for  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and 
in  August,  1900,  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Wells  as  Surgeon,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  in 
the  Utah  National  Guards,  on  the  staf?  of  Colonel 
Samuel  C.  Park.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Salt 
Lake  County  Medical  Society. 

Dr.  Benedict  was  married,  on  October  29,  1901, 
to  Miss  Clara  Clawson,  daughter  of  Spencer 
Clawson,  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  this 
city,  whose  sketch  appears  elewhere  in  this  work. 

Dr.  Benedict's  life  has  been  spent  in  this  city, 
and  he  has  many  friends  here  who  predict  for  him 
the  same  successful  career  that  his  father  attained 
to,  and  wish  him  every  success  that  comes  to  the 
man  who  perseveres.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  which  was  organ- 
ised in  1901. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


419 


ICHARD  ERASTUS  EGAN,  Bishop 
of  South  Bountiful  Ward,  Davis 
county.  But  few  men  have  been  more 
closely  identified  with  the  history  of 
Utah  and  this  whole  inter-mountain 
region  than  has  Bishop  Egan.  His  whole  life 
has  been  spent  in  this  country,  having  emigrated 
with  his  parents  when  only  a  child,  among  the 
early  pioneers  to  Utah. 

Born  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  March  29,  1842, 
he  is  the  son  of  Howard  and  Tamson  (Porshley) 
Egan.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland,  where 
he  was  born  in  181 5,  and  his  mother  born  July 
24,  1823,  in  New  Hampshire.  The  senior  Mr. 
Egan  emigrated  to  America  in  1825,  and  mar- 
ried in  Salem  in  1839,  where  they  continued 
to  live  until  the  early  forties,  when  they  emi- 
grated to  Illinois,  settling  at  Nauvoo,  and  re- 
mained there  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormon 
people,  which  occurred  in  1846,  when  they  went 
with  the  main  body  of  the  Church  to  Winter 
Quarters,  where  the  family  remained  for  one 
year,  the  father  coming  to  Utah  with  the  first  pio- 
neers, and  returning  for  his  family  shortly  after, 
coming  across  the  plains  with  them  in  Heber  C. 
Kimball's  train,  and  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  in  the 
autumn  of  that  year.  The  senior  Mr.  Egan  set- 
tled in  Salt  Lake  Citv  and  here  spent  the  balance 
of  his  life,  his  death  occurring  March  15,  1878. 
His  wife  still  lives,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight. 

Bishop  Egan  spent  the  first  fifteen  years  after 
coming  to  Utah  in  Salt  Lake  City,  during  which 
time  he  took  advantage  of  the  common  schools, 
such  as  e.xisted  then  in  Salt  Lake.  His  father 
had  become  employed  in  buying  and  selling  stock 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  Bishop 
Egan  started  out  and  made  one  trip  to  Califor- 
nia, and  assisted  his  father  in  carrying  on  his 
large  livestock  deals.  The  senior  Mr.  Egan  made 
several  trips  from  Utah  to  the  Missouri  river  on 
business  for  the  church.  In  1858  our  subject 
secured  employment  from  the  Government  sub- 
contractor carrying  mails  between  Brigham  City 
and  Salt  Lake,  which  was  performed  mostly  on 
horseback.  In  the  following  year  he  went  with 
Doctor  Farnay,  Superintendent  of  Indian  Afifairs, 
who  had  been  commissioned  to  make  a  treaty 
with  the  Shoshone  Indians  in  Humboldt.     After 


this  treaty  was  completed  Bishop  Egan  was  or- 
dered to  return  to  Utah,  bringing  five  head  of 
government  mules.  This  was  a  long  and  tedious 
trip  and  on  the  journey  of  three  hundred  miles 
the  only  provisions  he  and  another  boy  had  was 
six  quarts  of  flour,  the  scarcity  of  food  nearly  re- 
sulting in  their  death.  In  the  spring  of  i860  he 
hired  out  to  the  Pony  Express  Company,  whicn 
occupation  he  followed  for  a  period  of  sixteen 
months,  carrying  the  express  from  Salt  Lake 
City  to  Faust  Station.  He  later  worked  for 
his  father,  who  had  several  large  trading  posts 
in  LHah  and  Nevada.  This  he  only  followed  for 
about  nine  months,  freighting  between  Salt  Lake 
and  Carson  City,  Nevada.  These  were  dangerous 
times,  as  the  Indians  were  bad,  and  many  men 
during  these  two  years  were  killed  by  the 
Indians;  at  one  time  Bishop  Egan  found  three 
men  who  had  been  murdered  by  the  Indi- 
ans in  the  canyon.  He  then  took  charge  of 
the  Deep  Creek  farm  and  station  along  the 
trail  of  the  Pony  Express,  which  he  contin- 
ued until  the  express  company  was  disposed 
of.  He  then  assisted  his  father  on  his  ranches 
and  trading  posts  in  Nevada  for  a  couple  of  years, 
his  father  also  having  been  superintendent  of 
the  Pony  Express  and  stage  line.  After  this  he 
engaged  in  business  for  himself  in  Ruby  Valley, 
Nevada,  where  he  continued  for  two  years,  from 
1863,  until  the  spring  of  1865,  ^^  company  with 
his  father  and  brother  Howard.  Soon  after 
this  he  started  in  business  for  himself  in  the  same 
valley,  securing  a  ranch  and  engaging  in  the 
stock  business  from  1865  to  1867,  when  he  was 
called  by  the  heads  of  the  Church  to  serve  on  a 
mission  to  England,  where  he  spent  two  years 
in  the  vicinity  of  Liverpool.  After  his  return 
home  he  again  took  up  farming  and  the  stock 
raising  business  in  Ruby  valley,  where  he  contin- 
ued to  live  until  1877,  when  he  sold  out  his  en- 
tire interests  in  that  vicinity  and  moved  to  South 
Bountiful,  where  he  has  since  continued  to  live. 
He  has  been  a  heavy  real  estate  owner  in  Davis 
county,  at  one  time  having  owned  two  hundred 
and  forty  acres  of  land,  considerable  of  which 
has  been  sold  from  time  to  time.  Since  taking 
up  his  residence  in  South  Bountiful  he  has  not 
onlv  been  engaged  in  farming  but  is  also  largely 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


interested  in  the  sheep  business,  ranging  prin- 
cipally in  Utah.  At  the  present  time  he  is  serv- 
ing in  the  capacity  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Bountiful  Live  Stock  Company,  which  he 
assisted  in  organizing  two  years  ago.  This  is  one 
of  the  largest  live  stock  companies  in  Davis 
county.  He  is  also  largely  interested  in  the 
Woods-Cross  Canning  and  Pickling  Company, 
and  is  also  identified  with  a  great  many  other 
enterprises  in  Utah. 

On  January  i,  1861,  he  was  married  to  Mary 
Minnie  Fisher,  a  sister  of  Judge  John  Fisher  of 
Davis  county.  A  sketch  of  this  family  appears 
in  the  biographical  sketch  of  Judge  Fisher,  in 
this  volume.  As  a  result  of  this  marriage,  thir- 
teen children  have  been  born,  of  whom  ten  are 
now  living.  The  mother  died  December  26,  1887. 
The  children  are:  Tamson  M.,  Erastus  H.,  Harrv 
O.,  who  was  born  October  2,  1866,  and  died 
March  10,  1879;  Horace  F. ;  John  L. ;  \\'illiam  F. 
and  Willard  R.,  twins,  who  were  born  April  5, 
1872,  and  William  died  December  25,  1900.  He 
was  a  noble  young  man  and  had  the  promise  of  a 
bright  future.  He  was  called  by  the  heads  of  the 
Church  to  serve  on  a  mission  to  California  on 
January  7,  1897,  where  he  spent  two  years ; 
Joseph  R.  died  in  infancy ;  Ira  I.,  Linnie  J.,  Mary 
A.,  Charles  M.,  and  David.  Mr.  Egan's  second 
marriage  took  place  July  10,  1889,  to  Miss  Mary 
B.  Noble,  daughter  of  Joseph  B.  and  Loretta  S. 
(Meacham)  Noble.  Five  children  were  born 
of  this  union,  four  of  whom  are  still  living :  Har- 
old, born  May  23,  1890  and  died  April  23,  1891  : 
Ora  May,  Nellie  L.,  Erma  A.,  and  Byron  N. 
Nearly  all  of  Bishop  Egan's  sons  who  have 
grown  to  manhood  have  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  the  work  of  the  Church  and  many  of  them  have 
served  on  missionary  trips  ranging  from  one  to 
three  years.  Our  subject  was  ordained  a  Bishop 
and  set  apart  to  preside  over  South  Bountiful 
Ward  in  January,  1892.  He  has  also  taken  a 
prominent  and  active  part  in  school  matters,  and 
everything  that  pertains  to  the  upbuilding  of  his 
country. 

In  politics  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Dem- 
ocratic party  ever  since  its  organization  in  this 
State.  He  served  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
several  terms  in  Davis  county,  in  South  Bountiful 


Ward.  In  1889  he  was  Assessor  and  Collector 
of  Davis  county,  and  so  well  did  he  perform  his 
duties  that  he  was  re-elected  in  1900.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  first  State  Legislature  of  Utah, 
from  Davis  county. 

There  are  few  men  in  Davis  county  who  have 
taken  a  greater  interest  in  tracing  the  genealogy 
of  his  family  than  has  Bishop  Egan.  He  has 
spent  many  years  and  expended  much  money  in 
making  trips  to  the  East  and  to  Europe  in  order 
that  he  might  get  all  the  facts  in  connection  with 
the  history  of  the  family  on  both  sides,  and  now 
has  one  of  the  most  complete  genealogies  to  be 
found  in  anv  familv  in  Davis  countv. 


(~)BERT  L"RE.  Few  men  have  taken  a 
more  prominent  or  active  part  in  the 
building  up  of  the  State  of  Utah  than 
has  Robert  LTre,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Over  fifty  years  of  his  life 
have  been  spent  here,  and  now,  in  the  declining 
years  of  his  life  he  can  look  back  with  pleasure 
upon  a  life  well  and  honorably  spent  in  the  in- 
terests of  his  family,  his  Church  and  humanity. 
\lr.  L^re  and  his  whole  family  are  among  the 
most  highly  respected  people  in  Davis  county. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  descended  from 
sturdy  Scotch  ancestors,  and  was  born  in  Rent- 
frashire,  Scotland,  on  the  river  Clyde,  September 
28,  1829.  Of  his  parents,  James  and  Janet  (Mc- 
Cool)  Ure,  his  father  was  born  in  Greenwick, 
Scotland,  and  his  mother  in  Dunne,  Scotland. 
His  grandfather,  James  Ure.  was  a  soldier  in  the 
East  India  war,  and  died  on  the  field  of  battle. 

In  1848,  at  the  age  of  twenty  years,  Robert 
L're  left  Scotland,  in  company  with  his  parents 
and  their  ten  children.  Of  this  sturdy,  happy 
family,  who  turned  their  faces  from  the  rugged 
Scottish  shore  towards  prosperous  America,  but 
two  members  still  remain — the  subject  of  this 
sketch  and  a  sister,  now  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.  Tay- 
lor, of  Saint  Louis,  Missouri.  Both  the  father 
and  mother  died  within  a  few  years  after  their 
arrival  in  this  country,  their  deaths  occurring 
in    St.    Louis.       Not    satisfied   to   remain    in    St. 


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Louis,  where  they  arrived  in  tlie  early  spring  of 
1849,  Robert  Ure  and  his  brother  James  deter- 
mined to  push  on  to  the  far  West,  and  when 
they  had  been  in  St.  Louis  but  three  weeks  fitted 
up  an  ox  team  apiece,  and,  in  company  with 
four  other  parties  and  their  outfits,  left  St.  Louis 
for  the  old  Winter  Ouarters  of  the  Mormons 
later  known  as  Florence,  Nebraska,  at  which 
point  they  joined  Ira  C.  Benson's  train  for  L'tah. 
This  train  consisted  of  fifty  teams,  and  they 
started  for  Utah  in  the  spring  of  1849,  experi- 
encing, among  other  dangers  on  the  way,  one 
of  the  most  severe  storms  encountered  by  any  of 
the  emigrants  in  crossing  the  western  plains. 
Upon  their  arrival  in  Utah  both  brothers  settled 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  James  continued  to  live 
most  of  his  life,  dying  at  Kamas  in  1899. 

Our  subject  spent  the  first  two  years  of  his  res- 
idence in  Utah  following  various  occupations  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  at  times  hauling  lumber  from 
the  canyons,  and  dug  the  first  horse  stable  for 
Brigham  Young  out  of  the  side  of  the  hill  near 
where  the  old  White  House  used  to  stand.  He 
also  assisted  in  buildina:  the  first  three  log  houses 
ever  built  in  Grantsville,  Tooele  county.  He 
went  to  Bountiful,  Davis  county,  in  1851,  and 
began  work  on  the  old  Mure  farm,  near  what 
is  now  Woods  Cross. 

On  February  9  ,1854,  he  married  Miss  !\Iary 
!Mure,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Elizabeth  (Black- 
wood) Mure.  JMrs.  L're  is  also  from  an  old 
Scotch  family,  being  the  only  surviving  member 
of  a  family  of  twelve,  and  having  been  born  at 
Bannockburn,  Scotland.  As  a  result  of  this 
marriage  twelve  children  were  born — Elizabeth, 
Mary  J.,  Robert  W.,  Janet,  Norah,  Alinnie,  Ste- 
phen, Maggie,  Lucy,  Rachael,  Ann  and  Ethel, 
all  of  whom  are  now  living. 

Following  his  marriage  Mr.  Ure  conducted 
the  farm  of  William  Mure  for  some  time,  during 
which  time  the  latter  was  doing  missionary  work 
for  his  Church.  Oijr  subject  afterwards  pur- 
chased fifty  acres  of  land  about  one  mile  west 
of  Woods  Cross  station,  and  on  this  he  erected 
his  first  home,  a  two-room  log  house,  in  which 
the  family  continued  to  live  for  some  years,  Mr. 
Ure  eventally  building  a  commodious  and  com- 
fortable  residence,   to   which   has   been   added   a 


brick  wing,  giving  them  at  this  time  a  pleasant, 
substantial  home.  The  fertile  soil  of  Davis 
county  is  especially  adapted  to  the  raising  of 
vegetables,  supplying  the  most  of  the  Salt  Lake 
market,  and  Mr.  L're  has  devoted  a  portion  of 
his  farm  to  the  cultivation  of  this  produce,  giving 
especial  attention  to  asparagus,  of  which  article 
he  is  the  largest  producer  in  the  State. 

In  politics  our  subject  is  a  Democrat,  although 
he  is  not  actively  engaged  in  the  work  of  his 
party.  He  and  his  family  are  all  members  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
and  actively  engaged  in  Church  work.  About 
1 88 1  he  was  called  by  the  heads  of  the  Church  to 
fill  a  mission  to  his  native  country,  and  while 
there  was  called  to  preside  over  the  Birmingham 
Conference,  where  he  finished  his  two  years'  mis- 
sion. For  over  fifty  years,  both  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Scotland  and  America,  Mr.  Ure  has 
been  a  Ward  teacher.  Mrs.  Ure  is  also  promi- 
nent in  local  Church  circles.  They  have  twenty- 
five  grandchildren,  all  of  their  children,  with  the 
exception  of  Robert  W.  and  the  three  youngest 
daughters,  having  married.  The  daughter  Ra- 
chael is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Utah, 
and  is  now  employed  as  a  teacher  in  the  Lincoln 
School,  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr.  Ure  took  part 
in  all  the  early  troubles  in  the  State,  and  served 
in  the  army  all  through  the  disturbances  arising 
from  the  landing  of  Johnston's  army  in  Utah. 

A  visit  to  this  home  of  genial  hospitality  easily 
convinces  the  visitor  that  the  reputation  of  Utah 
for  her  friendship  and  hospitality  has  been  estab- 
lished by  such  courteous  welcome  as  has  been  ex- 
tended to  both  Mormon  and  Gentile  visitors  in 
this  home.  Friends  and  neighbors  alike  unite 
in  speaking  only  words  of  praise  for  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ure,  and  many  are  the  charitable  deeds  re- 
lated of  them,  even  by  the  old  Indians,  to  whom 
their  kindness  was  extended  in  the  early  days. 
Trials  there  have  been,  and  days  when  their  pros- 
pects were  gloomy,  davs  when  mush  or  green 
peas  constituted  the  meal  three  times  a  day,  but 
looking  back  over  nearly  half  a  century  of  min- 
gled joy  and  sorrow,  there  comes  the  satisfac- 
tion of  a  work  well  and  faithfully  performed  and 
the  knowledge  that  for  such  work  blessings  come 
at  last. 


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ICHARD  DUERDEN.  Success  in  life 
v^  is  one  of  tlie  things  for  which  most 
men  strive.  It  is  a  God-given  instinct, 
without  which  life  is  a  failure  and  a 
blank.  Of  the  many  self-made  men, 
who  by  perseverance,  energy  and  determination 
have  made  a  success  in  Utah,  starting  at  the  very 
foot  of  the  ladder,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
deserves  special  mention.  Born  in  Lancashire, 
Eneland,  February  19,  1830,  he  is  the  son  of 
Richard  and  Martha  (Hudson)  Duerden,  both 
natives  of  the  same  country,  where  they  lived  and 
died.  Our  subject  spent  the  first  thirty-eight 
years  of  his  life  in  England,  and  there  received 
his  education,  and  for  many  vears  followed  his 
trade  as  a  manufacturer  of  cloth. 

He  married  in  England  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Brad- 
shire,  who  died,  leaving  two  children — Nephi, 
now  a  resident  of  East  Bountiful,  and  Martha, 
deceased.  In  1868,  not  being  satisfied  with  the 
opportunities  which  England  aflforded  to  a  man 
of  ambition,  he  determined  to  come  to  .\merica, 
and  sailed  in  the  spring  of  that  year,  crossing 
the  ocean  in  an  old  sailing  vessel,  and  making 
the  rest  of  the  trip  by  ox  team,  arriving  in  Salt 
Lake  City  September  i6th  of  that  year.  He  at 
once  located  in  Bountiful,  where  he  worked  for 
a  number  of  years  on  diiTerent  farms  and  for 
different  people,  and  in  this  way,  little  by  little, 
he  saved  some  means,  and  finally  began  buying 
vegetables  and  wool  from  the  farmers,  taking 
them  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  bringing  back  in  re- 
turn a  small  lot  of  cloth,  groceries,  etc.  In  this 
way  his  prosperous  business  was  started,  and 
has  been  a  success  ever  since.  His  first  store 
consisted  of  one  room  in  his  residence,  which 
contained  a  kitchen  table  and  two  short  shelves. 
After  continuing  in  a  small  way  for  some  time, 
he  later  built  a  three-room  adobe  store,  and  year 
by  year  his  business  increased  in  these  quarters, 
until  this  was  finally  replaced  by  a  fine  business 
house,  the  foundation  of  which  is  built  of  Temple 
rock,  which  is  on  the  road  between  East  Bounti- 
ful and  Woods  Cross,  in  what  is  known  as  South 
Bountiful,  where  he  has  six  acres  of  land,  well 
improved.  He  also  has  eleven  acres  in  East 
Bountiful.  Mr.  Duerden's  success  has  been 
marked   from  the   fact   that   when  he  arrived  in 


Davis  county  he  counted  his  cash  and  found  it 
to  consist  of  ten  cents.  For  many  years  he  has 
been  interested  to  quite  a  large  extent  in  mining, 
and  now  has  the  foundation  laid  which  promises 
to  prove  very  successful  in  the  not  far  distant 
future. 

Mr.  Duerden's  second  marriage,  which  oc- 
curred in  Davis  countv,  was  to  Miss  Sarah  Ann 
Starkey.  Of  this  marriage  nine  children  have 
been  born,  seven  of  whom  are  now  living — Ed- 
mondson,  Richard,  Sarah  Jane,  Elizabeth,  Wil- 
liam, Margaret,  all  residents  of  LTtah,  with  the 
exception  of  one  son,  who  resides  in  Idaho. 
Since  his  residence  in  this  country  Mr.  Duerden 
has  lieen  back  to  England  once,  on  which  occa- 
sion he  spent  three  months  visiting  his  family 
and  friends. 

In  political  affairs  he  is  independent,  prefer- 
ring to  follow  the  dictates  of  his  own  judgment, 
rather  than  that  of  any  political  party.  He  be- 
came a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  while 
residing  in  England,  in  1855,  and  has  since  been 
a  faithful  member  of  that  Church.  For  many 
years  he  has  been  a  Ward  and  Sunday  School 
teacher,  and  was  ordained  a  member  of  the  High 
Council  of  Davis  county.  He  has  also  been 
largely  interested  in  home  missions.  During  his 
early  life  in  Utah  he  was  connected  for  some 
time  with  the  Brigham  City  Woolen  Mills,  which 
under  his  management  were  successful,  but 
finally  went  down  after  he  had  left  them.  He  was 
also  connected  with  President  Brigham  Young's 
woolen  mills  at  Manti.  He  was  one  of  a  family 
of  seventeen,  of  whom  he  is  the  only  living  mem- 
ber in  America. 


I  SHOP  JAMES  L.  WRATHALL. 
The  march  of  improvement  and  prog- 
ress is  accelerated  day  by  day,  and 
each  move  seems  to  demand  of  men  a 
broader  intelligence  and  greater  dis- 
cernment than  did  the  preceding.  Successful 
men  must  be  live  men  in  this  age ;  bristling  with 
activity,  prompt  in  seizing  every  opportunity  in 
the  "nick  of  time,"  fertile  in  expedient  and  not 
easily  discouraged.  Fortunes  are  not  often  ac- 
quired in  a  day  or  a  year,  as  sometimes  happened 


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423 


a  decade  ago ;  on  the  contrary,  it  seems  that  every 
step  toward  prosperity  must  be  fought  with  all 
the  vigor  and  strength  of  purpose  that  can  be 
mustered,  but  in  the  end  victory  is  all  the  more 
desirable.  BishoD  James  L.  Wrathall  has  fought 
his  own  battles  thus  far  through  life,  and  by  his 
energy  and  perseverance  has  succeeded  in  every 
enterprise  he  has  taken  hold  of. 

A  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born  in 
Grantsville  September  22,  i860,  he  is  the  son  of 
James  and  Mary  (Leishman)  Wrathall.  His 
father  was  bom  in  Yorkshire,  England,  and  came 
to  America  in  1850.  cominsr  direct  to  Utah  and 
settling  in  Grantsville  the  following  year,  where 
he  continued  to  make  his  home  the  rest  of  his 
life,  although  from  time  to  time  he  was  called 
to  other  parts  of  the  country  on  work  for  the 
Mormon  Church,  of  which  he  was  ever  a  staunch 
and  faithful  member.  Mr.  Wrathall  was  among 
the  first  settlers  in  Grantsville,  there  being  but 
three  or  four  families  in  this  place  when  he  took 
up  his  residence  here.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
men  sent  out  by  the  Church  to  do  colonization 
work  in  Carson  \'alley,  Nevada,  and  from  that 
place  made  a  trip  to  California.  He  was  also 
sent  to  the  Missouri  river  to  pilot  emigrants  from 
that  place  to  Utah  in  1868,  and  in  1882  was  sent 
on  a  mission  to  his  native  country,  in  which  work 
he  spent  two  years.  He  later  made  a  pleasure 
trip  to  England  in  1889.  Besides  the  mother  of 
our  subject,  Mr.  Wrathall  had  other  wives,  and 
was  the  father  of  fourteen  children.  During  his 
lifetime  he  engaged  in  cattle  and  sheep  raising, 
as  well  as  farming,  and  was  one  of  the  well 
known  and  substantial  men  of  Grantsville.  He 
died  in  December,  1896,  mourned  by  a  large  circle 
of  friends. 

Mary  (Leishman)  \VrathalI,  the  mother  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  also  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, having  been  bom  in  Lancashire,  coming  to 
Utah  in  the  early  fifties  with  her  people,  who 
were  members  of  the  Mormon  Church.  She  was 
the  mother  of  three  children,  of  whom  our  sub- 
ject was  the  second,  and  only  son.  The  oldest 
daughter,  Maria,  married  a  Mr.  Sutton,  and  died 
in  1885.  The  youngest  daughter  is  now  Mrs. 
William  Spry,  living  in  Grantsville.  Mrs. 
Wrathall  died  in  1871. 


Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  Grants- 
ville, growing  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  re- 
ceiving such  education  as  was  common  to  the 
sons  of  pioneers,  working  on  the  farm  during 
the  summer  months  and  attending  school  for  a 
few  weeks  in  the  winter.  He  early  beean  life 
for  himself,  spendinf  many  years  herding  cattle 
and  sheep  on  the  plains  of  Tooele  county.  From 
time  to  time  he  invested  his  little  savings  in  sheep, 
and  from  a  very  small  beginning  his  interests  in 
this  direction  have  grown  until  to-day  he  is  the 
owner  of  a  large  band  of  sheep  in  his  own  right, 
as  well  as  being  interested  in  another  herd  with 
one  of  his  brothers. 

Bishop  Wrathall  was  married  February  2, 
1882,  to  Miss  Penninah  Hunter,  daugliter  of 
Bishop  Edward  Hunter,  Junior,  and  bv  this 
marriage  has  had  eight  children.  They  are : 
Leslie,  Myrtle,  Paul,  Irene,  Alice,  Sarah,  Pen- 
ninah and  Jennis.  The  Bishop  believes  in  edu- 
cation, and  has  given  his  children  all  the  advan- 
tages possible  in  this  direction.  The  Grantsville 
schools  are  among  the  best  in  the  State,  being 
graded,  and  employing  six  teachers.  As  the  chil- 
dren have  passed  out  of  this  institution  they 
have  been  sent  to  higher  seats  of  learning,  and 
his  oldest  son  is  at  this  time  a  student  in  the 
Brigham  Young  Academy  at  Provo,  while  the 
oldest  daughter  is  attending  the  Latter  Day 
Saints'  University  in   Salt  Lake  City. 

In  addition  to  his  large  holdings  in  sheep. 
Bishop  Wrathall  is  the  owner  of  two  fine  ranches, 
one  devoted  to  fruit  raising,  in  which  the  Bishop 
is  an  expert,  and  the  other  a  hay  ranch.  His 
fruit  farm  is  conceded  to  be  the  finest  in  Tooele 
county,  and  he  is  justly  proud  of  it.  He  makes 
his  home  in  Grantsville,  where  he  erected,  in 
1898,  a  beautiful  home  of  twelve  rooms.  The 
house  is  a  two-story  brick,  and  modern  in  every 
respect.  Bishop  Wrathall  was  born  and  raised 
in  the  Mormon  Church,  of  which  he  has  all  his 
life  been  a  staunch  member,  and  has  held  many 
offices  in  the  Priesthood,  having  been  ordained 
an  Elder  in  1881,  later  a  member  of  the  Seven- 
ties and  still  later  a  High  Priest.  He  was  set 
apart  and  ordained  Bishop  of  the  Grantsville 
Ward  in  July,  1890,  which  office  he  still  retains. 
In  addition  to  serving  in  these  different  capaci- 


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ties  in  the  Church,  Bishop  Wrathall  served  for 
twenty-six  months  in  the  mission  field  in  the 
Northern  States,  being  called  in  1887.  He  is  a 
man  of  broad  sympathies,  active  in  all  that  per- 
tains to  the  welfare  of  his  community,  and  promi- 
nently identified  with  many  of  the  local  enter- 
prises, being  President  of  the  North  Willow  Irri- 
gation Company,  President  of  the  Richville  Mill- 
ing Company,  doing  a  flouring  business  in  Tooele 
City,  and  is  a  director  in  the  Co-operative  Store 
at  this  place. 

His  long  and  useful  career  has  brought  him 
prominently  before  the  people  of  this  city  and 
county,  and  by  his  strict  adherence  to  the  highest 
business  principles,  his  close  attention  to  duty, 
and  his  faithful  and  devoted  work  in  the  inter- 
ests of  his  church,  he  has  won  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  associ- 
ated, while  his  genial  and  pleasant  manners  have 
endeared  him  to  those  who  have  known  him  in 
social  life. 


lines. 


.\MES  P.  GARDNER.  Strangers  com- 
ing to  Salt  Lake  City  for  the  first  time 
are  surprised  to  find  here  so  many  flour- 
ishing business  houses,  carrying  im- 
mense stocks  of  the  latest  goods  in  their 

Used  as  thev  are  to  the  close  proximity 


of  the  larger  Eastern  cities,  they  do  not  realize 
the  immense  territory  tributary  to  Salt  Lake  that 
is  supplied  by  these  establishments,  which,  in 
order  to  cater  to  the  varied  tastes  of  so  large  a 
class  of  customers  in  almost  every  walk  of  life, 
are  compelled  to  handle,  not  only  large  lines,  but 
a  complete  variety,  if  they  would  successfully 
compete  with  other  houses  in  their  particular 
branch  of  mercantile  trade.  No  merchant  in  the 
city  understands  this  fact  better  or  has  profited 
more  through  his  knowledge  than  has  James  P. 
Gardner.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake 
City  but  a  little  more  than  thirteen  years,  but 
in  that  time  has  built  up  one  of  the  largest  whole- 
sale and  retail  men's  furnishing  goods  establish- 
ments in  Utah. 

Mr.  Gardner  was  born  in  Whitesboro,  Oneida 
county.  New  York,  in  1863,  in  which  State  his 
ancestors  were  earlv   settlers,  both  sides  of   the 


family  participating  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
His  father  was  a  widely  known  educator,  and 
for  thirty  years  principal  of  the  Whitestown 
Seminary,  in  its  dav  one  of  the  prominent  and 
well-known  educational  institutions  of  the  State 
of  New  York.  The  senior  Mr.  Gardner  died 
when  our  subject  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  The 
mother  of  our  subject  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Elizabeth  Phillips,  and  was  also  a  member  of  an 
influential  New  York  family.  Mr.  Gardner  grew 
up  in  Whitestown,  and  was  educated  in  the  insti- 
tution of  which  his  father  was  the  head.  When 
his  father  died  he  started  out  in  life  for  himself, 
and  served  an  apprenticeship  in  a  large  wholesale 
woolen  and  cloth  manufacturing  concern  at 
Utica,  New  York.  He  followed  this  line  for 
four  years,  at  the  end  of  which  time,  his  health 
failing,  he  went  to  the  Indian  Territory,  where 
he  spent  about  a  year  on  a  cattle  ranch,  recuper- 
ating his  lost  health.  At  the  end  of  the  year  he 
went  to  Kansas,  where  he  became  Recorder  of 
Deeds  for  Hamilton  county,  his  office  being  at 
Syracuse,  the  county  seat.  The  town  site  was 
owned  by  the  Arkansas  Valley  Town  and  Land 
Company,  and  Mr.  Gardner  sold  the  town  lots 
for  the  company.  For  the  next  few  years  he 
was  engaged  in  the  stock  business  and  various 
enterprises,  and  having  regained  his  health,  be- 
gan to  look  about  for  an  opportunity  to  perma- 
nently engage  in  business.  'He  came  to  Utah  in 
1889,  and  was  so  impressed  with  the  possibilities 
of  Salt  Lake  City  that  he  decided  to  remain  here, 
and  the  following  spring  established  his  present 
business.  He  began  in  a  room  sixteen  by  forty 
feet,  just  across  the  street  from  his  present  place 
of  business,  at  136-138  South  Main  street,  hav- 
ing a  small  stock  of  goods,  and  from  this  small 
beginning  has  built  un  one  of  the  finest  and  most 
complete  businesses  of  the  kind  in  the  entire 
State.  He  occupies  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
desirable  establishments  in  the  city  and  caters  to 
the  most  fashionable  trade  here,  as  well  as  hav- 
ing an  immense  volume  of  trade  from  the  adjoin- 
ing districts.  At  this  time  he  gives  emploment 
to  from  twenty-five  to  fifty  clerks,  according  to 
the  season  of  the  year. 

In  addition  to  this  business  Mr.  Gardner  is  also 
quite   extensively   interested   in   valuable   mining 


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properties,  besides  beingf  actively  identified  with 
a  number  of  minor  local  enterprises. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  but  not  actively 
associated  in  the  work  of  his  party.  In  fraternal 
circles  he  has  his  membership  in  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows' Lodge,  No.  2,  of  Salt  Lake,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Alta  and  Commercial  Clubs. 

Socially  Mr.  Gardner  is  very  popular  in  the 
circles  in  which  he  moves,  and  is  a  gentleman  of 
most  genial  and  pleasing  address.  His  wide- 
awake and  honorable  business  methods  have  won 
for  him  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  busi- 
ness men  of  the  city,  and  in  both  public  and  pri- 
vate life  he  has  made  many  friends. 


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AVID  DAY,  deceased.  Of  the  many 
the  early  history  and  development 
nf  Utah,  counting  it  a  far  greater 
lirivileee  to  share  in  the  privations, 
noble  men  who  cast  their  lots  with 
sufferings  and  even  death  of  those  who  gave 
up  their  all  for  the  privilege  of  founding  a  home 
for  their  Church,  whose  teachings  they  believed 
to  be  the  true  one,  than  to  live  amid  scenes  of 
comfort  and  plenty,  surrounded  by  kindred  and 
friends,  and  yet  be  denied  to  live  according  to 
the  tenets  of  their  religion,  the  name  of  David 
Day  stands  prominently  forward.  For  twenty- 
six  years  he  stood  among  the  leading  men  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
serving  her  interests  wffii  an  unquestioning  de- 
votion that  won  him  the  entire  confidence  and 
esteem  of  those  high  in  authority.  Officially  he 
laid  no  claim  to  leadership,  but  in  his  own  walk 
of  life,  in  the  offices  he  filled  and  in  the  work 
his  hands  found  to  perform,  he  was  one  of  the 
most  zealous,  aggressive  and  faithful  workers 
the  Church  has  perhaos  ever  known.  This  prin- 
ciple he  carried  with  him  through  life,  and  it  was 
the  distinguishing  feature  of  his  business  career, 
which  was  one  of  marked  success.  For  many 
years  after  coming  to  Utah  he  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits  in  Davis  county,  later  moving 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  engaged  in  a  mer- 
cantile life,  and  followed  this  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death,  making  a  record  as  an  able,  upright 
and   honorable  business   man,   and   winning  and 


retaining  the  confidence  of  his  business  associ- 
ates. 

David  Day  was  born  in  Bedfordshire,  England, 
June  2,  1824,  and  was  the  son  of  James  and 
Mary  Day,  who  were  both  natives  of  that  place. 
He  grew  to  manhood  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  and 
received  his  education  at  the  common  schools. 
When  about  twenty  years  of  age  he  heard  the 
Gospel  of  Mormonism  preached  by  Elder  Thomas 
Squires,  and  upon  profession  of  his  belief  in  that 
doctrine  was  baptized  by  Elder  Squires  in  De- 
cember, 1845.  ^^  was  shortly  afterwards  or- 
dained to  the  office  of  Teacher,  under  the  hands 
of  this  same  Elder,  and  labored  in  that  capacity 
for  eighteen  months.  In  the  spring  of  1846  he 
was  ordained  an  Elder,  under  the  hands  of  Elder 
John  Banks,  and  was  frequently  engaged  in 
preaching  the  Gospel  of  Mormonism  in  his  vicin- 
ity. About  four  months  after  his  ordination  as 
Elder  he  was  appointed  to  the  Presidency  of  the 
Luton  Branch  of  the  Church,  which  position  he 
held  until  his  departure  for  America. 

In  1848  he  left  England,  on  board  the  vessel 
Forest  Monarchy  and  upon  reaching  the  United 
States  set-  out  at  once  for  Utah,  but  when  he  had 
reached  Missouri  was  taken  ill,  and  on  this  ac- 
count was  compelled  to  abandon  the  trip  almost 
two  years,  taking  up  his  journey  again  in  1850, 
and,  after  crossing  the  plains  in  company  with 
other  emigrants,  reached  Salt  Lake  City  in  Oc- 
tober of  that  year.  Upon  reaching  Utah  he  at 
once  went  to  Kaysville,  Davis  county,  where  he 
engaged  in  a  genera!  farming  business,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  until  October,  1862,  when  he 
moved  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and,  in  company  with 
Henry  Squires,'  opened  a  general  merchandise 
business,  which  was  among  the  first  of  the  kind 
to  be  established  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  also  had 
as  partners  John  R.  Barnes  of  Kaysville  and  D. 
L.  Davis,  the  firm  being  known  as  Day  &  Com- 
pany. They  had  their  establishment  on  Main 
street,  and  during  the  lifetime  of  Mr.  Day  con- 
tinued to  do  a  thriving  business.  The  business 
was  carried  on  for  two  years  after  the  death  of 
our  subject  and  then  discontinued.  In  addition 
to  this  undertaking  he  was  also  for  some  time  a 
director  and  stockholder  in  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Institution,  and  active  in  the  business 


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world  of  this  city.  He  spent  three  months  in 
Lehi  in  1858,  to  which  place  he  moved  his  family 
during  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  but  the  rest 
of  his  life,  up  to  1862,  was  spent  in  Kaysville. 

He  was  given  his  endowments  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  1855,  and  soon  thereafter  sealed  to  his 
£rst  wife,  Mary  Wilson,  by  President  Brigham 
Young.  In  April,  1867,  he  was  sealed  to  his 
second  wife,  Elizabeth  Davis,  this  ceremony  also 
being  performed  by  President  Young.  Miss 
Davis  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bishop)  Davis.  She  survived  her  hus- 
band, and  is  at  this  time  living  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
Ten  children  were  born  to  Mr.  Day — Elizabeth 
Ann,  who  died  in  infancy ;  James  W. ;  Sarah  E., 
now  Mrs.  James  E.  Robbins,  of  Layton;  David 
F.,  died  aged  thirty-two  years ;  Abraham  J. ; 
Joseph  H.,  died  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years ; 
Alice  v.,  now  the  wife  of  I'homas  H.  Robbins, 
of  Kaysville ;  George  E.,  died  in  infancy ;  Orson ; 
Mary  A.,  now  Mrs.  G.  W.  Watt,  of  Layton. 

Mr.  Day  received  his  ordination  as  a  Seventy 
at  the  hands  of  Benjamin  Clapp  in  1857,  and  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Quorum. 
He  died  June  11,  1876,  after  faithfully  serving 
t)Oth  his  Church,  Territory  and  community 
througout  a  long  and  honorable  career,  and  was 
laid  to  rest  amid  universal  mourning,  leaving  his 
posterity  the  memory  of  a  noble  life  well  spent. 


R.  WILLIAM  F.  BEER.  Utah  has 
'^h'tn  to  the  world  many  men  and 
\\(jmen  who  have  achieved  distinction 
in  their  chosen  professions,  but  she 
still  retains  within  her  confines  men 
and  women  of  as  brilliant  attainments  as  any 
who  have  gone  without  her  portals  and  who  are 
rapidly  climbing  the  ladder  of  fame.  Among 
this  number  may  well  be  mentioned  the  subject 
■of  this  sketch.  Dr.  William  F.  Beer,  one  of  Salt 
Lake  City's  prominent  young  physicians,  and  a 
native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born  in  this  city 
November  7,  1866. 

His  boyhood  days  were  spent  in  this  State, 
having  but  a  limited  opportunitv  for  obtaininig 
an  education.  At  the  age  of  nine  years  he  left 
home  and  went  to  Ogden,  where  he  worked  for 


his  board  and  attended  school,  obtaining  his  early 
education  by  his  own  unaided  efforts.  In  the 
early  eighties  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  George  A.  Meers 
wholesale  house,  remaining  with  that  concern  for 
several  years. 

On  September  21,  1889,  he  married  Miss  Jo- 
sephine Taylor,  daughter  of  Joseph  E.  Taylor, 
whose  biographical  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  work,  and  immediately  left  the  city  for  a 
tour  of  the  Eastern  States.  In  the  fall  of  that 
year  he  took  the  Regents'  examination,  along 
with  the  graduates  from  Yale,  Harvard  and 
Princeton,  for  admission  to  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  Columbian  University,  Washington,  D. 
C,  which  examination  he  successfully  passed  and 
entered  at  once  upon  his  studies,  his  wife  remain- 
ing- in  Washington  during  his  college  days.  He 
worked  his  way  through  college,  and  graduated 
second  in  his  class,  March  17,  i8q2.  He  then 
went  to  New  York  City,  for  practical  work  in 
the  Bellevue  Hospital,  from  which  place  he  came 
direct  to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  began  at  the  bottom 
of  the  ladder  to  work  his  way  up  in  the  medical 
profession.  The  success  which  has  crowned  his 
labors  is  attested  by  his  large  and  lucrative  prac- 
tice of  to-day. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  As* 
sociation,  the  Salt  Lake  County  Medical  Society, 
the  Rocky  Mountain  Inter-State  Medical  Soci- 
ety and  the  Utaili  State  ]\Iedical  Society.  In  1895 
he  became  a  member  of*the  Hospital  Corps,  U. 
N.  G.,  with  the  commission  of  Captain,  rising 
to  the  rank  of  Surgeon  Major,  and  in  1900  was 
commissioned  by  the  Government  as  Assistant 
Surgeon  General  of  the  State,  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant  Colonel. 

In  social  life  Dr.  Beer  is  a  prominent  member 
of  the  Elks,  having  his  membership  in  Lodge 
No.  85.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  of  which  he  was 
Grand  Medical  Examiner  for  eight  years,  that 
being  the  longest  term  held  by  any  one  in  a 
similar  position  in  the  State.  He  is  at  this  time 
Medical  Examiner  for  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  in  which  organization  he  also  holds  mem- 
bership. 

Dr.   Beer  owns  a  fine  residence  on  B   street. 


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where  he  is  surrounded  by  a  happy  family  circle, 
consisting  of  his  wife  and  two  children.  Al- 
though but  a  young  man,  he  has  given  promise 
of  a  high  order  of  ability  in  the  medical  profes- 
sion, and  the  different  positions  he  has  filled  at- 
test the  confidence  reposed  in  his  professional 
ability  by  those  in  a  position  to  best  judge  of 
those  matters.  He  enjoys  the  esteem  of  his  fel- 
low practitioners,  and  his  friends  predict  for  him 
a  bright  future. 

In  politics  he  is  a  staunch  member  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  in  which  he  takes  a  lively  in- 
terest. 


REXEMAN  B.  BITNER.  Prominent 
among  the  early  pioneers  of  Utah  who 
have  taken  an  active  part  in  the  build- 
ing up  of  this  new  country  to  its  pres- 
ent prosperous  condition  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

Breneman  B.  Bitner  was  born  in  Lancaster 
countv,  Pennsylvania,  December  15,  1837,  and 
was  the  son  of  Abraham  and  Ann  (Barr)  Bitner, 
both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  and  of  German  descent.  Abraham 
Bitner  died  when  his  son  was  a  child,  and  his  wife 
left  Pennsylvania  with  her  five  children  in  1846, 
with  the  intention  of  joining  the  Mormon  colony 
at  Nauvoo,  Illinois.  She  reached  that  place  just 
after  the  inain  body  of  the  Church  had  been  driven 
out  of  the  State,  and  with  others  was  compelled  to 
leave  at  the  mouth  of  the  cannon.  They  joined  the 
main  body  of  the  Church  at  Winter  Quarters,  and 
remained  there  until  1849,  when  they  began  the 
long  and  arduous  journey  across  the  plains  to 
Utah  by  ox  team.  Silas  Richards  was  Captain 
of  this  train,  and  Breneman  Bitner,  though  only 
eleven  years  of  age,  drove  two  yoke  of  oxen  all 
the  way  to  Salt  Lake  from  the  Missouri  river. 
They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  the  last  day 
of  October,  1849,  ^^^  ^^''S-  Bitner  settled  here 
with  her  family. 

Our  subject  remained  in  Salt  Lake  City  until 
1855,  when  he  moved  to  the  Cottonwood  Ward, 
where  he  purchased  his  first  home.  At  the  pres- 
ent time  he  has  sixty  acres  of  valuable  land, 
which    is    under    excellent     cultivation,    and    on 


which  he  has  built  a  large  adobe  and  brick  house. 
In  addition  to  his  farming  he  has  also  devoted 
much  of  his  time  and  attention  to  the  cattle  and 
sheep  industry,  in  which  he  has  extensive  inter- 
ests, and  his  sons  are  now  associated  with  him 
in  the  sheep  business,  and  look  after  his  interests 
in  that  quarter.  He  has  done  much  towards 
bringing  Salt  Lake  county  to  its  present  high 
state  of  development,  and  has  been  active  in  public 
as  well  as  private  life. 

Mr.  Bitner  has  had  three  wives,  two  of  whom 
are  now  living,  the  first  wife,  Mary  E.  Benedict, 
being  dead,  and  nineteen  children,  all  of  whom 
are  still  living  and  active  in  the  work  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  into  which  faith  Mr.  Bitner 
was  baptized  at  the  age  of  ten  years,  while  at 
Winter  Quarters,  and  he  has  ever  since  been  a 
faithful  and  consistent  follower  of  the  doctrines 
of  that  Church.  He  has  held  many  offices  in  the 
gift  of  the  Church,  and  in  1871  and  1872  served 
on  a  mission  to  his  native  home.  He  has  also 
been  active  in  Sunday  School  work,  having  bten 
Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School  of  his 
Ward.  In  1856  he  was  ordained  a  Seventy,  and 
is  at  this  time  President  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-fourth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  His  chil- 
dren are  all  highly  educated,  and  in  addition  to 
being  active  in  Church  work,  take  a  prominent 
part  in  educational  matters  in  the  State.  Mr. 
Bitner's  home  is  an  unusually  pleasant  one,  there 
being  the  utmost  harmony  among  all  the  mem- 
bers, and  the  young  people  are  devoted  to  their 
parents  and  to  one  another,  and  delight  to  spend 
all  the  time  available  in  their  home,  which  they 
make  bright  by  their  youth  and  beauty.  His  son 
Breneman  H.  is  now  absent  on  a  mission  to  New 
York  State.  Our  subject  served  in  the  Johnston 
blockade,  being  in  Echo  canyon  all  winter,  and 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War  of  1866  was  comissary 
for  one  hundred  cavalry. 

In  political  life  Mr.  IHtner  is  a  staunch  Repub- 
lican, and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  that  party 
in  this  State,  since  which  time  he  has  given  much 
time  to  its  work,  and  has  held  a  number  of  minor 
public  offices,  being  at  one  time  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  and  also  United  States  Ganger.  He  was 
also  Deputy  Assessor  for  a  period  extending  over 
twentv-five  vears.     Mr.  Bitner  has  led  an  honest 


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and  upright  life,  trying  to  give  every  man  his 
just  dues,  and  has  attained  a  high  position  in  the 
esteem  of  his  neighbors,  as  well  as  among  the 
leaders  of  his  Church,  and  his  children  and  the 
future  generations  yet  unborn  may  well  point 
with  pride  to  the  career  which  he  has  marked  out 
for  himself. 


HARLES  R.  WOOTON.  Among 
the  prominent  and  successful  farmers 
of  Salt  Lake  county  who  have  taken 
an  active  part  in  building  up  this  new 
country,  in  developing  its  resources 
along  the  lines  of  agriculture  and  stock-raising, 
should  be  mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Wooton  was  born  in  Bedfordshire,  Eng- 
land, on  July  4,  1847,  ^nd  is  the  son  of  William 
and  Deborah  (Rowbath)  Wooton,  both  natives 
of  the  same  section  where  our  subject  was  born. 
His  mother  died  when  he  was  but  ten  years  of 
age.  There  were  four  children  born  at  that 
time,  and  our  subject  was  the  youngest.  Wil- 
liam Wooton,  with  his  two  sons,  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  1861,  and  in  the  same  year  our  subject 
crossed  the  plains  by  ox  team,  and  settled  in 
Davis  county,  this  State,  where  he  engaged  in 
farming  for  a  few  years.  His  father  and  brother 
came  later  in  the  season  with  another  company  of 
Mormon  emigrants.  The  family  settled  at  Farm- 
ington,  in  Davis  county,  where  they  continued  to 
live  for  two  years,  when  they  moved  to  Mill 
Creek  Ward,  Salt  Lake  county,  and  here  the 
father  took  up  land,  which  he  improved  and 
where  he  spent  the  balance  of  his  days.  In  1864 
our  subject  went  to  Dixy,  where  he  spent  one 
year,  and  then  returned  and  settled  in  the  South 
Cottonwood  Ward,  remaining  there  for  sixteen 
years.  In  1879  he  located  in  Granite,  now  Butler 
Ward,  and  has  continued  to  reside  there  ever 
since,  his  home  farm  consisting  of  sixty  and  one- 
half  acres  of  good  land,  which  is  well  improved. 
He  owns  a  comfortable  brick  house,  and  has  his 
place  well  fenced  and  laid  out  in  orchards  and 
shade  trees. 

On  December  23,  1878,  in  Little  Cottonwood 
Ward,  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss  Esther 
Ballard,  daughter  of  Richard  and   Sarah    (Cog- 


ger) Ballard.  Mrs.  Ballard's  father  was  one  of 
the  first  to  become  identified  with  the  Mormon 
Church  in  England.  Mrs.  Wooton  was  born  at 
iVIaderstone,  Kent,  England.  Her  father  died  in 
England  while  a  comparatively  young  man,  and 
her  mother  came  to  America  and  settled  in  Utah, 
where  she  still  lives.  To  our  subject  and  his 
wife  were  born  six  children,  five  of  whom  are 
living — William  C,  now  on  a  mission  for  the 
Church  to  the  Southern  States,  having  been  called 
October  18,  1900;  Vincent  F. ;  Deborah;  Sidney, 
who  died  at  one  year  of  age;  Grace;  Esther. 

In  politics  our  subject  has  been  identified  with 
the  Republican  party.  For  many  years  he  served 
as  Road  Supervisor  and  School  Trustee,  being 
President  of  the  latter  Board.  He  was  baptized 
into  the  Mormon  Church  at  eight  years  of  age, 
and  he  baptized  all  of  his  children  into  the  same 
faith.  He  has  ever  been  a  constant,  faithful  fol- 
lower of  the  Church,  and  has  assisted  largely  in 
its  work  and  in  developing  the  State.  He  was 
ordained  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  He  enjoys 
the  confidence  and  trust  of  all  the  leaders  of  the 
Church,  as  well  as  of  the  citizens  in  the  neigh- 
borhood where  he  lives.  'His  wife  is  a  member 
of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  and  President  of 
the  Primary  Association.  Their  daughters  are 
members  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association,  and  his  dauehter  Grace  is  or- 
ganist in  the  Ward  Church.  His  son  Vincent 
was  Secretary  of  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Im- 
provement Association  for  about  a  year,  and  is 
now  First  Counselor  to  President  William  W. 
Butler  of  that  association,  and  is  also  a  Sunday 
School  teacher.  His  daughter  Deborah  also 
teaches  in  the  Sunday  School,  and  is  Assistant 
Secretary  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association. 


EXRY  J.  WHEELER,  one  of  the  pros- 
perous farmers  of  Salt  Lake  county, 
is  a  native  Utahn,  his  birth-  occurring 
in  the  South  Cottonwood  Ward  Febru- 
ary t8,  1866.  He  is  the  son  of  Thomas 
.■\.  anil  Ann  (Walker)  Wheeler,  both  natives  of 
England,  where  they  grew  to  maturity  and  where 
thev    were   married.      After   their   marriage   the 


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parents  were  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ,  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
and  upon  uniting  with  the  same  decided  to  cast 
their  lot  with  the  Church  in  far-off  America. 
They  accordingly  crossed  the  ocean  in  1852,  and 
making  the  long  trip  across  the  plains  in  ox 
teams,  reached  Salt  Lake  in  the  fall  of  that  year. 
They  spent  two  years  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  then 
settled  in  the  South  Cottonwood  Ward,  where 
their  third  son,  our  subject,  was  born.  The 
parents  continued  to  live  here  the  remainder  of 
their  lives,  the  father  for  many  years  being  in 
the  employ  of  President  Wilford  Woodrufif.  He 
died  on  November  16,  1900,  surviving  his  wife 
by  three  years,  her  death  occurring  December  20, 
this  district.  Mr.  Wheeler  was  First  Counselor 
to  Bishop  Rawlins  during  the  Bishop's  lifetime, 
they  having  been  set  apart  at  the  same  time. 
They  grew  to  be  very  intimate  friends,  and  Mr. 
Wheeler  survived  the  Bishop  but  a  few  weeks. 
The  senior  Mr.  Wheeler  took  part  in  the  John- 
ston army  trouble,  being  on  guard  in  Echo  can- 
yon several  weeks,  as  well  as  in  all  the  early  In- 
dian troubles  and  hardships  known  so  well  to  the 
pioneers  of  Utah. 

Our  subject  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and 
received  his  education  from  the  schools  of  this 
district,  attending  a  few  weeks  during  the  winter 
months.  When  twenty  years  of  age  he  started 
out  for  himself,  and  has  since  devoted  himself 
chiefly  to  general  farming.  He  has  a  fine  farm 
of  seventy-seven  acres,  facing  on  Ninth  East 
street,  ten  miles  south  of  Salt  Lake  City.  The 
land  is  under  a  good  system  of  irrigation,  the 
water  being  supplied  from  the  Little  Cottonwood 
creek,  which  runs  through  the  farm.  His  house, 
of  pressed  brick,  consists  of  ten  commodious 
rooms,  and  the  entire  structure  was  planned  by 
Mrs.  Wheeler  and  reflects  great  credit  upon  her 
knowledge  of  architecture,  as  it  is  not  only  home- 
like and  convenient,  but  one  of  the  prettiest  little 
farm  houses  to  be  found  in  the  county.  Mr. 
Wheeler  also  has  some  sheep  and  cattle  on  his 
farm,  the   former  being  his  specialty. 

Mr.  Wheeler  was  married  on  June  17,  1886, 
to  Miss  Sariah  Pixton.  a  daughter  of  Robert  and 
Elizabeth  (Cooper)  Pixton.  Mrs.  Pixton  came 
across  the  plains  to  Utah  in  1848  with  her  oldest 


child,  in  a  company  of  which  President  P.righam 
Young  was  Captain,  driving  her  own  team  the 
entire  distance.  Her  husband  was  among  those 
who  responded  to  the  Government's  call  for  vol- 
unteers in  the  war  against  Mexico,  and  served 
with  the  Mormon  Battalion  during  the  whole 
campaign,  bringing  with  him  from  California  the 
wages  of  two  of  his  comrades  to  their  widows 
in  Utah.  These  men  had  been  killed  by  the  In- 
dians while  on  their  way  home.  The  father  lived 
until  November,  1881.  The  mother  is  still  living 
in  Taylorsville,  at  the  hale  old  age  of  eighty-four. 
Five  children  have  been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Wheeler — Lisadore,  Elsie,  Henry,  Leona  and 
Cilma,  the  baby. 

In  political  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  but  has  never  participated  in  its 
work  to  the  extent  of  being  an  office-seeker.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Cliurch,  in  which  he 
is  an  Elder,  and  takes  a  deep  interest  in  all  local 
Church  matters.  Socially  the  Wheeler  family  is 
very  popular,  and  enjoys  a  large  circle  of  friends. 


ACOB  HUx\TER.  In  the  settling  and 
building  up  of  a  new  country  it  of  neces- 
sity requires  the  co-operation  of  men  in 
the  various  departments  and  fields  of  op- 
eration to  develop  and  bring  forth  in  the 
shortest  time  the  best  results,  and  the  work  of 
building  up  a  new  State  might  be  likened  to  the 
workings  of  some  gigantic  •  piece  of  machinery, 
of  which,  if  any  part  be  removed  or  separated, 
the  machinery  at  once  becomes  inoperative  and 
useless.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  farmers  and 
stockmen  of  this  State,  which  has  really  formed 
the  nucleus  to  every  other  branch  and  enterprise 
in  the  State,  and  which  has  played  such  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  forming  and  successful  opera^ 
tions  of  the  great  commercial  enterprises  which 
have  been  built  up  in  this  new  country,  it  would 
not  have  been  possible  to  develop  the  vast  min- 
ing interests  of  Utah.  Among  the  worthy  citi- 
zens who  have  been  closely  identified  with  the 
commercial  and  live  stock  interests  of  Utah 
should  be  mentioned  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Mr.  Hunter  was  born  in  Westmoreland,  in, 
North  England,  October  loth,  1846.  He  is  the 
son  of  Isaac  and  Ann  (Lundj  Hunter,  who  were 
born  in  the  same  place  as  their  son.  The  family 
came  to  America  in  1847,  ^^d  settled  in  Council 
Bluflfs,  Iowa,  where  they  lived  until  1849,  when 
they  crossed  the  plains  with  ox  teams  to  Utah, 
arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  October  4th  of  that 
year.  The  father  settled  on  North  Temple  street, 
between  Seventh  and  Eighth  West,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  live  until  his  death,  which  occurred  May 
28th,  1900,  and  his  wife  died  December  22nd  fol- 
lowing. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  and  boyhood 
days  in  this  city,  receiving  his  education  at  the 
common  schools,  such  as  existed  at  that  time. 

January  25th,  1868,  he  married  Miss  Mary 
Shafer,  the  oldest  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah 
Shafer,  who  were  also  early  settlers  of  Utah. 
having  arrived  here  in  1848.  Mrs.  Hunter  also 
spent  her  early  life  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Thev 
have  had  a  family  of  ten  children,  eight  of  whom 
are  still  living — Jacob  R.;  John;  Eusebia  A.; 
Mary  E. ;  James,  died  in  infancy ;  Eliza  H. ; 
Maud,  died  aged  seven  years ;  Bertrum  O. ; 
Frank;  Elmer  H. 

In  1884  Mr.  Hunter  moved  to  his  present  home 
on  Fourteenth  South  street,  one  mile  west  of  the 
Redwood  road.  Here  he  Has  one  hundred  and 
sixty-five  acres  of  splendid  land,  well  fenced  and 
improved  to  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  While 
Mr.  Hunter  has  given  a  great  deal  of  his  time  to 
farming,  yet  this  has  not  been  his  chief  life's 
work.  For  the  past  ten  years  he  has  been  promi- 
nently engaged  in  the  stock  business,  more  par- 
ticularly in  sheep.  And,  in  fact,  since  his  boy- 
hood days  he  has  spent  a  great  portion  of  his  life 
in  the  saddle.  In  addition  to  his  fine  farm  in 
Utah  county,  he  has  a  large  range  farm  in  Sum- 
mit county,  Utah,  consisting  of  four  hundred  and 
eighty  acres. 

In  political  life  he  has  been  identified  with  the 
Democratic  party  since  the  organization  of  that 
party  in  this  State.  For  many  years  he  was 
School  Trustee  in  his  Ward,  and  has  served  on 
different  committees  and  active  in  the  workings 
of  the  party. 

He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Mormon  faith. 


as  were  also  his  wife  and  children.  He  has 
ever  been  a  faithful  and  liberal  supporter  of  the 
Church,  having  served,  in  1866,  five  months  on  a 
colonization  mission,  by  way  of  a  trip  to  the 
Missouri  river  for  emigrants.  Mrs.  Hunter  is 
a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  in  which 
she  has  always  taken  a  prominent  and  active 
part.  The  sketch  of  her  parents  appears  else- 
where in  this  volume. 

Of  the  men  who  have  assisted  in  building  up 
Salt  Lake  county  and  Utah,  none  deserve  more 
credit  for  what  they  have  accomplished  through 
their  untiring  energy-  and  determination  than  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 


ACOB  HEBER  GRIFFITHS,  'ine  his- 
tory of  the  splendid  work  which  has  been 
accomplished  in  Utah  by  the  early  set- 
tlers and  later  carried  on  by  their  sons 
and  daughters,  will  be  remembered  with 
pride  by  succeeding  generations  yet  unborn.  The 
many  hardships  and  trials  which  have  been  en- 
dured by  the  pioneers  in  reachinp-  this  country 
and  the  great  obstacles  which  stood  in  their  way 
in  the  development  of  the  vast  resources  of  this 
new  and  at  that  time  unsettled  country,  is  a  splen- 
did tribute  to  their  memory.  Among  those  who 
have  assisted  materially  in  the  building  of  Salt 
Lake  county  should  be  mentioned  Jacob  Heber 
Griffiths. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born 
in  Union  Ward,  then  Little  Cottonwood  W'ard,  on 
November  15,  1851,  and  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and 
Ann  (Roberts)  Griffiths.  His  father  was  a  native 
of  England  and  was  born  in  that  country  January 
18,  1816;  there  he  met  and  married  his  wife,  Ann 
Roberts,  who  was  born  in  Denbeshire,  Wales, 
April  28,  1819.  Their  marriage  took  place  Jan- 
uary 3,  1843,  ^nd  that  year  they  came  to  America 
and  settled  in  the  old  historic  town  of  Nauvoo, 
Illinois.  There  they  remained  until  the  e.xodus 
of  the  Mormon  oeople,  which  occurred  in  1846. 
They  were  acquainted  with  the  Prophet  Joseph 
Smith,  and  saw  his  body  when  it  was  brought 
back  after  his  death.     From  Nauvoo  they  went 


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to  Garden  Gap,  where  they  lived  until  1848,  in  the 
fall  of  which  year  they  journeyed  to  Winter 
Quarters  and  the  next  spring  they  fitted  out 
teams  with  provisions,  etc.,  preparatory  to  mak- 
ing the  great  trip  across  the  plains  to  Utah, 
which  they  did,  arriving  in  Utah  in  the  fall  of 
the  same  year,  remaining  in  Salt  Lake  City  but  a 
short  time  and  then  settled  on  the  Little  Cotton- 
wood, now  a  part  of  Union  Ward,  and  here  our 
subject's  father  took  up  land  which  he  improved, 
and  lived  there  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
died  in  18G0.  His  old  home  place  was  located 
less  than  a  mile  from  where  oiir  subject  now  re- 
sides and  has  his  farm.  The  senior  Mr.  Griffiths 
had  early  become  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  continued  to  be  a  faithful  and 
worthy  member  of  that  faith  throughout  the  rest 
of  his  life.  During  the  early  days  in  Utah  and 
especially  when  the  Johnston  army  landed, 
he  served  as  a  guard  for  a  considerable  length  of 
time.  Our  subject  had  seven  brothers  and  seven 
sisters,  he  being  the  fifth  and  twin  brother  of 
David,  his  mother  having  given  birth  to  five  sets 
of  twins.  Of  tlie  children  there  are  at  present 
but  six  living,  four  of  whom  are  residents  of  Salt 
Lake  county.  All  of  the  children  remained  with 
their  mother  until  they  reached  their  majority. 
She  died  on  December  26,  1895.  Our  subject 
spent  his  boyhood  days  on  the  farm  and  received 
such  schooling  as  was  to  be  had  at  that  time. 

At  twenty-eight  years  of  age  he  marrried,  on 
October  12,  1878,  to  Miss  Lucy  E.  Middleton, 
daughter  of  Richard  P.  and  Emma  P.  (Beck- 
sted)  Middleton.  This  family  were  also  early 
settlers  in  Utah.  As  a  result  of  this  marriage 
ten  children  were  born,  seven  of  whom  are  still 
living — Jacob  F.,  who  resides  at  home  and  as- 
sists his  father  on  the  farm ;  Nora  May,  Phoebe 
Jane,  Willard  L.,  Lula,  Eva  Pearl,  and  Irvin, 
Lucy  A.,  Rachel  O..  and  Heber  J.  died  in  child- 
hood. 

Soon  after  Mr.  Griffiths  married  he  settled  on 
his  present  place,  which  contains  forty-seven 
acres  of  fine  land,  which  he  has  improved  with 
his  own  hands.  At  the  time  of  the  settlement 
of  this  place  it  was  a  wild  and  barren  waste, 
covered  with  sage  brush.  He  has  by  judicious 
management   cultivated    and    improved    it   until 


now  it  is  considered  one  of  the  best  places  in 
Salt  Lake  county.  His  splendid  brick  residence, 
fences,  orchard  and  fruit  trees  all  indicate  that 
he  has  been  a  hard  and  constant  worker.  Out- 
side of  farming,  he  has  been  largely  identified 
with  the  sheep  and  cattle  business  in  Wyoming. 
This  business  he  has  followed  nearly  all  of  his 
life. 

In  political  affairs  he  is  independent,  prefer- 
ring to  follow  the  dictates  of  his  own  judgment 
rather  than  that  of  any  political  party.  He  be- 
lieves in  supporting  the  best  man  for  the  place, 
regardless  of  his  political  affiliations.  For  a 
number  of  years  he  has  been  trustee  of  his  school 
district.  He  has  taken  an  active  and  prominent 
part  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  of  which  he  be- 
came a  member  in  early  life,  and  his  wife  and 
children  are  also  members  of  that  church.  He 
was  first  ordained  a  Deacon,  later  an  Elder,  and 
is  now  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  For  over 
thirty  years  he  has  been  a  teacher  in  the  Ward 
Sunday  Schools.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
Ladies'  Relief  Society,  and  their  daughters  and 
oldest  son  are  members  of  the  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Societies. 

^Ir.  Griifiths,  by  his  long  and  honorable  career 
in  Utah,  and  by  his  upright  and  just  dealings, 
has  won  many  friends  in  every  section  where  he 
has  resided,  and  he  n5w  enjoys  a  large  circle  of 
associates  and  friends. 


OSEPH  BODILY  of  Syracuse  was  born 
in  South  Africa  on  December  21,  1853, 
on  Bushman's  river.  He  is  a  son  of 
Robert  and  Jane  (Pitnum)  Bodily,  both 
natives  of  London,  England,  where  they 
were  married.  Of  their  nine  children,  two  were 
born  in  London,  six  in  South  Africa  and  one  on 
mid-ocean,  on  the  voyage  from  South  Africa  to 
the  United  States.  Seven  of  these  children  are 
still  living. 

Robert  Bodily,  father  of  our  subject,  arrived 
in  Cape  Colony,  South  Africa,  in  December, 
1845,  and  there  he  followed  the  trade  of  a  stone 
mason,   but   was   also  engaged   to   some  extent 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


in  raising  cattle.  The  family  landed  in  America 
in  i860,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  Oc- 
tober 6th  of  that  year,  where  they  stayed  that 
winter,  and  in  the  following  spring  moved  to 
Kaysville.  Here  Mr.  Bodily  died  on  April  17, 
1892,  and  here  his  wife  still  lives.  Of  their 
family,  Joseph  and  his  sister,  Jane — Mrs.  Christo- 
pher Layton,  Jr. — live  in  Davis  county.  Mr. 
Bodily  grew  up  in  Kaysville,  and  there,  on  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1874,  he  married  Isabella  Phillips,  a 
daughter  of  Edward  and  Hannah  Phillips,  who 
were  among  the  first  settlers  in  Kaysville,  where 
Mrs.  Bodily  was  born.  Three  of  her  twelve  chil- 
dren are  dead.  The  children's  names  are :  Lucy 
N.,  Fred,  Hannah,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-two  years ;  Mary  J.,  Joseph  P.,  John  E., 
Isabella,  a  twin,  (the  other  twin  died  in  infancy, 
unnamed)  ;  Robert  E.,  Pearl  and  Ruby,  twins, 
(Ruby  died  at  the  age  of  six  weeks),  and 
Emma  C. 

Our  subject  settled  on  the  farm,  where  he 
now  lives,  in  1887.  He  has  a  fine  farm  of  a  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  with  a  good  house,  and  has 
followed  the  sheep  raising  business  all  his  life. 
He  was  raised  in  the  Mormon  Church,  and  his 
wife  was  born  and  raised  in  the  same  faith,  as 
were  all  of  their  children.  Mr.  Bodily  was  called 
to  help  colonize  the  Little  Colorado  district  in 
Arizona,  and  remained  at  this  work  for  six 
months.  He  is  a  member  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Sixty-sixth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  Before 
he  settled  at  his  present  home  in  Syracuse  he 
lived  for  three  years  at  Lewiston,  Idaho.  His 
son,  Joseph,  left  on  the  15th  of  January,  1902, 
to  serve  on  a  mission  in  Mississippi  and  the  South- 
ern States.  Hannah,  the  daughter  who  died, 
was  organist  of  the  Ward,  and  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Church,  and  a  young  lady  who  was 
beloved  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  her.  Mr. 
Bodily  has  acted  as  President  of  the  Young 
Men's  Mutual  Imorovement  Association  in  his 
Ward  for  a  period  of  eight  years.  After  the 
Ward  of  Syracuse  was  organized  he  was  chosen 
one  of  a  committee  of  four  to  locate  a  site  and 
make  arrangements  for  the  building  of  a  suita- 
ble meeting  house.  They  erected  a  fine  brick 
building,  thirty  by  sixty  feet,  which  is  in  every 
wav  a  credit  to  their  Ward. 


E.\S  XELSOX.  In  the  vast  undertaking 
I  if  settling  and  developing  Utah,  men 
fnim  nearly  every  civilized  country  in 
the  world  have  assisted  in  transforming 
this  country  from  a  wild  and  barren 
waste  to  its  present  prosperous  condition.  Among 
the  worthy  sons  of  Denmark  who  have  taken 
an  active  part  in  the  development  of  this  State, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  deserves  mention. 

Jens  Nelson  was  born  in  Denmark,  May  8, 
1841,  and  is  the  son  of  Knud  and  Margaret  Nel- 
son, both  natives  of  the  same  place,  where  our 
subject  was  born'.  There  were  eight  children  in 
the  family,  Mr.  Nelson  being  the  sixth  child. 
The  family  emigrated  to  America  in  1853,  hav- 
ing crossed  the  ocean  in  an  old  sailing  vessel, 
and  the  plains  by  ox  team,  under  command  of 
John  Fosgreens,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
October  of  the  same  year.  That  first  winter 
was  spent  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  following 
spring,  1854,  they  located  in  what  is  now  South 
Bountiful  Ward,  where  the  father  .died  April 
II,  1862.  The  mother  died  in  April,  1872.  Our 
subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  the  farm  of 
his  brother-in-law,  G.  Hogan,  at  Bountiful.  His 
father  had  taken  up  land  in  the  vicinity  of  Boun- 
tiful, which  he  developed.  Our  subject  was  ed- 
ucated in  the  common  schools  of  Davis  county. 
On  the  death  of  his  father  he  started  out  to  make 
his  own  way  in  life,  having,  however,  previously 
lived  away  from  home. 

On  November  22,  i86q,  he  married  Miss  Eliza 
S.  Bryson,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Conrey)  Bryson,  her  people  having  been  born 
in  Ireland  and  subsequently  moved  to  Scotland, 
and  coming  to  Utah  in  1855.  Mrs.  Nelson  was 
born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland.  The  marriage  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Nelson  took  place  in  the  old  Indepen- 
dence House  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the  ceremony 
was  performed  by  President  Joseph  F.  Smith. 
As  a  result  of  this  marriage  ten  children  have 
been  born,  all  of  whom  are  living — Jens  K., 
who  is  now  doing  for  himself  and  resides  in 
East  Bountiful,  where  he  has  a  wife  and  two 
children ;  Samuel  R.,  a  resident  of  Rich  county ; 
David  M.,  in  South  Bountiful ;  Sarah,  now  Mrs. 
John  Stoker,  and  Sylvanus,  twins ;  Eliza,  Clo- 
rena  and  Lawrence,  twins ;  James  Everett,  and 


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433 


Harold  C.  There  liave  been  two  sets  of  twins 
in  the   family. 

Our  subject,  by  industry,  perseverance  and 
determination,  has  built  a  fine  home  for  himself 
and  family.  At  the  time  he  settled  on  his  pres- 
ent place,  it  was  unimproved  to  a  great  extent, 
but  he  has  improved  it  until  it  is  now  one  of 
the  desirable  places  of  South  Bountiful.  In  ad- 
dition to  his  home  place,  he  owns  a  farm  of  six 
hundred  acres  in  Rich  county.  Mr.  Nelson, 
while  he  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  and  at- 
tention to  improving-  his  home,  has  also  been 
identified  in  the  sheep  and  cattle  business.  He 
has  served  as  Vice-President  of  the  Deseret  Live 
Stock  Company,  one  of  the  largest  companies 
of  the  kind  in  L'tah,  and  at  present  is  a  stock- 
holder in  that  company.  He  is  now  considered 
one  of  the  successful  men  of  Davis  county. 

In  politics  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Re- 
publican party,  and  assisted  in  its  organization 
in  Davis  county.  He  and  his  family  are  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Saints,  Air.  Xelson  having  been  baptized  into 
that  faith  in  1853.  and  has  ever  since  been  a  con- 
sistent and  faithful  member.  His  children  are 
now  following  in  the  footsteps  of  their  parents, 
one  of  his  sons  taking  up  missionary  work  in 
foreign  lands  as  called  from  time  to  time  by  the 
heads  of  the  Church.  The  oldest  son  was  called 
and  set  apart  in  December,  1893,  to  serve  in  New- 
Zealand,  and  served  in  that  capacity  for  three 
and  a  half  years.  David  M.  was  called  and  set 
apart  January  7,  1897,  for  work  in  the  south- 
western States,  and  labored  in  that  field  for  a 
period  of  twenty-seven  months.  At  the  present 
time  Mr.  Nelson  is  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the 
Seventy-fourth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  He  has 
for  many  years  been  active  and  prominent  in 
Church  work  in  his  Ward,  being  a  Ward  teacher. 
His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  So- 
ciety, and  at  the  present  time  holds  the  office  of 
Second  Mce-President.  His  daughters  are  also 
active  in  Church  matters,  more  particularly  in 
the  Young  Ladies"  Mutual  Improvement  Asso- 
ciation. 

In  addition  to  raising  and  providing  for  his 
•own  family,  Mr.  Xelson  has  taken  into  his  home 
little  Marv  Emma  Brvson,  a  niece  of  Mrs.  Nel- 


son's, whose  mother  died,  and  she  is  looked  upon 
as  one  of  their  own  children. 


TI.TJAAI  BLOOD.  People  who  are 
li'irn  and  raised  in  this  day  and  age 
lit  the  world — an  age  of  great  prog- 
ress ;  an  age  when,  by  the  use  of 
the  steam  engine  and  electric  power, 
the  West  is  brought  as  close  to  the  East  as 
was  Philadelphia  to  Boston  fifty  years  ago 
— it  is  difficult  to  realize  what  the  early  pio- 
neers passed  through  in  crossing  the  plains  from. 
Omaha  to  Utah  a  half  century  ago,  and  the  full 
story  of  the  privations  and  hardships  endured 
by  them  can  never  be  described.  Among  those 
who  have  passed  through  all  the  early  scenes  in 
crossing  the  plains  and  settling  in  LTtah  in  its 
early  history,  should  be  mentioned  William  Blood, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Blood  was  born  in  Staffordshire,  England, 
August  27,  1839,  and  is  the  son  of  William  and 
Mary  (Stretten)  Blood.  His  parents  were  na- 
tives of  England,  the  father  being  born  in  Derby- 
shire, and  the  mother  in  Staffordshire,  where 
they  were  married.  They  had  two  daughters  and 
one  son,  our  subject,  who  was  the  second  child. 
The  family  left  England  January  26,  1844,  and 
emigrated  to  America,  arrivinsr  in  Nauvoo  April 
13th  of  that  year.  The  father  died  three  weeks 
after  his  arrival  in  this  country,  and  in  1846  the 
mother  married  Henry  Woolley.  This  was  at  the 
time  of  the  uprising  of  the  people  of  Illinois 
against  the  Mormons,  and  the  Woolley  family,  in 
order  to  avoid  having  their  home  burned,  moved 
to  Council  Bluffs,  remaining  there  until  1849, 
when  they  crossed  the  plains  and  came  to  Utah. 
They  left  Winter  Quarters  July  5,  1849,  in  the 
train  of  which  Allen  Taylor  was  captain  over 
one  hundred  wagons.  Beddick  Allred  was  cap- 
tain over  fifty  wagons  and  Charles  Lambert  cap- 
tain over  ten  wagons.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  on  October  13  of  that  year,  and  went  to  Mill 
Creek,  where  they  remained  a  year,  going  to 
Kaysville  in  December,  1850.  The  first  settlers 
in  Kaysville  had  moved  to  that  place  in  the  spring 
of  1850,  and  at  the  time  Mr.  Woolley  moved  there 
it  consisted  of  only  a  few  scattering  houses,  and 


434 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


was  not  organized  into  a  ward  or  named  until 
some  time  later.  By  this,  his  second  marriage,  Mr. 
Woolley  also  had  two  daughters  and  one  son,  all 
of  whom  are  now  living.  Both  of  our  subject's 
sisters  are  living  in  Idaho ;  one  half  sister  is  in 
Canada,  and  his  half-brother  spends  his  time  in 
traveling;  the  other  half  sister  is  a  resident  of 
Utah.  Mrs.  Woolley  died  on  March  3.  1891,  and 
her  husband  died  October  10,  1898. 

In  coming  across  the  plains  our  subject  drove 
cattle  all  the  way  in  company  with  Angus  and 
David  Cannon,  being  associated  with  them  dur- 
,  ing  the  entire  trip.  After  reaching  Utah,  al- 
though but  eleven  years  of  age,  our  subject 
started  to  earn  his  own  living,  working  on  his 
step-father's  farm,  and  such  education  as  he  re- 
ceived was  obtained  by  the  opportunities  that 
presented  themselves  at  that  time,  a  few  weeks  in 
winter  being  all  the  time  he  could  spare  for  study. 

On  September  9,  1861,  Mr.  Blood  was  married 
to  Miss  Jane  Wilkie  Hooper,  daughter  of  John 
and  Ann  Hooper.  This  family  came  to  Utah  in 
1854,  and  the  mother  died  September  7,  1858. 
Mrs.  Blood  was  born  in  Southampton,  England, 
May  2,  1845.  '^s  ^  result  of  this  marriage,  ten 
children  were  born,  all  of  whom  are  now  living — 
Annie  H.,  William  H.,  John  H.,  Mary  H..  Henry 
H.,  Jane  W.  H.,  George  H,  Maggie  H.,  Wilkey 
H.  and  Iva  H. — all  of  the  children  taking  their 
mother's  maiden  name.  Mr.  Blood  was  married 
a  second  time  on  November  18,  1872,  to  Misi 
Sarah  Jane  Colemere,  and  by  this  marriage  eleven 
children  were  born,  of  whom  nine  are  now  living 
• — Eber,  Jennette  C,  Ellen  C,  Ernest,  Eva  C, 
and  Lawrence  C,  twins;  Pearl  C,  Dorah  C.  died 
aged  fourteen  years;  Myrtle  C,  Violette  C.  died 
in  infancy,  and  Donnetta.  These  children  also 
bear  their  mother's  maiden  name. 

Mr.  Blood  took  up  a  piece  of  land  on  the  lake 
shore,  where  he  lived  for  some  years,  and  on 
March  i,  1867,  moved  to  Kaysville,  at  that  time 
called  Fort  Kaysville,  where  he  has  since  resided. 
He  built  an  adobe  house,  in  which  he  lived  for 
some  time;  later  he  bought  another  farm  of 
thirty-two  acres  of  land,  besides  some  land  in 
the  town,  his  lots  there  containing  three  acres 
each.  He  sold  two  of  his  farms  to  his  sons,  on 
which  they  now  live.     Since  moving  to  this  place 


he  has  followed  farming  principally,  having  also 
considerable  live  stock.  He  has  had  a  verj-  suc- 
cessful career,  from  a  financial  standpoint,  and 
is  well  liked  by  the  people  of  his  community.  In 
the  early  days  he  took  an  active  part  in  all  the 
troubles  of  the  State,  being  called  to  take  up 
arms  during  the  Jonnston  army  trouble,  and  for 
ten  days  was  a  guard  at  the  mouth  of  Echo  Can- 
yon, when  he  was  called  home  and  again  sent 
out  in  November  under  Philemon  C.  Merrill,  and 
joined  Lot  Smith's  company,  serving  with  that 
company  for  a  short  time.  At  the  time  of  the 
Black  Plawk  war,  being  unable  to  leave  home,  he 
outfitted  another  man  and  sent  him  in  his  stead. 
;\Ir.  Blood  has  been  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  since  1849,  having  been  baptized  on  Au- 
gust loth  of  that  year  by  William  Hawk,  in  the 
Platte  river.  His  family  are  also  all  members  of 
this  Church,  and  active  in  its  service.  Mr.  Blood 
has  served  for  two  years  in  missionary  work  in 
Davis  county,  and  for  the  past  sixteen  years  has 
been  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School  in  his  Ward.  Of  his  sons,  William  H. 
was  called  for  missionary  work  on  November  2, 
1886,  being  set  apart  for  work  in  the  Southern 
States,  where  he  labored  for  twenty-five  months,, 
returning  home  on  December  i,  1888.  Eber  C. 
was  also  called  for  service  in  the  Southern  States, 
being  set  apart  December  2,  1895,  and  returning 
August  23,  i8g8.  George  H.  was  called  and  set 
apart  January  nth,  and  left  January  21,  1899, 
for  work  in  the  Samoan  Islands,  where  he  la- 
bored about  three  years.  Henry  H.  left  for  mis- 
sionary work  in  England,  April  24,  1901,  and  is 
at  this  time  President  of  the  Grimsby  Conference 
There  is  not  in  Davis  county  a  more  devoted  or 
loving  father  than  William  Blood.  He  has  given 
his  children  every  advantage  possible,  and  is  very 
proud  of  his  family.  He  has  thirty-three  living 
grandchildren,  having  lost  two  grandchildren.  Al- 
though quite  advanced  in  years,  he  is  possessed 
of  a  most  remarkable  memory,  and  relates  events 
that  occurred  in  the  early  days  with  wonderful 
accuracy,  giving  dates  without  hesitation. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


435 


ETER  BARTON,  fourth  Bishop  of 
Kaysville,  was  born  in  Lancashire,  En- 
gland, on  March  21,  1845.  His  father 
was  John  Barton  and  his  mother  EHz- 
abeth  (Bell)  Barton,  both  natives  of 
England,  and  all  of  their  nine  children,  of  whom 
Peter  was  the  sixth,  were  born  in  that  country. 
Seven  of  them — six  sons  and  one  daughter — are 
still  living.  The  family  came  to  America  in  1862, 
and  settled  in  Kaysville.  He  died  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  1874.  His  wife  survived  him,  dying  in 
1896.  Their  daughter,  Mrs.  Bertha  Irvine,  now 
resides  in  Portland,  Oregon.  Their  son  Joseph 
is  General  Passenger  and  Freight  Agent  of 
the  Sumpter  \'alley  railroad,  and  resides  at 
Baker  City,  Oregon.,  and  the  rest  of  the  family 
live  either  at  Kaysville  or  Salt  Lake  City.  The 
father  and  mother  joined  the  Mormon  Church 
in  England  in  1846.  Mr.  Barton  was  an  expert 
machinist,  and  the  superintendent  of  a  large  iron 
w'orks  in  Saint  Helens,  England. 

Bishop  Barton  was  married  on  December  26, 
1870,  to  Ellen  A.  Beazer,  a  daughter  of  Mark 
and  Hanna  Beazer,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1855 
from  Birmingham,  England.  His  wife  was  only 
three  years  old  when  she  came  with  her  parents 
to  America.  Of  this  marriage  ten  children  were 
born — Oscar  C,  Laura,  Nellie  H.,  Lillie.  Peter, 
Elizabeth  B.,  Albert  B.,  Clara  H.,  Dora  B.,  Ber- 
tha.   Laura,  Peter  and  Bertha  died  in  infancy. 

He  was  married  a  second  time  in  1879,  to  Miss 
Mary  Beesley,  a  native  of  Kaysville,  by  whom 
he  has  had  four  children — Lottie,  Amelia.  Robert 
and  Spencer. 

Bishop  Barton's  place  at  Kaysville  is  about  a 
mile  south  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  depot,  and 
he  has  lived  here  ever  since  he  came  to  Utah. 
He  has  two  hundred  and  forty  acres  of  fine  farm- 
ing land,  with  a  nice  brick  homestead  and  well 
improved  place,  and  is  engaged  largely  in  the 
raising  of  cattle  and  sheep ;  but  he  has  many  busi- 
ness interests  outside  of  this.  He  is  President 
of  the  Kaysville  Co-operative  Alercantile  Insti- 
tution, a  director  of  the  Barnes  Banking  Com- 
pany, Vice-President  of  the  Kaysville  Canning 
Company.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  old  People's  Party.  He 
was  the  first  Recorder  of  Kavsville,  has  been  a 


Justice  of  the   Peace,  and  served  two  terms  in 
the  Territorial  Legislature. 

James  Barton,  a  brother  of  the  Bishop,  bap- 
tized him  into  the  Mormon  Church  in  England. 
He  passed  through  the  priesthood,  and  was  or- 
dained Bishop  on  June  18,  1877,  and  set  apart 
to  preside  over  Kaysville  Ward,  an  office  which 
he  has  ably  filled  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was 
on  a  mission  for  the  Church  in  1874,  1875  and 
1876,  laboring  in  England.  His  son,  Oscar,  was 
called  on  a  mission  to  Switzerland  in  1895,  and 
served  two  years.  The  Bishop's  brother,  Isaac, 
went  through  the  Black  Hawk  war. 


ILBERT  S.  HATCH.  The  family  rep- 
resented by  the  subject  of  this  article 
is  one  of  the  best  known  and  most 
highly  honored  in  Davis  county,  our 
>ubject  being  a  native  son,  having  been 
born  in  South  Bountiful  Ward  in  the  days  when 
the  settlers  were  few  and  the  work  of  civilization 
had  scarcely  begun.  The  family  afterwards  were 
conspicuous  factors  in  forwarding  the  interests 
of  this  community  and  in  developing  its  material 
resources,  being  capable  and  efficient  agricultur- 
alists, well  fitted  for  the  work  which  they  under- 
took, and  father  and  sons  uniting  closely  in  the 
work  of  building  up  the  community  and  in  im- 
proving their  homes. 

Gilbert  S.  Hatch  was  born  January  15,  1859, 
in  South  Bountiful  Ward,  and  is  the  son  of  Ira 
S.  and  Jane  Ann  (Stewart)  Hatch,  a  biograph- 
ical sketch  of  his  father  appearing  elsewhere  in 
this  volume.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  Scot- 
land, her  parents  having  died  when  she  was  a 
child.  She  came  to  America,  arriving  in  New 
York  in  the  spring  of  1856,  and  coming  from 
thence  to  Utah  in  the  noted  Hand  Cart  company. 
This  was  perhaps  one  of  the  most  tedious  and 
dreadful  journeys  that  has  ever  been  made  by 
the  settlers  in  Utah.  On  this  trip  many  of  the 
travelers  were  frozen  to  death,  and  many  suf- 
fered starvation  on  account  of  the  lack  of  food. 
Mrs.  Hatch  never  fully  regained  her  hearing 
after  this  trip.  After  arriving  in  America,  she 
married  Ira  S.  Hatch  in  1858.  There  were  three 
children  born  to  them —  Wealthy  Ann,  now  Mrs. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


Hyrum  Hartley,  of  Rockland,  Idaho ;  our  sub- 
ject being  the  next  child,  and  Stephen  C.  at 
present  residing  in  Kaysville  Ward,  Davis 
county.     The  mother  died  July  20,   1879. 

Mr.  Hatch  has  practically  spent  his  whole  life 
in  South  Bountiful  Ward,  his  early  days  being 
spent  on  the  farm  and  his  education  received 
from  the  schools  that  then  existed  in  the  county. 
His  father  having  died  when  he  was  a  boy  of 
ten  years,  necessitated  each  member  of  the  fam- 
ily putting  forth  every  effort  for  the  mainte- 
nance and  support  of  the  mother  and  themselves. 
Our  subject  has  always  resided  on  the  old  home 
place,  and  after  the  death  of  his  mother  he  pur- 
chased the  interests  of  the  rest  of  the  heirs.  He 
has  twenty  acres  in  his  home  place,  which  is 
located  at  Woods  Cross.  Since  taking  hold  of  this 
farm  he  has  erected  a  splendid  brick  residence 
and  has  one  of  the  nicest  places  for  its  size  in 
that  vicinity.  Besides  his  home  place  he  also 
owns  other  land  in  Davis  county,  which  is  used 
for  pasture.  He  has  always  been  more  or  less 
identified  with  the  stock  business  in  Davis  county 
and  at  present  is  a  large  holder  in  the  Deseret 
Live  Stock  Company,  one  of  the  largest  in  the 
State ;  also  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Woods 
Cross  Canning  and  Pickling  Company. 

On  October  4,  1884,  he  led  to  the  marriage  al- 
tar Miss  Ellen  Moss,  daughter  of  John  and  Re- 
becca (Wood)  Moss,  whose  biographical  sketch 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Eight  children 
have  been  born  of  this  marriage,  seven  of  whom 
are  now  living — Clara  R.,  Ellen  B.,  Rilla,  Edith, 
Mary  R.,  Alice,  Gilbert  S.,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  three  and  a  half  years ;  Lawrence  M. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Hatch  has  never  been 
identified  with  either  of  the  dominant  parties,  pre- 
ferring to  use  his  own  judgment  and  support  the 
best  man  for  the  office,  although  he  voted  for 
President  McKinley  each  time  he  ran  for  office. 
He  was  raised  in  the  Mormon  Church,  and  has 
always  been  a  faithful  member  of  that  denomi- 
nation, having  for  many  years  taken  an  active 
part  in  its  work,  both  in  Sunday  School  and 
Ward  teachings.  His  wife  is  a  member  of  the 
Ladies'  Relief  Society,  in  which  she  is  a  teacher. 
Their  oldest  daughter,  Clara,  although  but  sev- 
enteen years  of  age,  has  alreadv  shown  great  tal- 


ent along  artistic  lines,  especially  in  landscape 
painting,  the  home  being  adorned  with  many 
specimens  of  her  work  in  this  direction,  which, 
considering  the  meager  instruction  she  has  re- 
ceived are  truly  wonderful,  and  are  prophetic 
of  a  bright  future  for  the  young  artist.  It  is 
the  desire  and  intention  of  her  parents  that  she 
shall  receive  a  most  thorough  and  efficient  edu- 
cation along  this  line,  and  the  prospects  are  that 
she  will  eventually  become  one  of  the  leading 
artists  of  Utah,  and  of  the  inter-mountain  re- 
gion. 


()HN  RICHARDSON.  The  beautiful, 
urderly  and  well  improved  farm  of  John 
Richardson  is  a  splendid  monument  to 
his  industry,  keen  business  foresight  and 
untiring  perseverance,  and  is  a  forcible 
illustration  of  the  old  adage  that  "where  there's 
a  will  there's  a  way."  He  came  to  Utah  with 
his  widowed  mother  as  a  boy  of  eighteen,  and 
since  then  has  made  his  own  way  in  the  world, 
beginning  almost  penniless  and  working  his  way 
steadily  upward  until  he  is  now  the  owner  of 
one  of  the  most  desirable  little  farms  in  Salt 
Lake  county,  and  among  its  staunchest  and  most 
substantial  citizens. 

Mr.  Richardson  was  born  in  Bedfordshire,  En- 
gland, in  1 85 1,  and  is  the  son  of  Charles  and 
Sarah  (Lavender)  Richardson,  both  natives  of 
that  county,  made  famous  as  the  birthplace  of 
John  Bunyan,  the  great  reformer. 

In  1869  Mr.  Richardson  came  to  Utah,  cross- 
ing the  plains  by  rail  as  far  as  Ogden.  He  first 
located  at  Taylorsville,  and  after  living  there 
four  years  our  subject  bought  twenty-four  acres 
of  partly  improved  land  in  Grant  Ward.  He  has 
since,  by  hard  work,  brought  this  place  up  to  a 
high  state  of  cultivation,  under  a  good  system 
of  irrigation,  and  shaded  by  an  abundance  of 
stately  trees.  He  has  built  a  pretty  little  seven- 
room  brick  cottage,  and  has  the  entire  place 
fenced.  His  mother  died  in  1889,  having  sur- 
vived her  husband  six  years. 

He  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1872,  to 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


437 


Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 
(Franks)  Rlackay.  Mr.  Mackay  came  to  Utah 
in  1847,  and  his  wife  and  daughter  followed  in 
1856,  crossing  the  plains  with  one  of  the  famous 
hand  cart  companies.  The  mother  is  still  liv- 
ing; the  father  died  in  1880.  Of  the  children 
born  of  this  marriage,  seven  are  now  living — 
Charles,  Pearl,  a  student  at  the  high  school  in 
Salt  Lake  City ;  Ada,  Le  Roy,  Clara,  Earl,  and 
Clvde.  It  is  Mr.  Richardson's  ambition  to  give 
all  his  children  a  fine  education,  and  with  that 
end  in  view  they  are  being  sent  to  the  schools  of 
Salt  Lake  City  as  fast  as  they  finish  in  the  dis- 
trict schools. 

In  politics  Mr.  Richardson  is  a  Republican,  and 
cast  his  first  vote  in  a  Presidential  election  for 
the  late  President  McKinley  in  1896.  He  has 
been  a  school  trustee  for  the  past  four  years,  and 
is  a  firm  friend  of  education,  believing  it  to  be 
the  best  legacy  one  can  leave  their  children. 

He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  active  in  its  work. 

The  career  which  Mr.  Richardson  has  carved 
out  for  himself  is  one  that  is  worthy  of  emula- 
tion by  any  young  man  starting  out  on  life's 
journey.  While  he  had  but  a  dollar  and  five 
cents  with  which  to  begin  life  in  Utah,  he  was 
rich  in  hope  and  the  belief  that  he  could  over- 
come every  obstacle,  and  it  is  owing  largely  to 
this  unconquerable  spirit  of  independence  that 
he  owes  his  present  prosperity.  The  land  he  first 
bought  as  a  home  is  worth  today  two  hundred 
dollars  an  acre,  and  is  yielding  a  handsome  re- 
turn on  the  original  investment.  Personally  he 
is  of  a  most  genial  and  kindly  disposition,  and 
enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  a  large  cir- 
cle of  friends. 


RESTON  S.  FREE,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers 
a  mow  to  Utah,  coming  to  this  State  in  1848. 
S  ^SS  He  was  born  in  Saint  Clair  county,  Il- 
linois, March  13,  1831,  and  is  the  son 
of  Absalom  P.  and  Betsy  (Strait)  Free.  Ab- 
solom   P.   Free  was  born   in   Xorth   Carolina   in 


March,  1778,  and  moved  to  Saint  Clair  county, 
Illinois,  in  1816.  He  was  married  in  South  Car- 
olina, wher.e  two  sons — Andrew  and  Velcher — 
were  lx)rn,  and  where  the  mother  died.  These 
two  sons  were  all  through  the  Civil  War,  Velcher 
being  with  Sherman  in  his  famous  march  to  the 
sea.  Mr.  Free  later  married  the  mother  of  our 
subject  in  Saint  Clair  county,  Illinois.  She  was 
a  native  of  Kentucky,  being  born  in  that  State 
on  January  30,  1804.  The  result  of  this  marriage 
was  twelve  children,  eight  of  whom  grew  to  man- 
hood and  womanhood,  Preston  S.  being  the  fifth 
child.  The  Free  family  went  to  Missouri  with 
the  first  westward  bound  Mormons,  and  after 
being  driven  from  that  State  joined  the  ranks 
at  Xauvoo,  Illinois,  in  1844,  where  they  re- 
mained until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  in  1846, 
when  tliey  went,  in  company  with  the  main  body 
of  the  Church,  to  Winter  Quarters,  on  the  Mis- 
souri river.  That  was  the  winter  the  call  came 
from  the  government  for  volunteers  to  serve 
in  the  war  against  Alexico,  and  the  response  of 
five  hundred  and  forty-nine  able  bodied  men  who 
went  to  fight  for  the  honor  of  their  country  left 
many  families  with  no  one  to  provide  for  them, 
many  being  in  destitute  circumstances.  Brigham 
Young,  then  President  of  the  Church,  organized 
those  who  were  left  into  companies  of  ten,  and 
the  men  and  boys  who  were  able  to  work  were 
required  to  go  out  into  different  parts  of  the 
country  and  earn  money  to  provide  for  the  needs 
of  the  company.  Absolom  P.  Free  and  his  sons 
went  into  ^Missouri,  where  they  worked  in  ac- 
cordance with  this  provision  and  assisted  in  pro- 
viding for  those  who  were  left  without  any  means 
of  support.  After  the  main  body  had  started 
across  the  great  American  plains  for  Utah,  the 
Free  family  put  in  a  crop  on  the  Missouri  river, 
and  remained  there  until  the  spring  of  1848, 
when  Brigham  Young  returned  for  them,  and 
in  his  company  they  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City 
on  September  12th  of  that  year.  An  old  friend 
of  Mr.  Free's  met  them  upon  their  arrival,  and 
at  once  took  him  to  a  piece  of  land  adjoining 
his  own,  which  Mr.  Free  took  up,  and  lived  near 
his  friend,  Isaac  Chase,  for  some  time.  This 
place  was  later  turned  over  to  Brigham  Young, 
and   now   forms  the   east   end  of   Liberty   Park. 


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After  disposing  of  his  first  homestead  to  Presi- 
dent Young,  Mr.  Free  moved  to  the  Eighth 
Ward,  where  he  Hved  three  years,  and  then 
moved  to  the  Twelfth  Ward,  later  settling  on 
the  farm  at  Third  East  and  Twelfth  South 
streets,  where  he  remained  until  his  death  in 
1885.  His  wife  survived  him  but  about  a  year, 
and  of  this  family  only  three  are  now  living, 
they  being  our  subject  and  his  two  sisters. 

Preston  S.  Free  was  married  on  August  30, 
1855,  to  Miss  Mary  Titcomb,  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  (Atkins)  Titcomb,  both  natives  of 
England,  where  they  were  married,  and  came  to 
America  in  1843,  settling  at  Nauvoo,  and  com- 
ing to  Utah  in  1849.  I"  this  family  there  were 
eight  children,  Mrs.  Free  being  the  fourth  child, 
and  three  of  these  children  are  now  living.  Mrs. 
Free's  parents  have  been  dead  many  years,  her 
father  dying  in  Cottonwod  Ward  and  her 
mother  in  Mill  Creek  Ward.  Thirteen  children 
have  been  born  to  our  subject,  of  whom  four 
died — Preston  S.,  Daniel  F.,  Mary  T.,  now  Mrs. 
James  Hendry  of  Forest  Dale  Ward ;  Louisa  E., 
now  Mrs.  Wilford  Kimball ;  Hannah  C,  who 
died  in  infancy;  Euretta,  also  died  in  infancy; 
Findley  C,  who  died  when  twenty-five  years  of 
age ;  Fannie  Laura,  now  Mrs.  Nephi  Hansen,  of 
Forest  Dale  Ward;  Grace  F.,  now  Mrs.  Victor 
Ensign,  of  Forest  Dale  Ward;  Ida  C,  now  Mrs. 
Thomas  Beisinger,  also  living  in  Forest  Dale 
Ward ;  Jerald  Roy,  now  on  a  mission  to  the 
Southern  States :  Ray,  a  twin  of  Jerald's  died 
in  infancy ;  and  Huron  R.,  at  home  with  his  par- 
ents. The  husband  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Beisinger 
is  now  on  a  mission  in  Gennany,  and  since  he 
left  on  this  mission  a  daughter,  Ida  May,  has 
been  born  to  them.  Three  of  Mr.  Free's  sons- 
in-law  have  served  on  missions  for  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  James  Hendry,  the  husband  of  Mary 
F.,  is  Counselor  to  Bishop  Jensen  of  Forest  Dale 
Ward.  All  the  fainily  are  members  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  active  in  its  work,  the  mother 
and  her  daughters  being  members  of  the  Relief 
Societies ;  Mary  L.  is  President  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association,  and 
Ida  is  First  Counselor  to  the  President  of  the 
Primarv  Association  of  her  Ward;  she  is  also  a 
teacher  in  the  Sundav   School,   and  was  one  of 


the  first  to  assist  in  starting  a  Sunday  School  in 
her  Ward.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Free  have  had  twenty- 
eight  grandchildren,  of  whom  five  have  died. 

Many  years  ago  Mr.  Free  settled  at  his  pres- 
ent home  at  the  corner  of  Seventh  East  and  Thir- 
teenth South  streets,  where  he  bought  twenty 
acres  of  land,  which  he  improved,  and  from  time 
to  time  he  has  given  each  of  his  children  a  home 
from  this  original  piece  of  land,  giving  each  as 
they  married  a  lot  and  modern  brick  house,  and 
today  is  surrounded  by  his  children,  the  family 
circle  being  an  unusually  happy  and  interesting 
one.  It  has  been  Mr.  Free's  aim  through  life  to 
provide  comfortable  homes  for  his  children,  and 
he  is  now  reaping  his  just  reward  of  happiness 
in  seeing  them  near  him ;  the  bond  between  these 
children  and  their  parents  being  an  unusually 
tender  one,  and  the  home  is  noted  in  the  com- 
munity as  one  of  hospitable  good  will  towards 
all  men.  Mr.  Free  was  baptized  into  the  Mor- 
mon Church  at  Winter  Quarters  in  the  early 
spring  of  1848,  and  has  all  his  life  since  taken 
an  active  part  in  its  work,  assisting  his  sons- 
in-law  in  every  wav  possible  when  they  have 
been  called  on  missions,  and  being  ever  a  staunch 
believer  in  the  doctrines  taught  by  that  Church, 
teaching  them  in  turn  to  his  children.  He  has 
also  been  prominent  in  the  work  of  advancing 
the  prosperity  of  his  State  and  community,  and 
in  the  early  days  was  a  member  of  the  State  mi- 
litia, retirine  with  the  rank  of  Major.  During 
the  time  of  the  invasion  of  Johnston's  army  he 
organized  a  company  and  was  preparing  them  to 
go  to  the  front  when  he  was  stricken  with  ty- 
phoid fever,  and  was  compelled  to  abandon  the 
project.  He  served  with  the  militia  until  the 
government  prohibited  its  members  from  carry- 
ing arms.  He  was  also  a  participant  in  all  the 
Indian  troubles  of  those  days,  and  took  part  in 
protecting  the  settlers  from  the  depredations  of 
the  red  men. 

Mr.  Free  has,  by  his  untiring  energy,  and  hard 
work,  secured  for  himself  a  comfortable  compe- 
tence in  his  declining  years,  and  has  by  his  genial 
and  pleasant  manner,  his  upright  and  honorable 
career,  won  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  who 
have  been  associated  with  him  in  business  or 
known  him  in  social  life. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


439 


oil  X  EDWARD  HATCH.  Among  tlie 
successful  and  prominent  young  men  of 
Davis  county  Mr.  Hatch,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  deserves  special  mention. 
He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been 
born  in  South  Bountiful  Ward  January  26,  1859, 
and  is  the  son  of  Orin  and  Elizabeth  M.  Hatch, 
whose  biographical  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  volume. 

Mr.  Hatch  has  practically  spent  his  whole  life 
in  Davis  county,  his  boyhood  days  being  spent 
on  his  father's  fann  where  he  assisted  in  build- 
ing the  home,  and  his  education  was  received  in 
the  common  schools  of  that  county.  When  quite 
a  small  boy  he  started  out  herding  sheep  and 
cattle  for  his  father,  at  which  he  continued  until 
he  married,  on  October  16,  1879,  to  Miss  Laura  V. 
Ellis,  daughter  of  John  and  Harriett  Ellis,  whose 
parents  came  to  LTtah  in  the  early  fifties.  They 
have  had  four  children — Harriett  M.,  John  E., 
Sylvia  and  Sarah  L. 

Soon  after  marrying  he  purchased  a  home  in 
South  Bountiful  Ward,  which  he  improved  and 
where  they  continued  to  reside  until  1901,  when 
that  place  was  sold.  He  purchased  his  present 
home  in  1895,  but  only  recently  made  his  home 
there.  This  place  consists  of  eight  acres,  one- 
quarter  of  a  mile  south  of  the  postoffice,  on  which 
he  has  built  a  fine  eight-room  brick  house.  Since 
Mr.  Hatch  took  hold  of  this  farm  he  has  greatly 
improved  it,  and  now  has  one  of  the  finest  homes 
in  his  vicinity.  He  also  owns  thirty  acres  in  the 
same  vicinity,  besides  his  home  place,  which  he 
has  also  improved,  and  on  which  there  is  a  splen- 
did residence,  barns,  fences,  shade  trees,  etc.  This 
farm  joins  his  father's  place.  Mr.  Hatch  is  a 
member  of  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company, 
having  served  for  a  number  of  j'ears  as  one  of 
the  directors  of  that  company.  Like  his  father 
he  has  always  been  a  prominent  and  active  mem- 
ber of  the  Mormon  Church,  of  which  his  wife 
and  children  are  also  members,  his  wife  being  a 
teacher  in  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  of  which 
she  is  a  member.  For  many  years  Mr.  Hatch  has 
been  Superintendent  and  a  teacher  in  the  Ward 
Sunday  Schools.  He  was  called  and  set  apart 
February  4,  1899,  to  serve  on  a  mission  to  Eng- 
land, where  he  spent  twenty-six  months  in  the 


vicinity  of  Liverpool.  At  present  he  is  one  of 
the  Presidents  of  the  Seventy-fourth  Quorum  of 
Seventies. 


I'lIRAIM  P.  ELLISON  has  spent 
practically  his  whole  life  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  Layton  and  Kaysville,  in  Davis 
county,  having  arrived  in  Kaysville  with 
his  parents  when  only  two  years  of  age. 
Here  he  spent  his  bovhood  days  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  received  his  early  education  from  the 
common  schools.  He  early  started  out  to  make 
his  own  way  in  life,  and  by  foresight  and  good 
business  principles  his  efforts  have  been  crowned 
with  success.  At  the  present  time  he  is  consid- 
ered one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful 
business  men  of  Davis  county.  He  is  the  son  of 
John  and  Alice  (Pilling)  Ellison,  a  biographical 
sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work, 
and  was  born  in  Saint  Louis,  Missouri,  June  10, 
1850. 

Mr.  Ellison  was  married  in  January,  1873,  ^^ 
Miss  Elizabeth  Whitesides,  daughter  of  Lewis 
and  Susan  (Perkins)  Whitesides.  By  this  mar- 
riage nine  children  were  born. 

Our  subject  is  the  owner  of  several  farms  in 
Davis  county,  and  is  also  largely  interested  in 
cattle  and  sheep.  He  also  operates  a  coal  yard  in 
Layton.  In  addition  to  these  private  enterprises 
Mr.  Ellison  is  President  of  the  Davis  and  Weber 
Canal  Company,  which  was  organized  about 
twenty  years  ago,  and  irrigates  ten  thousand 
acres  of  land.  The  capital  of  this  concern  has 
lately  been  increased  to  five  hundred  thousand 
dollars.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Farmers'  Union,  which  does  a  general  merchan- 
dise business  at  Layton.  The  establishment  was 
organized  in  1882,  and  in  connection  with  the 
mercantile  business  they  have  a  lumber  business. 
They  own  a  fine,  large,  brick  building,  in  which 
they  transact  business,  the  upper  portion  being 
used  as  a  hall.  Mr.  Ellison  has  been  Superin- 
tendent of  this  business  since  its  organization. 
He  is  a  director  in  the  Layton  Dairy  Company, 
and  also  in  the  Layton  Milling  Company,  of 
which  he  is  Manager.  He  was  the  promoter  of 
the  Layton  Milling  Company. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


In  politics  Mr.  Ellison  is  a  Republican,  and 
served  one  term  as  County  Commissioner  of  his 
county  about  ten  years  ago,  under  the  People's 
party,  since  which  time  his  business  interests 
and  his  Church  work  has  required  all  his  time, 
and  he  has  not  of  late  years  been  active  in  party 
work.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  Mr.  Ellison  is  Hisrh  Coun- 
sel of  the  Davis  Stake  and  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  School.  He  is  a  stockholder  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Ogden  Sugar 
Company. 


WID  COOK,  Bishop  of  Syracuse 
Ward,  was  born  in  Somersetshire, 
l-.ngland,  on  March  15,  1847.  He  is 
the  oldest  of  six  children  who  grew 
to  maturity  out  of  tne  family  of  thir- 
teen of  ^lark  and  Ann  (Evans)  Cook,  both  na- 
tives of  Somerset.  Mark  Cook  brought  his  fam- 
ily to  the  United  States  in  1853,  coming  direct 
to  Utah.  They  crossed  the  plains  in  the  com- 
pany of  Jacob  Gates,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
Citv  in  October  of  that  year,  where  they  win- 
tered. In  1855  Mr.  Cook  moved  his  family  to 
East  Bountiful,  and  here  David  grew  to  man- 
hood, and  his  father  and  mother  died,  the  former 
in  September,  1895,  the  latter  on  July  23,  1882. 
The  Bishop  was  married  in  Bountiful  on  jMarch 
21,  1871,  to  Hannah  Holt,  a  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Rhodes)  Holt.  His  wife  came  to 
Utah  with  her  mother  in  1866.  They  have  nine 
children— Hannah  M.,  now  Mrs.  F.  E.  Briggs, 
of  Syracuse;  David,  of  Bear  River,  Box  Elder 
county  ;  Emeline,  now  Mrs.  Walker,  of  Syracuse  ; 
Elizabeth  A.,  Samuel,  INIary  Ann,  Amos  Roy, 
Lydia  M.,  and  Tessie  H.  The  Bishop  lived  in 
Bountiful  until  1890,  when  he  moved  to  Syra- 
cuse, where  he  has  a  farm  of  a  hundred  and  sixty 
acres.  He  also  has  a  fifty-acre  farm  in  another 
part  of  the  county,  which  is  well  improved.  Both 
of  these  he  converted  from  sagebrush  deserts  into 
good  arable  land.  Besides  farming  he  raises  cat- 
tle and  sheep. 

In   politics  Bishop  Cook  is  a  Democrat.     He 


was  elected  County  Commissioner  in  1894,  and 
has  been  Road  Supervisor,  School  Trustee,  and 
held  other  public  ofifices.  When  he  came  to  Syra- 
cuse it  was  part  of  South  Hooper  Ward.  He 
was  ordained  Bishop  in  1894,  and  set  apart  to 
preside  over  South  Hooper  Ward,  and  when 
Syracuse  Ward  was  created  he  was  set  apart 
as  Bishop  thereof,  and  he  has  been  Bishop  of 
this  Ward  ever  since.  He  was  baptized  in  the 
Mormon  Church  in  East  Bountiful  when  he 
was  a  child  of  eight  years,  and  all  of  his  family 
are  members  of  the  Church.  On  October  12, 
1880,  he  was  sent  on  a  two  years'  mission  to 
Great  Britain,  and  labored  for  his  Church  in 
the  Liverpool  Conference.  In  1866  he  returned 
to  the  Missouri  river  to  act  as  guide  to  Horton 
Hayte's  immigrant  train,  which  was  coming  out 
to  Utah.  His  father  served  in  the  Mormon  army 
during  the  Johnston  army  trouble.  David  G.,  his 
oldest  son,  went  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern 
States  in  June,  1898,  and  Samuel  C,  another  son, 
went  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern  States  last 
January. 


\:MUEL  H.  BEXXIOX.  Taylorsville 
Ward,  in  Salt  Lake  county,  is  without 
doubt  one  of  the  best  sections  in  the 
agricultural  districts  of  the  entire  State. 
Its  splendid,  rich  and  productive  soil; 
its  many  elegant  homes,  adorned  with  fruit,  for- 
est and  shade  trees,  and  its  irrigating  canals,  all 
indicate  that  master  hands  have  had  it  in  charge 
during  the  past  half  century.  Among  its  worthy 
citizens,  who  have  been  closely  identified  with  the 
history  of  this  section  and  have  taken  a  promi- 
nent and  important  part  in  its  building  up  and 
improvement,  is  the  gentleman  whose  name  ap- 
pears at  the  head  of  this  sketch. 

Samuel  H.  Bennion  was  born  in  Taylorsville 
Ward  June  20,  1854,  and  is  the  son  of  Samuel 
and  Mary  (Bushell)  Bennion.  Our  subject 
turned  to  Taylorsville  Ward,  where  he  purchased  a 
educated  in  the  common  schools  that  existed 
then.  He  early  started  out  in  the  cattle  and 
sheep  business,   and  in   1875  moved  to  Vernon, 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


44  r 


Tooele  county,  where  he  followed  the  cattle  busi- 
ness for  a  period  of  fifteen  years.  He  then  re- 
turned to  TaylorsvilleWard,  where  he  purchased  a 
home  and  began  making  improvements  on  it.  His 
home  is  located  just  west  and  a  little  north  of  the 
old  postoffice  on  the  Redwood  road  ;here  Mr.  Ben- 
nion  owns  thirty  acres  of  highly  improved  land, 
most  of  the  improvements  of  which  he  has  put 
on  with  his  own  hands.  He  has  a  splendid  brick 
residence  surrounded  with  orchard,  fruit  and 
shade  trees.  While  he  has  given  considerable 
attention  to  farming,  this  has  not  been  his  only 
avocation,  for  all  through  his  business  life  he 
has  been  identified  largely  with  the  sheep  and 
cattle  business,  and  at  present  ranges  in  Wyom- 
ing. 

On  December  27th,  1875,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  Sharp,  daughter  of  Adam  and 
Jeanette  (Cook)  Sharp,  and  four  children  were 
born  to  them — Jessie,  now  Mrs.  Raymond  Cole, 
of  Salt  Lake  City;  Ethel,  died  aged  two  years, 
and  two  died  at  birth.  Mr.  Bennion's  first  wife 
died  on  July  27,  1882,  and  on  May  3,  1883,,  he 
married  as  his  second  wife  Matilda  Hokenson, 
and  by  this  marriage  four  children  were  born — 
Amy,  Harvey,  Ella  and  Andrew.  Their  mother 
died  October  23,  1888,  and  on  February  20,  1890, 
Mr.  Bennion  again  married,  this  time  to  Mrs. 
Belle  (Martin)  Rowberry,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Isabella  (Gillespie)  Martin,  and  of  this  mar- 
riage three  children  have  been  born — ^Myrtle, 
Vera  and  Leone.  His  present  wife  had  been  mar- 
ried before  to  William  Rowberry,  who  died  July 
3,  1882,  and  there  were  two  children  born  to 
them — Isabella,  now  Mrs.  Albert  Cook,  of  I'ay- 
lorsville,  and  Mary. 

In  politics  Mr.  Bennion  has  always  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  Republican  party.  He  and  his 
family  are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
have  always  been  prominently  identified  with  that 
denomination  in  Taylorsville  Ward.  For  fifteen 
years  he  was  Counselor  to  Bishop  J.  C.  Sharp, 
in  Vernon,  Tooele  county.  He  has  also  been 
Sunday  School  Superintendent,  and  is  now  a 
High  Priest.  His  wife  and  family  are  also  active 
in  Church  work,  Mrs.  Bennion  being  a  member 
of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  his  daughters 
members  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Relief  Society. 


.\MES  KIPPEN.  No  one  can  bequeath 
to  posterity  a  richer  heritage  than  the 
memory  of  a  noble  and  well-directed  life, 
devoted  with  unselfish  affection  to  the 
upbuilding  of  the  human  race.  Such  a 
man  will  wield  an  influence  that  will  not  cease 
with  his  departure  from  earth's  scenes.  The  life 
of  James  Kippen  has  been  largely  devoted  to  the 
welfare  of  his  fellow  beings. 

He  was  born  February  3,  1820,  at  Perthshire, 
Scotland,  and  is  now  therefore  in  the  eighty- 
second  year  of  his  age.  He  is  the  son  of  Robert 
and  Catherine  (Campbell)  Kippen,  who  were 
both  natives  of  the  Highlands  of  Scotland,  where 
they  lived  and  died.  Our  subject  spent  the  first 
twenty-four  years  of  his  life  within  sixteen  miles 
of  the  place  of  his  birth,  and  received  a  common 
school  education  in  his  native  land.  On  June 
16,  1842,  after  listening  to  one  of  the  Alormon 
missionaries  who  were  preaching  in  that  country, 
he  became  an  adherent  and  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  being  baptized  into  that  faith  at 
Mansadie  Parish.  So  enthused  was  he  in  this 
new  religion  that  soon  after  he  became  a  convert 
he  began  to  preach  in  his  native  land  to  his  as- 
sociates and  friends,  but  so  far  as  known  none 
of  them  ever  became  converts,  he  being  the  only 
one  in  his  family  and  the  only  one  in  that  com- 
munity to  join  the  Mormons.  In  1844  he  sailed 
for  America,  crossing  the  Atlantic  Ocean  in  an 
old  sailing  vessel,  and  arriving  at  Nauvoo,  Illi- 
nois, in  April  of  the  same  year,  where  he  re- 
mained until  the  following  August,  when  he  went 
to  Saint  Louis,  where  he  followed  the  trade 
wliich  he  had  learned  in  his  native  land  with  his 
father  and  oldest  brother,  that  of  a  mason.  After 
working  in  Saint  Louis  and  vicinity  for  a  time, 
he  next  located  in  Lexington,  ^Missouri,  and  later 
went  to  Independence,  in  the  same  State,  where  he 
contracted  the  fever  and  ague,  which  hung  on  for 
three  months  and  left  him  greatly  emaciated.  In 
1848  he  outfitted  an  ox  team  with  provisions, 
preparatory  to  crossing  the  plains  to  Utah,  which 
he  did,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October 
4th,  after  a  long  and  wearisome  trip.  Here  he 
followed  his  trade  for  a  short  period,  having 
placed  the  first  rock  in  the  old  Tithing  Office, 
and  also  assisted  in  building  President  Brigham 


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Young's  first  house.  In  the  spring  of  1850  he 
located  in  Bountiful,  where  he  secured  thirty-five 
acres  of  land,  at  that  time  in  a  wild  state  and 
covered  with  willows,  sage  and  under-brush,  and 
here  he  has  since  continued  to  live.  His  home 
place  is  at  present  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation, 
he  having  erected  a  splendid  brick  residence,  sunk 
an  artesian  well  to  supply  water  for  both  his 
stock  and  irrigating  purposes,  until  now  he  has 
one  of  the  finest  places  of  its  size  in  Davis  county. 
In  addition  to  his  home  place  he  owns  two  hun- 
dred acres  of  valuable  farming  land  in  Morgan 
county,  where  part  of  his  family  reside.  Farming 
and  the  stock  business  have  been  his  principal 
avocations  through  life. 

While  residing  at  Nauvoo  he  met  and  married 
Isabella  Watson,  dauehter  of  Andrew  Watson, 
the  marriage  ceremony  being  performed  by 
Hyrum  Smith,  the  brother  of  the  Prophet.  His 
second  marriage  occurred  in  1853.  when  he  was 
married  to  Catherine  Watson.  He  has  been  the 
father  of  ten  children,  eight  of  whom  are  now 
living — Jasper ;  Catherine ;  Margaret ;  Jannett, 
who  died  aged  two  and  a  half  years ;  James ; 
Duncan;  Robert;  Elizabeth,  and  George.  His 
children  are  residents  and  worthy  citizens  of 
Utah.  Duncan  was  called  in  1895  to  go  on  a 
mission  to  the  Samoan  Islands,  where  he  spent 
two  years.  In  1878  our  subject  was  called  to  go 
on  a  mission  to  his  native  land,  and  served  two 
years  in  that  country.  While  there  he  visited 
the  scenes  of  his  early  bovhood  days,  and  met 
one  brother  and  two  sisters,  all  the  remainder  of 
the  family  having  passed  away. 

Mr.  Kippen  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  teachings 
of  his  Church  regarding  work  for  the  dead,  and 
for  the  past  seven  years  he  has  been  doing  work 
along  this  line  in  the  Temple  for  members  of  his 
family  who  have  died  out  of  the  faith  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  believing  that  by  this  means  he  will 
be  able  to  save  their  souls.  He  has  passed  all 
through  the  scenes  of  hardships  and  difficulties 
which  the  settlement  of  Utah  has  made  a  matter 
of  history,  and  during  the  Johnston  army  troubles 
he  served  as  a  guard  in  the  Green  river  country 
and  in  Echo  Canyon.  While  much  of  his  life  has 
been  given  to  the  maintenance  of  his  families  and 
in  laying  the  foundation  for  a  comfortable  com- 


petence for  his  declining  years,  yet  one  of  the 
greatest  desires  of  his  life  has  been  to  preach 
the  Gospel,  and  in  this  direction  he  has  lost  no 
opportunities,  but  has  done  all  in  his  power  to 
bring  salvation  to  the  human  race.  He  has  been 
ordained  a  High  Priest,  and  still  holds  that  posi- 
tion. Three  different  times  during  his  life  he  has 
been  at  the  point  of  death,  but  by  divine  provi- 
dence his  life  has  been  spared:  In  luly,  1901. 
while  driving  across  the  railroad  track,  one  of 
the  fast  express  trains  thundered  down  the  track, 
striking  his  wagon  and  tearing  it  to  pieces,  and 
throwing  Mr.  Kippen  onto  the  south  side  of  the 
wagon  road.  From  this  he  only  experienced  a 
small  jar.  Another  evidence  of  a  narrow  escape 
was  while  he  was  serving  on  his  mission  to  Scot- 
land. He  had  converted  a  lady,  whose  brother 
became  enraged  over  it,  and  picked  up  a  club  and 
struck  Mr.  Kippen  over  the  head.  The  blow 
was  one  which  might  ordinarily  have  resulted  in 
death,  but  it  never  fazed  Mr.  Kippen.  He  has 
also  been  shot  at,  but  never  wounded. 


OSEPH  J.  HOLBROOK.  Of  the  native 
.sons  of  Utah  few  have  been  more  closely 
identified  with  Davis  county  than  has  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  and  while  still 
a  comparatively  young  man,  his  life  has 
been  of  a  rather  eventful  and  interesting  char- 
acter. 

Born  in  Hountiful,  Davis  county,  January  23, 
1858,  he  is  the  son  of  Joseph  and  Lucy  (Jones) 
Holbrook,  of  whom  a  biographical  sketch  ap- 
pears elsewhere  in  this  volume.  Our  subject  had 
two  full  sisters  and  one  brother,  William,  now 
living  in  Bountiful.  Mr.  Holbrook  spent  his  early 
life  on  the  farm  in  Davis  county,  and  remained  at 
home  until  twenty-two  years  of  age,  receiving  his 
education  from  such  schools  as  then  existed  in 
that  community. 

He  started  out  in  life  for  himself  at  the  age 
of  twentv-two,  having  married  Miss  Alice  Cook 
on  December  23,  1878.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Mark  and  Ann  (Evans)  Cook,  her  people  com- 
ing to  Utah  in  1854.  Mrs.  Holbrook  was  born 
in  Bountiful.  As  a  result  of  this  union  six  chil- 
dren have  been  born,  five  of  them  still  living — 


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443 


Lucy,  now  Mrs.  P.  O.  Hatch,  of  Bountiful,  who 
has  two  children,  Lawrence  P.  and  Cecil ;  his  other 
children  are  Joseph,  Artulus,  William  A.,  Anna 
L..  and  Wilford,  who  died  in  infancy. 

The  old  home  place  in  which  our  subject  now 
resides  consists  of  a  full  block,  on  which  stands 
an  old  gray  residence,  which  was  built  many  years 
■ago.  He  also  owns  forty  acres  of  land  in  Syra- 
cuse and  other  tracts  of  land  in  the  vicinity  of 
Bountiful.  When  the  Spanish-.\merican  War 
broke  out  he  was  among  the  first  to  enlist  in 
Battery  A,  under  command  of  Captain  Richard 
W.  Young,  and  served  in  the  Philippine  Islands 
for  a  period  of  about  seven  months,  being  dis- 
charged by  special  act  of  Congress,  through  the 
instrumentality  of  the  Hon.  Frank  J.  Cannon, 
who  was  at  that  time  United  States  Senator.  Mr. 
Holbrook  has  also  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
work  of  the  Church,  having  been  for  years  a 
Ward  teacher  and  President  of  the  Elders'  Quo- 
rum. 

In  politics  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  and  in  1900  was  nominated  and 
elected  a  County  Commissioner  for  Davis  county, 
being  Chairman  of  that  body.  He  has  also  served 
as  Deputy  Sheriff  for  several  terms,  and  is  now 
Constable,  and  has  been  Deputy  Fish  and  Game 
Warden.  He  helped  to  take  the  first  steam  saw 
mill  into  Arizona,  in  July,  1876,  and  the  mill  was 
erected  at  Mogollon  Ranee  in  September  of  that 
year.  Previous  to  this  he  had  made  a  coloniza- 
tion trip  to  Sunset  Crossing,  in  the  same  Terri- 
tory, remaining  there  about  eighteen  months. 
There  was  at  this  time  but  one  white  family 
living  between  Kanab,  Utah,  and  Saint  Johns, 
Arizona. 


OHX  W.  HESS.  Concentration  of  pur- 
pose and  persistently  applied  energy 
rarely  fail  of  success  in  the  accomplish- 
ment of  any  task,  however  great,  and 
in  tracing  the  career  of  John  W.  Hess, 
President  of  the  Davis  Stake,  it  is  plainly  seen 
that  these  things  have  been  the  secret  of  his  rise 
to  a  position  of  prominence  and  respect,  not  only 
in  the  ordinary  walks  of  life,  but  in  the  work  of 
the  Momion  Church  as  well. 


John  W.  Hess  was  born  in  Franklin  county, 
Pennsylvania,  August  24,  1821,  and  is  the  son 
of  Jacob  and  Elizabeth  (Foutz)  Hess.  His  father 
was  born  May  21,  1792,  and  his  mother  June  4, 
1797,  both  in  Franklin  county,  Pennsylvania. 
They  were  married  in  1816,  and  of  this  marriage 
twelve  children  were  born — Catherine,  Polly, 
Mary  Ann,  John  W.,  Sarah,  Ann,  Christina,  Har- 
riett, Lydia  Ann,  David,  Alma  and  Emma.  In 
1832  the  family  moved  to  Richland  county,  Ohio, 
where  Mr.  Hess  located  on  a  piece  of  heavy  tim- 
ber land,  which  he  cleared,  and  opened  a  small 
farm  with  bright  prospects.  In  March,  1834,  Mr. 
Hess,  his  wife,  three  oldest  daughters  and  our 
subject  were  baptized  into  the  Mormon  Church 
by  Bishop  David  Evans,  who  later  lived  in  Lehi, 
this  State,  and  died  some  years  ago.  Their  baptism 
was  the  signal  for  a  number  of  petty  persecutions 
on  the  part  of  their  neighbors,  and  in  the  year 
1836,  May  1st,  Mr.  Hess  moved  with  his  family 
to  Ray  county,  Missouri,  where  he  rented  a  farm 
from  John  Arbuckle,  living  there  until  the  Mor- 
mons were  expelled  from  Caldwell  county,  when 
he  went  to  Illinois  and  settled  in  Hancock  county, 
again  settling  on  a  piece  of  timber  land,  which  he 
cultivated  as  best  he  could,  but  the  many  priva- 
tions and  persecutions  he  had  suffered  began  to 
tell,  and  his  health  failed.  In  moving  from  place 
to  place  Mr.  Hess  had  lost  the  most  of  his  means, 
and  at  this  time  was  in  destitute  circumstances. 
Our  subject,  being  the  oldest  of  the  children, 
much  of  the  care  and  responsibilities  in  assisting 
his  father  fell  upon  him.  He  bought  forty  acres 
of  land,  which  he  began  to  improve,  and  in  1844- 
45  began  the  erection  of  a  hewed  log  cabin.  At 
this  time  the  people  were  burning  the  posses- 
sions of  the  Mormons  in  Morley's  settlement, 
which  was  near  the  Hess  place,  and  finally  the 
mob  violence  became  so  threatening  that  they  did 
not  dare  remain  on  their  place  any  longer,  and 
our  subject  moved  the  family  to  Nauvoo,  where 
they  occupied  a  part  of  the  home  of  Mrs.  H^ss' 
brother.  Bishop  Foutz.  It  had  become  necessary 
for  them  to  leave  the  greater  {jortion  of  their 
possessions  at  the  farm  when  leaving,  and  upon 
our  subject's  return  he  found  they  had  all  been 
destroyed.  In  November,  1845,  the  father  was 
stricken  with  paralysis  and  lost  the  use  of  one 


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side,  and  was  a  helpless  invalid  from  that  time 
until  his  death. 

Our  subject  had  married  Emeline  Bigler,  who 
was  born  in  Harrison  county,  Virginia,  on  August 
20,  1824.  Word  was  sent  to  the  members  of  the 
Church  that  they  would  leave  Nauvoo  in  the  fol- 
lowing spring.  After  much  difficulty  Mr.  Hess 
managed  to  get  two  wagons  and  two  yokes  of 
oxen,  which  he  fitted  up,  putting  a  bed  in  one 
wagon,  on  which  he  placed  his  father.  The  fam- 
ily possessions  had  to  be  taken  in  the  remaining 
wagon,  and  this  necessitated  the  entire  family, 
with  the  exception  of  the  helpless  father,  walk- 
ing the  entire  distance.  On  April  3,  1846,  they 
started  for  Mount  Pisgah.  That  night  they 
crossed  the  Mississippi  river  and  camped  on  the 
Iowa  side  of  the  river  in  a  drenching  rain.  The 
advance  companies  of  Mormons  had  planted  corn 
and  vegetables  for  the  benefit  of  those  who 
came  later,  and  here  our  subject  decided  to 
remain  for  a  time,  as  supplies  were  al- 
most exhausted  and  the  father  was  failing 
rapidly.  In  June,  1846,  he  built  a  temporary 
shelter  of  elm  bark,  in  which  house  the  mother 
and  children  remained  for  two  years.  It 
was  learned  at  this  time  that  Brigham  Young  was 
going  to  send  a  company  to  the  Rocky  Mountains 
to  locate  a  settlement,  and  our  subject  went  to 
Council  Bluffs  with  his  team,  after  making  his 
father  and  mother  as  comfortable  as  he  could, 
and  with  his  wife  started  for  Utah,  in  the  com- 
pany of  which  Henry  W.  Miller  was  Captain. 
When  but  a  short  distance  from  Council  Bluffs 
they  were  overtaken  by  Captain  Allen,  accom- 
panied by  five  dragoons  of  the  United  States 
army,  who  camped  with  them  that  night.  Cap- 
tain Allen  was  the  bearer  of  a  message  from  the 
Government,  asking  them  to  raise  a  company  of 
five  hundred  volunteers  to  go  to  Mexico  in  the 
service  of  the  Government.  After  consultation. 
President  Brigham  Young  advised  the  men  to 
go,  and  in  response  to  this  call  five  hundred  and 
forty-nine  volunteered.  They  arrived  in  Council 
Bluff's  about  the  loth  of  July,  and  found  that  four 
companies  had  already  enlisted.  Our  subject 
and  his  wife  enlisted  in  Company  E,  under 
Captain  Daniel  C.  Davis,  the  Government  having 
made   provision   for   four   women   to   accompany 


each  company  of  one  hundred  men  as  laundresses. 
He  left  his  team  and  outfit  with  his  brother-in- 
law,  D.  A.  Miller,  to  be  taken  through  to  Utah. 
Each  company  was  provided  with  two  six-mule 
teams,  and  our  subject  drove  one  of  these,  and  in 
this  way  was  able  to  make  the  trip  comparatively 
comfortable  for  his  wife  and  the  other  women 
of  his  company.  Just  prior  to  the  time  they 
started  for  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  Mr.  Hess 
received  word  of  the  death  of  his  father.  The 
company  remained  two  weeks  at  Fort  Leaven- 
worth, and  then  started  for  Santa  Fe,  a  distance 
of  one  thousand  miles.  They  had  no  way  of 
carrying  water  for  their  own  use  except  in  their 
canteens,  and  while  on  the  desert  were  compelled 
to  use  buffalo  chips  for  fuel.  This  march  across 
the  desert  was  a  most  fearful  one,  and  many  of 
the  men  had  to  be  assisted  to  finish  the  latter  part 
of  the  journey.  General  Carney  was  at  this  time 
fighting  the  Mexicans  in  Upper  California,  and 
feeling  that  he  was  about  to  be  defeated,  sent  a 
messenger  to  Santa  Fe,  requesting  that  all  able- 
bodied  men  be  sent  on  a  forced  march  to  his  re- 
lief. Mr.  Hess  had  proved  to  be  an  excellent 
teamster,  and  Captain  Davis  requested  that  he  be 
allowed  to  drive  his  private  conveyance.  Pro- 
vision had  been  made  to  send  the  disabled  men 
and  the  women  back  to  the  camp  on  the  Missouri 
river.  Mr.  Hess  did  not  wish  to  leave  his  wife 
alone  with  a  lot  of  sick  men  and  helpless  women, 
and  requested  that  she  be  allowed  to  accompany 
him  or  that  he  be  sent  back  with  the  company  to 
the  old  camp.  Captain  Davis  was  unwilling  to 
accede  to  either  request,  and  it  was  only  after 
aopealing  to  General  Doniphan,  commander  of 
the  post,  that  matters  were  adjusted  satisfac- 
torily, and  Mr.  Hess  started  back  in  company 
with  his  wife  and  others.  The  detachment 
reached  Pueblo,  where  they  built  wood  houses 
for  the  winter.  They  had  had  no  pay  for  seven 
months,  and  Captain  Brown,  accompanied  by  ten 
men,  of  whom  our  subject  was  one,  went  to  Santa 
Fe  with  the  pay  roll  and  got  the  pay  for  the  men, 
returning  to  Pueblo  on  April  1st,  and  on  April 
15th  took  up  the  march  for  Fort  Laramie,  three 
hundred  miles  distant.  They  expected  to  learn 
something  about  the  train  they  had  left  at  Council 
Bluffs    when    thev    reached    Fort    Laramie,    and 


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445 


while  en  route  to  that  place  met  Amasa  L)-man. 
who,  with  others,  had  come  from  the  Mormon 
camp.  They  attempted  to  overtake  the  pioneers, 
but  came  into  Salt  Lake  City  on  July  28th,  four 
days  after  the  Mormon  train  arrived,  and  on  their 
arrival  were  discharged  from  Government  service. 
Mr.  Hess  looks  back  upon  that  experience  as  one 
of  the  most  priceless  in  his  life,  and  is  proud  of 
the  fact  that  he  was  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
battalion.  Upon  arriving  in  Utah  he  found  him- 
self almost  without  means,  but  at  once  set  about 
to  provide  a  home  for  himself  and  his  faithful 
wife.  He  got  out  logs  for  a  house,  and,  in  com- 
pany with  John  Bevin,  with  whom  he  formed  a 
partnership,  put  up  a  whip  saw  pit  and  began  to 
turn  out  one  hundred  feet  of  lumber  a  day,  for 
which  they  found  a  ready  sale.  In  this  manner  he 
spent  the  winter  of  1847.  I"  the  spring  of  1848  he 
moved  to  Mill  Creek,  where  he  put  in  a  small 
crop,  which  was  eaten  up  by  crickets.  On  Sep- 
tember 9th  of  that  year  he  started  back  for  his 
mother  and  her  children.  His  brother  David  was 
the  oldest  child  left  at  home,  and  he  was  only  ten 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  but 
the  little  fellow  had  pluckily  set  to  work  to  as- 
sist his  mother  in  keeping  the  family  together, 
and  they  had  planted  a  crop  of  buckwheat  and 
corn,  and  the  older  brother,  on  his  return,  found 
them  in  good  health  and  fairly  comfortable  cir- 
cumstances. He  made  arrangements  to  bring 
them  to  Utah  in  the  following  spring,  and  then 
went  to  Council  Bluffs,  where  he  engaged  to 
work  for  Apostle  Orson  Hyde  for  twenty  dol- 
lars a  month.  He  had  only  worked  one  month 
when  cold  weather  set  in  and  work  was  sus- 
pended for  the  rest  of  the  winter.  On  April  15, 
1849,  he  started  for  Salt  Lake  City,  and  after 
an  arduous  journey  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  on  July 
27th,  1849,  only  to  find  his  land  in  Mill  Creek 
taken  up  by  another  party. 

Mr.  Hess  was  married  seven  times.  He  mar- 
ried his  second  wife.  Miss  Emily  Cord,  on  Alarch 
30,  1852.  She  was  a  native  of  Maine,  and  was 
born  September  27,  1831.  She  was  the  mother 
of  ten  children.  On  the  i6th  day  of  November, 
1856,  he  married  Julia  Peterson,  who  was  born 
in  Norway  September  29,  1839,  and  became  the 
mother  of   four   children.      In    March,    1857,   he 


was  married  to  Mary  Ann  Steed,  born  in  Eng- 
land November  27,  1837,  and  who  bore  him  ten 
children.  January  31,  1862,  his  first  wife  died. 
This  was  a  very  severe  trial  to  Mr.  Hess,  as  she 
had  been  the  wife  of  his  youth  and  was  ever  a 
faithful  and  loving  helpmeet,  passing  through  all 
the  early  trials  and  hardships  of  life  with  him. 
On  the  25th  of  April  of  that  year  he  married 
Miss  Caroline  Workman,  who  was  born  in  Ten- 
nessee March  28,  1846,  and  who  became  the 
mother  of  ten  children.  He  married  Miss  Sarah 
L.  Miller  on  May  30,  1868.  She  was  born  in 
Farmington,  Davis  county,  Utah,  June  24,  1850, 
and  by  her  he  had  eight  children.  His  second 
wife,  Emily  Cord,  died  August  4,  1872.  On  July 
28,  1875,  he  married  Francis  Marian  Bigler,  born 
in  Farmington,  Utah,  October  22,  1859,  and  by 
her  had  seven  children.  Mr.  Hess  is  the  father 
of  sixty-six  children,  of  whom  thirty  sons  and 
thirty  daughters  are  now  living.  He  has  two 
hundred  and  fifty  grandchildren  and  fifty-five 
great  grandchildren. 

Upon  arriving  in  Utah  with  his  mother  Mr. 
Hess  went  to  Farmington,  in  Davis  county,  and 
has  made  that  his  home  ever  since.  He  has  fol- 
lowed general  farming,  and  has  been  very  suc- 
cessful. He  and  his  different  families  are  faith- 
ful and  consistent  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  Mr.  Hess  has  been  especially  active 
in  its  work.  He  has  passed  through  all  the  ofifices 
of  the  Priesthood,  and  is  now  a  Patriarch.  He 
was  ordained  a  Bishop  by  President  Young,  and 
set  aside  to  preside  over  the  Farmington  Ward 
in  1855.  President  Young  called  him  to  go 
on  a  mission  among  the  Lamanites,  located  in 
Washakie,  in  Box  Elder  county,  Utah,  and  he 
has  been  more  or  less  active  in  working  among 
and  directing  these  people  since  that  time.  In 
September,  1882,  he  was  called  by  Prsident  John 
Taylor  and  set  apart  as  First  Counselor  to  the 
President  of  Davis  Stake  of  Zion.  On  March 
17,  1885,  the  citizens  of  Farmington  prepared  a 
banquet  at  Social  Hall  in  honor  of  Mr.  Hess' 
long  and  useful  career  during  his  twenty- 
seven  years  as  a  Bishop,  and  as  a  token  of  their 
esteem  and  gratitude  for  his  services  presented 
him  with  a  bust  of  President  Brigham  Young 
and  a  set  of  books  containing  the  Church  works. 


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In  September,  1887,  he  was  called  on  a  mission 
to  the  Washakie  tribe  of  Indians,  in  company 
with  Bishop  Zundel.  He  had  gone  on  a  mission 
to  his  old  home  in  November,  1869,  and  wnile 
there  had  looked  up  the  family  genealogy,  return- 
ing to  Utah  February  16,  1870.  Shortly  after  his 
return  William  R.  Smith,  then  President  of  the 
Davis  Stake,  died,  and  iVIr.  Hess  was  called  to 
fill  the  vacancy  temporarily.  On  March  4,  1894, 
he  was  set  aside  to  preside  as  President  of  Davis 
Stake  of  Zion,  which  position  he  still  holds. 

Mr.  Hess  has  not  distinguished  himself  in 
Church  work  alone,  but  has  been  a  prominent 
and  active  man  in  political  affairs  in  Utah,  and 
has  ever  been  foremost  in  assisting  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  State,  as  well  as  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  has  lived.  In  1858  he  was 
elected  to  the  Utah  Legislature,  and  was  re- 
elected in  1862,  serving  four  years.  He  was 
again  elected  to  the  Legislature  in  1876,  and 
was  in  command  of  the  militia  of  Davis  county 
for  many  years,  up  to  the  time  Governor  Hard- 
ing issued  a  proclamation  making  it  an  offense 
to  bear  arms,  when  he  was  relieved  from  that 
responsible  duty. 

In  social  life  President  Hess  is  known  as  a 
most  genial  and  kindlv  gentleman,  and  to  know 
him  is  to  admire  and  respect  him.  He  has 
through  a  long  life  been  a  man  of  high  integrity, 
following  the  teachings  of  the  Church  of  his 
choice  with  a  conscience  void  of  oft'ense,  and  has 
won  a  high  place  in  the  esteem  of  all  who  know 
Tiim.  Left  an  orphan  and  the  oldest  child  of  the 
family,  he  early  assumed  the  duties  of  manhood, 
and  while  rearing  a  large  family  himself,  his  first 
thought  was  ever  for  his  mother  and  her  chil- 
dren, to  whom  he  has  been  a  faithful  and  devoted 
son  and  brother.  The  success  which  has  come  to 
him  has  been  through  his  own  unaided  efforts, 
and  he  has  made  a  career  to  which  his  children 
and  future  posterity  may  well  point  with  pride. 


OHN  WOOD.  The  first  farm  taken  up 
on  j\Iill  creek  was  taken  up  by  Daniel 
Wood,  the  father  of  our  subject,  the 
family  being  the  third  to  settle  in  Davis 
county  in  the  vicinity  of  South  Bounti- 
ful.    It  has  been  over  half  a  centurv  since  the 


family  first  settled  there,  and  the  transforming  of 
this  wild  and  barren  waste  to  its  present  splendid 
condition  is  due  in  no  small  degree  to  the  efforts 
and  energy  of  the  Wood  family. 

John  Wood  was  born  in  Duchess  county,  Can- 
ada, April  10,  1830,  and  is  the  son  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  (Snyder)  Wood,  who  were  both  natives 
of  Canada.  The  family  moved  to  Ohio  when  our 
subject  was  but  three  years  of  age,  and  lived  in 
Kirkland  for  two  or  three  years,  going  froni 
there  to  Missouri,  where  they  passed  through 
all  the  difficulties  and  hardships  which  were  the 
lot  of  the  Mormon  people  in  that  State.  From 
Missouri  they  moved  to  Pike  county,  Illinois; 
were  they  remained  for  a  time,  and  then  moved 
to  Hancock  county,  about  twelve  miles  south  of 
Nauvoo,  later  making  their  home  in  Nauvoo-, 
and  leaving  there  with  the  main  body  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  1846,  going  with  them  to 
Winter  Quarters,  where  they  remained  until  1848, 
when  they  started  across  the  great  American 
plains  in  Brigham  Young's  train,  in  which  Mr. 
Wood  was  made  Captain  of  ten  wagons.  The 
senior  Mr.  Wood  was  in  quite  comfortable  cir^ 
cumstances,  as  compared  with  the  majority  of 
the  pioneers,  being  the  owner  of  two  farm  wagons 
and  a  light  spring  wagon,  one  team  of  horses  and 
five  yoke  of  oxen  and  cows.  Upon  their  arrival 
in  L^tah  the  family  went  at  once  to  Davis  county 
and  settled  at  the  place  where  our  subject  now 
lives,  one-quarter  of  a  mile  east  of  Woods  Cross 
station  on  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad,  where 
the  father  took  up  one  hundred  acres  of  land, 
which  he  improved  and  cultivated.  The  first 
home  of  the  family  was  a  small  log  house  with 
a  thatched  roof,  which  was  later  replaced  with  a 
two-story  adobe  house,  in  which  the  father  lived 
until  his  death.  Mr.  Wood  was  a  staunch  mem- 
ber of  the  Mormon  Church,  both  he  and  his  wife 
having  been  baptized  in  Canada  by  Joseph  Young, 
a  brother  of  President  Brigham  Young.  He  was 
a  firm  believer  in  the  doctrine  of  polygamy,  and 
had  eight  wives,  being  the  father  of  about  twenty- 
five  children.  Our  subject  was  the  second  of  a 
family  of  seven  children,  all  of  whom,  with  the 
exception  of  one  sister,  now  Mrs.  Moyle,  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  have  died.  The  senior  Mr.  Wood 
was  a  member  of  the  Nauvoo  Legion.     He  was 


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a  prominent  man  in  Davis  county  during  his  life, 
being-  active  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  wel- 
fare of  his  community.  In  addition  to  his  farm, 
he  was  also  a  heavy  owner  of  cattle,  sheep  and 
horses.  After  he  had  been  in  Utah  some  years 
Mr.  Wood  made  a  trip  to  Canada,  and  during  his 
absence  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  built 
through  the  choicest  portion  of  his  farm,  and 
built  the  station,  which  they  named  "Woods 
Cross,"  right  in  the  center  of  his  farm.  Mr. 
Wood  made  his  return  trip  by  rail,  and  was  much 
surprised,  as  well  as  displeased,  at  what  had  oc- 
curred during  his  absence.  The  company  was 
afterwards  induced  to  move  the  station  to  its 
present  location.  Mrs.  Wood  died  about  1880, 
and  Mr.  Wood  died  in  1892,  mourned  by  a  large 
circle  of  life-long  friends,  and  leaving  a  record 
for  business  sagacity  and  integrity  of  which  his 
children  may  well  be  proud. 

Our  subject  remained  on  the  farm  with  his 
father  until  he  was  about  twenty-eight  years  of 
age,  at  which  time  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Amelia  Langford,  daughter  of  Eliza  Langford. 
Her  father  died  in  England,  and  she  came  to 
Utah  in  1850.  By  this  marriage  nine  children 
have  been  born,  all  but  four  of  whom  are  now 
living — Xephi,  now  engaged  in  ranching  in 
Idaho ;  Eliza  Jane,  now  Mrs.  Hartley,  living  in 
Idaho ;  Edvv'ard  and  Henry,  living  near  their 
father ;  Ellen,  now  ilrs.  Samuel  Sessions,  living 
in  East  Bountiful.  The  mother  of  these  children 
died  July  26,  1880.  He  had  previously  married 
her  sister,  Louisa,  by  whom  he  had  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  four  are  now  alive — Emily,  now 
Mrs.  James  Hartley,  living  in  Idaho ;  Edgar, 
William  and  Earnest,  all  living  at  home.  Airs. 
\\'ood  died  January  5,  1901.  Since  the  death  of 
the  mother  one  of  Mr.  Wood's  granddaughters 
has  kept  house  for  him  and  is  a  great  favorite 
with  the  family. 

Soon  after  his  first  marriage  Mr.  Wood  set- 
tled on  his  present  home  place,  where  he  has 
twenty-three  acres  of  valuable  land,  well  im- 
proved, on  which  he  has  a  comfortable  home  and 
good  out-buildings.  He  was  born  and  raised  in 
the  ^Mormon  faith,  and  was  baptized  by  Elder 
Fountz,  when  but  a  child,  in  Pike  county,  Illi- 
nois, and  has  ever  since  been  a  faithful  adherent 


of  the  teachings  of  his  Church,  as  have  also 
his  entire  family.  He  remembers  perfectly  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  whom  he  saw  when  with 
his  parents  in  Nauvoo,  and  recalls  his  childhood's 
associations  with  pleasure.  He  has  been  a  leader 
in  all  Church  work  in  his  community,  and  one  of 
his  sons,  Henry,  served  for  two  years  in  mission- 
ary work  in  the  Southern  States.  He  partici- 
pated in  the  early  troubles  when  Johnston's  army 
landed  in  Utah,  and  saw  service  under  Colonel 
Ross  in  1857.  He  took  his  family  to  American 
Fork  until  the  troubles  were  over,  when  he  re- 
turned for  them  and  brought  them  home  in  the 
fall  of  1858.  The  Wood  family  also  assisted 
greatly  in  bringing  freight  and  emigrants  to 
Utah,  sending  their  teams  to  assist  in  bringing 
supplies  and  families  out,  though  they  never 
themselves  accompanied  their  teams.  He  was  in 
the  State  militia,  with  the  rank  of  Fourth  Cor- 
poral. In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  has  never 
sought  nor  held  public  office. 


HO.MAS  WADDOUPS.  Not  to  every 
ambitious  man  does  success  come,  no 
matter  how  zealously  he  labors  and 
1  lends  his  energies  to  that  desired  end; 
but  in  the  preponderance  of  cases  con- 
centration of  purpose,  when  united  with  integrity 
and  sagacity,  will  cause  the  goddess  of  fortune 
to  smile  benignantly  upon  his  efforts.  Of  the 
self-made  men  whose  history  has  been  closely 
identified  with  that  of  Davis  county,  and  who 
have  passed  through  all  the  early  scenes  and 
troubles  of  this  new  country  since  1866,  the  sub- 
ject of  this,  sketch  deserves  special  mention. 

Thomas  Waddoups  was  born  in  Warwickshire, 
England  April  11,  1850,  and  is  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  Waddoups,  both  natives  of  Eng- 
land. There  were  nine  children  in  their  family, 
si.x  of  whom  grew  to  maturity,  our  subject  being 
the  fourth  child.  His  early  life  was  spent  in  his 
native  land,  where  he  worked  with  his  father  on 
a  farm,  and  there  he  received  a  common  school 
education,  but  being  of  an  ambitious  turn  of 
mind,  he  early  decided  to  seek  new  fields,  where 
greater  opportunities  were  afforded  young  men, 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he  started  for  America, 
crossing  the  Atlantic  Ocean  in  a  sailing  vessel, 
and  the  plains  by  ox  team,  in  company  with 
Horton  Haight,  Captain  of  the  train,  arriving  in 
Salt  Lake  City  in  the  latter  part  of  that  same  year. 
On  this  trip  he  drove  three  yoke  of  oxen.  Air. 
Waddoup's  success  is  more  marked  and  pro- 
nounced from  the  fact  that  when  he  arrived  in 
Utah  and  settled  in  Bountiful  he  hardly  had  a 
cent  to  his  name ;  consequently  had  to  begin  at 
the  bottom  of  the  ladder.  The  first  few  years 
in  Utah  were  none  too  pleasant.  However,  by 
energy,  perserverance  and  determination  he  was 
able,  during  the  first  two  years,  to  obtain  suffi- 
cient money  to  send  for  his  father  and  his  family. 
Mr.  Waddoups'  first  experience  in  Utah  was  in 
working  at  whatever  came  first  to  his  hand. 
Money  was  very  scarce  in  those  days,  and  his 
labors  were  paid  for  in  farming  products,  these 
being  taken  to  the  city  and  sold  for  one-half  the 
price  he  had  paid  in  labor,  but  by  economical  and 
careful  living  he  year  by  year  succeeded  in  get- 
ting ahead,  and  is  now  considered  one  of  the  suc- 
cessful and  prosperous  men  of  Davis  county. 
The  senior  Mr.  Waddoups  spent  the  balance  of 
his  life  in  Bountiful,  and  died  in  October,  1900, 
at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-four  years.  His 
wife  died  in  1884.  Of  their  children  there  are 
two  sons  and  two  daughters,  besides  our  subject, 
still  living. 

In  1874  Mr.  Waddoups  was  married  to  Miss 
Mary  Call,  daughter  of  Anson  and  Margaretta 
Call,  and  of  this  marriaee  ten  children  have  been 
born,  of  whom  seven  are  still  living,  six  sons  and 
one  daughter — Thomas  A. ;  William  M.,  now  in 
Honolulu  on  a  mission  for  the  Church,  having 
been  called  in  February,  1899.  Thomas  A.  also 
served  four  years  in  the  same  section,  and  after 
returning  home  was  called  to  go  to  Skull  Valley, 
in  the  losepa  range  of  mountains,  in  this  State, 
where  there  is  a  settlement  of  native  Honolulans, 
of  which  settlement  he  is  in  charge.  The  other 
children  are:  Cyril,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight- 
een months ;  Ezra,  school  teaching  in  Skull  Val- 
ley; Royal;  Bertha;  Mable;  Ralph,  and  Omer. 
Our  subject's  second  marriage  was  to  Miss  Cyn- 
thia Call,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  Six  children 
have  been  born  of  this  marriage — Thara ;  Aaron ; 


Cynthia  E. ;  Eunice ;  Irena,  and  Beatrice,  all  liv- 
ing at  home. 

As  the  result  of  our  subject's  industrious  life, 
he  is  now  the  owner  of  sixty-five  acres  of  splen- 
did land  in  the  vicinity  of  Bountiful ;  this  he  has 
improved  and  brought  up  to  a  high  state  of  cul- 
tivation, having  planted  orchards,  made  wells, 
etc.,  and  has  a  good  residence  upon  it.  While  he 
has  given  much  of  his  time  to  his  business  and 
the  laying  of  a  foundation  for  a  home  for  him- 
self and  family,  yet  this  has  not  occupied  all  of 
his  time.  He  has  been  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church  ever  since  his  baptism  at  the 
age  of  eight  years,  his  people  also  being  mem- 
bers of  the  same  Church.  In  1883  he  was  called 
to  serve  on  a  mission  to  Great  Britain,  where  he 
labored  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  heads  of 
the  Church  for  a  period  of  two  years  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  his  old  home,  being  President  of  that  Con- 
ference. He  has  also  taken  an  active  and  prom- 
inent part  in  home  missionary  and  colonization 
work,  and  for  the  past  twenty-eight  years  has 
been  a  teacher  in  his  Ward,  as  well  as  being  a 
member  of  the  Ward  Conference  for  the  same 
length  of  time.  He  was  ordained  President  of 
the  Seventieth  Quorum  of  the  Seventies,  which 
ofiice  he  holds  at  this  time. 

By  his  long  and  honorable  life  in  Utah  he  has 
won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  heads  of 
the  Church  and  enjoys  the  friendship  and  good 
will  of  the  communitv  in  which  he  resides. 


ATvUAI  DR.\KE,  one  of  the  prominent 
\oung  agriculturalists  of  Davis  county, 
has  the  proud  distinction  of  being  a 
descendant  of  an  old  American  family, 
his  ancestors  on  his  father's  side  hav- 
ing fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  fa- 
ther, Horace  Drake,  whose  biographical  sketch 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  work,  was  born  in  Hart- 
ford, Trumbull  county,  Ohio,  and  was  one  of  the 
early  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  coming 
to  Utah  with  the  pioneers  in  1847.  His  wife, 
and  the  mother  of  our  subject,  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Diana  E.  Holbrook,  a  descendant  of  an 


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449 


old   Puritan    family    who   settled    in    New   York- 
State. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  the  Second  Ward  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  March  19.  1861,  and  there  grew 
to  manhood  and  received  his  scholastic  educa- 
tion from  the  schools  then  existing  in  that  city. 
He  was  always  at  home  with  his  father,  and  when 
the  latter  moved  to  Centerville,  our  subject  ac- 
coinpanied  him  thither,  and  this  has  since  been 
his  home.  The  senior  Air.  Drake  has  practically 
retired  from  a  life  of  activity,  and  the  son  has 
entire  charge  of  the  farm.  He  is  also  building  a 
beautiful  home  in  Centerville,  which,  when  com- 
pleted, will  be  one  of  tne  finest  in  this  part  of 
Utah. 

Mr.  Drake  was  married  January  18,  1888. 
when  he  led  to  the  altar  Miss  Mary  Derrick, 
daughter  of  Zacharias  and  Mary  E.  (Horspool) 
Derrick.  The  Derrick  family  came  to  Utah  in 
the  early  fifties,  and  Mrs.  Drake  was  born  in  Salt 
Lake  City  April  28,  1864.  In  their  childhood 
days  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Drake  were  schoolmates,  and 
from  this  life-long  companionship  sprang  up  the 
affection  that  later  culminated  in  their  marriage. 
But  two  children  have  blessed  this  union,  and 
they  both  died  in  infancy — Ivy  the  elder,  died  at 
the  age  of  three  months,  and  his  little  brother, 
Hyrum,  when  but  nine  days  old. 

Both  Air.  and  Mrs.  Drake  are  adherents  of  the 
Mormon  religion.  Air.  Drake  being  baptized  into 
the  Church  when  but  eight  years  of  age,  and  he 
has  since  been  a  most  faithful  and  conscientious 
follower  of  its  teachings.  He  received  one  call 
from  the  heads  of  the  Church  to  go  on  a  mission 
to  the  Eastern  States,  but  his  health  failing,  he 
was  compelled  to  return  home  before  the  mis- 
.sion  was  completed.  However,  he  has  been  at 
home  a  most  faithful  and  earnest  Church  worker, 
in  connection  with  his  father  doing  much  for  the 
spread  of  the  Alormon  gospel.  His  efforts  as  a 
Latter  Day  Saint  and  his  zeal  in  Church  mat- 
ters have  been  recognized  by  the  First  Presi- 
dency, who  have  advanced  him  from  office  to  of- 
fice, until  he  is  at  this  time  a  member  of  the  Quo- 
rum of  Seventies. 

In  political  life  Air.  Drake  is  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  party,  although  he  has  never  sought 
nor  held  public  office. 


AXIEL  WILLIAAIS  was  one  of  the 
early  pioneers  in  Alorgan  county ;  in 
fact,  he  was  the  first  man  to  settle  on 
the  north  side  of  the  Weber  river,  in 
the  fall  of  1861.  The  following  win- 
ter was  perhaps  one  of  the  most  severe  w'inters 
ever  known  in  Alorgan  county.  The  continual 
snow  storms  made  life  a  burden  for  Air.  Williams 
and  his  little  family.  They  suflfered  many  hard- 
ships from  cold,  and  sometimes  hunger;  but  Air. 
Williams  is  of  that  stamp  of  men  which  has  made 
Utah  famous.  No  obstacles  or  difficulties  could 
daunt  his  courage  or  thwart  his  plans ;  his  strong 
will  power  and  determination  has  brought  suc- 
cess to  his  door.  His  whole  life  in  Utah  has  been 
honorable,  straightforward  and  upright,  and  if 
he  has  an  enemy  in  all  Alorgan  county  no  one 
is  aware  of  it. 

Air.  Williams  was  l)orn  in  Alonmouthshire, 
near  Newport,  Wales,  in  1824  and  is  the  son  of 
Daniel  and  Alaria  (Rawlins)  Williams.  He  grew 
to  manhood  and  received  his  education  in  his 
native  country.  He  followed  the  life  of  a  coal 
miner  there  for  twenty  years.  He  became  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  in  1849,  and  in  i860  emigrated  to  the 
United  States,  crossing  the  Atlantic  Ocean  on 
board  the  ship  Undemriter,  and  landed  in  New 
York.  His  first  year  in  America  was  spent  in 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  worked  in  the 
coal  mines.  In  1861  he  came  to  Florence,  and 
from  there  to  Utah  by  ox  teams,  accompanied 
by  his  five  children  and  his  sister,  now  Mrs. 
Olson  of  San  Diego,  California.  His  ox  teams 
gave  out  on  Green  river,  and  he  was  compelled 
to  remain  there  for  a  time.  He  later  came  to  the 
Weber  valley  and  located  on  the  Weber  river, 
at  Alountain  Green,  where  he  remained  a  few 
months  only,  going  from  there  to  Alorgan  county 
and  taking  up  a  squatter's  claim  on  the  site  where 
Alorgan  City  now  stands.  Here  he  built  a  home. 
He  found  a  good  quality  of  lime  rock  on  his  place 
and  burned  all  the  lime  used  in  the  construction 
work  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  along  the 
Weber  river.  He  followed  this  business  for  thirty 
years,  meantime  clearing  his  land  and  improving 
it,  and  taking  up  the  occupation  of  farming,  in 
which  he  has  been  very  successful.     In  1872  he 


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built  a  large  house  facing  the  railroad  station,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  had  a  general  store  adjoin- 
ing his  dwelling.  At  this  time  he  owns  consider- 
able property  in  Morgan  City.  He  has  helped  take 
out  a  number  of  water  ditches  from  Weber  river, 
and  built  the  greater  part  of  the  North  Morgan 
ditch  on  contract. 

Mr.  Williams  has  had  four  wives.  His  first 
wife  was  Miss  Eliza  Ames,  whom  he  married  in 
Wales.  She  came  to  America  with  him,  and  died 
in  Scranton,  Pennsylvania,  leaving  a  family  of 
seven  children,  of  whom  five  are  now  living — 
Mary  Ann,  now  the  wife  of  Nelson  Harvey ; 
Joseph  ;  Jane,  wife  of  Joseph  Holt ;  Hyrum  ;  Har- 
riett, now  Mrs.  Thomas  E.  Jones,  of  California. 
His  second  wife  was  Harriett  Thurston,  daughter 
of  Bishop  Thurston  of  Milton,  who  was  a  school 
teacher  when  she  was  married  to  Mr.  Williams 
in  1861.  They  had  no  family.  His  third  wife 
was  Jane  (Carter)  Southwell,  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, who  died  in  1897,  leaving  no  family.  His 
present  wife  was  a  Mrs.  Anderton. 

In  politics  Mr.  Williams  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Democratic  party,  but  he  has 
never  sought  or  held  public  office,  giving  his 
entire  time  to  his  business.  Besides  his  property 
in  Morgan,  Mr.  Williams  has  four  houses  and 
lots  in  Osrden,  and  has  done  considerable  build- 
ing there,  as  well  as  in  Morgan. 


ILLIAM  ATWOOD.  Macaulay, 
the  great  historian,  has  truthfully 
said,  "The  history  of  a  country  is 
best  told  in  the  lives  of  its  people." 
In  presenting  the  biography  of  the 
Atwood  family  we  do  so  with  the  knowledge  that 
it  is  replete  with-  many  interesting  and  valua- 
ble incidents ;  the  life  of  a  people  inured  for  gen- 
erations to  the  hardship  of  frontier  life,  always 
foremost  in  the  advance  guard  of  civilization ; 
living  in  the  thick  of  the  fray,  and  occupying  po- 
sitions of  high  honor  and  trust  in  the  communi- 
ties where  they  have  made  their  homes. 


William  Atwood  was  born  in  Dunkirk,  New 
York,  January  30,  1839,  and  is  the  son  of  Simeon 
and  Melissa  (Turrell)  Atwood.  The  father  was 
a  native  of  New  York,  being  born  in  Montrose 
county,  September  12,  1814.  The  mother  was 
born  in  Burlington,  Vermont,  her  birth  occuring 
the  same  hour  as  that  of  the  late  Queen  Victoria. 
While  our  subject  was  a  small  boy,  the  family 
moved  to  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  from  there  to 
Crawford  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  the  father 
built  his  home  in  the  heavy  timber  country  of 
the  Keystone  State.  After  locating  here,  he  was 
for  many  years  agent  for  Mr.  Hidercooper,  a 
large  land  owner  in  Pennsylvania,  but  having 
at  that  time  no  broken  land  and  no  means  to  tide 
bun  over  the  first  few  years,  he  was  obliged  to 
deoend  on  day  labor  for  the  support  of  his  fam- 
ily, and  during  these  years  they  sufifered  many 
privations,  having  to  practice  the  most  rigid  econ- 
omy. The  father  secured  work  in  a  near-by 
brick  yard,  and  on  one  occasion  upon  returning 
home  he  discovered  the  family  were  entirely 
without  food,  the  children  having  been  sent  to 
bed  supperless,  and  the  wife  in  tears  over  the  dis- 
couraging prospect.  There  was  a  two  bushel 
sack  of  rye  in  the  house,  and  putting  this  on  his 
back  he  carried  it  three  miles  to  the  mill,  only  to 
find  the  miller  had  retired ;  nothing  daunted,  how- 
ever, he  obtained  the  key  to  the  mill  and  spent 
the  greater  part  of  the  night  grinding  the  rye, 
reaching  home  at  three  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
when  the  meal  was  converted  into  bread  and  the 
children  aroused  and  fed.  Thus  early  introduced 
to  the  hardships  that  must  always  go  hand  in 
hand  with  frontier  life,  the  family  were  better 
prepared  for  the  life  in  this  western  country  than 
were  some  others.  Later  they  moved  to  More- 
headville,  Erie  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  the 
father  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  bricks,  in 
which  he  was  fairly  successful,  and  continued 
until  1862.  On  the  i6th  of  June  of  that  year 
they  started  on  their  long  journey  for  Utah.  The 
three  oldest  children  were  Alonzo  T.,  William, 
our  subject,  and  Walter  Henry.  There  were 
eight  children  in  the  family. 

The  trip  across  the  plains  was  made  by  ox 
team,  and  during  the  journey  our  subject  suffered 
a  severe  illness,  in  which  his  life  was  despaired 


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of  by  all  the  family,  but  himself;  he  never  lost 
faith  in  his  ultimate  recovery,  and  comforted  his 
mother  with  the  assurance  of  his  returning 
health.  The  change  came  when  they  reached  the 
life-giving  breezes  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and 
from  that  time  forward  the  recovery  of  the  young 
man  was  rapid.  The  wagon  train,  of  which  Cap- 
tain J.  S.  Brown  was  in  charge,  arrived  in  Salt 
Lake  City  on  October  7,  1862. 

At  first  Mr.  Atwood  and  his  younger  brother, 
Walter  Henry,  worked  at  the  carpenter  trade, 
and  in  getting  out  timber  from  the  canyon.  Later 
they  built  a  brick  kiln  at  Murray,  and  were  as- 
sociated with  their  father  in  the  manufacture  of 
brick,  which  trade  he  had  taught  them  in  Penn- 
sylvania. L^pon  conferring  with  Brigham  Young 
before  undertaking  the  work,  the  elder  Mr.  At- 
wood had  been  discouraged  by  the  President, 
who  had  become  convinced  by  repeated  trials 
which  he  had  seen  made  that  good  brick  could 
not  be  made  in  this  Territory.  However,  when 
he  found  the  Atwoods  were  not  to  be  convinced, 
he  gave  them  his  blessing  and  encouraeed  them 
to  make  the  attempt,  which  they  did  with  marked 
success,  and  President  Young  was  agreeably  sur- 
prised to  find  the  product  far  superior  to  any- 
thing that  had  yet  been  produced.  The  father 
and  sons  continued  in  this  business  until  the 
death  of  the  former  in  the  early  nineties,  after 
which  the  sons  conducted  the  business  until  re- 
cently, when  our  subject  withdrew.  The  mother 
of  these  boys  died  about  a  year  after  reaching 
Utah. 

There  has  always  existed  a  most  beautiful  and 
harmonious  intimacy  between  our  subject  and 
his  brother,  Walter  Henry,  who  have  during  most 
of  their  lives  been  not  only  close  associates,  but 
interested  in  business  together.  Their  farms  ad- 
join and  their  houses  are  only  divided  by  the 
street,  living  on  opposite  sides  of  Murray  street. 
No  discord  has  ever  risen  between  them,  and  their 
lives  aflford  a  beautiful  example  of  what  broth- 
erly love  should  be. 

Mr.  Atwood's  home  place  consists  of  thirty 
acres  of  valuable  land ;  he  also  has  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  land  at  Park  City,  at  the  head 
of  Silver  Creek.  After  withdrawing  from  the 
brick  business,  he  engaged  in  the  coal,  lumber 


and  hardware  business,  and  is  now  one  of  the' 
successful  merchants  of  Murray.  His  residence 
is  a  handsome  and  commodious  brick,  fitted  up 
with  every  convenience  and  comfort,  and  sur- 
rounded by  a  beautiful  lawn,  shade  trees  and 
flowers. 

His  marriage  took  place  in  the  Endowment 
House  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  winter  of  1863, 
when  he  was  united  to  Aliss  Laura  Wade,  who 
lived  but  seven  weeks  after  the  ceremony  had 
been  performed.  He  sought  forgetfulness  amid 
strange  surroundings,  and  for  a  year  spent  his 
time  in  Wyoming,  where  he  worked  as  a  car- 
penter. At  the  end  of  that  time  he  returned 
home,  and  married  Sarah  J.  Wade,  a  sister  of  his 
deceased  wife.  The  present  Mrs.  Atwood  is  a 
lady  of  most  gracious  and  winning  manners,  be- 
loved by  all  who  know  her,  and  an  ornament  to 
the  society  in  which  she  moves.  She  has  borne 
her  husband  six  children — Oralie  M.,  now  the 
wife  of  George  W.  Baker,  a  physician  of  Ogden ; 
lona,  a  graduate  of  the  State  University,  still  at 
home;  Nina,  Raiola,  Wilma  and  Roscoe. 

In  politics  Mr.  Atwood  is  a  staunch  Demo- 
crat, but  not  an  office  seeker.  He  and  his  fam- 
ilv  are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  which 
they  are  active,  and  our  subject  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Seventies  since  1864. 

He  is  a  keen  sportsman,  and  several  times  ev- 
ery year  makes  trips  to  the  mountains  for  the 
purpose  of  hunting  and  fishing. 

Ihe  life  and  career  of  Mr.  Atwood  is  one  that 
may  well  afford  good  food  for  reflection  to  the 
young  man  starting  out  in  life  for  himself;  be- 
ginning as  a  poor  boy,  he  has  by  patient  in- 
dustry, untiring  perseverance  and  close  economy 
overcome  every  obstacle  and  made  a  record  as  an 
honest  and  successful  business  man  of  which  he 
may  justly  be  proud.  In  his  store  he  employs  a 
number  of  clerks,  and  estimates  his  business  at 
about  fifteen  thousand  dollars  a  year,  which  is 
a  large  business  for  his  locality. 

Mr.  Atwood  was  an  eye  witness  to  the  drill- 
ing of  the  first  coal  oil  well,  which  was  about  a 
mile  and  a  half  southeast  of  Titusville,  Pennsyl- 
vania. The  drill  was  operated  by  the  old  style 
flutter  wheel.  On  this  occasion  his  brother, 
Henrv,  was  with  him. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


ACOB  PEART.  Among  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Utah  no  one  has  taken  a  more 
prominent  or  active  part  in  the  develop- 
ment of  Salt  Lake  county  than  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  who  was  born  July  i, 
1835,  in  Alston,  Cumberland  county,  England. 

He  is  a  son  of  Jacob,  who  was  born  on  the 
River  Tine,  Alston,  Cumberland  county,  En- 
gland, June  3,  1 801.  He  was  the  son  of  George, 
who  was  born  in  Eneland  in  1765.  George  Peart 
was  a  farmer,  miner,  carpenter  and  miller  in  the 
old  country.  The  father  of  our  subject  was  a 
genius  along  mechanical  lines,  and  during  his 
life  time  he  constructed  with  his  own  hands  a 
wooden  clock,  which  was  kept  in  the  family  for 
many  years,  and  was  considered  as  good  a  time 
keeper  as  many  of  the  clocks  and  watches  made 
at  the  present  time.  He  also  made  a  bass  fiddle, 
which  was  used  in  the  Old  Methodist  Church, 
which  he  attended  in  England,  and  where  he  was 
the  chorister. 

Jacob  Peart  married  December  20,  1824,  to 
Miss  Elizabeth  Holden.  In  1841  he  and  his  wife 
came  to  America  on  account  of  their  religious 
proclivities.  They  first  settled  at  Nauvoo,  111., 
where  they  continued  to  live  until  the  e.xodus  of 
the  Mormon  people,  which  occurred  in  1846,  and 
taking  part  in  all  the  scenes  of  the  history  of 
the  Church  in  that  section.  Being  intimately  ac- 
quainted with  the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  Air. 
Peart  was  sent  by  him  to  Rock  Island,  Illinois, 
for  the  purpose  of  opening  up  coal  mines,  where 
he  was  residing  at  the  time  of  the  killing  of  the 
Prophet. 

The  family  later  moved  to  St.  Joseph,  Mis- 
souri, where  they  remained  for  a  short  time,  and 
in  the  following  spring  they  journeyed  to  Winter 
Quarters,  now  Florence,  Nebraska,  only  remain- 
ing there  for  three  days,  when  they  joined  Brig- 
ham  Young's  company  for  Utah  in  the  summer 
of  1848,  Stephen  H.  Goddard  being  captain  of 
ten  wagons  in  that  train.  After  an  adventurous 
trip  across  the  plains,  they  arrived  September 
20th  of  that  year.  Here  our  subject's  father  took 
up  the  mason  work,  and  followed  it  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  He  assisted  Brigham  Young  in  the 
construction  of  some  of  the  first  buildings  wtiich 
were  erected  in  Salt  Lake  City,  carrying  on  farm- 


ing at  the  same  time  in  the  vicinity  of  Eleventh 
South  and  State  streets,  where  he  owned  five 
acres  of  land,  on  which  he  built  him  a  home.  He 
followed  the  building  business  for  the  balance  of 
his  life.  He  died  April  20,  1874,  at  the  corner 
of  Eleventh  South  and  State  streets,  in  the  house 
of  his  son.  Our  subject's  mother  died  in  Nau- 
voo in  1841.  All  her  children  died  there  except 
our  subject. 

In  the  early  history  of  Utah  Mr.  Peart  was 
sent  to  Los  Vegas,  California,  to  assist  in  build- 
ing up  a  colony  in  that  section,  but  was  recalled 
during  the  year  in  which  Johnston's  army  ar- 
rived in  Utah,  being  commissioned  by  Brigham 
Young  to  serve  as  a  fuard  during  that  period. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-five  years  our  subject  be- 
gan business  for  himself.  July  20,  i860,  he  mar- 
ried Margaret  Gray,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah 
(McConacie)  Gray.  The  father  having  died  in 
England,  the  mother  came  to  L^tah  with  her  two 
daughters  in  1855.  Our  subject  and  wife  have 
had  twelve  children  born  to  them,  ten  of  whom 
are  still  liviup- — Olinthus  L.,  Elizabeth  L.,  John 
G.,  Margaret,  Violate,  DSniel,  Sarah,  Annie,  May, 
Sophronia  and  Lenora.  Jacob  L.  was  the  second 
child,  and  he  died  at  the  age  of  two  and  a  half 
years.  Mark,  the  eleventh  child,  died  at  the  age 
of  nine  years  and  ten  months. 

.A.fter  our  subject  married  he  first  took  up  land 
and  began  farming,  at  the  same  time  freighting 
and  following  these  avocations  until  1886.  Dur- 
ing the  time  when  he  was  engaged  in  the  freight 
business  he  furnished  material  for  many  of  the 
larger  buildings,  dwellings,  etc.  of  Salt  Lake 
City.  His  father  had  taken  up  land  where  the 
Metropolitan  building  now  stands,  and  where  our 
subject  lived  until  1864.,  when  he  moved  to  the 
corner  of  Eleventh  South  and  State  streets, 
where  he  built  an  adobe  dwelling,  which  now 
stands  unoccupied,  this  being  one  of  the  first  res- 
idences built  in  that  vicinity.  He  occupied  this 
dwelling  until  he  constructed  his  new  brick 
house,  in  1890,  which  he  located  at  53  East  Elev- 
enth South,  and  is  modern  in  all  particulars. 

During  the  years  Mr.  Peart  carried  on  farm- 
ing, he  had  a  large  farm  of  500  acres  in  the  Bear 
River  country,  but  this  has  later  been  turned  over 
to  his  son. 


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Mr.  Peart  has  been  instrumental  in  building  a 
number  of  residences  in  Salt  Lake  City  and 
county. 

He  is  now  engaged  in  the  general  merchandise 
business,  at  tlie  southwest  corner  of  Ninth  East 
and  Twelfth  South,  having  started  there  in  the 
early  nineties. 

In  politics  he  has  always  been  identified  with 
the  Republican  partv  ever  since  its  organization 
in  this  State,  and  while  he  has  taken  an  active 
interest  in  the  party,  yet  has  never  desired  pub- 
lic office.  He  has  served  on  the  missionary  work 
for  the  Church,  and  has  been  ordained  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Seventies. 

John  G.,  one  of  his  sons,  has  served  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Virginia.  Daniel  served  on  a  mission  to 
Colorado  during  1897  and  1898. 

Mr.  Peart's  long  residence  in  Salt  Lake  City 
and  county  has  been  marked  by  a  straightfor- 
ward, honest,  upright  life.  He  has  been  the 
means  of  assisting  a  great  many  young  men  in 
starting  in  life. 


(^XORABLE  EZRA  THOMPSUX. 
For  the  past  four  years  the  attairs  of 
the  City  of  Salt  Lake  have  been  di- 
rected by  a  man  who  had  never  held 
an  executive  position  prior  to  his 
election  to  the  Mayoralty  of  this  city.  His  suc- 
cess in  mining  and  in  business  life,  and  the  abil- 
itv  he  exhibited,  led  to  his  selection  by  the  peo- 
ple, and  their  confidence  has  been  justified  by 
the  able  manner  in  which  he  has  discharged  the 
duties  of  that  position.  He  is  a  native  of  this 
State  and  a  native  of  Salt  Lake  City,  being  born 
in  the  city  he  now  presides  over  on  July  17, 
1850. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and 
when  quite  a  small  boy  was  thrown  on  his  own 
resources  and  forced  to  make  his  own  way  in 
the  world.  He  has  earned  his  own  living  since 
he  was  thirteen  years  of  age,  and  his  present  po- 
sition has  been  reached  bv  the  sheer  force  of  de- 


termination, courage  and  industry.  His  work 
was  in  freighting  goods  from  Salt  Lake  City 
to  Nevada,  and  to  the  mining  districts  of  this 
State,  and  when  seventeen  years  of  age  he  had 
charge  of  a  four-yoke  team  of  oxen,  which  he 
drove  across  the  plains  from  North  Platte,  Ne- 
braska, to  Salt  Lake  City.  This  trip  was  at  that 
time  an  arduous  undertaking  and  consumed 
nearly  a  year.  In  addition  to  the  slowness  of 
traveling,  the  hostile  attitude  of  the  Indians  made 
constant  vigilance  a  necessity.  His  freighting 
business  grew  as  the  years  progressed,  and  led 
to  his  becoming  interested  in  the  mining  re- 
sources of  the  State.  He  had  large  contracts  for 
hauling  ore  from  the  mines,  and  became  conver- 
sant with  the  details  of  that  business,  and  for 
the  past  twenty  years  has  been  identified  with  a 
large  number  of  the  most  prosperous  mines  of 
this  State.  He  has  been  an  officer  and  stock- 
holder for  a  number  of  years  in  the  Daly  West 
and  the  Silver  King  mines,  to  the  extent  that 
he  now  ranks  among  the  representative  mining 
men  of  the  State. 

Mayor  Thompson  is  possessed  of  that  strong 
will  power  that  carries  in  its  train  success  in 
wnatever  is  undertaken.  When  a  boy  driving  ox 
teams  to  and  from  the  mines  and  across  the  great 
American  desert,  he  determined  that  his  life 
would  be  a  success,  and  he  has  demonstrated  his 
power  and  ability  to  conquer  obstacles  that  stood 
in  the  pathway  of  success.  He  has  seen  Salt 
Lake  City  grow  to  its  present  size  and  import- 
ance, and  has  aided  materially  in  its  work.  He 
has  been  interested  in  the  development  of  the 
State  as  w-ell  as  of  the  city,  and  is  one  of  the 
men  who  have  successfully  brought  Utah  to  the 
prominent  position  it  now  occupies  in  the  ranks 
of  the  Western  States.  He  believes  in  the  fu- 
ture prominence  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  in  the 
future  prosperity  of  the  State.  He  has  seen  the 
great  American  desert  turned  from  a  wilder- 
ness into  a  land  hiving  with  industry ;  the  once 
barren  land  covered  with  growing  crops ;  bar- 
ren mountains  yielding  up  wealth  and  sustenance 
for  the  people,  and  a  State  unknown  at  the  time 
of  his  birth,  raised  to  a  prominent  rank  in  the 
L'nion.  His  success  in  life  is  one  of  the  bril- 
liant records  that  men  have  made  in  Utah.    The 


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truism  that  "A  prophet  is  not  without  honor, 
save  in  his  own  country,"  has  been  reversed,  for 
in  the  very  city  in  which  he  was  born,  he  has 
overcome  obstacles  that  seemed  insurmountable, 
and  has  risen  step  by  step  through  his  own  in- 
dustry and  energy  to  the  head  of  its  govern- 
ment. 

Mayor  Thompson  was  married  on  February 
14,  1885,  to  Miss  Emily  Pugsley.  Her  father 
was  one  of  the  earlv  pioneers  of  Utah,  and  was 
prominent  in  the  settlement  of  this  State.  He 
was  extensively  engaged  in  mining  and  milling, 
and  in  manufacturing ;  in  fact  was  interested  in 
almost  all  of  the  industries  of  Utah.  The  May- 
or's family  consists  of  four  children — Linn  H., 
the  oldest,  now  thirteen  years  of  age ;  Norinne, 
Ezra  P.  and  Clyde  R. 

In  politics  the  Mayor  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican,  and  has  followed  the  for- 
tunes of  that  party  with  unwavering  fidelity  and 
zeal.  While  a  resident  of  Park  City  -he  was  for 
four  years  a  member  of  the  City  Council.  He 
was  elected  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City  in  1898, 
and  so  popular  was  his  administration  and  so 
ably  did  he  administer  the  affairs  of  the  city  that 
he  was  re-elected  by  a  large  majority,  decisively 
defeating  the  Democratic  candidate. 

Mayor  Thompson  comes  from  an  old  Eastern 
family.  His  father,  Ezra,  was  a  native  of  Con- 
necticut, and  his  mother  Lois  (Trumbull) 
Thompson,  was  a  native  of  Maine.  His  paternal 
and  maternal  ancestors  were  among  the  earlv 
settlers  of  the  Eastern  part  of  the  country.  Mayor 
Thompson's  family  came  across  the  plains  and 
settled  in  Salt  Lake  City,  arriving  here  a  short 
time  after  the  first  settlers  came  in. 

The  Mayor  is  a  man  of  dignified  appearance, 
tall  and  well  built,  and  of  a  commanding  pres- 
ence. His  success  has  been  due  to  the  great  de- 
termination and  energy  which  he  has  brought  to 
the  accomplishment  of  every  task  allotted  to  him. 
His  able  administration  of  the  city's  affairs,  to- 
gether with  his  genial,  kindly  nature,  has  made 
him  one  of  the  most  oopular  men  in  this  city  and 
throughout  Utah,  and  no  man  stands  higher  in 
the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  people  than 
does  the  present  Chief  Executive  of  the  Capital 
of  the  State. 


KNRY  G.  McMillan.  There  are 
few  men  in  Salt  Lake  City  who  have 
taken  a  more  prominent  part  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  mining  resources  of 
Utah  than  has  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  He  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  busi- 
ness men  in  the  entire  inter-mountain  region, 
and  is  one  who  has  accomplished  a  great  deal 
of  work  in  bringing  the  resources  of  Utah  to 
their  present  satisfactory  condition.  His  atten- 
tion has  not  been  limited  to  the  field  of  min- 
ing, but  he  has  also  taken  a  wide  interest  in  all 
the  varied  commercial  enterprises  which  go  to 
build  up  a  prosperous  State.  He  is  one  of  the 
staunchest  business  men  of  this  city,  and  one  in 
whom  the  people  have  the  utmost  confidence. 

Henry  G.  McMillan  was  born  in  Giles  county, 
Tennessee,  and  when  but  a  young  boy  his  par- 
ents moved  to  Macoupin  county,  Illinois,  and 
here  our  subject  spent  his  early  life.  He  was 
educated  in  the  regular  schools  of  that  county 
and  in  the  Blackburn  University,  a  famous  Pres- 
byterian institution  of  Illinois,  of  which  his  fa- 
ther was  one  of  the  founders.  He  started  out 
to  earn  his  own  living  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  wool,  handling 
wool  in  all  of  its  various  forms  and  doing  both 
a  wholesale  and  a  retail  business.  He  was  con- 
nected with  the  first  wool  manufactory  in  Ma- 
coupin county.  In  this  business  he  was  very  suc- 
cessful, and  remained  identified  with  it  for  over 
ten  years.  In  addition  to  the  work  of  building 
up  his  factory,  he  also  traveled  as  a  salesman  for 
the  same.  In  December,  1875,  ^^  removed  from 
Illinois  and  came  West  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  assumed  charge  of  the  general 
business  of  Durrant  &  Cutting,  who  at  that  time 
handled  ores  and  smelting  supplies,  and  also  op- 
erated an  extensive  forwarding  and  express  bus- 
iness to  the  outlying  districts,  and  also  imported 
large  quantities  of  grain  into  this  section  of  the 
country.  After  serving  as  their  manager  for 
two  years,  the  business  of  the  firm  was  trans- 
ferred. 

Mr.  McMillan  secured  employment  in  the  dis- 
trict court  in  the  early  part  of  1877,  and  remained 
there  until  1894,  first  as  deputy  and  later  as  chief 
clerk,  and  throughout  this  time  he  was  also  iden- 


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tified  with  other  business  and  with  mining  prop- 
ositions, as  well  as  having  interests  in  the  real 
estate  and  stock  business.  Soon  after  the  termi- 
nation of  his  services  at  the  district  court  he 
established  himself  in  business  and  continued  for 
several  years  as  a  general  broker  and  later 
formed  a  partnership  with  J.  E.  Bamberger,  un- 
der the  firm  name  of  Bamberger  &  McMillan, 
the  new  firm  carrying  on  a  general  brokerage 
business  and  also  handling  ores  on  a  large  scale, 
as  agents  of  M.  Guggenheim  &  Sons.  At  the 
time  of  the  consolidation  of  the  smelting  inter- 
ests of  the  firm  of  M.  Guggenheim  &  Sons  with 
the  American  Smelting  Company,  the  firm  of 
Bamberger  &  McMillan  was  also  merged  into 
the  corporation,  and  since  that  time  Mr.  McMil- 
lan has  been  largely  identified  with  the  interests 
of  this  new  company.  This  is  now  one  of  the 
largest  smeltino-  companies  in  Utah,  and  in  fact 
in  the  inter-mountain  region.  He  has  aided 
largely,  not  only  in  bringing  its  capacity  up  to 
its  present  size,  but  has  also  been  instrumental 
in  expanding  its  field  of  operations.  He  is  also 
prominently  identified  with  the  growth  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  in  addition  to  his  large  real  es- 
tate holdings,  is  interested  in  many  of  its  com- 
mercial enterprises,  and  in  the  line  of  mining 
and  smelting  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  this  State. 

He  was  married  in  Illinois  in  1873,  to  Miss 
Emma  L.  Corn,  whose  father  was  a  prominent 
merchant  m  Lexington,  Kentucky,  in  his  early 
life,  but  who  died  when  Mrs.  McMillan  was  a 
small  child.  By  this  marriage  they  have  nine 
children,  si.x  daughters  and  three  sons.  His 
oldest  daughter.  Lute,  is  now  the  wife  of  Gus- 
tave  Luellwitz,  of  Spokane,  Washington,  and 
Anna  Mae  is  the  wife  of  Samuel  C.  Adams,  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  New  York  Life  Insurance 
Company,  at  Denver,  Colorado.  Leta  has  re- 
cently graduated  from  the  Salt  Lake  City  high 
School  and  from  the  National  Park  Seminary. 
Gordon,  his  oldest  son,  is  in  Williston  Academy, 
in  Massachusetts,  taking  a  special  course  in  elec- 
trical engineering.  His  other  children  are:  Bess, 
Mildred,  Aline,  Harold  and  Donald. 

Mr.  McMillan  comes  of  one  of  the  old  Pres- 
byterian   families    of    Illinois,    his    father,     Ed- 


ward, having  been  one  of  the  prominent  minis- 
ters of  that  faith  in  that  State.  At  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  War  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
United  States  army  as  a  captain,  and  died  near 
the  close  of  the  war  at  the  battle  of  Atlanta, 
Georgia.  At  this  time  his  son  was  sixteen  years 
of  age,  and  the  death  of  his  father  necessitated 
his  starting  out  in  life  for  himself  at  that  age. 
His  wife,  and  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  Miss  Mary  Ann  (Brown)  McMil- 
lan, who  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years. 
She  was  a  sister  of  ex-Governor  Neil  S.  Brown, 
of  Tennessee, and  also  of  John  C.  Brown.  Neil 
S.  Brown  was  later  Ambassador  to  Russia  under 
President  Tyler,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  forties 
or  the  early  fifties.  John  C.  Brown  was  also  a 
prominent  man  in  the  affairs  of  the  United 
States,  and  was  active  in  securing  the  bill  of 
the  Texas  Pacific  railroad,  and  for  many  years 
was  its  president  and  general  manager,  which  po- 
sition he  continued  to  fill  until  it  was  absorbed 
by  the  Gould  interests,  when  he  became  general 
superintendent  of  all  the  Gould  lines,  holding 
the  latter  position  until  his  death  in  1888. 

Our  subject  has  always  been  a  staunch  Repub- 
lican, and  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
the  work  of  the  party  in  Utah,  having  served 
in  the  Council  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was  also 
receiver  of  the  Salt  Lake  and  Eastern  railway, 
which  extended  from  Coalville  to  Park  City,  and 
which  was  finally  absorbed  by  the  Union  Pacific 
railroad  in  1880.  Mr.  McMillan  is  a  prominent 
member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  faith  for  over  thirty  years.  The 
ancestors  of  the  McMillans  were  natives  of  Scot- 
land, and  his  father's  family  were  early  settlers 
in  North  Carolina.  His  mother's  people  were 
prominent  in  Tennessee,  both  in  the  political  and 
financial  life  of  that  State.  His  paternal  and 
maternal  grandfathers  both  fought  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War  on  the  side  of  the  Colonists,  and 
his  paternal  grandfather  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  New  Orleans,  in  1812,  under  General  Andrew 
Jackson.  Mr.  McMillan's  grandfather  at  that 
time  was  a  Major  of  one  of  the  famous  Ten- 
nessee regiments  of  riflemen. 


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ISHOP  ELIAS  MORRIS,  deceased, 
founder  of  the  widely  known  firm  of 
Elias  Morris  &  Sons  Company,  stone 
contractors  and  manufacturers  of 
monumental  work,  mantles,  grates, 
marble  work,  etc.,  was  the  oldest  of  five  brothers 
to  emigrate  to  America.  They  were,  Elias,  Wil- 
liam v.,  Richard  V.,  John  and  Hugh — all  of 
whom  are  now  dead.  Some  years  prior  to  his 
death  Bishop  Morris  undertook  to  write  a  bio- 
graphical sketch  of  his  life,  but  owing  to  his  many 
and  arduous  duties,  this  was  never  completed. 
However,  from  it  we  learn  that  his  parents  were 
born  at  Llanfair,  Taihhairne,  Denbigshire,  North 
Wales,  and  had  a  family  of  seven  sons  and  five 
daughters.  His  father  was  a  mason  by  trade 
and  did  contracting  in  his  own  country.  His 
son,  the  late  Bishop  Morris,  learned  the  trade 
from  his  father,  and  becoming  a  convert  to  the 
Mormon  religion,  emigrated  to  America  in  1852. 
He  had  been  baptized  in  1849,  and  in  1851  Pres- 
ident John  Taylor  paid  a  visit  to  his  home  in 
North  Wales  and  there  organized  a  company  of 
capitalists  to  purchase  machinery  for  the  man- 
ufacture of  beet  sugar  in  Utah,  it  being  their 
intention  to  establish  this  industry  in  Salt  Lake 
Citv.  ]\lr.  Morris,  understanding  the  handling 
of  such  machinery,  he  was  engaged  by  Presi- 
dent Taylor  to  come  to  Utah  in  the  interests  of 
the  sugar  company,  and  left  Liverpool  in  charge 
of  the  machinery  in  March,  1852.  He  landed  at 
New  Orleans  and  proceeded  from  there  by  boat 
to  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  a  large 
number  of  wagons  and  ox  teams  had  been  pur- 
chased to  transport  the  machinery  across  the 
plains  to  Utah.  The  trip  was  a  very  slow  and 
tedious  one,  many  privations  and  hardships  be- 
ing endured  by  the  Bishop,  who  finally  arrived 
in  Salt  Lake  City  in  November  of  that  year. 
However,  the  time  for  such  an  industry  in  Utah 
was  not  yet  ripe,  and  the  company  did  not  ma- 
ture. The  scheme  was  found  to  be  impractica- 
ble, and  although  several  thousand  dollars  had 
been  invested,  the  matter  was  abandoned  and 
was  not  taken  up  again  for  many  years.  How- 
ever, when  the  beet  factory  became  a  reality 
Bishop  Morris  was  one  of  the  foremost  men  in 
the  company,  and  became  its   President.     There 


was  some  excitement  over  the  discovery  of  iron 
in  Iron  county,  and  a  company  being  formed  for 
the  purpose  of  manufacturing  iron.  Bishop  Mor- 
ris was  engaged  to  put  up  the  furnace  for  this 
company,  who  did  considerable  work,  but  not 
enough  to  make  the  venture  a  paying  one,  and 
the  scheme  finally  failed  for  want  of  funds.  The 
Bishop  then  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  en- 
gaged in  doing  contract  work,  in  1864.  Among 
the  buildings  which  he  erected  and  the  work  he 
did  may  be  mentioned  the  Eagle  Emporium  build- 
ing, for  William  Jennings ;  the  drug  store  for 
Godbe,  Pitt  &  Company,  and  a  number  of  others. 

In  1865  he  was  sent  on  a  mission  for  the 
Church  to  Wales,  where  he  remained  until  June, 
1869,  when  he  brought  back  a  company  of  three 
hundred  and  sixty-five  converts.  L'pon  his  re- 
turn to  Salt  Lake  he  entered  into  partnership 
with  Samuel  L.  Evans,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Morris  &  Evans,  builders.  They  did  a  grow- 
ing business,  and  upon  the  opening  of  the  mines 
in  Utah  made  a  specialty  of  fire  brick  and  fur- 
nace building.  They  put  up  the  Germania 
works,  the  smelters  at  Sandy,  Bingham,  Little 
Cottonwood,  Flagstatf,  East  Canyon  and  Stock- 
ton. Also  the  mills  and  cornish  pump  at  the 
Ontario  mines.  They  put  in  the  basement  of 
the  Salt  Lake  Temple,  the  Deseret  National 
Bank  block  and  the  store  building  of  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution.  After  the 
death  of  his  partner,  Mr.  Morris  carried  the 
business  on  in  his  own  name  for  a  time,  and  it 
later  became  Elias  Morris  &  Sons  Company,  un- 
der which  title  it  stni  continues. 

Bishop  Morris  was  also  closely  associated  with 
many  other  industries  and  enterprises  of  Utah, 
among  which  may  be  mentioned  a  tannery,  the 
Salt  Lake  Foundry,  the  soap  factory,  and  laid 
the  cut  stone  in  the  City  and  County  Building 
in  Salt  Lake  City;  also  the  gravity  sewer  of  the 
city.  He  was  for  four  years  a  member  of  the 
Citv  Council,  and  for  one  year  a  director  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce.  In  1895  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
which  drafted  the  organic  laws  of  the  State  of 
Utah.  In  1889,  when  the  Utah  Sugar  Company 
was  organized  he  was  made  President,  and  held 
that  position  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.      He 


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was  also  much  interested  in  music  and  the  fine 
arts.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  Eistedd- 
fod, which  was  held  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  was 
treasurer  and  director  of  that  association.  In 
the  Mormon  Church  he  held  the  position  of  High 
Counselor  for  nearly  twenty  years.  On  Septem- 
ber 12,  1888,  he  was  set  apart  as  President  of 
the  High  Priests'  Quorum  of  Salt  Lake  Stake, 
and  held  that  position  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
When  the  Ward  was  reorganized.  May  11,  1890, 
he  was  chosen  to  succeed  Bishop  Joseph  Pol- 
lard, also  holding  that  office  up  to  his  death. 

Bishop  Morris  died  March  17,  1898,  as  the 
result  of  a  fall  down  the  elevator  shaft  of  one  of 
the  public  buildings.  He  died  surrounded  by  his 
family,  and  mourned  by  the  entire  city,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-three  years.  The  funeral  was 
very  largely  attended,  the  Tabernacle  building, 
where  the  services  were  conducted,  not  being 
large  enough  to  hold  the  large  concourse  which 
gathered  to  pay  their  respects  to  their  late  towns- 
man. 


1()R^L\X  W.  EREKSOX.  In  the  vast 
work  of  settling  and  developing  Utah. 
-he  has  drawn  from  the  reserve  forces 
Mf  nearly  every  civilized  country  in  the 
world.  Among  those  countries  Nor- 
way has  furnished  many  of  her  noble  sons  and 
daughters ;  among  them  Jonas  Erekson,  the  fa- 
ther of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Norman  W. 
Erekson  was  born  in  South  Cottonwood  Ward, 
March  9,  1867.  He  is  a  son  of  Jonas  and  Mary 
(Powell)  Erekson;  the  father  having  been  born 
in  Norway. and  the  mother  in  Pennsylvania. 

In  1849  the  senior  Mr.  Erekson  emigrated  to 
America,  arriving  in  Utah  the  same  year,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  within  one  mile  of  where  our 
subject  now  resides.  The  Powell  family  also  set- 
tled in  the  same  vicinity,  James  Powell  being 
among  the  first  to  introduce  irrigation  in  that 
section.  Jonas  Erekson  went  to  California  the 
year  following  his  arrival  in  Utah,  having 
caught  the  gold  fever,  but  not  meeting  with  the 
success  he  had  anticipated,  returned  to  Utah  in 
1851.     He  was  one  of  the  first  men  in  Utah  to 


engage  in  the  sheep  and  cattle  business,  which 
occupation  he  successfully  followed  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  January  4,  1881,  at  the 
age  of  fifty-four  years,  eleven  months  and 
twenty-eight  days.  He  had  early  become  a  fol- 
lower of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  continued  to 
be  a  faithful  and  liberal  supporter  of  that  faith 
throughout  the  balance  of  his  life.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  w'as  a  professional  nurse,  and  as 
such  found  here  a  wide  field  for  her  services, 
following  her  profession  for  many  years  in  Salt 
Lake  county,  and  winning  a  high  reputation  for 
her  skill.  Among  other  things,  she  compounded 
a  remedy  for  diphtheria,  which  was  reputed  to 
be  an  infallible  cure,  she  having  successfully 
treated  hundreds  of  cases  with  it.  The  original 
recipe  is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  Erekson 
family.  Mrs.  Erekson  died  on  May  17,  1891, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-one  years,  one  month  and 
eight  days.  She  was  the  mother  of  five  sons 
and  two  daughters — Jonas  H.,  a  resident  of 
Salt  Lake  county;  Mary  A.,  now  Mrs.  A.  A. 
Cahoon;  James  T.,  resides  on  the  old  home 
place;  Norman  W.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is 
the  youngest  in  the  family.  He  remained  at 
home  with  his  parents  until  their  death  and  then 
started  out  in  life  for  himself.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  received  in  the  common  schools  of  Salt 
Lake  county.  In  the  late  seventies  he  attended 
Saint  I^Iark's  School  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later 
the  Deseret  University,  now  the  University  of 
Utah.  The  most  of  his  schooling  was  obtained 
in  the  winter  months,  his  summers  being  devoted 
to  working  on  the  home  farm,  but  while  his  early 
education  was  limited,  he  has  ever  been  a  close 
student,  not  only  of  books,  but  also  learning 
from  the  great  school  of  life. 

He  first  settled  on  Ninth  East  street,  near 
Twentieth  South,  which  is  a  portion  of  the  old 
homestead,  containing  fifty-one  acres.  By  hard 
work,  perseverance  and  determination  he  has 
converted  his  place  into  one  of  the  finest  homes 
in  Salt  Lake  county.  His  residence  is  built  on 
a  prominence  overlooking  the  valley.  While 
Mr.  Erekson  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  to 
the  improvement  of  his  home  and  farm,  he  has 
also  been  largely  interested  in  the  cattle  and 
sheep  business,  and    is  considered    one  of    the 


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prominent  and  successful  men  of  this  section  of 
the  State. 

In  poHtics  he  has  always  been  a  believer  in 
the  protection  of  home  industry,  thus  following 
the  fortunes  of  the  Republican  party. 

On  March  29,  1888,  our  subject  was  married 
to  Miss  Ellen  Underwood,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Ehzabeth  (Kelsey)  Underwood.  The  fam- 
ily came  to  Utah  in  1879  from  England,  where 
Mrs.  Erekson  was  born.  One  son  has  been  born 
of  this  union — Percy  N. —  and  one  daughter — 
Labeta  B. 

Mr.  Erekson  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
educational  affairs  of  this  county,  and  especially 
in  the  Ward  where  he  resides ;  he  has  served  for 
a  number  of  years  as  school  trustee.  By  his  hon- 
orable, straightforward  business  principles  he 
has  won  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  have 
been  acquainted  and  associated  with  him  through 
life. 


KPHI  L.  MORRIS,  president  of  the 
lias  Morris  &  Sons  Company,  is  a 
member  of  one  of  the  old  and  reliable 
firms  of  Salt  Lake  City.  The  busi- 
ness was  established  by  his  father,  the 
late  Bishop  Elias  Morris,  at  an  early  day,  and 
he  presided  over  it  as  President  until  his  death 
in  1898.  The  concern  handles  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  complete  lines  of  marble,  granite  and 
building  stones  to  be  found  in  the  entire  West, 
as  well  as  mantles,  grates  and  a  large  line  of 
monumental  work.  They  do  an  extensive  con- 
tracting business,  and  are  well  known  through- 
out the  inter-mountain  country.  A  full  account 
of  the  life  and  work  of  the  father  of  our  subject 
will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Our  subject,  Nephi  L.  Morris,  was  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  October  21,  1870,  and  grew  to 
manhood  in  this  place,  '  receiving  his  education 
from  the  common  schools,  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo  and  the  University  of  Utah. 
He  has  been  associated  in  business  with  his 
father  since  attaining  his  majority,  and  the  above 
concern,  of  which  he  is  now  the  head,  was  in- 
corporated in  1893,  his  father  being  elected 
President  of  the  company  and  holding  that  po- 


sition up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  when  our  sub- 
ject succeeded  as  head  of  the  firm.  He  is,  like 
his  father,  one  of  the  enterprising,  wide-awake 
business  men  of  Utah,  and  is  active  in  many  en- 
terprises of  this  day.  The  firm  of  which  he  is 
the  head  does  perhaps  the  largest  business  in 
its  line  of  any  such  establishment  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region,  and  gives  employment  to  from 
twenty-five  to  forty  men,  according  to  the  sea- 
son of  the  year.  They  own  their  present  hand- 
some cjuarters  on  South  Temple  street,  which 
will  stand  for  many  years  as  a  monument  to  the 
memory  of  Elias  Morris. 

Mr.  Morris  is  a  member  of  the  Church  in 
which  he  was  born  and  reared,  and  from  1892 
to  1895  served  on  a  mission  to  Great  Britain, 
part  of  the  time  being  spent  in  London.  He  is 
Counselor  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Fifteenth  Ward, 
and  a  director  in  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Im- 
provement Association.     He  has  never  married. 

In  politics  Mr.  Morris  is  a  staunch  Republi- 
can, and  has  spent  considerable  time  working 
in  the  interests  of  that  party.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  last  Legislature. 

Socially  he  is  a  most  pleasing  and  attractive 
gentleman.  His  entire  life  has  been  spent  in 
this  city,  and  he  is  well  known  in  all  circles,  be- 
ing a  universal  favorite,  and  much  respected 
among  business  men  for  his  sterling  qualities 
and  high  business  methods. 


\MES  M.  WORTHINGTON  is  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  old,  sturdy  En- 
glish families.  The  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  this  country  was  our  subject's 
grandfather,  Isaac  W.,  who  was  born 
in  Cheshire,  England,  emigrated  to  America 
and  settled  in  Pennsylvania  some  time  in  the  sev- 
enteenth century,  where  he  spent  the  balance  of 
his  life. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Brighton,  Beaver 
county,  Pennsylvania,  January  3,  1831.  His  fa- 
ther, James  W.,  was  also  born  in  Pennsylvania, 
January  9,  1803.  His  wife  was  Rachel  Stealey, 
the  daughter  of  Jacob  Stealey,  who  was  born 
at  sea  while  his  parents  were  emigrating  to 
America  from  Germany.    When  our  subject  was 


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seven  years  of  age  his  parents  moved  to  Mis- 
souri, but  they  only  remained  one  month  in  that 
State,  going  to  Adams  county,  Illinios,  where 
they  lived  for  two  years,  and  then  moved  to  Nau- 
voo,  where  they  passed  through  all  the  troubles 
and  privations  which  the  Mormon  people  suf- 
fered at  that  period.  Mr.  Worthington,  our  sub- 
ject's father,  was  Captain  of  one  of  the  com- 
panies in  the  Nauvoo  Legion,  and  later  promoted 
to  Major,  and  during  the  battle  at  the  time  of 
the  eviction  of  the  Mormons  from  Nauvoo  in 
1846  had  charge  of  one  of  the  old  historic  guns 
made  from  the  shafts  of  an  old  river  boat.  The 
family  came  to  L^tah  in  1853  in  company  with 
Captain  Thomas  Rrierly.  They  remained  one 
month  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  then  located  on 
what  is  now  Garfield  beach,  where  the  father 
spent  one  winter  manufacturing  salt,  but  gave 
this  up,  and  in  the  spring  of  1854  moved  to 
Grantsville,  where  he  purchased  ninety  acres  of 
land  and  engaged  in  farming.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  a  few  years  spent  in  the  Deep  Creek 
country,  where  he  at  one  time  owned  a  farm, 
he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  Grantsville, 
dying  there  July  26,  1885,  h's  wife  having  died 
February  24,  1882. 

Our  subject  was  the  oldest  of  a  family  of  five 
children,  and  has  spent  the  greater  portion  of 
his  life  within  the  confines  of  this  State,  grow- 
ing up  on  his  father's  farm  and  securing  his 
education  from  the  common  schools  of  his  dis- 
trict. 

Mr.  Worthington  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  marriage  occurred  November  9,  1857,  to 
Miss  Martha  J.  Pratt,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Susan  (Blackburn)  Pratt,  and  by  this  marriage 
nine  children  were  born,  of  whom  three  are  now 
living — ^James  H.,  living  in  Oakley,  Idaho,  and 
who  has  just  returned  from  a  two  years'  mis- 
sion to  England ;  Stephen  S.,  living  in  Pleasant 
Green  Ward,  Salt  Lake  City,  and  who  served 
a  two  years'  mission  in  the  Southern  States ; 
Alice  A.,  now  Mrs.  Edward  Polton.  The  mother 
of  these  children  died  about  twelve  years  ago. 
His  second  marriage  was  to  Mrs.  Dorcas  L. 
(McBride)  Craner,  daughter  of  Jamesi  and 
Maria  (Reddan)  McBride.  Mrs.  Worthing- 
ton's    paternal     grandfather    was    Thomas     Mc- 


Bride, who  was  killed  at  Haun's  Mills,  on  the 
Shoal  creek,  in  Missouri.  His  son,  James,  the 
father  of  Mrs.  Worthington,  was  in  company 
with  Harrison  Sevier,  the  first  man  to  settle  in 
this  locality.  Mrs.  Worthington  has  two  sons — 
Elmer  and  Ray — by  her  former  marriage.  Her 
maternal  grandfather,  R.  J-  Redden,  came  to 
Utah  with  the  first  company  of  emigrants. 

In  politics  Mr.  Worthington  owes  allegiance 
to  the  Democratic  party,  and  for  two  terms  has 
been  a  member  of  the  City  Council.  He  is  a 
staunch  believer  in  the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  in  1863  was  sent  by  the  heads  of 
the  Church  to  conduct  a  party  of  emigrants  to 
Utah  from  the  Missouri  river. 

Mr.  Worthington's  chief  business  has  been 
that  of  a  farmer,  which  occupation  he  followed 
successfully  until  1898,  when  he  sold  his  farm 
and  moved  to  Grantsville  village,  since  which 
time  he  has  engaged  in  the  money  loaning  bus- 
iness. He  is  a  representative  man  of  this  com- 
munity, honorable,  upright  and  of  sterling  in- 
tegrity, and  in  his  declining  years  is  enjoying 
the  fruits  of  a  well  spent  life,  surrounded  by  a 
large  circle  of  life-long  friends.  He  was  Cap- 
tain of  the  Grantsville  Militia  in  the  early  days, 
and  he  also  took  an  active  part  in  the  Johnston 
army  troubles,  serving  for  a  month  on  this  cam- 
paign. 


ILLIAM  JEFFERIES.  Linked 
with  the  history  and  development 
of  Tooele  county  are  the  names  of 
a  few  whose  great  and  natural  force 
of  character  and  indomitable  en- 
ergy has  pushed  to  a  successful  termination  the 
various  enterprises  and  institutions  planned  for 
her  progress.  Among  such  men  may  be  men- 
tioned the  subject  of  this  sketch,  William  Jef- 
feries,  who,  though  sadly  handicapped  early  in 
life  by  the  loss  of  one  hand,  has  made  his  own 
way  in  life,  relying  solely  upon  himself,  and  has 
overcome  obstacles  that  might  well  have  dis- 
heartened a  man  with  less  fortitude  and  energ>'. 
Sterling  integrity  of  word  and  deed  has  char- 
acterized all  of  his  transactions,  and  his  history 


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presents  much  of  interest  and  inspiration  to  the 
young. 

William  Jefferies  was  born  in  Goodeaves. 
Somersetshire.  England.  March  8,  183 1,  and  is 
the  son  of  William  and  Lita  (Flower)  Jefiferies, 
both  natives  of  that  place.  Our  subject's  pater- 
nal grandfather  was  George  Jefiferies,  and  his 
maternal  grandfather  Edward  Flower.  William 
Jefferies  and  his  wife  both  died  in  England,  his 
wife  being  but  thirty-seven  years  of  age  when 
she  died.  There  were  seven  children  in  this 
family,  of  whom  our  subject  is  tlie  only  one  now 
living. 

Mr.  Jeffries  left  home  at  the  age  of  eleven, 
having  up  to  that  time  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  his  birthplace.  He  went 
to  Bristol,  where  he  was  employed  in  the  Avon 
Side  Iron  Works  as  a  machinist,  being  designed 
for  an  engineer.  On  Januarv  27,  1852,  he  lost 
his  left  hand,  and  was  compelled  to  give  up  his 
ambition  and  turn  his  attention  to  other  lines. 
He  took  a  course  in  a  business  college  and  fitted 
himself  for  office  work,  which,  however,  he  did 
not  at  once  take  up,  but  accepted  a  position  in 
which  he  operated  a  patent  screwing  machine  for 
five  years.  In  1856  he  embraced  the  Mormon  re- 
ligion, and  for  the  next  four  vears  and  three 
months  traveled,  doing  missionary  work  for  the 
Church,  coming  to  America  in  1861.  He  crossed 
the  plains  in  Joseph  W.  Young's  company,  ar- 
riving in  Salt  Lake  City  September  23rd  of  that 
year,  acting  as  a  clerk  for  church  companies 
while  on  the  way  across  the  plains,  and  shortly 
after  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  was  sent  out 
to  Grantsville  as  a  clerk  in  the  Tithing  office, 
and  has  made  his  home  here  since  that  time.  He 
occupied  the  position  of  a  clerk  for  sixteen  and 
a  half  years,  buying  in  the  meantime  part  of  the 
land  where  the  old  fort  had  stood  and  tearing 
down  the  old  wall  and  buildings.  He  built  a 
large  and  comfortable  adobe  house,  and  has  at 
this  time  several  other  pieces  of  property  adja- 
cent to  Grantsville.  He  was  made  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  Co-operative  Store  at  this  place 
in  1869,  continuing  in  that  capacity  for  several 
years,  which  business  he  helped  establish,  and 
which  has  since  proved  a  great  success.  In 
1880  he  was  again  re-elected  to  fill  the  office  of 


secretary  and  treasurer.  In  1882  he  was  made 
superintendent  of  this  establishment,  in  addi- 
tion to  his  other  offices,  and  remained  in  that  po- 
sition until  1891,  when  he  resigned.  He  also  had 
an  interest  at  one  time  in  the  mill  at  this  place, 
and  in  the  woolen  factory,  which  later  failed ;  in 
fact  there  has  scarcely  been  an  enterprise  started 
for  the  upbuilding  of  this  section  that  he  has 
not  assisted  in  fostering.  He  has  a  farm  of 
about  seventy-five  acres  near  Grantsville,  and 
is  also  interested  in  cattle  and  sheep. 

Mr.  Jefferies  was  married  in  Bristol,  England, 
April  3,  1861,  to  Miss  Mary  F.  Ould,  daughter 
of  William  and  Mary  (Fox)  Ould.  Mrs.  Jef- 
feries was  born  in  Lelant,  Cornwall,  England. 
Twelve  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  six 
of  whom  are  now  living — William  O.,  engaged  in 
ranching,  and  also  one  of  the  lessees  of  the  opera 
house  in  Grantsville  and  a  leader  of  the  brass 
band  at  that  place;  Richard,  farming,  and  also 
a  musician  of  some  ability;  Matilda,  the  wife  of 
Bishop  M.  M.  Stookey,  of  Rush  valley,  Albert, 
at  Provo;  Henry,  now  at  home,  recently  a  stu- 
dent at  the  Brigham  Young  Academy  at  Provo; 
Murray,  now  a  student  at  Provo;  two  children 
died  in  infancy;  Mary,  the  wife  of  Joseph  R. 
Olsen.  She  died  aged  thirty-two  years,  leaving 
three  children ;  James  F.,  died  aged  fifteen ; 
Franklin,  died  at  eleven  years  of  age;  Lita,  died 
at  the  age  of  nine  years.  Mr.  Jefferies'  wife  and 
children,  are  also  members  of  the  Mormon  faith, 
and  active  in  Church  work.  William  O.  served 
two  years,  engaged  in  missionary  work  in  the 
Northwestern  States,  where  he  was  called  in 
1887.  Richard  labored  in  England  from  1893 
to  189s ;  Albert  was  called  to  the  Southern 
States  in  1897,  and  remained  in  that  district  for 
over  two  years.  Of  his  sons-in-law,  Joseph  R. 
Olsen  was  called  to  Sweden  in  1890,  and  spent 
two  years  in  that  field,  and  Bishop  Stookey 
served  for  two  years  in  the  Northwestern  States. 
Smce  living  in  Grantsville,  Mr.  Jefferies  has 
been  Counsel  to  several  Bishops,  and  was  also 
acting  Bishop  of  Grantsville  for  three  years  and 
nine  months.  He  has  also  been  Stake  and  Sun- 
day School  Superintendent  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  Counselor  to  the  President  of  the 
High  Priests,  which  latter  position  he  now  holds. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


461 


He  has,  by  his  integrity  and  honesty,  won  a 
high  place  in  the  esteem  of  those  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated  throughout  a  long  life,  and 
has  by  care  and  perseverance  accumulated  a 
considerable  amount  of  this  world's  goods,  and 
now,  in  the  declinins'  years  of  his  life,  has  re- 
tired from  active  work  and  is  enjoying  the  fruits 
of  a  well  spent  and  honorable  life,  which  his 
friends  trust  he  may  continue  to  do  for  many 
years  yet  to  come. 


NDREW  G.  BENSON.  It  has  been 
said  that  men's  lives  are  practically 
alike ;  that  "born,  married,  died,"  is 
the  summing  up  of  the  majority  of 
careers,  and,  superficially  considered, 
this  often  appears  to  be  the  truth.  But,  after  all, ' 
the  filling  in  of  these  meager  skeletons  of  moun- 
tain-peak events  in  the  life  of  the  average  man 
is  what  constitutes  his  individuality,  and  the  one 
thing  which  truly  counts,  both  in  this  life  and 
the  one  to  come,  is  character.  And  often  has  it 
been  pointed  out  to  us  by  the  poet,  preacher  and 
philosopher,  aye,  by  the  lessons  and  experience 
of  our  own  lives,  that  strong,  rugged  characters 
are  formed  only  in  the  storm — that  "flowery  beds 
of  ease"  are  not  conducive  to  the  nobility  of  soul 
and  strength  of  mind  which  we  admire  and  covet. 
Andrew  G.  Benson,  the  subject  of  our  sketch, 
was  born  in  Skoneholle.  Sweden,  August  22, 
1863.  He  is  the  son  of  John  and  Anna  L.  (Ja- 
cobson)  Benson,  both  natives  of  Sweden,  where 
the  father  died  after  his  conversion  to  the  Mor- 
mon faith.  His  mother  was  converted  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Lat- 
ter Day  Saints,  and  after  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band came  to  America  with  other  Mormon  emi- 
grants, and  located  at  Grantsville,  this  State.  She 
had  left  her  small  family  of  three  boys  and  one 
girl  in  the  old  country,  where  three  of  the  chil- 
dren remained,  our  subject  following  his  mother 
to  Utah  in  1874.  This  was  a  long  journey  for 
a  lad  of  eleven  years,  and  the  undertaking  was 
an  indication  of  the  strenrth  of  character  and 
determination  to  succeed  in  his  purpose  despite 


every  obstacle,  that  has  since  characterized  his 
life.  He  remained  with  his  mother  until  1880, 
with  the  exception  of  four  months  spent  in  Ne- 
vada in  1879,  seeking  work,  receiving  such 
schooling  as  was  to  be  obtained  from  the  schools 
in  that  district,  and  doing  whatever  he  could  to- 
wards assisting  his  mother  in  earning  a  living. 
In  1880  he  went  to  Idaho,  and  for  the  next  seven 
years  worked  in  that  State  at  intervals.  He  was 
careful  and  econoinical,  and  from  time  to  time, 
as  the  occasion  offered,  put  away  a  little  of  his 
earnings,  until  in  1888  he  was  able  to  buy  a  few 
sheep,  which  was  the  foundation  of  his  since 
most  successful  business  in  this  line. 

Our  subject  married  in  February,  1888,  to 
Miss  Lulu  May  Sabin,  the  daughter  of  Ara  and 
Nancy  Sabin.  Mrs.  Benson  is  a  Utahn,  having 
been  born  in  Grantsville.  By  this  marriage  they 
have  had  six  children — Aquila,  Andrew  Murray, 
Grant,  Lee,  Parley  G.  Enid  May,  and  Blanche. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Benson  is  a  staunch  Re- 
publican, having  been  identified  with  that  party 
ever  since  its  organization  in  Utah,  and  has  ever 
been  an  active  and  faithful  worker  in  its  ranks, 
and  has  been  rewarded  with  a  number  of  posi- 
tions of  honor  and  trust,  both  in  the  party  and 
in  the  gift  of  the  people.  For  two  years  he  filled 
the  office  of  City  Counselor  of  Grantsville,  and 
in  1888  was  elected  3  County  Commissioner  for 
Tooele  county,  being  re-elected  in  1900.  In  1901 
he  was  a  delegate  to  the  State  Convention,  held 
at  Provo.  Mr.  Benson  is  also  actively  interested 
in  many  of  the  schemes  for  the  promotion  of  the 
interests  of  his  immediate  neighborhood,  being 
a  member  of  the  Building  Board  of  the  Grants- 
ville opera  house,  and  a  large  stockholder  in  the 
Grantsville  South  Willow  Irrigation  Company,  in 
which  he  is  one  of  the  directors.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  prominent  in 
its  work  in  Grantsville,  and  Counselor  to  the 
President  of  the  Young  Men's  Mututal  Improve- 
ment Association  of  that  Ward.  Mr.  Benson  has 
a  finely  improved  farm  of  one  hundred  and  thirty- 
six  acres  near  Grantsville,  where  he  makes  his 
home. 

While  yet  a  young  man,  he  has  during  his  life 
here  demonstrated  his  ability  to  successfully  cope 
with  problems  that  would  daunt  older  and  more 


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experienced  men,  and  by  his  clearness  of  vision 
in  solving  difficult  questions,  his  quickness  to 
grasp  and  make  the  most  of  every  opportunity, 
and  his  unflinching  devotion  to  duty,  as  well  as 
the  highmindedness  he  has  displayed  in  all  busi- 
ness dealing's,  has  won  a  high  place  in  the  ranks 
of  the  business  men  of  this  locality,  and  today 
enjoys  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  both  in  private 
and  public  life. 


YRUM  E.  BOOTH.  It  is  true  that 
some  are  born  lucky,  and  what  is  usu- 
ally inferred  from  this  phrase,  children 
of  wealthy  parents,  and  who  in  child- 
hood are  surrounded  by  all  the  luxu- 
ries and  affluence  such  as  only  the  wealthy  peo- 
ple can  bestow  upon  their  children.  Whether 
these  conditions  always  result  for  the  best,  is  an- 
other thing. 

Hyrum  E.  Booth,  the  subject  of  this  article, 
was  not  born  or  raised  in  the  ranks  or  elements 
of  wealth ;  on  the  contrary,  when  only  a  child 
he  was  left  a  poor  orphan  boy  to  fieht  and  make 
his  own  way  in  life,  and  the  splendid  record 
he  has  made  by  perseverance  and  energy  is 
worthy  of  imitation  by  all  young  men  who  have 
the  privilege  of  reading  and  studying  his  life 
history  and  record. 

Mr.  Booth  was  born  in  Adams  county,  Illi- 
nois, August  22,  1841,  and  is  the  son  of  Lorenzo 
D.  and  Parthena  (Works)  Booth.  His  parents 
became  converts  to  the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  our  subject  was  baptized  into  that 
faith  when  but  eight  years  of  age.  The  family 
moved  to  Nauvoo,  where  the  father  died.  After 
the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Booth  started  for 
Utah  with  her  five  children,  of  whom  our  sub- 
ject was  the  youngest,  but  died  in  the  vicinity  of 
Council  Bluffs,  after  which  the  family  separated. 
Although  but  a  child,  our  subject  realized  that 
he  had  no  one  to  care  for  him  and  that  he  would 
have  to  make  his  own  way  through  life.  He 
continued  with  the  train  under  the  care  of  Cap- 
tain Tidwell,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
September,  1852,  at  the  age  of  eleven  years.  He 


at  once  went  to  work,  doing  whatever  came  to 
hand,  and  for  the  next  eight  years  lived  in  this 
way,  savine  every  cent  possible,  and  obtaining 
no  schooling  except  such  as  he  could  pick  up 
from  time  to  time  during  his  leisure  hours.  In 
i860  he  came  to  Grantsville  and  secured  a  small 
piece  of  land  on  which  he  built  a  log  house,  and 
two  years  later  was  able  to  buy  ten  acres  more. 
His  success  dates  from  that  time,  and  he  has 
since  rapidly  accumulated  wealth,  owning  at  this 
time  four  hundred  acres  of  land,  which  he  has 
well  improved,  and  on  which  he  has  built  a  com- 
fortable home.  In  addition  to  his  farm,  he  has 
large  holdinp-s  in  cattle,  sheep  and  horses,  and 
is  among  the  substantial  men  of  his  county  at 
this  time. 

Mr.  Booth  married  February  3,  1862,  to  Miss 
Sarah  Ann  Hunter,  daughter  of  Bishop  Edward 
Hunter,  Jr.,  of  Grantsville.  Mrs.  Hunter  came 
with  the  early  pioneers  to  Grantsville,  and  is 
still  living  at  the  age  of  seventy-three  years.  By 
this  marriage  seven  children  have  been  born,  six 
of  whom  are  now  living — Mary  P.,  now  Mrs. 
Leon  Imley;  Hyrum  E.,  Junior;  Emily  L.,  the 
wife  of  Albert  Erickson ;  Sarah  L.,  Zina  O.. 
died  aged  twenty-four  years ;  Eva  J.,  and  Wil- 
ham  L. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Booth  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never 
actively  participated  in  its  work,  giving  his  time 
outside  of  his  business  affairs  to  the  work  of  the 
Church.  His  family  are  also  members  of  this 
.Church,  and  his  oldest  son  has  served  a  three 
years'  mission  to  the  Samoan  Islands,  learning 
the  language  of  those  people  while  there.  Out- 
side of  his  farming  and  stock  raising  interests, 
Mr.  Booth  is  one  of  the  heaviest  stockholders  in 
the  South  Willow  Irrigation  Company,  and  fore- 
most in  whatever  tends  to  the  upbuilding  or 
growth  of  his  community.  In  the  early  days  he 
participated  in  almost  all  the  Indian  troubles  in 
the  State,  being  in  the  Black  Hawk  war,  and  also 
took  a  part  in  the  Johnston  army  troubles.  He 
has  lived  in  this  vicinity  almost  all  of  his  life, 
and  the  career  that  he  has  made  for  himself  has 
been  such  as  to  command  for  him  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  the  best  class  of  citizens  of  this 
county. 


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UEL  BARRUS.  It  has  been  over  half 
a  century  since  James  K.  Polk,  as 
President  of  the  United  States,  sent 
a  call  for  five  hundred  men  from  the 
ranks  of  the  Mormon  forces  to  assist 
in  qutUincr  the  war  which  was  at  that  time  going 
on  between  the  United  States  and  Mexico.  Ruel 
Barrus  was  among  the  very  first  to  respond  to 
that  call,  and  served  in  the  Mormon  Battalion 
until  honorably  discharged,  and  to-day  he  is  the 
only  living  commissioned  officer  of  that  ever- 
noted  and  famous  company. 

He  was  born  at  Setauket,  New  York,  August 
10,  1821,  and  came  of  an  old  American  family, 
his  ancestors  on  both  sides  having  fought  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  his  maternal  grandfather 
having  participated  in  the  famous  Battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  His  father,  Benjamin  Barrus,  was 
a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  wounded 
at  the  burning  of  Bufi'alo,  in  which  engagement 
he  took  part.  He  died  when  our  subject  was 
born.  Our  subject's  mother  was  Betsy  (Stub- 
bins)  Barrus,  who  is  also  dead.  Both  the  Barrus 
and  the  Stubbins  families  settled  in  Massachu- 
setts in  the  early  history  of  this  country. 

Ruel  Barrus  was  the  youngest  of  a  family  of 
five  girls  and  five  boys,  and  was  but  seven  years 
of  age  when  his  mother  died.  He  is  the  only 
surviving  member  of  this  family.  He  grew  up 
and  obtained  his  education  in  his  native  town, 
learning  there  the  carpentering  trade.  He  em- 
braced the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon  Church  and 
at  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  left  home  and  went 
to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  spent  two  years  with 
his  brother  Alexander,  a  i\lethodist  Episcopal 
minister  in  that  State.  His  brother  being  un- 
friendly to  the  Mormons,  and  havinp'  no  sym- 
pathy with  their  relieious  creed,  our  subject  left 
Pennsylvania,  and  in  1844  joined  his  oldest 
brother,  Emory,  who  had  also  become  a  convert 
to  the  Mormon  teachings,  and  was  living  in 
Nauvoo,  Illinois.  These  two  were  the  only 
ones  of  the  family  to  join  the  Mormon  Church. 
They  remained  in  Nauvoo  until  the  uprising 
of  the  people  against  the  Mormons,  when  they 
went  to  Council  Bluffs,  and  when  the  Presi- 
dent's call  came  for  five  hundred  volunteers 
from  the  Mormon  ranks  our  subject  enlisted  in 


Company  B.  The  history  of  the  Mormon  Bat- 
talion is  too  well  known  for  us  to  recite  it  in 
detail  here ;  suffice  it  to  say  that  Mr.  Barrus  was 
with  the  Battalion  during  the  whole  of  its  service, 
suffering  the  terrible  privations  on  the  desert, 
sharing  in  the  dangers  from  wild  animals,  and 
was  among  those  sent  to  the  relief  of  General 
Carney  at  San  Diego,  where  he  was  discharged, 
July  16,  1847,  and  re-enlisted,  being  stationed  at 
San  Luis  Rey.  He  remained  there  for  eight 
months,  and  was  discharged  in  March,  1848.  He 
here  met  Parley  P.  Pratt,  and  accompanied  him 
on  a  two  years'  mission  for  the  Mormon  Church 
to  the  northern  part  of  California ;  he  then  spent 
a  year  in  the  Santa  Clara  Valley,  and  from  there 
went  into  the  southern  part  of  the  State,  where 
he  remained  two  years,  coming  to  Utah  in  1857. 
The  brother  had  preceded  him  by  a  year,  and 
taken  up  his  home  in  Grantsville,  where  our  sub- 
ject joined  him.     Emory  Barrus  died  in   1899. 

Mr.  Barrus  married,  August  10,  1859,  to  Miss 
Ellen  Martin,  who  came  to  America  with  her 
parents  at  an  early  day.  Her  mother  died  at 
Saint  Louis,  Missouri,  in  1855,  en  route  to  Utah, 
and  her  father  died  in  this  State  in  1892.  They 
were  also  members  of  the  Mormon  faith.  Nine 
children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage,  five  of 
whom  are  now  living— Ellen  P.;  Betsy  A.,  died 
in  infancy;  Zylpha  A.,  died  aged  fourteen 
months  ;  Fannie  I. ;  Loana  ;  Ruel  M. ;  Dorius  M. ; 
Royal  L.,  died  aged  about  two  years,  and  Essie 
G.,  who  died  aged  fourteen  years. 

In  politics  Mr.  Barrus  is  a  staunch  Democrat, 
but  has  never  given  much  time  to  the  work  of 
that  party,  devoting  his  time,  aside  from  his 
business,  to  the  work  of  the  Church,  in  which 
he  has  always  been  prominent,  and  is  at  tliis  time 
a  member  of  the  Seventies. 

Upon  coming  to  Grantsville  Mr.  Barrus  en- 
gaged in  cattle  and  sheep  raising,  in  which  he 
has  been  fairly  prosperous,  and  owns  a  good 
farm  of  twenty  acres,  where  he  makes  his  home. 
He  retired  from  the  Mormon  Battalion  with  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant,  and  draws  a  pension  of  eight 
dollars  for  his  services  during  that  time.  At 
the  time  of  the  Johnston  army  troubles  he  or- 
ganized and  equipped  a  company,  of  which  com- 
pany he  received  the  commission  of  Major.    Mr. 


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Barrus  has  done  valiant  service,  both  for  his 
country  and  his  Church,  and  to-day  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  resnect,  not  only  of  the  heads  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  but  of  all  with  whom  he 
has  been  associated  through  many  years  of  resi- 
dence in  Tooele  county. 


HARLES  G.  PARKINSON. 
Through  his  successful  work  as  a 
contractor  and  builder,  Mr.  Parkinson 
has  contributed  to  the  development  of 
Tooele  county,  which  has  been  his 
home  for  nearly  fifty  years. 

Charles  Graham  Parkinson  was  born  in  Lan- 
castershire,  England,  February  11,  1834,  and  is 
the  son  of  Timothy  and  Ann  (Fielding)  Parkin- 
son, both  natives  of  that  country.  This  family 
consisted  of  six  children — John ;  Mary  Ann ; 
Charles  G.,  our  subject;  Sarah  Ann;  Timothy; 
Henry,  and  Amos  F.  Of  these  children  three 
are  now  living.  The  family  became  converts  to 
the  teachinp-s  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  England, 
Timothy  Parkinson  being  the  only  one  of  a 
family  of  twelve  to  embrace  the  new  religion, 
and  with  his  family  emigrated  to  America,  tak- 
ing passage  on  board  the  Ellen  Maria,  an  Ameri- 
can sailing  vessel,  January  18,  1853,  and  landing 
in  New  Orleans  in  March  of  that  year.  From 
New  Orleans  they  went  up  the  Mississippi  river 
to  Saint  Louis,  and  from  there  to  Keokuk,  Iowa, 
where  they  remained  several  weeks.  At  that 
place  a  train  of  emigrants  was  made  up  to  come 
to  Utah,  under  Captain  Cyrus  H.  Wheelock,  but 
the  train  being  too  large,  it  was  divided,  and 
Captain  George  Kimball  took  charge  of  half  of 
it.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  October  11, 
1853,  and  from  there  came  direct  to  Grantsville, 
the  father  and  younger  sons  engaging  in  farm- 
ing. In  England  the  senior  Mr.  Parkinson  had 
been  a  printer  on  silks  and  fine  cloths,  but  there 
was  no  opportunity  for  him  to  follow  his  trade 
in  this  place.  He  died  here  in  1891,  his  wife 
having  died  in  England. 
Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  England,  re- 


ceiving his  education  in  the  common  schools  of 
that  country,  and  learned  the  trade  of  metal  en- 
graving. There  being  no  call  for  such  work  here, 
he  turned  his  attention  to  painting,  which  has 
been  his  chief  occupation  ever  since,  although  he 
established  the  first  photograph  gallery  in  Grants- 
ville, and  also  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
in  a  small  way,  both  here  and  in  Cache  Valley. 
He  has  painted  many  of  the  residences  and  other 
buildings  in  this  county,  and  has  been  fairly  suc- 
cessful. When  he  settled  here,  in  1853,  he  built  a 
log  cabin,  in  which  he  has  lived  up  to  the  present 
time,  but  has  now  in  course  of  construction  a 
fine  adobe  house,  which  will  be  his  future  home. 
He  is  interested  in  the  sheep  business  on  a  small 
scale,  but  has  never  given  it  much  attention. 

Mr.  Parkinson  married,  October  18,  1854,  to 
Miss  Hannah  M.  Clark,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Charlotte  Clark,  and  by  her  had  eight  children, 
seven  of  whom  are  now  living.  She  died  in  1869, 
and  on  October  22,  1871,  he  was  married  tq 
Sarah  Hill,  daughter  of  Louis  and  Caroline  (Bos- 
worth)  Hill.  She  was  born  in  Huntingtonshire 
England,  and  came  to  America  in  1871,  her  fam- 
ily coming  in  1880,  and  her  father  lived  in  Coal- 
ville until  his  death  in  1902.  Her  mother  died 
in  1S97.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Parkinson  has 
had  twelve  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now 
living. 

In  politics  he  owes  allegiance  to  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  but  has  never  sought  nor  held  office. 
He  has  always  been  an  active  worker  in  Church 
circles,  and  in  1863  made  a  trip  to  the  Missouri 
river  for  the  purpose  of  conducting  emigrants  to 
this  State.  He  took  part  in  most  of  the  Indian 
troubles  in  Utah  in  the  early  days,  being  the 
first  man  to  break  ground  for  the  building  of 
the  old  fort  at  Grantsville ;  and  was  also  engaged 
in  the  troubles  arising  from  the  coming  of  John- 
ston's army  into  Utah. 

Mr.  Parkinson  has  during  his  life  in  Utah 
given  his  hearty  support  to  the  work  of  develop- 
ing his  section  of  the  country,  as  well  as  in  build- 
ing up  the  Church  in  Utah,  and  commands  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  have  been  asso- 
ciated with  him,  for  his  honesty  and  integrity ; 
and  is  to-day  one  of  the  respected  citizens  of 
Tooele  county. 


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465 


ILLIAM  HEMMING,  one  of  the 
earliest  and  most  highly  respected 
residents  of  Morgan  county.  Per- 
haps one  of  the  hardest  and  most 
severe  tests  of  the  early  pioneers  to 
Utah  was  what  is  known  as  the  hand-cart  bri- 
gade. By  this  mode  of  travel  the  entire  trip 
was  made  from  the  Missouri  river  across  the 
plains  to  Utah,  and  the  terrible  sufferings  and 
hardships  endured  by  those  who  were  compelled 
to  make  the  long  journey  in  this  manner  will 
never  be  fully  known  or  appreciated  by  the  out- 
side world.  Mr.  Hemming  and  his  worthy  wife 
were  among  a  company  who  crossed  the  plains 
to  Utah  in  the  hand-cart  brigade,  walking  the 
entire  distance  from  Omaha  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  i860. 

Our  subject  is  a  native  of  England,  and  was 
born  in  Oxfordshire  on  June  8,  1827.  He  is  the 
son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Embra)  Hemming.  He 
was  raised  in  the  small  town  of  Swell,  in  Glouces- 
tershire, until  eight  years  of  age,  when  his  par- 
ents moved  to  Stratford-on-Avon,  the  birthplace 
of  Shakespeare.  There  he  received  his  education, 
growing  to  manhood  and  learning  the  painter's 
trade,  living  on  the  farm  with  his  parents.  He 
became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  was  baptized  on  November  16,  1852, 
and  for  the  next  three  years  labored  as  a  mis- 
sionary and  teacher  in  the  surrounding  villages. 
On  November  24,  1855,  he  emigrated  to  America 
with  his  wife  and  two  children,  sailing  from  Liv- 
erjHDol  on  board  the  ship  Emerald  Isle.  They 
landed  in  New  York,  where  they  made  their 
home  for  the  next  four  years,  the  father  follow- 
ing his  trade  as  a  painter,  and  laboring  among 
the  people  as  a  teacher  of  the  Mormon  doctrines. 
On  May  6,  i860,  they  started  for  Utah,  going  by 
rail  as  far  as  Saint  Joseph,  Missouri,  and  from 
there  to  Florence  by  boat.  There  they  joined  the 
hand-cart  company,  and  reached  Salt  Lake  City 
on  August  27th  of  that  year.  The  family  re- 
mained two  weeks  with  the  family  of  Colonel 
J.  C.  Little,  and  then  went  to  Morgan  county,  at 
that  time  a  part  of  Davis  county,  where  they 
made  their  home  in  the  town  of  Littleton  for  two 
years.  Our  subject  built  three  log  houses  on  Dry 
creek,   and    did    farming   on   shares    for   Colonel 


Little.  In  1862  he  bought  a  house  in  Richville 
Ward,  where  he  lived  for  three  years,  and  then 
moved  to  his  present  farm,  which  is  inside  the 
limits  of  Morgan  City  at  this  time.  He  has  this 
place  well  improved,  and  has  built  a  fine  brick 
residence.  His  farm  consists  of  thirty-three 
acres  of  valuable  land,  well  irrigated  from  the 
Weber  and  city  ditches.  In  addition  to  farm- 
ing he  has  continued  to  follow  his  trade  as  a 
painter,  and  also,  since  settling  here,  has  done 
considerable  carpenter  work.  He  did  a  large  part 
of  the  work  on  the  Stake  Meeting  House,  donat- 
ing his  services.  He  is  a  very  public-spirited 
man,  and  believes  in  good  roads  and  bridges, 
and  has  done  much  towards  securing  them  for 
his  county. 

Mr.  Hemming  was  married  in  England  to  Miss 
Emma  Sanford,  a  native  of  Warwickshire.  They 
.have  had  a  family  of  six  children — Fannie,  widow 
of  John  Toomer;  Frederick  W. ;  Emily,  wife  of 
James  Rich ;  Sarah  Jane,  wife  of  Roswell  H. 
Stevens;  Alfred  John,  in  Idaho;  and  Charlotte 
M.,  wife  of  Aaron  B.  Cherrey,  of  Centerville. 

Mr.  Hemming  is  an  adherent  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  has  been  one  of  the  most  active 
workers  of  that  party.  He  has  served  two  terms 
as  a  member  of  the  City  Council,  and  been  promi- 
nently identified  with  every  measure  advanced 
for  the  upbuilding  of  his  county  or  town.  He 
and  his  whole  family  are  members  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  and  all  are  prominent  in  the  work 
of  that  bodv,  his  daughters  being  members  of 
the  Ladies'  Relief  Society,  as  is  also  his  wife, 
she  having  been  a  teacher  in  that  society  for  many 
years.  Mr.  Hemming  has  been  Stake  teacher  for 
over  forty  years,  traveling  a  good  deal  in  the  in- 
terest of  that  work.  On  January  10,  1876,  he  was 
ordained  a  High  Priest  by  Elias  S.  Smith,  and 
set  apart  as  First  Counselor  to  President  Meekam 
of  the  High  Priests'  Quorum  of  Zion.  He  later 
filled  the  same  office  for  President  Hogg,  whom 
he  succeeded  in  1900,  and  has  since  continued  to 
hold  the  position  of  President  of  the  High 
Priests'  Quorum,  Morgan  Stake  of  Zion. 

Mr.  Hemming's  career,  since  he  has  been  a 
resident  of  this  place,  has  been  such  as  to  win 
for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated,  and  while  he  came 


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here  a  poor  man,  he  has,  by  dint  of  hard  work 
and  undaunted  determination,  overcome  every 
obstacle,  and  is  now  in  comfortable  circumstance? 
honored  and  respected  by  all  who  know  him,  and 
regarded  as  one  of  the  representative  men  of 
Morgan  City. 


ROET  LUCIUS  HALE  has  spent 
over  half  a  century  of  his  life  in  Utah, 
and  upwards  of  forty-seven  years  in 
Tooele  county,  and  by  his  long  and 
honorable  career  in  this  county  has 
won  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  the  best 
people.  He  has  been  active  in  many  of  the  dif- 
ferent enterprises  which  have  been  for  the  build- 
ing up  of  his  community.  He  has  passed  through 
all  the  early  discouragements  and  hardships  of 
which  perhaps  no  section  of  the  LTnited  States 
is  more  noted  than  Utah.  In  religious  affairs  he 
has  always  been  a  faithful  follower  and  active 
worker  in  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  and  todav  ranks  among  the  leaders 
of  that  faith  in  his  community. 

He  was  born  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  May 
i8,  1828,  and  came  of  an  old  Massachusetts  fam- 
ily. His  mother,  Olive  (Boynton)  Hale  was 
born  in  Bradford,  Massachusetts,  in  1805,  and 
his  father,  Jonathan  Hale,  was  born  in  the  same 
State  in  1800.  They  moved  to  Dover  after  their 
marriage,  and  while  there  were  converted  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  moved  to 
Kirkland,  Ohio,  going  from  there  to  Far  We^t, 
Missouri,  and  finally  to  Nauvoo.  At  the  time  of 
the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  from  Nauvoo,  the 
family  went  with  the  main  body  of  the  Church 
to  Winter  Quarters,  where  both  the  parents  died. 
Four  of  the  eight  children  died  in  Illinois.  Of 
those  who  remained,  one  sister  married  Lucus 
Hoagland,  who  was  a  member  of  the  famous 
Mormon  Battalion,  and  who  died  in  San  Ber- 
nardino, California ;  Alma  is  living  in  Smith- 
field,  Cache  county ;  Solomon  is  also  living  in 
Cache  Valley,  at  Preston,  and  our  subject,  who 
is  the  oldest  of  the  family,  makes  his  home  at 
Grantsville.  After  the  death  of  the  parents 
these  four  children  continued  the  journey  to 
Utah,  traveling  in  the  train  of  Captain  Heber  C. 


Kimball,  in  which  train  an  uncle  by  marriage 
of  the  children,  Henry  Heriman,  was  Captain 
over  fifty  wagons.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  the  fall  of  1848,  and  our  subject  con- 
tinued to  make  this  his  home  for  about  six  years. 
During  the  first  years  of  his  residence  in  L^tah 
he  saw  considerable  service  fighting  Indians,  and 
also  participated  in  the  Johnston  army  troubles. 
He  was  one  of  the  company  known  as  Minute- 
Men,  or  Life  Guards,  and  was  one  of  the  men 
who  was  given  a  home  as  an  act  of  appreciation 
for  the  service  rendered  during  that  time.  He 
was  also  sent  out  by  the  Church  to  do  coloniza- 
tion work,  and  spent  a  considerable  portion  of 
his  time  in  this  occupation.  He  helped  organ- 
ize and  colonize  the  mission  at  Los  Vegas,  on 
the  Colorado  river,  and  also  spent  two  years  on 
the  iVIuddy  river  in  this  work.  He  acted  as  body 
guard  to  Brieham  Young  during  his  tours  of 
inspection,  and  altoo-ether  was  very  active  in  the 
life  of  the  new  State. 

Our  subject  was  a  mason  by  trade,  and  when 
not  engaged  in  fighting  or  colonization  work  fol- 
lowed his  trade.  He  came  to  Grantsville  about 
185s,  and  settled  on  the  land  that  had  been  given 
him  by  the  State,  and  took  up  farming,  which 
he  has  since  continued  to  follow  in  a  successful 
way.  Besides  his  home  place,  he  has  about  fifty 
acres  of  other  land  in  the  vicinity  of  Grantsville. 

Mr.  Hale  has  been  four  times  married,  and  is 
the  father  of  twenty-six  children.  He  was  first 
married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1849  to  Olive  Whit- 
tle, daughter  of  Thomas  and  Amelia  Whittle,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children — .\roet  L.,  Junior; 
Olive  A.,  Jonathan,  Thomas,  who  died  in  his 
twenty-third  year;  Rachael  S.,  the  wife  of  T.  H. 
Clark,  of  Grantsville,  and  Solomon  E.,  living  at 
Oakley,  Idaho.  The  mother  died  in  Grantsville, 
September  14,  i860.  His  second  wife  bore  him 
one  child — Esther— now  Mrs.  Joseph  Acoff.  He 
married  as  his  third  wife  Louisa.  Cook,  daugh- 
ter of  Emory  and  Martha  (Morris)  Cook.  This 
marriage  occurred  December  24,  1861.  The 
Cook  family  came  to  Utah  in  1864,  from  En- 
gland, their  daughter  being  born  in  that  coun- 
try, and  she  came  to  this  country  in  1861,  the 
year  of  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Hale.  Her  parents 
died   in   Grantsville.     Eight  children   were  born 


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as  a  result  of  this  marriaee — Aroetta,  now  Mrs. 
Holgate,  living  in  Vernal,  Uintah  county,  Utah ; 
Clarissa,  at  this  time  the  wife  of  William  Mat- 
thews, of  Grantsville ;  Henry  L-,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy ;  Leonard  W'..  livinir  in  Grantsville ; 
Phoebe,  now  Mrs.  P.  Meachain,  living  in  Hinck- 
ley, I'tah ;  Minnie,  died  aged  sixteen  year.^ ; 
Frank  B.,  and  Nettie,  at  home.  The  fourth  wife 
was  Charlotte,  a  sister  of  his  third  wife,  and  of 
this  marriage  nine  children  were  born — George, 
who  died  aged  sixteen  years ;  Lottie,  now  Mrs. 
Hunter,  living  in  Oakley,  Idaho;  Fred,  Benja- 
min W.,  Harriett,  drowned  when  sixteen  years 
of  age  ;  Morris  J.,  Mary,  Lucielle  and  Louie.  All 
of  this  family  reside  at  Afton,  Wyoming,  except 
Lottie  (Mrs.  Hunter). 

Mr.  Hale  was  baptized  in  Kirkland,  Ohio, 
when  but  nine  years  of  age,  by  President  Wilford 
Woodrulif,  and  has  ever  since  been  a  faithful  and 
consistent  member  of  the  ]\Iormon  Church,  rais- 
ing his  children  in  the  doctrines  of  that  denom- 
ination. He  has  served  as  Counselor  to  Bishop 
Thomas  Clark,  first  Bishop  of  Grantsville  Ward. 

In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  Democrat 
since  the  organization  of  that  party  in  Utah,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  first  City  Council  of  Grants- 
ville. He  held  two  commissions  during  his  serv- 
ice in  military  life,  the  first  being  that  or  Orderly 
Sergeant  of  the  First  Company  of  Life  Guards. 
This  commission  was  received  from  Governor 
Durkey.  He  was  also  made  Adjutant  of  Bat- 
talion under  Major  Robery.  During  his  resi- 
dence in  Grantsville  Mr.  Hale  has  taken  a  lively 
interest  in  whatever  pertained  to  the  welfare  of 
his  community,  and  was  at  one  time  connected 
with  the  flouring  and  woolen  mills  at  that  place. 
He  now  holds  an  interest  in  the  Co-operative 
Store  at  Grantsville,  and  is  looked  upon  as  one 
of  the  able  and  active  business  men  of  that  sec- 
tion. 

At  the  time  that  Lieutenant  Gunnison  was 
killed  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State,  Mr.  Hale 
was  selected  by  Mr.  Demick  Huntington,  the  In- 
dian interpreter,  to  go  to  the  seat  of  trouble,  and 
secure,  if  possible,  the  body,  instruments,  field 
notes,  etc.,  which  belonged  to  the  Lieutenant. 
The  first  party  failed  in  their  mission.  Messrs. 
Hale  and  Huntington  left  Salt  Lake  City  alone. 


but  were  reinforced  by  two  more  men  at  Payson. 
The  Lieutenant's  bodv  and  instruments  were 
later  secured  by  another  searching  party. 


ARLES  JOHNSON  has  for  up- 
wards of  half  a  century  been  an  hon- 
'jred  and  highly  respected  citizen  af 
Tooele  county,  residing  in  Grants- 
ville. He  was  born  in  Northern  Swe- 
den November  14,  1835,  and  is  the  son  of  John 
Johnson.  Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  his 
native  country,  and  there  acquired  his  education 
and  learned  the  carpenter  trade.  He  was  con- 
verted to  the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  in  1863  sailed  for  America  on  the  ship  Kim- 
ball. He  crossed  the  plains  in  the  emigrant  train 
under  Lorenzo  Kimball,  and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
Citv  on  September  6th  of  that  year,  going  im- 
mediately to  Grantsville,  which  he  has  since  made 
his  home. 

On  .March  18,  1864,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Lottie  Erickson,  dauehter  of 
Erick  and  Johanna  (Johnson)  Erickson.  This 
family  had  also  become  converts  to  the  doctrines 
and  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  came 
to  America  in  the  same  ship  and  to  Utah  in  the 
same  company  as  our  subject,  also  going  to 
Grantsville  and  making  their  home  there.  Three 
children  were  born  of  this  marriage — Charles, 
Junior,  born  in  1866,  now  engaged  with  his  father 
in  the  mercantile  business  in  Grantsville,  and  also 
in  the  sheep  business ;  Alexander,  a  sketch  of 
whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work,  and  Leo, 
born  in  1873,  in  partnership  with  his  brother 
Alexander  in  the  sheep  business. 

LTpon  going  to  Grantsville  Mr.  Johnson  fol- 
lowed his  trade  as  a  carpenter  for  many  years, 
building  a  number  of  the  finest  residences  in  that 
place.  About  seven  years  ago  he  opened  up  a 
general  merchandise  business  here,  taking  his 
three  sons  into  partnership  with  him,  and  of 
which  business  the  oldest  son,  Charles,  is  man- 
ager. The  family  are  all  members  of  the  Church, 
and  the  oldest  son  has  served  on  a  three  years' 
mission  in  New  Zealand.  All  of  the  sons  are 
married,  and  Mr.  Johnson  has  seven  grandchil- 
dren.    They  own  a  fine  brick  store  building  and 


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music  hall  on  Main  street,  and  also  own  com- 
fortable homes  here.  The  family  is  a  prominent 
and  highly  respected  one  in  this  community,  and 
Mr.  Johnson  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  all  those  with  whom  he  has  been  associated. 


LEXANDER  JOHNSON  is  a  native 
son  of  Utah,  having  been  born  in 
Grantsville,  Tooele  county,  September 
2,  1870.  He  is  a  son  of  Charles  and 
Lottie  (Erickson)  Johnson,  whose  bio- 
grahpical  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  vol- 
ume. Alexander  Johnson  is  yet  a  young  man, 
having  just  passed  the  thirty-first  milestone  on 
his  life's  journey.  He  has  already  demonstrated 
his  ability  as  a  successful  business  man,  and  has 
made  a  record  that  many  men  of  more  mature 
years  might  well  be  proud  of. 

Our  subject  has  spent  his  entire  life  in  this 
part  of  Utah,  receiving  here  his  education  in  the 
common  schools.  He  is  the  second  child  in  his 
father's  family.  He  began  life  for  himself  in 
1899,  engaging  in  the  sheep  business,  having 
spent  some  years  as  a  sheep  herder,  and  in  the 
course  of  time  this  venture  proved  to  be  a  very 
successful  one.  He  later  took  his  brother  Leo 
into  partnership  with  him,  and  the  firm  is  known 
as  Johnson  Brothers.  They  have  about  eight 
thousand  head  of  sheep,  which  they  range  mostly 
in  Western  Wyoming.  Mr.  Johnson  also  has  an 
interest  in  the  general  merchandise  store  of  his 
father  in  Grantsville. 

He  was  married,  December  14,  1898,  to  Miss 
Mary  Alice  Anderson,  and  they  have  had  two 
children — x'Mta  and  Pheris. 

In  politics  Mr.  Johnson  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  in  which  he 
takes  an  active  interest.  He  is  at  this  time  a 
member  of  the  City  Council.  He  and  his  wife 
are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  promi- 
nent in  its  work  in  their  community.  Mr.  John- 
son is  regarded  as  one  of  the  successful  young 
business  men  of  Tooele  county,  and  makes  his 
home  in  Grantsville,  where  he  has  a  beautiful 
nine-room  two-story  brick  house,  modern  in 
every  respect,  and  his  home  is  conceded  to  be 
next  to  the  finest  in  Grantsville.     He  has,  bv  his 


upright,  manly  life,  his  strict  integrity  and  close 
application  to  business,  won  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  associ- 
ated, and  enjoys  the  friendship  of  a  large  circle 
of  people. 


RANK  R.  SNOW.  No  history  of  Utah 
will  ever  be  complete  unless  it  gives 
due  prominence  to  the  Snow  family, 
whose  history  is  inseparably  linked 
with  that  of  the  State,  as  well  as  of 
the  Mormon  Church.  The  early  members  of 
this  family  came  to  Utah  with  the  pioneers,  and 
were  amone  the  leaders  of  the  Church,  of  which 
their  descendants  remain  staunch  supporters, 
and  were  actively  identified  with  every  enterprise 
that  was  launched  in  the  early  days  for  the  de- 
velopment of  the  vast  resources  of  this  then  wild 
and  almost  unknown  region.  The  work  they  so 
nobly  began  has  been  prosecuted  by  the  different 
members  of  the  family,  among  whom  the  gentle- 
man whose  name  heads  this  article  occupies  a 
prominent  place. 

Frank  R.  Snow  is  a  native  Utahn,  having  been 
born  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1854,  and  is  a  son  of 
Apostle  Erastus  Snow,  a  native  of  Vermont  who 
became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  at  the 
early  age  of  fourteen,  and  later  moved  to  Nau- 
voo,  where  he  remained  until  the  people  were 
driven  out  in  1846,  when  he  went  with  the  Saints 
to  Winter  Quarters,  and  in  company  with  Brig- 
ham  Young  crossed  the  great  American  plains  in 
the  early  part  of  1847.  He  and  Orson  Pratt  were 
the  first  members  of  the  company  to  enter  Salt 
Lake  Valley,  July  21,  1847.  He  was  identified 
with  the  life  of  the  Church  all  through  the  years 
that  followed,  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  in  1888. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  city  of  Saint 
George,  and  did  much  towards  building  up  South- 
ern Utah.  He  made  his  home  in  Saint  George, 
but  spent  a  considerable  part  of  his  time  in  other 
parts  of  the  State,  in  the  intrests  of  the  Church. 
He  opened  up  the  Scandinavian  mission,  which 
has  furnished  a  larger  quota  of  the  membership 
of  the  Mormon  Church  than  any  other  country 
outside  of  Great  Britain,  and  after  mastering  the 
language  of  that  people  translated  a  number  of 


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the  Church  works  into  the  Scandinavian  tongue 
He  was  ordained  an  Apostle  in  1849.  His  wife, 
and  the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  Artimesia 
Beman,  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  who  died  in 
1882,  beini-  a  daughter  of  Alva  and  Sarah 
(Burtts)  Beman.  Air.  Beman  became  a  convert 
to  the  Church  earl)'  in  life,  and  lived  in  Nauvoo 
for  some  years,  but  died  before  reaching  Utah. 
The  Snow  family  orieinally  came  from  England 
in  1624,  and  settled  in  Massachusetts.  The  late 
President  Lorenzo  Snow  descended  from  one 
branch  of  this  family.  The  ancestors  of  the 
Beman  family  were  also  English  people.  There 
were  nine  children  in  the  family  of  which  our 
subject  is  a  member — Sarah  L.,  married  George 
W.  Thurston ;  M.  M.,  born  in  Florence ;  Arti- 
mesia, born  in  this  city  and  married  Daniel  Seeg- 
miller;  Erastus  B.,  deceased;  Frank  R.,  our  sub- 
ject; Maroni,  married  Addie  Gates,  and  is  now 
residing  in  Provo ;  Orson  P.,  married  Sarah 
Blackner,  and  lives  in  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho ;  George 
A.,  married  Effie  Stoddard,  and  is  at  this  time  a 
director  of  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine 
Company  of  this  city. 

Mr.  Snow  was  reared  in  Saint  George,  and  ob- 
tained his  education  from  the  schools  of  that  dis- 
trict. He  did  considerable  freighting  in  his  early 
life,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  started  out  for 
himself  and  became  Secretary  of  the  Rio  Virgin 
Manufacturing  Company.  He  remained  with  that 
establishment  from  1874  to  1884.  He  was  for 
a  number  of  years  Bishop's  agent  of  Saint  George 
Stake,  and  also  assistant  manager  of  the  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution  at  that  place. 
JHe  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1887,  and  in  con- 
nection with  his  brother  George  A.  established 
the  Consolidated  Implement  Company,  of  which 
he  became  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  which  po- 
sition he  filled  until  the  company  consolidated 
yvith  the  Co-operative  Wagon  and  Machine  Com- 
pany, under  the  name  of  the  Consolidated  Wagon 
and  Machine  Company,  January  i,  1902,  when  he 
was  elected  to  fill  the  position  of  Treasurer  and 
director  of  the  new  company. 

Mr.  Snow  was  married,  in  Saint  George,  in 
1877,  to  Miss  Lucy  Simmons,  daughter  of  Joseph 
M.  and  Rachel  E.  Simmons.  Mrs.  Snow's  peo- 
ple, on  her  mother's  side,  were  naitves  of  Penn- 


sylvania, and  came  to  Utah  with  the  pioneers. 
She  is  a  granddaughter  of  the  late  Bishop  Ed- 
win D.  Woolley.  By  this  marriage  they  have 
had  three  sons  and  eight  daughters — Ralph  F. ; 
^"alentine  S. ;  J.  Marcellus  ;  Lucy  ;  Rachel ;  Merle ; 
Gertrude;  Marguerite;  Virginia;  Olive,  and  Ar- 
timesia. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Snow  owes  allegiance  to 
the  Democratic  party,  and  was  a  candidate  on 
that  ticket  for  City  Councilman  at  the  late  elec- 
tion, but  went  down  to  defeat  with  the  other 
members  of  his  party. 

In  religious  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  has 
filled  many  of  the  offices  in  the  Priesthood,  hav- 
ing been  ordained  a  High  Priest  in  1885,  and  ap- 
pointed Bishop's  agent  of  the  Saint  George 
Stake.  He  has  also  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  work  of  the  Sunday  Schools.  He  per- 
formed a  mission  to  Mexico  in  1883-84,  and  as- 
sisted in  establishing  the  first  mission  in  that 
country.  Aside  from  his  interests  in  Salt  Lake, 
Mr.  Snow  is  a  member  of  the  Boyle  Furniture 
Company  of  Ogden,  one  of  the  largest  furniture 
establishments  in  the  inter-mountain  region,  and 
in  which  he  was  one  of  the  original  organizers 
and  promoters.  He  is  well  known  throughout 
the  State,  and  his  given  his  support  to  many  of 
the  enterprises  for  the  advancement  of  Utah.  Mr. 
Snow  occupies  a  high  place  in  the  ranks  of  the 
business  men  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  won  a 
reputation  for  unimpeachable  integrity  and  high 
business  methods.  He  is  popular  with  all  classes, 
and  numbers  his  friends  bv  the  legion. 


ELVIX  D.  WELLS.  Although  Mr. 
Wells  comes  from  one  of  the  most 
illustrious  families,  not  only  in  the 
Mormon  Church,  but  in  the  State 
of  Utah  as  well,  he  is  essentially  a 
self-made  man,  and  has  carved  out  for  himself 
a  career  of  which  any  man  might  well  be  proud. 
Mr.  Wells  is  a  Utahn,  having  been  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City  July  31,  1867.  He  is  a  son  of 
Daniel  H.  Wells,  and  a  half  brother  to  Governor 
Heber  M.  Wells,  biographical  sketches  of  whom 
appear   elsewhere    in    this    volume.      Mr.    Wells' 


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mother  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Louisa  Free. 
She  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  and  came  to  Utah 
,with  her  people  in  1848.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Alonzo  P.  and  Betsie  (Strait)  Free.  Mr.  Free 
became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  his 
native  State,  and  moved  to  Nauvoo,  lUinois, 
where  he  went  through  all  the  early  hardships 
of  the  pioneers,  and  when  they  were  driven  out 
of  that  city  went  with  the  main  body  of  the 
Church  to  Winter  Quarters,  from  which  place 
he  crossed  the  plains  to  Utah,  and  was  actively 
identified  with  the  work  of  the  Church  in  this 
State.  He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  in 
1881.  and  his  wife  survived  him  four  years.  Our 
subject's  mother  died  in  June,  1886. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  this  city,  and 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  and  later  en- 
tered the  Deseret  University,  now  the  L^niversity 
of  Utah,  but  left  that  institution  before  graduat- 
ing to  take  a  position  with  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Institution,  in  the  crockery  and  hard- 
ware department,  known  as  "Department  C'  At 
the  end  of  six  months  he  was  called  by  the  heads 
of  the  Mormon  Church  to  go  on  a  mission  to 
England.  While  there  he  labored  in  the  Lan- 
cashire Conference,  having  his  headquarters  in 
Liverpool.  He  remained  in  England  nine  months, 
and  upon  his  return  to  Utah  aeain  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  In- 
stitution, where  he  remained  for  eighteen  months. 
Upon  severing  his  connection  with  that  insti- 
tution Mr.  Wells  entered  the  employ  of  the  Co- 
operative Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  in  Au- 
gust, 1887.  beginning  at  the  bottom,  and  has  since 
worked  his  way  up  through  all  the  dififerent  de- 
partments, until  he  is  to-day  filling  the  responsi- 
ble position  of  Secretary  of  one  of  the  largest 
wagon  and  machine  establishments  in  the  entire 
West.  For  six  years  he  had  charge  of  the  branch 
house  at  Montpelier,  Idaho.  He  was  made  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer  of  the  Co-operative  Wagon 
and  Machine  Company  in  1896,  and  remained  in 
that  position  until  the  consolidation  of  his  com- 
pany with  the  Consolidated  Implement  Company, 
when  he  was  elected  Secretary  of  the  new  con- 
cern, which  is  doing  business  under  the  name  of 
the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine  Company. 

Mr.  Wells  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  in 


1892,  to  Miss  Ann  Elizabeth  Young,  a  daughter 
of  Dr.  Seymour  B.  Young,  whose  grandfather 
was  a  brother  of  President  Brigham  Young. 
Four  children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage — 
Louisa  E. ;  Miriam  Y. ;  Melvin  D.,  Junior,  and 
Joseph  15. 

Politically  Mr.  Wells  supports  the  Democratic 
party,  although  he  has  never  actively  participated 
in  the  work  of  the  party,  his  entire  time,  outside 
of  liis  business,  being  devoted  to  the  interests  of 
his  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  High  Council 
of  Salt  Lake  Stake,  and  gives  his  hearty  support 
and  a  considerable  amount  of  his  time  and  means 
to  the  promulgation  of  the  work  of  the  Mormon 
Church. 

Mr.  Wells,  in  common  with  his  brothers,  re- 
ceived the  best  education  to  be  obtained  from  the 
schools  of  this  State,  which  his  father  believed 
to  be  the  best  heritage  he  could  leave  his  children, 
and  appreciating  the  fact  that  the  best  and  most 
useful  men  the  country  has  ever  known  have  been 
those  who  were  compelled  to  carve  out  their  own 
career,  unaided  by  wealth  or  family  influence, 
brought  his  sons  up  in  that  belief,  and  when  Mr. 
Wells  began  in  life  it  was  as  a  poor  man.  The 
wonderful  success  that  has  since  come  to  him 
has  been  won  by  his  own  unaided  efforts.  His 
entire  career  has  been  most  honorable  and  up- 
right, and  by  his  honesty  and  integrity,  as  much 
as  through  the  exercise  of  an  undaunted  cour- 
age and  determination  to  overcome  every  obsta- 
cle, he  has  attained  to  a  high  position  in  business 
circles,  and  has  won  and  retained  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  as- 
sociated. 


Baas 


RS.  SARAH  JENNE  CANNON. 
In  the  settlement  of  a  new  country, 
and  especially  of  the  western  por- 
tion of  the  United  States,  a  peculiar 
combination  of  afYairs  has  been  re- 
quired, together  with  the  united  efforts  of  both 
men  and  women,  and  in  the  compilation  of  a 
work  of  this  nature  it  is  only  fair  and  just  that 
the  women  who  have  so  actively  participated  in 
the  building  up  and  development  of  the  vast  re- 
sources of  tliis  region   should  receive  their  due 


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share  of  credit.  Prominent  among  those  who 
have  been  identified  with  the  settlement  of  Utah 
and  Salt  Lake  City,  almost  from  its  very  begin- 
ning, is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Mrs.  Sarah 
Jenne  Cannon,  widow  of  the  late  George  Q.  Can- 
non, a  sketch  of  whose  life  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  volume.  She  was  born  in  Canada,  but  when 
an  infant  her  parents  removed  to  Indiana,  where 
she  lived  until  about  two  years  of  age ;  then  they 
moved  to  Illinois,  and  at  the  age  of  nine  years 
she  came,  with  Franklin  D.  Richards  and  family, 
across  the  great  plains  of  America  in  a  waeon 
train,  making  a  portion  of  the  trip  on  foot.  They 
arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  fall  of  1848,  and 
here  our  subject  has  lived  ever  since.  Her  early 
education  was  received  in  such  schools  as  the 
new  Territory  then  afforded.  Her  paternal  an- 
cestors were  among  the  early  settlers  of  the 
United  States,  having  landed  on  the  eastern 
shores  as  early  as  1623,  and  her  forefathers,  on 
both  sides,  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Her  father's  mother  was  a  Miss  Lincoln,  her 
father  being  an  own  brother  to  President  Abra- 
ham Lincoln,  and  our  subject's  mother  was  Miss 
Sarah  Snyder,  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  old  and 
prominent  Eastern  families. 

In  1858  our  subject  was  married  to  George  O. 
Cannon,  and  has  reared  to  maturity  a  family  of 
seven  children — Honorable  Frank  J.  Cannon, 
late  Lfnited  States  Senator;  Angus  J.,  who  for 
years  has  been  connected  with  the  George  Q. 
Cannon  Publishing  House,  of  this  city ;  Hugh 
J.,  at  present  serving  in  Germany  on  a  mission 
for  the  Church ;  Rosannah,  now  the  wife  of  Lonzo 
B.  Irving,  of  this  city ;  Joseph  J.,  absent  in  Swe- 
den on  a  mission  for  the  Church;  Preston  J.,  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  Carl  O.,  absent  on  a  mission 
in  New  Zealand. 

Mrs.  Cannon  has  been  an  active  woman.  She 
has  not  only  raised  a  family  of  seven  children,  all 
of  whom  have  achieved  such  distinction  in  the 
world  as  redound  to  her  credit,  but  she  has  been 
prominently  identified  with  the  work  of  the 
Church.  In  the  Relief  Societies  she  has  been 
an  untiring  worker  for  the  past  fifteen  years. 
She  has  given  a  great  deal  of  her  time  to  Church 
work.  She  has  held  various  offices  of  trust,  and 
at  present  holds  the  office  of  First  Counselor  to 


President  Mary  Isabella  Home,  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stake,  and  the  love  and  charity  she  has  shown  in 
her  work  will  leave  its  influence  to  be  felt  by  the 
generations  yet  unborn.  She  has  passed  through 
the  early  trials  and  tribulations  incident  to  the 
settlement  of  this  country,  and  notwithstanding 
all  the  troubles  and  difficulties  of  the  dark  and 
gloomy  days,  she  has  been  of  a  cheerful  and  hope- 
ful spirit,  and  to-day  is  held  in  the  bonds  of  love 
and  friendship  by  all  the  people  with  whom  she 
has  come  in  contact. 


TAXLEY  B.  MILNER.  Utah  num- 
bers anions'  its  leading  citizens  many 
men  who  have  overcome  almost  insur- 
mountable difficulties,  and  made  in  theu' 
lifetimes  careers  that  are  splendid  illus- 
trations of  man's  pluck  and  ability  to  overcome 
unpropitious  natural  conditions,  and  make  the 
unwilling  earth  contribute  to  the  support  and 
prosperity  of  the  State.  Prominent  among  these 
men,  and  especially  so  from  the  wide  and  varied 
pursuits  he  has  followed  and  the  successful  re- 
sults he  has  achieved,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Stanley  B.  Milner,  son  of  John  and  Sarah 
Selina  (Bark)  Milner,  both  natives  of  England, 
was  born  in  Grand  county,  Wisconsin,  and  spent 
his  early  life  on  his  father's  farm  in  that  State. 
His  father  John  Milner,  was  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Wisconsin,  hewing  his  farm  out  of  the 
timber  lands  and  guarding  his  home  against  the 
depredations  of  the  hostile  Indians.  When  he 
settled  in  Wisconsin,  in  1847,  that  region  was  a 
wilderness,  and  he  was  one  of  the  first  pioneers 
to  convert  it  into  a  home.  The  same  independ- 
ence and  ability  which  made  him  a  pioneer  also 
brought  him  success  in  his  industry  of  farming 
the  new  land,  and,  as  the  country  became  settled, 
he  became  a  leader  of  that  community,  and  took 
an  active  part  in  the  government  of  its  local 
affairs.  Although  actively  interested  in  the  gov- 
ernment of  his  home  affairs,  he  took  no  active 
part  in  the  political  affairs  of  the  State.  Leaving 
the  State  of  his  adoption,  he  came  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  and  his  wife  are  still  living. 

The  early  education  of  his  son,  Stanley  B. 
Milner,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  derived 
from   such  schools  as  then  e.xisted  in  that  new 


472 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


reg'ion,  but,  following  the  example  of  all  the  chil- 
dren of  the  pioneers,  he  soon  struck  out  for  him- 
self. His  first  work  outside  of  the  farm  was  be- 
gun at  the  age  of  sixteen,  when  he  began  to  learn 
the  trade  of  cabinetmaker  and  carpentering,  and 
this  trade  he  followed  for  the  ensuing  three  years 
in  Wisconsin.  When  he  was  twenty  years  of 
age  he  left  his  native  State  and  went  to  work  in 
Iowa  as  a  carpenter,  continuing  in  that  trade  until 
he  was  twenty-four. 

Finding  that  as  a  mechanic  he  did  not  have 
sufficient  opportunity  to  exercise  his  ability,  he 
embarked  in  the  lumber  business  at  Atlantic,  Cass 
county  Iowa,  and  during  the  nine  years  he  was 
engaged  in  that  business  enjoyed  a  successful  ca- 
reer. His  business  increased  with  the  years,  and 
to  accommodate  its  requirements  he  established 
branches  in  different  parts  of  Iowa,  and  in  other 
States  as  well.  This  business  he  disposed  of, 
and,  with  others,  erected  an  alcohol  distillery  at 
Atlantic,  Iowa,  at  a  cost  of  $135,000.  Air.  Mil- 
ner  was  the  manager  of  this  new  venture,  which 
prospered  to  a  great  degree  under  Ms  supervision. 
It  was  later  disposed  of  to  the  alcohol  trust. 
After  it  was  taken  under  control  by  the  alcohol 
trust,  he  headed  a  company  in  the  erection  of  a 
starch  factorv  in  that  place,  which  cost  $90,000. 
Of  this  he  was  the  principal  owner,  and  devoted 
his  time  to  its  management.  The  success  of  the 
alcohol  distillery  was  duplicated  by  the  starch 
factory,  and  it  continued  to  be  a  profitable  invest- 
ment the  entire  time  it  was  under  the  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Milner.  This  factory  was  later  ab- 
sorbed by  the  starch  trust. 

Throughout  the  last  ten  years  of  the  time  he 
spent  in  Iowa  Mr.  Milner  became  interested  in 
mining  operations  in  the  Leadville  District  in 
Colorado,  and  he  located  and  developed  the  High- 
land Chief  mine  there,  and  still  retains  a  large 
financial  interest  in  it.  This  was  his  first  ven- 
ture into  the  field  of  mining,  and  he  was  the  orig- 
inal promoter  and  developer  of  this  property, 
which  has  since  grown  to  great  value.  Besides 
his  mining  interests,  he  was  also  interested  in  a 
^number  of  business  enterprises  in  Colorado. 

His  interests  in  mining  properties  continued 
to  widen  with  years,  and  in  1888  he  removed  to 
Utah  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City.     He  became 


interested  in  mining  propositions  in  Gold  Moun- 
tain, Utah,  and  later  acquired  a  large  interest  in 
the  Pedro  mine,  at  Bingham,  being  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  company  formed  to  develop  it.  This 
proved  to  be  a  rich  mine,  and  he  still  retains  a 
Jarge  financial  interest  in  it.  He  developed  this 
mine,  and  was  interested  in  many  other  properties 
in  this  State.  Among  these  is  the  Dexter  mine, 
at  Tuscarora,  in  which  he  holds  large  interests, 
and  is  the  Vice-President  of  the  company.  This 
is  also  a  valuable  property,  yielding  during  the 
past  year  one  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  dol- 
lars to  its  stockholders  in  the  form  of  dividends. 
In  addition  to  his  holdings  of  mining  properties 
of  precious  and  valuable  ores,  his  holdings  of 
iron  ore  lands  in  Utah  makes  him  the  owner  of 
the  largest  body  of  high-grade  iron  ore  in  the 
world.  These  beds  of  ore  are  located  in  the 
southern  part  of  Utah,  and  will  be  on  the  line 
of  the  new  railroad  designed  to  connect  Salt 
Lake  City  with  Los  Angeles,  California,  thus 
affording  ready  transportation  and  efficient  aid 
in  the  development  of  this  property.  The  esti- 
mates of  the  extent  of  this  body  of  iron  place 
the  amount  at  over  one  hundred  and  sixty  mil- 
lion tons  of  ore,  which  exceeds  the  amount  owned 
by  even  the  Czar  of  the  Russias. 

In  addition  to  his  interests  in  mining,  Mr.  Mil- 
ner has  taken  part  in  the  development  of  the  finan- 
cial interests  of  Utah  and  in  the  building  up  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  Lie  is  a  director  in  the  National 
Bank  of  the  Republic,  in  this  city,  and  is  also 
the  owner  of  "Fountain  Place,"  a  suburb  in  the 
southern  part  of  Salt  Lake  City,  which  contains 
over  twenty-three  acres.  Nor  are  his  interests 
confined  by  the  boundaries  of  the  State.  He  is 
President  and  manager  of  the  Twin  Falls  Land 
and  Water  Company,  of  Southern  Idaho,  which 
has  under  way  the  project  of  irrigating  two  hun- 
dred and  seventy  thousand  acres  of  arid  land  in 
that  country.  This  irrigation  will  be  from  one 
fountain  head,  and  the  water  will  be  drawn  from 
the  Snake  river,  the  connection  being  made  at  a 
point  eighteen  miles  above  the  Shoshone  Falls 
on  that  river.  Not  only  will  this  be  of  great 
financial  benefit  to  the  projectors,  but  it  will  serve 
to  open  up  a  new  country,  which  at  present  lies 
useless  and  idle  from  lack  of  water. 


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473 


Mr.  Milner  was  married,  in  Atlantic,  Iowa,  to 
Miss  Truth  Campbell,  daughter  of  Stanton  A. 
Campbell,  who  was  first  a  school  teacher  and 
later  a  banker  in  that  State.  His  wife  is  a  de- 
scendant of  the  old  Argj'le  family  of  Scotland, 
and  whose  ancestors  settled  in  Massachusetts 
over  a  hundred  years  ap-o.  He  has  three  sons — 
Archibald,  who  is  associated  with  his  father  in 
his  various  business  enterprises;  Clarence,  en- 
gaged in  the  beet  sugar  industry,  for  which  he  is 
being  fitted  by  a  special  course  at  college  in  Ber- 
lin, Germany,  and  Jay. 

While  Mr.  Milner  has  devoted  his  time  entirely 
to  business,  and  has  not  actively  participated  in 
politics,  he  believes  in  the  principles  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  He  was  formerly  a  believer  in  the 
Republican  tenets,  but  owing  to  the  adherence  of 
the  Democratic  party  to  the  silver  cause,  in  which 
the  mining  States  were  so  vitally  concerned, 
joined  the  ranks  of  that  party. 

He  now  stands  at  the  head  of  the  business  men 
•of  Utah,  both  in  wealth  and  in  the  extent  of 
his  enterprises.  His  industry  and  ability  have 
brough  him  wealth  and  success,  and  his  career 
is  one  that  marks  him  as  a  man  who  would  have 
succeeded  in  whatever  he  turned  his  hand  to  do. 
His  geniality  and  kindness,  his  integrity  and 
ability,  together  with  his  unflinching  honesty, 
have  made  him  one  of  the  best  known  men  in 
the  West  and  one  of  the  most  popular. 

Starting  at  an  early  age  to  earn  his  own  liv- 
ing, self-made  and  self-instructed,  he  has  carved 
a  fortune  and  career  from  the  opportunities  that 
presented  themselves,  and  in  building  for  him- 
self he  has  built  for  others,  in  the  development 
of  the  industries  of  the  State  with  which  he  has 
been  so  closely  allied. 


ILLIAM  SMITH.  One  of  the 
most  prominent  and  influential  citi- 
zens in  the  Mill  Creek  Ward,  and 
one  who  throughout  his  lifetime  was 
one  of  its  most  valued  members,  as 
well  as  an  active  worker  in  the  Mormon  Church, 
was  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  died  October 
lo,  1901.  He  was  born  in  Steeple,  Ashton,  Eng- 
land,  November   12   1841,  and  was  the  son  of 


Thomas  and  Alice  (Long)  Smith.  His  father 
and  mother  were  natives  of  England,  and  lived 
and  died  in  that  land. 

Our  subject  was  married,  in  England,  on  April 
23,  1862,  to  Miss  Anna  Sophia  DuFc^e,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  and  Anna  (Lawrence)  DuFosee, 
the  father  a  native  of  Saulsbury  and  the  mother 
of  Stopleford,  England.  Her  father  was  a  grand- 
son of  Anthony  DuFosee,  the  inventor  of  the  first 
carpet-weaving  machine.  This  ancestor  of  the 
family  came  from  France  with  Lord  Pembroke, 
and  lived  with  him  after  he  came  to  England  at 
his  home  in  Wilton,  where  the  first  carpet  weav- 
ing by  machinery  in  history  took  place.  From 
here  he  went  to  Kityminster,  where  he  also 
started  carpet  weaving,  and  in  this  place  he  died. 
Mrs.  Smith's  grandfather  was  a  tallow  chandler 
at  Saulsbury,  England,  and  her  father  also.  The 
DuFosee  family  were  one  of  the  prominent  fami- 
lies in  manufacturing  and  textile  life  in  England. 
Shortly  after  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith 
emigrated  to  America,  and  landed  at  New  York, 
making  their  way  west  to  Utah  without  delay. 
They  arrived  at  Florence,  Nebraska,  and  spent 
five  weeks  there  waiting  for  wagons  in  which  to 
make  the  trip  across  the  plains.  In  the  wagon 
train  in  which  they  finally  traveled  across  to 
Utah  Captain  Henry  Miller  was  in  command, 
and  the  train  arrived  safely  in  Salt  Lake  City 
on  October  17,  1862.  Upon  their  arrival  in  Utah 
they  took  up  their  residence  in  Sugar  House 
Ward,  and  lived  there  for  some  time,  coming  to 
Mill  Creek  Ward  in  April,  1867,  and  located  at 
Ninth  East,  between  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth 
South  streets,  where  they  have  lived  ever  since, 
and  where  Mr.  Smith  died.  So  successfully  did 
he  cultivate  the  land  which  he  had  taken  up  that 
at  his  death  he  was  able  to  leave  his  widow  in 
comfortable  circumstances,  with  a  fine  brick  home, 
splendid  orchard  and  shade  trees,  and  twenty- 
five  acres  of  cultivated  land.  The  result  of  their 
marriage  was  six  children — William  D.,  was  born 
September  9,  1863,  and  died  November  3,  1866; 
Alice  S.  D.,  now  the  wife  of  Duncan  Park,  was 
born  January  5,  1866;  Elizabeth  J.  D.,  was  born 
February  13,  1868,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  Ed- 
ward Knowles ;  Hannah  D.,  born  April  10,  1870, 
now  the  wife  of  J.  S.  Blake ;  Lovenia,  bom  March 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


24,   1874,  died  September  17,   1879;  ^nd  Louisa 
D.,  born  December  11,  1877. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Smith  was  not  a  mem- 
ber of  either  of  the  dominant  parties,  but 
preferred  to  maintain  an  independent  position 
and  vote  for  the  man  whom  he  judged  best  fitted 
for  the  position.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints 
when  he  was  eight  years  of  age,  and  was  a  con- 
sistent and  faithful  member  of  that  Church 
throuehout  his  life.  For  two  years  he  was  ab- 
sent on  its  missionary  work,  returning  to  Utah 
on  October  6,  1900.  This  period  was  spent  in 
England,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  Birming- 
ham Conferences.  At  his  home  and  in  his  work 
he  was  known  as  a  consistent  Christian,  and  one 
who  followed  with  care  the  principles  of  the 
Golden  Rule.  He  died  from  the  result  of  a  severe 
attack  of  heart  trouble.  The  reputation  which  he 
made  throughout  his  life  for  integrity  and  hon- 
esty, and  his  fair  dealings  and  broad-mindedness. 
had  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem,  not 
only  of  the  members  of  his  Church,  but  also  of 
the  people  of  the  Salt  Lake  Valley,  without  re- 
gard to  religious  belief  or  political  affiliations. 


AMUEL  H.  HILL.  It  may  be  doubted 
if  any  resident  of  the  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley is  more  favorablv  known  throughout 
Utah  than  the  subject  of  this  article. 
He  has  wielded  a  potent  influence  in 
affairs  that  make  for  the  upbuilding  of  a  com- 
munity and  the  development  of  its  resources. 
For  this  reason,  therefore  a  special  interest  at- 
taches to  the  record  of  his  life,  which  is  the  story 
of  a  man  who  came  to  this  wild  and  unsettled 
country  when  but  a  child,  obtaining  only  the  most 
meagre  education  to  fit  him  for  the  battle  of  life, 
and  who  began  life  poor  in  purse,  but  rich  in  ex- 
pectation and  hope ;  a  man  of  invincible  deter- 
mination and  tireless  energy,  fitted  by  natural 
endowments  for  large  responsibilities  in  the 
business  world. 

Samuel  H.  Hill  was  born  in  Canada  West 
December  23,  1840,  to  which  place  his  father, 
Archibald  N.  Hill,  had  emigrated  from  Scotland. 
While  he  was  yet  a  small  child  his  parents  re- 


moved from  Canada  and  emigrated  to  the  United 
States,  settling  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  and  there 
shared  all  the  sufferings  and  trials  to  which  the 
Saints  were  subjected.  Mr.  Hill,  our  subject's 
father,  had  become  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  during  his  residence  in  Canada,  and  his 
emigration  to  America  was  the  outgrowth  of  a 
desire  to  live  among  the  people  of  his  own  faith. 
When  the  Mormons  were  driven  out  of  Nauvoo 
he  went  with  the  main  body  of  the  Church  to 
Winter  Quarters,  and  made  the  long  and  toilsome 
journey  across  the  plains  to  the  Salt  Lake  Val- 
ley with  the  second  train  of  emigrants,  arriving 
here  in  the  fall  of  1847.  After  coming  to  Utah 
he  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  had  charge  of 
the  General  Tithing  Office  from  that  time  until 
he  retired  from  active  life.  He  died  in  January. 
1899,  ^t  the  advanced  age  of  ei?hty-four  years, 
after  a  life  spent  wholly  in  the  work  of  building 
up  and  strengthening  the  Church  which  he  be- 
lieved to  be  the  true  one.  His  position  had 
brought  him  into  close  touch  with  almost  every 
member  of  the  Church,  and  he  was  widely  known 
throughout  the  State,  and  enjoyed  the  friendship, 
not  only  of  the  heads  of  the  Church,  but  of  hun- 
dreds of  the  members  in  other  sections  of  the 
State  as  well,  and  at  the  time  of  his  demise  was 
mourned  by  the  entire  Church.  His  wife,  and 
the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  a  Miss  Isabella 
Hood.  She  died  when  her  son  was  but  seven 
years  of  age,  and  was  the  only  member  of  her 
family  to  come  to  the  United  States. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  Illinois,  re- 
maining there  until  he  was  about  twelve  years  of 
age,  and  receiving  his  early  training  and  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  that  State.  In  185 1  he 
crossed  the  plains  with  a  company  of  Mormon 
emigrants,  driving  an  ox  team  part  of  the  way. 
The  company  encountered  large  herds  of  buf- 
falo, which  caused  them  no  little  inconvenience, 
it  being  a  difficult  matter  to  prevent  the  cattle 
stampeding,  and  during  this  journey  Mr.  Hill  had 
the  misfortune  to  be  run  over  by  a  wagon,  result- 
ing in  a  broken  leg,  from  which,  however,  no  bad 
effects  were  suffered,  the  leg  being  about  mended 
by  the  time  he  reached  his  destination.  This  com- 
pany were  also  most  fortunate  in  their  relations 
with  the  Indians,  who  usually  caused  so  much 


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trouble  and  often  danger  to  the  emigrants.  Al- 
though they  at  one  time  passed  a  village  in  which 
there  was  said  to  be  ten  thousand  warriors,  they 
were  not  molested  or  interfered  with  in  any  way 
on  the  entire  journey.  Upon  reaching  Salt  Lake 
City  our  subject  joined  his  father,  and  remained 
with  him  for  some  years,  attending  such  schools 
as  the  city  afforded  at  that  time.  In  1857  Mr. 
Hill,  in  connection  with  others,  started  to  estab- 
lish mail  stations  between  Fort  Leavenworth, 
Kansas,  and  Salt  Lake  City.  He  spent  the  sum- 
mer at  a  point  on  the  line  called  Deer  Creek,  near 
the  Platte  river. 

In  1862  Mr.  Hill  started  out  in  life  for  him- 
self, enlisting  as  a  private  in  the  United  States 
army  as  a  cavalryman,  and  was  mustered  out  in 
the  following  fall.  In  May,  1863,  he  was  called 
by  the  heads  of  the  Church  to  go  on  a  mission  to 
Europe,  and  spent  three  and  a  half  years  in  the 
foreign  mission  field,  laboring  in  England,  Scot- 
land, Holland,  Germany,  France  and  Switzer- 
land. During  this  time  he  mastered  the  German 
language  and  acquired  a  smattering  of  the 
trench.  The  Church  had  not  organized  its  work 
into  districts  at  this  time,  and  at  one  time  Mr. 
Hill  was  the  only  Elder  from  Utah  in  these  coun- 
tries. Upon  his  return  to  Utah,  in  1866,  he  was 
sent  to  Southern  Nevada,  where  he  spent  some 
time  in  colonization  work.  He  again  returned 
to  Utah,  in  1868,  and  engaged  with  Brigham 
Young  in  the  construction  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  in  Utah  Territory.  He  continued  in 
this  work  until  the  transcontinental  road  was 
completed  and  the  tracks  met  at  Promontory  in 
1870.  In  that  year  he  became  associated  with 
the  Utah  Central  Railroad,  which  was  in  course 
of  construction  from  Ogden  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  which  has  since  been  absorbed  bv  the  Oregon 
Short  Line.  He  remained  with  that  company 
until  1889,  acting  in  the  capacity  of  purchasing 
agent  and  pay  master. 

In  1890  Mr.  Hill  became  associated  with  the 
old  established  firm  of  Cunnington  &  Company, 
with  which  he  Jias  since  been  identified.  This 
house  was  established  in  May,  1867,  by  Messrs. 
Walker  Brothers,  John  Cunnington  and  John 
Chislett,  under  the  firm  name  of  Cunnington 
&  Company,  their  first  location  being  the  north- 


east corner  of  Main  and  Second  South  streets. 
From  the  very  start  this  establishment  has  had  a 
splendid  business,  their  trade  rapidly  extending 
to  the  remote  mining  camps  and  throughout  the 
entire  State.  In  1883  the  business  absorbed  the 
firm  of  Kimball  &  Lawrence,  one  of  the  leading 
businesses  of  Salt  Lake  City  at  that  time,  and 
until  1891  occupied  quarters  on  the  corner  of 
Main  and  First  South  streets,  where  the  McCor- 
nick  building  now  stands.  From  there  the  busi- 
ness was  transferred  to  the  Hooper  Block,  21  and 
23  East  South  Temple,  and  their  increasing  busi- 
ness demanding  larger  quarters,  they  again 
moved,  in  July,  1900  to  their  present  location, 
at  Nos.  48  and  50  South  Main  street.  Here,  in 
addition  to  their  main  building,  they  have  erected 
a  large  warehouse,  which  extends  from  the  rear 
of  the  business  premises  and  fronts  on  Richards 
street.  They  carry  a  complete  line  of  mining 
supplies  and  hardware,  and  also  do  a  large  gro- 
cery business,  conducting  both  a  wholesale  and 
retail  business,  and  are  among  the  most  substan- 
tial and  prosperous  firms  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
Since  his  connection  with  the  firm  Mr.  Hill  has 
been  its  manager;'  and  has  entire  charge  of  the 
business  of  the  company,  and  it  is  largely  due  to 
his  able  and  efficient  management,  as  well  as  the 
untiring  energy  and  devotion  to  the  interests  of 
the  house  which  he  has  displayed,  that  the  rflsti- 
tution  is  to-day  in  such  excellent  financial  condi- 
tion. He  is  a  man  of  most  genial  persottSlity, 
possessing,  in  addition  to  a  high  order  of  busi- 
ness ability,  the  rare  gift  of  ma:king  friends  of 
his  patrons,  and  during  these  years  he  has  not 
only  been  able  to  retain  the  large  patronage  which 
the  house  enjoyed  at  the  time  he  bfCame  asso- 
ciated with  it,  but  has  also  largety  increased  the 
number  of  its  customers,  by  uniformly  honorable 
and  business-like  dealings,  it  being"  the  first  de- 
sire of  this  house  that  every  one  should  find  their 
purchase  to  be  exactly  as  represented  and  worth 
the  price  paid. 

Mr.  Hill  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  in 
May,  1867,  to  Miss  Audrey  Paine,  a  daughter  of 
James  and  Elizabeth  Paine.  His  wife  only  lived 
eleven  months  after  their  marriapre,  and  died' in 
Nevada  May  18,  1868.  Fie  again  marriecl,  in 
1870,  to  Miss  Martha  Thomas,  daughter  of  David 


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and  Martha  Thomas.  The  Thomas  family  were 
of  Welsh  extraction,  and  came  to  Utah  in  1868. 
By  this  marriage  Mr.  Hill  has  six  children — 
David ;  Archibald ;  Coe ;  James ;  Edwin,  and 
Mary. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Hill  is  an  adherent  of  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  held 
in  1895,  for  the  purpose  of  making  application  to 
the  Federal  Government  for  admission  into  the 
Union  of  States.  He  took  a  nrominent  and  active 
part  in  its  deliberations.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  but,  while  active  in  its  work, 
holds  no  official  position  in  the  Church.  He  has 
traveled  extensively,  takino^  a  trip  through  Mex- 
ico in  1885,  and  also  made  a  tour  of  the  old 
world  in  1877. 


EORGE  M.  SCOTT.  The  present 
prosperity  of  Utah  is  the  result  of  the 
life  work  of  many  men  who  have  given 
their  entire  energies  to  the  building  up 
of  the  commercial  resources  of  this 
inter-mountain  State,  and  have  brought  out  of  the 
wilderness  mineral  wealth  and  industry.  Mr. 
Scott  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  settlement 
of  the  Pacific  slope,  and  in  the  development  of 
ihe  resources  of  the  inter-mountain  region.  He 
went  to  California  in  the  early  days,  going  via 
Panama  and  the  Isthmus  of  Darian  in  the  spring 
of  1852,  and  began  there  his  business  career, 
which  has  brought  him  in  the  fullness  of  his 
years  to  the  leading  position  among  business 
men  throughout  Utah.  He  has  created  for  him- 
self a  standing  that  is  not  excelled  by  any  other 
man,  and  in  the  State  he  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  the  business  world. 

He  was  born  in  the  northern  part  of  New  York 
State  in  1835,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
public  and  high  schools  of  that  State.  He  re- 
sided there  until  1852,  when  he  decided  to  strike 
out  for  the  great  West,  and  to  carve  for  himself 
out  of  the  latent  power  of  that  region  a  success- 
ful career  Mr.  Scott  continued  in  business  for 
some  years,  and  then  removed  to  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1871.  He  found  Salt  Lake  a  small,  strugsriing 
mountain  town,  with  but  little  attention  paid  to 


business,  and  with  the  energies  of  the  people  di- 
rected to  agriculture  and  produce  rather  than  to 
the  development  of  the  wonderful  mineral  wealth 
hidden  in  the  mountains  of  Utah.  Upon  his  ar- 
.rival  he  established  the  present  hardware  business 
of  which  he  is  now  the  head,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Scott,  Dunham  &  Company.  This  firm  enjoyed 
a  very  prosperous  existence,  and  conducted  the 
business  at  considerable  profit  for  a  number  of 
years,  until  1874,  when  the  firm  became  Geo.  M. 
Scott  &  Company,  who  conducted  the  business 
for  a  number  of  years.  In  1898  the  style  was 
changed  to  the  Geo.  M.  Scott-Strevell  Hardware 
Company.  This  establishment,  of  which  he  has 
been  President  since  its  oreanization,  has  kept 
pace  with  the  growth  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  is 
now  one  of  the  most  substantial  business  estab- 
lishments in  the  city.  As  the  State  of  Utah  be- 
gan to  feel  the  inrush  of  wealth,  due  to  the  devel- 
opment of  its  mines.  Salt  Lake  City  became  more 
and  more  an  important  center  for  the  supplying 
of  mills  and  appliances  needed  for  the  work  of 
taking  out  ore.  This  company  now  enjoys  a  large 
and  extensive  business,  and  gives  employment 
to  between  seventy  and  eighty  men.  Its  business 
has  not  been  confined  to  the  limits  of  Utah,  but 
e.xtends  throughout  the  entire  inter-mountain 
region,  and  is  the  lareest  house  of  its  kind  west 
of  Denver  and  east  of  San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Scott  has  never  married.  In  political  life 
he  has  always  been  a  staunch  Republican,  and  in 
the  early  days  in  Salt  Lake  City,  when  the  peo- 
ple were  divided  on  Mormon  and  non-Mormon 
lines,  Mr.  Scott  was  a  strong  and  active  worker 
in  the  ranks  of  the  latter  party.  During  the 
campaign  of  the  Liberal  party  in  Utah  in  1890, 
he  was  its  candidate  for  Mayor,  and  was  suc- 
cessfully elected,  enjoying  the  distinction  of  be- 
ing the  first  Gentile  Mayor  ever  elected  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  he  presided  over  the  destinies 
of  the  city  during  the  years  1890  and  1891. 
Aside  from  this  office,  he  has  never  held  nor 
sought  any  other  position  in  the  public  confi- 
dence, preferring  to  devote  his  time  and  ener- 
gies to  his  business  interests,  which  now  com- 
prise the  leading  enterprise  of  the  State.  He  is 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Alta  club,  of  this 
city. 


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477 


Mr.  Scott's  father,  E.  A.  Scott,  was  a  native 
of  New  York  and  was  one  of  its  successful  mer- 
chants. The  success  which  his  son  has  achieved 
in  the  mercantile  world  ranks  him  as  one  of  the 
leaders  in  the  West,  and  with  the  growth  of  his 
business  and  increase  in  his  wealth  has  grown  his 
interest  in  the  city  and  State.  He  has  unlimited 
faith  in  the  future  greatness  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  in  the  importance  of  Utah.  His  genial  and 
pleasant  manner  and  his  large-heartedness  have 
made  him  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  Utah, 
and  he  numbers  his  friends  by  the  legion. 


ILLIAM  A.  NEEDHAM.  In  the 
conduct  of  the  operations  of  Zion's 
Co-Operative  Mercantile  Institu- 
tion, which  ranks  high  among  the 
mercantile  institutions  of  the  United 
States,  and  undoubtedly  holds  the  first  place  in 
the  commercial  world  of  the  entire  inter-mountain 
region,  both  by  reason  of  its  enormous  volume 
of  business,  and  by  the  vast  fields  over  which  its 
•operations  are  extended,  men  of  ability  are  re- 
quired to  properly  guide  the  efforts  of  this  great 
establishment.  Prominent  among  the  men  who 
have  aided  materially  in  the  development  of  its 
business,  and  have  assisted  in  bringing  it  to  its 
present  high  standing,  is  the  subject  of  tliis 
sketch. 

William  A.  Needham  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City  October  2,  1858.  His  father,  James  Need- 
ham,  was  a  native  of  England,  and  came  to  Utah 
in  the  early  days  of  its  settlement.  He  was  con- 
verted to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church 
in  England,  and  remained  a  devoted  member  of 
the  Church,  engaging  actively  as  a  missionary 
for  several  years.  His  wife,  Alice  (Warburton) 
Needham,  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  also  a  native  of  England.  She  came 
to  Utah  with  her  husband,  and  throughout  her 
life  was  a  consistent  and  devoted  member  of  the 
Church  of  her  choice. 

Their  son,  William,  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  district  schools  of  Utah,  but  owing 
to  the  necessity,  so  urgent  in  a  newly  settled  re- 
gion, for  the  turning  to  account  of  every  hand 
that  was  able  to  work,  he  was  early  forced  to  earn 


his  own  living,  and  as  a  boy  of  twelve  years  he 
entered  the  employ  of  S.  P.  Teasdel,  as  cash  boy, 
and  afterwards  as  saleman,  where  he  remained 
until  he  reached  his  majority.  He  has  been  in 
the  employ  of  Zion's  Co-Operative  Mercantile 
Institution  for  over  twenty  years,  being  first  em- 
ployed in  the  dress  goods  department,  where  he 
remained  as  clerk  for  ten  years,  at  the  expiration 
of  which  time  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  en- 
tire retail  dry  goods  department  of  that  estab- 
lishment, and  conducted  its  affairs  with  efficiency 
and  credit  to  himself,  having  under  his  charge 
between  thirty  and  forty  men  and  women.  For 
twelve  years  past  he  has  made  trips  to  the  East 
about  twice  a  year  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing 
goods  for  the  department  of  which  he  has  charge. 

Mr.  Needham  married  twenty  years  ago  to 
Miss  Lizzie  Brown,  daughter  of  John  Brown, 
Counselor  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Ninth  Ward  of 
Salt  Lake  City.  By  this  marriage  they  have  five 
children — Alice,  Mamie,  Hazel,  Irme  B.  and 
Ray  B. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Needham  is  a  member 
of  the  Republican  party  and  has  followed  its  for- 
tunes since  its  organization  in  Utah.  He  has 
never  held  or  sought  public  office,  giving  his  en- 
tire attention  to  his  business. 


ENRY  B.  PROUT,  manager  of  the 
Sales  Department  of  the  Consolidated 
Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  is  one 
of  the  best  known  and  most  popular 
employes  of  this  great  establishment. 
He  began  life  at  the  very  bottom  of  the  ladder, 
and  through  the  exercise  of  his  own  energy  and 
ability  has  progressed  until  he  now  occupies  a 
position  of  trust  and  honor  in  one  of  the  largest 
implement  establishments  of  the  entire  inter- 
mountain  region,  if  not,  indeed,  of  the  West, 

Henry  B.  Prout  was  born  in  Williamsburg, 
Granville  county.  North  Carolina,  May  8,  1859. 
He  is  the  son  of  Henry  H.  Prout,  a  native  of  New 
York  State  and  a  noted  Episcopal  divine.  The 
Prout  family  came  from  England  at  an  early  day, 
the  originator  of  the  family  in  this  country  being 
believed  to  have  come  over  in  the  Mayflower.  He 
located  in  Ashland,  New  York,  where  he  estab- 


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lished  a  home  which  has  ever  since  been  in  posses- 
sion of  different  members  of  the  family,  and 
which  is  one  of  the  old  landmarks  of  that  place 
at  this  day,  known  as  Elm  Cottage.  Our  sub- 
ject's mother  was  also  descended  from  an  old 
New  York  family,  who  located  in  another  part  of 
the  State.  Her  maiden  name  was  Maria  Wicks. 
She  is  now  living  in  Schenectady,  New  York 
State  at  the  advanced  age  of  eight-three  years. 
When  our  subject  was  seven  years  of  age  his 
father  moved  to  Ashland,  New  York,  where  he 
remained  for  some  years,  and  then,  leaving  his 
family  at  the  old  homestead,  came  West  and  set- 
tled in  a  parish  in  what  was  originally  known  as 
Alder  Gulch,  now  Virginia  City,  Montana,  from 
which  place  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1874, 
and  was  here  joined  by  his  family.  After  coming 
to  this  city  he  had  charge  of  the  Saint  Mark's 
hospital  and  was  assistant  Rector  of  the  Episcopal 
Cathedral.     He  died  in  1879. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  Ashland, 
and  attended  the  private  schools  of  that  place 
until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  at  which  time 
he  accompanied  his  mother  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  was  a  student  at  Saint  Mark's  Academy  for 
two  years  after  coming  here.  He  began  life  in 
the  employ  of  the  Utah  Forwarding  Company, 
of  which  George  Y.  Wallace,  now  Manager  of 
the  Rocky  Mountain  Bell  Telephone  Company, 
was  at  that  time  President.  He  remained  with 
that  company  for  four  years  and  then  became 
identified  with  Heber  J.  and  B.  F.  Grant,  who 
,were  engaged  in  the  implement  business  under 
the  firm  name  of  Grant  Brothers.  At  the  expira- 
tion of  two  years  B.  F.  Grant  withdrew  from  the 
business  and  his  interest  was  purchased  by  Mr. 
Prout,  and  the  business  continued  another  two 
years  under  the  name  of  Prout  &  Grant,  when  it 
was  sold  out  to  the  Southern  Forwarding  Com- 
pany^  which  was  eventually  merged  into  the  Con- 
solidated Implement  Company.  After  severing 
his  connection  with  Mr.  Grant,  our  subject  en- 
gaged in  the  stock  business,  which  he  followed 
for  three  years,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of 
Allen  G.  Campbell,  engaged  in  the  mining  busi- 
ness, remaining  in  Beaver  county  for  two  years. 
He  then  took  charge,  as  Manager,  of  the  Consoli- 
dated Implement  Company  at  Milford,  and  for 


thirteen  years  held  that  position  with  the  com- 
pany, a  portion  of  the  time  being  spent  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  where  he  resides  at  this  time,  having 
retained  his  old  position  when  that  company  was 
absorbed  by  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Ma- 
chine Company,  January  i,  1902.  Mr.  Prout  has 
been  identified  with  this  company  altogether  for 
a  period  of  twenty-three  years,  and  has  become 
one  of  the  most  efficient  and  best  posted  machine 
men  in  the  Western  country. 

He  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1886  to 
Miss  Mamie  A.  Latey,  a  native  of  Utah  and  a 
daughter  of  John  H.  and  Eleanor  J.  Latey.  Mrs. 
Prout's  father  is  of  English  descent,  and  came 
here  from  Illinois.  Her  mother  is  of  Scotch  ex- 
traction. By  this  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Prout 
have  three  children — M.  Eleanor,  Clara  L.,  and 
Ralph  B. 

Mr.  Prout  is  a  staunch  adherent  to  the  princi- 
ples of  the  Republican  party.  He  was  nominated 
for  State  Senator  on  the  Republican  ticket  from 
the  Eleventh  district,  in  1896,  and  carried  three 
counties  and  a  part  of  the  fourth,  but  was  de- 
feated by  the  fifth  county.  This  is  the  only 
public  office  for  which  Mr.  Prout  has  been 
a  candidate.  In  religious  life  he  was  reared 
in  the  Episcopal  faith.  He  has  shown  him- 
self possessed  of  a  high  order  of  business 
ability,  and  his  long  connection  with  this  one 
firm  attests  the  confidence  they  have  had  in 
him,  as  well  as  showing  that  he  has  been  the 
right  man  in  the  right  place.  He  is  of  a  pleasing 
personality,  and  has  the  knack  of  winning  and 
retaining  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  pa- 
.trons.  His  long  life  in  Utah  has  brought  him  in 
contact  with  people  from  all  over  the  State,  and 
he  numbers  his  friends  by  the  score  wherever  he 
is  known. 


OYD  PARK.  Salt  Lake  City,  nestling 
in  the  bosom  of  the  great  Salt  Lake 
\'alley,  is  distinguished  not  alone  for 
her  superb  climate,,  her  beautiful  and 
picturesque  location,  the  magnificence 
of  her  public  buildings,  elegant  homes,  and  the 
unrivalled  bathing  resort  which  lies  at  her  feet, 
although  she  is  rich  in  all  these,  and  more,  but 


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she  is  also  noted  for  the  number  of  resolute  and 
aggressive  men  of  business  to  be  found  among 
her  citizens,  whose  broad  intelligence  and  wide- 
awake business  enterprises  have  developed  her 
vast  resources  and  made  this  the  garden  spot  of 
the  inter-mountain  region.  Among  these  the  sub- 
ject of  this  article  must  ever  occupy  a  prominent 
position. 

Boyd  Park  could  not  be  called  a  pioneer  to 
Utah,  but  thirty-one  years  of  his  life  has  been 
spent  in  Salt  Lake  City,  during  which  time  all 
the  vast  improvements  which  can  be  seen  on 
every  hand  have  been  reared.  The  splendid 
granite  blocks,  the  beautiful  homes,  the  magnifi- 
cent city  and  county  building,  in  fact,  nearly  every 
modern  improvement  which  the  city  has  just 
right  to  be  proud  of  at  the  present  time,  has  been 
made  during  Mr.  Park's  residence  here,  and  but 
few  men  have  been  more  closely  identified  with 
nearly  every  enterprise  for  the  upbuilding  and  ad- 
vancement of  not  only  Salt  Lake  City,  but  the 
entire  inter-mountain  region,  than  has  Mr.  Park. 
He  has  given  largel"  of  both  his  time  and  means 
to  her  progress  and  development  and  has  been 
eminently  successful  in  his  business  career,  stand- 
ing to-day  as  one  of  the  strong  financial  piers 
of  this  country.  Mr.  Park's  faith  in  Salt  Lake 
City  and  the  State  at  large  has  always  been  al- 
most unbounded,  and  the  soundness  of  his  wis- 
dom and  judgment  has  been  fully  demonstrated 
in  a  city  which  today  stands  without  a  peer  in 
the  whole  confines  of  this  inter-mountain  country. 

Mr.  Park  is  a  native  of  that  grand  old  country, 
Scotland,  which  has  furnished  thousands  of  her 
noble  sons  for  the  upbuilding  of  Utah.  Born  in 
Renfreashire,  December  28,  1837,  when  but  a 
child  of  eaight  years  his  parents  came  to  America 
and  settled  in  Troy,  New  York,  where  Mr.  Park 
spent  his  early  life  and  received  a  good  common 
school  education.  He  became  an  apprentice  to 
the  jewelers'  trade  and  followed  that  business  in 
Troy  until  the  spring  of  1862,  when  he  moved 
to  Poultney,  Rutland  county,  Vermont,  where  he 
formed  a  partnershin  in  the  jewelry  business  with 
Mr.  Joslin,  under  the  firm  name  of  Joslin  &  Park. 
They  remained  in  Poultney  until  1865,  when  they 
started  West,  crossing  the  plains,  using  ox  teams 
to  haul   their  baggage,   and   arrived   in   Denver, 


Colorado,  having  walked  across  the  plains,  in  the 
fall  of  that  year.  Here  they  again  established 
themselves  in  business  under  the  same  firm  name, 
and  built  up  one  of  the  largest  jewelry  establish- 
ments in  the  entire  West.  Three  years  later  they 
established  a  branch  business  at  Cheyenne,  Wyo- 
ming, which  was  in  charge  of  Mr.  Park,  and 
which  they  conducted  until  the  spring  of  1880, 
Mr.  Park  coming  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  opening 
up  a  branch  house  here,  where  he  has  since  made 
his  home,  and  has  built  up  a  business  almost  as 
large  as  the  parent  house,  which  is  still  located  at 
Denver.  Mr.  Park  not  only  has  the  largest  es- 
tablishment of  the  kind  in  the  city,  but  has  per- 
haps conducted  the  most  successful  business  ven- 
ture in  the  entire  State.  The  business,  both  in 
Denver  and  Salt  Lake,  continued  to  be  conducted 
under  the  old  firm  name  of  Joslin  &  Park,  until  a 
few  years  ago,  when  Mr.  Park  purchased  the  in- 
terest of  his  partner  and  has  since  conducted  both 
establishments  under  his  own  name.  During  the 
past  few  months  his  son,  Colonel  Samuel  Culver 
Park,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work,  has  been  associated  with  him  in  the  busi- 
ness. While  the  Denver  house  continues  to  be 
the  largest  in  many  respects,  yet  the  Salt  Lake 
house  continues  to  lead  in  this  direction  among 
the  institutions  of  this  kind  west  of  Denver,  do- 
ing both  a  wholesale  and  retail  trade.  The  Salt 
Lake  house  gives  employment  to  about  fourteen 
.men,  and  the  Denver  establishment  about  seven- 
teen. The  present  handsome  and  commodious 
quarters  occupied  by  Mr.  Park  were  erected  in 
1874,  at  No.  170  South  Main  street,  and  his  splen- 
did home,  at  No.  468  South  Main  street,  was  com- 
pleted in  1883. 

In  1869,  while  living  in  Cheyenne,  Wyoming, 
he  returned  to  Poultney,  Vermont,  where  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Jane  E.  Culver,  a  native  of  that 
State.  By  this  union  two  children  have  been 
born,  Colonel  Samuel  Culver  Park  and  Mar- 
garet B.  Park. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Park  has  always  been  iden- 
tified with  the  Renublican  party,  but  he  has  never 
desired  nor  held  public  office,  his  entire  time  be- 
ing taken  up  by  his  large  business  interests.  In 
fraternal  life  he  is  a  Mason  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  members  of  that  body   in   the   West, 


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, having  reached  the  highest  degree  attainable  in 
that  order  in  this  country. 

Although  Mr.  Park  is  best  known  to  the  people 
of  this  region  as  a  jeweler,  he  has  not  by  any 
means  confined  himself  to  that  line  in  Utah,  but 
has  been  closely  associated  with  most  of  the  en- 
terprises put  forth  for  the  advancement  and 
growth  of  the  city  and  State.  He  is  largely  iden- 
tified with  the  mining  interests  of  Utah,  as  well 
as  a  great  many  of  the  financial  institution  of  the 
city.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  was  for 
many  years  President  of  the  Bank  of  Commerce 
in  which  he  is  at  the  present  time  a  director  and 
heavy  stockholder. 

Mr.  Park  is  essentially  a  self-made  man,  having 
started  out  in  life  as  a  poor  boy ;  and  the  marked 
success  which  he  has  won  by  close  attention  to 
business,  a  firm  adherence  to  the  highest  busi- 
ness principles,  perseverance  and  determination, 
should  be  an  inspiration  to  every  young  man  who 
has  the  privilege  of  studying  the  record  of  Mr. 
Park's  life.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  unsullied  honor, 
strict  integrity  and  high  ideals,  standing  high  in 
the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  entire  western 
world. 


OLONEL  SAMUEL  CULVER 
PARK.  The  stranger  visiting  Salt 
Lake  City  must  be  struck  with  the 
number  of  young  men  in  business  and 
"■;"^  '  public  life  who  hold  positions  of  trust 
aitH'Yesponsibility,  and  her  rapid  growth  of  recent 
years  has  been'^-^ue  in  a  large  measure  to  their 
enterprise  and  energetic  handling  of  affairs.  One 
of  the  ablest  and  most  wide-awake  young  busi- 
ness men  of  the  city  is  the  subject  of  our  sketch, 
only  son  of  Boyd  Park,  the  leading  jeweler  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  whose  biographical  sketch 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Colonel  Park  was  born  in  Cheyenne,  Wyoming. 
November  i6,  1869,  but  came  to  Salt  Lake  city 
with  his  parents  in  1871,  and  has  since  made  this 
his  home.  His  early  scholastic  education  was  ob- 
tained from  the  schools  of  Salt  Lake  city.  He 
later  entered  the  Philips  Exeter  Academy,  in  New 
Hampshire,  and  after  taking  a  thorough  course 


in  that  institution,  entered  the  State  University 
of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  graduating  in  1891, 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  Upon  completing  his 
education.  Colonel  Park  returned  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  at  once  became  identified  with  the  Bank 
of  Commerce,  being  given  the  responsible  po- 
sition of  cashier,  which  position  he  continued  to 
fill,  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  entire  satis- 
faction of  the  members  of  the  firm,  until  a  few 
months  ago,  when  he  resigned  his  position  and 
has  since  been  identified  with  his  father,  assisting 
him  in  looking  after  his  extensive  business  inter- 
ests in  this  State  and  Colorado. 

Colonel  Park  united  in  marriage  with  Miss 
Ella  Thomas,  daughter  of  ex-Governor  Arthur  L. 
Thomas,  of  this  city.  They  have  two  children, 
Boyd  Thomas  and  Eleanor. 

He  has  always  been  identified  with  the  Repub- 
lican party,  but  has  never  actively  participated  in 
its  work.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order  and  a  life  member  of  the  Elks  lodge 
of  this  city.  He  is  also  a  prominent  member  of 
the  University  Club,  and  he  and  his  estimable 
vvife  are  leaders  in  social  circles  in  the  city. 

Since  attaining  his  majority,  Colonel  Park  has 
taken  a  very  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
city  and  State,  and  has  for  several  years  been  a 
member  of  the  State  militia,  in  which  he  has  re- 
ceived rapid  promotion,  until  he  now  holds  the 
rank  of  Colonel.  His  wide  education  has  tended 
to  make  him  a  man  of  broad  and  liberal  ideas, 
keeping  in  touch  with  the  leading  questions  of 
the  day  and  with  his  fellow  men,  among  whom 
he  is  very  popular.  He  is  a  young  man  of  sterling 
worth  and  undoubted  integrity  and  high  honor, 
and  bids  fair  to  be  among  the  leading  business 
men  of  the  city  at  no  distant  day. 

Quring  the  Elks  Grand  Lodge  Convention  in 
1902,  he  was  Grand  Marshal  and  one  of  the  lead- 
ing spirits  in  the  manaeement  of  the  convention. 


ILL  F.  WANLESS  is  one  of  the 
enterprising  and  successful  young 
lawyers  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  is 
deservino'  of  great  credit  for  the 
success  which  he  has  thus  far 
achieved,  for  he  has  been  forced  to  rely  entirely 


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upon  his  own  resources.  Possessing  pluck  and 
determination  he  has  bravely  mastered  every  ob- 
stacle and  is  rapidly  winning  the  favor  of  those 
with  whom  he  has  been  associated  since  coming 
to  Utah. 

Mr.  Wanless  was  born  in  Denver,  Colorado,  in 
1870,  and  is  the  son  of  George  F.  Wanless,  at 
this  time  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in 
this  city.  He  is  a  native  of  Canada,  as  was  also 
his  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Anna 
Hume.  Her  brothers  served  in  the  army  during 
the  Civil  War.  Colonel  John  Wanless,  an  uncle 
of  our  subject,  was  at  one  time  provost-marshal 
of  Denver,  when  that  city  was  but  a  small  village. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  his  native  city  and  ob- 
tained his  early  education  from  the  schools  of  that 
place.  When  but  nineteen  years  of  age  he  en- 
tered the  University  of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor, 
after  graduating  from  the  high  school  of  Den- 
ver, and  graduated  from  the  law  department  of 
that  institution  in  1891,  with  the  degree  of  Bach- 
elor of  Arts.  He  was  admitted  to  practice  be- 
fore the  Supreme  Court  of  Michigan  and  later 
settled  in  Chicago,  where  he  formed  a  copartner*' 
ship  with  Messrs.  Pierson  and  Knudson,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Wanless,  Pierson  &  Knudson. 
However,  not  being  satisfied  with  the  opportuni- 
ties which  that  city  afforded  for  a  young  and 
ambitious  man,  and  believing  the  advantages  of 
the  West  to  be  superior  to  those  offered  by  the 
East,  he  came  to  Utah  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  1900,  and  has  since  followed  his  chosen 
profession  in  this  city,  making  a  notable  record  as 
a  criminal  lawyer.  Mr.  Wanless  is  but  a  young 
man,  scarce  launched  upon  his  career,  but  the 
evidence  he  has  already  given  of  his  ability  along 
legal  lines  leads  his  friends  to  predict  that  he  will 
yet  rank  as  a  great  criminal  lawyer.  Like  most 
all  other  professional  and  business  men  of  this 
city  Mr.  W'anless  is  interested  to  some  extent 
in  mining,  and  is  interested  in  some  of  the  best 
coal  mines  in  Utah,  but  his  mining  interests  are 
but  a  side  issue,  his  best  endeavor  being  given 
to  perfecting  himself  in  his  chosen  work. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Wanless  is  a  member  of 
the  Democratic  party,  but  has  never  been  actively 
identified  with  the  work  of  that  body. 


i:XRY  W.  BROWN.  If  the  pioneers 
could  return  to  earth  and  revisit  the 
scenes  of  their  early  struggles  and 
hardships,  they  would  doubtless  be 
filled  with  amazement  at  the  transform- 
ation which  has  since  taken  place  in  the  country 
which  presented  so  many  unpromising  features 
a  little  more  than  half  a  century  ago.  They  have 
not  all  passed  away,  however,  and  there  are  still 
many  residents  who  came  to  L'tah  in  the  early 
days,  as  children,  and  have  a  very  vivid  recol- 
lection of  those  days  and  the  struggles  passed 
through  by  the  hardy  people  who  did  so  much 
to  make  Utah  what  it  is  today,  one  of  the  fore- 
most States  in  the  nation.  Among  these  latter 
mention  should  be  made  of  Henry  W.  Brown,  the 
subject  of  this  article. 

His  birth  occurred  in  Berkshire,  England,  on 
( )ctober  10,  1839,  and  was  the  oldest  of  a  family 
of  ten  children,  seven  of  whom  were  born  in  Eng- 
land. The  parents  were  Jonathan  and  Sarah 
(Couzins)  Brown,  the  father  born  July  31,  1818, 
and  the  mother  born  in  the  village  of  Thatcham, 
Berkshire,  March  7,  1819.  The  parents  and  older 
children  became  converts  to  the  Mormon  religion 
and  on  the  nth  day  of  January,  1853,  ^^^  ^^'^ 
from  Liverpool,  and  joined  a  company  of  Mor- 
mon emigrants  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  from  where  they 
made  the  trip  across  the  plains  in  a  company  of 
fifty  o.x  teams,  under  command  of  Captain  Clau- 
dius V.  Spencer.  The  father  had  followed  his 
trade  as  a  baker  in  England,  but  did  not  resume 
that  occupation  after  coming  to  Utah,  devoting 
his  time  to  farming.  In  the  fall  of  1855  he  lo- 
cated on  the  farm  which  our  subject  now  owns, 
buying  seventy-six  acres  of  land,  which  was  in  a 
wild  state  and  had  to  be  cleared  before  it  could 
be  cultivated,  and  here  made  his  home  until  his 
death.  Besides  our  subject  there  are  now  living 
two  sons  and  two  daughters  of  this  family.  One 
son,  Charles,  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  Thistle 
Valley,  Sanpete  county,  on  June  24,  1866,  while 
standing  as  guard  during  the  Indian  war.  After 
the  death  of  the  father  our  subject  became  the 
head  of  the  family  and  cared  for  his  mother  until 
her  death. 

Mr.  Brown's  marriage  occurred  in   Salt  Lake 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


City  on  March  15,  1869,  when  he  was  united  to 
Miss  Sarah  Ann  Kilpack,  daughter  of  John  and 
Frances  Kilpack,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1864.  Ten 
children  have  been  born  to  our  subject— Henry 
J.,  deceased ;  Frances  S.,  deceased;  Charles  B., 
married  and  living  on  his  father's  farm;  Eliza- 
beth R.,  now  Mrs.  James  Dunster,  of  South  Cot- 
tonwood;  George  E.,  married  and  living  on  his 
father's  farm;  Arthur  William,  living  at  home; 
John  L.,  now  in  Milwaukee  on  a  mission ;  La- 
vina  L.,  a  student  at  the  State  University  in  Salt 
Lake  City ;  Esther  L.,  and  Zina,  the  baby.     . 

In  politics  Mr.  Brown  is  a  Democrat.  He  has 
been  Deputy  Assessor  and  Collector  at  diiTerent 
times  and  was  Road  Supervisor  for  a  period  of 
twenty  years.  He  was  also  for  twelve  years  school 
trustee,  finishing  his  term  in  1875,  and  for  the 
past  two  years  has  acted  in  that  same  capacity. 
He  is  secretary  and  director  in  the  East  Jordan 
Irrigation  Company,  holding  these  positions  since 
the  organization  of  the  company  in  1878. 

Mr.  Brown  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  November  29,  1852,  and  has  since  that 
time  been  a  consistent  follower  of  its  teachings, 
and  brought  his  family  up  in  that  faith.  He  is  at 
this  time  Senior  President  of  the  Seventy-Second 
Quorum  of  Seventies.  From  1881  to  1883  he 
served  on  a  mission  to  Europe,  laboring  in  the 
London  conference.  One  son,  Charles,  also 
served  two  years  in  missionary  work  in  California. 
Left  in  his  early  boyhood  to  not  only  earn  his 
own  living,  but  help  in  the  support  of  his  mother 
and  the  younger  members  of  the  family,  Mr. 
Brown  has  passed  through  many  trying  times. 
On  one  occasion  the  family  susbsisted  for  a  whole 
year  on  one  sack  of  flour,  it  being  used  to  thicken 
and  give  strength  to  the  milk  which  formed  al- 
most the  only  article  of  diet.  Since  then  he  has 
come  into  possession  of  a  considerable  amount  of 
land,  and  is  in  very  comfortable  circumstances, 
surrounded  by  all  the  comforts  of  life.  Besides 
his  home  place  he  has  forty  acres  of  good  land  at 
Crescent,  and  is  one  of  the  substantial  farmers 
of  Salt  Lake  county,  enjoying  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 


AVID    G.     CALDER,    Vice-President 
ajid    General    Manager   of    the   D.    O. 
Calder's  Sons  Company  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  Utah,  and  a  son  of  D.  O.  Calder, 
for  many  years  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  leading  business  men  of  Utah,  having 
been  identified  with  nearly  every  enterprise  of  the 
State.    He  was  the  founder  of  the  D.  O.  Calder 
music  house,  which  was  established  in  i860,  and 
incorporated  in  1902  as  the  D.  O.  Calder's  Sons 
Company,  and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has 
been  a  most  successful  business  venture.    He  was 
a  native  of  Scotland,  where  he  was  born  in  1823, 
and   where  he  spent  his   early   life,   receiving  a 
splendid  musical  and  literary  education  from  the 
schools  of  that  country,  and  developing  a  most 
wonderful  musical  talent.     He  acquired  consid- 
erable reputation  in  his  own  land  along  musical 
lines   and   had  charge  of   the   Falkirk   choir   in 
Scotland.    Early  in  life  he  became  identified  with 
the   Clyde   Canal,  beginning  as   messenger  boy, 
and  was  promoted  from  one  position  to  another 
until  he  became  general  manager  of  that  com- 
pany's  business   between   Falkirk   and   Glasgow, 
having  charge  of  all  the   stations  and  business 
along  that  line.     He  became  a  member  of  the 
Church   of  Jesus   Christ  of  Latter  Day   Saints 
when  a  young  man,  and  in  1850  came  to  America, 
settling  in  Cincinnati,  where  he  remained  for  a 
period  of  two  years,  crossing  the  plains  by  ox 
team  to  Utah   in   1852.     Perhaps  but  few  men 
were  more  closely  associated  or  held  in  h'gber  es- 
teem by  Brigham  Young  than  Mr.  Calder.     He 
was  his  chief  clerk  for  a  period  of  over  sixteen 
years  and  was  identified  with  nearly  every  busi- 
ness with  which  Brigham  Young  was  connected. 
Mr.  Calder  was  the  organizer  of  the  Commercial 
college,  which  was  really  the  forerunner  of  the 
Deseret    University,    which    institution   he   gave 
his  hearty  support  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life,  and  which  is  now  known  as  the  University 
of  Utah,  and  it  was  very  largely  through  his  in- 
fluence that  this  institution  was  established.    He 
also  served  the  State  in  a  public  capacity,  being 
for  many  years  Territorial  Treasurer.     He  was 
one  of  the  promoters  and  organizers  of  the  Utah 
Central  railroad,  and  for  many  years  had  entire 


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charge  of  the  traffic  of  that  road,  introducing  the 
present  system  of  accounts.  For  many  years,  and 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  charge  of  the 
Church  emigration  matters.  He  was  connected 
with  the  Descret  News  for  three  years  as  editor 
and  manager,  and  was  also  at  one  time  secretary, 
treasurer  and  a  director  in  the  Zion  Co-operative 
Mercantile  Institution,  of  which  he  was  one  of 
the  founders,  and  was  connected  with  that  in- 
stitution to  a  greater  or  less  degree  up  to  the  time 
of  his  death.  He  assisted  in  organizing  the 
Zion's  Savings  Bank  and  held  the  office  of  cashier 
of  that  institution  for  some  time.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  City  Coun- 
cil. He  was  one  of  the  most  active  and  promi- 
nent men  of  his  section,  standing  high  with  all 
classes,  held  high  in  the  esteem  of  the  leaders  of 
the  church  and  a  staunch  business  man  of  the 
city.  He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-one  years,  on 
July  4,  1884.  His  wife  was  a  Miss  Anna  Hamer. 
She  is  still  living.  Of  the  six  children  in  this 
family  four  are  connected  with  the  music  om- 
pany — David  G.,  our  subject;  S.  H. ;  Daniel  H. 
and  Henrietta,  a  sister.  Daniel  H.  is  also  a  phy- 
sician, residing  in  Brattleboro,  Vermont. 

Our  subject,  David  G.  Calder,  is  a  native  son 
of  Utah,  having  been  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
April  24,  1858.  He  received  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  this  city  and  later  en- 
tered Deseret  University,  and  after  completing 
his  education  traveled  in  Europe  for  a  period  of 
two  years,  during  which  time  he  took  special  les- 
sons in  drawing  in  the  leading  schools  of  Glas- 
gow. In  1874  he  became  identified  with  the  house 
of  which  he  is  now  vice-president  and  manager, 
and  has  been  its  leading  spirit  from  that  time  to 
the  present.  They  have  done  a  most  successful 
and  flourishing  business  since  he  became  asso- 
ciated with  the  establishment,  and  now  give  em- 
ployment to  many  people,  besides  the  traveling 
men,  doing  a  wholesale  and  retail  business.  When 
the  business  was  started  in  i860  the  instruments 
had  to  be  freighted  across  the  plains  by  ox  teams, 
at  the  rate  of  twenty-five  cents  a  pound  for  haul- 
ing, which  made  the  freight  on  an  instrument  al- 
most as  much  as  one  can  now  be  bought  for,  and 
the  business  begun  under  these  inauspicious  con- 


ditions has  grown  until  the  firm  now  occupies  a 
handsome  three-story  and  basement  brick  build- 
ing which  was  erected  in  1883^  and  is  one  of  the 
largest  establishments  of  the  kind  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region. 

Mr.  Calder  was  married  in  1880  to  Miss  Sarah 
E.  Hague,  a  native  of  this  State  and  daughter 
of  James  Hague,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Utah, 
and  during  his  lifetime  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
ness men  in  this  country.  Seven  children  have 
been  born  of  this  marriage. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Calder  has  been  identified 
with  the  Democratic  party  since  the  separation  on 
national  party  lines,  but  has  never  sought  or  held 
public  office  of  any  kind.  He  has  always  been 
identified  with  the  Mormon  Church,  but  on  ac- 
count of  his  active  business  life  has  not  been  as 
prominent  in  the  work  of  the  Church  as  some 
other  of  its  members ;  his  whole  life  from  boy- 
hood being  devoted  to  the  advancement  of  the 
business  which  he  has  assisted  in  making  such  a 
success.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  solid  busi- 
ness men  of  the  city  and  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  a  large  circle  of  business  associates 
and  friends. 


ORXELIUS  S.  GREEN.  The  promi- 
nence with  which  Utah  has  been 
brought  before  the  outside  world  has 
been  marked  and  rapid;  especially  is 
this  true  of  the  past  fifteen  or  twenty 
years.  Its  fine  climate,  the  splendid  opportunities 
for  young  men,  and  the  character  of  the  settlers 
who  originally  located  in  this  country,  have  all 
tended  to  inspire  men  to  seek  this  new  and  prom- 
ising country.  Amono-  those  who  settled  here  in 
the  early  history  of  the  country  and  who  fought 
all  the  battles  from  Nauvoo  to  this  State,  crossing 
the  plains,  encountering  the  savage  red  man,  com- 
ing in  contact  with  wild  animals  and  the  herds 
of  buffaloes,  should  h^^  mentioned  the  Green  fam- 
ily, of  whom  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  mem- 
ber. 

Mr.  Green  is  a  native  of  Utah,  having  been 
born  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  November  16,  1861. 
He  is  the  son  of  Cornelius  and  Karan  C.  (Han- 


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son)  Green,  his  father  being  a  native  of  Eng- 
land and  his  mother  of  Denmark.  The  senior  Mr. 
Green  was  among  the  early  settlers  who  came 
to  Utah,  leaving  the  historic  little  town  of  Flor- 
ence on  the  Missouri  river  and  crossing  the  plains 
with  ox  teams  in  1855.  His  wife  followed  two 
years  later.  Cornelius  Green  was  a  miner  and 
farmer  by  occupation  and  after  coming  to  Utah 
spent  the  balance  of  his  days  in  Salt  Lake  county. 
In  the  early  days  he  settled  on  Eleventh  East, 
between  Thirteenth  and  tourteenth  South  streets, 
where  his  son  Joseph,  the  only  brother  of  our 
subject,  now  resides.  In  this  family  there  were 
two  sons  and  five  daughters.  Our  subject's 
father  was  a  successful  man  during  his  life ;  he 
did  much  for  the  building  up  of  this  country  in 
the  early  days,  in  the  developing  of  its  agricul- 
tural interests  and  in  building  up  Salt  Lake  City. 
He  had  become  associated  with  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  in  the  early 
history  of  that  denomination  in  Illinois,  and  con- 
tinued to  be  a  faithful,  consistent  and  liberal  sup- 
porter of  it  all  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  closely 
associated  with  the  leading  members  of  the 
Church  and  always  stood  ready  to  perform  any 
duty  to  which  they  called  him.  He  served  on 
one  mission  to  his  native  country  after  settling  in 
Utah  and  many  worth\-  citizens  in  this  State  to- 
day can  point  back  to  the  time  when  they  were 
influenced  by  this  missionary  to  cross  the  ocean 
and  settle  in  this  country.  He  died  at  the  old 
homestead  in  1895,  and  by  those  who  were  inti- 
mately acquainted  with  him,  both  in  and  out  of 
the  Church,  only  the  kindest  remembrances  of  his 
life  and  work  are  treasured.  Our  subject's 
mother  is  still  living,  surrounded  by  her  children 
in  Salt  Lake  county. 

Cornelius  S.  Green  was  the  eldest  of  the  fam- 
ily and  grew  up  in  the  vicinity  of  where  he  now 
lives.  His  early  education  was  received  in  the 
schools  such  as  existed  in  Salt  Lake  county  at 
that  time.  Early  in  life  he  learned  the  paper- 
making  trade  and  whil^  engaged  in  that  business 
met  with  an  accident  which  partly  deprived  him 
of  the  use  of  his  right  hand.  However,  this  did 
not  put  an  end  to  or  materially  retard  his  am- 
bitious   and    progressive    spirit,    for    he    at    once 


turned  his  attention  to  contracting  and  building 
and  a  great  many  of  the  modern  dwellings  in 
Salt  Lake  City  and  valley  are  the  products  of  his 
labor.  The  splendid  meeting  house  in  Willard 
Ward  stands  as  one  of  the  monuments  of  his 
workmanship,  and  is  a  great  pleasure  and  com- 
fort to  the  residents  of  that  vicinity. 

In  1886  he  married  Miss  Edna  Millard,  daugh- 
ter of  Elisha  and  Adeline  (Simpson)  Millard, 
and  as  the  result  of  this  marriage  seven  children 
have  been  born — Ray  C. ;  Nora  G. ;  Bertha  E. ; 
Edna  M.;  Myrtle;  Levina,  and  Cecil  C.  In  189& 
Mr.  Green  settled  at  his  present  home,  which  is 
located  on  Ninth  East  and  between  Fourteenth 
and  Fifteenth  South  streets,  where  he  has  twelve 
acres  of  very  valuable  land,  highly  improved  by 
fences,  fruit  and  shade  trees,  flower  gardens,  etc., 
and  on  which  he  has  a  splendid  brick  cottage  of 
seven  rooms. 

In  politics  Mr.  Green  has  been  identified  with 
the  Republican  party  ever  since  its  organization 
in  this  State,  but  he  has  never  sought  nor  desired 
public  office,  as  his  life  work  and  attention  has 
been  given  to  the  securing  of  a  home  for  himself 
and  his  family.  He  was  born  and  raised  in  the 
Mormon  faith,  as  was  his  wife,  and  their  chil- 
dren have  been  reared  in  the  same  faith.  He  is 
a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  School  and  President  of 
the  Young  Men's  Mutal  Improvement  Associa- 
tion. In  1895  he  was  called  to  fill  a  mission  in 
the  Northern  States,  where  he  served  for  a  period, 
of  eighteen  months.  Mrs.  Green  also  takes  an 
active  part  in  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  of  her 
Ward,  in  whose  work  she  is  prominent.  By  hon- 
orable and  straightforward  business  principles 
he  has  endeavored  all  through  life  to  treat  every- 
one honorably  and  fairly,  and  as  a  result  of  this 
he  enjoys  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  his 
neighbors  and  those  who  have  been  acquainted 
with  him  throudi  life. 


ILLIAM  PARKER.  Among  the 
prominent  and  successful  men  of 
Salt  Lake  county  who  are  closely 
identified  with  the  agricultural  in- 
terests of  Taylorsville  Ward,  and 
who  has  assisted  materially  in  the  building-  and 


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developments  of  this  new  country,  should  be  men- 
tioned the  subject  of  this  sketch.  William  Parker 
Avas  born  in  Lancashire,  England,  November 
24th,  1835,  ^nd  is  now  in  his  sixty-seventh  year. 
He  is  a  son  of  John  and  Alice  (Woodacre)  Par- 
ker, both  of  whom  were  born  in  the  same  shire 
-as  our  subject.  Mrs.  Parker,  the  subject's  mother, 
died  when  he  was  a  child.  His  father  came  to 
America  in  1845,  with  his  son  William  and  two 
daughters.  They  first  settled  at  Nauvoo,  where 
they  lived  until  1846  and  then  went  to  St.  Louis, 
where  the  senior  Mr.  Parker  engaged  in  the 
soda  water  business  for  a  period  of  six  years. 
Here  success  crowned  his  eflforts,  and  while  re- 
siding in  that  section  he  sent  back  to  England  for 
some  of  his  relatives. 

John  Parker  married  his  second  wife,  who  bore 
him  three  children.  In  1852  the  Parkers  fitted 
out  eleven  wagons,  and  with  the  family  and  all  of 
his  relatives  started  for  Utah,  John  Parker  be- 
ing captain  of  the  train.  They  arrived  in  the 
great  Salt  Lake  Valley  in  the  Autumn  of  1852, 
and  shortly  after  arriving  here  our  subject's 
father  was  called  to  Dixey  to  assist  in  colonizing 
and  building  up  that  country,  where  he  spent  the 
remaining  days  of  his  life,  and  died  in  1888,  aged 
seventy-four  years. 

Our  subject  spent  three  years  in  Salt  Lake  City 
and  Centerville,  in  which  latter  place  his  father 
had  been  identified  in  the  canning  and  saw-mill 
business.  In  1856  our  subject  settled  in  Taylors- 
ville  Ward  on  the  Jordon  river,  which  at  that  time 
was  in  a  crude  state,  the  only  improvement  on  his 
farm  being  a  log  house,  the  place  having  formerly 
been  owned  by  Orson  Hyde.  Mr.  Parker's  father 
had  opened  through  this  neighborhood  a  ditch 
known  as  the  old  Parker  ditch,  which  was  the 
only  one  in  the  neighborhood,  and  is  still  in  con- 
stant use. 

Since  settling  upon  his  farm  Mr.  Parker  has 
improved  it  until  it  is  at  the  present  time  one  of 
the  finest  farms  in  Salt  Lake  county.  His  fine 
brick  residence,  splendid  out-buildings  and  fences 
all  indicate  that  thrifty,  enterprising  hands  have 
had  it  in  charge. 

Mr.  Parker  has  not  only  given  his  attention  to 
farming,  but  he  has  been  largely  interested  in  the 
stock  business,  both  sheep  and  cattle,  which  he 


successfully  followed  for  a  great  many  years  un- 
til advanced  age  required  him  to  practically  re- 
tire from  active  business,  and  to  suspend  many  of 
the  enterprises  of  which  he  has  been  the  promoter. 
In  November,  1859,  he  married  Miss  Mary 
Shanks,  daughter  of  Edward  and  Sarah  (Fee) 
Shanks.  The  father  died  on  the  plains  in  coming 
to  Utah,  from  the  effects  of  a  rattlesnake  bite. 
Mrs.  Parker  came  to  Utah  in  company  with 
Bishop  John  R.  Winder,  in  whose  family  she  had 
lived  before  leaving  England ;  her  father  came  to 
America  several  years  later. 

Mr.  Parker  has  had  eleven  children,  ten  of 
whom  are  still  living,  Sarah  A.,  wife  of  Orson 
Brown  of  Taylorsville;  William  E.,  married; 
Mary  E.,  now  Mrs.  B.  M.  Winchester  of  Grant 
Ward;  John,  Martha,  and  Samuel  H.,  who  died 
November,  1898;  Nettie  M. ;  Joseph  A.  and  James 
H.  were  twins ;  Franklin  S.,  and  Vilate,  now  Mrs. 
Nephi  Jensen  of  South  Cottonwood;  John  and 
Samuel  H.  are  married.  The  father  has  fitted 
each  one  of  them  out  with  a  fine  home  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Taylorsville  Ward. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Parker  has  been  a  staunch 
Republican.  He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
aflfairs  of  his  party  in  Taylorsville  Ward,  having 
served  a  number  of  years  as  school  trustee,  and 
it  was  through  his  efforts  that  the  splendid  new 
school  building  in  District  No.  64  was  erected. 
Mr.  Parker  and  his  family  are  all  faithful  and 
consistent  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints.  He  has  served  on  a  mission 
to  his  native  country,  going  there  in  1889,  but 
on  account  of  illness  was  compelled  to  return 
home  soon  afterwards.  He  was  ordained  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Seventies,  and  for  many  years  was  First 
Assistant  Superintendent  in  the  Sunday  School. 

During  the  trying  times  in  the  early  fifties,  Mr. 
Parker  served  as  a  guard  when  Johnson's  army 
landed  in  this  country. 

The  success  which  Mr.  Parker  has  obtained  in 
life  marks  him  as  one  of  the  most  valuable  citi- 
zens of  Salt  Lake  county.  His  honest  integrity 
and  straightforward  business  methods  has 
brought  to  him  a  large  circle  of  friends. 


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ICHARD  HOWE,  farmer,  legislator, 
county  commissioner  and  statinch,  rug- 
ged Democrat,  is  one  of  the  many  for- 
eign-born Utahns  who  came  to  the 
Rocky  Mountain  home-of  the  Mormons 
to  carve  out  a  niche  for  themselves  in  the  world's 
hard  surface.  But  few  of  the  pioneers  or  early 
settlers,  with  their  thrift,  frugality  and  indomita- 
ble perseverance,  have  failed  to  achieve  success 
in  the  Mormon  Utopia  towards  which  their  steps 
were  bent;  and  to  Richard  Howe  has  come  a 
larger  measure  of  prosperity  than  was  accorded 
to  many  of  his  fellows,  so  that  now,  with  the  gray 
hairs  of  honest  toil  and  the  cheering  vista  of  a 
well-spent  life  to  look  back  upon,  he  is  ready  to 
retire  from  active  business  life,  and  when  the  time 
shall  come  for  his  passing  he  will  have  the  satis- 
faction of  feeling  that  he  had  not  lived  in  vain. 

Born  in  Chilvers  Coton,  Warwickshire,  Eng- 
land, July  30,  1839,  and  left  fatherless  when  but 
a  child,  he  came  to  America  with  his  mother  in 
1855,  when  sixteen  years  of  age.  His  parents 
were  Joseph  Henry  and  Ann  (Johnson)  Howe. 
The  mother,  who  had  married  William  Turner, 
and  her  two  children  arrived  in  New  York  and 
proceeded  thence  by  rail  to  Pittsburg.  From  the 
Smoky  City  the  emigrants  sailed  down  the  Ohio 
rived  to  the  Mississippi,  and  up  the  Mississippi  to 
St.  Louis.  Here  they  made  a  short  stay  before  go- 
ing on  west  to  Atchison,  Kansas,  where  they  were 
to 'join  a  party  going  out  to  Utah.  In  those  early 
days  Atchison  was  an  insignificant  hamlet,  made 
up  of  a  half  dozen  or  more  log  cabins.  Nearby 
was  Mormon  Grove,  which  had  been  agreed  upon 
as  the  rendezvous  of  the  westward  bound  party 
of  Mormons.  Here  the  family  joined  a  train  of 
fifty  wagons  drawn  by  teams  of  oxen,  which  were 
all  ready  to  make  the  trip  over  the  plains.  The 
party  arrived  at  Great  Salt  Lake  City  on  October 
25,  1855,  and  by  the  end  of  the  month  Mr.  Howe 
had  settled  in  South  Cottonwood,  which  was  then 
a  large  Ward  and  little  better  than  a  desert. 
Here  young  Howe  farmed  until  1872,  when  a  co- 
operative store  was  established,  which  he  has  been 
conducting  most  of  the  time  since,  successfully. 
He  still  farms  a  large  tract  of  land  which  he 
has  improved  and  worked  up  to  a  high  state  of 
cultivation.     Close  to  his  store  stands  an  adobe 


meeting-house,  part  of  which  was  built  in  1858, 
and  which  was  then  the  finest  church  building 
outside  of  Salt  Lake  City  in  Salt  Lake  county. 

Mr.  Howe  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Zions  Co-Op- 
erative  Mercantile  Institution,  and  several  of  Salt 
Lake  banks.  For  many  years  he  was  associated 
in  business  with  his  step-father,  William  Turner, 
whose  sister,  Ann,  he  married  February  ist,  1862. 
The  Turners  had  also  emigrated  from  England 
at  the  same  time  as  Howe.  Of  this  marriage  ten 
children  were  born,  six  sons  and  four  daughters, 
and  all  but  two  of  the  boys  are  now  married. 
Two  of  the  sons  and  one  daughter  have  made 
their  homes  in  Idaho,  and  the  rest  live  in  Salt 
Lake  county,  near  their  parents.  The  children  are  : 
John  H. ;  Richard  A.  and  William  T.,  living  in 
Fremont  count}',  Idaho ;  Ann  Eda,  now  Mrs. 
William  Martisen  of  Grant,  Idaho ;  Edward  E. ; 
Sarah  E.,  now  Mrs.  D.  W.  Moffat,  of  South  Cot- 
tonwood Ward ;  Laura  A.,  now  Mrs.  Robert 
Trott,  also  in  South  Cottonwood  Ward ;  Frank 
C. ;  Minnie  L.,  now  Mrs.  David  A.  McMillen,  of 
South  Cottonwood  Ward,  and  Harry  E. 

Mr.  Howe  was  elected  to  the  Territorial  legis- 
lature in  1888  on  the  People's  ticket,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  became  County  Selectman  for 
Salt  Lake  county,  being  elected  on  the  People's 
ticket  in  August,  1889,  and  served  two  years.  He 
joined  the  Mormon  Church  before  he  left  Eng- 
land and  has  been  engaged  in  Sunday  School  work 
most  the  time  since  he  came  to  Utah.  Through 
shrewd  and  careful  management  he  has  made  a 
success  of  everything  he  has  taken  hold  of,  and 
consequently  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  is  about  to 
retire  from  business.  Mr.  Howe  has  made  many 
friends  throughout  the  State,  both  socially  and 
through  his  business  dealings. 

When  President  Lincoln  called  for  a  company 
of  volunteers  in  1862  to  protect  the  mails  on  the 
line  between  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  upper  cross- 
ing of  the  Platte  river,  Mr.  Howe  tendered  his 
services,  and  spent  three  months  in  the  employ 
of  the  Government.  In  1866  he  again  offered  his 
services  to  his  country  and  saw  service  in  the 
famous  Black  Hawk  war,  against  the  Indians 
of  that  name.  He  also  saw  considerable  service 
during  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  and  was  ever 
at  the  fore  when  his  services  were  needed. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


487 


PHRAIM  H.  WILLIAMS,  one  of  the 
successful  farmers  and  business  men  of 
Salt  Lake  county,  who,  by  his  energy, 
perseverance,  and  determination  has 
carved  out  a  successful  career,  and  is 
deserving;  of  much  credit  for  what  he  has  accom- 
plished and  the  work  he  has  done  in  building  up 
Salt  Lake  county.  While  Mr.  Williams  does  not 
claim  to  be  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  State,  hav- 
ing arrived  here  in  1852,  yet  the  development  of 
the  State  at  that  time  was  necessarily  limited 
to  what  it  is  today,  and  much  work  yet  to  be  done. 
Mr.  Williams  was  born  in  the  old  historic  town 
of  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  in  1844,  and  is  the  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Mary  Ann  (Rock)  Williams.  Both 
his  parents  were  born  in  Hartfordshire,  England, 
where  they  spent  their  early  life,  having  married 
there,  and  came  to  America  in  1844,  crossing  the 
Atlantic  Ocean  in  an  old  sailing  ship.  They 
first  settled  at  Nauvoo,  where  the  senior  Mr. 
Williams  lived  only  two  years,  dying  in  1846. 
Our  subject's  mother  left  Nauvoo  with  the  main 
body  of  the  Church,  accompanying  them  as  far 
as  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  where  she  met  and  mar- 
ried Edward  Pugh.  The  family  then  moved  to 
Missouri,  where  they  lived  until  1852. 

Our  subject  has  one  full  brother  and   sister, 
George  A.  and  Lucy,  now  Mrs.  W.  W.  Merrill. 

In  the  latter  part  of  i8s2  the  family  came  to 
Utah,  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  county,  on  the 
corner  of  Tenth  East  and  Si.xteenth  South ;  here 
the  mother  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years. 
Our  subject  started  out  for  himself  at  the  age  of 
sixteen  years.  He  first  took  up  contracting,  and 
worked  along  that  line  on  the  Salt  Lake  County 
Canal,  and  also  on  the  L^nion  Pacific  Railroad 
when  it  was  built  into  this  State.  Not  finding 
this  class  of  work  congenial,  however,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  farming  and  stock  raising,  which 
he  has  followed  closely  for  a  great  many  years. 
He  settled  on  his  present  place,  at  the  corner  of 
Fifteenth  South  and  Eleventh  East,  in  1863.  Here 
Mr.  Williams  has  seventy  acres  of  fine  land, 
which  he  has  continued  to  improve,  and  on  which 
he  has  a  splendid  brick  residence,  fruit  and  shade 
trees;  all  indicating  that  thrifty  hands  have  had  it 
in  charge.  Besides  his  home  place  Mr.  Williams 
also  owns  a  cattle  and  sheep  ranch  in  Summit 
county,  this  state. 


In  1863  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss  El- 
mira  North,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Aramenta 
(Howard)  North.  This  family  came  to  Utah 
the  same  year  in  which  the  Williams  landed  here, 
1852 ;  the  father  died  in  the  early  nineties,  and  the 
mother  still  lives,  but  is  very  old  and  feeble.  As 
the  result  of  this  union  nine  children  have  been 
born  to  our  subject — Henry,  Oscar,  Eveline,  Al- 
bert, Claudius,  Eleanor,  Alberta,  Don  and  Leo. 

In  political  life  JVIr.  Williams  has  aways  taken 
the  side  of  protection,  and  thus  followed  the  for- 
tunes of  the  Republican  party.  However,  in  local 
politics  he  prefers  to  support  the  best  man  for 
office. 

The  Williams  family  are  all  members  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints, 
Mr.  Williams  having  served  on  two  missions  to 
England,  his  first  call  being  in  1882  and  the  sec- 
ond time  in  1889,  making  in  all  over  three  years 
which  he  served  in  this  capacity,  having  been 
released  from  this  last  mission  on  account  of  ill 
health.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been 
Superintendent  of  his  Ward  Sunday  Schools. 

A  remarkable  incident  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Will- 
iams is  worthy  of  note  in  this  connection.  When 
he  was  only  eighteen  years  of  age  he  received  a 
call  to  go  out  in  Lot  Smith's  company  to  fight  In- 
dians. He  spent  all  the  money  he  had  in  fitting  out 
a  horse  for  the  campaign,  which  proved  to  be  the 
best  animal  in  the  company.  This  fine  horse  was 
the  cause  of  getting  Mr.  Williams  into  a  great 
deal  of  trouble,  as  wherever  there  was  a  river  to 
be  swam,  or  any  difficult  place  to  go,  the  duty  fell 
to  him.  On  several  occasions  he  was  required 
to  swim  the  rivers  to  carry  ropes,  etc.,  in  order  to 
effect  a  crossing,  in  which  duty  he  caught  a  cold 
which  almost  cost  him  his  life  several  times; 
for  one  whole  winter  he  lay  with  a  fever  from 
the  effect  of  that  notorious  campaign.  He  also 
spent  six  weeks  in  Echo  Canyon  as  a  guard  dur- 
ing the  Johnston  army  troubles. 


KORGE  ROBERTS.  The  Weber  val- 
ley of  Summit  county  is  perhaps  one 
of  the  finest  valleys  in  the  State.  Its 
rich,  productive  soil ;  its  splendid  irri- 
rigation  ditches  which  supply  an  abun- 
dance of  water  for  the  land,  and   its  beautiful 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


"homes  and  highly  cultivated  farms,  all  form  im- 
portant adjuncts  to  making  it  a  most  desirable 
5pot  in  which  to  live.  Among  the  men  who  have 
formed  an  important  factor  in  the  building  up 
of  this  splendid  section  of  the  State,  none  is  de- 
serving of  more  credit  than  is  George  Roberts, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  has  been  almost 
a  life  long  resident  of  the  Summit  valley,  as  he 
came  here  when  a  boy  with  his  mother,  and  most 
of  his  life  has  been  spent  in  Henefer. 

Mr.  Roberts  was  born  in  Lincolnshire,  Eng- 
land, in  1847.  His  father,  James  Roberts,  was  a 
farrier  in  England,  and  died  when  his  son  was 
but  two  years  of  age.  His  wife,  and  the  mother 
of  our  subject,  was  Abigal  (Leason)  Roberts. 
She  came  to  the  United  States  with  her  family 
in  1865,  and  died  in  Henefer  in  1878.  Our  sub- 
ject is  now  the  only  living  member  of  the  family. 
His  education  was  obtained  from  the  common 
-schools  of  his  native  land,  and  the  year  following 
his  arrival  in  Utah  he  engasred  in  farming  in  the 
Summit  valley,  which  he  has  since  followed  suc- 
cessfully. He  engaged  in  the  blacksmith  business 
for  a  time,  both  in  Henefer  and  at  Kaysville,  in 
Davis  county,  and  was  later  identified  with  the 
green  grocery  business  in  Park  City,  in  partner- 
ship with  C.  Hunt.  They  also  assisted  in  build- 
ing the  Marsac  mill  in  Park  City,  hauling  the 
engine  from  Echo  by  ox  team.  He  was  also  en- 
gaged in  bulding  coal  cars  for  use  in  the  John 
Hopkins  mine  at  Como,  Colorado,  as  well  as  as- 
sisting to  build  the  schutes  at  the  Blair  mine  in 
Rock  Springs,  Wyoming.  He  was  for  three  years 
associated  with  the  firm  of  Stevens  and  Roberts, 
wholesale  butchers,  on  State  street  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  He  retained  his  farm  during  all  these  years 
and  engaged  in  the  sheep  business,  having  at 
this  time  close  to  two  thousand  head.  He  has  his 
farm  of  thirty-five  acres  well  improved  and  built 
a  fine  brick  residence  on  it  in  1898.  He  has  been 
largely  instrumental  in  briging  about  the  present 
efficient  system  of  irrigation  in  Summit  county, 
and  was  at  one  time  President  of  the  Henefer 
Irrigation  Company,  which  obtains  its  water  from 
the  Weber  river  and  waters  eleven  hundred  acres. 

Mr.  Roberts  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1867  to  Miss  Maria  Dallimore.  They  have  a 
iamily  of  eight  children — Abiagal,  wife  of  David 


H.  Foster ;  George ;  William ;  Emma  Jane ; 
James  ;  Lulu  ;  Herbert,  and  Almeda.  George,  the 
oldest  son,  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Sep- 
tember 18,  1901,  to  Miss  Alice  Lucas.  They 
make  their  home  on  Mr.  Roberts'  farm. 

In  politics  he  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party  and  has  been  Road  Super- 
visor of  his  district  for  nine  years,  serving  under 
four  different  Boards.  He  has  been  a  prominent 
worker  in  the  ranks  of  his  party  ever  since  its 
organization  in  this  State. 

In  fraternal  life  Mr.  Roberts  is  a  member  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  Ontaria, 
Lodge  No.  I  of  Park  City.  Mr.  Roberts  began 
at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder,  and  it  has  been  by 
close  application  and  determined  eflFort  that  he 
has  worked  his  way  up  to  the  position  he  now 
occupies  as  one  of  the  prominent  farmers  and 
sheep  growers  of  his  county.  His  career  has  been 
straightforward,  and  he  enjoys  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been  associated. 


I  SHOP  WILLIAM  GILES  comes  of 
one  of  the  old  and  prominent  families  in 
the  Mormon  Church.  He  has  spent  his 
life  in  this  State,  of  which  he  is  a  na- 
tive, and  has  grown  with  its  growth, 
until  the  history  of  Utah  and  particularly  of  Mor- 
gan county  has  been  closely  entwined  about  his 
personal  history,  and  today  he  is  a  prominent  and 
well-known  man  in  his  community. 

William  Giles  was  born  in  Littleton,  Morgan 
county,  July  3,  1868.  He  is  the  son  of  John  H. 
and  Ann  (Kingman)  Giles.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  Lancashire,  England,  where  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  emigrated 
to  the  United  States  in  the  early  fifties.  He 
crossed  the  great  American  plains  in  ox  teams 
and  located  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  general  merchandise  business.  In  1858  he 
moved  his  family  to  Lehi  for  a  short  time,  on  ac- 
count of  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  and  after 
the  trouble  was  over  he  moved  to  Farmington 
in  Davis  county,  whire  he  followed  carpentering 
for  some  years.     In   1864  he  moved  his  family 


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to  Morgan  county,  locating  a  farm  on  what  is 
now  the  site  of  Littleton,  and  in  connection  with 
his  trade  of  carpentering  did  a  general  farming 
business.  Many  of  the  houses  which  he  built 
are  still  standing.  He  was  a  very  successful  man 
financially,  and  prominent  in  Church  work.  He 
was  a  High  Priest  and  Counselor  to  Bishop 
Wbittier  of  Milton  Ward.  He  was  later  a  mem- 
ber of  the  High  Priests'  Quorum  of  Morgan  Stake 
of  Zion,  which  position  he  filled  until  the  time 
of  his  death.  He  was  president  of  the  Milton  Dra- 
matic Company.  For  many  years  he  was  Assist- 
ant Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  Schools  and 
Counselor  to  the  President  of  the  Young  ]\Ien's 
Mutual  Improvement  Association.  He  was  noted 
for  his  many  charitable  deeds  and  made  liberal 
contributions  to  all  Church  work.  Mr.  Giles  was 
twice  married,  and  was  the  father  of  seventeen 
children,  nearly  all  of  whom  are  living  in  Mor- 
gan county.  Our  subject  was  the  fourth  son  by 
the  second  wife.  I\Ir.  Giles  died  January  16,  1891, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-three,  mourned  by  the  people 
of  three  counties,  among  whom  he  was  widely 
known  and  loved. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  Alilton  Ward  and  there 
received  his  education.  He  became  active  in 
Church  work  at  a  very  early  age.  Was  made  a 
Deacon  at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  became  a  Ward 
teacher.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  was  or- 
dained a  member  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Quorum  of 
Seventies,  and  in  January,  1890,  was  called  on  a 
mission  to  England,  but  on  reaching  New  York 
was  recalled  on  account  of  his  father  meeting 
with  an  accident  which  resulted  in  his  death.  In 
1892  he  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set  apart 
as  Bishop  of  ]\Iilton  Ward,  which  he  still  retains. 
Plis  Counselors  are  Joseph  S.  Spendlow  and  F.  A. 
Little.  He  has  been  active  in  Sunday  School  and 
Ward  Work,  being  the  leader  of  the  Ward  choir, 
and  a  leader  in  musical  circles  in  the  Ward.  He 
has  general  supervision  over  all  Ward  matters. 

Bishop  Giles  was  married  in  1891  to  Sarah 
Hogg,  daughter  of  Robert  Hogg,  of  Morgan. 
They  have  four  children :  Geneve,  Robert  H., 
Mary,  Bernice  A.  and  Rulon. 

The  Bishop  bought  his  present  place  in  the 
same  year  in  which  he  was  married,  and  has  de- 
voted his  time  to  general  farming  and  stock  rais- 


ing, in  which  he  has  been  very  successful,  and 
is  identified  largely  with  the  stock  interests  of 
his  county.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Littleton 
Stock  Range  Compain-.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  director  in  the  Littleton  Commercial  Company 
and  was  Water  Master  for  five  years.  He  has 
done  much  towards  building  up  and  improving  his 
town  and  has  been  very  successful  in  all  his  un- 
dertakings. He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative men  of  Morgan  coimty.  and  enjoys  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has 
come  in  contact. 


TSHOP  JAMES  CAMPBELL  HAM- 
ILTON is  among  the  oldest  residents 
'if  Mill  Creek  Ward,  having  come  here 
as  a  child  of  six  years,  and  has  since 
made  this  his  home,  taking  an  active 
part  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  county  and  the 
growth  and  advancement  of  his  community. 
Since  he  first  came  here  the  wild  and  barren 
lands,  covered  with  a  dense  growth  of  sage  brush 
and  willows  have  almost  all  been  cleared  off,  and 
supplanted  by  rolling  meadows  and  waiving 
wheat  fields,  and  where  once  the  wild  animal  and 
the  no  less  wild  Indian  roamed  at  will,  pretty 
homes  have  sprung  up  and  the  laughter  of  the 
white  child  is  heard. 

The  Bishop's  birth  occurred  in  Warwick,  Cana- 
da, on  January  10,  1846.  He  is  the  son  of  James 
L.  and  Mary  Ann  T  Campbell)  Hamilton.  The 
father  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  his  father,  John 
Hamilton,  was  an  English  soldier.  He  died  in 
1875.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  born  in 
Canada,  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Erie.  She  is  of 
noble  birth  and  traces  her  ancestry  back  to  one  of 
the  kings  of  Denmark,  the  family  name  being 
originally  Kimble.  She  is  still  living.  The  Ham- 
ilton family  left  Canada  on  March  i,  1846,  and 
went  to  Nauvoo.  During  the  exodus  they  accom- 
panied the  Saints  as  far  as  Omaha,  Nebraska,  and 
then  upon  the  advice  of  President  Brigham 
Young  the  father  removed  to  Missouri,  where 
they  remained  until  1852,  at  which  time  the  Apos- 


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tie  Orson  Hyde  organized  part  of  a  train  of  Mor- 
mon emigrants  in  Missouri,  and  among  them 
were  this  family.  At  Florence  the  train  was  com- 
pleted and  from  there  they  crossed  the  plains  to 
Utah,  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  September  of 
that  year,  in  time  for  Conference.  After  Confer- 
ence the  father  bought  a  piece  of  land  in  Mill 
Creek  Ward  and  rented  a  small  cottage  for  the 
family  to  live  in.  Two  years  later  he  built  a  log 
cabin,  in  which  they  lived  until  1870,  when  it  was 
replaced  by  a  better  house.  The  father  was  an 
officer  in  the  Nauvoo  legion  and  during  the  John- 
ston trouble  was  Captain  of  ten  men.  He  passed 
through  all  the  hardships  incident  to  pioneer  life, 
and  saw  much  service  in  the  various  Indian 
troubles.  After  the  Johnston  troubles  they  moved 
to  Spanish  Fork,  but  remained  there  only  a  short 
time,  returning  to  the  home  place,  and  all  the 
family  worked  together  on  the  farm,  assisting 
in  supporting  themselves.  The  oldest  son,  John 
D.,  made  two  trips  back  to  the  Missouri  river 
after  emigrants.  He  is  now  living  in  this  Ward 
and  has  always  been  associated  to  a  greater  or 
less  extent  in  business  with  our  subject. 

Bishop  Hamilton  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  marriage  occurred  November  28,  1870,  to 
Miss  Isabel  Hill,  daughter  of  Alexander  and  Ag- 
nes (Hood)  Hill.  Mr.  Hill  was  a  former  asso- 
ciate of  the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  and  an  active 
participator  of  all  his  campaigns  in  the  East.  He 
came  with  his  family  to  Utah  in  1849.  I"  the 
Church  he  filled  the  position  of  First  Counselor 
to  Bishop  Miller,  and  was  ordained  a  Patriarch 
on  March  30,  1884.  His  death  occurred  in 
February,  1889.  Our  subject  married  as  his 
second  wife  on  March  4,  1885,  Mary  B.,  daughter 
of  George  M.  and  Margaret  A.  White.  Mrs. 
White  and  her  daughter  came  to  Utah  in  1849 
and  the  father  followed  in  i860.  Twenty  children 
have  been  born  to  the  Bishop,  fourteen  by  his  first 
wife  and  six  by  his  second.  The  eldest,  James 
was  born  October  12,  1871,  and  died  August  18, 
1872;  Alexander  Parley  was  born  January  13, 
1873;  Agnes  Ellen,  born  April  18,  1874;  John 
William,  born  February  16,  1876;  Robert  Hill, 
born  December  8,  1S77;  Mary  Ann,  born  October 
9,  1879;  Isabel  E.,  born  May  3,  1881;  Charles 
Orson,  born  June  6,  1883;  Joseph  F.,  born  July 


30,  1885,  and  died  September  14,  1885;  Jane  and 
Elizabeth,  twins,  born  December  16,  1886;  Flor- 
ence Bell,  born  June  2,  1887;  Willard  Reuben, 
born  March  21,  1888,  and  died  January  14,  1889; 
Leonard  W.,  born  March  25,  1890,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1891  ;  James  Exile,  bom  October  17, 
1891  ;  Lulu  Fern,  born  November  6,1892;  George 
M.,  born  February  11,  1892;  Beryl  Adella,  born 
April  8,  1896;  Emma  Margaret,  born  August  i, 
1898,  and  Leo  Miller,  born  April  9,  1901.  Mary 
Ann  is  a  graduate  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints  Col- 
lege of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  is  now  teaching 
school.  Bishop  Hamilton  has  always  been  a  firm 
believer  in  the  doctrines  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  especially  of  polygamy  as  a  divine  right, 
and  was  one  of  those  incarcerated  and  fined  for 
violation  of  the  Edmunds  law.  He  was  first  in- 
carcerated in  the  penitentiary  October  12,  1888, 
and  fined  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  On  No- 
vember 8,  1889,  he  was  again  fined  to  pay  one 
hundred  dollars  and  costs.  He  was  set  apart  as 
LJishop  of  Mill  Creek  Ward,  March  30,  1884. 

After  his  first  marriage  his  father  traded  him 
a  ten  acre  lot  at  the  corner  of  Seventh  East  and 
Fifteenth  South  streets,  where  he  built  a  one 
room  log  cabin,  in, which  he  and  his  family  lived 
until  1879,  when  he  built  himself  a  small  brick 
cottage.  In  1896  he  built  his  present  home,  a 
handsome  thirteen-room  brick  residence,  sur- 
rounded by  a  fine  lawn,  flowers,  shade  trees,  etc. 
This  house  was  built  entirely  by  our  subject  and 
is  in  every  respect  a  model  home.  He  also  has  a 
splendid  orchard  on  his  home  place  which  now 
consists  of  thirty-five  acres,  and  is  well  improved 
with  good  barns,  fences,  etc.  He  also  owns  a 
forty-acre  farm  west  of  the  Jordan  river,  which 
he  took  up  as  government  land. 

He  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  irrigation  and 
assisted  to  build  the  Salt  Lake  and  Utah  Canal, 
which  is  supplied  with  water  from  Utah  lake.  He 
has  been  for  a  number  of  years  School  Trustee, 
and  since  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party 
in  Utah  has  been  a  staunch  supporter  of  its  prin- 
ciples. Together  with  his  sons  he  is  largely  in- 
terested in  sheep  in  Wyoming,  where  they  have 
four  thousand  head.  As  his  children  have  mar- 
ried they  have  settled  in  the  State,  and  are  among 
Lltah's  most  useful  citizens. 


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491 


(  )HX  P.  STOiXhBRAKER  has  lived  in 
rioytsville,  Summit  county,  since  he 
was  twelve  years  of  age.  He  is  a  na- 
tive son  of  Utah,  and  was  born  at  Og- 
den,  August  15,  1851.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  Ogden, 
completing  in  the  district  schools  of  Hoytsville. 
While  yet  in  his  teens  he  began  farming,  which 
he  successfully  followed  for  a  number  of  years. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-six  he  learned  the  black- 
smith trade,  which  he  has  followed  ever  since  in 
connection  with  the  farming  and  stock  raising 
business. 

Joseph  Stonebraker,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
was  a  native  of  Ohio,  where  he  was  born  Janu- 
ary I,  1826.  He  was  a  miller  by  trade.  Upon 
coming  to  Utah  in  1849,  he  settled  at  Salt  Lake 
City,  but  only  remained  there  a  short  time,  when 
he  went  to  Ogden,  where  he  operated  the  first 
flour  mill  in  Weber  county,  for  Lorin  Farr.  When 
Johnston's  army  came  to  Utah  in  1857  he  took 
his  family  to  Fillmore,  and  remained  there  five 
years,  when  he  moved  to  Hoytsville,  where  he 
assisted  in  building  the  Hoyt  mill,  which  he  af- 
terwards ran  for  several  years.  He  remained 
in  Hoytsville  until  1870,  when  he  removed  to 
Tintic,  where  he  engaged  in  mining,  retaining 
his  property  in  Hoytsville.  He  located  a  num- 
ber of  good  mining  claims  in  the  Tintic  district, 
and  at  one  time  owned  a  part  of  the  Mammoth 
and  Red  Bird  mines.  He  died  there  in  1897,  at 
the  age  of  seventy-one  years.  His  wife,  and  the 
mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  Phoebe 
Phelps,  dauehter  of  John  Phelps,  of  Canada. 
She  was  the  mother  of  eleven  children,  and  is 
still  living  in  Hoytsville  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years. 

Our  subject  is  the  oldest  of  the  family.  He 
came  to  Hoytsville  with  his  parents,  and  has 
lived  here  ever  since,  engaged  in  general  farm- 
ing. In  1888  he  opened  a  blacksmith  shop  on 
his  farm,  which  he  has  since  continued  to  oper- 
ate, doing  a  general  blacksmithing  business. 
He  makes  his  home  at  the  present  time  on  the 
old  homestead,  which  he  operates,  and  which  is 
well  improved,  with  a  comfortable  brick  house, 
outbuildings,  barn,  fences,  etc. 

Mr.  Stonebraker  was  married  in  1877  to  Miss 


Harriett  Jones,  daughter  of  John  and  Emma 
Jones,  of  Hoytsville.  She  died  in  1884,  leaving 
a  family  of  four  children,  two  of  whom  are  now 
living — Lovica,  wife  of  Walter  Calderwood,  and 
l\Iary,  wife  of  Nephi  Delanev.  His  second  wife 
was  Miss  Carrie  Crittenden,  by  whom  he  also 
haa  four  children,  two  of  whom  are  living — 
Winnie  E.  and  Hazel  T.  He  married  a  third 
time  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Hoyt,  daughter  of  Samuel 
P.  Hoyt,  by  whom  he  has  had  no  family. 

In  politics  Mr.  Stonebraker  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party.  He  has  filled 
the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  two  years 
and  that  of  School  Trustee  for  four  years.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Central  Committee  for  sev- 
eral years,  and  in  1899  was  a  candidate  for 
County  Commissioner,  but  failed  of  election.  He 
has  been  actively  identified  with  the  interests  of 
his  community,  and  foremost  in  promoting  the 
growth  of  his  town.  He  has  taken  a  large  in- 
terest in  irrigation  matters,  and  is  president  of 
the  Elkhorn  Water  Ditch  Comnany.  In  the 
Church  he  is  prominent  in  the  work  of  the  Sun- 
day Schools  and  among  the  young  men,  having 
been  two  terms  President  of  their  Mutual  Im- 
provement Association. 


ILIJA^^I  G.  SWANER,  President 
of  the  Utah  Electrical  Supply  Com- 
|)anv  and  chief  engineer  of  the  old 
Rapid  Transit  plant  for  the  Consol- 
idated Railway  and  Power  Com- 
pany, is  one  of  the  most  prominent  young  men 
of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  has  secured  his  present 
position  by  the  exercise  of  his  own  industry  and 
ability,  and  the  high  rank  he  holds  in  the  busi- 
ness world  is  due  entirely  to  his  own  application 
to  the  work  in  hand. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  January  24, 
1876.  He  is  a  son  of  Christian  J.  Swaner,  a  na- 
tive of  Denmark,  who  came  to  this  country  when 
but  a  boy  with  his  parents,  in  the  early  days  of 
the  settlement  of  this  region,  and  was  among  the 
pioneers  to  settle  here  in  the  early  fifties.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  was  employed  in 
building  the  Tabernacle  in  this  city,  as  well  as 
the  Salt  Lake  Theatre.     He  and  his  family  had 


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become  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  in  Denmark,  and  he  con- 
tinued in  that  faith  until  his  death,  about  twenty 
years  ago.  His  father,  the  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age, 
and  was  a  life  long  member  of  the  Church.  The 
mother  of  our  subject,  Emma  L.  (Burnett) 
Swaner,  was  a  native  of  New  York  City,  and 
came  to  Utah  with  her  parents  at  the  age  of 
seven,  making  the  entire  trip  across  the  plains 
by  wagon.  She  has  been  a  consistent  and  faith- 
ful member  of  the  Church  throughout  her  life. 
Her  son,  William,  has  spent  his  whole  life  within 
the  confines  of  his  native  State,  and  has  lived  in 
the  house  in  which  he  was  born,  No.  331  South 
Tenth  East,  all  his  life.  He  was  educated  in 
the  Tenth  district  school,  and  also  in  the  Na- 
tional Correspondence  School,  in  which  he  took 
a  course  in  the  study  of  electricity,  and  he  is  now 
a  student  in  that  institution. 

He  early  started  to  earn  his  own  living,  and 
at  the  age  of  eleven  secured  employment  in  the 
bottling  works  of  the  Salt  Lake  Brewery,  where 
he  was  employed  more  or  less  regularly  for  five 
years,  going  to  school  in  the  winter  and  working 
in  the  summer.  He  then  went  to  Lehi  with  his 
brother  and  engaged  in  the  bee  business  for  a 
year,  returning  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  entering 
the  employ  of  the  Rapid  Transit  Company,  and 
worked  for  that  company  for  three  years,  clean- 
ing- headlights  and  attending  to  the  store  room. 
In  this  capacity  he  was  employed  for  two  years, 
and  in  the  third  year  was  employed  as  a  machin- 
ist in  that  company's  shops.  He  then  was  made  a 
motorman  and  operated  a  car  on  the  First  West 
route  of  the  West  Side  Rapid  Transit  for  a  year. 
He  then  returned  to  the  shops  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Rao'd  Transit  Comn-^'^y  and  worked  another 
year  at  the  machinist  trade,  and  was  then 
made  foreman  of  the  Salt  Lake  Rapid 
Transit  Company's  power  house,  which  po- 
sition he  held  until  the  Rapid  Transit  and 
Salt  Lake  companies  were  consolidated,  in 
April,  iQoi,  and  after  the  disastrous  fire 
which  destroyed  most  of  the  plant,  he  was 
made  chief  engineer  of  the  old  Rapid  Transit 
plant,  which  position  he  still  holds.  At  the  same 
time  that  he  has  been  employed  in  railroad  work. 


he  has  successfully  established  the  present  Utah 
Electrical  Supply  Company,  of  which  he  is  Pres- 
ident, and  which  at  the  present  time  has  grown 
to  be  one  of  the  prosperous  enterprises  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  redounds  greatly  to  the  business 
sagacity  of  Mr.  Swaner. 

Although  but  a  young  man,  he  has  already 
given  such  an  account  of  himself  as  would  indi- 
cate that  in  the  future  he  will  occupy  a  promi- 
nent and  leading  position  among  the  business 
men  of  Utah,  and  especially  in  the  application 
of  electricity  to  the  needs  of  the  people. 


\AIUEL  BRINTON.  Success  comes 
not  to  the  man  who  idly  waits,  but  to 
tlie  faithful  toiler  whose  work  is  char- 
acterized by  intelligence  and  force;  it 
comes  only  to  the  man  who  has  the  fore- 
sight and  keen  mental  vision  to  know  how,  when 
and  where  to  exert  his  energy,  and  thus  it  hap- 
pens that  but  a  small  proportion  of  those  who 
enter  the  world's  broad  field  of  battle  comes  of? 
victorious  in  the  struggle  for  wealth  and  posi- 
tion. As  the  historian  passes  in  review  over  the 
many  successful  men  of  Summit  county,  his  at- 
tention is  called  to  a  man  who  is  undoubtedly  one 
of  the  most  successful  in  his  line  of  occupation 
in  the  entire  county,  Samuel  Brinton ;  and  be- 
lieving that  his  many  friends  will  be  glad  to  have 
presented  to  them  a  brief  synopsis  of  his  career, 
the  following  has  been  compiled : 

Samuel  Brinton  was  born  in  Big  Cottonwood 
Ward,  Salt  Lake  county,  December  26,  1853, 
during  the  absence  of  his  father  in  Fort  Supply, 
and  is  the  son  of  David  Brinton,  senior,  and  a 
brother  of  J.  H.  Brinton,  whose  sketch  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  David  Brinton  was  bom 
in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  his  an- 
cestors had  settled  in  1620.  He  came  of  an  old 
Quaker  family,  but  married  outside  the  Church, 
and  in  1838  became  a  convert  to  the  teachings 
of  the  Mormon  Elders  and  moved  to  Nauvoo  in 
1840,  where  he  remained  until  the  Saints  were 
driven  out  in  1846.  During  his  residence  in  Nau- 
voo he  became  well  acquainted  with  the  Prophet, 
Joseph  Smith,    .•\fter  the  people  were  driven  out 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


of  Nauvoo  Mr.  Brinton  moved  to  Savannah,  Mis- 
souri, where  he  engaged  in  the  blacksmith  busi- 
ness, his  wife  making  goggles.  They  came  to 
Utah  in  1849,  reaching  here  in  September  of  that 
year.  In  December  of  that  same  year  he  was 
called  to  go  to  Iron  county,  where  he  made  the 
first  settlement,  at  Parowan,  leaving  his  family 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  In  1853  he  was  called  to  Fort 
Supply,  where  he  organized  another  settlement, 
and  in  1856  was  sent  to  the  Missouri  river  to 
assist  the  famous  hand  cart  brigade.  He  re- 
turned home  just  after  Johnston's  army  had  been 
in  Salt  Lake,  and  found  his  family  had  gone 
south  with  the  rest  of  the  people.  He  located 
them  at  Lehi,  and  after  the  trouble  was  over 
brought  them  back  to  the  city.  During  the  in- 
tervals when  not  called  away  on  Church  work, 
Mr.  Brinton  had  followed  his  trade  as  a  black- 
smith, which  he  again  took  up  at  this  time,  hav- 
ing a  shop  on  his  ranch  in  the  Big  Cottonwood, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
filled  seven  missions  for  the  Church,  laboring  in 
the  L^nited  States  and  England,  and  in  1870  en- 
gaged in  the  mercantile  business,  having  a  store 
one  mile  from  the  site  of  the  present  postoffice 
at  Brinton.  He  was  for  eighteen  years  Bishop 
of  the  Ward,  and  while  on  his  mission  to  En- 
gland presided  over  the  London  Conference.  He 
had  the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  few  to 
receive  the  endowment  at  the  hands  of  the 
Prophet.  Joseph  Smith,  in  Nauvoo.  He  died 
May  17,  1878,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years, 
his  death  being  very  sudden.  His  wife,  and  the 
mother  of  our  subject,  was  Harriett  W.  Dill- 
worth.  She  died  aged  seventy-five,  on  Novem- 
ber 19,  1897,  after  a  noble  and  useful  life.  After 
coming  to  Utah  the  father  of  this  family  was 
absent  from  home  much  of  the  time,  filling  seven 
missions,  both  preaching  and  colonizing,  and  only 
returning  home  for  a  brief  time  at  the  close  of 
each  mission.  During  this  time  almost  the  en- 
tire care  and  sustenance  of  the  family  fell  to  the 
brave  wife. 

Our  subject  received  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Salt  Salt  Lake  county  and  at  the 
Deseret  University,  now  the  University  of  Utah. 
He  lived  on  his  father's  farm  in  the  Big  Cotton- 
wood, and  did  much  of  the  herding  of  the  cat- 


tle and  sheep.  He  bought  a  place  adjoining  his 
father's,  where  he  lived  for  twenty-three  years, 
and  still  owns  considerable  farming  land  in  that 
Ward.  In  1899  he  bought  the  Boulder  ranch, 
near  Oakley,  in  Summit  county,  where  he  moved 
his  family  and  now  makes  his  home.  He  also 
owns  three  ranches  in  the  Weber  valley,  having 
altogether  about  a  thousand  acres  of  land.  He 
puts  up  about  three  hundred  tons  of  hay  annu- 
ally, all  of  which  he  feeds  out  to  his  stock. 

Mr.  Brinton  was  married  in  1875  to  Miss  Joan 
Helm,  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Mary  (Rich- 
ards) Helm,  of  Mill  Creek,  who  has  borne  him 
fourteen  children — Ada  P.,  the  wife  of  Orson 
Drage;  David  A.,  on  a  mission  to  Tennessee; 
Samuel  L.,  John,  deceased;  Walter  D.,  Joan; 
Joseph  H.,  Mary  G.,  deceased ;  Paul  E.  and 
Laura,  both  dead,  and  Eugenia;  Naomi,  Don  G. 
and  Ruth. 

In  politics  Mr.  Brinton  is  a  Republican,  and 
has  been  an  active  worker  in  that  party.  He  has 
held  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  was 
appointed  a  Notary  Public  by  Governor  Wells. 
He  has  also  been  water  commissioner  of  that 
district. 

He  was  ordained  a  Deacon  in  1867  and  an 
Elder  in  the  following  year.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Seventy-second  Quorum  of  the  Sev- 
enties in  1890.  In  1893  he  went  on  a  mission 
to  the  Southern  States,  presiding  over  the  West 
Virginia  and  Kentucky  Conferences  for  two 
years,  being  President  of  both  Conferences  from 
January  11,  1894,  to  December  12,  1895,  at  which 
time  he  was  honorably  released  and  returned 
home.  Upon  returning  home  he  became  a  home 
missionary  for  Salt  Lake  county,  and  retained 
that  position  until  he  removed  to  Summit  county, 
and  since  his  residence  in  the  latter  county  has 
filled  the  same  position  there. 

Mr.  Brinton  comes  from  one  of  the  best  known 
and  most  popular  families  in  Utah.  His  whole 
life  has  been  spent  in  Salt  Lake  and  Summit 
counties,  and  by  dint  of  hard  work,  untiring  en- 
ergy and  perseverance  he  has  worked  his  way 
up  until  he  is  today  one  of  the  solid  business  men 
and  successful  farmers  of  Summit  county.  He  is 
a  man  of  hospitable  nature,  genial  and  pleasing 
manners,  and  numbers  his  friends  by  the  legion. 


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OSEPH  GILES.  The  history  of  our 
subject  is  closely  linked  with  that  of 
]Morgan  county,  within  whose  confines 
his  life  has  been  mostly  spent.  He  was 
born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  August  21,  1858, 
and  the  first  ten  years  of  his  life  were  spent  on 
his  father's  farm  in  Davis  county,  after  which  he 
came  to  Morgan  county  and  obtained  his  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools,  returning  to  Davis 
county  at  the  age  of  eighteen  and  serving  an  ap- 
prenticeship as  blacksmith  under  T.  H.  White, 
of  Farmington. 

He  is  the  son  of  John  H.  and  Louisa  (Candy; 
Giles.  An  account  of  his  father's  life  will  be 
found  in  the  sketch  of  Bishop  William  Giles,  a 
brother  of  our  subject.  Upon  reaching  his  ma- 
jority our  subject  moved  to  Littleton  and  opened 
the  first  blacksmith  shop  in  that  place.  He  fol- 
lowed this  business  for  some  years,  also  having 
an  interest  in  the  old  homestead  with  his  father 
and  brothers.  In  1885  he  bought  a  portion  of 
the  original  homestead  of  his  father,  and  there 
built  his  home  and  followed  general  farming 
and  stock  raising,  in  addition  to  his  blacksmith 
business.  He  also  assisted  in  building  the  Lit- 
tleton and  Milton  Wards,  his  present  home  be- 
ing in  the  latter  Ward.  In  addition  to  his  other 
interests  he  is  a  director  in  the  Littleton  Stock 
Range  Company,  and  also  identified  with  the 
Littleton  and  Milton  canal,  of  which  he  was  a 
director  for  two  years. 

Mr.  Giles  was  married  in  1895  to  ]Miss 
Eva  Hinman,  daughter  of  ^Morgan  L.  and 
Harriett  (Hess)  Hinman,  a  sister  of  Presi- 
dent John  W.  Hess,  of  the  Davis  Stake, 
a  biographical  sketch  of  whom  appears  else- 
where in  this  work.  Mrs.  Giles'  father  was 
a  native  of  West  Stockbridge,  Berkshire  county, 
Massachusetts,  and  came  to  Utah  in  1847.  He 
was  first  located  in  Salt  Lake  City  for  some 
years,  but  at  the  time  of  the  Johnston  army 
troubles  moved  his  family  south  with  the  rest 
of  the  people,  and  upon  returning  located  in 
Farmington,  where  he  lived  until  1890,  when  he 
moved  to  Lees  creek.  Northwest  Territory, 
where  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty  years.  Mrs. 
Giles  is  now  the  only  living;  member  of  that  fam- 
ily.    Her   father    was     President   of   the   Davis 


Stake  and  a  W^ard  teacher  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  Mr. 
Giles  has  one  daughter.  Marvel  Eva. 

There  is  no  better  known  man  in  Morgan 
county  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  His  fa- 
ther was  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  this  and 
Davis  counties,  and  his  sons  have  grown  to  be 
prominent  men  in  their  particular  walks  of  life. 
Mr.  Giles  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
in  whose  faith  he  was  raised,  and  active  in  the 
work  of  his  Ward. 


E.  CHISHOLM.  In  the  operations 
of  railroads  there  is  no  more  impor- 
tant part,  nor  one  which  requires  a 
greater  experience,  than  the  mechanical 
department.  No  matter  how  commo- 
dious or  how  luxurious  the  equipment  may  be,  if 
the  motor  power  is  lacking  the  railroad  fails  of 
its  mission.  The  mechanical  department  of  the 
railroad  is  charged  with  the  superintendency  of 
the  locomotives  and  with  seeing  that  the  liability 
to  accident  is  reduced  to  a  minimum,  and  that 
the  greatest  results  are  achieved  from  the  loco- 
motives, compatible  with  safety,  speed  and  com- 
fort. The  superintendent  of  motive  power  has 
charge  of  all  its  work,  and  under  him,  as  his 
right-hand  man,  is  the  master  mechanic,  assisted 
by  a  foreman,  who  is  virtually  an  assistant  mas- 
ter mechanic,  and  oftentimes  acts  in  his  absence. 
To  fill  the  position  of  master  mechanic  requires 
a  thorough  knowledge  of  machinery  and  of  me- 
chanics, and  it  is  usually  only  after  a  long  ex- 
perience that  a  man  is  entrusted  with  the  duties 
of  that  important  position.  The  Rio  Grande 
Western  Railway,  traversing  as  it  does  the  Rocky 
Mountain  region,  requires  its  locomotives  to  be 
in  the  very  highest  state  of  efficiency,  and  its 
mechanical  department  is  one  of  the  best  among 
the  western  railroads.  Intimately  connected  with 
this  and  directing  a  large  part  of  its  operations, 
is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  in  the  capacity  of 
General  Foreman. 

J.  E.  Chisholm  was  born  in  Constantina,  Os- 
wego county,  New  York,  in  1858,  but  when  very 
young  his  parents  moved  to  the  West,  and  his 
early    life    was    spent    in    Shakopee,    Minnesota, 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


495 


twenty-six  miles  from  Saint  Paul.  His  father, 
Robert  Chisholm,  was  a  railroad  man,  and  was 
foreman  of  the  Chicago,  Saint  Paul,  Minneapolis 
and  Omaha  Railroad,  with  headquarters  at  Sha- 
kopee.  He  was  a  native  of  New  York,  but  re- 
moved to  Minnesota  when  his  son  was  but  a  small 
boy.  He  was  of  Scotch  descent,  and  his  father 
had  been  a  prominent  boat  builder  on  the  Erie 
Canal.  Upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War, 
in  1862,  he  enlisted  in  Company  I,  Xiiilh  !Min- 
nesota  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  until  the 
close  of  that  war,  in  1865.  Prior  to  its  service 
in  the  Civil  War  this  regiment  was  ordered  West, 
to  go  on  a  punitive  expedition  against  the  Sioux 
Indians,  shortly  after  the  massacre  of  the  white 
people  by  that  tribe  in  1862.  The  regiment  went 
to  Fort  Ridgley.  and  ^Ir.  Chisholm  participated 
in  all  the  battles  with  the  Indians  in  which  the 
regiment  was  engaged,  being  later  mustered  out 
at  Fort  Snelling,  Minnesota.  His  death,  in  1884, 
was  the  result  of  the  hardships  he  had  undergone 
in  this  campaign.  His  wife,  Lucretia  (Gifford) 
Chisholm,  and  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  also  a  native  of  New  York.  She  was 
of  Scotch  extraction,  and  is  still  living  at  her 
home  in  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota. 

Their  son  spent  his  early  life  in  Minnesota, 
and  was  educated  in  the  public  and  grammar 
schools.  He  soon,  however,  turned  his  attention 
to  work,  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  entered  the 
car  department  of  the  Saint  Paul  and  Sioux  City 
Railroad,  which  later  formed  a  portion  of  the 
system  of  the  Chicago,  Saint  Paul,  Minneapolis 
and  Omaha  Railway,  and  is  now  a  constituent 
part  of  the  Northwestern  system.  He  served 
with  this  company  for  over  eighteen  years,  in 
various  departments  in  mechanical  and  operating 
work,  the  last  two  years  having  charge  of  the 
motive  power  department  of  the  Northern  Di- 
vision, at  Spooner,  Wisconsin.  He  left  the  rail- 
road business  in  1893,  and  engaged  in  other  en- 
terprises. Feeling  that  the  railroad  life  was  more 
congenial  to  him  than  the  enterprises  in  which 
he  had  established  himself,  he  returned  to  that 
work,  and  entered  the  service  of  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railroad  Company,  where  he  remained 
for  five  years  in  its  mechanical  department.  He 
was  then  tendered  and  accepted  the  position  of 


General   Foreman  of  the  Rio   Grande   Western 

Railroad,  and  has  been  with  that  company  since 
that  time,  with  headquarters  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
His  ability  and  the  long  experience  he  has  had 
in  mechanical  railroad  work  has  won  for  him  an 
enviable  reputation  among  railroad  men,  and  he 
is  also  the  First  Assistant  of  the  Master  Me- 
chanic, and  is  often  charged  with  the  duties  of 
that  higher  position. 

Our  subject  was  married,  in  Minnesota,  to 
Miss  Mary  J.  DuBois,  a  native  of  Philadelphia, 
and  by  this  marriage  he  had  one  child 
— Lillian  Stuart.  His  wife  died,  and  he 
married  again,  in  Mandan,  North  Dakota, 
to  Miss  Hattie  May  Thurston,  a  native  o£ 
Iowa,  and  by  this  marriage  he  has  two  chil- 
dren— Marion  and  Gertrude. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Chisholm  has  alwavs  been 
a  staunch  and  consistent  Republican.  His  rail- 
road work  has  consumed  all  his  time,  so  that  he 
has  never  had  an  opportunity  to  take  an  active 
part  in  the  work  of  the  party.  His  first  vote  for 
President  was  cast  for  Garfield,  and  he  has  voted 
for  the  Republican  nominees  for  President  ever 
since.  In  social  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Maccabees 
and  to  the  Fraternal  Union  of  America.  While 
in  Saint  Paul  he  joined  the  United  Workmen. 
The  able  manner  in  which  Mr.  Chisholm  has  dis- 
charged all  the  duties  which  have  been  allotted 
to  him  has  won  the  confidence  of  his  superior 
officers  in  the  railroad,  and  to-day,  in  the  Rio 
Grande  system,  there  is  no  more  trusted  officer 
than  our  subject.  His  wide  experience  in  rail- 
road work  has  won  for  him  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  the  field  of  the  directors  of  the  mechanical 
departments  of  these  vast  enterprises.  He  is  well 
and  favorably  known  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  en- 
joys the  friendship  of  a  large  circle  of  friends. 


ILLIAM  SARGENT,  Bishop  of 
Iloytsville  Ward.  Perhaps  one  of 
the  most  noted  and  talked-of  coun- 
ties in  the  whole  State  of  Utah  is 
Summit    county.      It    is,   beyond    a 

doubt,  one  of  the  wealthiest  counties  in  the  State. 

Its  vast  mining  industries;  its  agricultural  and 


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stock-raising  business,  together  with  its  fine  cli- 
mate, the  beautiful  scenery  of  its  hills  and  valleys, 
and  the  sturdy,  energetic  and  thoroughly  wide- 
awake citizens  who  have  developed  it  from  a 
wild  and  barren  waste  to  its  present  prosperous 
condition,  has  all  tended  to  bring  the  county 
prominently  before  the  outside  world.  Bishop 
Sargent  has  been  a  resident  of  this  county  since 
1868,  and  has  been  closely  identified  with  many 
of  the  leading  enterprises  for  the  improvement  of 
the  precinct. 

He  was  born  in  the  village  of  Dawsdale.  Lin- 
colnshire, England,  August  i,  1844,  and  is  a  son 
of  John  and  Hannah  (Farrow)  Sargent,  both 
natives  of  that  shire.  The  mother  died  in  1847, 
and  three  years  later  the  father  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Alormon  Church,  and  in  1868,  with 
his  family  of  four  children,  emigrated  to  the 
United  States,  crossing  the  plains  to  Utah  in 
his  own  ox  teams,  and  settling  in  Hoytsville,  in 
the  Weber  Valley,  where  he  died  the  14th  day  of 
the  following  March,  aged  fifty-one  years. 

Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's 
farm  in  England,  receiving  his  limited  education 
from  the  schools  of  that  country.  He  came  to 
this  country  with  his  father,  and  settled  in  Hoyts- 
ville, where  he  became  interested  in  farming. 
For  the  first  following  twelve  years,  besides  his 
farming,  Mr.  Sargent  engaged  in  freighting, 
hauling  coal  and  timber  to  and  from  the  mines 
and  freighting  to  Grass  Creek.  He  also  engaged 
for  some  years  in  the  manufacture  of  brick  from 
the  native  clay,  and  furnished  the  brick  for  many 
of  the  houses  which  are  still  standing  in  Hoyts- 
ville. He  gradually  increased  his  farm,  and  at 
this  time  owns  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of 
range  land  and  fifty  acres  under  cultivation.  He 
has  also  done  some  cattle  raising,  and  altogether 
has  had  a  fairly  successful  life,  financially.  He 
owns  a  fine  brick  house  in  Hoytsville,  where  he 
makes  his  home.  .He  is  also  interested  in  four 
irrigation  ditch  companies,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
earnest  workers  in  the  interests  of  irrigation  to 
be  found  in  the  county. 

Bishop  Sargent  was  married,  in  1867,  to  Miss 
Sarah  E.  Spriggs,  of  Lincolnshire,  England. 
They  have  had  ten  children,  nine  sons  and  one 
daughter,     seven     of    whom     are    living — John 


Henry,  serving  on  a  three  years'  mission  to  New 
Zealand ;  William ;  Alma  L.,  who  served  three 
years  in  England  on  a  mission ;  Charles  L. ;  Lo- 
renzo ;  Rosanna,  and  David  Leroy.  Albert  A., 
Julian  A.  and  William  J.  died  in  childhood. 

Bishop  Sargent  has  always  been  an  ardent  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party, 
and  was  a  delegate  to  the  first  State  Democratic 
Convention,  held  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  Alormon  Chvirch  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three,  and  soon  after  coming  to  Utah  was 
ordained  an  Elder,  and  for  several  years  labored 
as  a  Ward  teacher.  He  was  ordained  a  High 
Priest  and  set  apart  as  First  Counselor  to  Bishop 
Alonzo  Winters,  and  at  the  Bishop's  death  was 
chosen  his  successor,  being  ordained  August  14, 
1886,  by  John  Henry  Smith.  He  was  re-ap- 
pointed to  this  position  in  1901,  when  the  Stake 
was  re-organized.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Stake  Ecclesiastical  Association  and  of  the 
Stake  Board  of  Education.  He  has  served  as 
home  missionary,  and  has  always  been  active  in 
all  departments  of  Church  work. 

The  success  that  has  come  to  Bishop  Sargent, 
both  in  business  life  and  Church  matters  has  been 
due  to  his  own  unflagging  energy  and  persever- 
ance in  the  face  of  all  obstacles.  His  life  has 
been  singularly  upright  and  free  from  subterfuge, 
and  he  has  won  a  host  of  friends  in  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  lives. 


OHX  THURSTON.  Chairman  of  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  of 
Morgan  county,  has  the  distinction  of 
being  the  first  white  child  born  in  that 
county.  He  was  born  in  1859,  and  is 
the  son  of  Thomas  Jefiferson  Thurston,  a  native 
of  Vermont,  where  he  was  born  in  1805,  and 
emigrated  to  Ohio  with  his  parents  at  the  age 
of  twelve  years.  He  became  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  at 
an  early  day,  and  lived  for  some  time  at  Nauvoo. 
At  the  time  of  the  exodus  from  that  place,  in 
1846,  he  went  with  the  main  bodv  of  the  Church 
to  Winter  Quarters,  and  the  following  spring 
came  to  Utah  with  the  first  company  of  emi- 
grants, wintering  in  the  Salt  Lake  Valley  dur- 
ing the  winter  of  1847.     He  located  at  Center- 


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ville,  in  Davis  county,  where  he  owned  a  large 
farm,  and  from  there  moved  to  the  place  where 
Milton  now  stands,  where  he  was  the  first  set- 
tler, and  built  a  log  house  on  Deep  creek.  In 
connection  with  Colonel  J.  C.  Little  and  Jedediah 
Grant,  he  obtained  a  grant  of  land  from  the 
Legislature  in  Weber  Valley,  and  he  built  the 
road  through  Devil's  Gate.  He  obtained  a  large 
tract  of  land  at  Milton,  extending  as  far  as  Mor- 
gan, and  there  kept  a  large  herd  of  cattle,  and 
in  later  years  did  an  extensive  farming  business. 
He  was  widely  identified  with  the  development 
and  progress  of  the  county,  and  interested  in 
many  enterprises.  Besides  his  farm  and  cattle 
business,  he  owned  a  saw  mill  at  what  was  known 
as  Hard  Scrabble.  He  was  the  first  Bishop  of 
the  place,  before  the  Morgan  Stake  was  organ- 
ized, and  in  the  early  days  was  the  leading  man 
of  his  county.  He  assisted  in  building  Thurs- 
ton's Fort,  during  the  Indian  troubles,  and  this 
later  became  the  town  of  Thurston,  being  named 
in  his  honor.  In  1882  he  sold  out  to  his  son 
and  moved  to  Saint  George,  where  he  worked 
in  the  Temple  during  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
dying  there  in  1885,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years 
and  four  months.  During  his  life  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Thirtieth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  He 
was  the  husband  of  three  wives,  and  reared  a 
large  family. 

Our  subject  was  the  third  child  in  a  family 
of  thirteen  children,  by  the  second  wife,  Eliza- 
"beth  Smith.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  this  countv, 
and  received  his  education  from  the  common 
schools.  He  remained  at  home  with  his  father 
until  1882,  when  he  bought  the  original  home- 
stead of  two  hundred  and  eighty-five  acres  and 
began  life  for  himself,  following  farming  and 
stock  raising,  and  took  up  the  work  his  father 
had  so  ably  carried  on,  identifying  himself  with 
the  work  of  his  county  and  doing  much  for  its 
growth  and  betterment.  He  assisted  in  building 
the  Littleton  canal  and  Milton  ditch,  and  for  the 
past  ten  years  has  been  Water  Master  of  that 
ditch.  In  1897  he  built  his  present  handsome 
home  of  white  sandstone  and  made  numerous 
improvements  on  the  place,  beautifying  it,  and 
now  has  one  of  the  loveliest  homes  in  the  Weber 
Vallev. 


Mr.  Thurston  was  married,  April  6,  1881,  to 
IViiss  Alice  Josephine  Little,  daughter  of  Colonel 
J.  C.  Little,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Weber 
\'alley,  coming  there  about  the  time  Mr.  Thurs- 
ton's father  settled  in  Morgan  county.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Thurston  have  had  nine  children  born  to 
them— Alice  E.,  John  W.,  Leo  A.,  Frank  W., 
Clarence,  Loraine,  and  three  children  who  have 
died.  The  daughter,  Alice  E.,  is  a  school  teacher 
in  the  Littleton  District.  His  brothers  have  ac- 
quired a  reputation  in  the  county  as  hunters  of 
large  game,  and  have  many  evidences  of  their 
skui  in  this  direction. 

In  politics  Mr.  Thurston  has  for  many  years 
been  an  adherent  of  the  Democratic  party,  and 
was  twice  elected  to  a  seat  on  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners  through  that  party,  being 
at  this  time  Chairman  of  the  Board,  by  virtue  of 
being  the  oldest  member.  However,  since  his 
last  election  to  office  his  political  convictions  have 
undergone  a  change,  and  his  sympathies  are  now 
with  the  Socialist  party.  He  has  always  taken 
an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  county, 
and  was  for  ten  years  School  Trustee.  He  is 
President  of  the  Littleton  Stock  Range  Company 
and  a  director  in  the  Littleton  and  Milton  Irrigat- 
ing Com[)any. 


(  )HX  BOYDEN.  Few  men  have  had  a 
more  interesting  career,  both  in  public, 
professional  and  business  life  than  has 
Mr.  Boyden.  His  life  has  been  closely 
identified  with  the  history  of  Summit 
county  for  the  past  thirty-seven  years,  and  dur- 
ing that  long  period  of  time  he  has  received  more 
official  honors  at  the  hands  of  the  people  of  his 
county  than  any  other  one  man  who  has  ever  re- 
sided within  her  borders.  His  honorable  career, 
and  straightforward  and  upright  manner  of  deal- 
ing with  his  fellow  men  has  won  for  him  a  large 
circle  of  friends  and  admirers. 

Our  subject  is  a  native  of  Staffordshire,  En- 
gland, having  been  born  there  in  1841,  and  com- 
ing to  the  United  States  with  his  parents,  Charles 
and  Sarah  (Corns)  Boyden,  in  i860.  His  mother 
died  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1863,  and  his  father 
moved  with  his  children  to  Morgan  countv,  where 


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he  took  up  a  farm  and  resided  there  until  his 
death  in  1892,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years. 
Mr.  Boyden  received  his  education  in  England, 
and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  became  a  school 
teacher.  After  coming  to  Utah  he  followed  teach- 
ing for  three  years  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  later 
taught  in  Peterson,  Morgan  county,  where  he 
was  also  Assessor  and  Collector  for  one  year.  In 
1886  he  came  to  Coalville,  where  he  again  filled 
the  office  of  Assessor  and  Collector  for  two  years 
and  was  later  a  clerk  in  the  Tithing  office.  He  was 
for  fourteen  years  Superintendent  of  the  Coalville 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution,  filling  the 
office  of  Secretary  ot  the  institution  at  the  same 
time.  In  1891  he  established  the  first  drug  store 
in  Coalville,  dealing  in  drugs  and  sundries,  and 
up  to  the  present  time  has  had  no  competition. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Jessie  jMitchell  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  by  this  marriage  has  three  chil- 
dren, J.  Leslie,  Amy  I.,  and  Walter  M. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Boyden  was  a  member  of 
the  People's  party  in  early  days,  but  when  the 
people  divided  on  national  political  lines  he  iden- 
tified himself  with  the  Democratic  party  and  has 
since  been  an  aggressive  worker  in  its  ranks.  He 
has  held  almost  every  office  in  the  gift  of  the  peo- 
ple of  his  community,  and  has  discharged  his 
duties  in  a  manner  reflecting  credit  not  only  upon 
himself  but  upon  the  people  whose  choice  he  has 
so  often  been.  Among  the  minor  offices  he  has 
held  has  been  that  of  Selectman;  Recorder  of 
Summit  county  for  ten  years ;  City  Recorder  for 
about  twelve  years ;  member  of  the  School 
Board  for  three  terms,  and  Assessor  and  Collec- 
tor for  the  county  for  a  numh^er  of  years.  He  has 
also  served  the  City  as  its  Mayor  for  three  terms, 
and  was  Enrolling  Clerk  in  the  Legislature  for 
four  terms,  after  which  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  for  two  years.  He  was  also  been 
Secretary  of  the  Stake  Academy  for  some  time, 
and  Chairman  of  the  Democratic  County  Com- 
mittee for  four  years.  No  man  has  done  more 
to  bring  the  public  service  of  Summit  county  to 
a  high  standard  of  efficiency  than  has  Mr.  Boy- 
den, and  the  confidence  of  the  people  in  his  ability 
and  integrity  has  time  and  again  been  attested  at 
the  polls. 

He    is    a    member   of    the   Mormon    Church, 


and  the  same  zeal  that  he  has  displayed  in  dis- 
charging his  public  duties  is  to  be  found  in  his 
work  for  the  Church.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
High  Council  of  Summit  Stake  from  the  time  of 
the  organization  of  that  Stake  until  1901,  when 
it  was  reorganized.  In  1879  he  was  called  on  a 
mission  to  his  native  land,  laboring  in  the  New- 
castle and  Manchester  Conferences,  and  had  a 
most  successful  mission.  He  has  been  identified 
with  Sunday  School  work  for  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, having  been  Stake  Superintendent  for  the 
Sunday  Schools  for  twenty-five  years,  and  Super- 
intendent of  the  Coalville  Sunday  Schools  for 
twelve  years.  Mrs.  Boyden  is  also  a  prominent 
Church  worker  and  was  for  some  time  Secretary 
of  the  Stake  Relief  Society. 

In  addition  to  his  other  duties  Mr.  Boyden  has 
found  time  to  promote  a  number  of  business  en- 
terprises of  Coalville  and  vicinity,  and  during  the 
construction  of  what  is  now  the  Park  City  Rail- 
road was  secretary  of  that  company,  and  one  of 
its  active  promoters.  He  has  been  identified  with 
the  mining  industry  of  this  section  of  the  State 
and  has  done  much  towards  developing  the  coal 
mines  of  Summit  county.  He  has  done  consider- 
able building  in  the  town  and  willingly  lends  his 
aid  and  influence  to  any  enterprise  for  the  growth 
or  betterment  of  his  town.  In  connection  with 
Bishop  W.  W.  Cluff  he  established  the  first  public 
library  and  reading  room  in  Coalville,  and  has 
ever  been  found  the  friend  of  education.  His  son 
J.  Leslie  was  on  a  mission  to  England  for  more 
than  a  year.  Walter  M.  has  been  instructor  in  the 
public  schools  for  six  years,  four  of  which  he  was 
Principal.  Amy  J.  was  educated  at  the  Brigham 
Young  Academy  at  Provo. 


ILLISPIE  W.  WALDRON  is  one  of 
the  oldest  living  Presidents  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day- 
Saints,  in  the  Stake  of  Zion,  Morgan 
county.  For  over  forty  years  he  has- 
been  one  of  the  honored  and  most  highly  re- 
spected citizens  of  his  county.  His  whole  busi- 
ness career  has  been  spent  in  Utah.  He  is  thor- 
oughly acquainted  with  all  the  ups  and  downs 
of   the   early   settlement    in    the     State,   having- 


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crossed  the  plains  as  early  as  1853  by  ox  teams, 
and  from  that  time  to  the  present  he  has  been 
one  of  the  important  factors  in  developing  the 
vast  resources  of  Utah.  He  has  always  taken 
an  active  and  leading  part  in  the  work  of  his 
Church,  and  has  had  the  confidence  of  the  lead- 
ers of  his  Church,  as  well  as  of  all  the  people  in 
his  county. 

Gillespie  W.  Waldron  is  a  native  of  New  York 
State,  having  been  born  in  Wyoming  county  in 
1836.  He  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sallie  (Lap- 
ham)  Waldron.  His  father  was  born  at  Brigh- 
ton, England,  in  1795,  and  came  to  the  United 
States  when  a  young  man,  settling  in  New  York 
State,  and  there  became  a  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  He  later  moved  to  Pennsylvania, 
and  about  the  time  of  the  exodus  of  the  Mor- 
mons from  Nauvoo  he  paid  a  visit  to  that  cit}' 
and  followed  the  Saints  to  Winter  Quarters,  re- 
siding near  Omaha  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
followed  his  trade  of  shoemaker  until  1853,  when 
he  came  to  Utah.  The  first  winter  was  spent  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  when  he  purchased  property  in 
Centerville,  Davis  county,  where  he  again  took 
up  his  trade.  He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven, 
in  Uintah,  Weber  county.  During  his  life  he 
was  an  active  worker  in  the  Church,  but  held  no 
office.  He  was  especially  noted  for  his  many 
charitable  deeds,  and  was  mourned  by  a  large 
circle  of  friends  when  he  passed  away.  His  wife 
died  in  Centerville  in  1855.  Our  subject  was 
the  only  child. 

When  our  subject  started  out  in  life  for  him- 
self he  labored  at  whatever  he  could  find  to  do. 
In  1856  he  moved  to  Malad  Valley,  Idaho,  where 
he  remained  until  the  call  came  for  the  Saints  to 
move  to  the  southern  part  of  this  State,  at  the 
time  of  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  when  he 
took  his  family  to  Payson,  and  on  returning 
north  settled  at  Centerville,  where  he  remained 
until  1861,  when  he  came  to  Morgan  county, 
where  he  took  up  forty-five  acres  of  Government 
land  and  improved  it.  He  raised  the  first  crop 
of  wheat  in  his  Ward.  When  the  call  came  for 
the  people  to  form  settlements  for  better  protec- 
tion against  the  raids  of  the  Indians,  Mr.  Wal- 
dron moved  his  family  to  the  site  of  his  present 
home,  being  one  of  the  first  to  move  into  this 


settlement.  He  bought  land  in  Richville,  and 
disposed  of  his  first  farm.  He  has  made  his 
home  here  continuously  since  that  time,  and  has 
devoted  his  time  to  general  farming  and  stock 
raising.  As  the  years  went  by  Mr.  Waldron 
accumulated  a  large  amount  of  land,  but  of  late 
years  he  has  divided  much  of  this  among  his 
children.  At  this  time  he  has,  besides  his  home 
place,  about  forty-five  acres  of  choice  bottom 
land,  to  which  he  gives  his  personal  attention, 
and  which  is  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 
For  many  years  the  family  occupied  a  commo- 
dious and  comfortable  log  house,  but  this  has 
been  taken  down  and  replaced  by  a  handsome 
brick  structure. 

Mr.  Waldron  wa.^  married,  in  Malad  A'alley, 
Idaho,  in  1857,  to  ^liss  Ann  Dewhurst,  daughter 
of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Fielding)  Dewhurst. 
This  family  were  natives  of  England,  and  came 
to  Utah  in  1854.  Twelve  children  have  been 
born  of  this  marriasre — Joseph  T. ;  Annie,  wife 
of  C.  R.  Clark ;  Gillispie  W.,  Junior ;  Benjamin ; 
Thomas;  Harriett,  wife  of  Robert  C.  Harris; 
Mary,  wife  of  Joseph  D.  Harris ;  Levi,  and  Lucy 
E.  They  also  have  an  adopted  daughter,  Louisa. 
Three  children  died  in  infancy. 

The  whole  family  are  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church  and  among  its  most  faithful  and  active 
followers.  The  sons  have  served  on  missions  to 
different  parts  of  the  world,  and  the  daughters 
are  prominent  in  the  work  of  the  Relief  Society 
and  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Aid  Association. 
Mr.  Waldron  is  First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Dixon, 
which  office  he  has  held  since  the  organization 
of  this  Stake. 


r.  EVANS,  Mayor  of  Park  City. 
Perhaps  no  other  section  in  the  en- 
tire State  of  Utah  is  so  well  known 
throughout  the  business  world  as  Park 
City.  Its  vast  mining  interests  have, 
in  a  large  measure,  been  the  cause  of  its  world- 
wide reputation,  containing  as  it  does  many  of 
the  richest  and  best  dividend  paying  mines  ever 
developed  in  the  United  States.  E.  P.  Evans, 
the  present  Mavor  of  Park  City,  has  been  closely 
identified  with  many  enterprises  for  the  develop- 


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merit  of  that  place,  from  almost  its  first  incep- 
tion, for  as  early  as  1880  he  became  a  resident 
of  Park  City,  where  he  has  since  resided. 

Mr.  Evans  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having 
been  born  at  Centerville,  Davis  county,  on  Sep- 
tember 5,  1862.  His  father  is  Parley  P.  Evans, 
a  pioneer  of  Utah,  and  for  many  years  a  resident 
of  Davis  county,  where  he  successfully  followed 
farming,  and  has  now  retired  from  active  life 
and  is  spending  his  declining  days  in  Park  City, 
enjoying  the  fruits  of  a  long  and  well-spent  life. 
He  raised  a  family  of  twelve  children,  all  of 
whom  are  residents  of  this  State,  our  subject 
being  the  eldest. 

Mr.  Evans  grew  u])  on  his  father's  farm  in 
Davis  county,  and  received  a  common  school  edu- 
cation. In  September,  1880,  he  located,  in  Park 
City,  at  that  time  a  small,  straggling  mining 
camp,  and  became  employed  by  the  Ontario  Min- 
ing Company.  He  has  retained  his  interest  in 
the  mines  of  that  vicinity  since  that  time,  though 
he  has  not  been  actively  identified  with  mining. 
His  attention  of  late  years  has  been  given  largely 
to  mercantile  pursuits,  and  he  was  at  one  time 
engaged  in  the  livery  business  in  Park  City.  He 
became  manager  of  the  Hopkins  Coal  Company 
in  1895,  and  has  since  retained  that  position. 

He  was  married,  in  1885,  to  Miss  Lillian  Sny- 
der, a  sister  of  W.  I.  Snyder  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
by  whom  he  had  a  family  of  nine  children,  of 
whom  but  three  are  now  living. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Evans  is  a  staunch  believer 
in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
has  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks  ever  since 
its  organization  in  this  State.  He  was  for  two 
years  Alderman  of  Park  City,  and  the  only  Re- 
publican elected  on  the  ticket  in  1898.  He  re- 
ceived the  election  of  Mayor  of  the  city  in  No- 
vember, 1901,  of  which  office  he  is  still  an  in- 
cumbent, his  term  not  having  yet  expired. 

With  the  exception  of  a  few  years  spent  in 
the  gold  fields  of  California,  Mr.  Evans'  whole 
life  has  been  spent  within  the  confines  of  this 
State,  and  he  has  been  foremost  in  every  enter- 
prise pertaining  to  the  upbuilding  or  improving 
of  the  section  in  which  he  has  lived.  He  is  es- 
sentially a  self-made  man,  and  has  won  his  pres- 
ent high  standing  among  the  business   men  of 


the  city  by  his  own  unaided  efforts,  and  by  that 
determined  spirit  in  the  face  of  all  obstacles  and 
persevering  application  to  business  that  is  sure 
to  bring  success  in  its  train.  His  upright  and 
honorable  career  has  won  the  confidence  of  those 
with  whom  he  has  been  associated  and  has  made 
him  many  friends. 


EORGE  MOORE,  one  of  the  most 
successful  agriculturalists  and  live 
stock  men  to  be  found  in  Summit 
county.  The  career  of  a  successful 
man  who  has  made  his  own  way  in 
lite,  overcoming  every  obstacle  and  surmounting 
every  difficulty  in  an  honorable  and  upright  man- 
ner, should  be  and  is  an  inspiration  to  the  young 
and  rising  generation.  Such  a  man  is  Mr.  Moore, 
a  native  of  England,  born  in  Lincolnshire,  in 
1836.  He  is  the  son  of  Richard  and  Susannah 
(Wright)  Moore,  who  had  a  family  of  six  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  now  living,  our  subject 
being  the  second  youngest.  The  other  children 
are,  Wright,  now  living  in  Garden  City ;  Mrs. 
Palmer,  and  Charles.  Our  subject's  parents  were 
converted  to  the  Mormon  Church  in  England  and 
emigrated  to  America  in  185 1,  remaining  in  Saint 
Louis  and  Omaha  until  1862,  when  they  crossed 
the  plains  to  Utah,  locating  in  Cache  valley, 
where  they  remained  until  their  death. 

Our  subject  was  but  fifteen  years  of  age  when 
he  came  to  this  country.  He  married  in  Omaha, 
Nebraska,  in  i860,  bringing  his  family  to  Utah  in 
1862.  His  wife  was  a  Miss  Sarah  Carter,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  Carter,  and  sister  of  George 
and  William  Carter  of  this  place.  The  Carter 
family  also  crossed  the  plains  in  1862.  By  this 
marriage  Mr.  Moore  has  had  eleven  children — 
William  H.,  Elizabeth,  deceased;  Fannie,  wife 
of  Albert  Gibbins,  of  Kamas ;  Mary  L.,  George 
C,  Harvey  C,  Fred  W.,  Albert  N.  and  Sarah 
Electa.    Two  other  children  died  in  infancy. 

Mr.  Moore's  principal  occupation  has  been  that 
of  farming  and  cattle  raising.  He  owns  one  of 
the  largest  places  in  the  valley,  which  he  has 
nicely  improved,  with  good  houses,  barns,  out- 
buildings, fences,  etc.,  and  has  three  private 
ditches  on  his  place,  besides  being  interested  in 


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the  Wanship  No.  i  and  No.  2  ditches  and  the 
Pine  creek  ditch.  He  is  also  a  partner  in  the 
Carter  &  Moore  grist  mill    at  Wanship. 

In  political  life  Mr.  ]\Ioore  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party  and  has  been 
a  worker  in  its  ranks  since  the  party  was  organ- 
ized in  this  State.  During  the  days  before  the 
admission  of  the  State  into  the  Union,  he  was 
Selectman  of  his  district,  and  for  a  number  of 
terms  was  on  the  School  Board. 

From  a  poor  boy,  forced  to  begin  at  the  very 
bottom  rung  of  the  ladder,  Air.  Moore  has  by 
dint  of  hard  work,  economy  and  perseverance 
climbed  step  by  step  until  he  is  now  one  of  the 
foremost  cattle  owners  of  his  county,  and  com- 
mands the  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  come 
in  contact. 


ALTER  SCOTT.  The  Anchor  mine 
of  Park  City  is  considered  among 
the  leading  mines  of  Summit  county. 
At  the  present  time,  igo2,  it  is  in 
splendid  condition  and  producing 
over  one  hundred  tons  of  milling  ore  daily,  which 
is  all  concentrated  at  the  company's  new  mill, 
which  from  the  point  of  up-to-date  machinery  is 
not  surpassed  by  any  other  mill  of  the  kind  in 
the  State.  It  has  a  capacity  of  about  two  hun- 
dred tons  every  twenty-four  hours.  At  the 
present  time  the  Anchor  Mining  Company  gives 
employment  to  about  one  hundred  and  forty  men. 
The  company  owns  a  vast  territory  of  rich  min- 
eral land,  which  extends  practically  unbroken 
from  the  Daly  West  mine  on  the  southwest  to 
the  Prince  of  Wales'  mine  on  the  Little  Cotton- 
wood, a  distance  of  about  three  miles,  and  will 
undoubtedly  be  producing  ore  when  the  present 
generation  has  passed  into  the  great  unknown. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  secretary  of  this 
great  company. 

Mr.  Scott  is  a  native  of  Denmark,  being  born 
at  Copenhagen  in  1845.  where  he  received  his 
education.  At  the  age  of  twenty  years  he  emi- 
grated to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  De 
Kalb  county,  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  after  residing  there  for  some  years 
moved  to  Mitchell   county,    Kansas,    where    he 


again  engaged  in  farming,  and  where  he  exper- 
ienced the  great  devastation  caused  by  the  grass- 
hoppers in  1872.  His  crops  being  entirely  de- 
stroyed it  became  necessary  for  him  to  seek  out- 
side employment  to  provide  the  necessaries  of 
life,  and  going  to  Beloit,  the  county  seat  of  that 
county,  he  became  engaged  as  a  laborer  on  a 
building  then  in  course  of  construction.  A  pri- 
vate bank  was  opened  in  this  building  by  Frank 
Hart  as  soon  as  finished,  and  our  subject  at 
once  became  the  cashier  of  said  bank,  in  which 
position  he  remained  for  some  years.  In  1879 
he  moved  to  Minneapolis,  Kansas,  and  became 
cashier  in  the  Ottawa  county  bank,  remaining 
there  thirteen  years,  when  he  came  to  Utah. 

L'pon  arriving  in  Utah  Mr.  Scott  went  at 
once  to  Park  City,  where  he  became  bookkeeper 
lor  the  Anchor  Mining  Company,  now  part  of 
the  Daly-Judge,  and  a  few  years  later  was  pro- 
moted and  became  secretary  of  the  company.  He 
has  also  acted  in  the  capacity  of  bookkeeper  and 
secretary  for  a  number  of  other  famous  mines 
in  that  locality,  among  which  may  be  mentioned 
the  Woodside  Mining  Company ;  Silver  King ; 
Quincy  Mining  Company ;  the  Columbus  Min- 
mg  Company ;  the  California  Mining  Company , 
the  Homestake  Mining  Company,  and  many 
others.  He  has  also  been  identified  with  the 
Park  City  Light.  Heat  and  Power  Company  and 
the  Park  City  Water  Works.  He  is  now  secre- 
tary and  bookkeeper  of  the  Utah  Mining  Ma- 
chinery and  Supply  Company,  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  company. 

He  was  married  to  Miss  Atlissa  L.  Smith,  a 
native  of  Indiana,  by  whom  he  has  had  two  sons 
Roy  and  Carl.  The  family  are  members  of  the 
English  Lutheran  Church,  and  Mrs.  Scott  is  a 
well-known  club  woman,  being  at  this  time 
'■i::urer  of  the  Utah  Federation  of  Woman's 
Clubs. 

Politically  Mr.  Scott  owes  allegiance  to  the 
Republican  party,  of  which  he  has  been  a  life- 
long member,  and  in  the  past  has  been  quite 
actively  identified  with  the  work  of  the  party, 
having  held  the  offices  of  Deputy  Sheriff,  Deputy 
County  Treasurer  and  Deputy  County  Clerk  in 
Mitchell  county,  Kansas,  and  serving  for  two 
vears  as  Alderman  in  the  city  of  Minneapolis. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


'  He  is  well  known  in  fraternal  circles,  being  a 
thirty-second  degree  Mason,  and  is  Past  Master 
of  Uintah  Lodge,  No.  7,  F.  and  A.  M.,  and 
Senior  Grand  Warden  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Utah;  Past  High  Priest  of  Ontario  Chapter, 
No.  3,  R.  A.  M. ;  Master  of  Utah  Council  No. 
I,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  a  member  of  the 
Utah  Commandery  No.  i,  Knights  Templar;  a 
member  of  El  Kalah  Temple,  N.  M.  S. ;  Past 
Noble  Grand  of  Minneapolis  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
and  a  member  of  the  local  lodge ;  Past  Chief 
Patriarch  of  Nasazet  Encampment  of  Minne- 
apolis, Kansas ;  a  member  of  the  Park  City  En- 
campment No.  7  and  Past  Chancellor  of  Myrtle 
Lodge,  Kniehts  of  Pythias,  Minneapolis,  Kansas. 
Mr.  Scott  has  by  his  genial  and  pleasant  man- 
ners made  many  friends  since  coming  to  Park 
City,  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
those  with  whom  he  has  been  associated  in  busi- 
ness life. 


i 


()HN  C.  CAPSON.  Of  the  many 
worthy  sons  who  have  immigrated  to 
this  country  from  Sweden,  and  who 
have  assisted  in  building  up  Salt  Lake 
county,  none  are  deserving  of  more 
credit  for  what  has  been  accomplished  along  this 
line  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Born  in 
Sweden  in  1848,  he  was  a  son  of  Carl  J.  and 
Ingre  Capson.  The  family  immigrated  to 
America  in  1853,  settling  in  Utah  in  the  fall 
of  the  same  year.  The  father  of  our  subject 
died  November  24,  1901,  aged  seventy-nine 
years,  and  his  wife  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
three  years,   November   19,   1896. 

Thirty-five  years  ago  our  subject  settled  in 
his  present  home,  which  at  that  time  was  a  bar- 
ren waste  of  sage  brush  and  desert  land.  Here 
he  has  continued  to  reside  ever  since  and  by 
courage  and  hard  work  he  has  built  up  a  splen- 
did home,  improved  by  orchards  and  all  kinds 
of  fruits,  fine  brick  house,  large  barns,  fences, 
etc.,  all  of  which  indicate  that  industrious  hands 
have  had  it  in  charge.  His  place  is  located  on 
Fourteenth  South  and  Thirteenth  East  street. 

In  1873  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss 
Susanna  L.  Ranck,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann 


(Lemon)  Ranck.  By  this  union  eleven  children 
have  been  born,  all  but  two  of  whom  are  living: 
John  B.  died  at  six  years  of  age ;  Ella  M.,  now 
ivlrs.  Robert  Hodgens,  who  resides  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  her  father  ;  Carl  R. ;  Bertha  ;  Frank  C. ; 
Hattie  M. ;  Albert  L. ;  Susannah  L. ;  Leo  L. ; 
Delphia  L.  and  Joseph  Q.,  who  died  in  infancy. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Capson  has  been  identified 
witli  the  Democratic  party  ever  since  its  organ- 
ization in  this  State.  For  many  years  he  has 
served  as  judge  of  election  in  his  district,  and 
was   School  Trustee  for  some  years. 

He  was  born  and  raised  in  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  as  was  his 
wife  and  all  of  his  children.  He  was  ordained 
an  elder  in  1890,  and  was  later  ordained  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Seventies.  In  1882  he  was  called  to 
serve  on  a  mission  to  his  native  country,  which 
he  willingly  accepted  and  served  for  a  period  of 
twenty-six  months.  For  the  past  year  he  has 
been   on   the   home   missionary   list. 

His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief 
Society,  and  their  daughters  Misses  Bertha  and 
Hattie  are  members  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mu- 
tual  Improvement  Association. 

No  family  in  Salt  Lake  county  are  more 
highly  respected  than  are  Mr.  Capson  and  his 
wife  and  children. 


ILLIAM  HENRY  HAIGH.  No 
section  of  the  United  States  can 
point  with  greater  pride  to  the 
splendid  achievements  which  have 
been  obtained  by  its  self-made  men 
than  can  the  State  of  Utah,  and  among  this  class 
of  men  should  be  mentioned  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  who  by  his  untiring  energy,  persever- 
ence  and  determination  has  carved  out  a  record 
which  is  worthy  of  emulation  by  the  young  and 
rising  generation. 

Mr.  Haigh  was  born  in  Huddersfield,  York- 
shire, England,  July  i8th,  1844.  He  is  a  son 
of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth  (Cartwright)  Haigh, 
both  of  whom  were  natives  of  the  same  place  in 
which  our  subject  was  born,  where  they  lived 
and  died.  Mr.  Haigh  was  but  a  child  when  his 
mother  died,  and  his  father  was  engaged  in  the 


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503 


woolen  manufacturing  business  in  England.  The 
boyhood  days  of  our  subject  were  spent  at  home 
and  received  a  liberal  education  in  the  common 
schools  and  academies  of  his  native  land.  His 
school  days,  however,  were  cut  short  when  he 
was  only  twelve  years  of  age,  his  father  having 
died  one  year  previous  to  that.  Mr.  Haigh  started 
out  in  life  for  himself  at  the  age  of  twelve  years. 
He  commenced  to  work  in  the  furnishing  de- 
partment of  the  woolen  manufacturing  business 
and  continued  in  that  business  for  a  few  years 
in  the  vicinity  of  his  birthplace.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  years  he  went  to  Devvsbury,  England,  and 
again  took  up  the  same  work  which  he  had  fol- 
lowed the  previous  years  at  his  old  home;  When 
just  past  his  twenty-first  year,  being  of  an  ambi- 
tious turn  of  mind,  and  desiring  wider  fields  of 
operation,  he  left  his  native  home  and  sailed  for 
America  in  1866,  coming  by  the  way  of  New  York 
Citv,  and  while  in  that  city  he  came  across  some 
of  the  Mormon  emigrants  and  at  once  took  up 
with  them.  He  started  on  his  journey  west  in 
company  with  Captain  Thomas  Ricks,  to  Utah, 
who  was  captain  of  the  train.  They  arrived 
here  in  the  fall  of  1866  and  Mr.  Haigh  at  once 
settled  west  of  the  Jordan  river,  where  he  has 
continued  to  make  his  home  ever  since.  Having 
been  left  an  orphan  when  only  a  child  and  com- 
pelled to  make  his  own  way  through  life,  Re  had 
of  necessity  but  little  means  on  reaching  this 
new  country,  and  the  first  year  he  worked  out 
by  the  month,  and  later  secured  employment  for 
two  years  in  the  woolen  factory  at  the  mouth  of 
Parley's  canyon,  when  he  became  interested  in 
the  stock  business,  more  especially  in  sheep,  and 
continued  at  that  successfully  for  a  few  years, 
working  at  the  same  time  in  the  factory.  Suc- 
cess has  followed  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Haigh  all 
through  his  life  in  Utah,  and  he  has  been  instru- 
mental in  building  up  the  Taylorsville  Ward 
having  erected  several  fine  houses,  and  his  pres- 
ent home  is  a  beautiful  brick  residence  situated 
on  the  Taylorsville  road. 

For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Haigh  ranged  his 
stock  in  Utah,  but  in  1879  he  removed  his  herds 
to  Wyoming,  which  has  been  the  seat  of  opera- 
tion ever  since.  He  is  largely  interested  in  the 
Taylorsville     Live     Stock     Company,     which    is 


among  one  of  the  prominent  successful  corpora- 
tions in  this   State. 

Mr.  Haigh  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
December  6th,  1869,  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Harker 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Susannah  (Sneath) 
Harker.  Her  parents  came  to  Utah  in  1847. 
David  E.  Haigh  and  Mary  Alice  Haigh  are  two 
adopted  children  of  our  subject.  David  is  at 
present  a  student  in  the  University  of  Michigan, 
having  spent  last  year  in  Cornell  University. 
David  has  served  on  a  mission  to  Germany  and 
visited  Geneva  and  all  of  the  prominent  cities  of 
Europe,  and  he  is  at  present  preparing  himself 
for  the  practice  of  the  law.  Little  Mary  .Alice 
is  at  home. 

Our  subject  joined  the  Mormon  Church  in 
1866,  and  has  ever  been  one  of  its  staunch  and 
liberal  supporters.  At  present  he  is  serving  as 
Second  Counsel  to  Bishop  Heber  Bennion  of  his 
Ward.  Mr.  Haigh  served  on  a  mission  for  his 
church  in  England  from  January  5th,  1879,  to 
1 88 1.  For  many  years  he  was  Ward  Clerk,  but 
resigned  that  position  on  account  of  his  many 
other  duties.  At  present  he  is  Assistant  Sunday 
School  Superintendent. 

In  politics  Mr.  Haigh  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican,  thoroughly  believing  in 
the  principles  and  following  the  fortunes  of  that 
party.  In  1898  he  was  nominated  for  County 
Commissioner  by  his  party,  but  the  Republican 
party  was  unsuccessful  that  year,  and  he  failed 
to  be  elected. 

His  wife  has  always  taken  a  prominent  and 
leading  part  in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  es- 
pecially in  the  Relief  Societies. 


MOS  H.  NEFF.  Numberless  inci- 
dents have  been  related  of  the  hard- 
ships and  the  sufferings  and  un- 
daunted determination  which  charac- 
terized the  first  settlement  of  this 
State  by  the  Mormons,  but  it  must  not  be  for- 
gotten that  the  trials  and  sufferings  of  this  peo- 
ple did  not  begin  with  their  entrance  into  Utah, 
nor  yet  with  the  journey  across  the  great  Ameri- 
can plains,  though  the  pathway  was  strewn  with 
many  graves  whose  location  is  to-day  unknown 
and    in    many    instances    forgotten.       From    the 


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birth  of  this  religion  it  has  been  the  object  of 
persecution  at  the  hands  of  those  who  were  not 
in  sympathy  with  its  teachings,  and  many  of 
those  now  Hving  here  participated  in  the  battles 
which  took  place  between  the  citizens  of  the 
places  in  which  the  Church  sought  to  establish 
itself  and  the  defenders  of  the  Church.  Among 
this  number  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Amos  H.  Neff  was  born  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  May  20,  1825,  and  there  his  father 
and  mother,  John  and  Mary  (Barr)  Neff  were 
also  born.  The  family  were  originally  natives 
of  Germany,  but  came  to  America  at  an  early 
day,  John  Neff's  father,  John,  Senior,  being  also 
born  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania.  John 
Xeflf,  Junior,  was  for  many  years  a  distiller  in 
the  county  in  which  he  was  born,  and  also  spec- 
ulated larsrely  in  real  estate,  owning  several 
farms,  and  at  the  time  of  leaving  that  State 
was  a  very  wealthy  man.  In  1846  he  sold  all 
his  property,  with  the  exception  of  two  farms, 
which  he  retained  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
In  that  year  he  moved,  with  his  wife  and  eight 
children,  to  Xauvoo,  Illinois,  arriving  there  just 
two  weeks  prior  to  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons 
from  that  place,  and  he  and  his  sons,  Amos 
Cyrus  and  Franklin,  took  an  active  part  in  the 
battle  which  ensued  between  the  citizens  of  Nau- 
voo  and  the  members  of  the  Church  at  the  time 
the  latter  were  driven  from  the  State.  The  fam- 
ily took  up  the  long  journey  to  Utah,  going  to 
Winter  Quarters  and  starting  across  the  plains 
in  ox  teams  in  the  spring  of  1847,  their  effects 
consisting  of  four  wagons,  eight  ox  teams  and 
a  horse  and  buesr}-.  In  this  train  Bates  Noble 
was  Captain  of  fifty  wagons,  and  our  subject 
was  Captain  of  ten  wagons.  They  arrived  in 
Salt  Lake  City  October  2nd  of  that  year,  and 
remained  here  during  the  winter.  In  the  follow- 
ing spring  John  Neff  and  his  sons  went  to  Mill 
Creek,  where  they  established  what  is  still  known 
as  the  old  Neff  homestead.  Here  the  senior  Nefif 
built  a  flour  mill,  which  he  operated  for  many 
years,  and  was  the  first  mill  to  grind  and  turn 
out  flour  in  Utah.  In  addition  to  his  milling  in- 
terests, he  also  became  largely  identified  in  farm- 
ing and  cattle  raising,  and  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  development  of  the  agricultural  resources 


of  Salt  Lake  county,  as  well  as  advancing  the  in- 
terests of  the  State  in  every  way  possible,  and 
was  a  well-known  and  influential  man  in  the 
early  days  of  the  history  of  Utah.  Although 
the  mill  which  Mr.  Neff  built  is  not  now  in  ex- 
istence, the  place  is  still  known  as  Neff's  Mills. 
At  this  time  a  number  of  elegant  residences  and 
a  large  grove  of  fine  shade  trees  adorn  the  spot 
where  the  mill  once  stood.  John  Neff  came  to 
LTtah  a  wealthy  man,  and  throughout  his  life 
was  noted  for  his  liberality  and  his  charity,  many 
of  tlie  residents  of  the  State  to-day  having  cause 
to  remember  him  with  gratitude.  He  scattered 
his  wealth  broadcast  among  his  people,  and  with 
his  family  was  a  liberal  and  devoted  father,  giv- 
ing them  every  comfort  that  money  could  pur- 
chase in  those  days,  and  establishing  his  chil- 
dren in  their  own  homes.  He  died  in  1869,  and 
his  wife  survived  him  six  years.  Amos  H.  Neff 
was  the  second  son  of  John  Neff,  and  his  broth- 
ers having  learned  the  milling  business,  he  had 
to  assume  the  care  of  his  father's  outside  busi- 
ness interests  and  look  after  his  financial  affairs. 
In  the  sprin?  of  1848  he  went  back  across  the 
plains  to  the  Missouri  river,  and  from  there  to 
Philadelphia,  in  company  with  a  small  company 
of  thirteen  persons,  four  of  whom  were  women, 
his  wife  being  amonar  the  number.  The  day  be- 
fore they  reached  the  Missouri  river  five  of  their 
horses  were  frozen  to  death.  He  purchased  a 
stock  of  goods  in  Philadelphia,  which  he  shipped 
to  Council  Bluflfs,  and  from  there  freighted  them 
by  ox  teams  across  the  plains  to  Utah.  Upon 
arriving  here  with  his  cargo  he  opened  the  goods 
in  an  adobe  house  belonging  to  his  father,  and 
which  is  still  standing,  and  sold  the  goods  di- 
rectly from  the  boxes  in  which  they  were  shipped. 
This  is  the  first  merchandise  store  of  which  there 
is  any  record  in  Utah.  Since  that  time  he  has 
made  a  number  of  trips  to  the  East,  traveling  on 
the  railroads,  and  after  the  death  of  his  father 
went  to  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  dis- 
posed of  the  two  farms  which  his  father  owned 
in  that  place. 

'Sir.  Neff  was  married,  in  the  Old  Fort,  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  in  the  spring  of  1848,  to  Miss  Martha 
A.  Gillworth,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Eliza  Gill- 
worth.     The  Gillworth  family  were  also  natives 


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of  Pennsylvania,  Mrs.  Neff  being  born  in  Chester 
county  of  that  State.  Mr.  Neff  later  married 
two  other  wives,  each  wife  bearing  him  seven 
children,  of  whom  seventeen  are  now  living.  He 
is  a  firm  believer  in  the  tenets  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  having  been  baptized  into  membership 
of  that  Church  in  the  Missouri  river,  at  Winter 
Quarters,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  a  hole 
being  cut  in  the  ice  to  allow  the  ceremony  to 
be  performed.  It  was  in  conformity  with  the 
teachings  of  this  Church  that  he  made  his  plural 
marriages,  and  after  the  passage  of  the  Edmunds- 
Tucker  act  he  was  arrested  for  violation  of  that 
law  and  served  a  sentence  of  a  year  in  the  peni- 
tentiary for  unlawful  cohabitation.  Mr.  Neff's 
residence  has  always  been  in  the  same  yard  where 
his  father  built  his  first  house,  and  there  he  owns 
a  fine  farm  of  forty  acres,  which  he  has  well  im- 
proved and  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  On 
this  property  he  has  a  fine  orchard,  and  has  built 
himself  a  beautiful  and  commodious  brick  resi- 
dence. His  home  is  considered  one  of  the  love- 
liest in  that  section  of  the  county.  In  addition 
to  this  place  he  also  owns  another  fine  farm  of 
eighty-five  acres. 

In  politics  he  and  his  sons  are  all  staunch  be- 
lievers in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  are  also  firm  adherents  of  the  Mormon  faith, 
and  have  ever  been  foremost  in  the  work  of  that 
Church,  holding  positions  of  honor  and  trust.  In 
1869  Mr.  Neff  was  called  to  England  on  a  mis- 
sion, and  served  in  that  field  fifteen  months.  His 
son  Amos  A.  has  served  on  a  mission  to  West 
Virginia,  as  has  also  his  son  Cyrus ;  David  served 
on  a  mission  to  the  Society  Islands,  and  Samuel 
is  now  on  a  mission  to  New  York  City.  Mr.  Neff 
is  a  member  of  the  Seventies. 

Mr.  Neff  belongs  to  one  of  the  oldest  and  best- 
known  families  of  this  State,  and  has  done  much 
for  the  advancement  of  the  agricultural  and  other 
interests  of  Utah.  He  has  made  a  record  as  a 
man  of  high  business  principles,  veracity  and  in- 
tegrity, and  his  genial  and  pleasant  manner,  to- 
gether with  his  broad-minedness  and  his  adher- 
ence to  the  principles  which  he  believes  to  be 
right,  have  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  re- 
spect of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  associ- 
ated through  life. 


l.I.|.\H  E.  ELLISON.  Although  he 
has  not  yet  reached  middle  age,  the 
;j;cntleman  whose  name  heads  this  ar- 
ticle is  already  known  throughout  the 
State  of  Utah  as  one  of  the  leading 
fancy  stock  raisers  in  the  State.  He  has  been 
in  this  business  for  the  past  ten  years,  and  at 
this  time  owns  one  of  the  finest  stock  farms  in 
Davis  county,  located  a  mile  and  a  half  west 
of  the  Layton  postoffice,  where  he  has  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  acres  of  valuable  land,  and  on 
which  he  keeps  the  most  of  his  blooded  animals. 
He  also  has  a  one-third  interest  in  a  four-thou- 
sand-acre farm  in  Rich  county. 

Mr.  Ellison  was  born  at  Kaysville,  Davis 
county,  on  August  i,  1857,  where  he  was  raised, 
and  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools. 
He  is  a  son  of  John  and  Alice  (Pilling)  Ellison, 
a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 
His  home  place  is  well  improved,  with  a  fine 
house  and  many  spacious  barns  and  sheds, 
and  he  devotes  his  entire  attention  to  the 
breeding  of  fine  cattle,  sheep  and  hogs. 
He  has  many  Short  Horn  cattle,  Cotswold 
sheep  and  Poland  China  hogs,  his  herds 
containing  as  good  stock  as  there  is  to  be  found 
in  the  United  States.  Some  of  his  sheep  and 
cattle  have  been  selected  from  the  leading  strains 
of  the  world ;  his  sheep  from  England  and  the 
cattle  from  Scotland.  He  also  has  some  sheep 
which  he  imported  from  Ontario,  Canada.  Each 
year  he  fattens  up  a  herd  of  steers  for  the  mar- 
ket ;  this  year  he  is  feeding  thirty  head.  He  is 
also  an  importer  of  Poland  China  hogs,  and  he 
has  been  importing  various  kinds  of  fine  stock 
for  the  past  ten  years,  and  has  made  a  pronounced 
success  of  the  business.  Five  hundred  dollars 
was  refused  by  Mr.  Ellison  for  a  Scotch  Short 
Horn  bull  calf,  which  he  had  on  exhibition  at  the 
National  Live  Stock  Convention,  held  in  Salt 
Lake  City  January,  1901.  He  is  now  heading  his 
herd  with  this  very  fine  bred  animal. 

In  politics  Mr.  Ellison  is  a  Republican ;  he  is 
a  School  Trustee  in  his  district,  in  which  a  nine- 
thousand-dollar  school  house  is  now  in  course  of 
erection.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  born  and 
raised  in  the  Mormon  Church,  and  all  their  chil- 
dren  are   being  brouglit   up   in   the   same    faith. 


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He  is  a  Sunday  School  teacher,  and  was  ordained 
High  Priest  and  set  apart  as  Second  Counselor 
to  Bishop  Layton,  of  Layton  Ward,  in  ]\Iarch, 
1893,  at  the  time  the  Ward  was  organized. 

He  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  on  January 
18,  1874,  to  Miss  Harriette  E.  Morgan,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Hannah  Morgan.  They  have 
had  seven  childrei>  five  of  whom  are  still  living 
— John  E.,  died  at  the  age  of  fourteen  months ; 
Delbert  M. ;  Jennie  A. ;  Glen  E. ;  Joseph  E.,  died 
.at  the  age  of  fourteen  months ;  Parley  M.,  and 
the  baby,  not  yet  named. 


AAIES  GODFREY.  No  country  in  the 
world  has  furnished  as  many  success- 
ful self-made  men  as  America.  Since 
the  landing  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers  this 
country  has  been  teeming  with  men  of 
this  character ;  men  possessed  of  strong  and  de- 
termined minds  which  no  obstacle  could  check 
and  no  difficulty  thwart.  Among  the  successful 
men  of  Salt  Lake  county  who  have  risen  under 
some  of  the  most  trying  and  difficult  circum- 
stances, should  be  noted  the  subject  of  this 
article. 

Mr.  Godfrey  was  born  in  Sommersetshire, 
England,  January  5,  1840,  and  is  the  son  of 
Charles  and  Caroline  (Trott)  Godfrey.  His 
paternal  grandfather  was  also  Charles  Godfrey. 
When  our  subject  was  but  two  and  a  half  years 
old  his  father  died;  his  mother  died  in  1882.  He 
spent  his  early  life  on  a  farm,  being  the  youngest 
of  seven  children.  He  remained  with  his  mother 
until  grown  to  manhood.  In  1864  she,  with  her 
son,  started  for  America.  An  older  brother  had 
settled  in  Utah  in  1853  and  helped  to  build  the 
first  house  in  Cache  valley ;  he  died  in  1868.  All 
the  rest  of  the  children  are  dead,  except  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  The  mother  and  son  crossed 
the  ocean  in  the  sailing  vessel  Hudson  and 
reached  New  York  at  the  time  the  great  Civil 
War  was  in  progress  and  travel  was  most  diffi- 
cult and  hard.  They  oftentimes  rode  in  cattle 
cars  covered  with  filth  and  were  compelled  to  do 
their  own  transferring,  and  the  trip  was  a  long 
and  circuitous  one.  From  New  York  they  trav- 
eled  through   Canada,  then  by  way  of  Bufifalo, 


Chicago  and  Saint  Joseph,  and  finally  joined 
the  Mormon  train  of  ox  teams  in  Nebraska, 
arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  27th  of 
that  year,  making  a  journey  of  over  five  months. 
In  the  sailing  vessel  in  which  they  crossed  the 
Atlantic  Ocean  there  were  eleven  hundred  pas- 
sengers, nine  hundred  and  ten  of  this  number 
being  bound  for  Utah.  Soon  after  our  subject 
and  his  mother  reached  Utah  they  located  in 
South  Cottonwood  Ward,  and  he  at  once  went 
to  work  hauling  lumber  and  wood  from  the 
canyons  during  the   fall  and   winter. 

The  next  fall  our  subject  began  in  the  freight- 
ing business,  and  freighted  from  L'^tah  to  Cali- 
fornia with  a  four-mule  team  which  he  owned. 
This  proved  very  successful ;  on  one  trip  alone 
he  cleared  over  one  thousand  dollars ;  this  was 
from  the  profits  made  on  flour  hauled  to  Helena, 
Montana,  flour  in  Helena  being  worth  at  that 
time  fifteen  dollars  per  hundred  pounds.  His 
train  was  the  second  ever  to  cross  the  Eagle 
Rock  Bridge.  The  next  summer  Mr.  Godfrey 
took  a  contract  to  herd  the  Ward  stock.  In 
May  of  that  year  he  was  called  to  serve  in  the 
Black  Hawk  War,  and  had  completed  his  outfit 
which  consisted  of  a  horse,  saddle,  bridle,  etc., 
at  a  cost  of  three  hundred  dollars,  when  he  was 
taken  sick  and  had  to  abandon  the  call.  He, 
however,  furnished  a  substitute,  a  man  who  was 
working  for  him  taking  his  place  and  serving 
during  the  Black  Hawk  War,  for  which  Mr. 
Godfrey  paid  him  forty  dollars  per  month  all 
summer,  in  addition  to  furnishing  his  outfit. 
After  Mr.  Godfrey  had  recovered  from  this  at- 
tack he  became,  in  a  small  way,  interested  in 
cattle  and  sheep,  and  started  in  Silver  Creek ; 
he  had,  however,  only  been  there  for  a  short 
time  when  the  Indians  swooped  down  and  stole 
nearly  all  of  his  cattle  and  sheep.  He  then 
turned  out  to  fight  Indians,  and  after  driving 
them  out  of  his  section  of  the  country,  returned 
home  and  purchased  a  farm  about  two  miles 
from  where  he  now  lives.  After  he  had  put 
in  his  crop  that  spring  and  had  everything  nicely 
started,  the  grasshoppers  came  along  and  de- 
stroyed his  prospects  for  that  year.  Mr.  God- 
frey was  determined  not  to  be  overcome  by  these 
obstacles,  and  he  then  went  to  work  on  the  Union 


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Pacific  Railroad,  where  he  took  a  contract  and 
worked  until  the  next  year,  earning  sufficient 
money  to  enable  him  to  aeain  start  in  the  cattle 
and  sheep  business  in  a  small  way.  This  he  did 
and  has  been  successfully  identified  with  that 
business  ever  since.  He  lived  on  this  farm  for 
two  years,  and  then  purchased  the  place  where 
he  now  lives,  which  originally  belonged  to  one 
of  his  brothers.  This  is  located  east  of  Mur- 
ray, about  three-quarters  of  a  mile.  Since  then 
he  has  purchased  other  land,  which  he  has  joined 
onto  this  farm,  making  in  all  one  hundred  acres. 
He  also  owns  two  more  adjoining  farms,  where 
he  has  one  hundred  acres.  He  also  owns  a  num- 
ber of  tenant  houses  and  twenty-one  acres  just 
east  of  his  home.  His  home  place  is  finely  im- 
proved; he  has  built  a  splendid  house,  outbuild- 
ings, fences,  etc.,  and  it  is  considered  one  of  the 
best  farms  in  the  county.  Mr.  Godfrey  has  also 
devoted  much  time  and  money  in  mining.  Min- 
ing, however,  has  not  been  his  sphere,  and  has 
not  been  as  successful  as  the  cattle  and  sheep 
business  to  him.  In  1868  he  became  interested 
in  the  South  Cottonwood  Co-operative  Store, 
which  he  for  many  years  took  an  active  inter- 
est in.  He  later  became  identified  with  the  Peo- 
ple's Store  of  South  Cottonwood.  This,  how- 
ever, did  not  prove  successful,  as  the  stockhold- 
ers lost  over  five  thousand  dollars,  and  Mr.  God- 
frey lost  over  twenty-five  hundred  on  account 
of  bad  debts. 

Mr.  Godfrey  married,  in  South  Cottonwood, 
to  the  widow  of  one  of  his  brothers.  Seven 
children  were  born,  and  the  mother  died  in  1878. 
She  had  four  children  by  her  first  husband.  He 
married  his  second  wife  December  23,  1880, 
Miss  Fannie  A.  Jones,  daughter  of  James  and 
Anna  (Brooks)  Jones.  This  family  came  to 
Utah  in  1878.  Mr.  Godfrey  has  had  eleven 
children  by  this  second  marriage,  ten  of  whom 
are  living — Fannie  A. ;  Horace  T. ;  John  A. ; 
died  in  infancy;  Dorah  L. ;  Bertha  J.;  James 
C. ;  Ellen  M. ;  Sidney  R. ;  Wilford  E. ;  Silver 
and   Zina. 

In  political  life  our  subject  has  always  been 
a  staunch  Republican.  For  many  years  he  has 
been  Trustee  of  the  school  in  his  Ward,  and 
has  assisted   in   building   four   school   houses   in 


Utah.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  he  being  baptized  in  1864  by 
Elder  Willis  Miller.  He  has  always  taken  an 
active  and  prominent  part  in  the  aflfairs  of  the 
Church.  He  was  first  ordained  an  Elder  and 
later  a  Seventy,  and  for  many  years  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Quorum  of  Seventies  in  his  Stake. 
He  has  also  been  largely  interested  in  the  Sunday 
School  work,  and  for  many  years  has  been  Su- 
perintendent in  that  department  in  the  South 
Cottonwood  Ward.  He  was  First  President  of 
the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Associa- 
tion, and  also  President  of  the  Lesser  Priesthood 
for  many  years,  as  well  as  looking  after  the 
fast-books  or  poor  fund  of  the  Church  in  his 
Ward,  which  he  did  for  twenty-one  years.  He 
has  served  on  missions  for  his  Church  in  this 
country,  being  in  the  Northern  States  when  Pres- 
ident Garfield  was  assassinated  in  1881.  He  was 
relieved,  however,  before  his  term  expired,  on 
account  of  ill  health. 

Mr.  Godfrey  has  demonstrated,  by  his  straight- 
forward business  principles  through  life,  that 
success  will  finally  come  to  the  one  who  has 
courage,  energj'  and  perseverance,  and  no  man. 
in  his  county  is  held  in  greater  esteem  than  is  he. 


DW.\RD  WEI5B.  In  the  settling  and 
developing  of  Utah  she  has  drawn 
from  the  reserve  forces  of  nearly  every 
State  in  the  Union,  as  well  as  frorn 
every  land  under  the  shining  sun. 
Among  the  States  which  have  furnished  a  large 
quota  of  her  noble  sons  to  this  country  is  Mis- 
souri, where  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Edward 
Webb,  was  born,  in  the  county  of  Davis,  April 
15,  1838.  He  is  the  son  of  Chauncy  G.  and  Eliza 
Jane  (Churchill)  Webb,  who  were  natives  of  the 
State  of  New  York,  his  father  having  been  born 
in  1812.  They  were  married  in  New  York,  where 
they  lived  for  a  number  of  years  and  engaged  in 
farming.  In  1839.  during  the  early  history  of 
Illinois,  they  settled  in  that  State,  locating  in 
Quincy,  where  they  resided  for  a  number  of 
years.  They  later  moved  to  Nauvoo,  remain- 
ing there  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons,  when 
they  accompanied  the  first  train  to  Winter  Quar- 


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ters.  Like  many  others  in  the  Mormon  Church 
at  that  time,  they  were  limited  in  financial  means, 
and  the  senior  Mr.  Webb  was  compelled  to  re- 
turn to  Missouri  to  earn  enough  money  to  secure 
an  outfit  with  which  he  could  cross  the  plains  to 
Utah,  which  he  succeeded  in  doing,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1848  he  came  with  the  second  train 
of  Brigham  Young's  company  to  cross  the  plains, 
and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  September  of 
that  year.  The  family  took  up  their  residence 
in  the  city,  and  later  secured  farming  land  in 
the  vicinity,  which  they  improved  and  beauti- 
fied, our  subject's  father,  however,  always  main- 
taining a  city  home.  He  was  instrumental  in  as- 
sisting to  colonize  Utah  county.  In  1852  he  was 
called  by  the  heads  of  the  Church  to  serve  on  a 
mission  to  England,  which  he  did,  spending  four 
years  in  that  work,  and  through  his  instrumen- 
tality a  great  many  converts  were  secured.  Upon 
returning  home  it  became  necessary  for  him  to 
stop  in  Florence  and  assist  in  building  hand- 
carts, which  the  Mormon  emigrants  could  use 
in  crossing  the  plains.  With  his  own  hands  he 
built  two  hundred  and  six  of  these  vehicles,  and 
returned  home  in  the  fall  of  1856,  ahead  of  the 
hand-cart  brigade.  Soon  after  arriving  in  Salt 
Lake,  Brigham  Youn?  again  chose  him  to  return 
and  meet  the  hand-cart  train,  which  he  did,  his 
son  Edward,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  accom- 
panying him.  When  they  had  proceeded  about 
three  hundred  and  fifty  miles  the  weather  be- 
came extremely  cold,  and  Edward  was  badly 
frozen,  and  as  the  result  of  this  he  lost  one  toe, 
which  was  amputated  by  his  father  with  a  pocket 
knife.  The  following  winter  Brigham  Young 
took  these  hand-carts  and  put  them  in  service 
for  carrying  the  mails  between  Salt  Lake  City 
and  the  Missouri  river.  The  next  year  our  sub- 
ject's father  was  sent  to  Chicago  to  assist  in 
building  wagons  for  the  emigrants.  During  the 
troublesome  scenes  of  1857,  when  Johnston's 
army  landed  in  Utah,  the  senior  Mr.  Webb  was 
called  home.  He  later  engaged  in  the  stock  busi- 
ness, which  he  followed  for  the  balance  of  his 
life. 

Our  subject  was  the  second  oldest  child  in  a 
family  of  three ;  his  early  life  was  spent  on  a  farm, 
and  his  education   was  received  in  the  common 


schools  of  Salt  Lake  City,  such  as  existed  at  that 
time.  In  1858  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss 
Harrietta  Demming.  His  first  wife  only  lived 
eighteen  months.  In  1862  he  married  for  his  sec- 
ond wife  Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Horn,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Isabella  Horn.  By  this  marriage 
twelve  children  were  born,  three  of  whom  are 
living — Elizabeth  L.,  now  the  wife  of  J.  H.  Horn- 
ing, who  resides  in  Sanpete,  Utah ;  his  son  Ed-' 
win  is  engaged  in  the  stock  business  in  Idaho, 
as  is  his  son  Walter.  Their  mother  died  in  18884 
Mr.  Webb  again  married,  in  December,  1896,  to 
Miss  Eda  Turner,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann 
(Thompson)  Turner.  Mr.  Webb  has  spent  al- 
most his  entire  life  in  L^tah,  fifteen  years  of  which 
were  spent  in  Millard  county.  He  has  been  iden- 
tified with  the  stock  business,  both  cattle  and 
sheep,  and  in  general  farming  ever  since  he 
started  out  for  himself.  During  the  early  days 
he  was  engaged  in  freighting,  he  and  his  brother 
hauling  grain  from  this  valley  to  the  out-lying 
market,  and  they  also  had  a  stage  line.  This 
business  proved  successful,  as  well  as  the  other 
enterprises  with  which  Mr.  Webb  has  been  con- 
nected. In  1897  he  settled  in  his  present  home, 
which  was  formerly  the  old  home  of  his  father. 
He  has  greatly  improved  it,  having  built  a  splen- 
did brick  residence  and  owning  a  good  farm  of 
twenty-three  acres.  In  addition  to  his  farming 
and  cattle  business,  he  is  also  sexton  of  the  South 
Cottonwood  Ward  Cemetery,  which  occupies  a 
portion  of  his  time. 

In  politics  he  has  been  identified  with  the  Re- 
publican party  ever  since  its  formation  in  this 
State.  He  and  his  wife  are  both  faithful  and 
deserving  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints.  He  was  ordained  a  Sev- 
enty, and  his  wife  assists  in  the  Ladies'  Reliei 
Society. 


ARSHEL  HELM.  Whether  en- 
gaged in  the  improvement  of  farms, 
building  of  school  houses,  attending 
to  Church  matters  or  the  general 
improvement  of  the  country,  no  one 
has  taken  a  more  prominent  and  active  part  along 
these  lines  or  performed  the  work  more  faithfully 


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and  well  than  has  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Marshel  Helm  was  born  in  Sandusky  county, 
Ohio,  September  26,  1847.  He  is  the  son  of 
Abraham  and  Mary  (Richard)  Helm.  His 
father  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  and  his  mother 
in  Germany.  Our  subject's  father  lived  in  Ohio, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming  and  the  stock  busi- 
ness, until  1855,  when  he  and  Phillip  Garns  went 
to  Mormon  Grove,  where  they  fitted  out  an  ox 
team  preparatory  to  crossing  the  plains  to  Utah, 
under  Captain  Moses  Thurston.  After  a  long 
and  tedious  trip  across  the  plains,  they  arrived 
in  Salt  Lake  City  on  September  28,  1855.  After 
remaining  about  three  days  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
they  located  in  the  Mill  Creek  Ward,  where  our. 
subject  has  resided  ever  since,  between  Fifteenth 
and  Sixteenth  South  streets,  one-quarter  of  a  mile 
west  of  State  street.  Here  Abraham  Helm  pur- 
chased his  first  farm,  and  later  purchased  and  im- 
proved several  other  farms.  The  family  later 
moved  to  Spanish  Fork,  where  they  continued  to 
live  until  the  advent  of  Johnston's  army  to  LUah, 
when,  under  the  direction  of  President  Brigham 
Young,  they  were  called  home.  After  returning 
from  Spanish  Fork,  they  again  took  up  their  res- 
idence in  Mill  Creek  \\'ard,  where  the  father  died, 
October  26,  1894. 

Our  subject  remained  at  home  with  his  father 
until  after  his  marriage,  which  occurred  on  Janu- 
ary 16,  1879,  when  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar 
Miss  Margaret  Mitchell,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Levina  (Buckwalter)  Mitchell,  one  of  the 
earliest  families  in  Utah,  our  subject's  wife  hav- 
ing been  born  in  Utah  county.  Mrs.  Helm's 
father  was  a  pioneer  of  1847,  and  was  a  promi- 
nent man  of  affairs,  in  both  Church  and  State, 
during  the  early  days.  He  took  a  very  active 
part  in  the  construction  of  the  Temple,  and  had 
charge  of  the  workmen  for  a  number  of  years. 
While  engaged  in  this  work  he  sacrificed  his 
health,  through  his  having  inhaled  stone  and 
steel  dust,  which  ultimately  caused  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1880,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine 
years.  As  the  result  of  this  marriage  eight  chil- 
dren have  been  born,  four  of  whom  are  now 
living — Martha  L.,  died  at  the  age  of  nine 
months ;  :Matilda ;  Marshel  O.,  died  at  the  age  of 
eighteen  months ;  Margaret  D.,  died  at  the  age 


of  two  and  a  half  years ;  Thaddeus ;  Phillip  R. ; 
Laura  F. ;  Rilla  L.,  and  Joseph  B.,  who  died  at 
five  months  of  age.  For  five  years  our  subject 
lived  south  of  his  old  home  place,  which  he  im- 
proved and  which  he  still  owns.  In  1883  he  pur- 
chased his  present  place,  which  is  situated  be- 
tween Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  South,  near  the 
county  road.  This  place  contains  nine  acres  of 
valuable  land,  which  has  been  greatly  improved 
since  Mr.  Helm  took  hold  of  it ;  he  having  built 
a  splendid  home,  set  out  fruit,  forest  and  shade 
trees,  etc. 

Our  subject  has  always  been  identified  along 
the  lines  of  general   farming,   and  is  now  con- 
sidered  one    of    the    prosperous    and    successful 
farmers  of  Salt  Lake  county.     In  addition  to  the 
other    places    mentioned,    he    also   owns    twenty 
acres  of  land  on  State  street,  between  Fourteenth 
and  Fifteenth  South  streets.     In  politics  he  has 
been  identified   with  the  Democratic  party  ever 
since    its    organization    in   this    State.       He    has 
taken  an  active  part  along  this  line,  and  especially 
in  school  matters.     He  has  assisted  in  erecting 
four  new  school  houses  in  the  vicinities  where  he 
has  lived,  and  for  many  years  has  been  Trustee 
and  President  of  the  Board.    He  has  also  taken 
an  active  part  in  Church  work,  being  ordained 
a  member  of  the  Seventies.    Mrs.  Helm  has  also 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  the  Church, 
being  prominent  in  the  Relief  Societies,  and  has 
done   her    share    in    relieving   the   needs   of   the 
worthy  poor.     Air.  Helm,  although  starting  out 
in  life  on  his  own  hook,  has  thoroughly  demon- 
strated his  ability  to  handle  and  control  success- 
fully the  different  lines  he  has  operated,  and  is 
now  considered  one  of  the  successful  and  promi- 
nent farmers  of  the  county.     Few  men  in   this 
countv    are    more    honored    and    respected    than 
is  he. 


XDREW  SHULSEN.  Among  the 
worthy  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  county 
who  have  achieved  success  in  this  life 
by  undaunted  energy,  courage  and  de- 
termination, should  be  mentioned  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Andrew    Shulsen   was   1x)rn   near   Kongsburg, 


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in  Norway,  on  September  4,  1842,  and  is  the  son 
of  Olson  and  Margreta  (Halverson)  Shulsen, 
who  were  both  natives  of  Norway,  and  lived  and 
died  in  that  country.  Our  subject  left  home  at 
an  early  age,  and  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  a 
farm  near  Christiana.  He  later  learned  the  mill- 
ing business,  spending  three  years  in  learning 
that  trade.  He  sailed  for  America  in  1863.  land- 
ing in  New  York  City.  From  New  York  City 
he  traveled  to  Saint  Joseph  by  railroad,  and  from 
that  place  to  Omaha  by  boat,  joining  the  Mor- 
mon emigrants  who  were  leaving  that  place  for 
Utah,  and  coming  across  the  plains  in  the  train 
under  the  command  of  Captain  John  Murdock, 
making  the  journey  across  the  country  by  ox 
team.  He  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  August 
29th  of  that  year,  and  at  once  went  out  to  Silver 
creek,  where  he  secured  work  on  the  road,  and 
remained  there  for  three  months.  At  the  end  of 
that  time  he  removed  to  Cottonwood,  where  he 
lived  for  some  time,  and  from  there  moved  to 
Draper,  where  he  remained  for  three  years,  and 
then  returned  to  Cottonwood.  In  1868  and  1869 
he  went  to  work  on  the  railroad,  and  followed 
that  occupation  until  he  bought  his  present  farm 
of  eighty  acres  on  the  Redwood  road,  in  School 
District  Twenty-one,  and  has  resided  there  ever 
since. 

Mr.  Shulsen  was  married,  on  November  28, 
1870,  to  Mrs.  Hanna  Johnson,  daughter  of  John 
Peterson.  Her  parents  were  natives  of  Sweden, 
and  her  father  died  in  that  country,  her  mother 
coming  to  America  and  dying  here  in  1901.  By 
this  marriage  they  have  had  nine  children,  eight 
of  whom  are  still  living.  They  are:  John  Wil- 
liam ;  Heber  Albert ;  Margarette ;  Orson  Edwin  ; 
Alice ;  Alma  David,  who  died  on  November  19. 
1899,  his  death  being  caused  by  a  live  electric 
wire;  Millie;  James  Alfred,  and  Hyrum.  Air. 
Shulsen  was  baptized  into  the  Mormon  Church 
in  June,  1862,  but  has  claimed  no  membership 
in  that  Church  since  1872.  He  has  not,  however, 
attempted  to  bias  the  minds  of  his  children 
against  this  faith,  but  believes  in  allowing  eacii 
one  to  choose  for  themselves  in  religious,  as  other 
matters,  and  has  ever  been  a  kind  and  devoted 
husband  and  father. 

In   political   life   our   subject   is   a   Republican, 


but  while  taking  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs 
of  his  party,  he  has  never  held  any  public  office 
in  the  gift  of  the  people,  giving  his  entire  time 
to  his  business  affairs.  In  addition  to  the  first 
eighty  acres  of  land  which  Mr.  Shulsen  bought, 
he  has  invested  in  other  lands,  and  at  this  time 
owns  two  hundred  and  forty  acres.  When  he 
first  began  farming  his  place  was  a  barren  piece 
of  land,  uncultivated,  and  for  many  years  he 
lived  in  a  little  shanty,  twelve  by  fourteen  feet 
long.  He  has  devoted  his  whole  time  to  improv- 
ing his  land,  and  by  dint  of  hard  work,  untiring 
industry  and  undaunted  determination,  has  suc- 
cessfully overcome  every  difficulty,  and  to-day 
he  has  one  of  the  best  farms  to  be  found  in  this 
county.  As  he  got  more  means  he  improved  his 
living  room,  building  a  house  a  little  larger  and 
more  comfortable  than  his  first  abode,  and  now 
has  a  beautiful  thirteen-room  brick  residence, 
whieli  he  built  in  1896,  and  which  is  modern  in 
every  respect  and  comfortably  furnished.  His 
place  is  well  improved,  with  good  barns,  out- 
buildings, hedges,  etc.,  and  is  one  of  the  prettiest 
places  to  be  found  in  that  locality. 

Mr.  Shulsen  has  not  confined  himself  entirely 
to  the  improving  of  his  own  home,  but  has  taken 
a  substantial  interest  in  the  aft'airs  of  his  com- 
munity, and  was  largely  instrumental  in  getting 
the  South  Jordan  Canal  built,  which  has  been 
of  so  much  benefit  to  the  farmers  of  that  section. 
He  is  also  active  in  educational  matters,  giving 
much  of  his  time  and  attention  to  the  bettering 
of  the  educational  facilities  of  his  Ward,  and  is 
held  in  high  esteem  by  those  with  whom  he  has 
come  in  contact.  He  has  made  his  own  way  in 
the  world,  and  has  risen  to  his  present  high  po- 
sition through  the  exercise  of  his  own  ability  and 
by  dint  of  hard  work  and  a  high  courage,  and  is 
well  and  favorably  known  in  his  neighborhood. 


OHX  J.  SMITH,  clerk  of  the  Davis 
Stake  of  Zion,  was  born  in  England  on 
April  16,  1840,  and  came  to  the  United 
States  with  his  father,  mother,  brother 
and  sister  in  1854.  He  is  the  son  of 
Henry  and  Susanna  (Jex)  Smith,  both  natives 
of  England.     The  Smiths  settled  down  in  Brook- 


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lyn.  and  remained  there  until  June,  1862,  when 
they  joined  an  ox  train  at  Florence,  Nebraska, 
which  was  commanded  by  Captain  Henry  ^liller, 
and  reached  Salt  Lake  City  in  October  of  that 
year.  The  family  lived  for  awhile  at  Center- 
ville,  and  then  moved  to  Xorth  Ogden,  where 
ihey  stayed  until  the  spring  of  1867.  Then  the 
whole  family,  except  John  J.  and  his  brother 
William,  went  back  east  to  the  State  of  Iowa. 
The  father  die'd  in  Iowa  in  .August,  1868,  but 
Mrs.  Smith,  with  her  two  daughters  and  one  son, 
still  lives  there. 

Our  subject  has  made  his  home  in  Centerville 
since  comine  to  Utah,  excepting  two  or  three 
years,  when  he  was  in  dilYerent  parts  of  the 
State.  He  is  a  gardener,  but  was  in  the  mining 
business  for  some  years.  He  was  married,  in 
Centerville,  in  October,  1863,  to  Ruth  Dewhurst, 
and  has  a  pleasant  home  there.  They  had  one 
child.  Ida.  who  is  now  Mrs.  Harold  Smith,  and 
lives  at  Centerville.  Mrs.  Smith,  the  wife  of 
our  subject,  died  in  March,  1868,  and  Mr.  Smith 
married  again  in  October,  1870.  His  second  wife 
was  Jane  Theckston.  She  bore  him  seven  chil- 
dren, all  of  whom  are  still  living.  The  children 
by  the  second  wife  are :  Martha,  now  Mrs.  Page, 
of  Layton;  Sabina;  Rhoda ;  Leo  X.;  John  t. ; 
Jenette,  and  Luella. 

In  politics  'Sir.  Smith  is  a  Democrat.  He  and 
all  his  family  are  staunch  adherents  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  He  himself  was  baptized  in  the 
faith  in  England,  when  he  was  only  nine  years 
old.  He  became  Second  Counselor  to  Bishop  A. 
B.  Porter  in  1888,  and  is  now  First  Counselor 
to  the  Bishop  of  Centerville  Ward,  and  has  been 
Clerk  of  Davis  Stake  since  1892.  In  1868  Mr. 
Smith  drove  four  yoke  of  oxen  to  North  Platte, 
Nebraska,  and  returned  with  emigrants.  He  has 
been  Ward  Teacher  and  Ward  Clerk  for  twenty 
years.  His  son  John  F.  is  now  serving  on  a 
mission  in  Florida.  The  Smiths  are  bringing  up 
Maud  Theckston,  his  wife's  brother's  child,  whose 
mother  died  when  she  was  a  baby. 

Mr.  Smith  is  a  self-educated  man,  and  he 
keeps  abreast  of  the  times  by  reading  and  close 
observation.  He  has  had  to  make  his  own  way 
in  the  world  since  he  was  a  boy.  In  his 
earlv  life  in  LTtah  he  had  to  take  whatever  work 


worked  as  a  farm  hand,  and,  indeed,  was  never 
above  doing  anything  that  was  honorable  and 
honest.  In  this  way,  by  patience  and  persever- 
ance, he  has  made  himself  a  happy  home  and 
has  a  sufficiency  of  this  world's  goods  to  keep 
his  family  in  comfort. 


AROLD  P.  JENNINGS.  Davis  coun- 
ty has  rightly  been  called  the  garden 
spot  of  Utah.  While  it  is  one  of  the 
smallest  counties  in  the  State,  it  is  un- 
doubtedly one  of,  if  not,  indeed,  the 
very  richest,  yielding  a  superior  cjuality  of  both 
fruits  and  vegetables,  and  noted  also  as  a  rich 
grazing  country.  The  eye  of  the  traveler  is  de- 
lighted by  the  evidences  of  prosperity  spread  out 
on  every  hand ;  thrifty  and  well-kept  farms  and 
fruit  orchards,  dotted  over  with  pretty  and  com- 
fortable farm  houses ;  an  abundance  of  shade 
trees,  flowers  and  well-kept  yards,  testifying  to 
the  beauty-loving  nature  of  the  owners  of  these 
places.  It  is  amid  such  surroundings  that  we  find 
the  home  of  Harold  P.  Jennings,  one  of  the 
younger  generation  of  farmers  and  stock  raisers, 
whose  farm  is  in  the  vicinity  of  Centerville. 

Mr.  Jennings  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  De- 
cember 26,  1875,  ^nd  's  ^  SO"  of  William  and 
Priscilla  (Paul)  Jennings.  William  Jennings 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  noteworthy 
men  in  the  history  of  the  early  life  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  the  State  of  Utah.  He  was 
born  in  Birmingham,  England,  emigrating  to  the 
United  States  after  reaching  manhood,  and  en- 
gaging for  a  few  years  in  the  cattle  business  in 
the  Eastern  States,  coming  to  Utah  in  1850,  and 
from  that  time  forth,  until  his  death  in  1886, 
was  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  Salt  Lake  City 
and  vicinity,  promoting  and  carrying  to  success- 
ful completion  vast  financial,  mercantile  and  ag- 
ricultural enterprises.  He  became  well  known 
throughout  the  State,  and  built  a  career  which 
will  stand  as  a  monument  to  his  memory  for 
many  generations  yet  to  come,  and  which  can 
but  be  an  inspiration  and  help  to  all  who  peruse 


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presented  itself.  He  lumbered  in  the  canyons, 
the  story  of  his  life,  which  will  be  found  in  a 
more  complete  form  in  another  part  of  this  work. 

Our  subject  was  reared  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
obtained  his  scholastic  education  from  the  insti- 
tutions of  that  place.  He  remained  in  Salt  Lake 
until  1900,  at  which  time  he  came  to  Davis 
county,  and  estal)lished  himself  on  a  three-hun- 
dred-acre farm  which  had  at  one  time  belonged 
to  his  father,  but  which  the  senior  Mr.  Jennings 
had  never  occupied.  It  is  Mr.  Jennings'  inten- 
tion to  confine  himself  wholly  to  blooded  stock, 
and  with  this  end  in  view  he  is  rapidly  stocking 
his  place  with  fine  imported  animals,  having  at 
this  time  some  of  the  most  valuable  Short  Horns 
in  Utah,  and  is  in  a  fair  way  to  become  one  of 
the  leading  men  of  the  State  in  his  particular 
line.  His  farm  is  situated  fourteen  miles  from 
the  City  of  Salt  Lake,  and  is  in  an  ideal  loca- 
tion for  his  purposes.  He  has  made  some  very 
valuable  improvements  upon  the  place,  building 
a  comfortable  home,  good  barns,  outbuildings, 
etc.,  and  has  it  under  an  excellent  system  of  irri- 
gation. 

He  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  in  1895, 
to  Miss  Clara  Sanders,  daughter  of  William  and 
Leona  Sanders.  One  child  has  been  born  of  this 
union,  Harold  Sanders,  now  four  years  of  age. 

In  religious  belief  he  is  an  adherent  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  whose  teachings  have  been  in- 
stilled into  his  mind  from  earliest  infancy,  and 
in  which  his  mother  is  at  this  time  a  prominent 
worker.  His  wife  is  also  a  member  of  this 
Church.  He  received  a  call  to  go  on  a  mission 
in  1897,  and  served  two  years  in  Great  Britain, 
laboring  during  that  time  in  London,  Lincoln, 
Nottingham  and  the  central  part  of  England 
His  mission  was  a  very  successful  one,  and  he 
made  a  number  of  converts  to  the  Mormon  re- 
ligion. 

He  has  never  given  much  attention  to 
politics,  his  time  being  absorbed  by  his 
Church  work  and  the  duties  of  his  farm. 
While  he  is  still  a  very  young  man,  not 
yet  thirty  years  of  age,  Mr.  Jennings  gives 
strong  evidence  of  having  inherited  his  fa- 
ther's wonderful  business  and  executive  ability, 
and  his  friends  confidently  predict  a  brilliant  ca- 


reer for  him.  He  is  of  a  most  pleasing  person- 
ality, genial,  frank  and  open-hearted,  and  has  a 
knack  of  winning  and  retaining  the  friendship 
and  confidence  of  those  with  whom  he  is  brought 
in  contact,  and  easily  stands  among  the  front 
ranks  of  the  rising  young  business  men  of  this 
State. 


(  )nX  P.  BENSON  is  one  of  the  suc- 
cessful and  substantial  men  of  Davis 
cijunty,  and  has  been  closely  identified 
witli  the  upbuilding  of  that  section,  al- 
most from  its  earliest  period. 
He  was  born  in  Sweetwater  county,  Wyoming, 
September  24,  1849,  the  place  of  his  birth  having 
been  on  the  old  trail,  which  the  Mormons  passed 
over  in  their  many  trips  to  Utah.  He  is  the  son 
of  Ezra  T.  and  Eliza  A.  (Perry)  Benson,  his 
father  having  been  born  in  Pottawatomie  county, 
Iowa,  and  his  mother  in  Herefordshire,  England. 
Ezra  T.  Benson  lived  for  a  number  of  years  in 
Hancock  county,  Illinois,  and  was  married  in 
Nauvoo.  He  came  to  Utah  with  the  first  pio- 
neers, and  in  1847  returned  for  his  family,  re- 
turning to  Salt  Lake  City  with  them  in  1849. 
Our  subject  was  the  second  child  of  the  second 
wife  of  Mr.  Benson,  who  raised  six  families, 
Our  subject's  mother  and  her  family  came  to 
Bountiful  in  1851,  her  parents  having  lived  in 
this  vicinity  at  that  time.  The  senior  Mr.  Ben- 
son spent  his  time  between  Salt  Lake  City  and 
Cache  Valley,  where  he  was  interested  in  stock 
raising  and  farming.  He  died  in  Ogden  in  1869, 
and  his  wife,  the  mother  of  our  subject,  is  still 
living  in  Cache  Vallev.  Mr.  Benson  spent  his 
boyhood  days  on  his  grandmother's  farm,  in 
South  Bountiful,  and  his  education  was  received 
from  the  schools  of  that  locality. 

He  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  life 
at  the  time  of  his  marriage,  which  occurred  Oc- 
tober 16,  1871,  to  Miss  Eveline  Hales,  daughter 
of  Stephen  and  Eveline  (Liddy)  Hales.  By  this 
marriage  there  were  six  children  born — -Eveline 
L.,  now  Mrs.  Horace  Egan ;  Millie,  now  Mrs. 
John   Egan;    Inez,   now   Airs.   Ephraim   Briggs; 


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John  P.,  a  student  in  the  Latter  Day  Saints' 
Academy  in  Salt  Lake  City;  Ezra  T.,  and  Pearl, 
at  school.  Soon  after  his  marriage  Mr.  Benson 
settled  on  the  place  where  he  now  lives,  and 
which  he  owns.  It  is  located  just  across  the 
road  from  the  splendid  graded  school  and  meet- 
ing house.  His  first  residence  was  a  small  brick- 
house,  where  he  continued  to  reside  for  several 
years.  That  house  has  since  given  way  to  a 
more  substantial  brick  residence,  which  was  de- 
signed and  constructed  by  IMr.  Benson  during 
the  past  few  years.  His  whole  farm  indicates 
that  thrifty  hands  have  had  it  in  charge.  His 
splendid  barns  and  outbuildings,  shade  trees  and 
orchards  all  go  to  give  it  a  fine  appearance.  The 
home  place  comprises  forty-nine  acres,  and  be- 
sides this  he  owns  thirty-five  acres  in  another 
section,  which  is  used  for  pasture  land.  While 
Mr.  Benson  has  given  much  of  his  time  to  the 
improvement  of  his  farm,  he  has  also  been  largely 
interested,  outside  of  his  farm,  in  stock,  both 
5heep  and  cattle.  He  is  a  large  stockholder  in 
the  Deseret  Live  Stock  Company,  and  also  in 
the  Bountiful  Live  Stock  Company.  In  connec- 
tion with  his  stock  business,  he  has  a  good  dairy 
business.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Woods 
Cross  Canning  and  Pickling  Company. 

In  political  affairs  ]\Ir.  Benson  has  always  been 
independent,  preferring  to  follow  his  own  judg- 
ment in  these  matters,  rather  than  the  dictates 
of  any  political  party.  He  was  born  and  raised 
a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church,  as  have  the 
members  of  his  family  also.  He  has  ever  been  a 
consistent  and  faithful  follower  of  the  doctrines 
■of  that  Church,  and  was  called  and  set  apart  to 
serve  on  a  mission  to  England  and  Ireland  in 
1890,  where  he  served  for  two  years  with  entire 
satisfaction  to  the  heads  of  the  Church.  He  was 
ordained  a  High  Priest,  and  is  now  Second  Coun- 
selor to  Bishop  Egan.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
served  as  one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Seventy- 
fourth  Quorum  of  Seventies. 

Mr.  Benson's  long  and  honorable  life  in  Utah 
has  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all 
the  people  who  have  been  associated  with  him  in 
private,  business  or  Church  work,  and  he  has  a 
high  standing  in  the  community  in  which  he 
Jives. 


ESSE  E.  MURPHY,  one  of  the  pros- 
perous farmers  of  Salt  Lake  county,  was 
born  in  Union  county,  South  Carolina, 
on  January  27,  1832.  He  is  the  son  of 
Emanuel  M.  and  Nancy  (Easters)  Mur- 
phy. His  father  was  a  native  of  Union  county. 
South  Carolina,  and  his  mother  was  born  in  Ches- 
ter county,  of  the  same  State.  Emanuel's  father 
was  Mark  ]\Iurphy,  a  native  of  South  Carolina, 
whose  forefathers  came  to  \'irginia  from  Great 
Britain.  Mark's  father,  Simeon,  participated  in 
the  Revolutionary  War,  fighting  for  the  colonial 
forces,  and  Simeon's  father  was  the  first  of  the 
family  to  come  to  America,  being  kidnapped  and 
brought  to  the  United  States.  Our  subject  came 
to  Utah  in  1857.  His  early  life  had  been  spent 
in  South  Carolina,  and  on  coming  to  Utah  he 
turned  his  attention  to  farming. 

En  route  to  Saint  Louis  he  married  Miss  Grace 
Broadbent,  on  April  28,  1857.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  Broadbent.  Her 
father  was  born  in  Lancashire,  England,  and  her 
mother  was  also  a  native  of  that  country.  By 
this  marriage  our  subject  has  seven  children  liv- 
ing— William,  now  absent  on  a  mission  for  the 
Church  in  Ireland ;  Mark,  living  in  Granger 
Ward ;  Charles,  in  Sugar  House  Ward ;  Hyrum, 
at  home;  Etta,  wife  of  Thomas  H.  Horn,  of  Salt 
Lake  City;  Louise,  now  the  wife  of  iMr.  Gorf, 
of  Butte.  Montana;  Maude  married  Mr.  Hovey, 
of  Salt  Lake  City.  Our  subject's  second  mar- 
riage was  to  Elizabeth  Sprawl,  who  died  child- 
less. He  married  a  third  time  to  Robina  Sprawl, 
sister  of  his  second  wife,  who  bore  him  four 
children — Bird,  living  in  Sugar  House  Ward ; 
Frank,  also  in  Sugar  House  Ward ;  Mary,  the 
wife  of  John  Norris,  of  the  same  Ward,  and 
Elizabeth,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two  years.  The 
present  Mrs.  Murphy  was  Miss  Livona  Murphy. 
She  is  the  mother  of  two  children — Thomas,  now 
in  Idaho,  and  Ella,  a  school  teacher  employed  in 
Salt  Lake  City.  The  son  Bird  was  called  on  a 
mission  for  the  Church,  and  served  in  the  South- 
ern States  for  over  two  years. 

In  1864  Mr.  Murphy  moved  to  ]\Iill  Creek,  on 
Thirteenth  East,  between  Fourteenth  and  Fif- 
teenth South,  and  built  a  fine,  large,  two-story 
adobe  house,  and  the  homestead  comprises  thirty- 


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five  acres  of  land.  It  originally  consisted  of 
eighty  acres,  but  in  the  spring  of  1901  he  sold 
forty-five  acres  of  land.  He  was  converted  to 
the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  the  East. 
and  since  coming  here  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  its  work.  From  1867  to  1869  he  was  absent 
on  a  mission  in  the  Southern  States  for  the 
Church,  and  has  been  a  Teacher  in  his  Ward  for 
the  past  twenty  years.  He  is  one  of  the  largest 
growers  of  berries  in  Salt  Lake  county,  and  ships 
to  the  Salt  Lake  market  and  to  the  field  tributary 
to  this  city  more  berries  in  the  season  than  per- 
haps any  other  man  in  the  county. 

In  politics  ^Ir.  Alurphy  is  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  party,  and  has  followed  its  fortunes 
with  unwavering  devotion. 

Mr.  Alurphy  was  one  of  the  pioneers  who  came 
to  Utah  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  valley,  and  by 
his  work  has  built  for  himself  a  home  out  of  the 
wilderness.  He  came  across  the  plains  in  a 
wagon  train  under  command  of  Captain  Huffi- 
ans.  He  was  one  of  the  prominent  men  in  the 
early  days  of  the  settlement  of  this  region,  and 
made  a  trip  in  i860  to  the  Missouri  river,  and 
successfully  brought  a  train  of  emigrants  to 
Utah,  among  the  members  of  which  were  his 
father  and  mother.  His  father  lived  in  the  Salt 
Lake  Valley  until  his  death,  in  1872,  and  his 
mother  died  in  1898.  j\Ir.  Murphy  has  three 
brothers  living  in  this  State — Hyrum  and  Gaden, 
living  in  Salina,  and  Emanuel  B.,  living  at  Wood- 
land, Utah.  One  of  Mrs.  Murphy's  brothers, 
William  Broadbent,  also  lives  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  her  brother  Frank  is  a  resident  of  Canada. 
The  work  which  Mr.  Murphy  has  done  and  the 
prominent  part  he  has  taken  in  the  affairs  of  the 
Church,  marks  him  as  one  of  the  most  prominent 
men  in  the  valley,  and  he  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  esteem  of  all  the  leaders  of  the  Church,  in 
addition  to  a  wide  popularity  among  the  people 
of  Utah.  Mr.  Murphy  was  called  as  a  guard 
during  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  and  was  one 
of  the  men  who  went  out  to  meet  and  escort  Gov- 
ernor Cummings  from  Fort  Bridger  to  Salt  Lake 
City  in  carriages.  'Slv.  Murphy  has  taken  a  part 
in  the  troubles  in  the  early  days,  and  has  always 
been  found  ready  to  assist  in  any  of  the  early 
trouliles  of  his   State.     No  man   enjoys  a  more 


popular  reputation  for  honesty,  integrity  and  citi- 
zenship than  does  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 


R.  C.  M.  GARRISON.  Utah  has  of- 
fered many  inducements  to  people  of 
the  outside  world  to  come  to  this  coun- 
try and  take  up  their  residence.  Its 
great  mineral  wealth  has  not  been  its 
only  attraction,  bvit  its  balmy  and  life-giving  at- 
mosphere has  been  the  means  of  many  Eastern 
people  taking  up  their  abode  here,  and  thus,  year 
by  year,  the  State  has  received  new  and  valuable 
recruits.  It  was  the  question  of  improving  his 
health  which  first  put  into  the  mind  of  Dr.  C.  M. 
Garrison  to  cast  his  lot  in  the  Bee-Hive  State. 

The  ancestors  of  our  subject  came  to  America 
and  settled  at  Westchester,  New  York,  before  the 
Revolution,  and  from  there  the  great  grand- 
father of  Dr.  Garrison  emigrated  to  Ulster 
county,  in  the  same  State,  at  which  place  our 
subject's  father.  Dr.  Isaac  Garrison,  was  born 
He  moved  to  Brockport,  Monroe  county.  New 
York,  and  there  Dr.  C.  M.  Garrison  was  born, 
in  1858.  The  senior  Dr.  Garrison  was  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Burlington,  Vermont,  Medical  Col- 
lege, and  for  many  years  was  a  practicing  physi- 
cian of  Newburg,  New  York.  He  retired  from 
active  practice  after  removing  to  Brockport.  He 
was  prominent  in  scientific  and  medical  circles, 
and  during  his  life  stood  at  the  head  of  his  pro- 
fession. He  finally  returned  to  Newburg,  where 
he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  died  in 
1891,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years.  His 
wife  was  Catherine  A.  Scott,  a  native  of  Orange 
county,  New  York,  and  a  descendant  of  the  Scott 
family  which  settled  in  the  lower  end  of  Long 
Island  in  Revolutionary  times.  She  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City  in  1893,  with  her  son,  our  subject,  and 
died  here  four  years  later. 

Dr.  Garrison's  education  was  received  from 
the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute,  where  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  1879,  and  entered 
the  medical  department  of  Columbia  College  in 
1880,  graduating  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.  in 
1884.  He  then  went  to  Germany  and  Austria, 
and  continued  his  medical  studies,  and  upon  his 
return  took  a  complete  hospital  course  at  the 
Chambers  streets  branch  of  the  New  York  Hos- 


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pital.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
on  Thirty-fourth  street,  but  later  removed  to 
Thirty-eighth  street,  New  York  City,  and  con- 
tinued there  until  1803,  when  poor  health  caused 
his  retirement.  During  this  time  he  was  attend- 
ing surgeon  at  the  Xew  York  Eye  and  Ear  In- 
firmary, and  also  assistant  surgeon  in  the  out- 
patients' department  of  the  Roosevelt  Hospital. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  New  York  State  Medical 
Association,  and  since  coming  to  Salt  Lake 
has  become  a  member  of  the  Rocky  Mountain 
Inter-State  ^Medical  Society  and  a  member  of 
the   Salt  Lake  L'niversity   Club. 

He  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1893,  and  has 
since  been  a  resident  of  this  place,  although  for 
some  years  he  has  not  practiced  his  profession. 
Since  coming  here  he  has  become  interested  in 
mining,  and  is  a  stockholder  in  a  number  of  min- 
ing companies. 


■HRAIM  HATCH.  In  all  those  mat- 
ters tending  toward  the  development 
'if  the  higher  interests  of  Davis  county 
.Mr.  Hatch  has  been  an  important  fac- 
t  T  from  almost  its  earliest  period  of 
settlement.  He  came  here  with  his  parents  when 
only  a  boy,  among  the  pioneers,  and  Davis  county 
has  been  the  scene  of  his  operations  for  upwards 
of  half  a  century. 

Our  subject  was  born  in  Cattaragus  county, 
Xew  York,  November  30,  1837,  and  is  the  son 
of  Ira  S.  and  Weltha  (Bradford)  Hatch.  The 
Hatch  family  drove  from  New  York  State  to 
Nauvoo,  Illinois,  by  team  in  1840,  and  came  to 
Utah  with  the  pioneers  in  1849.  -^  sketch  of 
our  subject's  father  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  Ephraim  Hatch  was  the  fifth  son  of  a 
family  of  seven  children,  there  being  six  sons 
and  one  daughter.  The  oldest  son,  Mettiar,  died 
in  Garfield  county.  Ira  has  for  many  years  been 
engaged  in  colonization  work  in  Arizona. 

June  13,  1864,  Mr.  Hatch  was  married  to  Miss 
Rosa  Ellen  King,  daughter  of  John  and  Hanna 
A.  (Montgomery)  King.  She  was  born  in  Port- 
age county,  Ohio,  and  her  parents  were  natives 
of  Vermont.  The  King  family  came  to  Utah  in 
1863.  By  this  marriage  seven  children  were 
born,   of   whom   one   died^Parley   E.,   now   en- 


gaged in  the  general  merchandise  business  at 
Simpkins  Station,  Woods  Cross,  Davis  county ; 
Horace  K.,  a  member  of  the  Hatch  Brick  Com- 
pany and  owner  of  a  ranch  in  Idaho,  also  a 
farmer  in  Davis  county ;  Nellie  M.,  now  Mrs. 
Robinson ;  John  R.,  bookkeeper  of  the  Hatch 
Brick  Company,  of  which  he  is  also  a  member; 
Minnie  A.,  now  Mrs.  Burnham ;  Rhoana  L., 
and  Alameda,  who  died  in  infancy.  After  his 
marriage  Mr.  Hatch  settled  at  his  present  home, 
near  Woods  Cross,  on  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
Railroad.  Here  he  has  more  than  a  hundred 
acres  of  valuable  land,  which  he  has  improved 
and  on  which  he  has  built  a  fine  dwelling  house, 
good  outbuildings,  barns,  etc.,  and  during  his 
whole  life  time  has  followed  general  farming  and 
the  stock  business,  dealing  largely  in  catiie  and 
horses.  He  is  mterested  in  other  enterprises  in 
Davis  county,  and  about  ten  years  ago  established 
his  son  Parley  in  the  brick  business  at  Woods 
Cross.  Mr.  Hatch  is  the  principal  owner  of  this 
business,  but  devotes  his  time  mostly  to  his  farm 
and  allows  his  sons  to  manage  the  making  of 
brick,  in  which  they  have  been  very  successful. 
They  have  three  brick  yards,  one  a  dry  press. 
One  of  the  yards  which  they  operate  has  a  ca- 
pacity of  thirty  thousand  bricks  per  day,  and 
the  other  two  ten  thousand  each.  They  ship  to 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  also  supply  the  adjoining 
territory.  During  the  season  they  give  employ- 
ment to  between  fifty  and  seventy -five  men,  both 
at  the  yards  and  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Mr.  Hatch's 
other  sons,  as  well  as  his  sons-in-law,  working 
for  him.  This  company,  which  is  known  as  the 
Hatch  Brick  Company,  furnished  the  brick  for 
the  new  Dcscrel  Nezvs  building,  which  is  at  this 
time  nearing  completion  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
which,  when  completed,  will  be  one  of  the  finest 
business  blocks  in  the  city,  and  also  for  many  of 
the  most  important  buildings  in  the  city,  together 
with  the  brick  to  build  the  sewer  system  of  Salt 
Lake.  The  members  of  the  Hatch  family  are 
noted  for  the  successful  manner  in  which  they 
conduct  their  business  enterprises,  and  in  this  re- 
spect the  brick  plant  is  not  behind  any  other  un- 
dertaking in  which  the  family  have  engaged,  be- 
ing considered  one  of  the  leading  enterprises  of 
the  kind  in  the  State. 


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Mr.  Hatch  has  since  his  early  boyhood  taken 
an  active  part  in  building  up,  not  only  his  own 
county  and  community,  but  the  entire  State,  as 
well  as  adjoining  ones,  and  in  the  early  days 
participated  in  the  troubles  that  existed  in  the 
State  from  the  depredations  of  the  Indians  and 
the  landine  of  Johnston's  army  in  Utah,  taking 
part  in  the  troubles  at  Fort  Bridger,  Green  river. 
etc.,  and  during  i860  and  1861  made  two  trips  to 
the  Missouri  river  and  piloted  emigrants  to  this 
State.  On  one  of  these  trips  he  brought  back  a 
portion  of  the  first  paper  mill  that  came  to  the 
State.  He  was  in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  in  1866, 
under  Captain  Bigler.  Our  subject  was  born  and 
raised  in  the  Mormon  Church,  being  baptized  in 
1850  by  Anson  Call,  and  has  all  his  life  been  a 
firm  believer  in  the  doctrines  of  that  Church. 
His  sons  and  daughters  are  among  the  most 
hiehly  respected  citizens  of  Davis  county. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hatch  is  a  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  his  party,  de- 
voting his  entire  time  and  attention  to  his  busi- 
ness and  to  the  work  of  the  Church.  He  is  at 
this  time  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  Mrs.  Hatch 
is  also  active  in  Church  circles,  being  a  member 
of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  prominent  in 
all  charitable  works  in  her  community.  She  was 
baptized  into  the  Mormon  Church  in  Portage 
county,  Ohio,  by  Elder  Elisha  Edwards. 


HILANDER  HATCH,  one  of  the 
most  energetic  business  men  and  loyal 
citizens  of  Davis  county,  has  spent  his 
entire  life  in  that  section,  having  been 
born  in  that  county,  and  has  seen  it 
developed  from  a  desolate  wilderness  to  one  of 
the  richest  counties  in  the  State  of  Utah,  in  which 
work  he  has  ever  been  foremost  since  his  early 
youth. 

Mr.  Hatch  was  born  in  South  Bountiful  on 
June  2,  1855,  and  is  the  son  of  Ira  S.  and  Jane 
(Bee)  Hatch,  and  a  brother  of  Stearns  Hatch, 
a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 
Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  on  his  father's 
farm,  and  received  his  education  from  such 
schools   as   then    existed    in   Davis   county.      He 


worked  for  five  years  as  a  brakeman  and  con- 
ductor on  the  Utah  Central  Railroad,  running 
out  of  Ogden,  and  with  this  exception  has  de- 
voted his  life  to  farming  and  the  stock  business, 
handling  both  cattle  and  sheep.  He  was  for  three 
years  in  the  sheep  business  in  the  Bear  river 
country.  On  his  return  from  the  Bear  river 
country  he  built  a  fine  brick  home  on  his  place 
in  Woods  Cross,  which  consisted  of  thirty  acres 
of  valuble  land,  which  he  has  improved  to  a  high 
degree,  and  there  makes  his  home. 

He  was  married,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  to  Miss 
Priscilla  Muir,  daughter  of  William  S.  and  Jane 
R.  Muir,  and  they  have  had  born  to  them  three 
children — Clarence  E.,  seventeen  years  of  age; 
\\  illard  S.,  thirteen  years  old,  and  Glenn  A., 
eleven  years  old. 

For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Hatch  was  iden- 
tified with  the  Deseret  Live  Stock  and  Mercan- 
tile Company,  being  manager  of  their  general 
merchandise  business  for  some  time,  and  subse- 
quently opened  up  a  general  merchandise  busi- 
ness of  his  own,  which  he  still  conducts,  still  re- 
taining his  interest  in  the  Deseret  Live  Stock 
Company.  He  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  Hatch 
Brothers  Live  Stock  Company,  of  which  he  is 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  and  in  which  his  five 
brothers  and  one  nephew  are  also  interested.  Mr. 
Hatch  also  has  an  interest  in  the  Woods  Cross 
Canning  and  Pickling  Company. 

In  politics  our  subject  is  a  believer  in  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Democratic  party,  and  has  been  active 
in  its  work.  He  has  served  two  terms  as  County 
Commissioner,  his  first  term  being  in  the  early 
nineties.  He  was  botn  and  reared  in  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Mormon  Church. 

The  Hatch  family  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
in  Davis  county,  and  have  attained  a  high  place 
in  the  ranks  of  the  business  men  of  that  part  of 
the  State.  They  are  public-spirited  men,  always 
willing  to  aid  in  any  manner  in  the  advancement 
of  the  interests  of  their  communitv,  and  have 
done  much  in  bringing  Davis  county  to  a  front 
rank  as  one  of  the  most  fertile  counties  of  Utah. 
Our  subject  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  solid  men 
of  W'oods  Cross,  and  by  his  energetic  and  upright 
life  has  won  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all 
with  whom  he  has  been  associated. 


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KXRY  RAMPTON,  of  Bountiful, 
Davis  county,  Utah.  The  scenes  of 
i-arly  cliildhood  and  the  associations 
(if  the  old  home;  father,  mother,  broth- 
ers, sisters ;  the  old  school  house,  where 
the  first  lessons  were  taught ;  the  school  teacher, 
with  her  kind  and  pleasant  manners,  all  make  an 
indelible  impression  upon  the  youthful  mind 
which  death  alone  can  obliterate.  The  early 
scenes  of  Mr.  Rampton's  boyhood  days  were  laid 
in  England.  He  was  born  September  8,  1829, 
in  the  village  of  Old  Alresford,  Hampshire. 

He  is  the  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (.\'or- 
gate)  Rampton,  both  of  whom  were  born,  raised, 
lived  and  died  in  the  same  vicinity.  Mr.  Ramp- 
ton's paternal  grandfather  was  Johnathan  Ramp- 
ton, also  a  native  of  England.  The  first  twenty- 
six  years  of  our  subject's  life  were  spent  in  that 
country,  where  he  received  a  good  common  school 
education  and  learned  the  blacksmith  trade.  His 
father  and  mother  both  died  when  he  was  a  mere 
child,  and  he  lived  for  two  years  on  the  large 
estate  of  Squire  Martinnen.  He  was  the  fourth 
child  of  the  family ;  the  two  eldest  children  are 
now  dead,  and  one  brother  and  one  sister  are 
living  in  England.  In  1854  Mr.  Rampton  came 
to  America  in  an  old  sailing  vessel,  and  located 
in  Saint  Louis,  where  he  worked  for  two  years 
at  his  trade.  In  the  spring  of  1856  he  joined  an 
ox  train  of  emigrants  at  Florence,  most  of  the 
train  having  been  made  up  in  Saint  Louis,  under 
command  of  Captain  John  Banks,  and  after  a 
long,  tedious  and  eventful  trip  over  the  plains, 
they  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  the 
5th  of  the  same  year.  Mr.  Rampton  at  once  set- 
tled in  Bountiful,  where  he  followed  his  trade 
for  a  period  of  three  months,  and  then  secured 
an  outfit  of  tools  and  started  on  his  own  hook. 
He  purchased  a  small  place,  where  he  continued 
to  live  for  a  number  of  years.  He  later  built  a 
substantial  brick  house,  which  is  located  not  far 
from  where  his  shop  is,  and  here  he  continued 
in  business  for  a  number  of  years,  having  only 
recently  retired. 

Mr.  Rampton  was  married,  in  England,  in 
1851,  to  Miss  Catherine  Harfield,  who  died  in 
Saint  Louis,  in  May,  1854.  His  second  wife  was 
Miss  Frances  Dinwoodev,  a  sister  of  Henrv  Din- 


woodey,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  a  daughter  of 
James  and  Elizabeth  (Wills)  Dinwoodey.  This 
marriage  took  place  December  25,  1854.  Mrs. 
Rampton's  father  was  born  on  the  Isle  of  Man, 
and  died  in  Lachford,  England,  in  the  latter  part 
of  1830.  He  left  a  wife  and  six  children,  the 
mother  coming  to  Utah  in  1855.  As  a  result  of 
this  marriage  eight  children  were  born  to  Mr. 
Rampton,  one  of  whom  died — Henry  James,  who 
is  engaged  in  the  blacksmith  business  at  Center- 
ville;  William,  in  the  furniture  business  in  Poca- 
tello,  Idaho;  Charles  H.,  engaged  in  general  mer- 
chandise business  in  Bountiful ;  James,  who  died 
in  infancy ;  Arthur,  now  residing  at  home ;  Wal- 
ter, residing  in  Farmington,  and  Catherine,  now 
Mrs.  Pace,  of  South  Bountiful.  His  third  mar- 
riage was  to  Miss  Ada  MacDuff,  in  1868.  By 
this  marriage  nine  children  have  been  born — 
George  H. ;  John  R. ;  James  ;  Thomas  ;  Nellie  ; 
Malcolm ;  Elizabeth ;  Sarah ;  Olive,  who  died 
aged  five  years.  Thomas  was  called,  in  March, 
1899,  to  serve  on  a  mission  to  New  Zealand, 
where  he  spent  two  years  and  eight  months. 
Our  subject's  wife  is  Treasurer  of  the  Ladies' 
Relief  Society  of  East  Bountiful.  John  is  a  pro- 
fessor in  the  Franklin  School  in  Salt  Lake  City. 
George  owns  a  blacksmith  shop  in  Syracuse,  Da- 
vis county.  Our  subject  also  has  a  good  farm  at 
Syracuse. 


VVID  STOKER,  Bishop  of  East 
Bountiful  \\'ard.  Few  men  are  better 
or  more  favorably  known  in  Davis 
county  than  is  Bishop  David  Stoker, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  has  been 
closely  identified  with  the  interests  of  Davis 
county  from  his  early  boyhood  and  has  been  alive 
to  every  enterprise  for  the  upbuilding  of  his 
county  and  the  State  at  large. 

Born  in  Hancock  county,  Illinois.  September 
28,  1844,  he  is  the  son  of  John  and  Jane  (Mc- 
Daniel)  Stoker,  his  father  having  been  born  in 
Jackson  county,  Ohio,  March  8,  1817,  and  his 
mother  being  a  native  of  Gallia  county,  Ohio, 
where  she  was  born  February  24,  1810.  They 
spent  their  early  life  in  Ohio,  where  they  were 
married,  and  in  1836  they  emigrated  to  Adams 
county,    Illinois,    and    later    settled    in    Hancock 


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county,  in  the  same  State.  There  were  six  chil- 
dren born  to  them,  three  of  whom  are  still  liv- 
ing, all  in  Utah — Alma,  the  oldest  son,  died  in 
June,  1898,  at  Syracuse,  Davis  county,  this 
State;  Hyrum,  died  June  5,  1885,  at  Bountiful; 
Franklin  died  at  Bountiful  on  September  2"/, 
1855;  David,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Zibiah 
Jane,  now  Mrs.  Judson  Tolman,  living  in  Boun- 
tiful ;  Sarah  Ann,  now  Mrs.  H.  E.  Simmons,  of 
West  Layton,  Davis  county.  The  Stoker  family 
lived  in  Illinois  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormon 
people  from  that  State,  which  occurred  in  1846, 
at  which  time  they  moved ,  to  Alount  Pisgah, 
Iowa.  They  resided  there  until  1848,  when  they 
fitted  out  ox  teams  preparatory  to  crossing  the 
plains  to  Utah,  which  they  did  in  the  Brigham 
Young  train  which  consisted  of  more  than  one 
thousand  people.  In  this  company  the  late  Pres- 
ident Lorenzo  Snow  was  captain  of  one  hundred 
wagons,  having  under  him  Daniel  Wood  as  cap- 
tain of  fifty  wagons  and  our  subject's  father 
captain  of  the  other  fifty.  They  left  Mount  Pis- 
gah in  April,  1848,  and  after  a  long  and  weari- 
some trip  across  the  plains  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 
City  on  September  23rd  of  the  same  year.  The 
first  winter  was  spent  in  the  Old  Fort  at  Salt 
Lake  and  in  the  spring  of  1849  they  located  at 
Bountiful,  which,  at  that  time  was  sparsely  set- 
lied  and  in  a  wild  state.  Here  the  father  secured 
twenty  acres  of  land  upon  which  he  built  a  log 
liouse  and  where  he  continued  to  live  until  1855. 
He  then  moved  to  an  old  adobe  house  where  he 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  assisted  in 
building  the  first  adobe  schoolhouse  in  Bountiful, 
which  was  equipped  with  rough  boards  for  desks 
.and  seats,  and  at  the  present  time  would  be  con- 
.sidered  a  very  crude  a-ffair  for  school  purposes. 
He  had  been  closely  identified  with  the  church 
through  all  his  life  and  for  many  years  was  a 
Bishop  in  his  Ward.  He  died  June  11,  1881,  and 
his  wife  died  January  20,  1890.  In  November, 
1869,  he  was  called  on  a  mission  to  \'irginia  and 
several  of  the  Eastern,  Southern  and  Northern 
States.  This  mission,  however,  was  of  short 
duration,  as  he  returned  home  February  29,  1870. 
He  had  early  become  a  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church,  having  been  baptized  by  Seymour 
Brunson  in  Jackson  county,  Ohio,  in  1836. 


Our  subject  spent  his  early  days  on  the  farm 
and  his  education  was  received  from  the  schools 
such  as  existed  at  that  time  in  Davis  county, 
he  only  being  able  to  attend  for  a  few  weeks 
during  the  winter  months.  However,  this  did 
not  put  a  stop  to  his  education,  as  after  he  was 
married  and  had  a  family  he  again  took  up  his 
school  work  and  attended  the  schools  in  his  vicin- 
ity for  a  number  of  years,  thus  completing  his 
scholastic  education. 

On  March  3,  1866,  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar 
Miss  Regena  Hogan,  the  marriage  ceremony  be- 
ing performed  by  Heber  C.  Kimball.  She  was 
the  daughter  of  Erica  G.  M.  and  Harriett  (Nes- 
tebey)  Hogan.  This  family  came  to  L^tah  in  the 
same  company  as  our  subject  and  his  family.  Of 
tliis  union  eight  children  were  born,  seven  of 
whom  are  still  living — Elizabeth  R.,  now  Mrs. 
Thomas  J.  Thurgood,  of  Clearfield,  Davis 
county;  David  Jr.,  born  April  6,  1869,  living  in 
Syracuse,  Davis  county.  He  has  served  on  a  mis- 
sion for  the  Church,  having  been  called  Novem- 
ber II,  1899.  to  England,  where  he  remained 
nearly  two  years,  returning  on  account  of  ill 
health ;  Sarah  L.,  now  Mrs.  Jesse  H.  Barlow,  of 
S>racuse ;  Eveline,  now  the  wife  of  George  Holt, 
also  of  Syracuse;  John  H.,  at  home,  and  clerk- 
ing in  the  co-operative  store  at  Bountiful ;  Ira, 
who  was  educated  in  the  University  of  Utah ; 
William  Judson,  at  school,  and  Harriett  Ann, 
who  died  November  19,  1873. 

Bishop  Stoker's  whole  life  has  been  spent  in 
Bountiful,  Davis  county ;  he  has  seen  the  coun- 
try transformed  from  a  wild  and  barren  waste 
to  its  now  prosperous  condition  and  in  this  trans- 
formation he  has  taken  a  prominent  and  active 
part.  His  home  place  is  considered  one  of  the 
finest  of  its  size  in  the  locality.  In  1876  he  and 
his  brother  secured  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres 
of  land  in  Syracuse,  and  as  his  children  have 
grown  up  and  married  he  has  given  each  one  a 
home  of  twenty  acres  out  of  his  land.  He  is 
the  grandfather  of  nineteen  children.  On  May 
4,  1892,  Bishop  Stoker  was  called  to  serve  on  a 
mission  for  the  Church  in  the  Northern  States, 
but  was  released  from  service  on  account  of  ill 
health.  During  the  Indian  troubles  in  Utah  he 
served  in  the  company  organized  to  protect  the 


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settlers  and  was  in  the  Black  Hawk  war  for 
eighty-one  days,  under  Captain  Andrew  Bigler. 
He  has  always  been  closelv  and  prominently 
identified  with  the  Mormon  Church  and  was  bap- 
tized into  that  faith  on  September  29,  1852.  He 
was  set  apart  as  President  of  the  Quorum  of 
Elders  in  Bountiful,  in  which  position  he  served 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  later  ordained  a 
Seventy  and  still  later  a  High  Priest,  by  Orson 
Pratt.  He  has  also  been  First  Counselor  to 
Bishop  Chester  Call,  which  position  he  held  until 
January  19,  1896,  when  he  was  ordained  a  Bishop 
by  the  late  President  Snow  and  set  apart  to  pre- 
side over  East  Bountiful  Ward,  which  is  one  of 
the  largest  wards  in  the  Church,  and  so  well  and 
faithfully  has  he  oerformed  his  duties  in  Church 
matters  that  he  enjoys  the  respect  and  esteem  not 
only  of  the  people  of  Bountiful  but  of  the  heads 
of  the  Church  as  well.  His  wife  is  a  member 
of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  one  of  the 
Presidents  of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Im- 
provement Association. 

Bishop  Stoker  has  also  taken  a  prominent  part 
in  political  affairs  in  his  county.  In  1880  he  was 
elected  County  Commissioner  and  served  two 
years.  In  1882  he  was  appointed  to  fill  the  un- 
expired term  of  Probate  Judge  William  R.  Smith, 
and  at  the  expiration  of  that  term  was  twice 
elected  to  fill  that  office.  In  1892  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Legislature  and  returned  to  the 
same  position  in  1894.  In  politics  he  has  been  a 
staunch  Democrat  throughout  his  life,  as  was  also 
his  father.  He  assisted  in  the  organization  of 
that  party  in  Utah  and  it  was  through  his  in- 
strumentality that  the  first  Democratic  Club  wan 
formed  in  Bountiful. 


TLLIAM  HENRY  STREEPER  en- 
joys the  reputation  of  having  the 
best  equipped  hundred-acre  farm  in 
the  State  of  Utah.  It  is  in  Center- 
terville,  Davis  county,  and  his  farm 
won  a  prize  at  the  State  Fair,  for  which  the 
Deseret  Agricultural  and  Manufacturing  Society 
awarded  him  a  very  fine  farm  wagon,  which  was 
contributed  to  the  society  for  that  purpose  by 
'George  A.  Lowe. 

Mr.  Streeper  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on  Aug- 


ust I,  1837.  His  father,  Wilkinson  Streeper,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  in  1809.  and  his  mother  Ma- 
tilda (Wells)  Streeper,  was  a  native  of  New  Jer- 
sey and  was  born  in  1814.  They  were  married  in 
Philadelphia  in  July,  1834.  They  had  six  chil- 
dren— three  sons  and  three  daughters — of  whom 
William  Henry  was  the  second  born.  The  Streep- 
er family  came  to  Utah  in  185 1.  Wilkinson 
Streeper  died  on  January  16,  1856,  and  his  wife 
on  October  10,  1892,  and  both  are  buried  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  Five  out  of  their  six  children  are 
still  living.  The  family  first  settled  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  William  Henry  went  to  Centerville  in 
1867,  and  took  up  a  farm  in  the  north  part  of  the 
settlement  at  the  foot  of  the  mountains.  This 
he  improved  each  year,  till  today  it  enjoys  its 
enviable  reputation  throughout  the  State.  Among 
the  improvements  on  Mr.  Streeper's  farm  are  a 
fine  stone  residence,  built  from  native  stone  quar- 
ried on  his  farm.  It  is  supplied  with  hot  and 
cold  water,  bath  room  and  all  the  conveniences  of 
a  modern  home.  In  its  neighborhood  is  a  perfect 
village  of  barns  and  outhouses,  consisting  of 
horse  and  cattle  stables,  implement  and  tool 
houses,  granaries,  etc.  The  creamery  is  a  perfect 
model  of  neatness,  cleanliness  and  modern  con- 
venience. It  is  lined  with  coils  of  pipes  which 
convey  cold  water  under  the  vessels  which  con- 
tain the  milk.  Then  there  is  an  ice  house  in 
which  each  winter  Mr.  Streeper  stores  enough 
ice  to  last  through  the  hot  weather,  and  indeed 
till  it  is  time  to  cut  ice  again.  All  of  the  out- 
buildings, except  the  cattle  and  horse  barns,  are 
built  of  brick  and  stone.  The  latter  are  sur- 
rounded with  walls  of  mortar-laid  stone  with 
floors  of  the  same  material.  The  stone  walls, 
which  he  uses  as  fences  are  substantially  built 
and  are  laid  with  mortar,  all  of  which  has  meant 
a  large  expenditure  of  money  and  labor. 

While  Mr.  Streeper  has  devoted  most  of  his 
time  to  farming  and  raising  cattle  he  has  had 
other  interests.  Together  with  his  sons  he  was  at 
one  time  interested  in  an  implement  house  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  at  a  later  period  in  a  general 
merchandise  business  in  Centerville.  They  built 
and  operated  on  the  home  farm  for  some  time. 
Today  father  and  sons  run  a  general  merchandise 
business  in  Ogden. 


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William  Streeper  was  married  in  Salt  Lake 
City  in  1867  to  Mary  A.  Richards,  a  niece  of 
Apostle  Richards  and  daus^hter  of  S.  W.  and 
Mary  Richards.  Eight  children  were  born  to 
them,  five  boys  and  three  girls.  The  sons  are: 
William  H.,  Jr.,  now  County  Attorney  of  Davis 
county;  S.  W.,  a  carpenter;  Charles  A.,  Howard 
and  Herbert  R.,  farmers.  The  daughters  are 
Catherine,   Annie  and  Erma  R. 

In  politics  Mr.  Streeper  is  a  staunch  Democrat. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  judges  of  the 
Deseret  Agricultural  and  Manufacturing  So- 
ciety. He  and  all  of  his  family  belong  to  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  he  has  been  on  several 
colonizing  expeditions  in  Utah,  and  stands  firm 
in  his  belief  in  the  Mormon  faith.  Three  of  his 
sons  have  been  sent  on  missions  for  the  church. 
William  Jr.  served  in  England  and  in  France ; 
Charles  in  Pennsylvania,  Kentucky,  Virginia  and 
New  Jersey,  and  Herbert  has  done  colonizing  in 
Arizona,  Montana  and  the  West. 

Mr.  Streeper  takes  a  great  pride  in  a  Bible 
that  has  been  handed  down  as  an  heirloom  in  his 
family.  The  book  was  given  to  Mr.  Streeper  by 
his  mother,  and  as  the  binding  was  much  worn 
and  the  typography  much  faded  and  in  many 
places  efifaced,  Mr.  Streeper  had  it  handsomely 
bound  in  leather  to  preserve  it.  It  is  a  relic  highly 
prized  in  the  family. 


ENJAMIN  ASHBY.  One  of  the 
grandest  things  in  the  declining  years 
of  a  man's  life  is  to  be  able  to  look  back 
upon  a  life  honorably  and  well  spent 
in  the  interest  of  his  family  and  of 
humanity.  No  one  who  has  been  associated, 
either  in  public,  private  or  business  life  with 
Benjamin  Ashby  can  say  that  he  has  been  any- 
thing but  honorable,  straightforward  and  up- 
right, and  to  a  large  extent  has  devoted  his  life 
to  the  interests  of  his  fellowmen. 

He  was  born  in  Salem,  Essex  county,  Massa- 
chusetts, December  19,  1828,  and  is  the  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Susan  (Hammond)  Ashby.  Na- 
thaniel Ashby  came  of  an  old  family  of  that  name 
in  Massachusetts,  the  founder  of  the  family  in 
America   being  born   about    1635,   and   being  a 


freeholder  in  Massachusetts.  His  name  was  Ben- 
jamin Ashby,  and  for  three  generations  the  heads 
of  this  family  bore  the  name  of  Jonathan,  after 
whom  came  another  Benjamin,  who  was  the 
grandfather  of  our  subject.  Mrs.  Ashby,  our 
subject's  mother  was  a  native  of  Marblehead, 
Massachusetts.  After  the  birth  of  our  subject, 
\vho  was  the  oldest  of  twelve  children,  the  family 
moved  to  Nauvoo,  Illinois  in  1843,  ^'id  there  re- 
mained until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormons  in  1846, 
when  they  went  to  Winter  Quarters.  The  father 
died  on  this  trip,  and  was  buried  near  the  road 
beside  the  grave  of  a  little  child  of  Mr.  Palmer. 
The  family  remained  in  Winter  Quarters  until 
1848.  In  1847  our  subject,  upon  whom  devolved 
the  care  of  the  family,  put  in  a  crop  in  company 
with  Abraham  Washburn,  and  that  winter  those 
two  went  to  Fort  Kearney  and  worked  making 
shoes  for  the  soldiers.  In  1848,  in  the  Brigham 
Young  train  in  which  Erastus  Snow  had  charge 
of  ten  wagons,  the  family  crossed  the  plains,  ar- 
riving in  Salt  Lake  City  in  October  of  that  year 
and  spending  the  winter  in  the  Old  Fort.  In  the 
following  spring  they  moved  to  a  lot  in  the  Thir- 
teenth Ward,  where  they  built  a  log  bouse,  and 
lived  there  until  1850.  In  the  meantime  Mr. 
Ashby  had  taken  up  some  government  land  in 
Bountiful,  which  is  his  present  home.  His  mother 
died  in  1852  and  in  1853  he  was  called  to  go  on 
a  mission  to  England,  where  he  served  for  four 
years ;  one  and  a  half  years  of  this  time  being 
spent  in  Yorkshire  and  Lincolnshire,  and  six 
months  in  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  and  one  year  in 
Wales.  Upon  his  return  to  the  United  States, 
]\Ir.  Ashby  in  company  with  Israel  Evans  led  the 
first  company  of  the  hand  cart  brigade  to  cross 
the  plains  in  1857.  This  company  made  the 
journey  without  the  loss  of  a  single  member. 
During  his  stay  in  England  Mr.  Ashby  met  and 
baptized  Ann  Chester,  of  Linconshire,  whom  he 
married  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  1857.  She  came 
to  Utah  in  1856  in  the  first  hand  cart  brigade  in 
Edmond  Ellsworth's  company.  Mr.  Ashby  has 
been  the  father  of  fourteen  children,  of  whom 
eight  are  now  living.  They  are:  Frances  Ann, 
now  Mrs.  Alma  Page ;  Susan,  now  the  wife  of 
Cvrus  Paee,  of  Bountiful;  Martha,  now  Mrs. 
James  Burmingham,  of  East  Bountiful;  William 


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C,  living  near  his  father ;  Briant,  a  resident  of 
Murray;  Jolin  F.,  living  in  Taylorsville ;  Charles 
A.,  lives  near  his  father ;  James  R.,  at  home. 

After  returning  from  his  mission  Mr.  Ashby 
lived  in  Salt  Lake  City  for  a  time,  when  he  was 
called  upon  to  serve  as  a  guard  in  Echo  Canyon. 
He  came  home  and  took  his  wife  to  Spanish  Fork 
and  then  returned  to  his  puard  duty.  He  also 
served  seven  weeks  in  the  Black  Hawk  war,  un- 
der Colonel  Burton.  After  the  Johnston  army 
troubles  had  passed  our  subject  returned  to  his 
farm  in  Bountiful,  which  he  improved  and  has 
since  engaged  in  general  farming  and  gardening. 
He  owns  nineteen  acres  of  valuable  land.  Mr. 
Ashby  and  his  parents  joined  the  Mormon  Church 
in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  he  and  his  family 
have  ever  been  loyal  and  active  members 
of  that  faith.  Mr.  Ashby  has  been  prominent  in 
home  missionary  and  Sunday  School  work.  His 
son  Briant  was  called  on  a  mission  to  New  Zea- 
land in  1895,  and  served  there  for  three  years. 
Charles  A.  has  just  returned  from  a  mission  to 
Texas.  Mr.  Ashby  is  a  hale  old  gentleman,  high- 
ly respected  in  his  community,  and  has  always 
been  an  active  Church  worker.  During  his  mis- 
sion to  England  he  was  healed  of  a  severe  ill- 
ness through  the  laying  on  of  hands  by  one  of 
his  fellow  Elders,  and  is  a  firm  believer  in  the 
efficacy  of  this  treatment.  He  has  passed  through 
all  the  hardships  and  troubles  incident  to  the  set- 
tlement of  this  State,  participating  in  the  first 
Indian  troubles  in  Ogden,  in  1849,  which  lasted 
but  a  few  weeks,  and  has  done  much  not  only  for 
the  spread  of  the  gospel  as  taught  by  his  Church, 
but  also  in  the  building  up  and  developing  of  this 
section  of  the  countrv. 


ILLIAM  H.  HILL.  Few  men  who 
came  to  Utah  in  the  days  of  the 
pioneers  have  turned  out  to  be  as 
successful  stock  raisers  as  William 
H.  Hill,  who  was  not  yet  eleven  years 
old  when  he  crossed  the  plains  with  his  father. 
The  element  of  adventure  enthused  the  boy,  and 
with  youthful  bravado  he  stuck  to  his  two  yoke 
of  oxen  and  drove  them  every  foot  of  the  way 
across  the   dreary   plains  to  the   western   Mecca 


of  the  Latter  Day  Saints  in  the  Rocky  mountains, 
enduring  the  hardships,  sufferings  and  perils  of 
the  road  with  a  spirit  which  would  have  done 
honor  to  a  grown  man.  Today  with  his  sons 
he  owns  an  extensive  sheep  ranch  in  Wyoming, 
some  twenty-five  thousand  head  of  sheep,  six 
or  seven  hundred  head  of  horses  and  from  four 
to  five  hundred  head  of  cattle,  besides  an  ex- 
tensive farm  and  homestead  in  the  neighborhood 
of  Murray. 

Born  in  Toronto,  Canada,  in  1840,  Mr.  Hill 
was  the  third  son  of  Alexander  Hill  by  his  wife, 
Agnes  Hood.  His  father  and  mother  were  of 
Scotch  birth  and  his  grandparents,  Alexander 
and  Elizabeth  Hill,  passed  their  lives  in  the  town 
of  Currie,  Scotland.  The  Hill  family  emigrated 
to  Canada,  and  in  1841,  when  he  was  an  infant, 
came  to  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  where  they  lived  for  a 
number  of  years.  His  father  was  an  associate 
and  fellow  worker  with  Prophet  Joseph  Smith 
and  was  at  Nauvoo  when  the  Prophet  was  killed. 
In  1846  he  came  as  far  west  as  Gordon  Grove 
with  a  number  of  helpless  families  who  were 
bound  for  Utah,  returning  for  his  own  family. 
A  wagon  train  was  made  up  at  Council  Bluffs, 
commanded  by  Captain  Allen  Taylor  and  with 
a  hundred  wagons  in  charge  of  Captain  Aldred. 
The  little  settlement  in  the  great  Salt  Lake  val- 
ley was  reached  on  the  Third  day  of  October, 
1849.  After  the  fall  Conference  of  that  year 
Alexander  Hill  took  up  a  government  claim  of 
thirty  acres,  and  on  this  original  freehold  his  son, 
William  H.,  now  has  his  home.  At  first  the 
elder  Hill  built  a  dug-out  in  which  he  lived  for 
two  years  with  his  wife  and  nine  children.  In 
the  summer  of  1850  they  built  an  adobe  school- 
house  in  the  neighborhood,  and  the  children  went 
to  school  in  the  winter  and  worked  with  their 
father  during  the  rest  of  the  year.  The  mother 
died  on  February  17,  1871,  and  when  the  father 
died  on  March  8,  1889,  he  left  eighty  acres  of 
land  to  his  ten  children.  Both  parents  were  bu- 
ried in  Salt  Lake  City  cemetery,  as  well  as  the 
grandparents  who  came  to  Utah  in  1851. 

On  January  i,  i860,  William  H.  Hill  married 
Mary  C.  Sorensen,  a  daughter  of  Nichol  and 
Melinda  Sorensen,  who  emigrated  from  Denmark 
in  1857.     He  married  a  second  wife  on  February 


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14,  1870,  Elizabeth  N.  Hamilton,  a  sister  of 
Bishop  Hamilton  of  Mill  Creek.  The  two  wives 
bore  him  sixteen  children,  ten  by  the  first  and  six 
bv  the  second.  The  children's  names  are :  Alex- 
ander J.,  William  N.,  Abraham  M.,  Edgar  E., 
John  H.,  Annie  E.  Mary  C,  David  R.,  Frank  I., 
Lewis  S.,  Jacob  F.,  Ellen  M.,  Guy  H.,  Norah  J., 
and  Hazel  A.,  eleven  sons  and  five  daughters. 
All  of  the  sons  are  engaged  in  the  stock  business 
with  their  father.  Besides  his  extensive  stock 
holdings  Mr.  Hill  has  a  beautiful  brick  residence 
of  twelve  rooms  on  a  ninety-acre  farm.  The 
house  is  built  on  elevated  ground  at  Fifth  East 
street,  between  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth  South 
streets,  and  is  supplied  with  artesian  well  water. 
Mr.  Hill  is  a  staunch  Republican.  For  twenty 
years  he  has  been  a  school  trustee.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  April,  1850, 
in  Mill  Creek  Ward,  and  has  remained  an  ardent 
supporter  of  the  faith  he  adopted.  He  is  now 
First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Hamilton  of  Mill 
Creek.  For  two  years  he  made  his  home  in  Eng- 
land on  a  mission  for  the  Church,  and  he  was 
President  of  the  Sixty-first  Quorum  of  Seven- 
ties for  ten  years.  In  1889  Mr.  Hill,  with  many 
other  Mormons  who  believed  in  plural  marital  re- 
lations, served  seventy  days  in  prison  and  was 
compelled  to  pay  to  the  federal  government  a 
fine  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  Mr.  Hill 
took  an  active  part  in  all  the  Indian  wars.  In 
1862  he  was  a  minuteman ;  in  1866  fought  against 
the  Blackhawks,  the  most  troublesome  Indians  of 
that  time.  This  was  the  last  uprising  of  Indians 
in  Utah.  He  was  also  at  Echo  Canyon,  Green 
River  and  Ham's  Fork  during  the  Johnston  army 
troubles.  On  the  whole,  he  has  taken  a  most 
active  part  in  developing  the  State  from  a  bar- 
ren wilderness  to  its  present  wonderful  state  of 
fertilitv. 


ANIEL  HEINER,  President  of  the 
Morgan  Stake  of  Zion,  is  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  born  No- 
vember 2"/,  1850,  in  the  county  of 
Franklin.  His  father  and  mother, 
Martin  and  Adelgunda  (Ditzel)  Heiner,  were 
natives    of    Germany.      When    our    subject    was 


nine  years  of  age  his  father  crossed  the  plains  to 
Utah,  bringing  with  him  his  wife  and  eleven 
cniidren.  There  was  but  one  wagon  for  the 
accommodation  of  the  family,  and  as  a  result 
most  of  them  had  to  walk,  our  subject  making 
the  journey  in  this  manner.  They  arrived  in 
Utah  late  in  the  fall  and  moved  into  a  small 
house  in  the  Bingham  canyon,  'ihis  house  was 
guiltless  of  floor  or  door.  The  family  suffered 
many  privations  in  those  first  days,  the  father 
herding  cattle  for  President  Taylor  and  being 
able  to  occasionally  kill  a  rabbit,  but  the  prin- 
cipal food  of  the  family  that  winter  was  bread 
and  water.  They  remained  in  this  abode  until 
the  spring  of  1862,  when  the  father  moved  the 
family  to  West  Jordan  and  attempted  to  cultivate 
a  piece  of  land,  but  the  alkali  and  other  mineral 
deoosits  in  the  soil  killed  the  grain,  and  he  was 
unable  to  procure  a  crop.  It  was  at  this  critical 
time  that  our  subject  undertook  to  support  the 
family  with  his  gun,  and  he  later  became  one  of 
the  most  famous  shots  of  the  State,  and  succeeded 
even  in  those  early  days  in  keeping  the  family 
from  absolute  want.  The  family  remained  at 
West  Jordan  for  two  vears,  meeting  with  a  little 
better  success  the  second  season,  and  then  moved 
to  Morgan  county  in  the  fall  of  1863,  and  there 
continued  to  live  the  remainder  of  their  lives, 
both  parents  living  to  be  eighty  years  of  age,  the 
mother  dying  in  1894  and  the  father  dying  in 
1897.  When  they  came  here  the  log  cabin  the 
family  first  lived  in  was  the  only  one  in  Weber 
valley.  Mr.  Heiner  was  a  quiet  and  inoffensive 
man,  well  known  throughout  the  State.  He 
bought  a  squatter's  claim  in  Morgan  county  and 
followed  farming  with  a  fair  degree  of  success. 

Our  subject  was  thirteen  years  of  age  when 
his  parents  moved  to  Morgan  county,  and  he 
erew  up  on  his  father's  farm,  and  as  they  lived 
on  the  outskirts  his  schooling  was  meagre,  hav- 
ing only  attended  about  two  months.  In  1871 
he  became  interested  in  a  cattle  ranch  in  Echo 
canyon,  which  later  became  known  as  the  Echo 
Land  and  Stock  Company,  of  which  he  was 
manager,  and  for  twenty  years  he  spent  his  sum- 
mers on  this  place,  looking  after  the  interests  of 
the  business,  keeping  at  times  three  thousand 
head  of  cattle  on  the  place.    In  1898  he  settled  on 


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the  old  family  homestead  in  North  Morgan, 
where  he  has  since  followed  general  farming  and 
stock  raising.  He  is  also  the  owner  and  manager 
of  the  Morgan  hotel,  one  of  the  best  hostelries 
in  the  town,  and  is  active  in  promoting  the  in- 
terests of  the  place. 

Mr.  Heiner  was  married  to  Miss  Martha  Ste- 
vens in  1873,  and  at  that  time,  while  on  the  ranch, 
he  had  scarcely  anything  in  the  way  of  stock  or 
capital,  and  it  was  his  custom  to  arise  early  and 
go  out  trapping  in  order  that  he  might  get  the 
necessaries  of  life  for  his  family.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Roswell  Stevens,  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  this  valley.  Mrs.  Heiner  was  a  native  of  the 
Weber  valley  and  lived  in  the  mountains  all  her 
life.  His  next  wife  was  Miss  Sarah  Coulan.  Mr. 
Heiner  is  the  father  of  thirteen  sons  and  six 
daughters,  and  has  nine  grandchildren. 

Mr.  Heiner  has  always  been  actively  identified 
with  the  political  life  of  his  countv,  and  was  one 
of  the  first  to  take  a  stand  for  the  Republican 
party  when  the  issues  were  divided  upon  Na- 
tional political  lines.  He  spent  much  time  and 
money  in  promotinp-  the  interests  of  that  party 
in  his  county,  and  was  the  first  Republican  Mayor 
of  Morgan  City.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
first  State  Legislature  in  1896.  While  Mr.  Heiner 
has  done  much  for  his  party  and  is  a  strong  be- 
liever in  the  principles  it  advocates,  he  has  never 
sought  public  office,  and  the  honors  that  have 
come  to  him  along  this  line  have  been  unsought, 
and  came  as  the  expression  of  the  good  will  of 
the  people  and  as  a  mark  of  appreciation  for  the 
work  he  has  done  for  his  community,  rather  than 
from  his  desire  to  be  an  office  holder. 

He  was  born  and  reared  in  the  Mormon  Church 
and  has  ever  been  a  faithful  and  devoted  worker 
in  its  behalf.  He  was  a  member  and  one  of  the 
Seven  Presidents  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Quorum  of 
Seventies  of  Morgan  Stake,  and  in  1888  was  or- 
dained as  High  Priest  and  set  aside  as  a  member 
of  the  High  Council,  remaining  in  that  office  un- 
til September  13,  IQOO,  when  he  was  set  apart  as 
President  of  Morgan  Stake,  which  position  he 
still  retains.  He  has  always  taken  a  lively  in- 
terest in  the  work  of  the  Sunday  School,  in  which 
he  has  filled  a  number  of  offices.  He  was  also 
for  twelve  years  President  of  the  Young  Men's 


Mutual  Improvement  Association  of  the  Morgan 
Ward.  His  sons  are  also  active  workers  in  the 
Church.  On  March  29,  1902,  his  son  Heber  J. 
was  called  on  a  mission  to  the  Society  Islands,  in 
the  Pacific  Ocean,  where  he  is  at  this  time.  An- 
other son,  John,  has  been  on  a  mission  to  Ger- 
many. R.  M.  was  on  a  mission  to  the  Northern 
States  and  Canada  for  twenty-seven  months. 

Mr.  Heiner  is  one  of  the  Morgan  City's  most 
progressive  citizens.  Beginning  life  in  destitute 
circumstances,  he  has  by  energy,  perseverance 
and  a  strong  determination  overcome  obstacles 
that  seemed  almost  insurmountable,  and  has  risen 
unaided  to  one  of  the  foremost  positions  among 
the  business  and  public  men  of  his  community. 
He  has  had  the  interest  of  his  city  close  to  his 
heart  and  has  done  much  to  beautify  the  place. 
His  father  set  out  the  first  shade  and  fruit  trees  in 
the  county,  and  while  Mr.  Heiner  was  Mayor  of 
the  city  he  caused  shade  trees  to  be  set  out  on  all 
the  public  streets,  which  have  added  much  to 
both  the  beauty  and  comfort  of  the  place.  He 
has  won  the  respect  and  esteem  of  those  with 
whom  he  has  been  associated,  both  in  public, 
private  and  business  life,  and  no  man  in  his 
county  enjoys  the  friendship  of  a  larger  circle  of 
people  than  does  Daniel  Heiner. 


OHN  C.  PASKETT  has  resided  in  Hene- 
fer.  Summit  county,  for  the  past  thirty- 
four  years.  A  native  of  England,  born 
in  Tetbury,  Gloucestershire,  1849.  His 
early  life  was  spent  in  his  native  country, 
where  he  received  a  good  common  school  educa- 
tion. Early  in  life  he  joined  the  Mormon  Church 
and  for  many  years  before  coming  to  America  he 
was  President  of  the  Tetbury  and  Nailsworth 
Branches  of  the  Church.  He  was  the  son  of 
James  P.  and  Charlotte  (Buckingham)  Paskett, 
who  were  also  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church.  They  emigrated  to  Utah  in 
1872  and  located  in  Henefer,  where  the  father 
devoted  his  life  to  the  work  of  the  Church,  hold- 
ing the  office  of  High  Priest  and  Superintendent 
of  the  Ward  Sunday  School.  He  is  still  living 
at  the  age  of  eighty-four  and  active  in  Church 
work.   His  wife  is  still  living  at  the  age  of  eighty- 


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two.  There  are  eia:ht  children  in  this  family, — 
Sarah,  wife  of  William  Bettridge,  of  Grouse 
Creek,  Box  Elder  county,  Utah ;  Fannie,  wife  of 
C.  H.  R.  Stevens,  of  Henefer ;  Jane,  wife  of 
George  Judd,  of  Henefer  ;  Annie,  widow  of  Wil- 
liam Tunley,  living  at  Brisbane,  Australia ;  John 
C,  our  subject,  and  Philip,  living  in  Box  Elder 
county;  William,  living  in  Grouse  Creek;  Emily 
A.,  wife  of  Nephi  A.  Bond,  of  Henefer.  All  of 
the  family  living  in  Utah  are  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  Mrs.  Judd  was  President  of 
the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  prior  to  the  disorgani- 
zation of  the  Stake.  The  Pasketts  come  of  a 
long-lived  family,  one  of  Mr.  Paskett's  brothers 
being  ninety-five  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his 
death.  Mr.  Paskett  has  besides  the  daughter  and 
her  family  living  in  Australia,  approximately  one 
hundred  and  twenty  grandchildren  and  twenty- 
five  great-grandchildren  living  in  Utah. 

Our  subject  came  to  Utah  four  years  before 
the  other  members  of  the  family.  He  had  learned 
the  shoemaker's  trade  in  England  with  his  father 
and  for  a  time  followed  that  in  this  country.  He 
came  direct  to  LItah  upon  arriving  in  the  United 
States  and  settled  in  Henefer,  where  he'  pur- 
chased some  land  and  began  in  the  general  farm- 
ing and  stockraising  business,  first  running  cat- 
tle, and  later  purchasing  sheep,  keeping  at  this 
time  a  herd  of  from  two  thousand  to  twenty-five 
hundred.  His  farm  adjoins  the  town  of  Henefer 
but  he  does  not  live  on  this,  making  his  home  in 
the  town,  where  he  also  owns  property. 

Mr.  Paskett  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss  Sarah 
Ann  Thomas,  daughter  of  Philip  and  Mary 
(Williams)  Thomas,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1862, 
from  England  and  settled  in  Henefer,  where  the 
parents  died.  There  were  ten  children  in  this 
family,  of  whom  Mrs.  Paskett  is  the  only  living 
member.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Paskett  has  had 
eight  children, — Curtis  J.,  a  graduate  of  the  Brig- 
ham  Young  Academy  at  Provo ;  LaviniaM.,  Pres- 
ident of  the  Young  Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement 
Association ;  Howard  P. ;  Jessie  E.,  a  student  at 
the  Latter  Day  Saints  University,  Salt  Lake  City  ; 
Cora  E. ;  Elsie  M. ;  Edgar  P.  and  Beatrice,  who 
was  born  July  24,  1897,  the  day  of  the  Grand 
Jubilee  celebration,  held  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.   Paskett  has  since  coming  to  Utah  taken 


a  prominent  part  in  all  the  difYerent  branches  of 
the  Church  work.  He  first  held  the  office  of  El- 
der, and  labored  as  Ward  Clerk  for  some  time. 
In  1876  he  was  ordained  High  Priest  and  set 
apart  as  Second  Counselor  to  Bishop  Charles 
kichins,  holding  that  ofifice  until  May,  1890,  when 
he  became  Bishop  of  the  Ward,  in  which  office 
he  continued  until  the  Ward  was  disorganized  in 
April,  1901.  He  was  later  set  apart  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  High  Council  of  Summit  Stake.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Building  Committee  of  the 
Summit  Stake  Tabernacle  and  Academy,  and  also 
a  member  of  the  Stake  Board  of  Education ;  also 
a  member  of  the  Teachers'  Examining  Board  for 
the  Provo  Schools.  He  has  been  actively  identi- 
fied with  the  Henefer  Irrigation  Company,  of 
which  he  was  a  Director  and  Trustee,  and  was 
one  of  a  number  to  purchase  a  large  tract  of 
land  from  the  railroad  company,  so  they  now 
own  the  land  for  a  distance  of  ten  miles  from 
the  town  of  Henefer.  He  was  nominated  by  the 
Republican  party  in  1900  as  a  member  of  the 
Legislature,  but  was  defeated  with  his  party.  He 
has  served  two  terms  as  County  Commissioner. 

Mr.  Paskett  came  to  Utah  a  poor  man  and  has 
by  industry  and  economy  climbed  from  the  very 
lowest  rung  of  the  ladder  to  a  position  of  wealth 
and  influence.  He  has  left  the  imprint  of  his 
strong  character  upon  the  work  he  has  done  in 
this  county  and  town,  and  his  influence  has  been 
felt  especially  along  the  line  of  Church  work. 
He  has  educated  all  his  children  in  the  doctrines 
and  tenets  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  the  family 
is  an  important  factor  in  the  life  of  the  Church 
in  that  place. 


ILLIAM  J.  EDDINGTON.  In  no 
other  State  in  the  Union,  perhaps, 
are  the  public  ofifices  so  generally 
filled  with  native  born  citizens,  as  in 
Utah.  William  J.  Eddington,  the 
present  Recorder  of  Morgan  county,  was  born 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  October  23,  1858.  He  received 
a  common  school  education  in  the  school  of  Utah, 
and  his  whole  life  has  been  spent  w-ithin  the  con- 
fines of  this  State. 

He  is  the  son  of  William  and  Louisa  (Barton) 


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Eddington.  His  father  was  a  native  of  England 
and  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in 
1854,  coming  to  Utah  and  settling  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  where  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business 
and  followed  it  for  many  years.  He  later  moved 
to  Morgan  county,  where  he  became  the  owner  of 
the  first  sawmill  in  that  county,  and  also  opened 
up  the  first  mercantile  business  in  Morgan  City. 
He  gave  up  active  business  life  about  1880,  and 
for  the  past  few  years  has  lived  in  Teton  Basin, 
in  Idaho,  where  he  owns  a  ranch,  and  when  in 
Utah  makes  his  home  with  his  children.  He  has 
all  his  life  been  an  active  worker  in  the  Church, 
and  is  one  of  the  oldest  living  members  of  the 
High  Council  of  Salt  Lake  Stake.  He  was  the 
first  Mayor  of  Morgan  City  and  took  an  active 
interest  in  the  upbuilding  of  that  part  of  the 
State.  He  is  now  in  his  seventy-eighth  year,  in 
the  enjoyment  of  good  health,  active  and  a  great 
worker,  giving  his  personal  attention  to  the  af- 
fairs of  his  ranch.  He  was  the  husband  of  three 
wives  and  the  father  of  eighteen  children,  seven- 
teen of  whom  are  now  living  in  Morgan  and  Salt 
Lake  counties,  in  Utah,  and  in  Teton  Basin, 
Idaho. 

Our  subject  lived  on  his  father's  place  until 
1882  when  he  struck  out  for  himself  and  spent 
several  months  in  Colorado.  He  was  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  clerk  for  the  Morgan  branch  of  the 
Zion  Co-operative  iNlercantile  Institution,  and  was 
for  three  years  manager  of  that  business.  He 
spent  some  time  doing  grading  work  on  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  and  later  engaged  in 
farming  on  his  own  account.  He  has  a  farm  of 
thirty  acres  of  choice  land  adjoining  Morgan 
City.  He  has  this  place  well  watered  and  im- 
proved, getting  the  water  from  the  South  Morgan 
ditch,  of  which  company  he  is  secretary  and  a  di- 
rector. He  resides  in  the  old  family  home  in 
Morgan,  which  his  father  built  about  1867. 

Mr.  Eddington  was  married  in  1882  to  Miss 
Mary  .^nn  Fry,  daughter  of  Richard  Fry  of  Mor- 
gan, and  by  this  marriage  has  had  seven  children: 
Hazel ;  William  R. :  Carl ;  Elmo  ;  Vera  ;  Leonard 
and  Lillie,  twins;  Lillie  died  in  infancy;  all  living 
at  home. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  party,  and  has  for  many  years  been 


active  in  its  work.  He  has  held  the  office  of  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace  of  both  Morgan  City  and  Mor- 
gan precinct,  and  is  at  present  a  member  of  the 
City  Council.  Pie  was  elected  Recorder  of  Mor- 
o-an  county  in  1900,  and  still  holds  the  office.  He 
has  given  much  of  his  time  to  the  upbuilding  of 
his  city,  and  is  always  willing  to  do  anything  for 
its  advancement.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Fry  Mercantile  Company  in  1894,  and 
which  for  several  years  did  a  very  successful 
business.  He  has  also  been  prominent  in  Church 
work,  taking  an  active  part  in  Sunday  School 
work,  and  also  the  work  of  the  YoungMen's  Mu- 
tual Improvement  Association.  He  was  ordained 
an  Elder  in  1872  and  later  became  a  member  of 
the  Thirty-fifth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  Mrs. 
Eddington  is  also  an  active  worker  in  the  Church, 
and  is  President  of  the  South  Ward  Young  La- 
dies' Mutual  Improvement  Association,  and  was 
for  several  years  Counselor  to  President  Mary 
Welch  of  the  Morgan  Stake. 

Mr.  Eddington  has  by  his  own  energy,  perse- 
verance and  pluck  won  the  high  position  he  now 
holds  in  the  public  affairs  of  his  community,  and 
his  associates  have  found  him  to  be  a  man  of 
sterling  integrity,  a  high  sense  of  honor,  and  one 
who  has  given  his  whole  attention  to  the  duties 
entrusted  to  him.  He  is  a  man  of  genial  and 
pleasing  manners  and  enjoys  the  friendship  of  a 
wide  circle  of  acquaintances. 


( )SEPH  FRANCE.  Among  the  hardy 
pioneers  who  in  1849  crossed  the  wild 
and  dreary  stretch  of  land  lying  be- 
tween the  Missouri  river  and  Utah  and 
here  planted  the  Church,  which  has  since 
become  world  re-nowned  and  which  has  done 
more  for  the  poor  and  unfortunate  of  the  Old 
World  than  perhaps  any  other  known  agency, 
Joseph  France,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  wor- 
thy of  special  mention.  He  has  long  since  passed 
to  his  reward,  but  his  influence  is  still  felt  in  the 
community  which  was  for  many  years  his  home, 
and  where  he  accumulated  large  wealth.  Mr. 
France  was  born  in  Columbia  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1814.  He  grew  up  in  his  native  State, 
and  after  reaching  manhood  became  a  convert  to 


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the  teachings  of  Mormonism.  He  crossed  the 
plains  in  a  company  under  command  of  Captain 
Cully,  in  1849,  and  settled  in  Davis  county,  where 
he  eneaged  in  general  farming.  At  the  time  he 
came  to  Utah  Mr.  France  was  without  means 
and  during  the  first  year  was  no  stranger  to  want, 
suflfering  many  hardships  and  privations  in  com- 
mon with  the  other  early  settlers. 

However,  by  close  economy  and  careful  atten- 
tion to  business,  he  was  able  to  get  a  start  in 
life  and  his  means  rapidly  increased  so  that  at 
the  time  of  his  death  he  was  one  of  the  wealthiest 
men  in  his  section  of  the  county. 

He  participated  in  the  Johnston  army  troubles, 
and  also  in  the  Indian  wars,  identifying  himself 
with  the  life  of  this  State  and  taking  a  prominent 
part  in  all  matters  of  oublic  welfare.  Our  sub- 
ject was  chosen  and  set  apart  to  go  on  a  mission 
to  England,  on  April  11,  1853.  He  spent  three 
years  on  this  mission,  and  during  this  time  bap- 
tized three  hundred  converts. 

Among  the  company  whom  he  afterwards 
brought  to  America  were  two  women  who  subse- 
quently became  his  wives.  They  were  all  mem- 
bers of  the  first  hand  cart  company  to  cross  the 
plains.  Mr.  France  had  five  wives.  His  first 
wife  was  Bessie  Card,  who  bore  him  three  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom  are  now  living.  The  second 
wife  was  Diana  Smith,  who  became  the  mother 
of  four  children,  of  whom  but  one  is  now  alive. 
His  third  wife  was  Mary  E.  Kudder.  By  her 
he  had  six  children,  of  whom  four  are  living.  He 
married  as  his  fourth  wife  Ellen  Harrod,  who 
bore  him  seven  children.  Three  of  these  children 
are  now  living.  His  fifth  and  last  wife  was  Ade- 
laide Gyde,  who  became  the  mother  of  ten  chil- 
dren, of  whom  eight  are  still  living.  Of  these 
wives  but  two  are  now  living,  the  fourth  and 
fifth.  Of  these  children  but  eighteen  are  now  liv- 
ing, and  had  he  lived  to  this  time  would  have  had 
ninety-two  grandchildren  and  forty-two  great- 
grandchildren. He  was  during  his  lifetime  an 
active  worker  in  all  Church  matters,  especially  in 
the  Sunday  Schools,  in  which  he  was  for  many 
years  a  Superintendent. 

By  his  will  he  vested  a  life  interest  in  his  farm 
in  his  widows,  the  estate  to  be  divided  equally  be- 
tween his  children  upon  the  death  of  his  wives. 


C)ne  of  his  sons,  Charles  Edward,  is  at  this 
time  living  on  the  farm  and  has  for  some  time 
past  been  buying  up  the  interests  of  the  other 
heirs.  The  farm  is  principally  laid  out  in  alfalfa, 
and  Mr.  France  buys  large  quantities  of  hay  in 
the  north  and  takes  it  to  the  Salt  Lake  market, 
doing  a  large  business  in  this  line,  and  will  with- 
out doubt  come  into  possession  of  the  entire  farm 
at  some  future  time.  He  is  also  largely  interested 
in  cattle  and  acquiring  considerable  means. 

He  was  married  on  March  30,  1882,  to  IMatilda 
Kent,  daughter  of  Sidney  and  Mary  (Daly) 
Kent.  The  Kents  came  to  Utah  in  1847,  and 
their  daughter  was  born  in  Bountiful,  where 
she  grew  to  womanhood.  Eight  children  have 
been  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  France :  Charles  E., 
who  died  aged  about  ten  years ;  Lawrence  K. ; 
Sidney  W. ;  Philip  M. ;  Mary  E. ;  Sadie,  who  died 
in  infancy ;  Ellen  I.,  and  Derail.  All  the  family 
are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church.  Mrs.  El- 
len France,  the  fourth  wife  of  our  subject,  makes 
her  home  with  Charles  Edward,  and  his  fifth  wife 
also  lives  on  this  farm  near  them.  The  family 
is  highly  respected  in  their  community,  where 
they  are  known  for  their  kindlv,  charitable  lives. 


EBER  J.  SHEFFIELD.  Davis  county 
is  one  of  the  most  fertile  and  productive 
lit  any  county  in  the  State  of  Utah, 
reducing  some  of  the  finest  fruits  and 
egetables  in  the  entire  inter-mountain 
region,  and  is  considered  the  richest  county  in 
Utah.  Here  may  be  found  many  beautiful  homes 
scattered  throughout  the  valley,  farms  in  a  high 
state  of  cultivation,  and  farmers  happy  in  the 
possession  of  a  lucrative  business.  In  such  a 
country  there  is  necessarily  a  large  demand  for 
the  commodities  of  life  and  the  mercantile  estab- 
lishments in  the  different  towns  throughout  the 
county  are  as  a  rule  on  a  solid  financial  basis,  do- 
ing a  good  trade.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  among  the 
merchants  of  Kaysville  no  one  is  doing  a  better 
business  than  is  the  gentleman  whose  name  heads 
this  article,  and  who  has  been  in  business  here 
since  1889. 

Our    subject    was    born    in    Wellenborough, 
Northamptonshire,  England,  May  29,  1854,  and 


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is  the  son  of  James  and  Sarah  A.  (Wihiier)  Shef- 
field, both  natives  of  that  part  of  England.  There 
were  ten  children  in  the  family,  of  whom 
Heber  J.  is  tlfe  oldest.  The  family  were  con- 
verted to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  religion 
in  their  native  country,  and  when  but  eighteen 
years  of  age  our  subject  came  to  America,  cross- 
ing the  plains  by  rail  and  reaching  Salt  Lake  City 
July  4,  1872.  He  was  joined  the  following  year 
by  the  other  members  of  the  family. 

Upon  his  arrival  in  Salt  Lake  City  Mr.  Shef- 
field obtained  employment  as  a  clerk  in  one  of 
the  general  merchandise  establishments  and  re- 
mained there  until  1875,  at  which  time  he  came 
to  Kaysville  and  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  for 
Christopher  Layton,  who  later  sold  the  business 
to  Hyrum  Stewart.  After  resigning  his  position 
with  Mr.  Layton  our  subject  erected  a  saw-mill 
and  took  as  a  partner  Lambert  Blamires.  They 
conducted  the  business  for  about  two  years,  when 
they  disposed  of  it  and  Mr.  Sheffield  went  ^  to 
work  for  the  co-operative  .store  at  this  place, 
remaining  with  them  about  ten  years.  In  1889 
he  decided  to  enter  the  mercantile  life  on  his  own 
hook  and  accordinely  invested  what  means  he 
had  saved  in  a  small  stock  of  goods  and  began 
in  the  general  merchandise  line  in  a  small  way. 
His  business  increased  so  rapidly  that  in  1892 
he  was  obliged  to  move  into  more  commodious 
quarters,  erecting  a  building  thirty  by  sixty  feet. 
He  remained  here  until  1899,  when  it  again  be- 
came necessary  for  him  to  have  more  room  and 
he  erected  another  fine  storehouse,  of  the  same 
dimensions  as  the  first,  and  at  this  time  occu- 
pies both  buildings.  He  owns  a  handsome  home 
here,  his  grounds  being  beautifully  decorated 
with  trees,  flowers,  private  fish  pond,  etc.,  and 
his  house,  a  fine,  modern  structure,  fitted  up  with 
all  the  latest  conveniences  and  appliances. 

Mr.  Sheffield  was  married  in  1875  to  Miss 
Sarah  H.  Blamires,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  Eng- 
land. They  have  three  children — Heber  J.,  Jun- 
ior ;  George  B.  and  Fred  .V. 

Politically  he  is  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
party  and  has  on  a  number  of  occasions  served 
his  fellow  citizens  in  different  public  capacities. 
He  has  at  diflferent  times  been  a  member  of  the 
City  Council  and  is  at  this  time  serving  in  that 


capacity  by  appointment.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  School  Trustees  for  a  number  of 
years. 

Both  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Sheffield  are  faithful  and 
devoted  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
have  brought  their  children  up  in  that  belief. 
Heber  J.,  Junior,  is  at  this  time  absent  on  a  mis- 
sion to  the  Society  Islands.  Mr.  Sheffield  is  a 
member  of  the  Seventies  and  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday  School.  Ever  since  he 
has  been  a  resident  of  this  place  Mr.  Sheffield 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  all  matters  pertain- 
ing to  the  public  welfare,  and  especially  in  edu- 
cational matters.  He  is  a  firm  believer  in  edu- 
cation for  the  youth  of  Utah,  and  in  his  own  fam- 
ily has  given  his  sons  every  advantage  possible 
along  these  lines.  Two  of  his  sons  are  at  this 
time  clerking  in  his  store,  and  the  family  is  one 
of  the  most  highly  respected  in  Kaysville. 


LEXANDER  H.  HILL,  DECEASED, 
was  born  in  Toronto,  Canada.  He  was 
the  son  of  Alexander  and  Agnes 
(Hood)  Hill, .  who  removed  to  the 
LTniled  States  in  1841  and  came  to 
L'tah  in  1849.  ^^^  ^^'^^  °"^  °^  ^^^^  early  pio- 
neers to  this  State,  and  one  who  by  his  un- 
tiring industry  had  not  only  made  for  himself 
a  prominent  place  among  its  prosperous  farmers, 
but  had  also  acquired  a  reputation  for  upright- 
ness and  integrity  that  brought  him  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  all  his  business  associates.  He 
lived  in  Mill  Creek  \\'ard,  in  Salt  Lake  county, 
until  the  day  of  his  death. 

He  was  married  on  January  19,  1857,  to  Miss 
Jane  Park,  daughter  of  William  and  Jane  (Dun- 
can) Park,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere 
in  this  work.  Her  parents  were  natives  of  Scot- 
land and  came  to  Canada  in  the  early  days  and 
were  there  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  They  made  the  long  overland  trip 
from  Canada  to  Nauvoo  by  ox  team,  in  1846, 
and  remained  there  that  winter,  leaving  in  the 
following  spring  for  Utah.  This  was  one  of  the 
largest  families  that  came  in  the  train  of  the  pio- 
neers,   there    being    nine    children,    besides    the 


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father  and  mother.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Hill 
had  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are  still  living. 
They  are:  Jane,  now  the  wife  of  John  Wardell, 
of  Wyoming;  Alexander  P.,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-five ;  William,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
thirty-one;  Agnes,  wife  of  Samuel  Mackey ; 
James,  engaged  in  tne  sheep  business  in  \\'yom- 
ing;  Aloroni,  also  a  resident  of  Wyoming,  and 
Joseph  N.  The  entire  family  of  Mr.  Hill  belong 
to  the  Mormon  Church,  and  have  been  consistent 
and  faithful  members  of  that  religion  through- 
out their  lives. 

At  his  death,  on  July  27,  1898,  he  was  one 
of  the  most  respected  farmers  in  the  Mill  Creek- 
Ward,  and  was  honored  and  looked  up  to  hv  all 
who  'knew  him.  He  left  Mrs.  Hill  a  home- 
stead of  forty  acres  to  hold  until  her  death.  He 
was  buried  in  Mill  Creek  cemetery.  Throughout 
his  life  our  subject  was  active  in  all  Church 
matters,  and  in  political  life  followed  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Republican  party. 

Mrs.  Hill  has  now  taken  up  her  husband's 
work,  and  together  with  her  sons  and  family  is 
interested  in  the  sheep  business.  She  now  has 
nineteen  grandchildren.  During  Mr.  Hill's  life 
he  enjoyed  a  prosperous  career  as  a  sheep  dealer, 
and,  in  fact,  was  successful  in  all  the  undertak- 
ings in  wdiich  he  engaged.  Mrs.  Hill  is  a  sister 
of  Andrew  D.,  Hugh  D.,  William  D.  and  John 
D.  Park,  sketches  of  whose  lives  appear  else- 
where in  this  work. 


iP.ERT  I'lKE  was  born  in  Norfolk, 
i-'ngland,  January  22,  1846.  He  was 
the  son  of  Ann  Pike.  Owing  to  the 
fact  that  his  father  died  when  he  was 
an  infant,  nothing  is  known  of  him. 
Mr.  Pike  grew  to  manhood  in  England,  and  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  that  then  ex- 
isted in  that  country,  and  in  1868  emigrated  to 
America,  arriving  in  the  United  States  in  the 
fall  of  1868.  He  made  the  trip  across  the  plains 
with  ox  teams,  and  after  arriving  in  Salt  Lake 
City  came  to  Mill  Creek  Ward  in  1869,  and  the 
next  vear  went  to  Riverdale,  where  he  engaged 


in  farming  for  one  year,  and  then  returned  to 
Mill  Creek  Ward,  now  Wilford  Ward,  where 
he  has  lived  ever  since.  His  present  home  is  on 
Ninth  East,  between  Ihirteenth  and  Fourteenth 
South  streets,  and  comprises  twelve  acres  of 
fine  land,  a  good  adobe  house  and  out  houses, 
and  all  the  improvements  necessary  for  the 
proper  carrying  on  of  his  farm  work.  Mr.  Pike 
has  won  for  himself  a  comfortable  competence 
from  his  farming  industry,  and  this  result  is  due 
entirely  to  his  own  untiring  energy  and  un- 
daunted perseverance.  The  unpromising  con- 
ditions which  existed  when  he  took  up  his  land 
and  the  barrenness  of  the  country,  which  dis- 
couraged so  many  people,  led  him  only  to  bend 
his  energies  the  harder  in  concjuering  the  adverse 
conditions,  in  which  he  has  so  far  succeeded  that 
he  is  now  one  of  the  most  prosperous  farmers 
in  Salt  Lake  county. 

He  was  married  October  21,  1872,  to  Mrs.  Ade- 
line M.  (Woods)  Millard,  daughter  of  Edwin  and 
Edna  (Enshliff)  Woods.  Her  parents  and  their 
family  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  days,  and  were 
among  the  pioneers  to  this  State.  By  this  mar- 
riage Mr.  Pike  has  had  seven  children — Mary 
E..  now  Mrs.  Dye,  a  resident  of  Idaho;  Robert 
W.,  now  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern  States ; 
Elijah  T.  and  Eliza,  Lawrence  R.,  of  Idaho; 
Edna  D.  and  Hazel  R.  Airs.  Pike  is  also  the 
mother  of  Edna  M.  and  Henry  Millard,  whom 
she  bore  to  her  first  husband.  These  children 
are  living  in  Uintah,  Weber  county,  L^tah,  and 
are  both  married.  The  daughter  is  now  Mrs. 
Cornelius  Green. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Pike  has  always  been  a 
Democrat,  but  has  never  had  the  time  to  give 
to  active  work  of  the  party,  and  has  never  so- 
licited public  oftice.  He  has  held  the  position 
of  school  trustee  of  his  district  for  some  time. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Church  when  quite 
a  child,  and  has  been  a  faithful  member  of  that 
religion  ever  since.  His  wife  and  children  also 
belong  to  this  Church. 

Mr.  Pike  is  essentially  a  self-made  man,  and 
has  made  his  own  way  through  life  without  as- 
sistance from  any  one.  He  is  well  and  favor- 
ably known  by  all  the  residents  of  his  conmiu- 
nity,  and  enjoys  their  confidence  and  esteem. 


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I'.XRY  \V.  BROWxX,  Vice-President  of 
tlie  Utah  National  Bank,  President  of 
Salt  Lake  Saddlery  Company,  and  one 
of  the  most  prominent  miningf  men  in 
Utah,  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Jefferson 
county,  Iowa,  and  there  spent  the  first  thirteen 
years  of  his  life,  obtaining  his  education  from  the 
common  schools  of  his  native  town.  At  the  a,s:e 
of  thirteen  years  he  went  to  Nebraska,  where  his 
two  older  brothers  were  engaged  in  the  stock 
and  ranch  business,  and  there  he  completed  his 
education  at  Doan  College,  in  Crete.  His  brothers 
took  him  into  partnership  with  them  and  for 
many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Brown 
Brothers,  of  Fremont,  Dodge  county,  Nebraska, 
one  of  the  best  known  stock  firms  of  that  State, 
noted  as  raisers  of  blooded  horses,  being  the  first 
men  to  import  fine  animals  from  England  to  Ne- 
braska, and  bringing  that  State  to  the  front  as 
a  producer  of  blooded  stock.  They  took  up  land 
at  an  early  day  when  it  had  but  little  market 
value,  and  in  this  wav  became  large  land  owners, 
having  some  of  the  most  valuable  land  in  the 
State  at  this  time,  and  the  brothers  being  among 
the  leading:  men  in  Nebraska.  They  shipped  two 
carloads  of  their  stock  to  L^tah  in  1882. 

Mr.  Brown's  fatlier  came  to  Iowa  from  Penn- 
sylvania in  1844.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade, 
but  after  locating  in  Iowa  took  up  the  business  of 
freighting  and  contracting,  which  he  continued 
to  follow  until  1881,  when  he  left  Iowa  and  went 
to  Fremont,  Nebraska,  where  he  resided  near  his 
sons.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah 
Ellen  Fee,  and  was  a  native  of  Huntington  coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Hrown's  parents  died 
within  half  an  hour  of  each  other  on  December  6, 
1891,  the  father  having  celebrated  his  seventy- 
ninth  birthday  the  April  previous,  and  the  mother 
being  seventy-five  in  June. 

Our  subject  severeil  his  connection  with  his 
brothers  in  1890,  and  came  to  Salt  Lake  City, 
where  he  became  interested  in  the  famous  Mer- 
cur  mine  in  connection  with  Gill  S.  Peyton,  and 
thev  built  the  first  successful  cyanide  mill  ever 
built  in  the  L'^nitcd  States.  They  developed  this 
mine  and  put  in  machinery,  and  it  became  one  of 
the  best  ore  producing  mines  in  L'tah,  paying 
thousands   of   dollars    dividends    to   the   owners. 


Mr.  Brown  was  Vice-President  and  Superinten- 
dent of  the  company  until  1894,  when  he  resigned 
that  office,  and  in  1897  sold  his  interest  to  other 
parties.  He  has  also  laree  holdings  in  other  min- 
ing interests  in  this  and  adjoining  States,  and  is 
a  leading  spirit  in  the  mining  world.  He  has  not 
confined  bis  interests  to  mining,  but  had  be- 
come associated  with  many  other  enterprises  in 
Utah,  among  them  being  the  Salt  Lake  Saddlery 
Company,  one  of  the  largest  establishments  of 
tiie  kind  in  the  West,  and  of  which  he  is  President 
and  the  principal  stockholder.  He  is  also  Vice- 
President  of  the  Utah  National  Bank,  a  well- 
known  financial  institution  of  this  city.  He  has 
kept  up  his  interest  in  horseflesh  and  has  done 
much  to  encourage  the  breeding  of  high  grade 
stock  in  Utah.  He  himself  owns  one  of  the  finest 
stallions  in  this  countrv,  Altoka,  who  has  a  record 
of  2  :io>2. 

Mr.  Brown  was  married  in  Dodge  county,  Ne- 
braska, to  Miss  Carrie  L.  Smith,  a  native  of  Cana- 
da, raised  in  New  York  and  came  to  Illinois  with 
her  people,  moving  from  there  to  Nebraska.  Two 
children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage,  Wayne 
F.,  who  died  February  7,  1902,  and  Ralph,  a 
student  in  the  high  school,  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
years. 

In  politics  Mr.  Brown  has  been  a  Republican  all 
his  life,  but  while  anxious  for  the  success  of  his 
oarty  has  never  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks, 
nor  sought  or  held  public  office. 

His  life  has  been  a  remarkably  successful  one ; 
starting  out  at  the  tender  age  of  thirteen  years 
he  has  since  had  to  look  out  for  himself,  and  like 
his  brothers  has  won  his  success  through  his  own 
honest  efforts,  setting  his  standard  high  and  ever 
striving  to  attain  his  end  through  honorable  busi- 
ness methods.  There  were  six  brothers  in  this 
family,  all  of  whom  have  made  honorable  and 
successful  careers,  none  of  them  ever  havmg  been 
addicted  to  the  use  of  whiskey  or  tobacco,  or  vices 
of  any  description  ;  all  being  men  of  high  standing 
in  the  comnumities  where  thev  live. 


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XDREW  D.  PARK.  Among  the  pio- 
neers who  came  to  Utah  in  the  early 
ilays  of  the  settlement  of  this  State 
and  took  up  the  occupation  of  farm- 
ing in  the  vicinity  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
was  William  Park,  and  his  sons  are  now  among 
the  most  prominent  men  of  Salt  Lake  county. 

Andrew  D.  Park,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  burn  in  Canada,  in  1845.  He  is  the  ninth 
child  of  William  and  Jane  (Duncan)  Park,  who 
were  among  the  early  members  of  the  Morinon 
Church,  and  who  followed  the  fortunes  of  that 
Church  during  the  troublesome  times  in  Illinois 
of  the  settlement  in  Nebraska,  and  later  emi- 
grated to  the  great  Salt  Lake  valley,  where  with 
rare  courage  and  endurance  they  built  for  them- 
selves a  substantial  place  in  this  community. 
William  Park,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1805,  and  his 
mother,  Jane  (Duncan)  Park,  was  also  a  native 
of  that  country.  They  came  to  Canada  in  1821, 
and  resided  there  until  1846,  when  they  became 
converts  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church 
and  emigrated  to  Illinois,  where  they  remained 
until  the  abandonment  of  Nauvoo  and  the  set- 
tlement of  the  members  of  the  Church  at  Winter 
Quarters,  in  Nebraska.  Here  they  remained 
until  the  wagon  train  in  charge  of  President 
John  Taylor  was  organized  for  the  journey  to 
Utah.  He  was  in  command  of  the  entire  train, 
and  under  him  Edward  Hunter  was  captain  of 
one  hundred  wagons ;  Joseph  Horn  was  captain 
of  fifty  wagons,  and  x\rchibald  Gardner  was  cap- 
tain of  ten  wagons.  They  successfully  made  the 
entire  trip  from  the  Missouri  river  to  the  Salt 
L,ake  vallev,  arriving  in  Utah  on  October  6,  1847. 
X  ne  Park  family  was  the  largest  family  among 
the  pioneers,  comprising  as  it  did,  nine  children 
and  the  two  parents.  During  their  residence  in 
Utah  two  more  children  were  born  into  the  fam- 
ily. The  Parks  spent  the  first  winter  in  the  "Old 
Fort,"  and  in  1849  moved  to  Mill  Creek  Ward, 
at  a  time  when  it  was  sparsely  settled  and  few 
families  lived  there.  The  father  immediately  be- 
gan farming,  and  also  turned  his  attention  to 
stock  raising,  and  was  engaged  in  that  busi- 
ness until  his  death  in  1890.  His  wife  died  in 
1873.      Their   children   were   all   reared   in   Utah 


and   received   their   education    from    the    schools 
that  then  existed  in  their  locality. 

Our  subject,  Andrew  D.  Park,  was  married 
in  1868,  and  resided  at  home  working  for  his 
father  until  that  time.  He  was  married  on  March 
14th  of  that  year  to  Miss  Jane  A.  Ellison, 
daughter  of  James  and  Alice  Ellison,  whose 
parents  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  fifties,  his 
wife  being  born  in  England,  where  her  parents 
were  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Park  has  nine 
children  living.  They  are :  Alice,  now  the  wife 
of  Reuben  J.  Bailey,  of  Wilford  Ward  ;  Martha 
Jane,  William  Andrew,  wdio,  with  his  brother, 
James  Henrv,  is  associated  with  his  father  in 
the  sheep  business  in  the  Mill  Creek  Ward ;  Etnel 
Gertrude,  now  the  wife  of  Eugene  Watts,  of 
Grant  Ward ;  Lillie  May,  Amanda  F.,  Pearl  L-, 
and  Clive  P.  S.  Park.  Mr.  Park  has  a  hand- 
some brick  and  adobe  house  on  his  homestead 
site  of  sixty-nine  acres,  and  in  addition  to  this 
owns  another  farm  of  eighty  acres,  stocked  with 
sheep  and  cattle. 

In  political  affairs  he  is  a  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never 
held  office.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  ever  since  his  childhood,  as  have  his 
wife  and  children.  He  has  been  prominent  in 
the  affairs  of  the  Church,  and  has  been  a  Ward 
teacher,  and  is  now  an  Elder  in  its  organzation. 
He  is  one  of  the  successful  farmers  and  stock- 
raisers  of  this  region,  and  enjoys  a  wide  popu- 
larity. 

Although  Mr.  Park  is  only  fifty-si.x  years  of 
age,  he  has  passed  through  all  the  trying  times 
which  the  frontiersman  experienced  in  the  early 
settlement  of  Utah.  He  at  present  enjoys  splen- 
did health  and  looks  back  to  his  experiences  as 
chapters  in  his  life  which  he  considers  invalu- 
able. Throughout  the  first  winter  that  he  spent 
in  Utah  it  was  not  infrequent  for  the  blankets  on 
which  they  slept  in  the  night  to  be  frozen  to- 
the  ground.  Most  of  the  pioneers  were  em- 
ployed in  the  lumber  camps  of  Utah,  getting 
out  lumber  to  build  homes,  and  Air.  Park  and 
his  brother  took  their  share  in  the  tasks,  al- 
though they  were  but  children.  They  drove  the 
oxen  and  hauled  the  wood  from  the  lumber  camps 


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to  the  sites  of  the  buildings.  Mr.  Park's  father 
was  in  the  cattle  and  sheep  raisins;-  business,  and 
when  our  subject  reached  the  age  of  discretion 
he  engaged  in  this  business,  and  has  now  asso- 
ciated with  him  his  sons  in  the  sanie  business. 
They  are  one  of  the  most  congenial  families  in 
tne  vicinity  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  have  won  a 
wide  reputation  for  their  honesty  and  integrity 
in  the  sheep  raising  and  wool  business. 


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AMES  S.  CARLISLE,  one  of  the  pros- 
perous farmers  of  Mill  Creek  Ward. 
comes  of  a  long  line  of  English  ancestry, 
tracing  his  family  to  Lincolnshire,  En- 
gland, back  to  his  great-grandfather. 
Thomas  Carlisle.  The  great-grandfather,  the 
grandfather,  Richard,  and  the  father,  Joseph  Car- 
lisle, were  all  born  in  this  place.  The  paternal 
grandmother  of  our  subject  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Jane  Fields.  In  1851  Joseph  Carlisle  came  to 
America  with  his  father  and  located  in  Saint 
Louis,  where  he  was  married  to  Isabel  Sharp 
whose  birthplace  was  also  Lincolnshire,  England, 
and  who  became  the  mother  of  our  subject.  The 
grandmother  of  our  subject  died  in  Saint  Louis 
of  cholera.  The  grandfather  crossed  the  plains 
to  Utah  with  President  John  Taylor,  when  he 
freighted  the  machinery  for  the  Utah  sugar  fac- 
tory across  the  plains  in  1852.  The  following 
vear  the  father  of  our  subject  joined  an  emigrant 
train  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and  reached  Salt  Lake 
City  on  September  17,  1853.  He  at  once  came 
to  Mill  Creek  Ward,  where  he  is  still  living.  The 
family  consisted  of  five  boys  and  two  girls — 
Joseph  R.,  junior;  James  S.,  our  subject;  Fred- 
erick, Harvey  C,  E.  Franklin,  Isabel,  now  Mrs. 
Joseph  Walters,  and  Pearl,  now  the  wife  of 
Bishop  U.  G.  Miller,  of  Murray.  Both  the  par- 
ents are  living  in  the  enjoyment  of  good  health. 
Our  subject  was  born  in  Mill  Creek  on  Sep- 
tember 4,  1859.  The  opportunities  afiforded  the 
children  of  those  days  were  meager,  indeed,  com- 
pared with  the  almost  unsurpassed  advantages 
offered  at  this  time,  but  Mr.  Carlisle  was  of  an 
ambitious  and  studious  nature,  and  embraced 
every  possible  opportunity  for  increasing  his  book 
lore,  bringing  books  home  to  read  and  study,  and 


has  all  his  life  since  been  more  or  less  of  a  stu- 
dent. 

On  February  11,  1884,  he  was  united  in  the 
bonds  of  wedlock  to  Miss  Katurah  White,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  and  Eliza  White,  who  emigrated 
to  Utah  soon  after  Brigham  Young  first  came, 
and  are  still  living  in  Wilford  Ward,  in  the  east- 
ern part  of  Salt  Lake  county.  Three  children 
have  come  to  gladden  the  home  of  Mr.  Carlisle — 
Katurah,  Carrie  and  Anna,  aged  eleven,  eight 
and  five  years,  respectively. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Carlisle  located  on 
thirty  acres  of  wild  land  in  the  west  end  of  Mill 
Creek  Ward.  This  land  was  then  covered  with 
a  dense  growth  of  willows  and  sage  brush,  and 
required  the  hardest  kind  of  labor  in  the  clear- 
ing, the  work  being  all  done  by  hand,  as  it  is 
only  of  recent  years  that  proper  machinery  has 
been  invented  for  the  successful  grubbing  of 
sage  brush,  the  roots  of  which  are  extremely 
long  and  very  tough,  making  its  extermination 
difficult.  He  now  owns  fifty  acres  of  valuable 
land,  covered  with  grain  and  other  farm  prod- 
uce, much  of  it  being  given  over  to  the  raising  of 
alfalfa.  The  land  is  well  irrigated  from  the  Jor- 
dan river,  and  the  house  is  supplied  from  an  arte- 
sian well.  In  the  place  of  the  rude  log  cabin 
which  was  the  first  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Car- 
lisle, they  now  have  a  lovely  brick  house,  sur- 
rounded by  orchard  and  shade  trees,  and  it  is 
altogether  a  most  desirable  spot  in  which  to  spend 
one's  days.  In  addition  to  his  general  farm  Mr. 
Carlisle  devotes  a  portion  of  his  time  to  fatten- 
ing cattle  for  market,  and  raising  standard  bred 
Hamiltonian  horses. 

He  has  been  affiliated  with  the  Republican 
party  ever  since  its  formation  in  Utah,  and  while 
not  an  office  seeker,  has  always  been  a  staunch 
supporter  of  his  party  and  jealous  for  its  suc- 
cess. He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church  all  his  life,  and  his  wife  and  family  are 
members  of  the  same  faith.  In  the  Carlisle  fam- 
ily the  father  and  three  of  his  sons  have  been 
absent  at  different  times  on  missions  for  the 
Church.  James  served  in  the  Southern  field,  but 
was  released  and  returned  home  on  account  of  a 
fever  which  he  contracted  during  the  first  year 
of  his  stay.     Joseph  R.  labored  for  two  years 


532 


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in  the  Southern  States,  and  at  home  has  been  a 
superintendent  of  Sunday  School  for  several 
years.  Our  subject  has  been  a  Ward  teacher 
for  many  years,  and  is  at  this  time  a  superin- 
tendent of  religion  classes  in  Mill  Creek  Ward. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Seventies.  His 
brother-in-law,  Tobe  Felkin,  is  a  member  of  the 
High  Council  of  Granite  Stake,  as  is  also  his 
brother,  Harvey  C.  Carlisle.  Mrs.  Carlisle  is  a 
member  of  the.  Ladies'  Relief  Society  of  Mill 
Creek  Ward,  in  which  she  is  an  active  worker, 
and  her  mother,  Mrs.  White,  is  President  of  the 
society  in  her  Ward.  The  family  is  a  very  prom- 
inent one,  in  both  social  and  religious  circles,  and 
all  highly  respected.  Mrs.  Carlisle's  brother. 
John  W.,  is  First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Cum- 
mings,  of  Wilford  Ward,  and  her  brother, 
Mathew,  is  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School 
in  the  same  Ward.  Her  father  has  filled  two  mis- 
sions to  Europe,  and  four  of  her  brothers  have 
seen  like  service  in  Europe  and  the  L^nited 
States. 


\MES  M.  FISHER,  JR.  The  time  is 
fast  coming  when  the  early  settlers  and 
|iioneers  of  L'tah  will  have  performed 
the  last  act  in  building  up  and  develop- 
ing this  new  country  from  a  wild  and 
barren  waste  into  a  beautiful,  thriving  and  pros- 
perous country ;  but  as  they  one  by  one  say  the 
last  good-bye  they  well  know  that  the  work  they 
have  begun  will  be  ablv  carried  on  by  their  sons 
and  daughters.  Among  the  native  sons  of  Utah 
who  have  during  their  lives  assisted  in  improv- 
ing and  beautifying  Utah  county,  should  be  men- 
tioned the  subject  of  this  sketch,  James  'SI.  Fisher, 
junior. 

He  was  born  in  Box  Elder  county,  Utah,  on 
December  14,  1857,  and  is  the  son  of  James  M. 
and  Edith  E.  (Pierce)  Fisher.  His  parents  were 
both  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  and  came  to  Utah 
with  their  people  in  the  early  days  of  the  settle- 
ment of  the  State.  J\lrs.  Fisher  came  in  1847. 
and  Mr.  Fisher  came  in  1852.  They  were  mar- 
ried in  January,  1857,  when  they  moved  to  Box 
Elder  county,  where  their  son  was  born.  In  the 
spring  of  1858,  during  the  Johnston  army  trou- 


bles, they  moved  to  the  southern  part  of  this 
State,  and  later  returned  to  Salt  Lake  county,  lo- 
cating on  the  place  where  our  subject  now  lives, 
and  are  still  living  in  that  vicinity.  Mr.  Fisher, 
senior,  at  first  only  took  up  thirty-five  acres  of 
land,  but  later  homesteaded  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  deeding  portions  of  the  land  to  squat- 
ters who  had  already  settled  upon  it.  Mr.  Fisher 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  development 
of  Salt  Lake  county,  and  has  done  much  towards 
bringing  the  State  up  to  its  present  high  stan- 
dard, and  stands  high  in  the  estimation  of  the  peo- 
ple of  his  community. 

Our  subject  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife 
was  Miss  Mary  M.  Xefif,  daughter  of  Franklin 
and  Frances  M.  (Stillman)  Neff,  pioneers  *:o 
L'tah.  The  ceremony  was  performed  December 
26,  1S78,  and  of  this  marriage  thirteen  children 
were  born,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  are : 
Madison  N.,  Francis  E.,  Franklin  P.,  Leonidas 
and  Lyle.  twins;  Junius  F.,  Caleb  L.,  Minerva, 
?ilaude,  Alfaretta,  Joshua,  Arta  E.,  and  Vivian  L. 
In  1885  he  married  his  second  wife,  Miss  Cyn- 
thia Burnham,  daughter  of  Wallace  K.  and  Lydia 
(  Stanley)  Burnham,  and  of  this  marriage  three 
children  were  born — Arvilla,  Retta  and  James  M. 
Mr.  Fisher  has  always  lived  here  from  the  time 
•his  parents  came  to  this  county  in  1858.  and  his 
wife  ^larv  M.  fXcff)  Fisher  was  born  and  raised 
here. 

Mr.  Fisher  has  fourteen  acres  of  land  on  Four- 
teenth East,  between  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth 
South  streets,  all  highly  developed  and  the  most 
of  which  is  devoted  to  the  raising  of  fruit.  When 
he  became  the  owner  of  this  land  it  was  covered 
with  sage  brush,  and  Mr.  Fisher  has  since  then 
cleared  it  off  and  improved  it,  and  today  owns  a 
good  farm,  upon  which  he  has  erected  a  fine  brick 
residence,  with  good  outbuildings,  etc.  In  1890 
he  started  a  nursery,  but  as  his  place  grew  into 
fruit  he  abandoned  the  nursery  business  and  con- 
fined his  attention  to  fruit  raising,  in  which  he 
has  been  very  successful.  Previous  to  this  time 
he,  for  nine  years,  operated  the  old  Neff  pio- 
neer flour  mill. 

In  politics  Mr.  Fisher  is  a  follower  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party,  and  one  of  the  active  workers  in 
his  Ward,  though  he  has  never  been  a  party  can- 


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533 


didate  for  office,  devoting  his  time  outside  of  his 
business  to  the  work  of  the  schools,  of  which  he 
has  served  for  a  number  of  years  as  trustee,  and 
which  position  he  now  holds,  and  to  the  duties 
which  he  has  been  called  to  perform  in  the  inter- 
ests of  the  Mormon  Church,  of  which  he  and  his 
entire  family  are  devoted  and  consistent  members. 
He  has  also  in  the  past  been  pound  keeper  for  the 
district.  Air.  Fisher  has  all  his  life  been  an  active 
participant  in  the  work  of  the  Church  of  his 
choice,  and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
the  leaders  of  that  body.  He  was  first  ordained 
to  the  Priesthood  as  a  Deacon  and  President  of 
a  Quorum,  later  being  ordained  an  Elder  and  be- 
coming Clerk  of  the  Quorum,  and  since  1884  he 
has  filled  the  position  of  Clerk  and  Director  of 
his  Ward.  From  1880  to  1885  he  was  Super- 
intendent of  the  Mutual  Improvement  Society, 
and  since  that  time  has  been  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday  School  of  his  Ward,  and 
is  at  this  time  a  member  of  the  Seventies,  being 
one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-second  Quorum  of  the  Seventies.  These 
different  offices  have  called  for  a  large  portion 
of  his  time,  and  much  arduous  labor,  but  he  has 
ever  been  found  willing  to  respond  to  any  de- 
mand made  by  the  Church  upon  both  his  time, 
strength  and  means,  and  the  high  regard  in  which 
he  is  held  by  the  higher  officials  of  the  Church 
is  evidenced  by  the  positions  he  has  been  called 
upon  to  fill.  His  wife  and  sons  are  also  active 
in  Church  matters,  Mrs.  Fisher  being  prominent 
in  the  work  of  the  Relief  Society  of  her  Ward, 
of  which  she  was  the  first  Secretary,  and  her 
daughter,  Frances  E.,  is  a  member  of  the  Young 
Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Association.  His 
son,  Madison  X..  was  called  to  serve  as  a  mis- 
sionary in  the  Southern  States  on  March  17,  i8q8, 
being  absent  twenty-eight  months,  and  was  again 
called  to  go  to  Arizona  on  October  15,  1901,  for 
five  months,  in  the  interests  of  the  Mutual  Im- 
provement Association,  and  is  now  doing  effect- 
ive work  in  the  Gila  valley.  Franklin  P.  was 
called  in  May,  1899  on  a  colonization  mission  at 
Alberta,  Canada,  and  there  he  met  and  married 
Miss  Sarah  Gibb.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fisher  have 
a  beautiful  and  interesting  family,  all  the  chil- 
dren being  exceptionally  bright  and  obedient,  and 


the  Fisher  home  is  considered  one  of  the  pleas- 
antest  in  that  Ward. 

By  his  close  attention  to  business  and  his  up- 
right, straightforward  and  manly  life,  Mr.  Fisher 
has  built  up  a  well-deserved  reputation  as  a  cit- 
izen of  one  of  the  leading  and  growing  States 
of  the  Union,  and  his  sincerity,  his  devotion  to  his 
Church,  and  his  courteous  and  kindly  manner  has 
won  for  him  a  host  of  friends  both  in  and  out  of 
his  immediate  circle  of  acquaintances,  and  his 
career  is  one  to  which  his  children  may  well  point 
with  pride. 


MOS  S.  GABBOTT  is  one  of  the  active 
sons  of  Utah  who  have  done  much 
towards  carrying  forward  the  noble 
work  begun  by  the  early  pioneers,  who 
left  home,  friends,  wealth  and  all  that 
ones  to  !iiake  up  a  happy  and  comfortable  life, 
that  they  might  make  for  themselves  a  home 
.  where  they  could  worship  according  to  the  dic- 
tates of  their  own  conscience. 

Mr.  Gabbott  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1856,  and  is  the  son  of  Edward  and  Jane 
(Cjmith)  Gabbott.  The  father  was  a  native  of 
England,  being  born  near  Preston,  Lancashire. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church 
there,  but  gave  up  his  home  to  come  to  this  coun- 
try and  follow  the  fortunes  of  the  Church  whose 
faith  he  had  adopted.  With  his  family  he  ar- 
rived in  America  in  1841,  going  direct  to  the 
headquarters  of  the  Church  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois, 
where  he  became  a  firm  friend  of  the  Prophet 
Joseph  Smith,  and  other  leaders  of  the  Church. 
From  that  time  until  his  death  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
in  1876,  he  was  a  faithful,  consistent  and  active 
member  of  the  Mormon  faith,  rearing  his  fam- 
ily in  its  doctrines  and  leaving  them  a  noble  ex- 
ample of  high  Christian  manhood  and  business 
integrity.  A  sketch  of  this  worthy  man  and  his 
son  John,  the  half-brother  of  our  subject,  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  The  wise  and  faithful 
mother,  whose  self-sacrificing  nature  won  for  her 
the  love  and  respect  of  all  those  with  whom  she 
came  in  contact,  was  born  in  Bucks  county.  Penn- 
sylvania. Although  not  of  Mormon  parentage, 
she  was  still  a  young  woman  when  she  partook 


534 


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of  its  enlightening  faith,  and  soon  after  leaving 
her  family,  she  joined  a  company  of  emigrants  to 
make  Salt  Lake  City  her  future  home.  It  was 
here  she  met  and  married  Mr.  Gabbott.  She  lived 
to  do  a  good  work,  making  a  most  noble  record 
as  a  mother  and  wife  until  the  ripe  age  of  eighty- 
one,  when,  in  the  spring  of  1895,  she  died. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  this  vicinity 
and  obtained  such  education  as  the  schools  then 
afforded,  working  on  his  father's  farm  in  the 
summers  and  attendiii"'  school  for  a  few  weeks  in 
the  winter. 

In  the  autumn  of  1877  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Angle  Mc.-Mlister,  daughter  of  J.  D.  T.  McAl- 
lister, at  this  time  President  of  the  Manti  Tem- 
ple, and  Angie  (Goforth)  McAllister,  and  of  this 
marriage  seven  children  were  born.  They  are : 
An^ie,  now  Mrs.  R.  L.  McGhie;  Emmaretta,  the 
wife  of  C.  M.  Brown  ;  John  ;\I.,  Katie,  Bessie 
who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years ;  Jennie,  and 
Edward.  The  daughter  Angie  is  a  graduate  of 
the  University  of  LUah,  and  is  now  teaching  in 
the  schools  of  Salt  Lake  county. 

Mr.  Gabbott  now  owns  the  old  homestead,  at 
1460  State  street,  where  he  has  a  commodious 
and  comfortable  home,  which  was  built  by  his 
father,  and  where  the  parents  spent  their  declin- 
ing: days.  He  has  devoted  himself  largely  to 
farming  and  has  accumulated  considerable  prop- 
erty in  Salt  Lake  county. 

Politically  he  is  an  adherent  of  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  partv,  and  has  ever  been  an  active 
worker  in  its  ranks. 

Being  a  man  of  strong  principles  and  ever  ex- 
ercising good  judgment,  he  has  won  the  confi- 
dence and  resnect  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated. 


XOCIi  R.  PUGH  was  born  in  Council 
niuffs,  Iowa,  January  10,  1848,  and  is 
the  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  Ann 
(Rock)  Pugh,  who  were  natives  of 
England,  the  family  emigrating  from 
England  and  coming  to  Iowa  and  later  to  Utah, 
arriving  here  in  185,^.  They  settled  in  the  Mill 
Creek  Ward  in  the  fall  of  that  year  and  took  up 


their  residence  on  Sixteenth  South  and  Ninth 
East  streets.  His  father  lived  throughout  all 
the  time  that  the  Church  was  being  established 
and  brought  to  its  present  high  state  of  efficiency, 
and  died  at  a  ripe  old  age  in  iqoi,  respected  and 
honored  by  all  who  knew  him.  His  mother, 
Mary  Ann  Pugh,  also  lived  to  be  quite  old  and 
died  at  the  home  of  her  late  husband,  which  he 
had  established  in  ATili  Creek  Ward.  Our  sub- 
ject now  has  the  old  homestead,  which  comprises 
sixty-five  acres,  and  has  given  the  most  of  his 
attention  to  the  cattle  business. 

He  was  married  on  May  26,  1872,  to  Miss  Har- 
riett Hughes,  daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth 
(Swallow)  Hughes.  Her  father  came  to  Utah  in 
i860,  and  at  the  present  writing  is  still  living  in 
the  Mill  Creek  Ward.  They  have  had  seven  chil- 
dren by  this  marriage — Nancy,  now  Mrs.  George 
Boyce ;  Laura,  now  Mrs.  George  Simper ;  Byron, 
Mamie,  Mav,  Willard  and  Donetta. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Pugh  is  independent,  but 
has  never  run  for  office  nor  has  he  ever  desired 
to  hold  a  position  of  public  trust.  He  and  his 
family  are  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
have  been  consistent  and  faithful  followers  of  that 
religion  throughout  their  lives.  The  success  which 
iNIr.  Pugh  has  made  marks  him  as  a  self-made  man 
of  the  West.  He  was  early  to  work  and  assisted 
Ills  parents  to  support  the  family.  In  the  early 
davs  of  the  decade  of  the  fifties  he  was  employed 
in  cutting  timber  in  the  mountains  and  hauling  it 
into  the  city  for  consumption  by  the  settlers.  This 
was  an  arduous  task  in  those  days  from  the  fact 
tliat  the  sons  of  the  pioneers  went  out  to  the  can- 
yons in  the  night  time,  and,  with  only  a  blanket 
to  cover  them,  slept  in  the  cold  air,  and  in  the 
winter  time  especially  it  was  frequently  found 
in  the  morning  that  their  blankets  had  become 
frozen  to  the  ground,  and  often  they  found  it  nec- 
essary to  clear  the  ground  of  snow  before  they 
could  light  their  fires.  In  the  summer  time  he 
was  employed  in  working  as  a  farm  hand  and  do- 
ing all  the  work  that  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  pioneer 
agriculturalists.  Through  these  struggles  in  a 
new  land  and  through  all  these  efforts  to  obtain  a 
living  he  has  come  triumphant,  and  now  enjoys 
such  success  as  a  farmer  as  is  not  excelled  by  any 
other  resident  of  his  localitv.    He  has  been  a  hard 


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535 


worker  throughout  his  life,  and  the  successful 
career  which  he  has  made  as  a  farmer  in  Utah, 
and  his  integrity  and  honesty  has  won  him  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him.  His 
farm  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the  county  and  his 
buildings  and  the  impiovements  he  has  made  in- 
dicate the  care  with  which  he  tills  his  land  and 
cares  for  his  property. 

In  1866  Mr.  Pugh  made  a  trip  to  the  Missouri 
river  and  escorted  a  train  of  fifty  emigrant  wagons 
across  the  plains  to  Utah. 


HRACE  S.  ELDREDGE,  Deceased. 
Among  the  men  of  large  business  abil- 
ity, who  helped  establish  the  Mormon 
Church  on  a  solid  foundation,  Horace 
S.  Eldredge  had  perhaps  no  equal  in 
his  line.  A  great  financier,  he  safely  carried  the 
Church  institutions  over  the  shoals  that  ship- 
wrecked so  many  financial  institutions  through- 
out the  country  in  1873,  and  through  his  personal 
credit  and  unblemished  reputation  for  integrity 
which  he  had  established  in  business  centers  was 
able  to  render  the  Church  a  service  which  she 
could  never  repay.  ]\Iany  positions  of  high  honor 
were  his  during  the  first  years  of  the  new  Ter- 
ritory, and  when  the  Church  felt  the  need  of 
some  one  to  look  after  the  thousands  of  emi- 
grants being  landed  on  our  shores  from  foreign 
countries,  they  called  upon  Horace  S.  Eldredge 
and,  like  the  faithful  servant  that  he  was,  he  at 
once  responded  to  the  call,  spending  about  four 
years  altogether  in  that  work  and  putting  the 
Church  machinery  in  the  East  in  smooth  running 
order. 

Horace  S.  Eldredge  was  born  February  6, 
1816,  in  Brutus,  Cayuga  county,  New  York.  His 
mother  died  at  the  time  he  was  but  eight  years 
of  age,  and  her  death  made  a  very  strong  im- 
pression on  his  childish  mind.  He  became  filled 
with  the  belief  that  he  must  live  such  a  life  as 
would  insure  his  meeting  her  in  the  future,  and 
this  feeling  led  to  his  uniting  with  the  Baptist 
Church  when  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  How- 
ever, his  religious  experience  was  not  satisfac- 
tory and  at  the  age  of  twenty  he  united  with  the 


Mormon  Church,  whose  doctrines  he  had  heard 
preached  in  the  early  spring  of  that  year,  and 
had  after  a  careful  and  thorough  investigation 
become  convinced  that  this  was  the  true  faith. 
His  people  were  much  opposed  to  this  step,  but 
he  never  faltered  in  his  purpose  and  gave  up  kin- 
dred and  friends  for  the  sake  of  his  religion.  He 
settled  on  a  farm  in  Independence,  Indiana,  that 
year,  but  being  desirous  of  living  in  the  same 
community  with  other  members  of  the  church  of 
his  (jhoice  he  sold  out  and  moved  to  Far  West, 
Missouri,  where  he  purchased  two  hundred  and 
thirty  acres  of  improved  land.  However,  the 
people  of  that  State  were  opposed  to  the  prac- 
tices and  teachings  of  the  Church,  and  the  feel- 
ing thus  engendered  grew  until  it  resulted  in  the 
Mormons  being  forbidden  to  vote  at  the  polls, 
and  the  quarrel  grew  and  assumed  such  propor- 
tions that  Governor  Boggs  finally  issued  an  order 
under  which  the  members  of  the  Church  were 
driven  from  the  State,  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith 
and  a  number  of  the  other  leaders  being  impris- 
oned. A  number  of  lives  were  lost  in  the  battle 
which  ensued,  and  the  Mormons  lost  a  great  deal 
of  real  and  personal  property,  Mr.  Eldredge  be- 
ing among  the  number,  and  never  receiving  a 
cent  for  the  large  tract  of  valuable  land  which 
he  had  bought,  and  which  incurred  a  heavy-  loss 
to  him.  He  returned  to  Indiana,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1840,  when  he  joined  the  company 
at  Xauvoo,  Illinois,  where  the  Prophet  had  pur- 
chased a  town  site  after  making  his  escape  from 
the  Missouri  prison.  Here  Mr.  Eldredge  assisted 
in  breaking  the  ground  for  the  Temple,  witness- 
ing the  completion  of  the  structure  and  doing 
his  full  share  towards  building  up  the  town.  At 
the  time  of  the  exodus  in  1846  he  went  to  Win- 
ter Quarters  with  the  main  body  of  the  Church 
and  there  built  a  rude  log  hut,  which  was  the 
first  shelter  the  family  had  had  since  the  early 
spring.  Two  of  his  children  succumbed  to  the 
hardships  and  privations  which  they  had  under- 
gone, and  were  buried  in  Winter  quarters.  He 
remained  there  until  the  spring  of  1848  when  he 
came  to  Utah  in  Brigham  Young's  company  of 
five  hundred  teams,  which  was  followed  by  an- 
other company  of  about  the  same  size  under 
Heber  C.  Kimball.     They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake 


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City  September  22,  1848,  only  to  find  that  the 
crops  of  that  year  had  been  a  failure,  having  been 
destroyed  by  the  crickets,  and  food  being  scarce, 
much  suffering  was  experienced  by  the  people 
that  winter.  Mr.  Eldredge"s  first  work  was  the 
erection  of  a  comfortable  home  for  his  family,  it 
being  the  first  pleasant  abode  they  had  had  since 
leaving  Winter  Quarters,  and  which  they  occu- 
pied in  1852.  The  house  is  still  standing.  Prior 
to  that  time  he  and  his  family  lived  in  a  log 
cabin.  Upon  arriving  in  Utah  Mr.  Eldredge 
was  appointed  Marshal  of  the  Territory  and  As- 
sessor and  Collector  of  Taxes.  He  was  also  ap- 
pointed and  commissioned  Brigadier-General  of 
one  of  the  first  companies  of  infantry  in  the  Ter- 
ritory. The  season  of  1849  was  a  very  fruitful 
one  and  the  settlers  gathered  an  abundant  har- 
vest, which  they  celebrated  in  royal  style  on  the 
second  anniversary  of  their  arrival  in  the  valley, 
Mr.  Eldredge  being  on  the  committee  oi  arrange- 
ments and  Grand  Marshal  of  the  day.  Not  only 
the  members  of  the  colony  but  also  many  strang- 
ers passing  through  on  their  way  to  California 
partook  of  the  bounteous  repast,  and  it  was  a 
time  of  general  thanksgiving  and  rejoicing. 

In  the  fall  of  1852  Mr.  Eldredge  was  called  to 
go  to  Saint  Louis  and  preside  over  the  Confer- 
ence and  act  as  Emigration  Agent.  The  emigra- 
tion from  Europe  and  the  Eastern  States  required 
about  four  hundred  wagons  and  outfits  and  about 
two  thousand  head  of  oxen,  during  the  spring 
of  1853,  and  these  were  purchased  under  Mr. 
Eldredge's  supervision,  after  which  he  conducted 
the  train  as  far  as  Winter  Quarters,  and  after 
seeing  it  safely  started  on  its  journey  across  the 
plains  returned  to  St.  Louis  and  from  there  paid 
a  visit  to  his  family  and  friends  in  New  York. 
He  spent  that  summer  purchasing  outfits  for  the 
following  spring.  He  received  instructions  from 
the  heads  of  the  Church  to  purchase  a  large 
quantity  of  merchandise  and  hire  men  and  teams 
to  haul  it  across  the  country  to  the  Salt  Lake 
valley,  which  he  did,  continuing  in  his  capacity 
of  Emigration  and  Purchasing  Agent  for  the 
Church  until  1855,  at  which  time  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Territorial  Legislature  and 
called  home. 

In  1856  he  entered  into  a  contract  with  W.  H. 


Hooper  to  take  a  large  stock  of  goods  to  Utah 
county,  and  they  started  on  October  23rd  with 
a  train  carrying  fifteen  thousand  dollars  worth 
of  merchandise.  They  opened  a  store  in  Provo, 
which  proved  a  success,  but  in  the  fall  of  the 
following  year,  1857,  Mr.  Eldredge  was  recalled 
and  again  sent  to  St.  Louis  to  resume  the  posi- 
tion he  had  previously  filled.  He  spent  about  a 
year  on  this  trip,  visiting  most  of  the  larger 
cities,  and  upon  his  return  found  his  home  and 
the  city  deserted  on  account  of  the  trouble  that 
had  arisen  with  the  entrance  of  Johnston's  army 
into  Lftah,  and  found  his  family  in  Provo.  After 
the  trouble  was  over  and  the  family  had  once 
more  settled  in  Salt  Lake  our  subject  began  pre- 
parations for  another  trip  across  the  plains,  and 
on  September  14,  1858,  in  companv  with  his  wife 
and  child  and  a  number  of  other  people,  started 
for  the  East,  for  the  purpose  of  purchasing  ma- 
chinery and  merchandise.  He  took  with  him 
twenty-six  thousand  dollars  on  this^trip,  and  de- 
posited the  most  of  it  in  St.  Louis,  which  place 
he  reached  on  November  ist.  He  visited  a  num- 
ber of  the  larger  cities,  making  his  purchases, 
which  he  shipped  to  Florence ;  among  other  pur- 
chases was  over  two  hundred  and  seventeen 
Schuttler  wagons  and  a  number  of  cattle.  In 
]\Iay,  1859,  he  started  his  first  wagon  train  across 
the  plains  under  direction  of  Captain  H.  D. 
Haight ;  this  train  consisted  of  seventy-two  wag- 
ons, each  drawn  by  three  yoke  of  oxen.  On  June 
1st  he  started  out  his  second  train  of  fifty  wagons, 
under  Captain  James  Brown,  and  then  loaded  his 
personal  wagons,  seventeen  in  number,  with  mer- 
chandise sending  it  in  charge  of  James  Lemmon. 
He  left  for  Utah  on  July  loth,  and  reached  Salt 
Lake  City  on  August  15th,  opening  a  store  in 
partnership  with  W.  H.  Hooper  in  part  of  the 
building  since  occupied  by  the  Herald.  He  made 
a  number  of  trips  East  after  this,  for  the  purpose 
of  purchasing  supplies  for  himself  or  the  Church, 
investing  between  eight  and  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars in  machinery  for  a  cotton  factory  in  1863. 
This  machinery  was  purchased  from  him  by 
President  Young.  He  made  other  trips  in  1864- 
65  and  1867;  during  the  latter  year  his  wagons 
were  attacked  by  the  Indians  and  twenty  thousand 
dollars  worth  of  goods  captured  and  destroyed. 


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This  merchandise  was  at  that  time  in  the  hands  of 
the  Union  Pacific  railroad,  and  being  compelled 
to  sue  the  company  for  damages  they  received 
a  judgment  for  nineteen  thousand  five  hundred 
dollars,  and  settled  with  the  companv  for  sixteen 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars.  When  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  was  estab- 
lished in  1868  the  firm  sold  out  to  them,  our  sub- 
ject taking  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  worth  of 
stock  in  that  institution,  which  afterwards  in- 
creased to  forty  thousand  dollars  in  value,  a. 
became  one  of  its  first  directors.  In  i86q  in  com- 
pany with  W.  H.  Hooper  and  L.  S.  Hills  he 
opened  a  banking  establishment,  which  was  the 
following  year  incorporated  imder  the  name  of 
the  Deseret  National  Bank,  capitalized  at  one 
hundred  and  eighty  thousand  dollars.  He  spent 
the  next  fourteen  months  in  Europe,  going  there 
in  1870,  and  during  that  time  had  charge  of  the 
European  missions  of  the  Church.  Two  years 
later  he  was  elected  President  of  the  Zion's  Co- 
operative ]\Iercantile  Institution,  occupying  also 
the  position  of  Manager  and  Superintendent  in 
connection  with  the  Presidency,  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  during  the  panic  of  1873  it  was  largely 
owing  to  his  foresight  and  business  sagacity  and 
personal  credit  that  the  institution  was  tided  over 
the  crisis.  During  the  years  in  which  he  con- 
trolled the  affairs  of  this  institution  it  was  put 
upon  a  sound  financial  basis  and  many  of  the 
plans  for  its  enlargement  were  promulgated  and 
put  inta  practice  by  Mr.  Eldredge.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  foimders  and  a  prime  factor  in  the 
establishing  of  the  business  of  Clark  Eldredge 
&  Company,  which  is  one  of  the  leading  whole- 
sale grocery  houses  of  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Eldredge  died  at  his  home  in  i>alt  Lake 
City,  September  6,  1888,  mourned  by  the  people 
of  the  entire  Territory,  who  had  come  to  know 
and  love  him  during  his  many  years  of  public 
service  and  also  through  his  position  as  Emi- 
gration Agent.  It  may  safely  be  said  that  no 
other  man  of  his  time  lived  closer  to  the  hearts 
of  the  people,  saving  only,  perhaps,  the  President 
of  the  Church,  and  the  glowing  tributes  paid  Mr. 
Eldredge  by  Moses  Thatcher  and  others  were 
listened  to  by  a  large  concourse  of  sorrowing 
friends. 


ILL! AM    D.    PARK    is    the    sixth 
child   of   William  and  Jane    (Dun- 
can)   Park,    who   were    among   the 
^^^    early  settlers  to  come  to  Utah  and 

'  take     up     farming     in     Salt     Lake 

county.  The  progress  which  his  father  made  has 
been  carried  on  in  a  higher  degree  by  all  of  his 
sons.  And  in  the  successful  tilling  of  the  ground 
and  in  the  conducting  of  a  large  and  growing 
sheep  business,  Wm.  D.  Park  is  considered  one 
of  the  foremost  men  of  the  county,  in  his  line  of 
work.  Sketches  of  his  brothers,  Andrew  D., 
Hugh  D.,  John  D.,  and  also  his  brother-in-law, 
Alexander  H.  Hill,  the  husband  of  his  sister, 
Jane,  also  appear  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Mr.  Park  was  born  in  Canada,  November  25, 
1837,  and  the  Park  family  were  originally  na- 
tives of  Scotland,  his  parents  coming  to  America 
at  the  ages  of  fourteen  and  sixteen,  respectively, 
and  settled  in  the  western  part  of  upper  Canada. 
His  paternal  grandfather  was  James  Park,  a 
prominent  and  prosperous  Scotchman,  and  his 
paternal  grandmother  was  Marian  (Allen) 
Park,  also  a  native  of  Scotland.  The  Park 
family  remained  residents  of  the  British  Do- 
minion until  1846,  when  the  whole  family, 
consisting  of  the  parents  and  nine  children, 
moved  from  Canada  to  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  mak- 
ing the  long  trip  to  Illinois  by  ox  teams, 
and  arriving  there  in  1846.  They  reached 
that  place  at  the  time  that  public  sentiment  was 
in  its  highest  frenzy  against  the  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  were  among  the  members 
who  were  forced  to  leave  Illinois  and  take  refuge 
in  the  wilds  of  Nebraska,  where  they  established 
the  settlement  of  Winter  Quarters,  now  Flor- 
ence, Nebraska,  on  the  banks  of  the  Missouri 
river.  The  Park  family  were  among  the  first 
to  come  to  Utah,  arriving  here  in  1847,  "ot  only 
being  pioneers  in  crossing  the  plains,  but  blaz- 
ing the  way  for  the  members  of  the  Church  to 
-ome  here  in  later  years  and  marking  the  trails 
so  that  the  emigration  was,  considering  the  dif- 
ficulties of  travel,  rendered  comparatively  easy. 
They  arrived  in  the  Utah  valley  October  2,  1847. 
They  were  under  the  direct  command  of  Archi- 
bald Gardiner,  who  was  captain  of  ten  wagons 
in  the  train  in  which  thev  traveled.     These  ten 


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wagons  were  one  of  the  subdivisions  under  Cap- 
tain Horn,  who  had  fifty  wagons  under  his  con- 
trol, and  he  in  turn  was  under  Captain  Hunter, 
who  had  under  his  command  one  hundred  wag- 
ons, the  entire  train  being  under  the  command 
of  John  Taylor,  late  President  of  the  Church. 
Our  subject  drove  two  yoke  of  oxen  all  the  way 
from  Winter  Quarters  to  Salt  Lake.  Owing  to 
the  enforced  evacuation  from  Nauvoo  and  the 
privations  under  which  they  suffered,  many  of 
the  Mormons  were  poorly  equipped  with  clothes, 
and  young  Park  was  not  among  the  best  fa- 
vored ;  in  fact,  he  made  the  trip  bare-footed  and 
walked  most  of  the  way  beside  his  team.  They 
remained  in  Salt  Lake  City  throughout  the  win- 
ter of  1847,  ^"d  in  the  spring  of  1848.  They 
put  in  their  first  crop  in  Utah  on  the  land  now 
occupied  by  the  penitentiary,  and  moved  to  I\Iill 
Creek  Ward  in  1849,  where  their  father  took  up 
land  and  turned  his  attention  to  the  cultivation 
of  it,  in  which  he  was  very  successful.  The  first 
year  the  crop  was  very  good,  and  assisted  consid- 
erably in  alleviating  the  distress  of  the  pioneers. 
The  whole  family  of  boys  assisted  their  father 
in  the  work  of  tilling  the  farm,  and,  like  all 
the  sons  of  pioneers  of  those  days,  took  their  full 
share  of  the  work.  In  the  summer  they  worked 
on  the  farm,  and  in  winter  went  to  the  moun- 
tains, where  they  suflfered  hardships  that  would 
now  seem  almost  beyond  the  endurance  of  man, 
in  getting  out  timber,  not  alone  for  fuel,  but 
also  to  be  used  in  the  erection  of  buildings  here. 
They  all  assisted  in  the  erection  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Temple,  which  was  begun  shortly  after  their 
arrival  here.  In  1850  they  built  an  adobe  school, 
and  here  the  boys  received  what  education  they 
■could  from  an  attendance  limited  to  a  few  weeks 
each  winter. 

Mr.  Park  married  on  February  17,  i860,  to 
Miss  Jannette  Gordon,  daughter  of  James  and 
Mary  Gordon.  This  family  was  also  among  the 
pioneers  of  Utah,  coming  here  in  1848.  The 
Gordon  family  was  a  large  one,  and  several  of 
the  children  are  still  living  in  Salt  Lake  county. 
By  this  marriage  Mr.  Park  has  had  fourteen 
children,  of  which  number  four  sons  are  now 
dead.  His  children  are:  William  G.,  a  farmer 
in  ]\Iill  Creek  Ward ;  James,  who  died  at  the  age 


of  thirty-eight  years  and  left  behind  him  a  wife 
and  si.x  children ;  Mary,  now  Mrs.  Edward 
Mackay,  of  Taylorsville  Ward ;  Jane,  now  Mrs. 
Emil  Bloom,  of  Mill  Creek  Ward;  Joseph  G., 
at  present  absent  in  England  on  a  mission,  where 
he  has  served  two  years ;  Rachel,  now  the  wife 
of  Harrison  S.  Shurtliff,  a  resident  of  Mill  Creek 
Ward ;  John,  who  died  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
years ;  Janette,  now  Mrs.  Hyrum  Harker ;  Rob- 
ert, engaged  in  the  sheep  business  in  Wyoming ; 
Ellen,  Andrew  and  David,  twins,  who  died  in 
childhood  ;  Le  Roy  and  Arthur. 

The  home  which  ^Ir.  Park  occupies  has  been 
his  residence  since  1866.  He  owned  it  prior  to 
that  time,  but  did  not  occupy  it  until  that  year. 
The  homestead  is  located  on  State  street,  be- 
tween Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth  South  streets, 
and  contains  one  hundred  acres.  He  has  a  com- 
fortable home  and  good,  substantial  barns  and 
outhouses,  and  his  land  is  all  fenced.  The  water 
used  is  furnished  by  artesian  wells,  and  his  house 
is  equipped  with  all  the  conveniences  that  mod- 
ern inventions  have  supplied  for  the  conveni- 
ence of  dwellers.  He  is  also  the  owner  of  con- 
siderable land  in  Wyoming,  where  he  has  a  large 
and  growing  sheep  business.  L'nder  the  desert 
act  he  has  312  acres.  His  son,  William  G.,  owns 
311  acres,  and  his  son  Robert  320  acres,  which 
at  the  present  time  is  used  for  pasture,  and  also 
for  the  growing  of  hay,  their  hay  land  being  all 
under  irrigation.  Mr.  Park  and  his  sons,  who 
are  now  associated  with  him  in  Wyoming,  de- 
vote their  time  to  their  large  sheep  business, 
which  has  grown  to  a  very  prosperous  and  satis- 
factory condition. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Park  is  a  Republican,  and 
is  a  prominent  man  in  the  work  of  his  party.  He 
has  been  a  delegate  from  his  county  to  the  con- 
ventions to  nominate  candidates  for  the  offices 
in  the  State,  and  he  has  also  been  a  delegate  to 
the  National  Live  Stock  Growers'  Association, 
having  attended  three  sessions  of  that  body.  He 
has  followed  the  faith  of  his  fathers,  and  early 
joined  the  Mormon  Church,  to  which  faith  his 
wife  and  children  also  belong.  They  have  all 
taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  work  of  the 
Church,  and  are  counted  among  its  staunchest 
members   in   Salt   Lake  countv.      His   son,  Wil- 


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539 


liam  G.,  was  for  three  years  absent  in  Australia 
on  missionary  work  for  the  Church.  Mr.  Park 
is  not  only  a  member  of  one  of  the  earliest  pio- 
neer families  in  Salt  Lake  county,  but  the  work 
he  has  done  entitles  him  to  a  high  place  in  the 
ranks  of  the  business  life  of  Utah,  and  especi- 
ally in  the  live  stock  business.  The  reputation 
which  he  has  made  for  honesty  and  integrity, 
together  with  the  ability  he  has  demonstrated  in 
successfully  managing  his  business,  has  won  for 
him  the  confidence  and  respect  of  his  business 
associates,  and  his  sincerity  and  large-minded- 
ness  in  his  Church  work  has  brought  him  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  all  the  people  of  that  or- 
ganization, and  he  enjoys  a  wide  popularity 
throughout  the  State,  and  in  Wvomine:  as  well. 


^^^  HE  RIGHT  REVEREND  ABIEL 
LEOXARD,  S.  T.  D.,  Bishop  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  in  Utah.  No  one 
can  bequeath  to  posterity  a  richer  heri- 
tage than  the  memory  of  a  noble  life 
devoted  with  unselfish  affection  to  the  uplifting 
of  the  human  race.  Such  a  man  will  wield  an  in- 
fluence that  will  not  cease  with  his  departure 
from  earth's  scenes  nor  will  death,  while  it  may 
change,  be  able  to  lessen  his  activities ;  but  in 
deeds  of  kindness  which  he  performed  in  self- 
sacrificing  acts  of  helpfulness  and  in  ceaseless 
ministrations  to  others,  his  influence  still  lives, 
through  his  work  as  a  clergyman,  and  in  the  less 
conspicuous  though  not  less  useful  routine  of  his 
private  life.  Bishop  Leonard  has  proven  himself 
to  be  one  of  God's  noblemen. 

1  he  life  which  this  narrative  sketches  began 
at  Fayette  Missouri,  where  Bishop  Leonard  was 
born  June  26,  1848.  He  comes  of  New  England 
ancestry  on  his  father's  side,  reaching  back  to 
1652.  He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  in  the  preparatory  department  of 
Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  and  was  grad- 
uated from  Dartmouth  College  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1870. 

Having  decided  to  enter  the  ministry  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  he  entered  the 
General  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  City 
in  the  autumn  of  1870.  and  graduated  from  that 


institution  in  1873.  He  was  ordained  a  Deacon 
by  Bishop  Robertson  of  Missouri  in  what  is  com- 
monly known  as  "The  Little  Church  Around  the 
Corner,"  the  Church  of  Transfiguration,  in  New 
York  City.  He  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his 
life  work  at  once  in  Sedalia,  Missouri,  where  he 
remained  three  years,  being  ordained  Priest  dur- 
ing his  residence  at  that  place.  He  also  officiated 
for  a  short  time  in  Pike  county,  Missouri,  and 
afterwards  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  removing  in 
1877  to  Hannibal,  in  that  State,  where  he  re- 
mained until  November.  1881.  During  his  resi- 
dence in  Missouri  he  occupied  several  positions 
of  honor  and  trust  in  the  church.  In  1881  he  re- 
moved to  Atchison,  Kansas  where  he  spent  seven 
years.  While  residing  in  this  State  he  was  prom- 
inently connected  with  the  interests  of  the  Church 
and  was  also  closely  identified  with  the  educa- 
tional interests  of  the  city  of  his  residence,  serv- 
ing the  whole  period  upon  the  Board  of  Exam- 
iners of  Public  School  Teachers.  In  the  autumn 
of  1887  he  was  elected  Missionary  Bishop  of 
Nevada  and  Utah,  and  took  up  his  residence  in 
Salt  Lake  City  in  March,  1888.  He  received  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Sacred  Theology  from  his 
alma  mater,  the  General  Theological  Seminary 
of  New  York  City.  During  his  residence  in  the 
Rocky  Mountains  he  has  always  had  a  large  dis- 
trict under  his  supervision.  Much  of  his  work 
has  been  in  connection  with  Christian  education, 
in  which  he  has  always  been  greatly  interested. 
At  one  time  there  were  two  boarding  and  seven 
day  schools  in  operation  under  his  care.  All  of 
these  have  now  been  closed,  with  the  exception 
of  Rowland  Hall,  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Upon  his 
arrival  in  the  city  he  found  nine  boarding  pupils 
in  Rowland  Hall,  which  number  has  now  in- 
creased to  fifty.  The  school  building  was  small 
and  inconvenient,  and  it  has  been  twice  enlarged 
at  a  cost  of  more  than  twenty  thousand  dollars, 
and  another  building  is  now  in  contemplation, 
which  will  cost  about  fifteen  thousand  dollars. 
The  present  buildings  are  admirably  suited  for 
its  purpose  and  the  hall  has  a  beautiful  location. 
The  standard  of  instruction  has  been  raised  to 
such  an  extent  under  the  Bishop's  careful  man- 
agement that  the  holder  of  one  of  its  diplomas 
may  enter  many  of  the  leading  eastern  colleges 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


without  examination.  It  is  his  ambition  to  make 
this  the  leading  educational  institution  for  girls  in 
the  western  country. 

Bishop  Leonard  has  also  been  greatly  interest- 
ed in  movements  for  the  care  of  the  sick.  When 
he  came  here  he  found  St.  Mark's  Hospital 
housed  in  a  small  building  capable  of  accommo- 
dating about  twenty-five  patients  and  struggling 
with  a  debt  which  threatened  to  destroy  it.  To- 
day this  institution  is  the  possessgr  of  one  of  the 
largest  and  best  equipped  buildings  in  the  West. 
It  cost  about  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Its 
management  is  first-class  in  every  way ;  its  medi- 
cal stafif  is  composed  of  some  of  the  ablest  and 
best  known  physicians  in  this  inter-mountain 
region,  and  it  employs  a  large  stafif  of  competent 
nurses,  many  of  them  being  graduates  of  this 
institution.  Under  the  Bishop's  supervision  the 
work  of  the  Church  also  took  on  new  life  and 
churches  and  mission  stations  have  multiplied  in 
his  district.  Among  other  stations  two  have  been 
established  for  the  Ute  Indians,  and  an  effort  is 
being  made  to  care  for  their  bodily  as  well  as 
their  spiritual  welfare. 

Bishop  Leonard  was  married  in  1875  to  Aliss 
Flora  Thompson,  daughter  of  A.  H.  Thompson 
of  Boonville,  Missouri.  They  have  five  children : 
Ada  Cameron  ;  Sally  ;  Robert  Leverett ;  Dorothy, 
and  Margaret. 

Bishop  Leonard's  ancestors  came  to  America 
many  generations  ago.  On  his  paternal  side  his 
ancestors  sprung  from  an  English  Baroness 
whose  castle  was  found  in  the  County  of  Sussex, 
England,  but  those  who  came  to  America  cared 
little  for  titles  and  one  ancestor  upon  being  in- 
formed that  he  could  have  a  titled  position  by  re- 
turning to  England,  retorted  that  he  preferred 
to  remain  in  this  country  without  a  title.  Our 
subject's  father  was  the  Honorable  Abiel  Leonard, 
for  some  years  a  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court 
in  the  State  of  Missouri.  He  was  widely  identi- 
fied with  the  history  of  Missouri,  reaching  the 
State  two  years  before  its  admission  into  the 
Union.  His  opinions  from  the  Bench  are  widely 
known  and  largely  quoted  by  lawyers.  His  father 
was  Nathaniel  Leonard,  a  captain  in  the  L'nited 
States  army  and  participated  in  the  War  of  1812. 
Bishop    Leonard's    great-grandfather     was     the 


Reverend  Abiel  Leonard.  D.  D.,  a  Congrega- 
tional minister,  who  was  chaplain  to  General 
Washington  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  An- 
other ancestor  on  his  father's  maternal  side  was 
a  Colonial  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  while 
still  another,  John  Leverett,  was  at  one  time 
President  of  Harvard  Collesre. 


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OUIS  STRASBURG.    It  is  said  of  the 
lives  of  men  who  shape  the  affairs  of 
nations   that   nearness   of   vision  often 
destroys  clearness  of  vision,  hence  the 
difficulty    of    one's    own    near    friends 
and  neighbors  accurately  measuring  the  influence 
of  his  character  and  career.    However,  this  is  not 
always  true,  for  we  find  many  instances  of  men 
who  are   justly  honored   and   esteemed  by  their 
associates,  and  whose  most  intimate  friends  do 
the  greatest  justice  to  their  influence.     Such  may 
be  said  of  Mr.  Strasburg,  whose  name  and  works 
will  be  woven   into  the  history  of  his   country, 
and  as  time  passes  he  and  others  who  shaped  the 
course  of  progress  in  days  gone  by  will  be  given 
the  positions  to  which  their  merit  entitles  them. 
Louis   Strasburg,   Mayor  of  Tooele   City   was 
born    August   19,    1835,   on   the   river   Rhine,   in 
Prussia,  and  is  the  son  of  Anton  Strasburg.    Our 
subject  emigrated   to  America  when  but   seven- 
teen years  of  age,  and  two  years  later  on  May 
I,  1855,  enlisted  in  New  York  City  as  a  soldier 
in  the  United  States  army.  Tenth  Infantry.     In 
this  company  our  subject  was  the  chief  bugler. 
The  company  was  organized  in  the  Carlisle  bar- 
racks in  Pennsylvania,  and  was  for  a  time  sta- 
tioned at  Fort  Prairie  Duchesne,  Wisconsin,  and 
saw  considerable  service  during  the  Indian  trou- 
bles.    In   May,    1857,  the  army  came  down  the 
river  to  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  and  took  up 
the  march  for  Utah,  camping  that  winter  at  Fort 
Bridger,  Wyoming.      The  rations  of  the  army 
at   this  time  consisted  of  seven  ounces  of   flour 
per  man  per  day,  they  not  having  even  salt  to 
season  it  with.     Brigham  Young  sent  a  quantity 
of  salt  to  General  Johnston,  which  the  latter  re- 
fused on  account  of  the  fact  that  he  was  sent  out 
to    quell    the    rebellion    against    the    government 
which  thev  believed  to  exist  among:  the  Mormon 


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people  at  that  time.  This  salt  was  sold  to  some 
traders  for  twoand  a  half  dollars  a  pound.  In  May, 
1858.  the  army  again  took  up  their  march,  cross- 
ing the  Salt  Lake  valley  at  Lehi  and  camped  at 
the  hot  springs  for  a  number  of  weeks,  allowing 
the  men  to  recruit.  From  this  place  they  went  to 
Camp  Floyd,  where  they  were  finally  mustered 
out,  and  our  subject  received  an  honorable  dis- 
charge in  i860. 

After  leaving  the  service  of  the  Government 
our  subject  remained  in  Utah,  taking  up  a  farm 
in  the  Little  Cottonwood  canyon,  from  which 
place  he  went  to  Weber  on  Silver  creek  and  re- 
mained there  eighteen  months,  moving  from  there 
to  Rush  valley,  where  he  again  procured  a  farm 
and  branched  out  into  the  cattle  business  and  also 
the  sheep  business.  He  lived  in  Rush  valley 
from  1863  to  1898,  following  his  occupation  of 
farmer  and  stock  raiser ;  taking  an  active  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  his  community  and  serving  as 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  eight  years. 

Mr.  Strasburg  was  married  in  Camp  Floyd 
February  14,  1859,  to  Miss  Mary  Armstrong, 
daughter  of  William  Armstrong.  Fourteen  chil- 
dren were  the  result  of  this  marriage,  of  whom 
nine  are  now  living :  Louis  H. :  Robert ;  George ; 
Katie,  David  ;  Joseph  ;  Jane ;  Nellie  ;  Alice.  The 
two  oldest  daughters  are  married  and  live  in 
Tooele  county.  Louis  and  George  are  farmers, 
residing  at  American  Fork  ;  Robert  has  a  farm  on 
Clover  creek,  in  Toole  county ;  David  is  living 
on  the  old  homestead  in  Rush  valley,  and  Joseph 
has  charge  of  the  cattle  and  sheep  business,  in 
which  the  entire  family  has  an  interest.  They 
own  five  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Rush  valley. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Strasburg  has  always  been 
a  staunch  Republican,  and  besides  being  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  in  Rush  valley,  has  served  as  Coun- 
ty Commissioner  of  Tooele  county,  and  on  No- 
vember 4,  1901,  was  elected  Mayor  of  Tooele 
City,  taking  his  seat  on  January  i,  1902.  It  was 
his  intention  to  retire  from  public  and  business 
life  when  he  came  to  this  place,  but  so  popular 
was  he  and  so  well  had  he  served  the  people  in 
the  other  offices  to  which  he  had  been  elected  that 
they  would  not  hear  of  his  declining  the  nomina- 
tion for  Mayor  of  the  city,  to  which  position  he 
was  elected  bv  a  large  maiority.     In  social  life 


the  Mayor  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  hav- 
ing had  his  membership  in  Salt  Lake  City  for 
the  past  twenty-five  years. 

Mayor  Strasburg  is  a  most  genial  and  kindly 
man,  one  who  instantly  puts  strangers  at  their 
ease  and  convinces  them  by  his  sincere  and  frank 
manner  that  they  are  in  the  presence  of  a  friend. 
His  life,  both  private  and  public,  has  been  with- 
out a  blemish,  and  while  he  is  loved  and  honored 
by  all  who  know  him,  it  is  in  the  home  that  he  is 
most  highly  prized  and  appreciated.  He  has  ever 
been  a  most  kind  and  indulgent  husband  and 
father,  and  as  his  children  have  grown  to  ma- 
turity he  has  assisted  each  one  to  get  a  comfort- 
able start  in  life,  taking  them  into  partnership 
with  him  in  his  large  cattle  and  sheep  business  in 
Rush  valley,  and  today  there  is  no  more  worthy 
family  in  Tooele  county  than  that  reared  by 
Mayor  Strasburg. 


C.  NELSON.  The  most  prominent 
feature  in  the  life  of  the  United  States 
and  one  which  has  resulted  largely 
in  the  building  up  of  its  present  ad- 
vanced position  in  the  vanguard  of 
civilization,  is  the  attention  paid  to  the  education 
of  the  young  people.  Liberal  provisions  are  made 
bv  the  different  States  for  the  prosecution  of  this 
work,  and  the  development  of  the  school  system 
has  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  men  who  have 
bv  long  experience  proved  themselves  fit  to  dis- 
charge the  responsibilities  of  this  task.  In  Utah 
the  development  of  the  school  system  has  kept 
pace  with  the  development  of  the  resources  and 
industries  of  the  State,  and  today  the  schcc'.  sys- 
tem of  Salt  Lake  City,  and,  in  fact,  throughout 
Utah,  is  considerably  in  advance  of  some  of  the 
neighboring  States.  In  this  service  there  are 
many  efficient  men  and  among  the  number  there 
is  no  more  prominent  educator  than  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Schools. 

A.  C.  Nelson  was  born  in  Ephriam,  Sanpete 
county,  Utah,  in  1864.  His  father,  M.  P.  Nelson, 
was  a  native  of  Denmark,  and  came  here  in  the 
early  days  of  the  settlement  of  this  State,  locating 
at  Ephriam  in   i860.     Here  he  followed  farming 


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and  continued  to  devote  his  attention  to  that  bus- 
iness. During  his  life  he  also  paid  particular 
attention  to  educational  matters,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  fifty-six,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him.  His  wife,  Margaret  Nelson,  is  still 
living  in  Redmond,  Sevier  county. 

Their  son  spent  his  early  life  on  the  farm,  get- 
ting his  education  in  the  public  schools  that  then 
existed  in  the  State,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen 
he  started  out  on  life's  work  and  secured  em- 
ployment in  the  Government  Survey,  engaged 
in  surveying  the  eastern  portion  of  Utah.  He 
remained  in  that  employment  until  the  following 
vear  when  he  left  it  and  took  a  position  on  the 
surveying  staflf  of  the  railroads,  and  in  the  rail- 
road surveying  he  remained  for  three  years.  He 
left  that  work  and  attended  the  Brigham  Young 
Academy  at  Provo,  attending  the  sessions  of  that 
school  for  six  or  seven  years  during  the  winters 
and  returning  to  work  in  the  summer.  He  grad- 
uated in  i8gi,  and  in  that  year  was  tendered  the 
position  of  principal  of  the  Manti  Seminary,  an 
institution  under  the  auspices  of  the  Alormon 
Church,  which  position  he  accepted,  and  held  for 
three  years.  He  then  accepted  a  position  as 
principal  of  the  public  schools  of  Manti,  and  was 
elected  as  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  for 
Sanpete  county  shortly  after.  This  position  he 
held  for  two  terms,  aggregating  a  term  of  four 
and  a  half  years.  In  addition  to  his  work  as  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Sanpete  county  schools, 
he  found  time  to  take  a  course  extending  over 
four  years  at  the  State  University  of  Indiana, 
known  as  the  Indian  Central  University.  He 
holds  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  from  the 
Brigram  Young  Academy,  and  also  a  degree 
from  the  University  of  Indiana.  In  1897  he  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Wells  as  a  member  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  which  position  he  still 
holds,  and  by  virtue  of  that  position  he  is  Chair- 
man of  the  State  Board  of  Education.  In  the 
fall  of  1900  he  was  elected  State  Superintendent 
of  Schools,  and  has  jurisdiction  over  three  hun- 
dred school  districts,  and  since  his  inauguration 
to  that  position  has  visited  twenty  of  the  twenty- 
seven  counties  of  the  State.  He  is  well  fitted  for 
the  duties  which  he  has  been  called  upon  to  dis- 
charge,  and   has   jurisdiction   not   only   over   the 


district  schools,  but  over  the  high  schools  as  well. 
His  work  in  Sanpete  county  marked  him  as  one 
of  the  most  prominent  educators  of  Utah,  and  the 
splendid  record  he  made  there  has  been  continued 
since  his  election  to  his  present  office. 

Mr.  Nelson  was  married  in  1884  in  Sevier 
county,  Utah,  to  Miss  Amanda  Jensen,  daughter 
of  Captain  John  Jensen,  who  came  to  Utah  in  its 
early  days.  Her  mother's  father,  Andrew  Peter- 
son, was  a  native  of  Norway.  By  this  marriage 
Mr.  Nelson  has  eight  children :  Clarence ;  Cloe ; 
Clifton  :  Claron  ;  Carlisle  ;  Lamar  ;  ]\Iarion  Tan- 
ner and  Irving. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Nelson  has  been  a  staunch 
Republican  and  has  followed  the  fortunes  of  that 
partv  since  its  formation  in  Utah.  He  has  three 
brothers,  all  of  whom  have  made  successful  ca- 
reers in  life.  Two  of  them  are  properous  farmers 
in  the  southern  part  of  the  State ;  the  younger 
brother  is  Secretary  to  Congressman  Sutherland, 
and  is  attending  the  sessions  of  a  law  school  in 
W'ashiugron,  D.  C. 


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EXJAMIN  B.  HEYWOOD,  United 
States  Marshal  of  the  State  of  Utah 
needs  no  introduction  to  the  citizens 
of  Utah.  He  is  a  native  son  of  this 
State,  and  has  spent  almost  his  entire 
life  within  her  confines,  being  largely  connected 
with  her  mining  and  stock  raising  industry,  and 
a  familiar  figure  in  all  parts  of  the  State  long  be- 
fore his  official  position  brought  him  into  public 
life. 

Mr.  Hey  wood  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  Sep- 
tember 16,  1854,  and  his  scholastic  education  was 
received  from  her  schools.  His  early  education 
was  obtained  by  attending  schools  a  few  months 
at  a  time  during  the  winter  seasons,  it  being 
necessary  for  him  to  earn  his  own  living,  and 
being  compelled  to  work  most  of  the  time  the 
\enr  around.  However,  he  was  of  a  persevering 
nature,  willing  and  anxious  to  learn,  and  lost  no 
opportunity  to  add  to  his  store  of  book  knowledge 
After  completing  his  rudimentary  studies  he  at- 
tended the  sessions  of  the  Morgan  Commercial 
College  of  this  city,  at  that  time  one  of  the  lead- 
ing- commercial   institutions  of  the  State,  where 


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he  completed  his  education.  After  leaving 
school  Mr.  Heywood  engaged  in  the  live 
stock  business  in  this  State,  which  he  has 
since  followed  more  or  less  regularly  and  is 
still  interested  in  that  line.  He  spent  six 
months  in  construction  work  on  the  main  line 
of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  between  Omaha 
and  Salt  Lake,  and  spent  a  year  in  ]\Ion- 
tana,  engaged  in  the  same  work  on  the  Xorthern 
Pacific  railroad,  in  1882.  He  also  spent  a  year 
in  Oregon,  where  he  engaged  in  the  stock  busi- 
ness and  during  the  years  1880  and  1881  spent 
most  of  his  time  on  the  cattle  trail  in  Idaho,  Utah 
and  Wyoming.  In  1894  he  turned  his  attention 
to  mining  and  for  two  years  was  connected  with 
the  mines  in  San  Juan  county.  Since  that  time 
he  has  associated  himself  with  the  mining  indus- 
tries of  the  State  to  a  considerable  extent,  still 
retaining  his  interest  in  the  cattle  business. 

Mr.  Heywood's  father  is  Joseph  L.  Heywood, 
a  native  of  Massachusetts,  and  one  of  the  early 
pioneers  to  Utah,,  having  crossed  the  plains  in  o.x 
teams  in  1848.  He  has  been  since  that  time 
closely  associated  with  the  life  of  the  State,  and 
during  his  more  active  days  was  a  prominent  man 
in  the  State.  He  was  the  first  Marshal  in  the 
Territory,  and  had  jurisdiction  over  that  terri- 
tory covered  at  this  time  by  the  States  of  Utah 
and  Nevada,  which  position  he  filled  with  credit  to 
himself  and  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  govern- 
ment for  many  years.  When  he  retired  form  this 
position  he  entered  private  life,  and  has  since 
followed  ao-ricultural  pursuits,  doing  an  extensive 
farming  and  stock  raising  business  in  Garfield 
county,  where  he  still  lives  at  the  hale  old  age 
of  eighty-seven  years,  in  the  enjoyment  of  good 
health.  His  wife  and  the  mother  of  our  subject. 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Serepta  M.  Blodgett. 
She  was  a  native  of  Ohio.  Her  father  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  in  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  where 
he  w'as  well  known,  and  lived  until  his  death. 

Mr.  Heywood  w'as  married  in  1881  to  Miss 
^Martha  Thornley,  who  died  two  years  later,  leav- 
ing one  son,  Benjamin  T.,  a  mining  man.  He 
was  married  a  second  time,  in  1896,  to  Miss 
Kathleen  Pitt.  They  have  one  daughter,  Kath- 
leen B. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  always  been  identified 


with  the  Repulilican  party,  and  has  always  voted 
this  ticket,  with  the  exception  of  the  fall  of  1896, 
when  he  cast  his  vote  for  William  Jennings  Bryan. 
Prior  to  the  formation  of  the  Republican  party 
in  Utah  Mr.  Heywood  owed  his  allegiance  to  the 
Liberal  party.  He  received  the  appointment  to 
his  present  position  January  28,  19Q2. 

From  a  child  of  twelve  years  Mr.  Heywood 
has  made  his  way  in  life,  unaided  by  any  one, 
and  the  success  which  has  crowned  his  life  and 
the  distiniction  he  has  won  both  in  business  and 
public  life  are  due  to  his  own  efforts  and  ability. 
He  has  always  been  a  straightforward,  honorable 
bearing,  gentlemanly  in  his  demanor  and  has 
won  and  retained  not  only  the  confidence  and  re- 
spect but  also  the  warm  friendship  of  hundreds 
of  people  in  this  citv  and  State. 


AAIES  H.  ANDERSON.  In  the  gov- 
irnment  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  in  the 
direction  of  its  affairs,  there  is  perhaps 
III)  more  important  position  than  that  of 
Commissioner.  To  this  position,  equip- 
ped with  the  experience  of  a  life  spent  within 
the  confines  of  the  State  in  which  he  was  born, 
has  been  called  a  native  Utahn,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch. 

James  H.  Anderson  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City  on  February  11,  1857.  He  is  the  son  of 
James  Anderson,  a  native  of  Scotland,  who  came 
to  the  L'nited  States  in  1849  and  located  in  Utah 
in  1854.  Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah,  at  a  time 
when  there  was  little  assistance  afforded  to  the 
settlers  in  their  efforts  to  subjugate  a  wilderness, 
he  established  an  iron  foundry,  the  first  of  its 
kind  in  this  country.  This  firm,  know-n  as  James 
Anderson  and  Sons,  was  one  of  the  most  success- 
ful enterprises  of  its  kind  that  have  existed  in 
Utah.  Mr.  Anderson  remained  at  the  head  of 
this  establishment  until  his  death  in  1899.  He 
had  joined  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  in  Scotland  and  took  an  active  part 
in  its  aflfairs  until  his  death.  He  was  greatly 
interested  in  the  welfare  of  the  young,  and  having 
been  self  educated,  realized  the  necessity  of  pro- 
viding proper  educational  facilities  to  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  the  community.     He  was  one 


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of  the  first  trustees  of  the  schools  in  Utah  and 
gave  wilHng  aid  to  that  work.  When  the  present 
Salt  Lake  Temple  was  in  course  of  erection,  Mr. 
Anderson  assisted  materially  in  the  work.  He 
milled  the  first  Utah  iron  that  was  used  in  the 
west.  His  father,  William  Anderson,  was  also 
a  meinber  of  the  Church  and  followed  the  trade 
of  a  carpenter. 

The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Cath- 
erine Mary  (Cowley)  Anderson,  was  born  on 
the  Isle  of  Man.  Her  family  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica in  1841,  and  were  among  the  members  of  the 
Church  who  were  expelled  from  Nauvoo,  Illi- 
nois, in  1846.  They  came  across  the  plains  to 
L^tah  with  other  emigrants  and  here  she  resides 
still. 

James  H.  Anderson  spent  his  early  life  in  the 
city  of  his  birth,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  city,  and  later  entered  the 
U^niversity  of  Utah,  at  that  time  known  as  the 
Deseret  University.  His  first  work  was  under- 
taken at  the  age  of  fourteen,  and  for  a  short  time 
he  was  engaged  as  teacher  in  the  schools  of  the 
Sixth  district.  He  later  learned  the  art  of  print- 
ing, and  starting  in  the  composing  department, 
went  through  all  the  dififerent  departments  of 
printing,  from  setting  type  to  the  editorial  work 
on  the  Deseret  Evening  Nczcs.  His  services  with 
that  paper  extended  over  a  period  of  twenty- 
eight  years,  and  he  was  largely  instrumental  in 
bunging  it  up  to  its  present  high  standard  of 
efficency.  In  addition  to  his  work  on  the  Deseret 
Neii'S,  he  was  also  editor  of  the  Millenial  Star, 
which  position  he  held  from  1890  to  1892,  pub- 
lishing that  paper  in  Liverpool,  England,  for  dis- 
tribution throughout  Great  Britain.  At  the  close 
of  his  mission  in  1892,  he  returned  to  Utah  and 
again  took  up  his  work  on  the  Deseret  News, 
and  continued  in  that  service  until  he  was  elected 
County  Commissioner  in  1900,  of  which  body  he 
is  now  chairman.  The  confining  work  of  a  news- 
paper and  the  responsibility  which  rested  upon 
him  made  him  welcome  this  election  as  a  relief 
from  his  arduous  duties,  and  it  was  on  this  ac- 
count that  he  severed  his  relations  with  the  news- 
paper. He  has,  besides  his  newspaper  work,  as- 
sisted Bishop  Whitney  in  writing  and  compiling 
the  hisotrv  of  L'tah. 


Mr.  Anderson  was  married  in  1881  to  Miss 
Mary  A.  Abbott,  daughter  of  Nemiah  and  Eliza 
Abbott,  natives  of  Monmouthshire,  England,  who 
came  to  Utah  in  1878.  His  family  consists  of  five 
children,  two  sons  and  three  daughters :  Florence 
M.;  Edgar  J.;  Mable  E. :  Albert  H.  and  Des- 
sie  M. 

In  the  political  ai?airs  of  Utah  Mr.  Anderson 
has  always  taken  an  active  interest,  and  is  a  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party. 
He  is  also  a  prominent  and  active  worker  in  the 
Church  of  his  choice,  and  holds  the  position  of 
Seventy.  He  is  also  Senior  President  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Tenth  Quorum,  and  is  deeply 
interested  in  Sundav  School  work,  having  been  a 
teacher  for  eighteen  years ;  besides  holding  va- 
rious offices  in  that  organization.  Like  his  father, 
Mr.  Anderson  has  taken  a  great  interest  in  the 
education  of  the  young,  and  is  now  greatly  in- 
terested in  the  development  and  perfecting  of  the 
public  school  system  of  this  city  and  State. 

By  his  untiring  energy  and  application  to  work, 
Mr.  Anderson  has  made  a  record  in  Utah  that 
easily  stands  first  among  the  records  of  the  men 
who  have  assisted  in  the  work  of  developing  the 
resources  of  the  State  and  in  raising  Salt  Lake 
City  from  an  unkempt  village  to  a  city  that  gives 
fair  promise  of  being  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
important  points  of  distribution  in  the  West.  His 
conservative  manner  and  his  broadness  of  mind, 
together  with  his  human  interest  in  the  afifairs 
of  life,  has  endeared  him  to  his  own  people  and 
has  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of 
tl'e  people  of  the  city  and  surrounding  country. 


KIGHAM  W.  ASHTOX.  Among  the 
different  professions  and  avocations  to 
which  men  and  women  are  called,  in 
this  or  any  other  country,  that  of  the 
educator  and  disciplinarian  ranks 
among  the  highest  and  most  important,  for  upon 
him  or  her  to  a  large  extent  depend  the  future 
welfare,  intelligence  and  standing  of  that  com- 
munity. As  an  instructor  and  advisor  of  the 
)'outh  of  this    county,  the  subject  of  this  sketch 


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ranks  among  the  leaders  in  his  profession,  at 
present  holding  the  important  position  of  Su- 
perintendent of  the  Salt  Lake  County  Schools. 

Mr.  Ashton  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1858.  He  is  the  third  son  of  Edward  and  Jane 
(Treharne)  Ashton.  both  natives  of  Wales, 
where  they  spent  the  early  portion  of  their 
lives,  becoming  adherents  to  the  Mormon  Church 
among  the  earliest  in  their  native  country,  sail- 
ing for  America  in  1851,  crossing  the  Atlantic 
in  an  old  sail  ship,  and  the  great  American 
plains  by  ox  team,  and  a  portion  of  that  trip 
on  foot.  Arriving  in  Utah,  Mr.  Ashton,  the 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  has  been 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  boots  and 
shoes.  Both  he  and  his  wife  have  been  faith- 
ful followers  of  the  church  of  their  choice. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  this  city, 
educated  in  the  common  schools,  and  later  at 
the  University  of  Utah.  Mr.  Ashton's  early  life 
was  anything  but  an  easy  one,  for  when  he  was 
only  nine  years  old  he  was  making  the  adobe 
bricks  and  assisting  in  erecting  buildings  out  of 
that  material,  following  that  kind  of  labor  until 
he  was  about  sixteen  years  of  age.  In  the  mean- 
time, however,  he  lost  no  opportunity  to  improve 
his  education,  and  many  a  night  he  burned  the 
midnight  oil  in  order  that  he  could  learn  his 
lessons,  that  he  might  be  able  to  labor  the  next 
day  and  earn  money  to  help  support  the  family. 
Later  he  attended  the  university,  and  after  hav- 
ing acquired  sufficient  education  to  enable  him 
to  teach  school,  he  commenced  that  profession, 
and  has  followed  it  with  success.  He  has  been 
one  of  the  most  prominent  educators  in  Salt  Lake 
county  and  city  for  several  years.  Six  years 
were  spent  in  the  Salt  Lake  City  schools. 

In  the  fall  of  1890  he  was  elected  on  the  Re- 
publican ticket  by  a  large  majority  to  the  posi- 
tion which  he  now  holds.  He  has  thirty-six  dis- 
tricts under  him  in  this  county,  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  teachers,  there  being  between  six  and 
seven  thousand  pupils,  and  of  all  these  different 
districts  he  manages  to  visit  each  one  at  least 
twice  a  year,  and  no  Superintendent  of  Salt  Lake 
county  has  ever  given  better  satisfaction  or  per- 
haps brought  up  and  improved  the  high  stand- 
ing of  the  schools  better  than  he  has. 


In  1889  he  married  Miss  Mary  Alice  Pettit. 
daughter  of  Bower  and  Lucinda  (Abraham) 
Pettit.  They  were  early  settlers  in  Utah,  ar- 
riving in  185 1.  Our  subject  has  seven  children 
— Lottie,  Willard,  Blanche,  Lucinda,  Edward, 
Jedediah  and  Georgia. 

In  politics  Mr.  Ashton  has  always  been  a  prom- 
inent Republican,  ever  since  the  organization  of 
the  party ;  in  fact,  he  helped  to  organize  it  in 
this  State,  and  has  taken  a  prominent  and  active 
part  during  every  campaign  since  that  time.  He 
is  an  Elder  in  the  Mormon  Church.  Personally 
Mr.  Ashton  is  a  perfect  gentleman;  genial  and 
pleasant,  and  stands  very  high  in  the  estimation 
of  the  very  best  people  of  Salt  Lake  City  and 
county,  both  as  as  educator  and  as  a  business 
man  as  well. 


ARTHA  HUGHES  CANNON,  M. 
D.  The  time  has  long  passed  when, 
the  right  and  ability  of  women  in  the 
field  of  medicine  was  called  into 
question,  and  today  it  is  cheerfully 
conceded,  even  by  those  of  their  own  profession, 
where  rivalry  might  be  expected  to  exist,  that 
women  are  peculiarly  adapted  to  the  healing  art, 
and  that  in  numerous  instances  their  presence  in 
the  sick-room  is  to  be  greatly  preferred.  Women, 
and  children  especially,  are  often  assisted  toward 
recovery  from  illness  by  a  woman  physician  when 
other  physicians  have  labored  in  vain  to  benefit 
them,  and  in  various  diseases  of  her  own  sex 
she  is  unequalled. 

Doctor  Martha  Hughes  Cannon,  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  is  deserving  of  great  credit  for  the  success 
she  has  achieved,  and  a  perusal  of  her  history  will 
no  doubt  prove  of  deep  interest  to  her  numerous 
sincere  friends  here  and  elsewhere.  She  is  a 
lady  of  wide  education,  thoroughly  identified 
with  all  the  progressive  and  philanthropic  move- 
ments, and  conscientious  in  the  discharge  of  the 
duties  devolving  upon  her. 

Doctor  Cannon  is  a  native  of  Wales,  born  at 
the  famous  watering  place  of  Llandidno.  Her  pa- 
rents embraced  Mormonism  when  she  was  a 
small    child    and    emigrated    to    .\merica.      Her 


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father  was  compelled  to  remain  in  Xew  York 
for  two  years  after  arriving  in  this  country,  his 
health  being-  such  that  he  could  not  undertake  the 
fatigues  of  the  long  journey  across  the  great 
American  plains.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  at- 
tempted the  journey  upon  the  advice  of  his  phy- 
sician, and  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  the  year 
1861,  only  to  die  a  few  days  later.  His  widow, 
and  the  mother  of  our  subject.  Elizabeth 
(Evans)  Hughes,  married  again  and  continued 
to  make  this  city  her  home,  and  here  her  little 
daughter  grew  to  womanhood  and  received  her 
early  education  from  the  primitive  schools  such 
as  then  existed  in  the  city. 

At  the  early  age  of  fourteen  our  subject  began 
life  by  teaching  in  an  infant  school,  and  the  next 
year  entered  the  office  of  the  Woman's  Exponent, 
where  she  remained  five  years,  working  as  a  com- 
positor. During  these  years  she  took  an  aca- 
demic course  at  the  University  of  Deseret,  re- 
ceiving a  diploma  in  chemistry  from  that  institu- 
tion. She  also  took  advantage  of  an  opportunity 
to  attend  a  course  of  medical  lectures  given  by 
Doctors  Young,  Barker  and  Pratt,  and  passed 
an  examination  under  Doctors  Anderson  and 
Young,  receiving  a  certificate  equal  to  two  years 
of  medical  study.  Being  of  a  religious  turn  of 
mind  she  was  called  on  to  fill  many  offices  in  the 
Church,  being  for  eight  years  Secretary  of  the 
Young  Ladies'  Retrenchment  Association  of  the 
Tenth  Ecclesiastical  Ward,  was  also  teacher  in  the 
Sunday  School  and  member  of  the  Ward  Choir. 
In  1878  she  entered  the  medcal  department  of 
Ann  Arbor  L'niversity,  and  was  admitted  without 
e.xamintion,  upon  her  credentials  from  Doctors 
Anderson  and  Young  and  her  diploma  in  chem- 
istry from  the  L^niversity  of  Deseret.  She  grad- 
uated from  that  institution  with  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1880.  During  her  college 
work  she  took  two  optional  courses  in  electro 
therapeutics  and  bacteriology.  She  assisted  to 
work  her  wav  through  college  by  giving  instruc- 
tion in  chemistry  to  some  of  the  students.  After 
her  graduation  she  went  to  Algonac,  on  the  Saint 
Clair  river,  where  she  practiced  during  the  sum- 
mer. At  this  time  American  physicians  were  not 
considered  up  to  the  European  standard,  and 
were  not  allowed  to  practice  in  British  territorv, 


but  through  the  intervention  of  some  eminent 
physicians  who  visited  Europe,  this  condition 
of  afifairs  was  changed,  and  thereafter  any  doc- 
tor holding  diplomas  from  Harvard,  Yale,  L^ni- 
versity  of  Pennsylvania,  Cornell  or  Ann  Arbor 
were  allowed  to  practice  on  English  soil. 

In  the  fall  of  1880  Doctor  Cannon  went  to 
Philadelphia  and  entered  the  National  School  of 
Elocution  and  Oratory,  under  Professor  Shu- 
maker,  attending  the  morning  sessions  of  that 
institution  and  giving  the  remainder  of  her  time 
to  a  special  course  of  study  in  the  Auxiliary  Med- 
ical Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. She  was  the  only  lady  out  of  a  class  of 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  at  this  latter  insti- 
tution, and  one  of  the  four  to  graduate.  Her  even- 
ings during  her  second  year  were  devoted  to  a 
course  of  study  at  the  Philadelphia  Pharmaceu- 
tical College,  and  in  1882  sHe  received  her  di- 
plomas from  the  first  two  named  institution. 

Upon  the  completion  of  her  studies  in  Phila- 
delphia, Doctor  Cannon  came  direct  to  Salt  Lke 
City,  where  she  became  resident  physician  at  the 
Deseret  Hospital,  remaining  there  three  years  and 
building  up  a  large  outside  practice  during  this 
time.  In  the  fall  of  1884  she  was  married  to 
President  Angus  M.  Cannon  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stake  of  Zion,  whose  biography  will  be  found 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  Of  this  marriage  three 
children  have  been  born :  Elizabeth  R. ;  James 
H.,  and  Gwendolyn  H.  After  severing  her  con- 
nection with  the  Deseret  Hospital,  she  took  an 
extended  tour  in  the  East,  visiting  the  nurses' 
training  schools,  and  the  leading  hospitals  of 
New  York,  Boston  and  New  Orleans.  This  she 
did  with  a  view  of  obtaining  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  the  methods  of  training  nurses,  and  be- 
coming familiar  with  the  methods  of  nursing  the 
sick,  as  well  as  administering  as  a  physician.  In 
1886  she  went  to  Europe  and  visited  the  training 
schools  at  Guys,  Saint  Thomas  and  Saint  Bar- 
tholomew. Upon  her  return  to  Salt  Lake  City 
she  again  took  up  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
established  the  first  traning  school  for  nurses  in 
Utah,  using  the  same  text  books  as  were  then 
in  use  in  the  Boston  City  Hospital  Training 
School  for  Nurses.  Of  recent  years  the  Doctor 
has   given   up  much  of  her  practice  and  is  de- 


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voting  herself  to  the  education  of  her  three  chil- 
dren. 

Doctor  Cannon  has  not  only  been  fortunate  in 
being  born  in  an  age  when  women  are  allowed 
not  only  the  advantages  of  a  higher  education, 
but  has  also  been  a  resident  of  one  of  the  few 
States  of  the  Union  which  allows  women  the 
right  of  suffrage,  which  right  she  has  exercised. 
She  has  always  been  a  believer  in  equal  suffrage, 
and  while  she  is  not  radical  on  the  question,  be- 
lives  that  where  a  woman  has  talent,  intelligence, 
education  and  all  the  requirements  necessary,  she 
ought  to  have  the  privilege  of  taking  positions 
of  trust  and  responsibility  on  an  equal  plane  with 
the  sterner  sex.  In  i8g6  she  was  elected  on  the 
Democratic  ticket  to  the  State  Senate  for  two 
years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  was  fortunate 
enough  to  draw  a  number  entitling  her  to  hold 
over  for  two  years  more,  thus  serving  four  years 
in  all.  Being  the  only  physician  in  the  Senate, 
she  took  an  active  part  in  improving  the  sanitary 
conditions  of  the  State,  and  was  instrumental  in 
securing  the  passage  of  the  bill  establishing  a 
State  Board  of  HealtTi,  and  was  also  active  in  de- 
feating the  proposed  measure  abolishing  the 
State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners.  She  was 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Public  Health. 
Between  the  two  legislative  sessions  she  was  in- 
vited by  the  National  Committee  to  speak  at  the 
Jubilee  Convention  held  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
to  commemorate  the  first  Woman's  Convention 
on  Suffrage,  held  at  Seneca  Falls,  and  she  ap- 
peared at  the  hearino-  of  the  Congressional  Com- 
mittee to  give  a  synopsis  of  the  political  work  of 
ihe  women  of  Utah.  She  also  served  two  years 
on  the  State  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Institution 
for  the  Deaf,  Dumb  and  Blind,  which  is  located 
at  Ogden.  She  still  holds  the  appointment  from 
Governor  W'ells  as  a  member  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health.  In  November,  1901,  she  was  made 
one  of  the  Vice-Presidents  of  the  American  Con- 
gress of  Tuberculosis,  being  the  only  woman 
to  receive  a  vice-presidency. 

Doctor  Cannon's  career  is  one  that  should  at 
once  be  an  incentive  and  an  inspiration  to  every 
ambitious  woman.  Born  in  a  day  when  the  higher 
education  of  women  was  looked  upon  in  an  un- 
favorable light,  reared  in  a  State  where  educa- 


tional facilities  were  of  the  crudest  character, 
she  early  became  imbued  with  the  desire  to  rise 
above  her  surroundings  and  take  her  place  among 
those  who  were  by  their  lives  making  the  world 
better,  and  benefiting  mankind.  By  dint  of  hard 
work  and  unswerving  loyalty  to  her  high  pur- 
pose, she  overcame  every  obstacle  and  by  her 
own  efforts  won  the  means  to  pursue  her  studies, 
giving  every  moment  of  her  time  to  the  one  aim 
of  her  life,  resolutely  putting  aside  the  many 
allurements  of  girlhood,  and  winning  high  honors 
in  her  studies.  Today  she  is  not  only  a  woman 
of  broad  cultivation  and  wide  intellect,  but  is  a 
woman  of  accomplishment,  traveled,  cultured  and 
thoroughly  womanly  withal,  which  is  the  highest 
praise  that  can  ever  be  accorded  any  woman,  and 
whether  at  the  bedside  of  suffering  or  attending 
the  homely  duties  of  the  home,  she  is  the  same 
sympathetic,  gentle  friend.  Perhaps  no  woman 
in  this  city  has  a  wider  circle  of  friends  or  is 
more  widelv  known  that  she. 


ENNIS  C.  EICHNOR.  One  of  the  pop- 
ular men  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  indeed 
throughout  L^tah,  is  the  District  At- 
tiirney  for  the  Third  Judicial  District 
of  Utah,  Dennis  C.  Eichnor.  In  ad- 
dition to  the  important  position  which  he  fills 
with  efficiency  and  credit,  he  is  also  the  most 
prominent  Republican  in  Salt  Lake  City.  The 
success  of  the  last  two  campaigns  conducted  by 
the  Republican  party,  one  in  the  county  and  the 
other  in  the  city,  has  been  due  to  the  ability  which 
Mr.  Eichnor,  as  chairman,  has  shown  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  duties.  He  is  well  known  in  the 
State,  and  is  beloved  by  all  the  people,  without 
regard  to  political  affiliation  or  religious  belief. 
He  has  made  his  own  way  in  the  world,  and  the 
success  which  he  has  achieved  is  due  entirely  to 
his  own  energy  and  the  power  to  grasp  and  turn 
to  account  the  opportunities  that  present  them- 
selves. 

Dennis  C.  Eichnor  was  born  in  Meyersdale, 
Somerset  ^  county,  Pennsylvania,  December  18, 
1858,  his  father  and  mother  being  natives  of 
Germany.  His  mother,  Anna  K.  (Sass)  Eich- 
nor. belonged  to  a  prominent  family  in  Germany, 


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her  father  being  a  surveyor  and  an  attorney  of 
considerable  importance  in  that  country.  The 
early  life  of  her  son  was  spent  on  his  father's 
farm  in  Somerset  county,  and  he  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  place. 
He  worked  on  his  father's  farm  during  the  va- 
cations and  attended  school  in  the  winter. 

He  started  out  for  himself  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  and  secured  employment  as  a  teacher 
in  the  schools,  which  employment  he  followed 
for  about  eight  years,  meanwhile  attending  the 
sessions  of  the  State  Normal  School,  from  which 
he  graduated  with  distinction.  Believing  in  the 
possibilities  that  the  West  afforded  to  young 
men  of  energy  and  ability,  he  emigrated  to  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  arrived  here  in  1888.  Prior  to 
his  removal  from  Pennsvlvania,  he  had  taken  up 
the  studv  of  law,  and  when  he  arrived  in  Salt 
Lake  City  continued  his  studies  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Hon.  W.  H.  Dickson,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  practice  before  the  courts  of  Utah  in  the 
same  year.  He  established  himself  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession,  and  has  continued  to  de- 
vote his  time  to  that  ever  since.  He  has  won 
the  confidence  of  the  public,  and  his  practice  has 
grown  in  a  prosperous  and  satisfactory  manner. 
He  has  been  a  consistent  Republican  throughout 
his  life,  and  has  taken  an  active  and  prominent 
part  in  the  afifairs  of  Salt  Lake  City.  In  1890 
and  1891  he  was  Assistant  City  Attorney,  and 
from  1 89 1  to  1894  was  Assistant  County  Attor- 
ney. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention,  which  met  in  1895  to  shape 
the  Constitution  for  Utah,  which  was  then  to  be 
admitted  into  the  Union.  In  1898  he  was  elected 
Chairman  of  the  Republican  County  Committee. 
That  year  the  party  suffered  defeat. 

The  ability  and  political  knowledge  he  dis- 
played in  the  conduct  of  this  work  resulted  in 
his  election  as  Chairman  of  the  Republican  City 
Committee  in  1899.  In  this  position  he  success- 
fully carried  to  victory  the  Republican  banner, 
which  resulted  in  the  election  of  Alayor  Thomp- 
son. He  was  Chairman  of  the  County  Commit- 
tee in  1900,  and  was  chosen  as  Chairman  of  the 
City  Committee  in  1901,  and  conducted  the  phe- 
nomenally successful  campaign  by  which  the  en- 
tire ticket,  with  one  exception,  was  elected,  and 


resulted  in  a  majority  of  the  Council  being  Re- 
publican. The  manner  in  which  Mr.  Eichnor 
conducted  the  campaign  won  the  applause  of 
the  entire  party,  having  made  a  hard  fight.  In 
August,  1900,  he  was  nominated  by  acclamation 
in  the  judicial  convention  for  the  position  of 
District  Attorney  for  the  Third  Judicial  District 
of  Utah,  which  position  he  has  continued  to  fill 
since  that  time  with  signal  ability,  and  is  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  ablest  prosecutors  of  the 
State.  As  a  lawyer,  he  takes  high  rank  among 
the  ablest  members  of  the  bar  in  LUah.  In  the 
fall  of  that  year,  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the 
leaders  of  the  party  and  of  the  candidates  for 
office,  he  agreed  to  manage  the  campaign,  and 
it  w'as  a  decided  success  for  the  Republican 
party,  Mr.  Eichnor  being  elected  to  his  office  by 
a  majority  of  over  four  hundred. 

Air.  Eichnor  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1891,  to  Miss  S.  Lizzie  Keim.  and  by  this 
marriage  has  tw^o  children,  Adelaide  and  George. 

Mr.  Eichnor  cast  his  first  vote  for  President 
in  1880  for  Garfield,  and  in  1884  voted  for 
Blaine;  in  1888  and  1892,  Utah  being  a  Terri- 
tory, he  could  not  vote  for  President,  and  in 
1896  he  cast  his  vote  as  he  did  in  1900,  for  Pres- 
ident McKinley.  His  genial  and  pleasant  man- 
ner, and  the  courtesy  with  which  he  treats  everv 
one.  has  brought  him  the  frendship  and  affection 
of  the  entire  city.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the 
most  prominent  men  in  the  political  life  of  the 
city,  and  in  the  conduct  of  the  campaigns  en- 
trusted to  his  care  has  shown  marked  al)ilitv. 


ODERT  FORRESTER.  The  advant- 
ages which  the  Western  States  afford 
to  men  of  energy  and  ability  to  rise  to 
wealth  and  power  is  perhaps  better  il- 
lustrated in  Utah  than  in  any  other 
State.  These  advantages  have  been  realized  by 
the  inhabitants  of  the  Old  World,  and  among 
those  who  by  energy  and  industry  achieved  suc- 
cess in  the  development  of  mining  properties, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  has  reached  a  distin- 
guished position. 

Robert  Forrester  is  the  son  of  John  Forrester 
and  Jane  (Bell) Forrester,  both  natives  of  Scot- 


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land,  and  their  son  was  born  in  Fifeshire,  Scot- 
land, in  1864.  John  Forrester,  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  our  sketch,  has  also  devoted  his  at- 
tention to  mining  operations,  both  in  Scotland 
and  America,  and  upon  his  arrival  in  the  United 
States  settled  at  Castle  Gate,  Utah,  in  which 
State  he  has  since  been  actively  engaged  in  min- 
ing. Robert  Forrester  comes  from  a  line  of 
mining  engineers.  His  grandfather,  Robert  For- 
rester, a  native  Scot,  was  a  colliery  manager 
and  agent  for  estates  in  Scotland  the  greater 
part  of  his  life. 

Jane  (Bell)  Forrester,  wife  of  John  Forrester, 
and  mother  of  Robert  Forrester,  was  born  in 
Scotland  and  lived  in  Midlothian  until  her  re- 
moval with  her  husband  to  the  United  States. 

From  almost  the  very  commencement  of  his 
life,  Robert  Forrester  has  been  connected  with 
mines  and  mining.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  was 
a  foreman  of  a  mine  in  Scotland.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  obtained  in  the  common  schools  of 
West  Calder,  and  he  later  attended  the  Uni- 
versity of  Edinburg,  where  he  successfully  Com- 
pleted a  technical  course  in  mining.  Two  years 
later  he  removed  to  the  United  States  and  lo- 
cated in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  spent  a  short 
time  in  the  study  of  American  mining  methods 
and  operations.  From  Pennsylvania  he  went 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  first 
mining  exhibit  held  in  that  city.  From  Kan- 
sas City  he  went  to  Joplin  and  secured  employ- 
ment in  the  lead  mines.  While  in  that  place, 
-Mr.  Forrester  demonstrated  his  ability  to  cope 
with  emergencies  and  to  earn  his  living  by  doing 
the  first  thing  that  presented  itself.  The  opera- 
tions at  Joplin  slackened  and  he  lost  his  posi- 
tion in  the  mines.  Nothing  daunted,  he  turned 
his  attention  to  carpentering,  and  successfully 
mastered  that  trade  and  worked  at  it  for  some 
time.  Mining  business  being  still  depressed  and 
greater  opportunities  presenting  themselves  in 
other  lines  of  building  he  learned  bricklaying 
and  stone  masonry,  and  also  worked  at  these 
trades  for  a  time. 

From  Missouri  he  traveled  westward,  and  ar- 
rived in  Salt  Lake  City  on  Christmas  Day,  1888. 
Upon  his  arrival  in  Utah  he  found  no  oppor- 
tunity to  engage  in  business  for  which  he  had 


been  speciallv  trained  and  fitted,  but  with  a  will- 
ingness to  work,  secured  employment  laying 
tracks  in  the  coal  mines  of  the  Pleasant  Valley 
Coal  Company.  His  abiHty  as  an  engineer  was 
soon  recognized,  and  his  services  were  soon  in 
demand.  He  was  employed  by  the  Utah  Cen- 
tral Railroad  Coal  Department,  the  Pleasant  Val- 
ley Coal  Company,  the  Union  Pacific  Coal  Com- 
pany and  the  Diamond  Coal  and  Coke  Company 
of  Wyoming  in  inspecting  coal  lands,  designing 
plants  for  their  working  and  the  erection  of  the 
requisite  machinery  for  their  operation.  In  ad- 
dition to  these  companies  many  of  the  most  prom- 
inent mining  companies  in  the  mountain  region 
availed  themselves  of  his  knowledge  and  skill 
as  an  engineer  in  the  erection  of  plants  and  in 
the  prosecution  of  operations.  In  Canada, 
throughout  all  the  Western  States,  and  in  Old 
and  New  Mexico,  practical  monuments  in  the 
form  of  successful  mining  plants  testify  to  his 
ability  and  constructive  genius  as  an  engineer. 

His  ability  and  success  as  an  engineer  has 
been  recognized  throughout  the  United  States 
and  in  Great  Britain  as  well.  Since  1895  he  has 
represented  in  Utah  the  C.  E.  Exploration  Syn- 
dicate of  London.  This  corporation  numbers 
among  its  members  the  greatest  capitalists  of 
the  day,  and  it  makes  investments  in  mines  and 
other  properties  throughout  the  world.  He  is 
now  geologist  and  mining  engineer  of  the  LUah 
Fuel  Company,  geologist  for  the  Denver  and 
Rio  Grande  Railroad  and  Rio  Grande  Western 
Railway. 

Mr.  Forrester's  ability  as  an  enirineer,  and  the 
high  rank  he  has  attained  by  his  work,  has  won 
for  him  membership  in  the  most  famous  asso- 
ciations of  engineers  in  the  world.  He  was 
elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Geological  Society  of 
Edinburgh  in  1887,  and  holds  membership  in  the 
Mining  Institute  of  Scotland  and  in  the  Feder- 
ated Institute  of  Mining  Engineers  of  Great 
Britain.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Congress 
of  Geologists.  While  his  attention  in  the  United 
States  has  been  devoted  largely  to  mining  and  to 
the  business  enterprises  in  which  he  is  interested, 
he  has  been  elected  to  a  number  of  positions, 
among  which  was  the  office  of  United  States 
Inspector  of  Mines  in  Utah.    Those  places  were 


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not  solicited  by  him,  and  are  apt  illustrations  of 
the  office  seekinp'  the  man. 

He  is  unmaried,  and  in  politics  believes  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party.  In  affairs 
of  state  he  does  not  take  an  active  interest,  but 
so  high  is  the  confidence  of  the  people  in  his 
ability  that  he  has  several  times  been  elected  to 
office  without  any  effort  on  his  part. 

Endowed  with  a  splendid  physique,  equipped 
with  a  fine  technical  education  and  a  willingness 
to  do  and  do  well  whatever  came  first  to  his 
hand,  he  has  risen  in  his  chosen  profession  to  a 
commanding  position,  and  r.nw  ranks  among  the 
first  of  the  mining  experts  ot  Utah,  and  indeed 
of  the  United  States. 


(  )CTOR  E.  F.  ROOT.  It  is  a  well- 
known  fact  that  Salt  Lake  City  has 
made  rapid  strides  during  the  past  ten 
or  twelve  years.  The  growth  of  the 
city  has  been  phenomenal;  great  com- 
mercial enterprises  have  sprung  up,  vast  im- 
provements have  been  in  progress,  and  splendid 
residences  and  business  blocks  have  been  erected 
which  have  added  largely  to  the  beauty  and  sta- 
bility of  the  city.  During  this  period  the  dif- 
ferent professions  and  callings  have  been  raised 
to  a  higher  standard,  and  perhaps  no  branch  of 
the  professions  has  grown  so  rapidly  as  has  the 
medical  profession.  Among  the  men  who  have 
assisted  materially  in  bringing  to  a  high  stand- 
ard that  profession  in  Utah,  Doctor  E.  F.  Root, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  deserves  special  men- 
tion. 

Doctor  Root  comes  of  old  Puritan  stock,  the 
history  of  the  family  in  America  dating  back 
to  two  brothers  who  came  from  England  in 
1620,  supposedly  in  the  Ulayflozvcr.  They 
were  among  the  early  settlers  of  the  Con- 
necticut colony,  and  it  is  not  known  which 
of  the  brothers  this  family  sprang  from, 
but  there  are  many  of  that  name  scattered 
over  the  LTnited  States,  who  are  descendants  of 
those  two  brothers.  Our  subject  was  born  at 
Hartford,  Washington  county,  Wisconsin,  No- 
vember I,  1858,  and  is  the  son  of  Doctor  Alonzo 
D.  Root,  who  was  born  on  April  3,   1836,  on  a 


farm  near  Streetsborough,  Portage  county,  Ohio. 
He  emigrated  to  Wisconsin  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one,  and  subsequently  graduated  from  the  West- 
ern Reserve  Universitv  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  with 
the  degree  of  M.  D.,  in  i860.  He  then  took  up 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Washington 
county.  Wisconsin,  where  he  remained  for  twelve 
years.  In  1872  he  located  in  Crete,  Nebraska, 
and  is  still  practicing  in  that  place.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Nebraska  State  and  American  Medical 
Associations,  and  has  devoted  his  life  to  the  study 
and  practice  of  medicine.  His  father  was  De 
Calevos  Root,  who  came  to  Ohio  from  Connec- 
ticut and  settled  on  the  Western  Reserve  when 
the  countrv  was  covered  with  timber.  He  cleared 
a  farm  and  became  the  forerunner  of  civilization 
in  this  part  of  the  United  States.  At  the  age  of 
forty-two  he  met  with  an  accident  which  caused 
his  death.  Our  subject's  paternal  grandmother, 
Susan  Streeter,  was  born  in  Connecticut,  and 
as  a  child  settled  with  her  family  on  the  Western 
Reserve  of  Ohio,  and  is  now  living  in  Crete, 
Nebraska,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-seven 
vears,  and  is  a  wonderfully  well  preserved 
woman. 

The  Doctor's  mother  was  Emeretta  Root, 
the  daughter  of  Edwin  and  Sarah  Ann  (Tous- 
ley )  Root.  Her  family  were  early  settlers  of 
Connecticut.  These  two  families  trace  their  an- 
cestors back  to  the  original  emigrants,  but  the 
connecting  link  has  been  lost,  and  so  far  as 
known  they  are  of  no  kin.  Mrs.  Root  is  still 
living,  and  is  the  mother  of  eight  children — 
Doctor  E.  F.,  our  subject,  who  is  the  oldest ;  Su- 
san, wife  of  Captain  T.  B.  Rhodes,  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. ;  Doctor  Wallace  W.,  V.  V.  S.,  U.  S. 
A.,  now  serving  on  the  Island  of  Luzon;  Clara 
T.,  Addie,  the  wife  of  Leon  Farr,  Professor  of 
Dead  Languages  in  one  of  the  leading  colleges 
at  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey;  Gad  B.,  a  commission 
merchant  at  Weatherford,  Oklahoma,  and  two 
children  who  died  in  infancy. 

Our  subject  lived  in  Wisconsin  up  to  the  age 
of  fourteen,  at  which  time  he  moved  to  Crete, 
Nebraska,  with  his  parents,  and  received  his  ed- 
ucation at  Doan  College,  and  in  the  medical  de- 
partment at  the  Western  Reserve  University- 
graduating  in  1880.    He  then  entered  into  prac- 


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tice  with  his  father  at  Crete,  remaining  there  for 
five  years,  and  in  1885  moved  to  Exeter,  in  that 
State,  and  practiced  there  for  six  years.  In  No- 
vember, 1890,  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City,  where 
he  has  since  followed  his  profession,  devoting 
most  of  his  time  to  surgery.  For  the  past  seven 
years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  staff  of  sur- 
geons at  the  Holy  Cross  Hospital.  He  is  ex- 
president  of  the  Salt  Lake  Medical  Society  and 
a  member  of  the  Utah  State  Medical  Society  and 
American  Medical  Association ;  also  medical  e.x- 
aminer  for  several  well-known  life  insurance 
companies. 

Doctor  Root  was  married  at  Crete,  Nebraska, 
in  1882,  to  Miss  Emma  Kind,  daughter  of  John 
and  Mary  Kind,  of  that  place,  and  by  her  had 
two  children — Clara  Louise  and  Frank.  She  died 
in  the  fall  of  1891,  and  he  then  married  Miss 
Helen  Randall,  of  Pueblo,  Colorado,  by  whom 
he  has  one  son — Emmerson  Randall. 

Doctor  Root  has  made  many  friends  during 
his  residence  here,  and  the  success  to  which  he 
has  attained  in  his  profession  has  been  the  result 
of  close  study  and  untiring  effort  to  keep  abreast 
of  the  times  in  that  science.  He  is  today  in  the 
enjoyment  of  a  large  and  lucrative  practice. 


ETER  A.  DROUB.\Y.  No  citizen  of 
Tooele  county  is  more  thoroughly  rep- 
resentative or  has  been  more  devoted  to 
the  promotion  of  its  welfare  than  Peter 
A.  Droubay,  whose  name  is  highly 
known  for  the  prominent  part  he  has  taken  in 
local  progress  and  development.  His  means  and 
influence  have  been  unsparingly  used  in  the  fos- 
tering of  infant  enterprises,  industries  and  im- 
provements which  he  believed  would  prove  of 
permanent  value  to  the  place  of  his  abode  in  Utah, 
and  wealth  and  high  standing  came  to  him  as  the 
reward  of  long  continued,  indefatigable  industry ; 
and  no  one  who  has  known  him  in  past  years 
and  is  aware  of  the  bravery  and  pluck  with  which 
he  met  and  conquered  the  obstacles  in  his  path- 
way, one  by  one,  could  for  a  moment  feel  envious 
of  his  success. 

He  is  a  native  of  France,  having  been  born  in 
that  country  in  1855,  and  is  the  son  of  Peter  A., 
who  was  a  highly  educated  man,  being  a  graduate 


of  the  best  institutions  in  France,  and  for  many 
years  prior  to  coming  to  Utah  was  a  teacher  and 
professor  in  the  schools  of  his  native  country. 
At  the  time  the  family  migrated  to  this  country 
the  educational  facilities  were  very  meagre  here 
and  Mr.  Droubay  became  instructor  to  his  chil- 
dren, giving  them  much  better  book  knowledge 
than  they  could  have  obtained  from  the  common 
schools  of  their  district,  or  indeed  of  the  State 
at  that  time.  When  our  subject  was  but  nine 
years  of  age  his  father  brought  his  family,  con- 
sisting of  a  wife  and  four  children,  to  this  country, 
arriving  in  Utah  in  1864,  and  spending  the  first 
winter  in  Salt  Lake  City.  One  of  the  children 
died  while  the  family  were  on  the  plains  en  route 
to  this  State,  and  one  died  during  the  first  winter 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  The  remaining  child,  Paul,  a 
younger  brother  of  our  subject,  is  at  this  time  en- 
gaged in  ranching  and  stock  raising  in  Tooele 
county,  .\fter  remaining  in  Salt  Lake  City  for 
three  years,  the  Droubay  family  moved  to  Tooele 
county,  where  the  father  engaged  in  farming,  and 
died  about  twenty  years  ago.  The  mother  is  still 
living  on  the  old  homestead. 

Our  subject  began  life  for  himself  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years  by  engaging  in  freighting,  fol- 
lowing that  for  a  number  of  years,  and  investing 
his  savings  in  sheep  and  cattle,  which  investment 
proved  very  successful,  and  his  holdings  in  this 
direction  has  made  him  one  of  the  heaviest  stock- 
men in  Tooele  county,  owning  at  this  time  over 
two  hundred  head  of  cattle.  As  the  country  be- 
came more  thickly  settled  it  was  necessary  for 
him  to  buy  land  for  grazing  purposes,  as  well  as 
farming,  and  besides  his  enormous  ranch  of  twen- 
ty-four hundred  acres  of  well  improved  and  val- 
uable land,  he  owns  two  thousand  acres  of  land 
devoted  to  a  range  for  his  cattle  in  the  hills  near 
Tooele,  which  makes  him  one  of  the  largest  in- 
dividual land  owners  of  the  county.  In  1888  Mr. 
Droubay  became  interested  in  the  general  mer- 
chandise business,  his  success  in  the  cattle  busi- 
ness following  him  in  this  avocation  until  he  be- 
came the  leading  merchant  in  Tooele  county, 
which  position  he  retains.  He  owns  his  spacious 
store  building,  the  upper  part  of  which  is  used  as 
an  amusement  hall. 

Mr.  Droubay  married  in  1877  to  Miss  Hanna 


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Bell  Gallalier,  daughter  of  James  Gallaher.  By 
this  marriage  they  have  had  eleven  children,  nine 
of  whom  are  living.  The  oldest  son,  Peter  G., 
assists  his  father  in  the  management  of  his  vast 
business  enterprises.  He  has  just  returned  from 
serving  two  and  a  half  years  in  the  missionary 
fields  of  England  for  the  Church,  all  of  the  mem- 
bers of  Mr.  Droubay's  family  being  adherents  of 
the  Mormon  Church. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Droubay  is  a  Republican, 
but  owing  to  his  large  business  interests  has 
never  taken  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  his 
party. 


OHN  McLAWS.  Among  the  pioneers 
who  settled  in  Utah  over  half  a  century 
ago,  who  have  passed  through  all  the 
early  scenes  and  troubles,  who  know- 
by  experience  all  the  hardships  and  diffi- 
culties incident  to  crossing  the  plains  by  ox 
teams  and  settling  in  Utah  in  those  early  days, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  deserves  special  men- 
tion. He  is  a  descendant  of  an  old,  sturdy  Scotch 
family,  he  himself  having  been  born  in  Renfrew- 
shire, Scotland,  November  27,  1827,  and  is  the 
son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Whitworth)  McLaws, 
both  natives  of  that  country,  living  and  dying 
in  the  town  where  their  son  was  born.  There 
were  eight  children  in  this  family,  of  whom 
our  subject  was  the  fifth  child.  A  brother  and 
sister  accompanied  him  to  America,  but  both 
have  since  died,  the  brother  being  drowned  in 
California  in  1853.  None  of  the  rest  of  the  fam- 
ily ever  came  to  this  country. 

John  McLaws  received  his  early  education  and 
training  in  the  town  where  he  was  born,  and  at 
the  age  of  fourteen  years  went  to  Glasgow,  where 
he  obtained  a  clerkship  in  a  book-binding  and 
stationery  establishment.  During  his  residence 
here  he  became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Mormon  Church  in  1844.  and  was  ordained  an 
Elder.  He  was  appointed  by  the  Church  to 
write  the  records  of  the  Glasgow  Conference, 
which  occupied  all  his  spare  time  for  more  than 
a  year.  In  1849  he  emigrated  to  America  on 
board  the  sailing  vessel  Hartley,  landing  in  New 
Orleans,  from  which  place  he  journeyed  by  river 
to  Saint  Louis,  Missouri.     The  whole  trip  was  a 


most  terrible  and  disastrous  one.  On  the  way 
up  the  Mississippi  river  Asiatic  cholera  broke  out 
among  the  passengers,  and  they  died  by  the 
dozens  and  were  buried  on  the  banks  of  the  river. 
Our  subject  had  the  dread  disease,  but  recovered 
before  arriving  in  Saint  Louis.  He  made  the 
trip  up  the  river  on  board  the  ship  Marmaduke, 
which  caught  fire  at  the  landing,  and  a  large 
portion  of  the  City  of  Saint  Louis  was  destroyed. 
Mr.  McLaws  remained  in  Saint  Louis  six  weeks, 
regaining  his  full  health  and  recovering  from 
the  horrible  shock  his  system  had  received  from 
the  fearful  ordeals  through  which  he  had  passed. 
At  the  end  of  that  time  he  went  to  Saint  Joseph, 
Missouri,  and  from  there  to  Pottawatomie  coun- 
ty, Iowa,  where  he  purchased  a  place  on  Honey 
creek,  in  1850.  In  the  spring  of  1851  he  drove 
a  five-yoke  team  of  oxen  from  the  Missouri 
river  to  Salt  Lake  City,  the  freight  being  mer- 
cnandise,  which  he  brought  to  Utah  for  the 
firm  of  Holliday  and  Warner,  traveling  in  the 
company  under  command  of  Captain  Holliday, 
and  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  August  of  that 
year.  He  remained  in  Utah,  his  first  work  being 
the  digging  of  a  cellar  at  the  site  where  the  Zion 
Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  now  stands. 
While  in  Saint  Joseph  he  had  learned  the  plas- 
tering trade,  and  followed  that  for  many  years 
in  Utah,  among  the  places  in  which  he  did  the 
plastering  being  the  old  Tabernacle,  the  Brig- 
ham  Young  theatre,  the  Bee  Hive;  and  assisted 
in  like  manner  on  many  of  Brigham  Young's 
houses.  He  also  worked  for  six  months  on  the 
Temple  at  Saint  George,  and  assisted  in  plaster- 
ing the  old  State  House  at  Fillmore.  During 
the  time  he  worked  on  the  Brigham  Young 
houses  he  was  in  terrible  financial  straits,  being 
compelled  to  work  half  a  day  and  devote  the 
other  half  to  hunting  and  digging  roots,  upon 
which  he  subsisted. 

]Mr.  McLaws  married  December  25,  1850,  at 
Honey  creek,  Iowa,  to  Jonanna  Ross,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Agnes  (McKeller)  Ross,  whose  pa- 
rents emigrated  later  to  Utah,  where  they  died. 
Mrs.  McLaws  is  a  twin  sister  of  Mrs.  John  Gil- 
lespie of  this  place,  a  sketch  of  Mr.  Gillespie  ap- 
pearing elsewhere  in  this  work.  Thirteen  children 
have  been  born  to  Mr.   and   Mrs.   McLaws,   of 


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whom  ten  are  still  living.  Shortly  after  this  mar- 
riage our  subject  was  sent  by  the  Church  to  do 
colonization  work  in  Iowa,  and  upon  his  return 
from  that  field  was  sent  into  the  Western  States, 
months  elapsing  before  he  saw  his  bride  again. 

After  spending  twenty  years  in  Salt  Lake  City 
and  vicinity,  Mr.  McLaws  came  to  Tooele,  where 
he  bought  eighteen  acres  of  uncultivated  land, 
which  he  improved  and  where  he  has  since  made 
his  home,  following  farming  principally.  He 
is  a  man  of  some  accomplishments,  being  an  ex- 
cellent musician,  and  during  hisi  residence  in 
Salt  Lake  City  was  a  member  of  the  band,  play- 
ing the  clarionet  and  the  tenor  horn.  His  wife 
and  family  are  all  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  Mrs.  McLaws  having  joined  in  1847. 
The  family  has  ever  been  an  active  and  promi- 
nent one  in  Church  matters,  and  Mr.  McLaws 
has  held  many  positions  of  honor  and  trust  in  the 
Church.  In  Salt  Lake  City  he  was  Clerk  of  the 
Fifteenth  Ward  and  Counsel  to  the  Bishop;  also 
was  acting  Bishop  for  two  years  during  the  ab- 
sence of  the  Bishop  on  missionary  work.  He  has 
held  the  offices  of  Elder,  High  Priest  and  a  Sev- 
enty, and  for  many  years  has  been  active  in  Ward 
and  Sunday  School  teaching.  His  son  Robert 
was  called  in  1881  to  serve  on  a  mission  to  Scot- 
land, where  he  labored  for  two  years,  and  his 
oldest  son.  John,  was  sent  to  do  colonization 
work  on  the  Little  Colorado  river  in  Arizona, 
and  still  makes  his  home  in  that  place. 

Mr.  McLaws  shared  in  all  the  dangers  from 
Indians  in  the  early  days,  being  in  the  Indian 
troubles  in  Sanpete  county  in  1853,  and  was 
also  in  the  Johnston  army  troubles,  serving  in  the 
infantry  under  Thomas  Forsythe.  His  life  in 
Utah  has  been  one  of  unflinching  allegiance  to  the 
cause  of  truth  and  rieht,  and  throughout  a  long 
life  he  has  been  noted  for  his  uprightness  and 
integrity.  In  financial  matters  he  has  been 
blessed  with  a  sufficiency  of  this  world's  goods 
to  enable  him  to  live  in  comfort,  and  enjoy  in 
his  declining  years  the  fruits  of  a  well  spent  and 
honorable  life. 

In  politics  he  has  always  been  independent. 
He  was  county  Treasurer  of  Tooele  county  for 
two  years,  and  served  several  terms  in  the  City 
Council  of  Tooele. 


HOMAS   HARDING, 
operative     Mercantile 


The  Zion  Co- 
Institution  of 
Lake  City,  and  it  branches  in  Utah  and 
Idaho,  is  conceded  by  all  to  be  one  of 
the  greatest  mercantile  establishments 
west  of  Chicago  and  east  of  San  Francisco. 
Among  its  branch  houses  special  mention  belongs 
to  the  Morgan  department,  which  was  established 
many  years  ago.  As  general  manager  of  the 
Morgan  branch,  Mr.  Harding  is  deserving  of 
much  credit  in  building  up  and  putting  it  on  a 
sound  financial  basis.  He  has  been  identified 
with  it,  serving  in  different  departments,  for 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century ;  in  fact,  his  best  ef- 
forts in  Utah  have  been  devoted  to  this  institution 
and  much  of  its  success  is  due  to  his  able  and  ef- 
ficient management.  By  his  long  and  honorable 
life  in  Morgan  he  has  w-on  a  host  of  friends,  and 
today  is  considered  one  of  the  substantial  and 
leading  citizens  of  his  county. 

Mr.  Harding  was  born  in  Devonshire,  Eng- 
land, in  1846,  and  there  he  received  his  education 
and  grew  to  manhood.  He  became  a  convert  to 
the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church  in  his  na- 
tive country  and  in  1873  emigrated  to  America, 
coming  direct  to  Utah  and  locating  in  Morgan, 
which  has  since  been  his  home.  Upon  arriving 
here  he  took  up  a  farm,  and  followed  that  busi- 
ness for  several  years.  He  still  ow-ns  this  farm 
and  makes  a  specialty  of  raising  early  Ohio  pota- 
toes and  beets,  in  which  he  is  quite  successful. 
He  became  associated  with  the  branch  house  of 
the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  Institution  at 
this  place  in  1880,  as  a  clerk,  and  has  year  by 
year  worked  his  way  up  until  he  is  now  general 
manager  of  the  establishment,  which  position  he 
has  held  since  1899. 

Mr.  Harding  was  married  in  1875  to  ^liss  So- 
phronia  A.  Bull,  and  by  this  marriage  has  had 
four  children :  Evelyn  B. ;  Thomas  C,  now  on 
a  mission  to  Wales ;  Daniel,  and  Charles.  His 
children  all  make  their  home  in  Morgan.  Mrs. 
Harding  came  here  in  1849,  ^nd  has  passed 
through  all  the  hardships  incident  to  pioneer  life 
in  Utah. 

In  politics  Mr.  Harding  is  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican party.  He  has  served  for  a  number  of 
years   on   the   City   Council,   and   on   November, 


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1901,  was  elected  Mayor  of  Morgan,  taking  his 
office  January  i.  1902. 

In  Church  life  he  has  filled  the  offices  of  Dea- 
con and  Elder,  and  at  this  time  is  a  member  of 
the  Seventieth  Quorum.  He  has  always  taken  a 
deep  interest  in  matters  pertaining  to  the  welfare 
of  his  community  or  the  Church,  and  is  regarded 
as  one  of  the  solid  men  of  that  county.  He  has 
been  largely  identified  with  the  irrigation  system 
in  Morgan  county  and  was  for  seventeen  years 
water  master,  and  has  done  much  for  his  county 
in  this  regard.  He  is  essentially  a  self-made 
man,  and  one  who  commands  the  confidence  and 
esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 


OSEPH  WILLIAMS.  The  stock  busi- 
ness, like  every  other  avocation  or  call- 
ing in  life,  requires  careful  and  judi- 
cious management  in  order  to  make 
it  a  success.  Mr.  Williams,  while  he  is 
a  comparatively  young  man,  has  demonstrated 
his  ability  to  successfully  handle  and  control  the 
stock  business,  having  been  identified  with  that 
bne  during  all  his  business  life. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  L'tah,  having  been  born 
in  Taylorsville  W'ard  on  June  20,  1866,  and  is 
the  son  of  Thomas  and  Harriet  (Davis)  Will- 
iams, both  of  his  parents  having  been  born  in 
Wales.  His  father  came  to  Utah  in  i860  and  re- 
turned for  his  family  in  the  spring  of  1862.  The 
Senior  Islr.  Williams  first  settled  west  of  the 
Jordan  river  on  the  Taylorsville  road,  and  spent 
the  remainder  of  his  life  in  this  neighborhood 
v^fhere  he  took  up  and  improved  part  of  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  of  land.  He  later  sold  a 
portion  of  this  land  and  lived  the  rest  of  his  life 
on  the  remainder,  dying  in  1873.  Our  subject's 
mother  is  still  living.  Joseph  Williams  was 
the  fifth  child  and  second  son  in  his  father's 
family,  and  after  the  father's  death  he  went 
to  herding  cattle  on  the  plains  of  Utah,  which 
he  followed  for  a  number  of  years.  He  later 
became  identified  with  the  cattle  and  sheep 
business  for  himself  and  has  followed  that 
business  successfully  ever  since,  the  most  of 
his   stock  being  kept  in   Idaho.      On  his  home 


place  is  a  splendid  brick  residence,  wind  mill, 
barns,  etc.,  fruit  and  orchard  trees,  and  the  whole 
place  is  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 

He  married  on  September  9,  1891  to  Miss  Al- 
freda  Anderson,  in  P.p-^^-pr  county,  where  he  was 
at  that  time  in  the  stock  business.  Her  parents 
had  come  to  Utah  in  1882.  Of  this  marriage  five 
children  have  been  born  :  Joseph  E. ;  Jennie  ; 
Carl  L. ;  Delpha,  and  Lawrence  Alden.  In  polit- 
ical life  Mr.  Williams  has  always  been  identified 
with  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  desired 
nor  soueht  public  office.  All  the  members  of  his 
family  are  followers  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
Mr.  Williams  is  an  Elder  in  his  Ward.  His 
wife  takes  an  active  part  in  the  Ladies'  Relief 
Society,  in  caring  for  the  worthy  poor.  No  peo- 
ple in  Salt  Lake  county  enjoy  a  wider  circle  of 
friends  than  does  Mr.  Williams  and  his  family. 


H.  CHRISTENSEN.  In  the  settle- 
ment of  a  new  territory  in  the  United 
States,  as  soon  as  the  land  had  been 
cultivated  to  such  an  extent  as  to  pro- 
vide for  the  sustenance  of  the  people, 
or  the  natural  resources  had  been  developed  so  as 
to  provide  for  their  wants,  the  attention  of  the 
citizens  of  the  new  land  has  invariable  turned  to 
providing  adequate  means  for  the  education  of 
their  children.  Perhaps  in  no  one  thing  does  the 
United  States  so  far  excel  any  other  country 
than  in  the  educational  facilities  it  provides  for 
the  proper  training  of  the  young  people.  The 
splendid  system  of  public  schools  which  now  ex- 
ists in  LTtah  was  founded  when  the  pioneers  first 
began  the  settlement  of  Utah,  and  this  system 
has  grown  to  its  present  proportions  through  the 
efforts  of  many  men  and  under  the  guidance  of 
many  superintendents,  but  none  of  them  has  ex- 
erted more  influence  upon  its  growth  than  has 
the  present  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

D.  H.  Christensen  was  born  in  Manti,  Utah, 
in  1869,  and  spent  his  early  life  in  that  city,  being 
educated  in  the  Presbyterian  mission  schools  un- 
til twelve  years  of  age.  His  mother  and  family 
then  removed  to  Southern  Colorado  and  engaged 
in  farming,  and  here  Mr.  Christensen  remained 


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for  the  following  six  years,  spending  his  time 
on  the  ranch.  He  then  returned  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  entered  the  University  of  Utah,  grad- 
uating in  1890,  and  in  the  same  year  was  ap- 
pointed principal  of  the  Payson  schools.  He  was 
appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Utah  coun- 
ty schools,  succeeding  Judge  E.  A.  Wilson  in 
1893,  which  position  he  held  until  1897,  when  he 
resigned.  He  was  then  appointed  principal  of 
the  Branch  Normal  school,  but  resigfned  without 
acting,  to  make  a  visit  to  Europe  for  the  purpose 
of  travel  and  study,  and  at  the  same  time  ten- 
dered his  resignation  from  membership  in  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  in  which  capacity  he 
had  been  serving  since  its  organization.  He 
spent  the  first  part  of  this  trip  in  the  British 
Islands  and  made  visits  to  France,  Switzerland, 
Italy,  Holland  and  Belgium  and  studied  their 
educational  institutions.  Most  of  the  latter  parr 
of  his  stay  abroad,  however,  was  spent  in  Ger- 
many, and  in  the  City  of  Berlin  he  remained  two 
years,  where  through  the  courtesy  of  Ambassa- 
dor White  he  received  special  permission  from 
the  Royal  Minister  of  Public  Instruction  for  the 
Kingdom  of  Prussia,  to  investigate  and  study  the 
educational  system  of  that  kingdom.  He  devoted 
a  considerable  portion  of  his  time  while  in  Berlin 
to  the  study  of  the  German  language,  and  then 
went  to  Frankfort,  where  he  remained  for  six 
months.  Leaving  Frankfort,  he  spent  several 
months  traveling  in  Europe  with  his  family,  who 
had  accompanied  him,  and  spent  one  month  at 
the  World's  Fair  held  in  Paris  in  1900.  He  then 
returned  to  the  L^niversity  of  Goettingen,  where 
he  registered  as  a  regular  student,  and  took  a 
special  course  in  psychology  under  Dr.  Mueller, 
and  in  physics  under  Dr.  Riecke.  He  then  re- 
turned to  America  and  spent  a  considerable  time 
in  the  East  in  the  schools  of  Baltimore,  Washing- 
ton and  Boston.  In  June,  1901,  he  went  to  Chi- 
cago with  the  intention  of  entering  the  University 
of  Chicago,  but  while  there  received  a  message 
calling  him  to  Salt  Lake  City.  A  few  days  after 
his  arrival  he  was  tendered  the  position  of  Super- 
intendent of  the  Salt  Lake  City  schools. 

Since  that  time  he  has  given  his  whole  atten- 
tion to  the  betterment  of  the  public  school  sys- 
tem and  the  efforts  that  he  has  made  have  re- 


sulted in  some  changes  being  made  and  in  the 
betterment  of  this  system.  At  the  present  time 
he  has  under  him  three  hundred  and  fifteen 
teachers,  including  those  employed  in  the  high 
school,  and  during  the  last  year  there  were  en- 
rolled between  twelve  and  thirteen  thousand  pu- 
pils at  the  various  schools. 

Mr.  Christensen  was  married  in  1894  to  Miss 
Katie  Dean,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Amelia 
Dean.  At  the  time  of  his  marriage  his  wife  was 
one  of  the  well-known  teachers  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  while  in  Europe  with  Mr.  Christensen  de- 
voted considerable  time  to  the  study  of  industrial 
training  for  girls.  By  this  marriage  they  have 
three  daughters,  Aileen,  Lucile  and  Maree. 
Mr.  Christensen  and  his  wife  are  both  members 
of  the  Mormon  Church  and  are  descendants  of 
the  old  pioneer  families  of  Utah.  His  father, 
Herman  J.  Christensen,  came  to  Utah  in  1853, 
and  settled  in  Sanpete  county.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent man  in  all  the  afifairs  of  that  community  and 
was  a  successful  sheep  grower,  and  a  leading 
member  of  the  Mormon  Church  until  he  severed 
his  connection  in  1868.  He  was  also  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  ]\Ianti  Savings  Bank,  and  had  joined 
the  Church  prior  to  his  removal  to  Utah.  He  died 
in  1897.  The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
Anne  (Poulson)  Christensen,  is  still  alive  at  this 
writing,  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Christensen  is  regarded  by  the  prominent 
educators  of  his  State  as  one  of  the  best  fitted 
men  for  the  position  which  he  now  occupies.  He 
is  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  the 
State,  and  enjoys  a  wide  and  lasting  popularity. 


<  )HN  C.  LYNCH.  Among  the  enter- 
prising young  business  men  of  Salt  Lake 
City  may  be  found  many  who  began 
their  careers  in  other  parts  of  the  coun- 
try, but  who,  chafing  under  the  re- 
straint placed  about  them,  filled  with  a  longing 
to  mingle  with  and  become  a  part  of  this  free 
western  life,  have  lent  a  willing"  ear  to  Horace 
Greeley's  famous  advice  to  young  men,  and  turn- 
ing their  faces  westward  have  found  here  the 
goal  of  their  ambitions.    Such  a  man  is  the  sub- 


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ject  of  this  sketch,  who,  ahhougli  but  yet  in  his 
early  manhood,  standing  upon  the  very  threshold 
of  his  career,  is  making  rapid  strides  in  the  busi- 
ness life  and  even  now  occupies  a  position  of 
prominence  in  the  city. 

John  C.  Lynch,  Secretary  and  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Salt  Lake  Ice  Company,  and  a  Direc- 
tor in  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic,  was 
born  in  Champaign  county,  Illinois,  January  21. 
1867,  and  his  early  life  was  spent  on  his  father's 
farm.  His  parents  were  Patrick  and  Katherine 
(Courtney)  Lynch,  and  his  father  followed  agri- 
cultural pursuits  all  his  life,  dying  on  January 
4,  1892. 

Mr.  Lynch's  early  education  was  obtained  from 
the  schools  of  his  native  county,  and  later  at 
Terre  Haute,  Indiana,  Commercial  College.  He 
was  of  an  ambitious  temperament,  and  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  turned  his  back  upon  farm  life  and 
started  West,  going  first  to  the  Black  Hills  coun- 
try. South  Dakota,  where  he  engaged  for  some 
time  in  mining.  He  remained  there  about  four 
years,  but  not  meeting  with  the  success  he  desired, 
continued  his  Westward  trip  until  he  reached  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  has  since  made  his  home  here. 
After  he  had  been  here  a  short  time  he  became 
convinced  of  the  fact  that  there  was  a  good  field 
for  a  successful  ice  business,  if  conducted  prop- 
erly, and  at  once  identified  himself  with  that 
industry,  becoming  associated  with  the  Mountain 
Ice  and  Cold  Storage  Company.  He  set  about 
to  build  uo  the  business  of  that  concern,  and 
succeeded  so  well  that  in  1895  the  business  was 
incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Ice  Company,  and  Mr.  Lynch  placed  in  charge  as 
Secretary  and  Manager.  He  has  since  been  the 
leading  spirit  in  the  concern,  having  the  entire 
control  and  management  of  the  business,  which 
has  assumed  large  proportions,  being  the  only 
company  between  San  Francisco  and  Denver 
owning  a  plant  for  the  manufacture  of  artificial 
ice  and  catering  to  a  large  patronage. 

Aside  from  the  above  line  of  business,  Mr. 
Lynch  has  followed  his  early  predilection  for 
mining  and  is  interested  in  a  number  of  the  lead- 
ing mining  propositions  of  Utah  and  the  inter- 
mountain  country,  among  which  may  be  men- 
tioned the  Silver  King  and  Daly  West,  two  of 


the  noted  mines  in  the  Park  City  District,  and  in 
the  Tintic  District,  one  of  the  richest  mining 
belts  in  L^tah.  Besides  these  he  is  interested  in  a 
number  of  mines  of  smaller  note,  and  is  heavily 
interested  in  valuable  business  real  estate  in  the 
city.  His  mining  and  real  estate  office  is  at  54 
East  Second  South.  He  has  great  faith  in  the 
future  of  Utah's  mines.  He  has  been  associated 
with  the  National  Bank  of  the  Republic  almost 
from  the  time  he  first  came  to  Salt  Lake,  having 
been  elected  a  Director  in  1888,  and  has  since 
continued  to  hold  that  position. 

Mr.  Lynch  was  married  in  Terre  Haute,  In- 
diana, in  1892,  to  Miss  Jennie  Byrne,  a  native  of 
that  State,  and  daughter  of  P.  J.  Byrne.  They 
have  four  children :  Robert  P. ;  John ;  Courtney, 
and  Mary. 

In  politics  Mr.  Lynch  has  always  been  a  fol- 
lower of  the  Republican  party  but  during  his 
life  in  Salt  Lake  has  not  taken  any  very  active 
part  in  its  work,  devoting  his  time  and  attention 
to  his  large  business  enterprises.  He  is  a  prom- 
inent member  of  the  Commercial  Club. 

It  is  just  such  enterprising,  wide-awake  young 
men  as  our  subject  that  are  bringing  Salt  Lake 
City  so  prominently  into  notice  among  Eastern 
capitalists,  and  they  are  not  only  building  up 
strong  careers  for  themselves,  but  are  building  up 
the  city  as  well,  and  too  much  cannot  be  said  in 
their  praise.  During  his  residence  among  us  Mr. 
Lynch  has  made  many  friends,  not  only  in  busi- 
ness life  but  in  social  circles  as  well. 


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ROMAS  ALSTON.  The  important 
position  of  County  Recorder  of  Salt 
Lake  county  has  been  entrusted  by  his 
fellow  citizens  to  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  and  the  able  manner  in  which 
he  has  administered  the  duties  of  that  office,  has 
justified  their  choice. 

Thomas  Alston  was  born  in  Southport,  Lan- 
caster, England,  October  24th,  1857,  and  spent 
his  boyhood  days  in  the  place  of  his  nativity.  His 
education  was  derived  from  the  common  schools 
and  Deseret  University  of  Utah.  His  father  died 
in    1863   and   after  his  death,   when  our  subject 


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was  but  a  boy,  Thomas,  his  mother  and  two  sis- 
ters, emigrated  to  America,  two  elder  brothers 
having  preceded  them  one  year.  Our  subject, 
mother  and  sisters  left  their  native  land  in  May.. 
1865.  and  after  a  long  and  arduous  journey  ar- 
rived in  Salt  Lake  City  in  November  of  that 
year.  Upon  the  arrival  of  the  family  in  Utah, 
Thomas  joined  the  sessions  of  the  Deseret  Uni- 
versity, now  the  University  of  Utah,  and  also 
attended  the  night  schools,  determined  to  have 
as  good  an  education  as  was  possible  for  him  to 
get  under  the  existing  conditions. 

His  first  work  was  as  a  school  teacher,  which 
he  began  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  two  years 
later  he  took  charge  of  a  school  in  Summit  coun- 
ty, Utah,  and  continued  to  devote  his  time  to 
educational  work  until  1882,  with  the  exception 
of  a  period  of  two  and  a  half  years,  when  he  fol- 
lowed the  occupation  of  a  machinist. 

His  first  entrance  into  political  life  was  in 
1883,  when  he  was  elected  County  Clerk  of  Sum- 
mit County,  Utah,  by  a  large  majority,  and  was 
re-elected  upon  the  expiration  of  his  term,  and 
again  re-elected,  and  was  renominated  for  a  fourth 
term,  and  only  defeated  by  thirteen  votes.  His 
service  as  County  Clerk  covered  a  period  of  over 
five  years.  LTpon  his  retiring  from  the  office  of 
County  Clerk  he  returned  to  Salt  Lake  City 
and  secured  a  position  in  the  County  Recorder's 
office  of  this  county,  where  he  remained  until 
the  spring  of  1889.  In  April  of  that  year  he  was 
called  by  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints  to  go  to  England  on  its  missionary 
work.  He  was  absent  from  Utah  for  two  years 
on  this  mission,  during  which  time  he  visited  his 
old  home  and  spent  a  large  portion  of  his  time 
during  the  last  year  as  business  manager  of  the 
Liverpool  office  of  the  Church.  Upon  his  re- 
turn to  Utah  he  was  appointed  assistant  to  the 
private  secretary  of  President  Woodruff,  then  at 
the  head  of  the  Church,  and  remained  in  that 
position  from  1891  to  1893,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Salt  Lake  Temple  as  Assistant  Re- 
corder, remaining  in  this  position  for  five  years. 
He  also  served  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  State 
Land  Board,  and  in  January,  1900,  was  chosen 
as  Stake  Clerk  and  Historian  of  the  new  Granite 
Stake  of  Zion.     In  the  election  held  in  Novem- 


ber, 1900,  he  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
as  Recorder  of  Salt  Lake  county,  by  a  large  ma- 
jority, and  in  this  office  employment  is  provided 
for  twelve  clerks. 

He  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  Miss  Mary  Ellen 
Holt,  of  Hoytsville,  Summit  county,  Utah,  daugh- 
ter of  Leroy  Holt,  who  came  to  Utah  in  an  early 
day.  By  this  marriage  they  have  thirteen  chil- 
dren. The  father  of  our  subject,  James  Alston, 
was  a  prosperous  builder  in  England,  being  the 
principal  builder  in  his  home  town.  His  wife, 
Ann  (Molyneux)  Alston,  was  a  native  of  Lancas- 
ter, and  her  parents  came  to  Utah  in  the  early 
days.  They  were  among  the  early  members  of 
the  Church  in  England,  being  almost  the  first  to 
join. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Alston  has  always  been 
prominently  identified  with  the  Democratic  party, 
and  has  followed  with  unwavering  allegiance  its 
fortunes  from  the  time  of  its  organization  in  this 
State.  He  has  been  prominently  identified  with 
the  Church  of  his  choice,  and  is  now  Clerk  of  the 
Granite  Stake  and  a  High  Priest  and  Clerk  of 
the  High  Priests'  Quorum  of  the  Stake. 

Mr.  Alston  is  in  every  sense  of  the  term  a  self- 
made  man.  His  education  was  obtained  through 
his  own  efforts,  and  when  he  started  in  life  he 
assisted  his  widowed  mother  in  rearing  and  edu- 
cating the  j'ounger  children.  His  ability  and 
industry,  together  with  his  courteous  manner, 
have  made  for  him  a  host  of  friends  throughout 
Utah,  and  he  enjoys  the  confidence  and  trust  of 
the  leaders  of  the  Church,  and  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  the  people  of  his  acquaintance. 


EORGE  T.  ODELL.  General  Manager 
of  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  ]\Ia- 
chine  Company.  Perhaps  no  State  in 
the  Union  of  the  same  age  as  Utah 
can  boast  of  having  within  her  borders 
as  many  great  and  prosperous  commercial  and 
financial  institutions  as  can  she,  and  more  par- 
ticularly does  this  apply  to  the  City  of  Salt  Lake. 
Almost  from  the  first  year  that  Brigham  Young 
and  his  followers  landed  in  the  great  Salt  Lake 
Valley,   things  have   been  planned  and  carried 


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out  on  a  large  and  gigantic  scale ;  nothing  small ; 
nothing  insignificant.  The  stranger  who  now 
visits  Salt  Lake  City  after  a  period  of  only  a 
little  more  than  half  a  century  of  settlement  and 
development,  must  be  at  once  impressed  with 
the  broad  and  most  magnificent  scale  on  which  so 
many  of  the  leading  business  establishments  of 
Salt  Lake  City  are  handled,  as  well  as  the  un- 
surpassed business  ability  of  the  men  who  con- 
duct these  different  enterprises.  The  handsome 
and  thoroughly  modern  business  blocks,  public 
buildings,  and  the  great  Salt  Lake  Temple,  which 
is  of  itself  of  world-wide  note,  with  its  granite 
walls,  its  many  spires  extending  far  up  towards 
the  noonday  sun,  and  its  generally  grand  and 
stately  appearance,  must  all  leave  a  lasting  and 
indelible  impression  upon  the  new-comer,  paying 
mute  but  eloquent  tribute  to  the  stupendous  and 
magnificent  undertakings  of  the  citizens  of  this 
city  and  State ;  for  these  things  are  true  not  alone 
of  the  capital  of  the  State,  but  of  the  State  itself; 
whatever  is  undertaken  bears  upon  it  the  stamp 
of  true  worth  and  durability ;  far  reaching  in  its 
influence  and  of  lasting  benefit  to  the  State  at 
large. 

Among  the  leading  commercial  institutions  of 
not  only  Salt  Lake  City  and  this  entire  western 
country,  but  standing  at  the  head  of  its  particular 
line  of  such  establishments  throughout  the 
United  States,  is  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and 
Machine  Company,  with  branches  scattered 
throughout  this  entire  inter-mountain  region. 
Through  these  branches,  which  serve  as  feeders 
for  the  parent  house,  this  establishment  reaches 
out  into  all  the  surrounding  States,  and  supplies 
the  greater  part  of  all  the  vehicles,  agricultural 
implements,  special  lines  of  hardware,  harness, 
strap  goods,  and  similar  goods  consumed  by  the 
inhabitants  of  this  entire  western  region.  Before 
taking  up  in  detail  the  life  of  the  man  whose 
genius  and  unequalled  business  ability  has  been 
the  leading  factor  in  the  building  up  of  this 
mammoth  business,  it  might  be  interesting  to 
trace  the  career  of  the  establishment  itself. 

The  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine  Com- 
pany, with  its  capitalization  of  one  million,  five 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  is  of  recent  ori- 
gin,    being    a     consolidation     of     two    of     the 


largest  and  most  enterprising  vehicle  and 
implement  houses  of  the  city,  the  Co-oper- 
ative Wagon  and  ]\Iachine  Company  and 
the  Consolidated  Implement  Company.  These 
two  institutions  separately  shared  the  greater 
part  of  the  trade  of  this  region  between  them 
each  having  branches  throughout  Utah,  Idaho 
and  Wyoming,  with  a  large  force  of  traveling 
men  constantly  traversing  the  field.  They  held 
the  exclusive  agencies  for  the  leading  goods  in 
their  lines,  as  well  as  a  complete  line  of  auxiliary 
foods,  and  for  years  did  an  enormous  volume  of 
business.  They  employed  men  of  known  business 
ability,  catered  to  the  best  class  of  patronage 
and  their  business  methods  and  standards  were 
above  criticism.  Each  began  in  a  small  way, 
started  by  the  men  who  now  control  and  operate 
the  new  establishment,  and  by  a  slow  but  sure 
growth  attained  to  high  positions  in  the  business 
world.  It  was  upon  such  a  foundation  as  this 
that  the  new  company  came  into  existence.  Reaf- 
izing  that  by  merging  their  interests  they  could 
control  even  a  larger  field  and  carry  on  the  busi- 
ness at  an  immense  saving  and  expense,  the  con- 
solidation was  finally  effected,  and  the  firm  of 
the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Machine  Company 
began  business  on  February  i,  1902,  with  the 
following  officers  and  board  of  directors : 

President,  Joseph  F.  Smith ;  Vice-President, 
W.  S.  McCornick;  Secretary,  Melvin  D.  Wells; 
Treasurer,  Frank  R.  Snow ;  General  Manager, 
George  T.  Odell.  These  gentlemen  together  with 
George  Romney,  George  A.  Snow,  Heber  J. 
Grant,  H.  B.  Prout,  L.  S.  Hills,  G.  G.  Wright, 
John  Henry  Smith,  Frank  R.  Snow,  Charles  S. 
Burton,  and  James  H.  Movie,  form  the  Board  of 
Directors. 

Aside  from  its  immense  capitalization  the  com- 
pany has  an  almost  unlimited  financial  backing, 
W.  S.  McCornick  being  the  leading  banker  of 
this  western  country,  a  man  of  shrewd  business 
ability  and  large  wealth ;  Joseph  F.  Smith  is  one 
of  the  leading  spirits  in  the  business  world  of 
this  section,  being  President  of  the  Zion  Co- 
operative Institution,  and  of  a  number  of  smaller 
establishments,  and  is  at  this  time  President  of 
the  Mormon  Church ;  George  Romney  is  a  mem- 
ber  of   the   Romney    Shoe    Company ;    Heber   J. 


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Grant  is  President  of  the  Home  Fire  Insurance 
Company ;  all  men  of  more  or  less  wealth,  and 
the  remainder  of  the  directorate  are  men  of  con- 
siderable means  and  undoubted  business  stand- 
ing. Although  the  chief  aim  of  the  consolidation 
has  been  to  reduce  the  running  expenses  of  the 
concern  and  cover  a  wider  field,  it  is  no  part  of 
the  intention  of  the  owners  of  this  establishment 
to  do  this  at  the  expense  of  their  patrons ;  on  the 
contrary  they  expect  to  give  their  customers  the 
benefit  of  this  change  and  be  able  to  maintain  the 
present  low  level  of  prices  now  prevailing,  and 
in  the  near  future  reduce  these  prices  even  lower 
by  being  able  to  buy  in  larger  quantities  and  at 
cheaper  rates  in  consequence.  It  is  safe  to  say 
that  no  firm  in  the  West  has  a  brighter  outlook 
or  can  more  confidently  expect  a  continuance  of 
past  successes  than  can  the  Consolidated  Wagon 
and  Machine  Company. 

George  T.  Odell,  the  General  Alanager  of  this 
establishment  and  its  numerous  branch  houses 
has  been  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City  since  1880. 
He  came  to  Utah  forty-two  years  ago,  but  spent 
some  time  in  other  parts  of  the  State  and  in  Neva- 
da, coming  to  Salt  Lake  from  that  State.  We  first 
find  Mr.  Odell  in  the  employ  of  the  Central  Pa- 
cific Railway  in  1869,  which  business  he  followed 
until  1878,  when  he  resigned  his  position  and 
went  to  Ogden,  where  he  engaged  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  under  the  firm  name  of  Odell 
and  Wright,  building  up  a  prosperous  business. 
He  continued  there  for  some  years,  when  he 
moved  to  Nevada  and  took  charge  of  the  mer- 
cantile interests  of  the  Bullionville  Smelting; 
Company,  remaining  there  until  1884.  In  that  year 
he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  in  company  with 
Heber  J.  and  J.  F.  Grant  established  a  vehicle  and 
implement  business,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Grant,  Odell  &  Company.  The  success  of  this 
firm  was  assured  from  the  start  and  the  business 
soon  assumed  such  proportions  that  they  were 
able  to  absorb  the  Howard  Seebree  and  the  John 
W.  Lowell  Wagon  companies,  and  incorporate 
the  business  under  the  style  of  the  Co-operative 
Wagon  and  Machine  Company,  from  which  time 
the  business  was  one  of  constant  and  increasing 
magnitude.  Mr.  Odell  was  assistant  manager 
of  the  business  until   1891,  and  its  phenomenal 


success  was  almost  wholly  due  to  his  high  order 
of  executive  and  business  ability,  untiring  energy 
and  unflagging  attention  and  devotion  to  the  in- 
terests of  the  concern. 

Aside  from  this  business  Mr.  Odell  has  asso- 
ciated himself  with  a  number  of  other  leading  en- 
terprises of  Salt  Lake  City,  as  well  as  the  ad- 
joining States.  He  is  a  Director  in  the  Utah  Com- 
mercial and  Savings  Bank,  and  a  Director  in  the 
Idaho  Falls  Milling  Company  of  Idaho  Falls, 
Idaho. 

In  political  life  he  is  an  adherent  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  Republican  party,  and  although 
he  has  never  participated  to  any  great  extent  in 
the  work  of  that  party,  is  very  popular  with  its 
leaders,  and  has  several  times  been,  urged  to  ac- 
cept a  public  office,  which  he  has  invariably  de- 
clined, until  the  last  election,  when  upon  the  earn- 
est solicitation  of  not  only  the  party  leaders  but 
his  many  friends  in  the  city,  irrespective  of  party 
affiliations,  he  allowed  his  name  to  be  used 
as  a  candidate  for  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City,  but 
did  not  receive  the  nomination,  his  opponent  be- 
ing Mayor  Thompson,  who  was  nominated  and 
re-elected  to  his  second  term. 

Mr.  Odell  came  to  Utah  poor  in  pocket  but 
rich  in  hope  and  determination  to  succeed,  and 
how  well  he  has  carried  out  that  determination 
may  be  seen  from  this  sketch.  His  career  has 
been  one  of  unblemished  honor ;  upright  and 
straightforward,  he  has  followed  the  highest  bus- 
ness  ideals,  and  today  is  regarded  among  busi- 
ness men  as  of  undoubted  integrity  and  sterling 
worth.  His  somewhat  quick  and  abrupt  manner 
is  more  than  atoned  for  by  his  undoubted  sin- 
cerity and  the  kindly  generous  heart  that  beats 
beneath  an  at  first  sight  brusque  exterior.  He 
was  married  in  1871  to  Miss  Florence  Grant,  and 
they  have  five  children :  Thomas ;  George,  prac- 
ticing physician  of  Salt  Lake  City :  T.  Fred, 
salesman  for  the  Consolidated  Wagon  and  Ma- 
chine Company :  Florence  L..  now  Mrs.  Joseph 
H.  Richards  of  Salt  Lake  City ;  Adelaide  E.  and 
Ethal  ^I.  Mr.  Odell  has  one  grandchild,  Joseph 
H.  He  lives  in  a  choice  residence  location  in 
the  eastern  part  of  the  city,  and  is  in  the  enjoy- 
ment of  a  large  circle  of  friends,  both  in  business 
and  social  life. 


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DWARD  DALTON,  member  of  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  of 
Tooele  county,  and  one  of  the  promi- 
nent and  successful  men  of  that  sec- 
tion of  the  State,  is  a  member  of  an  old 
English  family,  having  been  born  in  Lancashire, 
England,  December  5,  1857,  and  is  the  son  of 
John  and  Hannah  (Hibbert)  Dalton,  both  na- 
tives of  the  place  where  their  son  was  born. 

When  our  subject  was  seven  years  ot  age  his 
mother  became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the 
I\Iormon  Church,  and  with  her  child  came  to 
America  in  1864,  coming  direct  to  Utah  and  set- 
tling in  Weber  canyon,  where  she  remained  but 
a  short  time,  removing  from  there  to  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  from  that  place  to  Pleasant  Grove, 
where  our  subject  grew  to  manhood  and  where 
he  received  such  education  as  the  schools  of 
the  vicinity  aiiforded.  He  began  life  as  a  farmer, 
following  that  for  three  or  four  years,  and  then 
went  into  the  freighting  business,  which  he  has 
since  followed,  doing  contracting  work  princi- 
pally. At  first  he  freighted  between  Salt  Lake 
City  and  the  mining  camps,  but  since  the  rail- 
roads have  entered  the  State  he  has  operated  be- 
tween the  mines  and  the  railroad  terminus, 
employing  from  one  hundred  to  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  horse  and  mule  teams  and 
from  twenty-five  to  thirty  men.  Since  Senator 
Clark  has  been  interested  in  the  State  Mr.  Dal- 
ton has  done  all  his  teaming,  and  his  work  has 
been  most  satisfactory,  as  he  is  a  man  who  never 
breaks  his  word  and  when  he  promises  to  have 
freight  at  a  certain  point  at  a  given  time,  it  can 
be  depended  upon  that  the  freight  will  be  there 
if  it  is  in  human  power  to  fulfill  the  contract. 

Our  subject  was  married  in  Tooele  county, 
July  14,  1877,  to  Miss  Celestia  Bates,  daughter 
of  Ormas  E.  and  Sarah  (Mier)  Bates.  Eleven 
children  have  been  born  of  this  marriage,  eight 
of  whom  are  still  living.  They  are :  Sitha  A., 
who  died  when  a  baby;  Celestia  I.,  .\lameda  S., 
Emeline  A.,  Sarah  E.,  died  aged  three  years; 
Clara  I.,  died  in  infancy ;  Edward  A.,  William 
R.,  Elvia  L.,  Lawrence  E.,  and  Claude  E.  Air. 
Dalton  has  made  his  home  in  Tooele  City  for  the 
past  seven  years. 

In  politics  he  has  been  a  believer  in  the  princi- 


ples of  the  Democratic  party  since  its  organiza- 
tion in  Utah,  and  has  for  many  years  been  an 
active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  that  party.  At 
present  he  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners,  having  been  elected  in  1900,  the 
same  being  his  first  political  office.  At  the  time 
of  the  election  there  was  a  tie  between  him  and 
his  opponent,  which  was  decided  in  Mr.  Dalton's 
favor,  he  being  the  only  Democrat  elected  to  office, 
and  running  far  ahead  of  his  ticket.  He  has  al- 
ways been  foremost  in  upbuilding  Tooele  county, 
and  his  hearty,  whole-souled  and  generous  man- 
ner has  made  him  a  favorite  with  those  who  have 
been  associated  with  him,  both  in  business  and 
private  life.  He  is  regarded  as  a  most  reliable 
and  trustworthy  man  in  every  respect,  and  the 
high  place  to  which  he  has  attained  in  the  es- 
teem of  his  fellow  men  has  been  won  by  his  own 
efforts  and  by  his  strict  attention  to  duty,  and  the 
efficient  and  business-like  manner  in  which  he 
has  performed  his  work  at  all  times. 


OHX  B.  BRINGHURST.  During  the 
past  half  century  Utah  has  produced 
many  native  sons  who  have  risen  to 
prominence  in  the  affairs  of  this  coun- 
try, and  have  gradually  taken  up  the  work 
which  their  forefathers  had  started,  but  who,  on 
account  of  old  age,  were  compelled  to  turn  it  over 
to  their  sons. 

Among  the  native  sons  of  this  State  who  de- 
serve much  credit  for  the  part  taken  of  building 
up  this  new  country  must  be  mentioned  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  Mr.  Bringhurst  was  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  June  13th,  1854.  He  is  the  son 
of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  B.  Bringhurst,  who  were 
born  near  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  the  father 
was  born  December  21st,  1812  and  the  mother 
December  25,  1816.  His  father  having  been  en- 
gaged in  the  buggy  and  wagon  manufacturing 
business,  and  on  coming  to  Utah  he  established 
a  shop  in  this  city,  and  for  many  years  success- 
fully carried  on  that  business,  supplying  most  of 
the  wagons,  buggies  and  farming  implements  at 
that  time  used  by  the  farmers. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  being  educated  in  the  public  schools,  at- 


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tending  school  in  the  winter  time  and  assisting 
his  father  in  the  blacksmith  and  wagon  shop  dur- 
ing the  summer  months.  He  was  one  of  nine 
children,  of  whom  eight  are  living.  There  be- 
ing two  sets  of  twins,  Samuel  and  Eleanor  being 
the  first  pair,  and  John  and  Mary  the  second — 
there  being  twenty-seven  hours  difference  in 
their  births.  Mary  is  now  Mrs.  H.  Cohn  of 
Salt  Lake  City. 

In  1871  our  subject  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Taylorsville  Ward,  where  he  at  once  became 
interested  in  farming  with  his  father  and  where 
he  has  continued  to  reside  ever  since.  Mr.  Bring- 
hurst  settled  on  his  present  farm  in  1880,  which 
is  situated  on  the  Redwood  road,  and  only  one 
and  one  half  miles  south  of  the  old  Taylorsville 
postoffice,  and  within  eighty  rods  of  the  school 
house  of  district  No.  64,  which  is  considered  one 
of  the  best  schools  in  the  county.  His  farm  con- 
sists of  thirty  acres  of  splendid  land,  which  he 
has  continued  to  improve,  having  erected  a  mod- 
ern and  substantial  brick  residence.  Fruit  and 
shade  trees,  etc.,  adorn  the  place. 

January  3rd,  1867,  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar 
Miss  Emma  Tripp,  daughter  of  Enoch  B.  and 
Jessie  (Eddins)  Tripp,  who  were  early  settlers 
in  Utah.  Mrs.  Bringhurst  having  been  born  in 
Salt  Lake  City.  By  this  union  there  have  been 
eleven  children  born.  Jessie,  the  wife  of  J.  W. 
Webster  of  Taylorsville  Ward  ;  Ella,  Mary,  John, 
William,  Lucy,  Samuel,  Joseph,  Howard,  Arthur 
and  Heber  Grant,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
months.  The  family  has  been  remarkable  for  its 
ruggedness  and  the  healthy  condition  of  the  child- 
ren, and  up  to  two  years  ago  had  never  called  a 
physician. 

In  political  life,  ]Mr.  Bringhurst  has  followed 
the  fortunes  of  the  Democratic  party.  He  has 
served  as  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Constable,  and 
Road  Supervisor  and  School  Trustee  in  his 
Ward. 

No  family  in  Salt  Lake  county  enjoys  a  larger 
circle  of  friends  that  does  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bring- 
hurst. They  are  ever  courteous,  kind  and  public- 
spirited  and  believe  in  assisting  in  every  way  pos- 
sible the  worthy  poor.  Mr.  Bringhurst  has  al- 
ways had  great  confidence  in  Utah,  and  espec- 
ially in   Salt  Lake  county,  and  the  part  he  has 


taken  in  building  up  this  new  country  has  been 
of  no  small  dimensions.  While  he  has  been  en- 
gaged in  farming,  yet  this  has  not  consumed  all 
of  his  time,  as  he  has  been  largely  interested  in 
the  stock  business  and  other  enterprises  of  the 
State. 


OBERT  PIERCE  BRINGHURST.  So 
wjs  closely  identified  with  the  history  of 
this  inter-mountain  region  and  espe- 
cially of  Salt  Lake  county,  Utah,  has 
been  the  subject  of  this  skettli  and  of 
his  people,  that  to  attempt  a  compilation  of  this 
kind  without  a  proper  mention  of  them  would 
prove  materially  lacking,  for  they  were  among 
the  first  pioneers  and  founders  of  this  new  coun- 
try, and  the  part  they  have  taken  in  the  develop- 
ment, not  only  in  the  agricultural  and  stock  in- 
terests of  Salt  Lake  county,  but  in  commercial 
lines  as  well,  has  been  of  no  small  dimensions. 

Robert  Pierce  Bringhurst  was  born  in  Potta- 
watomie county,  Iowa,  November  25,  1846,  while 
his  parents  were  en  route  to  Winter  Quarters. 
'1  he  night  of  his  birth  the  Missouri  river  froze 
over,  and  Robert  Pierce,  who  was  on  the  other 
side  of  the  river,  hearing  of  the  new-born  babe, 
came  across  and  took  the  family  to  warmer  and 
better  quarters.  When  Robert  was  but  two  weeks 
old  his  mother  took  him  across  the  ice  on  the  Mis- 
souri river,  carrying  him  in  her  arms.  In  the 
following  spring  the  family  started  with  the  train 
under  command  of  President  John  Taylor,  for 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  He  was  the  son  of  Samuel 
and  Eleanor  B.  Bringhurst.  Samuel  Bringhurst 
was  born  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  De- 
cember 21,  1812,  where  he  remained  for  a  num- 
ber of  years,  following  his  trade  of  wagon  and 
buggy  maker,  and  during  the  time  of  the  migra- 
tion of  the  Mormon  people  to  Nauvoo,  he  set- 
tled in  that  vicinity  and  was  residing  at  that 
place  when  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  was  killed. 
During  the  troublesome  times  in  Nauvoo,  Mr. 
Bringhurst  experienced  many  unpleasant  and  an- 
noying difficulties.  At  that  time  the  residences 
and  homes  of  the  Mormon  people  were  being 
searched  and  investigated  for  arms  and  ammu- 
nition,  which   the  officers   of  the   State  believed 


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they  had  in  their  possession.  Mr.  Eringhurst's 
home  was  often  searched,  and  on  one  occasion 
when  the  officers  came  he  had  a  gun  secreted 
under  a  trap  door.  His  wife,  seeing  the  officers 
coming,  put  her  rocking  chair  over  the  trap  door 
and  sat  down  to  get  the  youngest  child  to  sleep, 
and  in  that  way  they  saved  their  gun.  This  gun 
was  later  given  to  a  Gentile  friend  of  Mr.  Ering- 
hurst's, and  when  he  started  for  Winter  Quar- 
ters his  friend  delivered  it  to  him  in  a  quiet  way, 
on  board  a  boat  on  the  Mississippi  river,  and  the 
same  gun  was  brought  to  this  State.  An  incident 
which  is  worthy  of  mention  in  connection  with 
this  memorable  trip  is  the  fact  that  seven  of  the 
people  who  came  across  with  the  train  have  set- 
tled west  of  the  Jordan  river  in  the  vicinity  of 
Taylorsville,  and  all  of  whom  have  taken  an 
active  and  prominent  part  in  the  building  up  of 
that  section  of  the  country,  and  they  were  instru- 
mental in  giving  Taylorsville  its  name,  in  honor 
of  the  captain  of  the  train  which  carried  them 
safely  across  the  great  American  plains.  On  ar- 
riving in  Salt  Lake  City  the  father  of  our  sub- 
ject was  the  first  man  to  establish  a  wagon  and 
carriage  repair  and  blacksmith  shop  ever  opened 
in  Salt  Lake  City  or  in  the  State.  He  continued 
at  this  business  until  1871,  making  a  great  many 
wagons  and  repairing  the  plows  for  the  farmers, 
and  also  making  different  articles  which  were 
necessary  in  those  early  days  for  the  successful 
carrying  on  of  farming,  and  he  also  made  the 
cradles  that  were  used  in  harvesting' their  grain. 
The  elder  Bringhurst  was  a  prominent  factor 
in  the  early  history  of  this  country  and  was  known 
throughout  the  State  for  his  honesty  and  the  un- 
daunted courage  which  marked  him  as  one  of 
the  ablest  men  among  the  pioneers.  In  1871  he 
moved  to  where  his  son  Robert  now  lives  on  the 
Jordan  river,  and  in  the  south  end  of  Taylorsville 
Ward.  Here  he  died  on  April  12th,  1888,  and 
his  wife  died  on  July  29th  of  the  same  year. 
There  were  nine  children  in  the  family,  eight  of 
whom  are  still  living.  There  were  two  sets  of 
twins,  Samuel  and  Eleanor  being  the  eldest,  and 
John  and  Mary  E.  the  youngest.  Five  of  the 
boys  still  live  in  Utah,  all  being  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  Taylorsville  Ward,  with  the  exception 
of  William,  who  lives  in  Dixie. 


Our  subject's  boyhood  days  were  spent  in 
Utah  and  in  the  summer  he  worked  at  home  in 
the  garden,  and  assisted  his  father  in  the  black- 
smith shop,  learning  that  trade,  and  also  hauling 
wood  from  the  mountains.  He  received  only  a  few 
weeks'  schooling  during  the  winter  months.  He 
remained  with  his  father  until  seven  years  after 
his  marriage,  which  occurred  November  12,  1870. 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Jane  Foster,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Elizabeth  (Mackleroy)  Foster,  whose 
family  came  to  Utah  in  1848.  .^s  a  result  of  this 
marriage  eleven  children  were  born,  nine  of  whom 
are  still  living.  They  are,  Robert,  who  died  in 
infancy ;  Mary  E. ;  Elizabeth  J. ;  Charles,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  nine  months;  Ida;  Julia; 
Henry ;  Jacob  W. ;  Raymond ;  Sarah  L.  and  Ma- 
bel. In  1871  Mr.  Bringhurst  settled  on  his  pres- 
ent place,  east  of  the  Redwood  road,  in  the  south 
end  of  Taylorsville  Ward,  where  he  owns  a  splen- 
did home,  which  includes  sixty-six  acres  of  as 
good  land  as  there  is  in  the  State,  being  located 
on  the  north  and  south  Jordan  canals.  At  the 
time  that  ^Ir.  Bringhurst  came  into  possession, 
of  this  land  it  was  in  a  wild  and  unimproved 
state,  and  during  the  early  years  of  his  settle- 
men  there  they  were  years  of  toil  and  hardship 
and  he  spent  the  first  seven  years  in  a  log  cabin. 
He  later  built  a  two-room  brick  house,  and  in 
1896  built  his  splendid  modern  brick  home,  which 
is  equipped  with  all  the  conveniences  of  modern 
times,  hot  and  cold  water,  etc.  It  only  requires 
a  casual  glance  at  his  present  magnificent  home 
to  convince  any  one  that  careful  hands  have  had 
it  in  charge.  The  beautiful  yards,  fruit  and  shade 
trees,  lawns  and  flower  gardens,  all  go  to  make 
up  a  most  desirable  home.  Mr.  Bringhurst  has 
not  only  given  his  time  and  attention  to  his  farm- 
ing, but  he  has  also  been  largely  interested  in 
the  cattle  and  sheep  business.  He  was  among 
the  first  to  engage  in  the  raising  of  beets  for 
the  sugar  industry,  and  his  farm  has  produced 
large  quantities  of  this  product.  He  is  largely 
interested  as  a  stockholder  in  the  beet  sugar  fac- 
tory, and  also  in  mining.  He  is  also  a  stockholder 
in  many  of  the  prominent  banks  of  Salt  Lake 
City. 

In  politics  he  has  always  been  a  staunch  Re- 
publican, and  in  his  Ward  has  taken  a  prominent 


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and  active  part  in  the  political  affairs  of  that  sec- 
tion. For  six  years  he  was  a  school  trustee  and 
was  instrumental  in  building  a  four  thousand  dol- 
lar school  house  in  that  section  and  in  raising  the 
general  educational  facilities  to  a  higher  standard. 
Mr.  Bringhurst  and  his  wife  were  both  born  and 
raised  in  the  Mormon  faith,  as  were  also  their 
children.  For  many  years  Mrs.  Bringhurst  was 
connected  with  the  work  of  the  relief  society,  but 
resigned  her  position  in  that  body  on  account  of 
other  duties.  Mr.  Bringhurst  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  organizing  and  bringing  to  perfection 
the  Jordan  canal,  which  has  proved  of  great  bene- 
fit to  the  farmers  of  that  part  of  the  valley. 

During  the  Jubilee  in  1897,  the  State  through 
'its  appreciation  of  the  work  which  the  early 
pioneers  had  accomplished,  passed  a  bill  in  its 
legislature  directing  that  a  gold  medal  be  manu- 
factured and  that  each  pioneer  be  presented  with 
one.  These  medals  were  manufactured  by  one 
of  the  best  known  firms  in  New  York  City,  at  a 
cost  of  twenty-two  dollars  each,  and  are  highly 
prized  by  their  possessors.  This  gold  medal  has 
inscribed  on  it  the  picture  of  Brigham  Young  on 
one  side,  and  the  Bee  Hive  on  the  other.  Mr. 
Bringhurst  was  presented  with  one  of  these 
medals.  Our  subject  and  all  of  his  brothers  had 
greal  faith  in  the  counsels  of  their  father,  and 
remained  at  home  with  him  until  they  had  all 
grown  and  married,  and  the  principles  of  the  doc- 
trines which  were  inculcated  into  their  minds 
by  the  association  with  their  father,  on  account 
of  his  moral  intellectual  ability,  has  perhaps  been 
one  of  the  leading  secrets  of  their  successful  and 
prosperous  lives. 


EORGE  CRAXER.  Among  the  early 
pioneers  and  now  highly  respected 
citizens  of  Tooele  City  who  by  fore- 
sight and  strict  business  principles  have 
carved  out  by  their  own  efforts  a  suc- 
cessful career,  who  have  taken  a  prominent  and 
active  part  in  the  development  of  Tooele  count)', 
should  be  mentioned  George  Craner,  the  subject  of 
this  article,  a  native  of  England,  having  been  born 
in  Warwickshire,  June  i,  1829.  He  is  the  son 
of  George  B.  and  Elizabeth  (West)  Craner,  both 


natives  of  England.  Out  of  a  large  family  of 
children  ten  grew  to  maturity  and  five  are  now 
living  in  this  country,  being  located  in  Idaho 
and  Utah. 

Our  subject  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Mormon  faith  in  England,  where  he  grew 
to  manhood,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  that  country.  He  emigrated 
to  America  in  January,  1851,  on  the  sailing  ves- 
sel Geo.  ]V.  Bourne.  They  were  ten  weeks  on  the 
journey  from  Liverpool  to  New  Orleans,  and  in 
the  following  year  crossed  the  great  American 
plains  in  a  company  under  command  of  James 
Snow,  driving  four  yoke  of  oxen  for  his  board. 
He  arrived  in  Utah  on  the  7th  of  October  of  that 
vear,  and  at  once  went  to  work  to  get  money  to 
brine  his  father  and  mother,  three  sisters  and 
one  brother  to  Utah.  This  was  accomplished  in 
1854,  at  which  time  he  had  a  home  ready  for 
them.  The  father  died  in  Kansas  while  en  route 
to  Utah,  from  an  attack  of  cholera,  and  was  bur- 
ied in  a  grave  with  two  others,  a  young  lady, 
and  a  child,  who  had  died  of  the  same  disease. 
His  wife  continued  the  journey  to  Utah,  and 
lived  with  her  son  until  her  death,  April  8,  1869. 
The  log  house  which  Mr.  Craner  built  for  his 
parents'  use  is  still  occupied. 

Mr.  Craner  was  married  January  i,  1857,  to 
Miss  Emma  Jenkins,  daughter  of  Edward  Jenk- 
ins. She  was  born  in  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  October 
5,  1842,  and  died  February  14,  1880.  Of  this 
marriage  twelve  children  were  horn,  four  of 
whom  are  now  living — George.  John,  Eliza, 
Mary  Ann,  Joseph,  drowned  in  Idaho,  July  3, 
1891.  aged  twenty-three  years;  Edward,  died  Oc- 
tober 18,  1882,  when  eighteen  and  one-half  years 
old.  The  other  children  all  died  when  very 
young,  and  the  remaining  children  have  married. 

While  Mr.  Craner  has  been  active  in  political 
life  .ever  since  coming  to  Utah,  he  has  never  af- 
filiated with  either  of  the  dominant  parties,  pre- 
ferring to  use  his  own  judgment  in  regard  to 
voting,  although  he  is  more  inclined  to  the  pol- 
icy of  the  Republicans  than  that  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  He  has  been  for  eleven  years  a 
member  of  the  City  Council  of  Tooele  City,  and 
served  as  City  Treasurer  for  si.x  years.  Both 
parties  have  solicited  his  name  as  a  candidate  for 


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Mayor,  but  he  has  always  declined  the  honor. 
He  has  not  only  taken  a  lively  interest  in  what- 
ever pertained  to  the  welfare  of  his  own  city  and 
county,  but  in  the  early  days  was  active  in  de- 
fending the  State  against  the  Indians,  and  dur- 
ing the  time  of  the  Johnston  army  troubles  was 
a  guard  at  Echo  canyon.  He  was  also  at  one 
time  a  guard  at  Tooele  City  during  the  troubles 
with  the  Indians,  and  assisted  in  building  a  wall 
around  that  place  for  the  better  protection  of  the 
citizens  against  the  raids  of  the  red  men.  On 
December  2,  1856,  he  went  to  Bridger  to  assist 
the  famous  hand  cart  brigade  to  continue  their 
journey.  Mr.  Craner  has  been  all  throug'h  life 
a  prominent  man  in  the  Church.  He  holds  a 
badge  which  he  received  during  the  Jubilee  Cel- 
ebration of  the  Latter  Day  Saints'  Sunday  School 
held  in  Salt  Lake  City  in  180Q,  which  has  in- 
scribed on  one  side  the  fact  that  he  had  then 
been  a  teacher  for  thirty-five  years  in  the  Mor- 
mon Sunday  Schools,  and  he  is  today  the  oldest 
person  attending  Sunday  School  in  his  city.  He 
was  ordained  a  High  Priest,  and  was  set  apart 
as  First  Counsel  to  Bishop  Atkins  over  twenty 
years  ago,  still  holding  that  position.  He  also 
at  one  time  was  High  Counsel  of  the  Tooele 
Stake.  Mr.  Craner  relates  with  pride  the  fact 
that  he  was  a  teacher  in  the  first  Sunday  School 
organized,  on  January  7,  1857.  Since  coming 
to  L'tah  he  has  assisted  a  number  of  people  to 
emigrate  to  this  place,  bringing  three  families 
to  Utah,  besides  his  own.  When  Mr.  Craner 
went  to  Tooele  City  the  place  was  little  more 
than  a  wilderness.  He  raised  the  first  peaches 
grown  in  Tooele  City. 

He  has  followed  farming  and  fruit  raising  all 
his  life  since  coming  here,  and  has  been  so  suc- 
cessful that  he  was  able  to  retire  from  active  bus- 
iness life  about  eight  years  ago.  In  addition  to 
accumulating  a  comfortable  competence  for  his 
own  declining  days,  he  has  been  able  to  assist 
his  children  as  they  grew  to  maturity,  and  after 
giving  them  every  advantage  possible  in  the 
way  of  education  assisted  them  in  starting  in 
life,  and  today  they  are  all  well-to-do.  Mr.  Cra- 
ner, by  his  own  industry,  perseverance  and  up- 
right living,  has  attained  to  a  high  place  among 
the  citizens  and  business  men  of  Tooele  countv. 


KX'JAMIN  CLEGG.  For  over  half  a 
century  Mr.  Clegg  has  been  identified 
with  almost  every  undertaking  and  en- 
terprise which  was  for  the  building  up 
of  Tooele  county  and  City.  He  has 
assisted  in  the  development  of  its  financial,  com- 
mercial, agricultural  and  educational  interests, 
promoting  the  welfare  of  its  fellow  citizens  and 
aiding  the  progress  of  his  county,  and  is  en- 
titled to  be  ranked  among  the  public  spirited, 
progressive  citizens.  By  his  long  and  honorable 
life  in  Tooele  county  he  has  won  and  retained 
the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  the  best  peo- 
ple of  his  community. 

Benjamin  Clegg  is  a  native  of  England,  being 
born  in  Lancashire,  September  i,  1826,  and  is 
the  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Clegg.  Our  subject 
was  converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church  in  the  spring  of  1848,  and  that  year  left 
his  native  land  and  emigrated  to  America,  cross- 
ing the  great  American  plains  to  Utah  in  1849, 
in  Ezra  T.  Benson's  company.  That  winter  was 
spent  in  the  old  Fort  at  Salt  Lake  City,  and  the 
following  spring  he  went  to  what  is  now  the  site 
of  Tooele  City,  where  he  located  the  place  which 
has  been  his  home  ever  since.  At  the  time  he 
came  here  there  were  but  few  families  living 
here,  and  of  those  few  he  is  the  only  person  now 
living  here,  the  others  having  either  moved  away 
or  died.  When  he  came  to  Utah  his  capital  con- 
sisted of  seventy-five  cents  in  money,  a  span  of 
horses,  one  cow  and  one  steer.  With  this  small 
capital  he  began  life  in  Tooele,  and  by  untiring 
industry,  hard  work,  economy  and  determination 
in  the  face  of  all  obstacles  accumulated  a  little 
at  a  time,  until  now  he  is  one  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial farmers  in  this  county,  owning  a  beau- 
tiful place  of  thirty-nine  acres  of  highly  culti- 
vated land  in  this  place,  and  having  large  inter- 
ests in  cattle  and  sheep.  He  retired  from  active 
life  about  five  years  ago,  since  which  time  his 
sons  have  looked  after  his  interests. 

In  April,  1850,  he  married  in  Salt  Lake  City 
a  widow  who  had  five  children.  This  wife  died 
in  1882.  In  December,  1853,  '^^  ^"^'^s  again  mar- 
ried, this  time  to  Miss  Grace  Mclntyre,  daugh- 
ter of  Peter  and  Agnes  Mclntyre.  The  Mcln- 
tyres  were  natives  of  Scotland,  Mrs.  Clegg  being 


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born  in  Millport,  Scotland,  and  baptized  into  the 
Mormon  faith  in  that  country  in  1844.  Peter 
Mclntyre  was  a  soldier  under  Napoleon  Bona- 
parte. His  wife  died,  leaving  him  with  a  fam- 
ily of  six  children,  whom  he  brought  to  Amer- 
ica in  1853,  settling  at  Tooele  City,  where  he 
died  in  1872.  Five  children  have  been  born  to 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clegg — Elizabeth,  now  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Brown,  of  Salt  Lake  City;  Benjamin,  Peter, 
Agnes,  who  died  aged  two  years,  and  Grace, 
now  Mrs.  Grace  Jones,  of  Bingham  Canyon. 

Mr.  Clegg  has  been  active  in  the  work  of 
the  Mormon  Church  during  his  residence,  and 
has  reared  his  children  in  that  faith.  He  holds 
the  office  of  High  Priest  in  the  Church.  His  son, 
Benjamin,  now  living  at  Soda  Springs,  Idaho, 
was  called  for  missionary  service  in  Australia, 
and  served  in  that  field  for  three  years.  As  his 
sons  have  grown  to  manhood,  Mr.  Clegg  has 
started  them  in  the  cattle  and  sheep  business, 
and  his  son  Peter  is  today  the  largest  owner  of 
cattle  and  sheep  in  Tooele  county. 


EXRY  PHIXEHAS  RICHARDS.  For 
upwards  of  fifty-four  years  Henry 
Phinehas  Richards  has  made  his  home 
in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  has  been  an 
eye-witness  to  the  vast  work  of  trans- 
forming Salt  Lake  City  from  a  small  and  strug- 
gling village  of  adobe  houses  and  business  places 
to  the  splendid  position  which  it  occupies  at  the 
present  time.  Elder  Richards  has  spent  most 
of  his  life  in  the  interests  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
serving  on  Missions  at  home  and  in  the  foreign 
fields. 

He  was  born  November  30,  1831,  in  Richmond, 
Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts,  and  is  the  son 
of  Phinehas  and  Wealthy  (Dewey)  Richards. 
His  parents  were  converted  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  and  baptized  when  our  sub- 
ject was  about  eight  years  of  age,  and  their  son 
was  baptized  into  that  faith  when  he  was  a  youth 
of  eight  j-ears.  The  family  emigrated  to  Nauvoo 
in  1843,  ^"d  remained  there  until  the  exodus  of  the 
Mormon  people  in  1846,  spending  the  winter  of 
1847-48  at  Winter  Quarters  and  on  July  3,  1848, 


took  up  the  journey  westward,  arriving  in  the  Val- 
ley of  the  Great  Salt  Lake  on  October  19th  of  that 
year.  During  this  journey  our  subject  drove  an 
oxteam  for  Mrs.  Moss,  whose  husband  was  on  a 
mission  to  England,  and  had  charge  of  two  teams 
all  the  way,  standing  guard  half  the  night  every 
third  night.  He  was  not  of  a  very  strong  con- 
stitution, and  this  trip  proved  a  very  trying  one. 
For  a  number  of  years  after  coming  to  Utah  he 
assisted  in  supporting  the  family,  and  acted  as 
messenger  in  the  House  of  Representatives  of 
the  Provisional  Government  of  the  State  of 
Deseret,  during  its  first  two  sessions.  This  later 
became  the  State  of  Utah.  In  the  winter  of  1850 
he  took  an  active  part  in  organizing  the  first 
dramatic  company  west  of  the  Missouri  river, 
and  took  part  in  the  first  play  presented  by  that 
company,  the  title  of  which  was  "The  Triumph 
of  Innocence,"  and  was  presented  in  the  old  Bow- 
ery, then  situated  in  the  Temple  Block. 

On  December  30,  1852,  he  was  united  in  mar- 
riage by  President  Willard  Richards  to  Margaret 
Miner\^a  Empey,  and  to  them  were  born  eight 
children.  On  April  17th,  1854,  he  was  ordained  a 
Seventy  under  the  hands  of  President  Joseph 
Young,  and  became  identified  with  the  Eighth 
Quorum.  On  May  4th  of  that  year  he  was  sent 
by  the  heads  of  the  Church,  in  company  with 
eighteen  other  Elders  on  a  mission  to  the  Hawa- 
iian Islands,  traveling  by  team  to  California. 
During  his  absence  of  three  and  a  half  years  he 
acquired  a  knowledge  of  the  language  of  that 
country  and  successfully  labored  upon  the  islands 
of  Hawaii,  Maui,  Molokai,  Lanal,  Oahu  and 
Kauai.  His  oldest  child,  a  daughter,  was  born 
soon  after  he  left  for  this  mission,  and  was  about 
three  and  a  half  years  old  when  he  first  saw  her. 

In  the  spring  of  1858,  upon  the  approach  of 
Johnston's  army,  he  moved  south  and  located  in 
Provo,  where  his  family  remained  until  the  trou- 
ble passed.  On  August  21,  1865,  he  was  com- 
missioned by  acting  Governor  Amos  Reed  as 
Quartermaster  and  Commissary  of  the  Second 
Brigade,  First  Division.  Militia  of  Utah,  with 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Infantry,  and 
on  July  13th  of  the  following  year  was  commis- 
sioned   bv    Governor    Charles    Durkee    as    First 


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Aide-de-Camp  on  the  staff  of  the  Commander  of 
the  Second  Brigade,  First  Division,  Utah  MiHtia, 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel  of  Infantry. 

On  September  ii,  1869,  he  was  ordained  one 
of  the  Presidents  of  the  Eighth  Quorum  of  Sev- 
enties, occupying  that  position  until  May  9,  1873. 
when  he  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  and  set  apart 
to  act  as  Alternate  High  Counselor,  under  the 
hands  of  President  Joseph  F.  Smith  and  the 
Presidency  of  the  Stake.  He  was  again  called 
on  a  mission  to  the  Hawaiian  Islands  in  October. 
1876,  taking  passage  at  San  Francisco  on  board 
the  ship  City  of  Xezv  York,  and  arriving  in  Hono- 
lulu January  12,  1877.  He  labored  on  many  of 
the  islands  which  he  had  first  visited,  and  met 
many  with  whom  he  had  become  acquainted  on 
his  first  mission.  He  had  several  interviews  with 
the  King  of  those  Islands,  who  expressed  him- 
self as  being  friendly  to  the  Mormons,  and  Mr. 
Richards  presented  Queen  Kapiolani  with  a  nicely 
bound  volume  of  the  Book  of  Mormon,  published 
in  her  own  language.  He  also  traveled  for  a 
time  with  Her  Majesty  on  the  Island  of  Hawaii, 
partaking  of  her  hospitality  and  assisting  her  on 
a  number  of  occasions  in  organizing  her  Hoola 
Hooulu  Lahui,  an  organization  similar  to  the 
Relief  Societies  of  tne  Latter  Day  Saints.  Dur- 
ing his  stay  on  the  Island  of  Oahu,  Elder  Rich- 
ards was  assessed  a  personal  tax  of  five  dollars 
by  the  native  assessor,  and  upon  his  refusal  to 
pay  the  tax,  upon  the  ground  of  his  being  a  Chris- 
tian minister,  and  therefore  entitled  to  exemption, 
was  arrested  and  tried  by  the  native  courts,  who 
upheld  the  action  of  the  assessor,  but  this  de- 
cision was  reversed  by  Judge  McCully,  and  there- 
after the  Mormon  missionaries  were  exempted 
from  this  tax.  Elder  Richards  also  had  several 
interviews  with  J.  Mott  Smith.  Minister  to  the 
Interior,  the  result  of  which  was  the  granting  of 
licenses  to  the  Alormon  missionaries,  allowing 
them  to  solemnize  marriages.  His  mission  this 
time  lasted  about  two  and  a  half  years,  and  on 
his  return  he  brought  with  him  four  natives  of 
the  Sandwich  Islands.  While  on  his  way  from 
the  Island  of  Hawaii  to  Honolulu,  news  reached 
him  of  the  death  of  President  Brigham  Young. 

On  June  5.   1881.  he  was  appointed  Superin- 


tendent of  the  Fourteenth  Ward  Sunday  School, 
which  position  he  held  nearly  eight  years,  having 
previously  been  connected  with  the  school  in  va- 
rious capacities.  He  served  as  District  School 
Trustee  from  1882  to  1888.  On  September  8, 
1890,  he  was  enrolled  as  a  member  of  the  High 
Council  of  the  Salt  Lake  Stake  of  Zion. 

During  the  time  he  has  been  at  home  he  has 
been  actively  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  and 
has  been  in  the  employ  of  a  number  of  the  lead- 
ing houses  of  the  city.  On  April  5,  1898,  he  was 
appointed  Oil  and  Food  Inspector  for  the  city. 


ODERT  E.  DIMOXD.  Salt  Lake 
county  is  noted  for  its  fine  soil,  splen- 
did homes,  prosperous  and  successful 
farms,  and  stock  men.  Mr.  Robert  E. 
Dimond  has  taken  no  small  part  during 
the  past  twenty  years  of  his  life  in  L^tah  in  bring- 
ing about  the  present  prosperous  and  most  satis- 
factory condition  which  today  exists  in  Salt  Lake 
county. 

Mr.  Dimond  is  a  native  of  England,  having 
been  horn  in  Crewkerne,  Sommersetshire,  Eng- 
land, on  April  30,  1865.  He  is  the  son  of  Henry 
and  Elizabeth  Jane  (Weber)  Dimond,  who  were 
also  natives  of  England,  and  came  to  America 
with  their  family  in  1880,  settling  in  West 
Jordan  Ward,  near  the  place  where  their  son 
now  has  his  farm.  The  boys  received  their  edu- 
cation in  England,  attending  the  common  schools 
of  that  country.  Our  subject  is  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church  and  has  been  active  in  its  work 
ever  since  his  residence  in  this  country.  In  1891 
he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  for  the  Church 
to  the  Samoan  Islands,  where  he  served  three 
years,  returning  in  1894.  He  has  also  been  active 
in  the  home  work  of  the  Church,  having  served 
for  a  time  as  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Sun- 
day Schools  of  his  W'ard,  and  is  at  this  time  a 
Ward  teacher.  He  is  also  occupying  the  position 
of  one  of  the  Presidents  of  a  Quorum  of  Seven- 
ties, and  by  his  untiring  and  conscientious  work 
in  behalf  of  the  Church  has  won  the  confidence 
and  trust  of  its  leaders,  by  whom  he  is  held  in 


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hisfh  esteem.  In  addition  to  his  journey  to  the 
Samoan  Islands,  he  has  also  been  back  to  his  na- 
tive land  since  coming  to  this  country,  having 
visited  the  Paris  Exposition  in  company  with  his 
brothers,  W.  A.  and  T.  W.  Dimond,  in  1900. 

Our  subject  was  married  on  November  24. 
1887,  to  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth  Bateman,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  Hateman,  who  were  among 
the  early  pioneers  to  this  State,  and  are  well-to- 
do  people  of  Salt  Lake  county,  and  well  and 
favorably  known  in  their  own  community,  as  well 
as  in  Salt  Lake  City.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Di- 
mond has  had  seven  children :  Edwin  Robert ; 
George  Thomas ;  Arthur  William ;  Leo  H.,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  three  years ;  Lola,  Zella  E., 
and  Servella  A.  Like  her  husband,  Mrs.  Dimond 
is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  faith,  and  was 
brought  up  in  the  doctrines  of  that  Church. 

In  politics  Mr.  Dimond  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  while  tak- 
ing an  active  interest  in  the  work  of  his  party,  he 
has  never  been  an  office  seeker,  devoting  his  en- 
tire time  to  the  management  of  his  large  business 
interests.  In  company'  with  his  brothers,  Mr. 
Dimond  has  large  sheep  interests,  ranging  their 
sheep  in  Wyoming,  and  the  firm  of  Dimond 
Brothers  is  well  known  among  stockmen  of  this 
section  of  the  country.  The  firm  is  a  prosperous 
one  and  they  make  large  shipments  to  the  East. 
Our  subject  also  owns  his  home  in  the  West 
Jordan  Ward,  having  forty  acres  of  land  on  which 
he  has  erected  a  fine  brick  residence,  and  the  place 
is  well  improved,  with  good  outbuildings,  fences 
windmills,  etc. 

Mr.  Dimond  is  still  in  his  early  manhood,  but 
he  has  already  won  a  high  place  for  himself  in 
the  ranks  of  the  business  men  of  this  community, 
and  it  is  confidentially  predicted  by  those  who 
are  in  close  touch  with  him  in  business  aflfairs 
that  he  will  by  his  unusual  business  ability  be  in 
a  position  to  retire  from  active  business  life  at  an 
early  age,  if  he  so  desires.  He  has  made  his  own 
way  in  the  world,  and  his  success  is  due  to  his 
own  efforts,  unaided  by  any  outside  financial 
support.  He  has  the  confidence  and  respect  of 
those  who  know  him  and  enjoys  a  large  circle  of 
friends. 


(  )HN  ENGLAND.  Whoever  labors  for 
the  advancement  of  his  community  as- 
sists in  the  development  of  its  financial, 
commercial,  agricultural  and  educational 
interests,  promoting  the  welfare  of  his 
fellow  citizens  and  aiding  in  the  progress  of  the 
place,  and  is  entitled  to  rank  among  its  public 
spirited,  progressive  citizens.  Such  a  man  is  Mr. 
England,  than  whom  Tooele  county  has  no  citi- 
zen more  prominent  or  popular.  His  name  has 
been  identified  with  almost  every  important  meas- 
ure for  the  benefit  and  upbuilding  of  Tooele  City 
and  county.  His  help  has  been  relied  upon  in 
the  development  of  material  interests ;  his  gen- 
erosity has  stimulated  local  progress  and  his  in- 
telligence has  enabled  him  to  devise  means  of 
enhancing  the  common  good.  For  upwards  of 
half  a  century  he  has  been  closely  associated  with 
the  interests  and  development  of  his  county,  and 
today  ranks  among  the  most  highly  respected 
men  throughout  the  entire  county  of  Tooele. 

John  England  was  born  in  Norfolk,  England, 
October  25,  1840,  and  is  the  son  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  Ann  (Medler)  England.  His  parents  were 
converted  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  Church 
in  England,  and  brought  their  children  up  in  that 
faith,  our  subject  being  baptized  at  the  age  of 
eight  years.  The  family  emigrated  to  America 
in  1856  and  joined  the  famous  hand  cart  com- 
pany, but  they  stopped  in  Winter  Quarters  and 
did  not  accompany  that  ill-fated  company  to 
L'tah.  Daniel  England  had  been  a  shoemaker  in 
England  and  taught  that  trade  to  his  sons.  For 
four  years  after  coming  to  the  United  States 
the  family  remained  in  Omaha,  where  the  father 
and  sons  plied  their  trade.  In  i860  they  crossed 
the  plains  in  company  with  Brigham  H.  Young 
Their  outfit  consisted  of  a  wagon,  two  oxen  and 
two  cows.  While  en  route  to  Utah  one  ox  was 
stolen,  and  at  Fort  Laramie  they  bought  a  cow 
and  continued  the  journev  with  the  cows  and 
oxen  hitched  together.  On  arriving  in  Utah  the 
family  went  at  once  to  Tooele  City,  where  the 
father  and  sons  again  followed  their  trade  as 
shoemakers,  making  the  first  pair  of  boots  ever 
manufactured  in  Tooele  City,  which  were  pre- 
sented as  a  gift  to  Apostle  Orson  Pratt.     Our 


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subject  has  been  engaged  in  the  boot  and  shoe 
business  at  intervals  since  that  time,  and  was  for 
ten  years  manager  of  the  boot  and  shoe  depart- 
ment for  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  In- 
stitution in  Tooele  City.  He  bought  his  present 
establishment  in  1890  and  is  today  one  of  the  most 
substantial  and  enterprising  business  men  of  this 
place. 

Mr.  England  was  married  in  Tooele  City  in 
1863  to  Miss  Eliza  Kennington,  who  came  to 
Utah  with  the  first  hand  cart  company.  They 
have  had  twelve  children,  eight  of  whom  are  now 
living:  John;  Maggie;  Henry;  Julia;  Joseph; 
Leon ;  Hazel,  and  Olive.  Mr.  England  has  a 
good  home  here  and  owns  a  number  of  city  lots. 
He  has  been  twice  married  and  is  the  father  of 
nineteen  children,  and  after  the  passage  of  the' 
Edmunds-Tucker  Act  served  a  term  in  the  peni- 
tentiary for  violation  of  that  law. 

The  people  for  whom  Mr.  England  did  shoe- 
making  in  the  early  days  had  as  a  rule  very  little 
money,  and  it  was  not  always  possible  for  him 
to  obtain  his  pay  promptly,  and  he  was  often 
obliged  to  go  out  and  earn  money  in  other  ways. 
He  hauled  the  first  load  of  ore  from  the  Hidden 
Treasure  mine  to  Salt. Lake  City,  and  also  assisted 
in  building  the  road  up  to  the  mine.  In  addition 
to  this  work  he  helped  get  out  the  first  ties  for  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad.  In  late  years  he  has  been 
interested  in  the  sheep  business  quite  extensively 
his  sons  at  this  time  looking  after  his  interests 
in  that  direction,  their  ranges  being  mostly  in 
"Vv'yoming.  The  whole  family  are  members  of 
the  Mormon  Church,  and  Mr.  England  holds  the 
office  of  High  Priest.  He  was  called  on  a  mission 
to  England  in  1881,  and  served  two  years  in  the 
Norfolk  Conference.  His  mother  died  the  year 
he  left  on  his  mission,  and  his  father  died  in 
1889.  Mr.  England  is  a  self-made  man,  and  dur- 
ing his  life  here  has  been  noted  for  his  many 
charitable  acts,  being  always  ready  to  assist  those 
who  were  poorer  than  himself.  He  is  of  a  genial 
and  kindly  nature  and  has  many  friends  in  Tooele 
county  and  other  parts  of  the  State  where  he  is 
known. 


\MUEL  HENRY  PARKER.  To  have 
lived  a  life  devoted  to  the  betterment  of 
nne's  fellowmen,  and  so  filled  the  lives 
of  those  about  us  with  kindly  deeds  that 
when  we  pass  out  into  the  bourne  from 
whence  none  ever  return,  the  hearts  of  those  left 
must  forever  mourn  the  absence  of  our  comfort- 
ing presence,  is  a  measure  of  happiness  that 
comes  to  but  few  of  us,  thoughtlessly  running  our 
race,  often  unmindful  of  the  sorrows  of  our 
brother.  Those  who  came  in  daily  touch  with  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  have  only  words  of  praise 
to  offer  for  a  life  that  closed  in  its  prime,  and  his 
memory  is  held  in  tenderest  remembrance  by  those 
bound  to  him  by  the  close  ties  of  relationshp,  to 
whom  his  loss  is  an  irreparable  one. 

He  comes  of  an  old  English  family,  his  grand- 
parents having  come  to  America  in  1845  ^"'i  ^o 
L'tah  in  1852.  His  parents  were  William  and 
Mary  (Shanks)  Parker,  both  of  whom  are  still 
living,  and  an  interesting  account  of  the  family 
history  will  be  found  in  the  sketch  of  the  father, 
which  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  He  was 
also  a  brother  of  William  Edward  Parker,  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Taylorsville,  whose  biog- 
raphy also  appears  in  this  volume. 

Our  subject  grew  up  on  his  father's  farm  in 
Taylorsville  Ward,  where  he  was  born  April  11, 
1869,  and  obtained  such  scholastic  advantages  as 
the  times  aforded.  After  his  marriage  he  moved 
to  the  present  family  homestead  at  the  south  end 
of  Taylorsville  Ward,  where  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, building  a  fine  brick  house,  good  outbuild- 
ings, etc.,  and  bringing  his  farm  up  to  an  excel- 
lent state  of  cultivation,  in  which  he  took  much 
pride.  In  the  Church  he  was  a  most  active 
worker,  and  was  sent  to  England  on  a  mission, 
but  ill  health  compelled  him  to  return  in  1895 
before  his  time  was  up.  He  was  at  the  time  of 
his  death  a  member  of  the  Seventies. 

Mr.  Parker  married  on  January  9,  1890,  Aliss 
Maggie  Swenson,  daughter  of  Peter  bwenson 
who  survives  him.  Two  children  were  born  to 
them :     Emil  Samuel  and  Mervin. 

Mr.  Parker  was  in  his  twenty-ninth  year  when 
death  claimed  him  on  November  14th,  1897,  and 
he  was  followed  to  the  grave  bv  a  host  of  sorrow- 


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ing  neighbors  and  friends,  who  had  loved  hiin 
for  his  many  noble  qualities  of  mind  and  heart, 
and  honored  him  for  his  manly  and  upright  mode 
of  life. 

Mrs.  Parker's  parents  are  still  living  in  Grant 
Ward  and  she  has  five  sisters  and  two  brothers, 
all  of  whom  with  one  exception  are  residents  of 
Utah.  Her  husband  left  the  home  in  good  condi- 
tion and  free  of  all  encumbrances,  and  she  has 
since  been  enabled  to  live  in  comfort,  surrounded 
by  her  children,  to  whom  she  is  deeply  attached. 
She  is  identified  with  the  work  of  the  Ladies'  Re- 
lief Society  and  an  active  worker  in  all  Church 
departments,  enjoying  a  wide  popularity  among 
her  friends. 


,  IGHT  REVEREND  LAURENCE 
O  -"^CANLAN,  D.  D.,  Bishop  (R.  C.) 
diocese  of  Salt  Lake  City.  During  the 
thirty  years  of  his  life  spent  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  Bishop  Scanlan  has  accom- 
plished wonderful  things  along  the  line  of  his 
Church  work,  and  the  results  of  his  active,  pro- 
gressive life  can  be  seen  on  every  hand.  Broad 
and  liberal  in  his  views  he  not  only  holds  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  his  own  people,  but  en- 
joys the  highest  confidence  of  all  classes  in  this 
inter-mountain  region. 

Bishop  Scanlan  is  a  native  of  Ireland.  He  was 
educated  at  All  Hallows  College,  Dublin,  Ireland, 
and  ordained  a  priest  June  24,  1868.  He  at  once 
came  to  the  United  States,  landing  at  New  York 
and  going  from  thence  to  California  by  way  of 
Panama.  He  went  to  San  Francisco,  where  he 
was  for  two  years  assistant  pastor  of  Saint  Pat- 
rick's Church,  then  assistant  pastor  of  Saint 
Mary's  Cathedral  for  one  year.  In  187 1  he  was 
appointed  pastor  at  Woodland,  Sonoma  county, 
California,  where  he  remained  only  six  months. 
He  was  then  sent  to  Pioche.  a  mining  camp  in 
Southern  Nevada,  where  he  ministered  to  the 
people  for  eighteen  months,  and  in  1873  was 
transferred  to  Petaluma,  Sonoma  county,  Cali- 
fornia, remaining  there  but  six  months,  being  in 
that  same  year  appointed  pastor  of  Saint  Mary's. 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  after  entering  upon  his 
duties  here,  had  charge  of  the  entire  territory  un-      vering 


til  1887.  In  1875  'ic  became  Vicar-General  under 
Ijishop  Allamany  of  San  Francisco.  He  then 
proceeded  to  establish  other  parishes  throughout 
the  State,  and  today  has  twelve  parishes  in  Utah, 
besides  forty  missions  in  different  parts  of  the 
State. 

On  June  29,  1887,  he  was  consecrated  Bishop 
of  Laranda  and  Vicar-Apostolic  of  Utah.  In 
1891  he  was  transferred  from  Bishop  of  Laranda 
to  Bishop  of  Salt  Lake,  and  has  supreme  power 
in  all  of  Utah  and  Easteru  Nevada,  assisted  by 
eighteen  priests  under  his  charge. 

In  1875  he  founded  Saint  Mary's  Academy, 
a  well-known  educational  institution  of  this  city. 
In  1881  he  built  the  Holy  Cross  Hospital  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  which  is  the  leading  Hospital  for 
surgical  operations  in  this  inter-mountain  coun- 
try, and  widely  known  throughout  the  adjoining 
States.  In  1886  he  built  All  Hallows  College  and 
conducted  it  for  two  years,  as  President,  until  his 
successor  was  appointed.  He  also  has  super- 
vision over  the  Kearns'  Saint  Ann's  Orphanage, 
of  this  city.  On  the  Fourth  day  of  July,  1899, 
he  broke  the  ground  on  East  South  Temple 
street,  and  commenced  the  erection  of  Saint 
Clary's  Cathedral,  a  beautiful  structure  of  gray 
sandstone,  adjoining  the  Bishop's  home. 

Bishop  Scanlan  has  done  a  great  work  in  the 
upbuilding  of  the  Church  in  Utah.  In  1876  he 
built  the  Ogden  Church,  of  which  he  was  in 
charge  until  his  successor  was  appointed.  In 
1879  he  erected  the  old  Sacred  Heart  Academy 
at  Ogden,  built  churches  and  schools  in  Park 
City,  Eureka,  Castle  Gate  and  Bingham  City. 

The  Bishop  is  well  known  in  Salt  Lake  City 
and  Utah,  as  well  as  in  the  surrounding  States, 
and  highly  respected  for  his  good  qualities  and 
educational  attainments.  He  is  deeply  interested 
in  the  welfare  of  the  city  and  State,  and  enjoys 
a  wide  circle  of  friends,  irrespective  of  religious 
dogma. 


(  )UIS  BRINGHURST.  In  the  great 
work  of  developing  and  bringing  the 
State  of  Utah  to  its  present  prosperous 
condition  it  has  called  for  brave  men; 
men  of  determined  purpose  and  perse- 
encrgy.     The  Bringhurst  family  has  been 


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identified  with  its  interests  since  its  earliest  days,^ 
being  among  the  first  pioneers  to  settle  in  this 
country,  and  by  their  efforts  much  has  been  ac- 
complished in  bringing  this  new  country  from  a 
wild  and  barren  waste  to  its  present  prosperous 
condition. 

Our  subject,  Louis  Bringhurst,  is  a  native  son 
of  Utah,  having  been  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  Sep- 
tember 24,  1856.  He  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Bring- 
hurst, whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
volume.  Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  up  to  the  age  of  fifteen,  receiving 
his  education  in  the  public  schools.  He  first 
started  working  for  his  father  and  brothers  until 
he  reached  his  majority.  In  1871  the  family 
moved  to  West  Jordan,  now  the  south  end  of 
Taylorsville  Ward,  where  Mr.  Bringhurst  has 
continued  to  reside  ever  since. 

On  July  3.  1884,  he  married  Miss  Phoebe 
Brown,  daughter  of  Homer  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Wolf)  Brown,  who  were  pioneers  to  Utah,  hav- 
ing crossed  the  plains  with  the  first  Mormon  train 
in  1847.  Mrs.  Bringhurst  was  born  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  They  have  had  seven  children,  two  of 
whom  have  died:  Phoebe  Grace;  Louis  Scott; 
Eleanor  Ann  ;  Harvey,  who  died  aged  four  years  ; 
Chester,  who  died  at  two  years  of  age ;  Beatrice, 
and  Tracy.  Mr.  Bringhurst  owns  a  splendid 
farm  of  thirty  acres,  which  he  settled  upon  in 
1887,  and  year  by  year  he  has  devoted  his  time 
to  making  substantial  improvements  upon  his 
place ;  his  buildings  are  all  of  modern  type,  and 
his  home  is  situated  on  the  Redwood  road,  one 
and  a  half  miles  south  of  the  Taylorsville  post- 
ofifice. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  always  been  a  Repub- 
lican, and  at  the  present  time  is  serving  as  Road 
Supervisor  and  is  a  Director  of  the  South  Jordan 
canal.  From  early  childhood  he  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  the  Mormon  Church,  as  has  his  wife, 
and  they  have  taken  an  active  and  prominent  part 
in  the  work  of  the  Church,  and  enjoy  the  confi- 
dence and  esteem  of  its  leaders.  His  children 
are  also  members  of  that  Church.  He  is  one  of 
the  Seven  Presidents  of  the  Seventies,  and  also 
President  of  the  Mutual  Improvement  Associa- 
tion.   In  1894  he  was  called  to  serve  on  a  mission 


to  England,  which  he  filled  with  credit  to  him- 
self, and  with  satisfaction  to  the  leaders  of  the 
Church,  returning  in  1895. 

Mr.  Bringhurst  has  in  his  possession  a  book 
which  was  published  in  1728  by  order  of  the 
Grand  Asembly  of  the  Province  of  Pennsylvania, 
which  treats  of  the  laws  then  in  force  in  that 
Province.  William  Penn's  Charter,  written  in 
his  own  hand-writing,  contains  fourteen  pages  of 
closely  written  laws.  This  volume  contains  three 
hundred  and  eighty-four  pages.  But  few  volumes 
were  printed  and  in  binding,  William  Penn's 
Charter  was  for  some  reason  bound  in  the  same 
book.  This  book  has  been  in  the  possession  of 
the  family  for  many  years,  being  handed  down 
by  their  ancestors.  On  the  front  page  of  this 
book  appears  the  name  of  John  Bringhurst,  which 
was  no  doubt  written  either  by  their  grandfather 
or  their  great-grandfather.  The  book  is  con- 
sidered a  valuable  one  and  a  great  curiosity,  laeing 
the  only  one  now  in  existence.  During  the  Cen- 
tennial Exposition  held  in  Philadelphia  in  1876 
it  was  on  exhibition  there. 


AMUEL  BATEMAN.  Probably  one 
of  the  oldest  settlers  in  West  Jordan  is 
Samuel  Bateman,  who  has  been  farm- 
ing in  that  .section  of  Salt  Lake  county 
for  the  last  fifty  years.  He  has  been 
in  his  time  deputy  sheriff,  pound  master,  road 
overseer  and  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School,  and  is  in  politics  a  firm  believer  in  the 
principles  of  Democracy.  He  has  raised  sixteen 
children,  of  whom  all  but  one  lived  in  the  neigh- 
borhood. 

Mr.  Bateman  was  born  in  Manchester,  Eng- 
land, on  July  1st,  1832.  His  father  was  Thomas 
Bateman  and  his  mother  Mary  (Street)  Bateman. 
The  elder  Bateman  joined  the  Mormon  Church 
in  England,  and  came  to  America  in  1840,  stay- 
ing the  winter  of  that  year  in  St.  Louis.  In  the 
following  spring  the  father  and  family  went  to 
Nauvoo,  and  were  there  at  the  laying  of  the  cor- 
ner stone  of  the  Temple.  After  staying  there  for 
six  months  they  moved  to  Lee  county,  Iowa,  and 
after  establishing  a   home   for  his   family  there 


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Thomas  Bateman  with  his  son,  Sam,  returned  to 
Nauvoo  and  went  to  work  in  the  Nauvoo  brick 
yard  for  the  summer.  In  the  winter  of  1844,  af- 
ter Prophet  Smith  was  killed,  Mr.  Bateman  sold 
out  his  place  in  Iowa  and  returned  to  Nauvoo 
with  his  family,  where  he  remained  until  1846. 
Our  subject  worked  on  the  Temple  building  in 
the  winter,  and  in  the  summer  obtained  work  in 
the  brick  yard.  He  was  in  Nauvoo  when  the 
Temple  was  completed  in  the  winter  of  1845-46. 
Then  he  returned  to  Iowa  and  lived  for  three 
years  near  his  former  home.  In  1849  the  Bate- 
mans  went  to  Council  Bluffs,  and  in  the  following 
year  crossed  the  plains  to  the  new  Mormon  set- 
tlement in  the  Salt  Lake  valley.  There  were 
fifty-si.x  wagons  in  the  freight  train  in  which 
the  family  crossed  the  plains,  and  Thomas  Bate- 
man and  Faremorz  Little  were  the  captains  of 
the  train,  which  reached  Salt  Lake  City  in  Sep- 
tember. The  train  of  merchandise  was  owned  by 
Livingston  and  Kincaid  and  was  the  first  freight 
train  with  merchandise  to  cross  the  plains  to  Salt 
Lake  City.  That  winter  our  subject  journeyed 
into  Iron  county.  On  the  way  thither  he  passed 
through  West  Jordan,  where  he  settled  less  than 
two  years  later  and  still  lives.  In  1851  he  re- 
turned to  Salt  Lake  City.  Making  a  trip  back  to 
Parowan  the  following  year,  he  sold  out  what 
property  he  had  there  and  came  back  to  Salt  Lake 
City.  Since  the  close  of  the  summer  of  1852  he 
has  remained  in  West  Jordan.  Here  he  started 
in  to  farm  with  seven  and  three-quarters  acres  of 
land,  which  in  course  of  time  he  increased  to 
forty-one  acres.  The  north  Jordan  canal  runs 
through  his  land,  making  it  fertile.  Mr.  Bate- 
man also  has  an  interest  in  the  West  Jordan 
Flouring  Mill. 

In  1854  Mr.  Bateman  married  Miranda  Allen. 
a  daughter  of  D.  R.  and  Eliza  (Martin)  Allen 
of  West  Jordan,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1853.  He 
became  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  when 
he  was  in  Iowa,  and  has  always  been  a  staunch 
supporter  of  the  tenets  of  that  faith.  He  was  one 
of  the  intimate  friends  of  Presidents  Brigham 
Young  and  Wilford  Woodruff,  and  also  of  Apos- 
tle John  Taylor.  He  was  one  of  the  many 
Mormons    who    suffered    seventy-five    days'    im- 


prisonment in  the  State  Prison  for  maintaining 
plural  wives,  and  refusing  to  give  up  one  of  the 
principles  of  his  faith.  Mr.  Bateman  was  one  of 
Brigham  Young's  guards,  and  in  that  position 
went  to  Idaho,  and  has  been  into  every  Territory 
bordering  on  Utah.  He  was  sent  on  a  mission 
to  Dixey.  His  father  went  back  to  England  to 
dispose  of  his  property,  and  died  on  the  voyage 
back,  being  buried  at  sea.  His  mother  lived  to 
tiie  age  of  eiehty-one  years,  dying  in  West  Jordan 
Ward. 


OHN  C.  MACKAY,  one  of  the  most 
able  and  influential  men  of  Salt 
Lake  county,  who  has  only  just  passed 
his  forty-fourth  mile-stone  in  his  life's 
history,  has  fully  demonstrated  his  ability 
to  handle  and  control  the  intricate  and  compli- 
cated problems  in  life. 

Mr.  Mackay  is  a  man  of  wide  range  of  thought 
and  a  thorough  student.  He  goes  on  the  theory 
that  every  man,  whether  his  occupation  is  that  of 
a  farmer,  stock-man,  banker,  or  whatever  his 
position  or  avocation  in  life  may  be,  must  keep 
up  with  the  times  in  order  to  reap  the  greatest 
benefits  intellectually,  morally  and  financially. 

Mr.  Mackay  is  a  native  of  Utah,  having  been 
born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  November  30th,  1857.  He 
is  a  son  of  John  and  Isabella  (Calder)  Mackay, 
and  a  grandson  of  Thomas  Mackay,  who  was 
among  the  original  pioneers  of  this  State,  and  one 
of  the  first  men  to  cross  the  Jordan  river  and  set- 
tle in  that  section.  A  full  sketch  of  the  family 
history  may  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 
Our  subject  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  Salt  Lake 
City.  His  early  education  was  received  in  the 
common  schools,  later  entering  the  State  Uni- 
versity of  Utah,  and  receiving  graduating  honors 
in  that  institution  in  1875,  ^^  the  age  of  eighteen 
years.  In  the  class  in  which  Mr.  Mackay  grad- 
uated were  Major  Richard  W.  Young,  Ferry 
Young,  D.  C.  Young  and  Levy  Riter.  After  com- 
pleting his  education,  Mr.  Mackay  followed  book- 
keeping for  several  years  for  some  of  the  leading 
firms  in  Salt  Lake  City.  In  1878  he  moved  to 
granger  Ward  on  the  Redwood  road,  between 


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Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  South,  where  he  pur- 
chased forty  acres  of  land,  upon  which  he  has 
made  vakiable  improvements,  and  which  includes 
his  beautiful  home,  a  large  brick  house. 

Mr.  Mackay  has  been  a  very  busy  man  during 
all  of  his  business  career,  and  yet  he  desires  to 
reside  in  his  country  home  where  he  can  raise 
his  family  untampered  by  the  bad  influences  in- 
cident to  a  city  life. 

Quite  early  in  life  Mr.  Mackay  entered  the 
sheep  business,  soon  after  moving  into  the  coun- 
trv,  and  has  been  prominently  identified  with  that 
industry  ever  since.  While  living  in  the  city  he 
had  taken  up  civil  engineering  and  became  pro- 
ficient in  that  profession,  and  on  account  of  his 
expert  knowledge  along  this  line,  he  has  been 
called  to  fill  many  positions  demanding  expe- 
rience in  this  department,  among  some  of  those 
he  has  filled  is  the  position  of  Secretary  of  the 
North  Jordan  Canal,  to  which  he  has  given  much 
of  his  time  and  attention,  and  was  closely  identi- 
fied in  the  construction  of  that  canal  in  measuring 
the  water  and  doing  all  of  the  company's  business, 
which  position  he  has  filled  for  the  past  ten 
years,  and  being  so  competent  in  that  department 
he  has  been  sought  by  other  canal  companies  to 
do  similar  business,  and  is  now  Secretary  of  all 
of  the  companies  interested  in  Utah  Lake  as  a 
reservoir. 

On  account  of  those  positions,  Mr.  Mackay 
has  spent  a  great  deal  of  time  in  the  courts  giving 
expert  testimony  along  the  lines  in  dispute  and 
questions  of  law  which  have  come  up  for  the  de- 
cisions of  the  courts.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
Wool  Growers'  Protective  Association  of  Uinta 
county.  Wyoming.  Mr.  Mackay  has  taken  a 
very  active  part  in  the  National  Live  Stock  Asso- 
ciation, and  was  chairman  of  the  Entertainment 
Committee  when  they  held  their  National  Con- 
vention at  Salt  Lake  City  in  1901.  He  is  con- 
sidered one  of  the  ablest  speakers  along  the  lines 
of  live  stock  and  irrigation  in  this  State,  and 
many  of  his  speeches  can  be  found  in  the  differ- 
ent publications  of  not  only  Utah,  but  which 
have  been  copied  in  the  papers  of  other  States 
as  well.  Perhaps  one  of  the  greatest  speeches 
was   delivered  at  Denver,  Colorado,   on  "Forest 


Reserves,"  which  appears  in  the  volume  of  1899 
and  also  in  the  volume  of  1900,  upon  the  "Arid 
Lands."  On  account  of  the  prominent  positions 
he  occupies  along  this  line  he  is  almost  in  con- 
stant correspondence  with  the  National  Govern- 
ment, giving  information  and  his  theory  as  to  irri- 
gation and  the  arid  lands. 

Mr.  Mackay  has  always  been  a  protectionist, 
having  stumped  the  State  of  Utah  every  cam- 
paign since  its  admission  in  the  Union  as  a  State, 
for  the  Republican  party. 

He  married  on  November  8th,  1883,  to  Miss 
Catherine  Moses,  daughter  of  George  R.  and 
Alice  (Cristy)  Moses,  one  of  the  old  and  promi- 
nent families  of  this  State.  Ten  children  have  been 
born  as  the  result  of  this  union :  John  E. ;  Eugene ; 
.Alice  ;  .A.lonzo  ;  Albert  C. ;  George  W. ;  Rowland 
C. ;  Harold  M. ;  Dewy  C,  and  Wendell.  The 
oldest  son  at  the  present  time  is  a  student  in  the 
State  University  of  Utah,  preparing  for  a  civil 
engineer.  One  of  Mr.  Mackay's  greatest  desires 
in  life  is  that  all  of  his  children  shall  have  a  thor- 
ough and  complete  education. 

He  and  his  familv  are  all  members  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints.  He 
was  called  upon  to  fill  a  mission,  and  had  made 
all  preparations  to  that  end,  but  on  account  of  his 
business  relations  in  this  State,  was  relieved  and 
chosen  First  Counsel  to  the  Bishop  of  his  Ward 
which  position  he  still  holds. 

Mrs.  Mackay  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief 
Association,  and  has  always  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  that  organization,  and  is  considered  one  of 
the  leaders  in  her  Ward  among  social  relations. 


HILIP  DE  LA  MARE.  The  beet  sugar 
industry  has  assumed  large  propro- 
tions  in  Utah  and  is  fast  becoming  one 
of  the  greatest  enterprises  in  the  State, 
'  bringing  wealth  to  the  manufacturer  as 
well  as  to  the  producer  of  beets.  This  great  in- 
dustry has  been  developed  and  put  on  a  paying 
basis  during  the  past  few  years.  Few  people 
living  in  Utah  at  the  present  time  realize  that 
among  the  first  promoters  of  this  great  enterprise 
was  Philip  De  La  Mare,  and  that  he  agitated 
it  over  half  a  century  ago,  purchasing  in  Eng- 


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land  and  bringing  to  the  United  States  and  to 
Utah  the  first  beet  sugar  machines  ever  brought 
to  America.  These  facts  are  history  and  while 
at  that  time  the  country  was  not  ripe  for  an  in- 
dustry of  that  kind,  and  as  in  many  other  new 
undertakings  the  first  ventures  have  failed,  so 
with  the  beet  sugar  industry  of  fifty  years  ago ; 
it  was  not  a  success.  Nevertheless  Mr.  De  La 
Mare  had  faith  in  the  project  and  predicted  at 
that  time  that  the  beet  sugar  industry  would  at 
some  time  prove  a  success,  which  has  been  fully 
demonstrated  during  his  life  time. 

Philip  De  La  Mare  was  born  April  3,  1823. 
on  the  Island  of  Jersey,  among  the  Channel  Is- 
lands, on  the  coast  of  France,  and  is  the  son  of 
Francis  and  Jane  E.  (Hier)  De  La  Mare.  Our 
subject  grew  to  manhood  in  his  native  land,  re- 
ceiving his  education  there  and  learned  the 
blacksmith  trade,  which  trade  he  followed  for  a 
time  in  the  northern  part  of  England.  In  1849 
he  was  converted  to  the  doctrines  of  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  under  the 
preaching  of  W.  C.  Dunbar,  by  whom  he  was 
baptized,  and  on  January  10.  1852,  sailed  from 
Liverpool  on  board  the  ship  Kenebeck  for  Ameri- 
ca, landing  in  New  Orleans  on  the  17th  of 
March.  He  went  up  the  Mississippi  river  by 
boat  to  St.  Louis,  remaining  there  but  a  few 
days,  going  out  in  the  country  to  buy  cattle  and 
wagons  with  which  to  transport  to  LUah  the  beet 
sugar  machine  which  he  had  brought  with  him 
to  America,  si-xty  thousand  dollars  being  invested 
in  it.  The  machinery  was  of  the  best  that  money 
could  buy  at  that  time  and  it  required  two  hun- 
dred head  of  cattle  to  bring  it  across  the  plains. 
They  left  Fort  Leavenworth  on  July  4,  1852,  and 
arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  November  of  that 
year.  The  undertaking  did  not  prove  a  success 
and  was  finally  abandoned.  Associated  with  Mr. 
De  La  Mare  in  this  enterprise  was  Apostle  John 
Taylor,  late  President  of  the  Church,  Captain 
Russell,  a  ship  builder,  and  John  W.  Coward,  a 
Liverpool  broker.  Our  subject  remained  in  Salt 
Lake  City  for  a  year  and  then  came  to  Tooele 
City,  being  a  pioneer  to  this  place.  He  has  follow- 
ed his  trade  since  living  here,  and  retired  from 
active  business  life  in  1896.  He  owns  his  home 
and  a   farm  of  si.xtv  acres  of  land  here  and  is 


now  enjoying  the  fruits  of  a  long  and  honorable 
career.  While  living  in  Salt  Lake  City  the  gov- 
ernment paid  him  five  hundred  dollars  to  build  a 
platform  scale,  and  he  also  built  the  anchors  for 
Mr.  Patrick  O'Connor  when  he  launched  his 
boat  on  the  great  Salt  Lake  some  years  ago. 

Mr.  De  La  Mare  has  been  thrice  married,  and 
has  been  the  father  of  twenty-one  children,  four- 
teen of  whom  are  now  living.  Of  his  wives, 
Mary  (Chivalier)  De  La  Mare  died  in  1884,  and 
Mary  (Parken)  De  La  Mare  died  in  1895.  His 
third  wife  was  Jennette  Meiklejohn,  whom  he 
married  in  1857,  and  who  is  still  living.  Almost 
all  his  children  live  in  the  State,  and  the  entire 
family  are  members  of  the  Church  in  which  they 
were  born  and  reared.  One  son,  John  C,  served 
for  two  years  in  the  missionary  field  in  the  South- 
ern States,  and  his  son  Philip  served  on  a  mis- 
sion to  Arizona. 

In  political  life  our  subject  is  a  staunch  Demo- 
crat, as  are  all  his  sons,  but  he  has  never  taken 
any  very  active  part  in  the  work  of  his  party, 
preferring  to  devote  his  spare  time  to  Church 
work,  in  which  he  has  been  prominent  during  his 
whole  life.  In  1850  he  went  on  his  first  mission, 
being  gone  about  six  months  ;with  him  was  Apos- 
tle Taylor.  At  this  time  the  Book  of  Mormon  was 
translated  into  the  French  language.  On  April 
20,  i860,  he  was  sent  by  the  heads  of  the  Church 
on  a  mission  to  France,  and  presided  over  the 
Channel  Island  Conference  for  three  years, 
spending  three  years  and  eight  months  in  that 
work,  and  on  his  return  in  company  with  John 
Needham  and  Samuel  H.  Smith  brought 
back  a  company  of  six  hundred  emigrants.  He 
liaS  passed  through  all  the  different  offices  of 
the  Priesthood  and  has  been  a  Patriarch  since 
1898,  having  been  set  apart  and  ordained  to  that 
office  by  Apostle  Marion  F.  Lyman.  An  inter- 
esting feature  of  his  mission  to  Europe  was  the 
fact  that  while  in  St.  Louis  on  his  way  to  New 
York  he  met  a  man  by  the  name  of  Style  who 
claimed  to  have  found  a  gold  plate  on  which 
was  inscribed  the  history  of  one  of  the  members 
of  the  Mormon  Priesthood.  Mr.  Styles  claimed 
to  have  uncovered  this  plate  forty  feet  below  the 
surface  of  the  ground  while  engaged  in  digging 
a   well.     In   the   earlv   davs   of   his  residence   in 


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Utah  Mr.  De  La  Mare  was  a  man  of  considerable 
means  and  many  instances  of  his  benevolence 
are  related,  he  being  at  all  times  willing  to  divide 
with  his  poorer  brother,  or  in  any  way  relieve 
distress  or  want,  and  now  in  the  declining  years 
of  his  life  his  many  friends  unite  in  making  his 
life  as  peaceful  and  pleasant  as  possible. 


AMUEL  BRINGHURST.  Among  the 
native  sons  of  Utah  who  have  taken 
an  active  and  prominent  part  in  the 
building  up  of  this  new  country  and 
especially  in  the  development  of  its 
agricultural  resources  in  Sal  Lake  county, 
should  be  mentioned  Samuel  Bringhurst,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  April  7,  1850, 
and  is  the  son  of  Samuel  and  Eleanor  Bring- 
hurst, who  were  born  near  the  City  of  Phila- 
delphia, his  father  being  born  December  21,  1812, 
and  his  mother  December  25,  1816.  Mr.  Bring- 
hurst spent  his  early  life  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where 
he  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools. 
In  starting  out  in  life  he  began  his  first  work 
on  a  farm  in  Taylorsville  Ward,  which  he  car- 
ried on  while  his  residence  was  still  in  the  city. 

On  December  12,  1888,  he  married  Miss  Sarah 
E.  Orr,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah  (Wickel) 
Orr,  who  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  fifties.  By 
this  union  six  children  have  been  born  to  them : 
Ada  E. ;  Florence;  Bessie;  Marion;  Edna,  and 
Wilma,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Bringhurst 
remained  at  home  with  his  parents  until  after 
his  marriage,  since  which  time  he  has  been  doing 
for  himself.  He  moved  to  his  present  home  on 
the  Redwood  road,  in  1888,  at  which  time  it  was 
unimproved  and  in  a  wild  state,  covered  with 
sage  brush.  Today  he  has  thirty  acres  well  im- 
proved and  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  He  has 
built  a  splendid  brick  residence  which  is  located 
within  forty  rods  of  one  of  the  best  schools  in 
Salt  Lake  county. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  always  been  identified 
with  the  Democratic  party  and  for  many  years 
served  as  trustee  of  the  school  of  his  Ward.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  from 
childhood,  of  which  his  wife  is  also  a   faithful 


member.  He  has  served  as  Second  Counselor  to 
the  Late  Bishop  Samuel  Bennion,  and  for  the 
past  fifteen  years  has  been  Superintendent  of  the 
Sunday  School  He  was  ordained  a  High  Priest 
in  the  early  eighties.  Mrs.  Bringhurst  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  takes  a 
deep  interest  in  providing  for  the  poor  and  desti- 
tute, as  well  as  for  the  sick. 

The  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Sam- 
uel Bringhurst,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  in 
Utah  and  for  years  was  engaged  in  the  buggy 
and  wagon  manufacturing  business ;  in  the  early 
days  he  built  nearly  all  the  wagons  and  farming 
implements  used  by  the  settlers.  He  later  went 
to  Iron  county,  where  he  assisted  in  building  up 
a  settlement  in  that  section.  A  full  biographical 
sketch  of  the  parents  will  be  found  elsewhere  in 
this  work. 

Air.  Bringhurst  was  a  member  of  the  jury 
which  served  during  the  trial  of  Peter  Morten- 
sen,  the  most  celebrated  case  of  its  nature  in  the 
historv  of  the  State. 


ISHOP  THOMAS  ATKIN,  JR.  If 
there  is  one  lesson  that  the  lives  of 
the  pioneers  should  teach  the  youth  of 
this  generation,  above  all  others,  it  is 
that  success  in  life  is  not  a  thing  that 
comes  at  our  bidding,  or  can  be  bought  with 
wealth  or  influence;  it  comes  only  to  the  man 
who  dares;  the  man  who  is  willing  to  pursue 
one  thing  with  singleness  of  purpose,  day  after 
dav,  vear  after  year ;  the  man  who  does  not 
know  the  meaning  of  the  word  "discouraged." 
It  was  to  this  class  that  the  noble  pioneers  be- 
longed; those  men  and  women  who  left  all  that 
made  life  desirable  and  faced  every  imaginable 
hardship,  privation  and  danger,  for  the  sole  pur- 
pose of  building  unto  themselves  a  Temple  in 
the  heart  of  the  mountains,  wherein  they  might 
live  the  life  they  had  chosen,  far  removed  from 
contact  with  those  opposed  to  them.  Although 
the  father  of  our  subject  was  not  able  to  join 
the  people  with  whom  he  had  chosen  to  cast 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  from 
he  desired,  yet  he  came  here  with  his  family  at 
a  very  early  day,  arriving  in  the  valley  Septem» 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


575 


ber  25,  1849,  our  subject  being  a  youth  of  about 
sixteen  years,  and  since  then  his  Hfe  has  been 
spent  in  the  service  of  the  Church  and  for  the  ad- 
vancement of  his  State,  and  from  a  poor  boy,  un- 
known save  by  the  few  friends  who  accompanied 
the  family  from  England,  he  has  risen  to  be  one 
of  the  best  known  men  of  his  county,  occupying 
not  only  a  place  of  prominence  and  influence  in 
the  Church,  but  in  business  and  public  life  as 
well,  and  it  is  perhaps  safe  to  say  he  has  done 
as  much  for  the  advancement  and  development 
of  his  city  and  county  as  any  of  the  residents  of 
this  section  of  Utah. 

Bishop  Atkin  was  born  in  Louth,  Lincolnshire, 
England,  July  7,  1833.  3"<i  '^  the  son  of  Thomas 
and  Mary  (Morley)  Atkin,  natives  of  England, 
who  were  married  February  13.  1826,  in  Saint 
Mary's  Church,  Nottingham.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  At- 
kin were  members  of  the  Methodist  Church,  and 
Mrs.  Atkin  was  especially  noted  for  her  great 
piety,  and  during  his  early  life  our  subject  had 
the  very  best  religious  instruction  his  mother 
was  able  to  give  him,  thus  early  instilling  into 
his  mind  a  reverence  for  sacred  things.  The 
father  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  in  very  com- 
fortable circumstances,  owning  some  property 
and  a  number  of  houses,  from  which  he  received 
a  good  rent  roll.  The  town  of  Louth  contained  at 
that  time  about  twelve  thousand  inhabitants  and 
was  a  model  town  in  all  respects,  being  noted 
for  its  good  morals  and  Christian  influence.  Born 
and  reared  in  such  an  atmosphere,  it  is  not 
strange  that  Bishop  Atkin  should  carry  through 
life  a  deep  sense  of  man's  responsibility  towards 
his  Creator,  and  that  his  whole  life  should  be  a 
most  exemplary  one.  There  were  six  children 
in  this  family,  three  of  whom.  Emily,  George  and 
our  subject,  grew  to  maturity.  Although  a  nomi- 
nal Christian,  the  senior  Mr.  Atkin  was  not  es- 
pecially active  in  religious  matters,  and  it  was 
not  until  his  wife  w'as  miraculously  saved  from 
a  dangerous  illness  through  prayer  in  the  year 
1840,  that  he  gave  much  serious  thought  to  the 
question  of  his  soul's  salvation.  However,  his 
search  after  the  truth  was  a  most  unsatisfying 
one,  and  for  tw^o  years  he  was  in  a  very  un- 
settled state  of  mind  in  regard  to  religious  mat- 
ters.    In  the  year   1842,   he  heard   for  the   first 


time  the  Mormon  doctrine  expounded  by  Elder 
Henry  Cuerdon.  From  the  first  this  doctrine  ap- 
pealed strongly  to  Mr.  Atkin,  but  he  did  not  ac- 
cept it  until  he  had  made  a  deep  study  of  it, 
and  was  convinced  that  it  was  the  true  faith,  after 
which  he  took  great  pains  and  pleasure  in  mak- 
ing the  essential  points  plain  to  the  members 
of  his  family,  with  the  result  that  at  different 
times  during  the  year  1843  the  entire  family, 
with  the  exception  of  one  son,  George,  were  bap- 
tized and  confirmed  members  of  the  Church, 
and  this  son  was  baptized  and  confirmed  in  1846. 
In  addition  to  this  family  were  a  number  of  the 
prominent  families  of  Louth,  who  became  mem- 
bers of  the  Church,  but  as  a  whole  the  gospel 
as  preached  by  the  Mormon  Elders  did  not  find 
favor  with  the  people  of  that  town,  and  an  es- 
trangement grew  up  between  them  and  those  who 
had  accepted  the  faith.  The  Atkin  family  were 
especially  active  in  spreading  the  teachings  of 
the  new  gospel,  and  as  time  wore  on  they  became 
filled  with  a  desire  to  join  the  Saints  in  America. 
All  preparations  had  been  made  and  they  were 
on  the  eve  of  departure  when  the  terrible  news 
of  the  killing  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith 
reached  them.  This  deterred  them  from  going  at 
that  time,  and  it  was  not  until  January,  1849, 
about  three  years  later,  that  Mr.  Atkin  was  able 
to  dispose  of  his  property  to  good  advantage  and 
start  on  the  long  contemplated  journey,  in  com- 
pany wdth  a  number  of  families  from  the  town 
of  Louth.  After  a  voyage  of  ten  weeks,  during 
which  time  the  trip  was  without  particular  inci- 
dent, except  a  small  fire  which  broke  out  on  board 
a  few  days  after  starting,  they  arriyed  in  New 
Orleans,  on  board  the  Zetland  and  took  passage 
on  the  lozva  for  St.  Louis.  Cholera  was  raging 
in  the  Southern  States  at  that  time,  and  during 
the  trip  up  the  Mississippi  river  a  number  of 
deaths  occurred,  the  pilot  of  the  boat  being 
among  the  number.  They  remained  a  few  days 
in  St.  Louis  and  continued  by  boat  to  Council 
Bluffs.  At  Fort  Henry  our  travelers  had  their 
first  glimpse  of  an  Indian.  They  started  from 
Council  Bluffs  on  their  long  journey  across  the 
plains  on  May  28th,  having  lost  three  of  the 
friends  w^ho  had  started  with  them  from  Louth, 
through  cholera,  and  the  mother  of  our  subject 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


being'  sick  witli  the  disease  at  tlie  time  they 
started.  'Sirs.  .\tkin"s  life  was  once  more  spared, 
and  on  June  2nd  they  crossed  the  river  and 
joined  the  main  body  of  emigrants  who  were 
waiting  to  be  organized  into  companies.  On 
June  3rd  they  camped  in  Winter  Quarters,  now- 
known  as  Florence,  where  the  vacant  houses  of 
the  Apostles  and  other  leaders  of  the  Church 
were  of  great  interest  to  them.  They  once  more 
took  up  the  march  across  the  plains  on  June  8th, 
under  the  immediate  care  of  Captain  William 
Hyde  and  Captain  CoUett,  Orson  Spencer  being 
captain  of  one  hundred  wagons  in  that  company. 
They  encountered  a  band  of  hostile  Indians  on 
the  Elk  Horn  River,  but  after  making  a  show 
of  arms,  the  Indians  evidently  changed  their 
minds  and  retired  from  the  scene.  Two  other  in- 
cidents of  note  occurred  during  this  journey,  one 
the  accidental  killing  of  a  little  child ;  and  the 
other  our  subject's  becoming  lost  while  attempt- 
ing to  return  to  camp  at  nightfall,  ahead  of  a 
party  of  hunters  who  had  been  out  after  buflfalo. 

Upon  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  City  the  senior 
Mr.  Atkin  and  his  family  located  on  a  piece  or 
land  in  the  Eleventh  Ward,  now  owned  by  the 
family  of  the  late  Francis  Armstrong.  Here 
they  built  an  adobe  house  of  one  room  before 
winter  set  in,  and  our  subject  slept  that  first 
winter  in  the  wagon  in  which  they  had  crossed 
the  plains.  The  following  summer  his  brother 
George  and  he  farmed  on  shares  for  one  of  the 
men  who  owned  a  farm  just  outside  the  city,  and 
the  spring  of  1 85 1  our  subject  and  his  father 
purchased  a  forty-acre  farm  in  Tooele  county, 
on  what  is  now  the  site  of  Tooele  City.  The 
daughter  Emily  married  that  year  to  Richard 
Warliurton,  and  thereafter  made  her  home  in 
Salt  Lake  City.  Their  lives  for  the  next  few 
years  was  that  of  the  early  settler,  failure  of 
crops,  devastation  by  grasshoppers ;  raids  from 
Indians,  whom  they  were  often  called  upon  to 
pursue  and  fight,  and  the  building  of  a  fort  and 
wall  around  the  town  for  their  better  protec- 
tion. 

On  May  20,  1856,  our  subject  took  as  his  help- 
meet through  life  Miss  Mary  Ann  Maughan, 
daughter  of  Peter  and  Ruth  (Harrison)  Maugh- 
an.    Mr.  Maughan  came  to  Utah  from  England, 


bringing  his  little  daughter  with  him,  at  a  very 
early  day,  his  wife  having  died  in  that  country. 
He  first  settled  in  Tooele  county,  but  later  moved 
into  Cache  county,  where  he  became  the  first 
Bishop  and  President  of  the  Cache  Valley  Stake 
of  Zion.  Air.  Atkin's  brother  George  was  mar- 
ried at  the  same  time  to  Miss  Sarah  Matilda  Ut- 
ley,  daughter  of  L.  J.  L-tley,  the  ceremonies  be- 
ing performed  by  Bishop  John  Rowberry.  The 
ceremony  of  endowment  and  sealing  was  per- 
formed on  June  4th  in  the  Endowment  house  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  by  President  Jedediah  M.  Grant. 
There  were  born  to  Bishop  and  Mrs.  Atkin  of 
this  marriage,  the  following  children :  Thomas 
Maughan,  born  June  7,  1858;  Ruth  Eveline,  born 
November  16,  1859;  Mary  Ann,  born  December 
ig,  1861  ;  Edward  and  Edith,  twins,  born  October 
30,  1864,  Edith  died  leaving  a  family  of  three 
cliildren  ;  Peter  died  in  infancy;  Willard  George, 
born  August  25,  1875,  and  William  Franklin, 
born  January  14,  1878. 

During  the  invasion  of  Johnston's  army,  Mr. 
Atkin  moved  his  family  to  Lehi,  and  it  was  here 
his  first  child  was  born.  He  took  part  in  all  the 
trouble  following  the  invasion,  being  one  of  the 
men  to  guard  Echo  canyon,  and  also  engaging 
in  numerous  battles  with  the  Indians  who  were 
not  slow  to  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity  of- 
fered for  plundering.  He  moved  his  family  back 
to  the  farm  after  cessation  of  hostilities,  and  at 
once  took  up  his  former  occupation  of  stock 
raising  and  general  farming,  in  which  he  has 
since  been  most  successful. 

Since  those  days  Bishop  Atkin  and  his  fam- 
ily have  been  among  the  most  prominent  and  ef- 
ficient members  of  the  Church  in  Tooele  City, 
and  have  occupied  a  number  of  official  positions. 
Mrs.  Atkin  was  chosen  treasurer  of  the  first  Re- 
lief Society  organized  in  that  Ward,  and  in  1896 
was  elected  President,  being  re-elected  to  that 
office  in  1901,  for  a  term  of  four  years.  The 
Bishop  was  elected  to  his  present  office  over 
twenty-two  years  ago,  and  in  that  capacity  has 
done  valiant  service  for  the  cause.  He  has  also 
held  a  number  of  positions  in  public  office,  having 
been  Treasurer  of  the  county  for  some  years,  and 
passed  through  all  the  troublesome  times  of  the 
State   before    the    division    on    national    political 


'Mi-^i^^^ 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


577 


lines.  His  children  have  all  followed  in  the 
teachings  of  their  parents  and  are  worthy  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church,  the  sons  having 
performed  a  nmnber  of  missions  and  being  active 
workers  at  home.  In  fact,  it  is  safe  to  say  there 
is  not  a  more  worthy  or  highly  respected  family 
in  the  valley,  nor  a  man  more  universally  honored 
and  loved  than  Bishop  Thomas  Atkin. 


AVID  C.  McLaughlin,  Deceased, 
was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most 
substantial  and  prominent  business 
men  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  vicinity. 
An  important  factor  in  business  life 
and  public  afifairs,  he  won  and  retained  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  his  fellow  men.  He  was 
widely  known  as  the  president  of  the  Ouincv 
mine,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  founders  and 
promoters ;  also  the  Woodside  mine  and  the  An- 
chor mine,  all  located  in  the  Park  City  district. 

Mr.  McLaughlin  was  born  in  Illinois,  on  Au- 
gust 26,  1854.  When  only  a  child  his  parents 
moved  to  Muskegon,  Michigan,  where  he  spent 
his  early  life.  Educated  in  the  common  schools 
of  Muskegon  he  later  entered  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  L'niversity  of  Michigan,  from  which 
institution  he  graduated  with  honors  in  his  class. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Michigan  in  1876,  and  entered  the  law  firm  of 
Smith,  Nims,  Hoyt  &  Erwin,  with  whom  he  was 
associated  until  he  came  to  Utah  in  1880.  He 
located  in  Park  City,  where  he  contined  to  prac- 
tice his  profession.  He  took  an  active  part  in 
politics,  and  was  the  first  Gentile  ever  elected  to 
the  Territorial  Legislature  of  Utah,  having  served 
the  sessions  of  1884  and  1886.  For  many  years 
he  was  President  of  the  School  Board  of  Park 
City,  and  also  City  Attorney.  He  was  one  of 
the  promoters  and  founders  of  the  great  Quincy 
mine  of  Park  City,  having  served  as  its  Presi- 
dent until  his  death.  He  was  also  President  of 
the  Woodside  mine,  and  a  promoter  and  director 
in  the  Anchor  mine,  he  being  among  the  first  to 
take  hold  of  and  develop  the  mining  interests  in 
the  Park  City  district.  In  political  afifairs  he  was 
a  staunch  Republican,  having  assisted  in  the  or- 


ganizati(.)n  of  that  party  in  this  State,  and  also 
took  a  prominent  and  active  part  in  its  afifairs. 
In  the  Church  he  was  identified  with  the  Episco- 
pal faith.  His  father,  David,  was  also  a  lawyer, 
and  one  of  the  early  settlers  in  Michigan.  He  had 
one  brother,  Andrew  C,  professor  of  history  and 
law  in  the  L^niversity  of  Michigan,  and  another 
brother,  James  C,  a  lawyer  and  Tax  Commis- 
sioner of  the  State  of  Michigan.  Another  brother, 
W'm.  B.,  is  National  Bank  Inspector. 

Mr.  McLaughlin  married  in  1888  to  Miss  Etta 
Young,  daughter  of  H.  C).  Young,  one  of  the 
prominent  merchants  of  Salt  Lake  City,  she  hav- 
ing been  educated  in  the  schools  of  this  city, 
where  she  resided  until  her  marriage.  She  has  one 
daughter,  Isabella  Lois.  Mrs.  McLaughlin,  since 
the  death  of  her  husband,  has  made  her  home 
at  the  Knutsford  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Since  the 
death  of  Mr.  McLaughlin  the  large  volume  of 
business  which  he  carried  on  has  fallen  on  her 
shoulders,  which  she  has  demonstrated  her  abil- 
itv  to  handle  in  a  thorough  and  business-like  man- 
ner, and  today  is  considered  one  of  the  best  bus- 
iness women  in  Utah.  She  holds  large  interests 
in  Park  City  and  in  diiiferent  parts  of  the  State, 
more  particularly  in  mining  interests.  Mr.  Mc- 
Laughlin was  an  untiring  worker  all  his  life,  and 
by  thorough  business  principles  he  had  laid  the 
foundation  for  a  successful  career,  and  just  on  the 
eve  of  that  success  he  was  taken  sick  and  passed 
into  the  unknown,  having  died  June  18,  1901,  at 
the  age  of  forty-six  years.  While  Mr.  McLaugh- 
lin had  made  his  home  in  Park  City  since  com- 
ing to  Utah,  yet  he  was  as  widely  known  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  in  fact  throughout  Utah  as  he 
was  in  the  vicinity  in  which  he  resided,  on  ac- 
count of  the  part  he  took  in  building  up  the  great 
mining  industries  of  the  State.  His  demise  has 
been  keenly  felt,  not  only  in  Park  City,  but  in 
Salt  Lake  City  and  vicinity  as  well.  The  Utah 
Souvenir  Edition  of  the  Park  City  Herald  con- 
tain a  touching  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Laughlin, of  which  the  following  is  an  extract : 

"Up  to  the  hour  of  his  death  he  had  been  more 
closely  identified  with  the  material  prosperity  and 
growth  of  Park  City  than  any  other  man,  and 
was  just  beginning  to  realize  the  highest  climax 


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of  liis  ideal  in  the  city's  permanency  and  pros- 
perity *  *  *  when  he  was  summoned  to  the 
far-away  shores  of  the  Crystal  Sea.  To  his  mem- 
ory, standing  as  an  everlasting  monument  and 
growing  more  beautiful  with  each  returning 
year,  rising  on  the  firm  and  well  built 
foundation  of  his  hand  and  brain,  rests  the 
charming  city  of  Park.  *  *  *  When  the 
dark  angel  pressed  the  helpless  form  to 
the  tongueless  silence  of  the  dreamless  dust,  a 
city  stood  by  the  bier  containing  the  earthly  re- 
mains, as  one  mourner — for  grief  and  sorrow 
was  universal  and  as  the  clay  comingled  with  the 
mother  clay  from  whence  it  came,  tears  wrung 
from  hearts  overflowing  with  grief  and  anguish 
fell  to  moisten  the  sod  of  the  evergreen  memory 
and  to  nourish  the  flower  of  hope  and  peace  in  the 
world  hereafter.  No  warrior  ever  passed  to  dust 
with  greater  honor,  or  a  higher  respect,  and  no 
memory  is  more  sincerely  cherished  than  that  of 
the  townspeople  for  this  departed  man.  *  *  * 
He  was  heavily  interested  in  the  mining  proper- 
ties of  the  district ;  was  an  e.xtensive  owner  of 
Park  property,  but  his  greatest  wealth  reposed 
in  the  magnanimity  and  generosity  of  his  great, 
noble  heart,  which  beat  not  alone  for  his,  but  for 
all  mankind." 


OHX  \\'.  TATE.  Utah  is  noted  for  the 
large  number  of  self-made  men  who 
reside  within  her  borders.  Among  her 
many  worthy  citizens  who  by  energy, 
perseverance  and  close  attention  to  busi- 
ness have  paved  the  way  for  a  successful  career, 
and  at  the  same  time  won  and  retained  the  confi- 
dence and  respect  of  the  best  people  of  his  com- 
munity, John  W.  Tate  deserves  special  mention. 
He  is  among  the  largest  and  most  successful 
merchants  of  Tooele  City,  in  which  place  he  has 
spent  his  whole  life. 

He  was  born  .August  8,  1853,  in  Wyoming, 
while  his  parents  were  en  route  to  Utah,  and  is 
the  son  of  John  and  Ann  (Seetree)  Tate,  na- 
tives of  England,  who  came  to  Utah  with  their 
family  in  1853,  and  settled  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
remaining  there  two  and  a  half  years,  at  the  end 
of  which  time  they  moved  to  the  northern  part 


of  Toole  county,  remaining  there  until  1865, 
when  they  came  to  Tooele  City,  where  they  spent 
the  remainder  of  their  lives,  the  father  dying 
July  4,  1898,  and  the  mother  surviving  him 
a  little  more  than  a  year. 

Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  Tooele  county, 
receiving  such  schooling  as  was  to  be  obtained 
at  that  time,  working  on  his  father's  farm  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  and  attending  the  dis- 
trict school  for  a  few  weeks  in  the  winter.  He 
early  began  life  as  a  clerk,  and  has  been  more 
or  less  in  the  mercantile  business  ever  since. 
In  1894  he  began  peddling,  following  that  for  a 
year,  when  he  opened  up  a  general  merchandise 
store  in  a  small  room  in  Tooele  City,  which  has 
grown  until  today  his  establishment  is  the  sec- 
ond largest  in  that  place. 

Mr.  Tate  was  married  in  Tooele  City  February 
22.  1875,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  De  La  Mare,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  and  Mary  (Chevalier)  De  La  Mare. 
Of  this  marriage  fourteen  children  have  been 
born,  all  of  whom  are  now  living.  They  are: 
John  P. ;  William  F. ;  Joseph  H. ;  George  L. ; 
Mary  A.;  Ethel  S. ;  Clara  M. ;  Anna  M.;  Delia 
M.;  Luella;  Edith  V.;  Leland  S. ;  Charles  D., 
and  Thomas  T.  Three  of  the  children  are  stu- 
dents at  the  Latter  Day  Saints  College  in  Salt 
Lake  City. 

In  politics  Mr.  Tate  is  a  Democrat,  and  has 
held  a  number  of  public  offices  in  his  county,  hav- 
ing been  elected  County  Clerk  by  the  People's 
party  in  1883,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has 
been  a  member  of  the  City  Council,  as  well  as 
serving  a  number  of  terms  as  County  Clerk  and 
Treasurer.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  almost  from  the  time  he  moved  here,  being 
one  of  the  Trustees  and  Secretary  of  the  Board. 
He  supervised  the  building  of  the  new  school 
house  in  Tooele  City,  which  is  one  of  the  finest 
buildings  of  the  kind  in  the  State,  being  erected 
at  a  cost  of  twenty-thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Tate 
and  his  entire  family  are  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  in  whose  work  he  has  been  a  prominent 
factor.  He  has  served  six  months  in  missionary 
work  in  the  Southern  States,  and  while  doing 
missionary  work  in  the  Blue  Ridge  mountains 
was  shot  at  by  three  men.  He  has  filled  the  of- 
fice of  Hig-h  Council  of  this  Stake  for  a  number 


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of  years,  and  for  the  past  eight  years  has  been 
Superintendent  of  the  Sunday  School.  At  this 
time  he  is  Clerk  of  the  Tooele  Stake. 

Mr.  Tate  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  a  large  circle  of  business  associates  and 
friends,  as  well  as  the  leaders  of  the  Church,  and 
has  through  life  been  an  upright,  honorable  man, 
seeking  to  give  every  one  their  just  dues,  and 
the  success  which  has  crowned  his  lifg  has  been 
entirely  due  to  his  own  honest  efforts  and  strict 
adherence  to  the  highest  business  principles. 


b. 


AMES  B.  HICKMAN.  Prominent 
among  the  officials  of  Tooele  county  is 
its  present  County  Recorder,  James  B. 
Hickman,  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having 
been  born  in  Salt  Lake  City  February 
.27,  1866.  While  still  a  young  man  he  has  demon- 
strated his  ability  to  handle  and  control  success- 
fully any  enterprise  or  project  to  which  he  has 
turned  his  attention,  and  few  men  in  Tooele 
county  hold  a  better  record  either  in  private, 
business  or  public  life  than  does  he,  and  few  are 
more  highly  respected  by  the  better  class  of 
citizens  in  that  county. 

He  is  the  son  of  William  A.  and  ^lary  J. 
(Hetherington)  Hickman.  Mr.  Hickman  was 
raised  in  Stockton,  in  Tooele  county,  where  he 
received  his  early  education,  completing  his 
studies  at  the  Brigham  Young  Academy  in 
Provo.  He  began  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  store,  and 
from  that  became  interested  in  mining,  being 
at  this  time  largely  interested  in  the  silver  and 
lead  mines  of  Tooele  county,  in  which  he  has 
great  faith,  though  as  yet  they  have  not  been 
developed  to  any  appreciable  degree.  In  1895  he 
organized  the  Mercur  Abstract  Company  and 
wrote  up  a  complete  set  of  records  of  Tooele 
county,  being  the  first  and  only  one  in  existence. 
He  was  also  at  one  time  the  owner  of  a  consid- 
erable number  of  sheep  and  it  is  his  intention 
to  again  embark  in  that  enterprise  in  the  near 
future. 

Mr.  Hickman  was  married  at  Stockton  in  1882, 
to  Miss  Ellen  L.  Booth,  daughter  of  Henry 
Booth,  and  by  this  marriage  has  had  three  chil- 


dren :     Edna  P.  and  Harry  J. ;  Charles  died  aged 
four  years. 

In  politics  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican party  since  its  organizatio.n  in  Utah, 
and  has  ever  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks. 
He  was  elected  County  Recorder  of  Tooele  coun- 
ty in  1894,  and  re-elected  to  the  same  office  in 
1899.  He  has  also  filled  the  position  of  District 
Mining  Recorder,  and  for  many  years  acted  as 
school  trustee  in  his  district.  He  is  not  a  mem- 
ber of  any  church,  but  believes  in  giving  assist- 
ance to  any  worthy  religious  cause.  In  social 
life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows  of  Stock- 
ton, where  he  makes  his  home,  and  in  which 
place  he  has  a  comfortable  and  substantial  resi- 
dence, although  his  public  duties  have  required 
his  making  Tooele  his  headquarters  since  he  has 
been  in  office.  Mr.  Hickman  has  made  his  own 
way  in  the  world  without  financial  assistance 
from  any  source,  and  though  but  a  young  man 
is  looked  upon  as  one  of  the  most  aggregsiye  and 
successful  business  men  of  his  county.  His  up- 
right and  manly  life,  his  integrity  and  honesty  in 
the  discharge  of  the  important  trusts  that  have 
been  given  into  his  hands,  and  his  determination 
and  energy,  together  with  a  genial,  pleasing  per- 
sonality, have  won  for  him  a  score  of  friends,  and 
today  he  enjoys  the  confidence  and  trust  of  those 
with  whom  he  is  associated. 


ages ; 


UDGE  HUGH  S.  GOWANS.  Nations 
rise  and  reign,  then  pass  into  oblivion, 
yet  there  are  stars  within  the  constella- 
tions of  those  governments  which  never 
cease  to  send  their  light  down  the 
men  who  by  their  strong  individuality 
make  an  impression  upon  the  ocean  of  humanity 
and  the  waves  of  time  that  the  rust  of  inaction 
can  never  destroy.  Of  Hugh  S.  Gowans  it  may 
be  said  that  his  life  has  been  an  earnest  effort 
to  promote  the  perpetuation  of  the  best  in  the 
world.  The  characters  of  such  men  will  wield  an 
influence  when  the  earthly  house  of  their  taber- 
nacle shall  have  been  dissolved,  and  we  will  ap- 
propriate their  lives  to  our  own  good;  they  will 
go  with  us  and  guide  us  in  every  action  and  word. 
Even  the  humblest  man  who  lives  noblv  exerts 


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an  influence  for  good  in  his  community ;  to  a 
much  greater  degree  does  the  life  of  a  prominent 
man  prove  a  power,  not  only  in  his  immediate 
neighborhood,  but  in  places  remote,  and  his  good 
deeds  bless  mankind  through  an  endless  cycle  of 
years.  Of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  it  may  be 
said  that  no  citizen  of  Tooele  county  has  more 
powerfully  affected  its  history  or  enhanced  its  de- 
velopment than  he  has.  He  has  been  honored 
with  more  political  positions  than  any  other  man 
who  ever  settled  in  Tooele  county. 

Hugh  S.  Gowans,  President  of  the  Tooele 
Stake  of  Zion,  came  of  an  old  Scotch  family, 
and  was  born  February  23,  183.2,  in  the  City  of 
Perth,  Perthshire,  Scotland.  He  is  the  son  of 
Robert  and  Grace  (McKay)  Gowans,  both  na- 
tive of  that  country,  where  they  spent  their  lives 
and  where  they  died.  The  family  moved  from 
Perth  when  our  subject  was  very  young  and 
took  up  their  home  in  the  City  of  Aberdeen, 
famed  as  the  Granite  City  of  Northern  Scot- 
land. Here  the  son  lived  until  ten  years  of  age, 
receiving  his  early  education  from  the  schools 
of  that  place.  His  parents  then  moved  to  Ar- 
broath, where  his  scholastic  education  was  com- 
pleted and  where  he  remained  until  twenty-three 
years  of  age.  In  1850  he  was  converted  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  under  the  preaching  of  Elder  Joseph 
Booth,  by  whom  he  was  baptized.  In  1855  he 
left  his  native  home  and  took  passage  for  Ameri- 
ca on  a  cruising  vessel,  arriving  in  the  L^nited 
States  on  May  27th  of  that  year.  From  New 
York  City  he  went  to  Pittsburg  by  railroad  and 
from  there  by  boat  to  St.  Louis.  From  St.  Louis 
he  traveled  by  river  to  Atchison,  Kansas,  joining 
a  train  of  Alormon  emigrants  under  command 
of  Captain  Milo  Andrus,  with  whom  he  crossed 
the  great  American  plains,  and  arrived  in  Salt 
Lake  City  October  24,  1855,  Upon  his  arrival 
in  Utah  our  subject  at  once  settled  on  the  gov- 
ernment reservation  in  Rush  Valley,  Tooele  coun- 
ty, where  he  only  remained  a  short  time,  being 
compelled  to  abandon  his  home  there  by  the  hos- 
tile attitude  of  the  Indians.  He  then  settled  in 
Tooele  City,  where  he  has  since  continued  to 
make  his  home.  For  a  number  of  years  he  fol- 
lowed farming  as  his  chief  occupation,  but  since 


1865  has  been  in  political  life  continuously,  occu- 
pying many  positions  of  honor  and  trust. 

Judge  Gowans  was  married  in  Scotland,  March 
i6,  1854,  to  Miss  Betsy  Gowans,  who  although 
bearing  the  same  family  name,  was  not  related 
to  the  Judge's  family.  Ten  children  were  born  of 
this  marriage,  seven  of  whom  are  now  living : 
Barbara.. James,  Andrew,  Betsy,  Ephraim,  Alon- 
zo,  and  Charle*. 

Since  1865  Judge  Gowans  has  been  one  of  the 
most  active  and  prominent  men  in  public  life  in 
the  State  of  Utah.  His  first  office  was  that  of 
County  Assessor  and  Collector,  being  elected  on 
the  People's  ticket,  which  position  he  held  for 
fi.\  years,  after  which  he  was  Mayor  of  Tooele 
City  for  eight  years.  In  August,  1878,  he  was 
elected  Probate  Judge  of  Tooele  county,  prior 
to  which  time  he  had  for  two  years  been  Prosecut- 
ing .\ttorney  for  that  county.  He  filled  the  posi- 
tion of  Probate  Judge  for  four  years.  In  1866 
he  was  appointed  Inspector  of  Distilled  Spirits 
and  Coal  Oil  for  the  Territory  of  Utah,  his  ap- 
pointment being  made  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury.  He  was  made  Chairman  of  the  Cen- 
tral Executive  ('ommittee  of  Election  on  Sep- 
tember 2,  1878,  and  in  August  of  the  following 
year  was  elected  an  Alderman  of  Tooele  City, 
and  also  filled  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
his  commission  being  signed  by  Governor  George 
W.  Emory.  He  later  studied  law  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  practice  before  the  bar  of  the  Third 
Judicial  District  of  Utah  on  April  11,  1896.  Judge 
Gowans  has  also  been  prominent  in  military  af- 
fairs in  the  State.  He  was  made  an  Adjutant  in 
Company  A.,  First  Battalion,  on  May  16,  1868, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Nauvoo  Legion  of 
Utah,  in  which  organization  he  held  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant.  At  this  time  Judge  Gowans  is  in- 
terested in  the  Insurance  and  Loans  business,  and 
is  also  agent  for  the  Oregon  Short  Line  railroad 
company. 

.Although  a  very  busy  man  in  public  life.  Judge 
Gowans  has  not  neglected  the  work  of  the 
Church,  and  much  of  his  life  has  been  devoted 
to  furthering  its  interests  in  this  State,  and  in 
the  mission  field.  He  has  held  many  offices  in 
the  Priesthood,  having  been  ordained  an  Elder  in 
Scotland,  on  January-  10,  1852;  made  a  Priest  in 


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1 85 1,  and  on  April  20,  1857,  was  ordained  a 
member  of  the  Seventies  by  President  Joseph 
Young.  In  May  of  that  year  he  was  set  apart  as 
one  of  the  Presidents  of  the  Forty-third  Quorum 
of  Seventies.  He  was  ordained  a  High  Priest  by 
F.  D.  Richards  in  1877,  and  was  also  Counsel  to 
Bishop  Rowberry.  He  was  appointed  to  his 
present  office,  that  of  President  of  the  Stake  of 
Tooele,  in  October,  1882.  In  October,  1872,  he 
was  called  and  set  apart  on  the  25th  of  that 
month  for  service  in  England,  laboring  in  Bed- 
ford Conference,  and  later  in  Manchester,  return- 
ing in  1875.  Judge  Gowans  has  all  his  life  been 
a  close  follower  of  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  after  the  passage  of  the  Edmunds- 
Tucker  act  was  arrested  for  violation  of  that 
law  and  served  six  months  in  the  Penitentiary  in 
1886,  being  the  first  man  to  be  indicted  under  the 
Segregation  act.  However,  being  a  firm  believer 
in  the  rights  of  the  Mormon  people  to  practice 
their  religion  according  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Church,  he  went  to  prison  rather  than  renounce 
the  doctrines  which  he  had  espoused.  In  public 
and  private  life  Judge  Gowan's  life  has  been 
above  reproach,  and  he  is  held  high  in  the  esteem 
of  men  in  every  walk  of  life,  irrespective  of  re- 
ligious or  political  creed. 


(  )BERT  M.  SHEILDS.  Sheriff  of 
Tooele  county.  Mr.  Shields  is  a  noted 
son  of  Utah,  having  been  born  in 
Tooele  City,  June  2,  1869.  While  yet 
a  young  man  he  has  by  his  straight- 
forward business  principles  and  faithfulness  in 
public  office  won  the  respect  of  all  the  best  people 
of  his  county. 

Our  subject  is  the  son  of  John  C.  and  Jane 
(Aleiklejohn)  Shields,  both  natives  of  Scotland, 
being  born  in  that  country,  where  they  were  con- 
verted to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon  faith, 
and  emigrated  to  America.  Their  family  of  nine 
children,  all  of  whom  are  now  living,  were  born 
in  Utah,  our  subject  being  the  second  oldest 
child.  On  arriving  in  Utah  the  parents  settled  in 
Tooele  county,  where  they  are  still  living. 

Mr.  Shields  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his 
father's  farm,  and  his  life  was  much  like  that  of 


the  other  sons  of  pioneers,  working  on  the  farm 
during  the  summer  months  and  attending  school 
for  a  few  weeks  in  winter,  when  the  weather 
was  too  severe  to  permit  of  his  doing  outdoor 
work.  He  early  began  life  on  his  own  account, 
learning  the  blacksmith  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  sixteen  years,  and  is  still  interested 
in  that  business  with  his  brother,  John  M.,  who 
has  charge  of  the  blacksmith  shop. 

He  married  in  Tooele  City,  in  1891,  to  Miss 
Lottie  Lee,  daughter  of  Samuel  F.  and  Ann  Lee, 
residents  of  Tooele  and  early  settlers  of  Utah. 
Five  children  have  been  born  to  them :  Bertha, 
Lee,  Grant,  Anna  and  Mary.  Mr.  Shields  has  a 
comfortable  home  on  West  street  in  Tooele  City. 
His  blacksmith  shop  is  on  Main  street. 

In  political  life  our  subject  has  always  been  a 
staunch  believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Republi- 
can partv,  and  has  always  been  active  in  party 
work  and  political  life,  and  prior  to  his  election 
to  the  office  of  sheriff  on  November  4,  1900,  had 
served  two  years  as  Deputy  Marshal  and  two 
years  as  Constable  of  his  precinct.  His  father 
and  brothers  are  also  members  of  the  Republican 
party.  Mr.  Shields  has  the  distinction  of  being 
the  youngest  sheriflf  in  the  State  of  Utah,  being 
but  thirty-one  years  of  age  when  elected  to  of- 
fice. He  is  a  man  of  very  mild  appearance  and 
retiring  manners,  but  has  the  reputation  of  being 
a  fearless  official,  never  faltering  at  any  call  for 
duty,  no  matter  how  dangerous  the  undertaking, 
and  the  bandits  who  infest  this  State  and  have 
made  it  famous  of  recent  years  as  the  rendez- 
vous of  the  outlaws  not  only  of  this  but  of  ad- 
joining States,  have  no  terrors  for  Mr.  Shields, 
who  goes  where  duty  calls  him,  regardless  of 
whom  he  may  be  following.  He  and  his  family 
are  faithful  adherents  of  the  Mormon  Church 
and  active  in  its  work  in  their  community. 


(  )SEPH  U.  ELDREDGE.  Sr.,  Deputy 
Sheriflf  of  Salt  Lake  City.  For  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century  the  gentleman 
whose  name  appears  at  the  head  of  this 
article  has  been  identified  with  the  politi- 
cal and  public  life  of  Utah,  and  more  especially 
of  Salt  Lake  City  and  county,  and  by  integrity, 


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courtesy  and  a  genuine  desire  to  meet  the  wishes 
of  the  people  has  won  the  success  which  he  thor- 
oughly deserves.  Since  his  early  manhood  he 
has  been  obliged  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world, 
and  his  record  has  been  of  the  highest  order, 
acquiring  a  reputation  for  honesty  and  integrity. 

Mr.  Eldredge  was  born  in  Dennisport,  ]Mass., 
October  lo,  1843,  but  his  whole  life  has  been  spent 
in  Utah  ;  he  came  across  the  plains  in  his  mother's 
arms  with  pioneers  in  1847.  His  father,  L.  Na- 
than Eldredge,  was  also  a  native  of  Massachu- 
setts. He  was  for  many  years  a  sea  captain. 
He  became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mor- 
mon Church  and  was  among  the  pioneers  to  cross 
the  plains  in  1847,  following  farming  principally 
after  coming  to  Utah.  Mr.  Eldredge  was  one 
of  the  most  active  and  prominent  men  in  the  af- 
fairs of  Utah  during  the  early  days ;  for  several 
terms  he  served  on  the  City  Council,  and  was 
identified  with  many  of  the  early  enterprises  for 
the  advancement  of  the  State.  He  participated 
in  the  early  Indian  wars  and  was  among  the  first 
to  go  to  Southern  Utah,  and  assisted  in  settling 
that  section.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years 
prior  to  his  death  Counselor  to  the  Bishop  of  the 
Sixteenth  Ward,  and  held  that  position  at  the  time 
of  his  demise.  Mr.Eldridge's  ancestors  came  from 
Scotland.  There  were  eight  brothers  who  emi- 
grated to  America  at  the  same  time  and  settled 
in  different  portions  of  the  United  States.  Mr. 
Eldredge's  wife,  and  the  mother  of  our  subject, 
also  was  descended  from  old  New  England  stock, 
her  people  coming  over  in  the  Mayfloiver.  She 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Ruth  Baker,  and  was  a 
most  estimable  lady.  Both  our  subject's  paternal 
and  maternal  ancestors  fought  in  the  War  of  the 
Revolution,  and  also  in  the  War  of  1812. 

Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  on  a  farm  and 
obtained  his  education  from  the  district  schools 
and  at  Mousley's  Academy,  then  the  best  schools 
in  Utah.  He  served  one  summer  in  the  Black 
Hawk  Indian  war  in  Southern  Utah.  He  lived  at 
home  until  twenty-eight  years  of  age,  but  had 
been  engaged  in  business  for  himself  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  previous  to  that  time.  He  has 
crossed  the  plains  a  number  of  times;  his  first 
work  was  freighting  with  o.x  teams  from  the 
Missouri  river  when  he  was  about  nineteen  years 


of  age ;  also  between  the  Missouri  river  and  He- 
lena. Montana,  which  he  continued  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  also  did  considerable  freighting  in 
Nevada,  from  Elko  to  the  White  Pine  mines. 

After  he  quit  the  freighting  business  he  went 
to  Rich  county,  this  State,  and  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  stock  raising.  He  also  took  a  contract  for 
carrying  the  government  mail  between  Evans- 
ton,  Wyoming,  and  Paris,  Idaho,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  about  six  years.  During  his  residence 
in  Rich  county  he  served  two  terms  as  Assessor 
and  Collector  of  that  county.  In  1885  he  moved 
back  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  was  for  six  years 
Deputy  Collector  of  this  county.  During  the  real 
estate  boom  he  took  a  very  active  part  in  the  real 
estate  speculations,  buying  and  selling,  and  made 
some  money  out  of  his  investments.  In  1897  he 
was  made  Deputy  Sheriff  of  Salt  Lake  county, 
which  position  he  still  holds. 

Mr.  Eldredge  was  married  in  1870  to  Miss 
Manna  Pratt,  a  daughter  of  Apostle  Orson  Pratt, 
and  by  this  marriage  has  had  the  following  chil- 
dren :  J.  U.,  Jr. ;  Ruth,  now  starring  in  one  of 
the  leading  theatrical  companies,  of  which  Frank, 
another  child,  is  business  manager ;  Delia,  wife 
of  John  W.  Spiker ;  Lulubell,  a  prominent  music 
teacher  of  the  city ;  Orson,  and  Vera,  at  school. 

He  has  also  been  active  in  Church  work.  In 
1869  he  served  on  a  mission  to  the  Eastern 
States,  and  in  1884  spent  two  years  in  mission- 
ary work  in  the  Southern  States.  He  is  at  this 
time  a  member  of  the  Seventies 


lETER  CLEGG  is  a  native  son  of  Utah, 
having  been  born  in  Tooele  City  Octo- 
ber 15,  1859.  He  has  made  Tooele 
county  his  Home  since  his  birth,  his  boy- 
hood days  having  been  spent  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Tooele  Valley.  He  received  his 
scholastic  education  in  the  district  schools  of  his 
native  county. 

tie  began  for  himself  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
one,  taking  up  the  stock  business,  both  cattle 
and  sheep,  which  has  been  his  principal  voca- 
tion through  life,  and  by  his  judicious  manage- 
ment, keen  business  foresight,  coupled  with  en- 
ergy and  perseverance,  has  won  an  enviable  place 


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in  the  business  worlJ.  and  today  stands  pre-em- 
inently at  the  head  in  his  line  in  Tooele  county. 

He  is  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Grace  (Mcln- 
tyre)  Clegg,  old  residents  of  this  section  of  Utah, 
his  father  being  prominent  in  agricultural  and 
stock  raising  lines,  and  a  biographical  sketch  of 
whom  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Our  subject  married  twice.  The  first  time  to 
Edith  M.  Atkin,  daughter  of  Bishop  Atkin.  by 
which  marriage  he  is  the  father  of  three  children : 
Zella,  Peter  V.  and  Edith  M.  The  mother  of 
these  children  died  on  July  ist,  1890,  and  he 
again  married  in  June,  1895.  to  Miss  Agnes  Mc- 
Laws,  daughter  of  John  and  Johanna  McLaws. 
There  have  been  no  children  by  this  second  mar- 
riage. Biographical  sketches  of  both  the  Atkin 
and  McLaws  families  will  also  be  found  in  an- 
other part  of  this  volume,  they  being  important 
factors  in  tlie  history  of  the  settlement  and  de- 
velopment of  Tooele  county. 

In  politics  Mr.  Clegg  owes  allegiance  to  the  Re- 
publican party,  which  is  the  dominant  one  in  this 
section,  and  under  its  leadership  has  held  a  num- 
ber of  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  which  he  has 
filled  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  people  of 
his  community  and  county,  irrespective  of  re- 
ligious affiliations.  He  was  for  five  years  City 
Marshal  and  County  Collector  for  two  years ;  also 
a  member  of  the  City  Council  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  is  a  friend  of  education,  believing  in 
giving  the  young  people  of  the  State  the  best 
possible  educational  facilities,  and  has  been  a 
member  of  the  School  Board  of  his  district  for 
thirteen  years,  being  a  member  of  the  Board  un- 
der whose  administration  the  magnificent  school 
house  at  Tooele  City,  which  was  erected  at  a  cost 
of  twenty  thousand  dollars,  and  which  is  con- 
ceded to  be  one  of  the  finest  in  the  State,  was 
built.  In  religious  life  he  and  his  family  are 
members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  which  both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clegg  were  born  and  raised,  and 
he  is  at  the  present  time  a  member  of  the  Sev- 
enties, i 

Mr.  Clegg  is  not  only  noted  as  one  of  the 
largest  cattle  and  sheep  men  of  this  county,  but 
is  also  known  as  a  man  who  is  most  careful  of 
the  best  interests  of  his  stock.  He  ranges  his 
large  herds  of  sheep  in  Idaho,  and  keeps  his  cat- 


tle in  Utah,  feeding  the  cattle  during  the  winter 
months,  and  on  his  home  place  is  a  small  village 
of  sheds  and  corrals  where  the  cattle  are  pro- 
tected from  the  rigors  of  the  winter  weather.  He 
is  the  owner  of  a  thousand  acres  of  land,  besides 
having  access  to  the  public  ranges,  and  in  the 
two  lines  gives  employment  to  about  ten  men 
the  year  round.  He  has  a  commodious  and  beau- 
tiful home  in  Tooele  City,  where  he  ranks  among 
the  foremost  business  men  of  that  place,  and  is 
held  in  high  esteem  by  those  who  have  been  as- 
sociated with  him. 


TXDSOR  V.  RICE  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Riceburg,  named  after  his 
family,  near  Montreal,  Canada,  in 
1S50,  and  spent  his  early  life  in  that 
section  of  the  British  Dominion.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Riceburg,  and  in 
what  was  known  as  the  Eastern  Township, 
mostly  settled  by  people  from  the  New  England 
States.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  began  his  act- 
ive career  as  a  mechanical  engineer,  and  fol- 
lowed that  profession  throughout  his  life.  He 
has  made  for  himself  such  a  success  that  he  is 
now  one  of  the  prominent  men  engaged  in  that 
profession  in  Utah.  He  removed  from  Canada 
to  ^lichigan  and  secured  engineering  work  in 
that  State,  where  he  remained  for  eight  years, 
becoming  identified  with  Colonel  William  M. 
Ferry,  and  later  with  Hopkins  and  Ferry.  He 
then  returned  to  his  old  home  in  Riceburg  and 
followed  his  profession  there  until  the  spring  of 
1887,  when  he  came  to  Utah  and  has  since  been 
a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  Park  City.  He 
is  identified  here  with  the  interests  of  E.  P.  Ferry 
in  many  of  the  important  mining  properties  of 
L^tah.  Mr.  Rice,  since  coming  to  Utah,  has  been 
identified  with  all  of  the  leading  mines  of  this 
inter-mountain  region.  He  was  one  of  the  large 
owners  and  promoters  of  the  Anchor  mine,  and 
is  identified  with  the  Quincy,  and  is  also  largely 
identified  with  the  famous  Silver  King  mine,  of 
which  he  has  been  a  director  since  its  organiza- 
tion, and  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  first  or- 
ganizers and  developers.  With  this  latter  mine 
he  has  been  closely  identified  ever  since  it  began 


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operations,  and  has  taken  a  great  interest  in  the 
development  of  Park  City  industries  as  well,  be- 
ing one  of  the  original  organizers  of  the  Steam 
Boat  MiningCompany,and  is  also  manager  of  the 
Water  and  Electric  Light  Company  in  Park  City. 
He  has  also  been  President  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Park  City,  which  position  he  held  for 
some  years,  and  at  the  present  time  is  a  director 
in  that  institution.  In  addition  to  these  enter- 
prises he  is  largely  interested  in  many  of  the  bus- 
iness enterprises  that  go  to  make  up  the  indus- 
trial and  financial  life  of  I'tah,  and  has  aided 
largely  in  the  development  of  its  present  pros- 
perity. 

Mr.  Rice  married  in  Dunham,  Canada,  to  Miss 
M.  Belle  Browne,  daughter  of  David  Browne, 
who  was  of  an  old  English  family.  Mr.  Rice's 
father  was  an  iron  manufacturer,  engaged  in 
business  in  Riceburg,  and  here  spent  the  greater 
portion  of  his  life.  He  was  a  successful  business 
man,  and  one  whose  influence  was  felt  throughout 
his  community.  His  wife,  Permilla  (Vincent) 
Rice,  and  the  mother  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  belonged  to  one  of  the  old  Vermont  fam- 
ilies, who  had  originally  come  from  Scotland. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Rice  is  independent,  and 
does  not  ally  himself  with  either  of  the  domi- 
nant parties,  preferring  to  vote  for  the  men  who 
in  his  judgment  are  best  fitted  to  serve  the  com- 
munity. His  mining  business  has  absorbed  all 
of  his  time  and  attention,  so  that  he  has  never 
had  an  opportunity  to  participate  actively  in  po- 
litical work,  and  has  never  cared  to  be  a  candi- 
date for  any  public  office.  In  fraternal  life  Mr. 
Rice  is  a  member  of  the  A'lasonic  order,  and  a 
member  of  the  Knights  Templar. 

Ever  since  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  Mr. 
Rice  has  made  his  own  way  in  the  world,  and 
the  successful  career  which  he  has  built  for  hhn- 
self,  both  in  Michigan  and  in  the  West,  stands 
as  a  monument  to  his  industry,  application  and 
untiring  energy.  His  varied  mining  interests 
throughout  Utah  and  the  inter-mountain  region 
make  him  one  of  the  largest  mining  operators 
in  the  West.  He  enjoys  the  confidence  and  es- 
teem of  his  business  associates,  and  in  mining 
matters  there  is  no  man  whose  opinion  carries 
greater  weight  than  does  his     His  reputation  has 


not  been  gained  by  mere  chance,  but  by  consistent 
and  constant  hard  work  and  application  to  the 
tasks  which  have  fallen  to  him  to  perform.  He 
is  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  Utah 
and  the  West,  and  enjoys  a  wide  popularity. 


WELBY.  The  different  depart- 
ments of  a  railroad  corporation  might 
well  be  likened  to  the  work-room  of  a 
vast  training  school,  through  which  ev- 
ery man  had  to  pass  before  he  could 
aspire  to  any  position  of  importance  or  responsi- 
bility. While  in  almost  any  line  of  commercial 
enterprise  the  man  who  understands  the  details 
of  his  business  will  stand  the  better  chance  of 
building  up  a  sound  financial  institution,  this 
thorough  knowledge  of  details  is  of  essential  im- 
portance to  the  railroad  man,  and  without  it  he 
can  never  fit  himself  for  the  higher  departments 
of  the  service.  This,  perhaps,  is  the  reason  why 
the  railroad  man  rarely  enters  any  other  line  of 
business ;  it  is  in  itself  the  business  of  a  life-time ; 
there  is  but  the  one  place  to  begin — at  the  bot- 
tom, and  it  requires  many  years  of  training  to 
fit  a  man  for  the  responsible  position  of  head  of 
a  department :  by  the  time  he  is  eligible  for  such 
a  promotion  he  is  usually  of  an  age  when  he 
has  lost,  in  a  measure,  his  adaptability  and  does 
not  care  to  spend  years  in  acquiring  knowledge 
of  a  new  business,  in  which  the  years  of  training 
he  has  already  received  can  be  of  no  practical  use. 
Among  the  men  who  control  and  direct  the  af- 
fairs of  the  western  railroads,  none  is  perhaps 
better  known  or  more  worthy  of  special  commen- 
dation than  A.  E.  Welby,  General  Superintendent 
of  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railway,  and  the 
subject  of  this  article,  who  makes  his  head- 
quarters in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Welby  was  born  February  5,  1855,  at 
Georgetown,  South  .A.frica.  At  the  age  of  sev- 
enteen years  he  entered  the  railroad  service  in 
Canada,  in  May  1872,  as  a  roadman  on  the  Great 
Western  Railway  of  Canada,  which  is  at  this  time 
known  as  the  Grand  Trunk  system.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  entered  the  operating  department 
of  that  road,  and  from  then  until  1876  held  a 
number    of    positions    in    that    department.     On 


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585 


March  i.  1877,  he  entered  the  office  of  the  Chief 
Engineer,  where  he  remained  until  August  13th 
of  that  year,  when  he  severed  his  connection  with 
that  road  and  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  to  the 
Superintendent    of   the    Grand    Trunk    Railway. 
He  held  that  position  until  1881.     On  November 
5th  of  that  year  Air.  Welby  assumed  the  position 
of  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Division  Superintend- 
ent of  the  Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railway  and 
has  since  been  in  the  employ  of  that  road.     In 
June,  1883,  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of 
Chief  Clerk  in  the  General  Superintendent's  of- 
fice, and  in  May,   1887,  was  transferred  to  the 
General  Manager's  office,  where  he  held  the  same 
position   until  June  30,    1890.     Mr.   Welby   had 
during  these  years  shown  such  marked  ability  in 
his  work  and  so  thoroughly  mastered  the  intri- 
cacies of  that  department  of  the  service  that  he 
was,  on  July  i,  1890,  promoted  to  the  responsible 
position    of   Superintendent   of   the   Denver   and 
Rio   Grande   Railway,   where   for  two   years   he 
performed  his   duties   in   such   an   efficient   man- 
ner that,  on  January  i,  1892,  the  company  once 
more   evidenced   their  confidence   in   and   appre- 
ciation of  his  work  by  tendering  him  the  position 
of   General    Superintendent  of   the   road,    which 
position    he    accepted,    and    has    since    continued 
to  fill,  with  credit  to  himself  and  the  entire  satis- 
faction of  the  owners  of  the  road  and  its  patrons. 
Prosperity  has  not  spoiled  Mr.  Welby,  who  is 
one  of  the  most    genial  men  in  the  entire  service. 
His  long  service  with  this  road  has  given  him  a 
wide  acquaintance  among  its  employes,  and  his 
kindly  treatment  of  the  men  under  him  has  won 
for  him  only  highest  words  of  praise.     While  he 
understands  the   importance  of  having  the  best 
possible  service  in  all  departments  and  invariably 
insists  upon  this  kind  of  work,  he  is  not  in  any 
sense  of  the  word  inclined  to  be  arbitrary,  and 
rules  by  kindness,  being  quick  to  note  and  re- 
ward special  merit,  and  dealing  gently  with  those 
who  are  not  so  adaptable  to  their  work.  His  fam- 
ily are  among  the  social  leaders  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  his  daughters  highly  educated  and  ac- 
complished young  ladies.     Mr.  Welby  is  also  a 
familiar  figure  in  business  and  social  circles  of 
the  city,  where  he  is  universally  popular. 


TLLIAM  S.  BURTON.  There  have 
been  many  men  who  have  contrib- 
uted their  quota  to  the  building  up 
of  Utah  and  the  development  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  among  these 
men.  both  by  reason  of  his  service  and  by  reason 
of  the  length  of  time  he  has  given  to  the  work, 
is  William  S.  Burton,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
He  is  the  sou  of  Bishop  Robert  T.  Burton  of 
Salt  Lake  City,  and  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City 
in  1850,  receiving  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  this  city,  and  later  in  the  Deseret  University. 

His  father,  being  Sheriff  of  this  county,  Mr. 
Burton,   who   was   then   at   college   discontinued 
his  studies  to  enter  his  father's  office  as  his  assist- 
ant.    So  successful  was  he  in  this  work  and  so 
adapted  to  the   requirements  of  the  office,   that 
he  served  in  a  similar  capacity  for  several  succes- 
sive Sheriffs,  for  a  term  of  ten  years.     He  was 
called  to  go  on  a  mission  for  the  Church  in  1877, 
and  remained  absent  on  that  work  for  the  ensu- 
ing two  years.    While  there  he  had  charge  of  the 
office  in  Birmingham,  besides  doing  considerable 
work  in  that  field.    He  returned  in  1879  and  was 
appointed  Deputy  County  Assessor  and  Collec- 
tor.   Two  years  later  he  was  elected  Assessor  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  1883.  About  that  time 
a  change  was  made  in  the  political  parties  in  Utah, 
the  People's  and  the  Liberal  parties  agreeing  to 
discontinue    their    fight    on    Mormon    and    Non- 
Alormon  lines  and  join  in  the  national  political 
issues.     In   this   work  of  harmonizing  the  con- 
ditions existing  throughout  the  State  and  in  set- 
tling the   feeling  that   existed  between  the  two 
factions,  Mr.  Burton  was  very  prominent.    Upon 
the  completion  of  his  term  as  Assessor,  he  en- 
tered  the   service   of   the   Rio   Grande   Western 
Railway  as  its  Coal  Agent  and  established  and 
carried  the  work  in  that  department  to  its  pres- 
ent satisfactory  condition.     When  he  took  hold 
of  the  work  this  was  a  very  small  concern,  and 
is  now  one  of  the  largest  in  this  country.     His 
term  of  service  for  this  road  covered  a  period  of 
three  years,  and  his  next  venture  was  the  organi- 
zation of  the  firm  of  Burton,  Gardner  &  Company, 
for  the  purpose  of  transacting  a  lumber  business. 
This    firm    was   very   successful   and   prosperous 


586 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


until  the  financial  panic  swept  over  the  country  in 
1893,  when  it  was  forced  to  suspend.  During 
the  early  days  of  his  life  Mr.  Burton  had  learned 
the  carpenter  trade,  and  has  had  charge  of  all 
the  buildings  erected  by  the  Church  for  the  past 
eight  years.  He  has  also  built  many  of  the  stamp- 
ing mills  in  the  mining  districts  of  this  State.  Per- 
haps his  best  work,  and  the  one  that  will  stand  as 
a  practical  monument  to  his  ability,  is  the  new 
Deseret  Nezvs  building,  which  is  at  the  time  of 
this  writing  almost  completed. 

Mr.  Burton  has  also  given  considerable  atten- 
tion to  the  mining  resources  of  Utah  and  is  at 
present  a  director  and  Secretary  of  the  Saint  Joe 
Mining  Company,  in  addition  to  which  he  has 
other  extensive  interests  in  properties  in  this 
State. 

Mr.  Burton  was  married  in  1871  to  Miss  Julia 
M.  Home,  daughter  of  M.  Isabella  Home.  She, 
however,  lived  but  one  year,  leaving  one  child, 
a  daughter,  Julia,  who  died,  aged  one  year. 
Upon  Mr.  Burton's  return  from  his  missionary 
work  in  England,  in  1879,  he  married  Miss  Eloise 
Crismon,  daughter  of  George  and  Mary  L.  Cris- 
mon,  whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  Mrs.  Burton  was  born  in  San  Bernardino, 
California,  and  she  received  her  education  in 
Deseret  University,  now  the  University  of  Utah, 
and  has  spent  nearly  all  her  life  here.  They  have 
nine  children,  who  are:  Evadne,  Leona,  Theresa, 
Eloise,  Vernico,  Florence,  Ralph,  Helen  and 
George. 

In  the  administration  of  political  affairs  Mr. 
Burton  has  taken  an  extensive  interest,  and  as 
stated  above,  has  several  times  been  elected  as 
an  officer  by  the  county.  He  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Democratic  party.  His  ability 
and  industry  have  won  for  him  an  enviable  ca- 
reer in  the  life  of  the  State,  and  his  integrity  and 
honesty  have  gained  for  him  the  esteem  of  all 
the  people  with  whom  he  has  been  associated. 


this 


ON.     DAVID     KEITH.       The     stran- 
ger who  visits  Utah  at  the  present  time 
must  of  necessity  be  more  or  less  sur- 
prised and   delighted  at  the  vast  work 
of  development  which  has  taken  place 
new   country   during  the  past   half  cen- 
tury.    The  early  pioneers  began  at  the  very  foot 
of  the  ladder  in  the  transformation  of  this  coun- 
try  from  a   wild   and  barren   waste ;  a  land  in- 
habited only  by  hostile  Indians,  who  had  to  be 
guarded  against  and  finally  subdued,  thus  mak- 
ing their  task  two-fold,  not  only  overcoming  the 
natural  conditions  of  the  soil — which  was   so  sun- 
baked that  until  they  devised  the  scheme  of  first 
irrigating  it,  broke  their  plowshares  as  if  they 
had  been  of  stubble — and  making  it  to  blossom 
as  the  rose ;  but  also  to  subdue  and  control    a 
wild,  savage  and  hostile  horde  of  Indians;  and 
while  today  the  sun  shines  gloriously  upon    the 
hills  and  valleys  of  this  grand  country,  lighting 
up  the  grand  panorama  of  valleys  covered  with 
fields  of  golden  grain,  the  cattle  upon  a  thou- 
sand   hills,    the   vast   mining   industries    pouring 
wealth  not  only  into  the  coffers  of  their  owners, 
but  enriching  the  entire  country ;  the  beautiful 
hamlets,  towns  and  cities  which  have  sprung  up 
with   their   fine   public   buildings,    grand   marble 
and  granite  business   blocks ;    the   splendid  and 
perhaps  unsurpassed  system  of  irrigation,  elec- 
tric   car    lines,    telephone    lines     traversing     the 
whole  inter-mountain  region,  and  the  vast  rail- 
road  systems   threading  the   entire  western   do- 
main   and    reaching    into    almost    every    nook 
and     corner    and     playing    a     most     important 
part    in    the    work    of    the    settlement  and  de- 
velopment of  this  western  empire,  at  that  time 
this  most  desirable  state  of  affairs  had   its  ex- 
istence only  in  the  fertile  brain  of  those  hardy 
pioneers  who  came  to  blaze  the  way  that  these 
accessories  of  civilization  might  become  a  real- 
ity.   Among  the  men  who  have  of  late  years  been 
largely  instrumental  in  bringing  about  the  pres- 
ent prosperity  which  this  city  and  State  enjoy ; 
one    who    has    spent    much    time,    strength    and 
money  in  the  effort  to  bring  Utah  to  the  front 
among  her   sister    States,   the   name    of    David 
Keith  must  ever  stand  forth. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


587 


IMr.  Keith  is  a  native  of  Canada.  His  birth 
occurred  at  Mabou,  Cape  Breton,  Canada,  in 
1847.  His  early  boyhood  days  were  spent  in 
that  place,  and  there  he  received  his  scholastic 
education,  remaining  at  home  until  he  was  four- 
teen years  of  age.  When  he  had  reached  this 
age  he  became  imbued  with  a  desire  to  see  some- 
thing of  the  world  on  his  own  account,  and  leav- 
ing home  went  to  the  Isaac  Harbor  gold  dig- 
gings, in  Nova  Scotia.  Here  he  was  employed 
in  the  mines  and  at  different  occupations  for 
the  next  five  years.  When  nineteen  years  of  age 
he  started  out  on  another  exploring  expedition, 
going  first  to  the  Pacific  Coast  and  then  travel- 
ing inland  spent  a  }"ear  prospecting  in  the  Sierra 
Garde  country,  in  California,  and  finally  wound 
up  his  travels  at  Virginia  City,  Nevada.  This 
was  in  the  famous  Comstock  days,  and  at  Cale- 
donia, Nevada,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  Cal- 
edonia mines.  From  there  he  took  charge  of 
the  Overman  shaft.  He  remained  in  Nevada, 
engaged  almost  the  entire  time  in  mining  and 
prospecting,  until  1883,  when  he  abandoned  that 
country  and  came  to  Utah,  going  to  Park  City, 
where  he  was  employed  to  put  in  a  number  of 
new  Cornish  pumps  in  the  Ontario  mines.  Here 
he  was  given  charge  of  the  No.  3  shaft,  and  held 
the  position  of  foreman  for  the  following  eight 
years.  He  was  also  employed  as  superintendent 
and  manager  of  the  Anchor  mine,  occupying  this 
position  for  ten  years. 

In  1888  Mr.  Keith  began  mining  on  his  own 
account,  saving  his  wages  and  investing  his 
money  from  time  to  time  in  new  prospects,  which 
he  formed  companies  to  develop,  and  has  been 
actively  identified  with  more  of  the  leading  min- 
eral properties  of  Utah  than  perhaps  any  other 
man  in  the  State,  spending  an  immense  fortune 
in  development  work,  and  giving  liberal  sup- 
port to  a  great  many  enterprises  that  must  have 
otherwise  gone  to  the  wall,  but  which  with 
proper  manipulation  have  come  to  the  front  as 
large  wealth  producers.  One  of  the  largest  and 
best-known  mines  with  which  he  is  connected 
at  this  time  is  the  Silver  King,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  incorporators,  and  is  at  this  time  pres- 
ident, and  in  which  Senator  Kearns  is  also  heav- 
ily interested.     In  fact,  these  gentlemen  have  al- 


most all  their  mining  interests  together,  Mr. 
Keith  looking  after  his  partner's  interests  during 
the  frequent  absence  of  the  latter. 

He  has  also  invested  heavily  in  real  estate  in 
Salt  Lake  City,  owning  valuable  property  in  the 
heart  of  the  business  district,  and  is  at  this  time 
erecting  a  magnificent  business  block  on  Main 
street,  on  the  site  of  the  old  Walker  Hotel.  Two 
years  ago  he  built  his  present  elegant  home  on 
Brigham  street,  the  most  fashionable  and  de- 
sirable residence  district  in  the  city.  This  home 
was  over  a  year  in  course  of  erection,  and  when 
completed  was  one  which  bore  every  evidence 
of  taste  and  refinement,  equipped  with  every  con- 
venience that  modern  architecture  could  devise 
or  money  supply,  and  is  among  the  beautiful 
homes  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Keith  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City  to 
Miss  Mary  Ferguson,  daughter  of  James  Fer- 
guson. Five  children  have  blessed  this  union — 
two  boys  and  three  girls — Charles,  associated  in 
business  with  his  father;  Etta,  married  to  R.  S. 
Eskridge,  and  living ,  in  Seattle,  Washington ; 
Lillie,  now  Mrs.  A.  C.  Allen,  living  in  this  city ; 
Margaret,  still  in  school,  and  David,  Junior,  at 
home. 

He  has  all  his  life  been  a  staunch  adherent  of 
the  Republican  principles,  but,  unlike  his  part- 
ner. Senator  Kearns,  has  not  participated  in  pol- 
itics to  any  appreciable  extent,  preferring  to  de- 
vote his  entire  time  to  his  large  business  inter- 
ests. His  refraining  from  office,  however,  is  not 
owing  to  any  probability  of  defeat  in  the  event 
of  his  running,  as  he  enjoys  a  wide  popularity 
throughout  the  entire  State  of  Utah,  and  while 
living  in  Summit  county  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  receiving  the 
largest  vote  of  any  member  of  the  Convention. 

In  private  life  Mr.  Keith  is  one  of  the  most 
modest  and  unassuming  of  gentlemen,  shrink- 
ing from  notoriety  of  any  kind,  and  yet  it  is 
perhaps  not  too  much  to  say  that  Utah  owes  as 
much  of  her  present  prosperity  to  his  keen  busi- 
ness ability,  energy  and  readiness  to  assist  any 
worthy  cause,  as  to  any  other  one  man  in  the 
State.  He  is  one  of  the  best-known  men  in  this 
inter-mountain  region,  and  enjoys  the  friendship 
of  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances. 


588 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


RAXKLIX  WHITEHOUSE,  well 
known  to  the  people  of  Utah  as  one  of 
its  most  reliable  officials.  Mr.  White- 
liouse  is  a  native  son  of  Utah  and 
Tooele  county,  having  been  born  at 
Lakeview,  March  i8,  1872.  He  is  the  youngest 
of  a  family  of  six  children.  His  boyhood  days 
were  spent  mostly  on  the  farm,  receiving  his  early 
education  in  the  schools  of  Tooele  City,  and 
completing  his  scholastic  education  at  the 
Brigham  Young  Academy  at  Provo. 

He  is  the  son  of  J.  L.  and  Emma  M.  (Warr) 
"Whitehouse,  who  are  natives  of  England,  the 
father  having  been  born  in  Tipton  and  the  mother 
in  Sommersetshire,  England.  J.  L.  Whitehouse 
came  to  Utah  in  1859,  and  Mrs.  Whitehouse 
came  with  her  people  about  1861.  They  were 
married  in  Grantsville.  but  later  moved  to  Lake- 
view,  where  thev  have  continued  to  live  ever 
since,  and  have  raised  a  family  of  six  children, 
of  whom  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  young- 
est. Their  children  are :  J.  W.,  Pamelia ;  Emma, 
Ellen,  William,  who  died  when  eight  years  of 
age;  and  Franklin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitehouse 
are  members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of 
Latter  Day  Saints,  and  have  raised  their  children 
in  the  same  belief.  They  have  given  their  chil- 
dren all  the  educational  advantages  possible,  and 
the  family  enjoys  a  high  social  standing  in  their 
community. 

Our  subject  is  a  single  man.  In  political  life 
lie  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  since  reaching  his  majority  has  been 
an  active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  that  party.  He 
was  elected  to  the  office  of  Treasurer  and  Collect- 
or of  Tooele  county  on  the  Republican  ticket  in 
1900,  and  has  since  filled  the  office  to  the  entire 
satisfaction  of  the  people  of  the  county,  irrespec- 
tive of  party  affiliations. 

Mr.  Whitehouse  is  a  faithful  and  consistent 
member  of  the  Church  in  which  he  was  raised, 
and  for  many  years  past  has  been  active  and 
prominent  in  its  work.  He  was  called  and  set 
apart  October  23,  1897,  to  serve  on  a  mission  for 
the  Church  in  England,  where  he  remained  for 
two  years,  laboring  in  the  Burmingham  Confer- 
ence.    He  also  labored  for  a  vear  as  a  home  mis- 


sionary,and  at  this  time  is  President  of  the 
Men's  Mutual  Improvement  Association, 
active  worker  in  the  Sunday  School.  Mr. 
house  has  lived  in  this  vicinity  all  his  life, 
though  but  a  young  man  his  life  thus 
given  promise  of  a  very  successful  future, 
energetic  and  ambitious,  and  his  friends 
for  him  a  brilliant  career. 


Young 
and  an 
White- 
and  al- 
far  has 
He  is 
predict 


<  )HX  GILLESPIE.  Linked  with  the 
history  and  development  of  Utah  are 
the  names  of  a  few  whose  great  nat- 
ural force  of  character  and  indomitable 
energy  have  seemed  to  push  to  a  suc- 
cessful termination  the  various  enterprises  and 
institutions  planned  for  her  progress.  Aside 
from  their  ratings  as  citizens  and  general  pro- 
moters of  public  good,  they  have  in  the  minds 
of  the  people  an  added  interest,  growing  out  of 
an  e.Kistence  crowded  with  incidents  of  a  more 
or  less  adventurous  nature.  That  the  early  pio- 
neers of  L^tah  endured  many  hardships  and  sur- 
mounted many  difficulties,  no  one  can  doubt.  The 
life  of  John  Gillespie  has  been  no  exception  to 
this  rule.  His  memory  of  the  early  days  is  re- 
plete with  thrilling  episodes.  His  position  as 
an  officer  during  the  early  times  furnishes  ma- 
terial for  many  a  drama,  in  which  the  lawless 
desperadoes  of  this  inter-mountain  region  were 
the  chief  actors.  He  and  his  friends  were  the 
vindicators  of  the  strong  arm  of  the  law.  Mr. 
Gillespie  has  spent  the  greater  portion  of  his  life 
in  Utah,  more  especially  in  Tooele  county,  be- 
ing among  the  very  first  to  settle  in  Tooele  City, 
and  today  is  one  of  the  most  highly  honored  and 
respected  citizens  of  that  county. 

John  Gillespie  was  born  in  the  City  of  Glas- 
gow, Scotland,  March  27,  1830,  and  is  the  son 
of  Peter  and  Martha  (Scott)  Gillespie,  both  na- 
tives of  that  country,  the  mother  being  born  in 
the  City  of  Denney,  Stotlandshire,  and  the  fa- 
ther near  that  place.  Peter  Gillespie  was  a  stone 
mason  by  trade,  and  taught  his  sons  the  same 
trade.  He  and  his  wife  became  converts  to  the 
teachings  of  the  Chqrch  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Lat- 
ter Day  Saints,  and  were  baptized  into  that  faith 
in    Scotland,   all   of   the   children   embracing  the 


BIOGRAPHICAC    RECORD. 


589 


same  faith  as  they  grew  up.  Our  subject  was 
baptized  in  1843.  ^'i  1848  the  father  came  to 
America,  settling  in  New  Orleans.  His  wife, 
three  sons,  of  whom  our  subject  was  one,  and  one 
daughter,  came  the  following  year,  and  they  later 
brought  four  other  children  over,  thus  complet- 
ing the  family  circle.  The  father  and  older  sons 
worked  for  some  time  at  New  Orleans,  follow- 
ing their  trade  as  stone  masons,  and  were  very 
successful.  They  later  went  to  Saint  Louis,  Mis- 
souri, where  they  worked  at  their  trade  for 
several  months,  and  then  moved  to  Alton,  Illi- 
nois, and  took  a  contract  from  the  Alton  rail- 
road to  do  the  masonry  work  and  build  the  sta- 
tions for  a  distance  of  seventy-five  miles  from 
Alton  tow'ards  Chicago.  This  work  they  com- 
pleted in  the  spring  of  1852.  After  the  comple- 
tion of  this  contract  our  subject  came  to  Utah, 
leaving  the  family  in  Alton.  He  crossed  the 
plains  in  company  with  Captain  Tedwell,  and 
arrived  on  the  loth  day  of  September  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  where  he  remained  until  March  of 
the  following  year,  being  employed  in  cutting 
stone  for  the  Temple,  which  was  then  in  course 
of  erection.  In  exchange  for  his  labor  he  re- 
ceived ten  pounds  of  flour  every  two  or  three 
weeks,  and  a  large  portion  of  the  time  worked 
on  a  straight  potato  diet.  In  1853  our  subject 
bought  a  large  farm  in  Tooele  county,  and  in 
the  fall  of  that  year  was  joined  by  his  parents 
and  the  othpr  members  of  the  family,  who  all 
went  to  live  on  this  farm,  where  the  father  and 
mother  spent  the  rest  of  their  lives,  the  father 
dying  about  thirty  years  ago  and  the  mother  dy- 
ing about  thirty-five  years  ago. 

In  1853  our  subject  enlisted  as  a  cavalryman 
under  Colonel  Robert  T.  Burton,  and  on  July 
1st  was  ordered  south  into  Iron  county  to  fight 
Indians,  under  Colonel  William  H.  Kimball. 
During  the  skirmish  which  they  had  at  this  time 
they  captured  six  Indians  and  forty  head  of  cat- 
tle which  the  Indians  had  driven  off.  These 
they  delivered  at  Salt  Lake  City.  The  Indians 
also  gave  the  settlers  at  Tooele  City  considera- 
ble trouble,  and  they  were  compelled  to  build  a 
wall  eighteen  feet  high  around  the  settlement 
on  three  sides,  as  a  protection  against  these  ma- 
rauders,  in   which   work    Mr.    Gillespie  assisted. 


In  1857  our  subject  was  recalled  to  Salt  Lake 
City  to  cut  stone  for  the  Temple,  and  moved  his 
family  to  that  place,  remaining  there  until  the 
Johnston  army  troubles,  when  he  was  sent  out  to 
meet  the  army,  under  command  of  Colonel  Rob- 
ert T.  Burton,  and  during  this  time  had  many 
thrilling  experiences.  He  served  most  the  time 
as  a  spy,  and  on  one  occasion,  in  company  with 
three  other  men,  went  as  far  as  Fort  Laramie, 
attired  as  miners.  There  they  found  Johnston's 
army,  and  camped  with  them  one  night,  claiming 
to  be  on  their  way  East  from  the  gold  fields  of 
California.  They  learned  that  it  was  the  inten- 
tion of  Johnston  to  push  on  to  Utah  and  extend 
no  mercy  to  Brigham  Young  or  his  followers, 
and  without  exciting  suspicion  managed  to  re- 
trace their  way  to  the  camp  of  Colonel  Burton, 
and  make  their  report.  They  were  later  with 
Lot  Smith  when  he  cut  off  a  part  of  the  sup- 
plies of  Johnston's  army  and  drove  off  fourteen 
hundred  head  of  cattle.  In  1859  he  went  to 
Camp  Floyd  and  biiilt  a  number  of  houses  for 
the  officers.  He  had  with  him  a  very  fine  race 
horse,  to  which  one  of  the  officers  took  a  great 
fancy,  and  for  which  he  paid  Mr.  Gillespie  seven 
hundred  dollars.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  was 
elected  Sheriff  of  Tooele  county  and  Marshal 
of  Tooele  City,  serving  in  both  capacities  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  having  many  exciting  and 
hazardous  experiences,  robbery  and  murder  being 
common  in  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  of 
Utah.  It  was  while  he  was  Sheriff  that  Rob- 
ert Sutton  was  shot  on  October  10,  1866,  Mr. 
Gillespie  selecting  five  men  to  do  the  firing,  one 
of  whose  guns  ended  the  condemned  man's  life. 
In  1863  he  was  appointed  and  commissioned  a 
Major,  by  General  Charles  Durkee. 

Mr.  Gillespie  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City 
November  16,  1852,  to  Catherine  Ross,  daughter 
of  Daniel  and  Agnes  (McKellar)  Ross,  and 
twelve  children  were  the  result  of  this  marriage, 
of  whom  seven  sons  and  two  daughters  are  now 
living.  They  are,  Agnes,  now  Mrs.  Gillette,  of 
Tooele  City ;  Peter,  living  in  Tooele  county ; 
John.  William,  Daniel,  Jaines,  Alexander  and 
Walter,  all  living  in  Tooele  county,  and  Mar- 
garet, now  Mrs.  .Arthur  Bryan,  living  in  Butte, 
Montana,     .\lthough    Mr.   Gillespie  has   spent   a 


590 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


considerable  portion  of  his  time  on  the  farm  he 
bought  wlien  first  coming  to  Tooele  county,  his 
principal  life  work  has  been  that  of  a  mason,  and 
a  large  number  of  the  houses  and  business  places 
of  Tooele  and  Grantsville  have  been  built  by 
him.  He  also  assisted  in  building  the  towns  of 
Saint  Joseph  and  Overton.  He  retired  from  act- 
ive business  life  about  twenty  years  ago. 

]Mr.  Gillespie  has  always  been  prominent  and 
active  in  Church  work  during  his  life  in  Utah, 
and  in  the  spring  of  1868  went  to  Cheyenne, 
Wyoming,  with  a  train  of  one  hundred  and  two 
ox  teams,  to  meet  a  company  of  emigrants  com- 
ing to  Utah.  This  trip  consumed  seven  or  eight 
months.  He  was  also  called  to  do  colonization 
work  in  the  Big  Muddy  country  in  southeastern 
Nevada,  in  1868,  after  his  return  from  Chey- 
enne, and  remained  in  Nevada  three  years,  doing 
efficient  work  for  the  Church  in  that  place.  He 
was  for  many  years  a  Ward  teacher  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  High  Council  of  his  Stake,  being  also 
President  of  the  High  Priests'  Quorum.  He 
has  always  been  a  firm  believer  in  the  doctrine 
of  polygamy,  and  after  the  passage  of  the  Ed- 
munds-Tucker act  served  one  term  in  the  pen- 
itentiary for  unlawful  co-habitation,  rather  than 
renounce  the  teachings  of  his  Church.  His  fam- 
ily are  all  members  of  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
his  eldest  son,  Peter,  served  for  two  years  on  a 
mission  to  the  northwestern  States,  being  called 
in  1897. 

In  politics  Mr.  Gillespie  is  a  staunch  Repub- 
lican, and  has  been  a  member  of  that  party  since 
its  organization  in  this  State.  He  has  been  act- 
ive in  political  aflfairs  in  his  community,  having 
been  a  member  of  the  City  Council  most  of  the 
time  since  the  City  was  incorporated,  January 
15,  1850.  He  also  assisted  in  surveying  the  city 
in  1853.  In  1901  Mr.  Gillespie  went  on  a  pleas- 
ure trip  to  Scotland,  traveling  over  sixteen  thou- 
sand miles  to  revisit  the  scenes  and  friends  of 
his  early  life,  and  while  there  secured  a  gene- 
alogy of  the  family. 

He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  substantial  men 
of  his  county,  and  is  widely  known  for  his  many 
kindly  deeds  of  charity.  He  has  always  tried  to 
deal  fairly  with  all  men,  and  has  ever  been  true 
to  his  convictions  of  right  and  duty,  giving  freely 


of  his  time  in  the  interests  of  both  Church  and 
State,  and  today  there  is  no  man  who  stands 
higher  in  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  his  fel- 
low men  than  does  John  Gillespie. 


OLONEL  NEPHI  W.  CLAYTON. 
So  closely  interwoven  with  the  history 
and  development  of  Salt  Lake  City 
and  vicinity,  and  indeed  of  the  entire 
State,  is  the  life  record  of  Nephi  W. 
CIa\ton,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  that  to  com- 
pile a  work  of  this  kind  without  a  proper  men- 
tion of  the  prominent  and  important  part  which 
Colonel  Clayton  has  played  in  the  affairs  of  Utah 
would  prove  but  a  feeble  effort.  He  has  been 
actively  identified  with  many  of  the  enterprises 
in  this  State,  from  the  developing  of  the  mines 
to  the  opening  up  of  the  salt  industry  and  the 
building  of  the  railroads.  No  man  has  given 
more  of  his  time  or  means  towards  promoting 
the  growth  and  development  of  this  country,  or 
is  better  or  more  favorably  known  throughout 
the  entire  inter-mountain  region  than  he. 

Colonel  Clayton  was  born  in  this  city,  October 
8,  1855,  and  is  the  son  of  William  and  Augusta 
(Bradock)  Clayton.  William  Clayton  was  born 
in  England,  July  17,  1814.  He  emigrated  to 
America  when  but  a  young  man,  and  settled  in 
Nauvoo,  where  he  became  private  secretary  to 
the  Prophet,  Joseph  Smith,  and  later  endured 
all  the  trials  and  persecutions  to  which  the 
Saints  were  subjected  in  that  city.  He  was  one 
of  the  party  of  one  hundred  and  forty-seven  pio- 
neers who  crossed  the  plains  with  Brigham 
Young,  and  landed  in  the  Salt  Lake  valley  on 
July  24,  1847.  After  coming  to  Salt  Lake  City 
he  was  for  years  chief  clerk  in  the  Tithing  Of- 
fice, and  was  later  secretary  of  the  Zion  Co-oper- 
ative Mercantile  Institution,  of  which  he  was 
one  of  the  original  founders.  He  was  later 
elected  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts  of  the  Ter- 
ritory of  LUah,  which  position  he  continued  to 
fill  for  sixteen  years.  He  also  acquired  notori- 
ety from  the  invention  of  a  device  for  measuring 
distances ;  it  being  attached  to  the  wheel  of  a 
vehicle,   each   revolution   of  the   wheel  recording 


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a  certain  distance.  In  this  way  tlic  distance  from 
the  Missouri  river  to  Salt  Lake  City  was  meas- 
ured. He  died  on  December  4,  1879,  while  still 
an  incumbent  of  the  office  of  Public  Auditor, 
being  mourned  by  the  entire  State.  His  wife 
was  a  native  of  England,  and  came  to  Nauvoo 
with  her  parents,  at  which  place  she  met  and 
later  married   Colonel   Clayton's   father. 

Our  subject  grew  up  and  received  his  educa- 
tion from  the  common  schools  of  Utah,  starting 
out  to  make  his  own  living  at  the  tender  age 
of  thirteen  years,  since  which  time  he  has  prac- 
tically made  his  own  way  in  the  world.  In  1873 
he  was  called  by  his  father  to  assist  him  in  his 
office,  where  he  became  thoroughly  posted  in  the 
detail  work  connected  therewith,  and  became 
proficient  in  drawing  up  all  kinds  of  legal  instru- 
ments. In  1876  he  was  elected  Territorial  Li- 
brarian, and  in  1878  succeeded  his  father  in  the 
office  of  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts  and  Re- 
corder of  Marks  and  Brands,  which  offices  he 
held  until  1889,  when  the  law  under  which  he 
was  elected  was  declared  by  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  United  States  void,  and  the  appointees 
of  the  then  Governor  succeeded  him. 

In  1887  Colonel  Clayton  became  identified 
with  the  salt  industry,  and  was  instrumental  in 
launching  the  Island  Salt  Company.  In  three 
years  the  company  made  such  a  showing  that 
Eastern  people  became  interested  and  made  the 
owners  an  oiifer  which  they  could  not  refuse,  and 
it  was  sold  to  Kansas  City  people  in  1890  for  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars. 

In  1892  the  projectors  of  the  Salt  Lake  and 
Los  Angeles  Railway  prevailed  upon  Colonel 
Clayton  to  take  charge  of  the  construction  of 
the  line  from  this  city  to  the  lake,  and  he  later 
became  the  manager  of  the  company.  The  road 
was  completed  in  that  year,  and  in  January,  1893, 
the  first  piling  was  driven  for  the  famous  Salt- 
air  pavilion,  which  was  completed  July  i,  1893, 
and  thrown  open  to  the  public.  The  building 
of  the  Salt .  Lake  and  Los  Angeles  Railway 
brought  into  existence  the  Inter-Mountain  Salt 
Company,  located  along  its  line  near  Saltair,  and 
in  addition  to  the  management  of  the  railroad 
and  beach.  Colonel  Clayton  became  manager  of 
the  salt  company,  which  formed  the  present  In- 


land Crystal  Salt  Company,  of  which  he  is  still 
manager. 

Upon  the  death  of  George  Q.  Cannon,  he  be- 
came manager  of  the  Brigham  Young  Trust 
Company,  and  later  President  of  the  D.  O.  Cal- 
der's  Sons  Company.  The  various  offices  which 
the  Colonel  at  present  occupies  are :  Manager  of 
the  Inland  Crystal  Salt  Company,  President  and 
Jvlanager  of  the  Brigham  Young  Trust  Company, 
and  of  the  Clayton  Land  and  Cattle  Company; 
also  President  of  the  D.  O.  Calder's  Sons  Com- 
pany. 

In  1884  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss 
Sybella  W.  Johnson,  youngest  daughter  of  M. 
W.  Johnson,  who  came  to  Utah  in  1866.  By 
this  union  five  children  have  been  born — Sybella 
W.,  Charles  C,  Lawrence  H.,  Irving  E.  and 
Robert  McMinn. 

In  political  life  Colonel  Clayton  has  never 
given  his  allegiance  to  any  of  the  dominant  par- 
ties, preferring  to  use  his  own  judgment  and 
support  the  man  whom  he  considers  best  fitted 
for  the  office. 


.\LTER  A.  DIMOND.  One  of 
the  best-known  families  in  the  vi- 
cinity of  Murray,  is  that  of  the  Di- 
monds,  all  well-to-do  and  represen- 
tative business  men  in  the  agricul- 
tural and  live  stock  lines.  Sketches  of  two 
brothers  of  the  gentleman  whose  name  heads  this 
article  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

Walter  A.  Dimond  was  born  at  Crewkerne, 
Sommersetshire,  England,  July  18,  1872,  and 
is  the  son  of  Henry  and  Elizabeth  (Weber)  Di- 
mond. Our  subject's  father  was  born  in  the 
same  place  as  his  son,  on  December  20,  1829, 
and  his  father  and  mother  were  Abraham  and 
Elizabeth  (Munford)  Dimond.  The  senior 
Dimond  grew  to  manhood  in  the  town  of  his 
birth,  and  there  lived  until  he  came  to  America 
with  his  family.  He  spent  many  years  at  the 
lumber  sawing  business,  and  after  meeting  with 
an  accident  which  cost  him  an  eye^  he  turned 
his  attention  to  weaving,  and  followed  that  until 
he  came  to  Utah.    He  married  in  his  native  town 


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on  January  4.  1856,  to  Elizabeth  Jane  Weber, 
whose  parents  were  William  and  Hannah 
(Spearing)  Weber.  Nine  children  were  born 
of  this  marriage — William  S.,  Susan  A.,  Eliza- 
beth J.,  died  at  the  age  of  three  and  a  half 
years ;  Mercy  M.,  Robert  E.,  Thomas  W.,  George 
H.,  died  aged  three  and  a  half  years ;  Walter 
A.,  our  subject;  Charles  H.,  died  at  the  age  of 
four  years  and  nine  months. 

Our  subject  was  eight  years  old  when  the 
family  came  to  Utah  in  1880,  and  his  first  home 
was  in  West  Jordan  Ward,  where  the  family 
lived  two  years  and  then  removed  to  the  present 
home  on  the  Redwood  road,  where  our  subject 
grew  to  manhood.  It  became  necessary  for  him 
to  begin  for  himself  at  a  tender  age,  and  as  a 
consequence  his  education  was  somewhat  neg- 
lected along  the  lines  of  book  learning,  but  be- 
ing a  close  student  of  human  nature  and  a  wide 
observer,  he  has  in  a  large  measure  made  up 
for  the  deficiency.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years 
he  began  herding  sheep,  and  continued  at  that 
occupation,  hoarding  his  earnings,  until  he 
reached  his  nineteenth  year,  when  he  went  into 
partnership  with  his  brother,  Thomas  W.  Feel- 
ing that  he  could  now  devote  a  little  more  time 
to  study,  he  spent  some  time  in  different  edu- 
cational institutions  in  Utah,  attending  the  Brig- 
ham  Young  Academy  at  Provo,  the  Latter  Day 
Saints'  College  of  Salt  Lake  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  Utah,  completing  his  education  after 
reaching  maturity,  with  the  money  which  he  had 
himself  earned  through  long  years  of  hard  la- 
bor and  self-sacrifice.  All  the  family  have  set- 
tled in  this  neighborhood  and  are  among  the  rep- 
resentative people  of  the  county,  commanding 
the  high  esteem  of  all  who  know  them.  Two 
brothers — Robert  E.  and  Thomas  W. — are  asso- 
ciated with  our  subject  in  the  sheep  business, 
under  the  style  of  Dimond  Brothers.  They  have 
about  eighteen  thousand  head  of  sheep  on  the 
range.  Each  of  the  boys  owns  his  own  home 
and  is  in  good  financial  condition.  That  of  our 
subject  consists  of  ninety-six  acres  of  well-im- 
proved land,  on  which  he  has  a  comfortable 
home.  The  utmost  harmony  has  always  pre- 
vailed among  the  brothers  in  their  business  re- 
lations, and  they  are  setting  an  example  of  broth- 


erly love  and  loyalty  which  many  young  people 
might  piofitably  follow. 

Mr.  Dimond  has  never  married.  He  lives 
at  home  with  his  parents,  to  whom  he  is  deeply 
attached,  and  proposes  to  care  for  them  while 
they  live.  He,  like  his  brothers,  is  a  Republi- 
can in  politics,  but  no  office  seeker,  devoting  his 
entire  time  to  his  private  interests,  and  to  the 
work  of  the  Church.  With  the  exception  of  the 
oldest  sister,  Susan,  the  entire  family  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church.  Susan  is  still  a 
resident  of  England,  where  her  husband,  T.  E. 
Humphries,  is  supervisor  of  one  of  the  London 
postoffices.  Mrs.  Humphries  is  at  this  time  vis- 
iting her  parents  and  other  relatives  in  Utah. 
Our  subject  and  his  brothers,  Robert  and 
Thomas,  made  a  visit  to  their  native  home  in 
1900,  during  which  time  they  also  visited  the 
Paris  Exposition.  They  are  all  extensive  travel- 
ers, and  have  gathered  a  fund  of  useful  and  en- 
tertaining knowledge.  Of  a  most  kindly  and 
hospitable  nature,  the  stranger  is  at  once  made 
at  home  among  them,  and  carries  away  only  the 
pleasantest   memories. 


l.MMON  JOSEPH  BRUNEAU,  one 
(if  the  prominent  and  highly  respected 
citizens  of  Tooele  City,  while  yet  a 
voung  man,  having  only  just  passed 
the  twenty-sixth  mile-stone  in  his  life's 
journey,  has  thoroughly  demonstrated  his  ability 
as  an  able  business  man.  Mr.  Bruneau  was  the 
original  promoter  of  the  Mercur  Abstract  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  holds  the  office  of  Manager. 
His  company  is  the  oldest  and  largest  of  its  kind 
in  the  county,  and  under  Mr.  Bruneau's  manage- 
ment, thoroughly  reliable. 

Mr.  Bruneau  is  a  Utahn,  having  been  born  in 
Lakeview,  Tooele  county.  May  28,  1876,  and  is 
the  son  of  Moses  H.  and  Sarah  Bell  (Tolman) 
Bruneau.  Our  subject's  father  was  a  native  of 
France,  having  been  born  near  Paris,  and  in  his 
native  land  was  a  restaurant  keeper.  He  traveled 
extensively  before  coming  to  L'tah,  visiting  al- 
most every  country  on  the  globe,  and  visited  Cal- 
ifornia and  Nevada  in  the  LTnited  States  before 
settling    in    Utah.      He    settled    in    Tooele    City, 


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where  he  was  married,  and  where  he  still  re- 
sides. Of  this  marriage  four  children  were 
born — .-Mice  R..  Eugenie,  Ammon  Joseph,  our 
subject ;  and  Hannah  Belle,  who  is  now  serving 
as  Deputy  County  Clerk,  under  her  brother.  The 
mother  died  in  1878. 

Our  subject  grew  up  in  Utah,  spending  eleven 
years  of  his  life  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  two  in 
Wyoming.  His  education  was  received  in  the 
schools  of  L'tah,  graduating  in  1893  from  All 
Hallow's  college,  of  Salt  Lake  City,  with  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Arts. 

He  was  married  in  Salt  Lake  City,  June  22, 
1896,  to  Aliss  Bessie  IMarshall,  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Rhoda  Marshall,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage has  had  three  children— Ralph  E.,  Rhoda 
and  Ruth. 

In  politics  Mr.  Bruneau  is  a  staunch  Republi- 
can, and  while  a  young  man.  he  has  for  a  number 
of  years  been  active  in  the  political  life  of  his 
community,  in  which  the  Republicans  have  the 
controlling  vote,  five  of  the  county  offices  being 
at  this  time  filled  by  members  of  that  party,  with 
the  exception  of  one  Democrat  among  the 
County  Commissioners.  Mr.  Bruneau  was 
elected  County  Clerk  in  1898  and  re-elected  in 
1900.  Prior  to  this  time  he  had  filled  the  office  of 
Deputy  County  Recorder  for  eighteen  months, 
and  has  also  been  Deputy  County  Clerk  for  six 
months.  The  county  built  a  splendid  brick  build- 
ing in  Tooele  City  at  a  cost  of  sixteen  thousand 
dollars,  which  was  completed  during  our  sub- 
ject's tenure  of  office,  and  in  which  the  county 
offices  are  located.  While  his  life  has  largely 
been  devoted  to  politics,  this  has  not  been  hi?  only 
occupation.  The  abstract  business  in  which  lie 
is  the  leading  spirit,  and  which  is  carried  on 
under  his  able  management,  is  noted  through- 
out the  State  as  a  model  enterprise  of  the  kind. 

He  is  also  interested  in  the  fire  insurance  and 
loan  business,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  Tooele 
county's  most  agrressive  and  successful  young 
business  men,  and  his  already  well-known  busi- 
ness talent  gives  promise  of  a  brilliant  future. 
He  is  the  owner  of  a  beautiful  brick  residence 
in  Tooele  City,  where  he  makes  his  home,  and. 
he  and  the  members  of  his  familv  are  devout  ad- 


herents of  the  Catholic  Church.  His  public  life 
has  brought  him  prominently  before  the  people 
of  the  community  and  State  and  he  has  won  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has 
been  associated,  both  in  business,  private  and  pub- 
lic life. 


(  )HN  HICKEY.  In  looking  back  to  the 
beginning  of  railroading  in  America  and 
viewing  the  present  vastness  of  the  rail- 
road systems  which  gird  the  entire 
United  States,  and  bring  the  West  as 
close  tu  the  East  as  Philadelphia  was  to  Rich- 
mond a  century  ago,  many  important  factors  in 
the  development  of  this  aid  to  civilization  are 
almost  lost  to  sight.  The  development  of  the 
railroad  corporations  has  been  likened  to  that  of 
an  army  of  a  prosperous  and  growing  nation,  and 
in  some  respects  the  comparison  is  good.  Just 
as  in  an  army  there  are  separate  heads  of  im- 
portant divisions,  each  reporting  to  a  higher  head, 
and  finally  to  the  commanding  general,  so  in  the 
railroad  the  work  is  divided.  The  care  of  the 
roadbed,  the  construction  of  new  track,  the  build- 
ing of  locomotives  and  rolling  stock,  and  the  gov- 
ernment of  its  financial  aftairs  are  confided  to 
men  who  have  by  their  special  fitness  proved 
themselves,  after  long  experience,  capable  of  prop- 
erlv  discharging  the  responsibilities  of  the  duties 
allotted  to  them.  The  ever-quickening  demand 
for  shorter  means  of  communication  between  im- 
portant centers  has  led  rapidly  to  the  develop- 
ment of  the  heavier  rail  and  larger  locomotive, 
and  more  commodious  equipment.  The  haste 
with  which  Americans  live  and  desire  to  accom- 
plish whatever  they  attempt  in  the  shortest  space 
possible,  is  thoroughly  exemplified  in  the  work 
of  the  railroads.  It  may  well  be  said  that  a  rail- 
road chief  is  a  man  who  is  constantly  engaged 
in  the  work  of  elimination  and  revision,  and  con- 
stantly striving  to  improve  and  increase  the  fa- 
cilities of  his  road ;  not  only  to  reduce  to  the 
minimum  the  expense  of  operation,  but  also  to 
increase  the  traffic  and  afford  to  the  traveling 
public  and  to  the  industrial  world  better  facili- 
ties   for    the   transaction   of   their   business.      In 


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the  work  of  the  railroad  there  is  no  more  im- 
portant position  than  that  of  general  superin- 
tendent of  motive  power,  nor  one  which  requires 
a  wider  training  or  a  broader  experience  in  rail- 
road work.  To  the  superintendent  of  this  de- 
partment is  entrusted  the  care  of  the  rolling  stock, 
and  especially  of  the  locomotives,  and  it  is  a  part 
of  his  business  to  see  that  the  equipment  of  the 
road  not  only  meets  the  demands  made  upon  it, 
but  keeps  in  advance  of  the  present  progress.  To 
this  responsible  position  in  the  Rio  Grande  West- 
ern Railway  was  called  a  man  who,  by  his  pre- 
vious experience  as  superintendent  of  the  motive 
power  and  machinery  of  the  entire  Northern  Pa- 
cific system,  showed  his  ability  to  cope  with  and 
successfully  surmount  all  the  difficulties  which 
present  themselves  in  that  important  branch  of 
the  railroad  service. 

John  Hickey  was  born  in  Painesville,  Ohio, 
on  March  24,  1844,  and  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  common  schools  of  that  place,  later 
going  to  Toronto,  Canada,  and  taking  a  course 
in  the  Upper  Canada  College,  where  he  prac- 
tically completed  his  scholastic  education.  He 
had  always  had  a  strong  penchant  for  machin- 
ery, and  intended  to  follow  that  as  his  life  work. 
His  first  employment  was  secured  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  where  he  was  employed  in  constructing 
machinery  for  steam  boats.  He  there  served  his 
apprenticeship  as  machinist,  and  then  turned  his 
attention  to  railroad  mechanical  work,  and  be- 
came identified  with  the  Chicago,  Burlington  and 
Quincy  Railroad  Company,  at  Aurora,  where  he 
was  employed  as  foreman  of  the  locomotive  re- 
pair shops  for  a  number  of  years.  He  then  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Chicago  and  Northwest- 
ern as  Master  Mechanic,  in  their  Chicago  avenue 
shop,  in  Chicago,  serving  in  this  latter  capacity 
for  a  number  of  years.  His  ability  had  already 
marked  him  as  one  of  the  rising  master  me- 
chanics in  railroad  life,  and  he  was  secured  by 
the  Milwaukee,  Lake  Shore  and  Western  Rail- 
road as  its  General  Master  Mechanic,  remaining 
with  that  company  for  six  years,  after  which  time 
he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  the  motive 
power  and  rolling  stock  of  the  entire  Northern 
Pacific  system.     He  had  become  one  of  the  lead- 


ing men  in  his  business  in  the  country,  and  was 
forced,  after  occupying  this  later  position  for 
seven  years,  to  relinquish  it,  owing  to  the  ill 
health  of  his  family.  While  he  was  engaged  in  this 
latter  position,  six  of  his  seven  children  were  at- 
tacked with  disease,  which  proved  fatal,  and  he 
decided  to  come  to  the  West  and  seek  a  more 
healthful  climate.  In  1897  he  came  to  Salt  Lake 
and  was  appointed  General  Master  Mechanic  of 
the  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway,  which  posi- 
tion he  has  held  ever  since.  So  prominent  had 
he  become  in  railroad  life  that  he  was  appointed 
one  of  the  judges  of  the  transportation  depart- 
ment of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  held 
in  Chicago  in  1893,  and  served  with  distinction 
in  that  capacity.  He  has  held  a  membership  in 
the  American  Railway  Master  Mechanics'  Asso- 
ciation for  a  number  of  years,  and  has  served  as 
its  president  for  two  years. 

Mr.  Hickey  married  in  Michigan,  in  1874,  to 
Miss  Helen  Melody,  a  native  of  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, and  by  this  marriage  they  have  had  seven 
children,  six  of  whom  are  dead,  four  of  them 
having  died  after  reaching  maturity.  Their  one 
living  child,  D.  D.  Hickey,  is  at  present  em- 
ployed as  a  draughtsman  in  the  mechanical  de- 
partment of  the  Rio  Grande  Western  Railway. 

Mr.  Hickey  comes  from  a  family  of  railroad 
men,  his  father,  D.  D.  Hickey,  having  been  ac- 
tive in  the  railroad  business  all  his  life,  serving 
for  a  long  time  in  the  capacity  of  foreman  in  the 
wood  working  department  of  the  Chicago,  Rock 
Island  and  Pacific  Railroad.  His  wife,  Mary 
Helen  (Burke)  Hickey,  and  the  mother  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  also  from 
an  old  Michigan  family.  The  Hickey  fam- 
ily settled  in  the  East  in  the  early  days,  and  were 
originally  of  an  old  Scotch-Irish  stock,  and  a 
number  of  Mr.  Hickey's  relatives  in  Scotland  are 
today  at  the  head  of  large  shipbuilding  and  rail- 
road industries  in  that  country. 

The  successful  career  which  Mr.  Hickey  has 
Iniilt  up  in  his  present  position  as  General  Su- 
perintendent of  Motive  Power  is  but  a  continu- 
ation of  the  work  that  he  had  done  in  the  East. 
Throughout  the  railroad  world  he  is  known  as 
one  of  the  most  experienced  and  learned  men  in 


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his  branch  of  railroading,  and  he  enjoys  the  confi- 
dence and  esteem  not  only  of  the  prominent  rail- 
road men  of  the  country,  but  also  of  the  men 
under  his  charge,  who  regard  him  as  a  friend 
and  helper. 


EORGE  A.  SHEETS.  In  the  affairs 
along  the  lines  of  public  service  in  Salt 
Lake  City  there  is  no  more  popular 
or  efficient  man  than  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  nor  one  who  has  more  satisfac- 
torily discharged  the  duties  allotted  to  him.  He 
has  risen  to  the  front  ranks  of  that  important 
force  by  virtue  of  his  own  ability  and  the  pains- 
taking industry  which  he  brings  to  the  solution 
of  every  task  allotted  to  him. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  July  25,  1864, 
and  is  a  son  of  John  J.  Sheets,  of  Pennsylvania, 
who  spent  his  early  life  in  that  State,  coming  to 
Utah  in  1858.  His  wife,  the  mother  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  Elizabeth  (Tryseboch)  Sheets, 
was  also  a  native  of  Pennsyb'ania,  and  came 
here-  in  the  early  days.  Their  son,  George,  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Salt  Lake 
City  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  started  on  his  ca- 
reer. He  became  identified  with  the  police  de- 
partment in  1890,  and  was  identified  with  the 
same  for  twelve  years.  For  the  first  three  years 
he  was  a  patrolman,  and  the  following  six  months 
served  as  First  Sergeant,  after  which  time  he 
was  appointed  a  detective,  and  rose  steadily  to 
the  front  until  he  ranked  next  to  the  Chief  in  that 
department. 

He  married  Miss  Henriette  Gunn,  daughter  of 
Alfred  and  Rachel  Gunn.  Her  parents  came 
here  in  the  early  days,  crossing  the  plains  in  a 
hand  cart  company.  By  this  marriage  Mr. 
Sheets  has  one  child,  a  daughter,  Katie  Klea. 

In  politics  Mr.  Sheets  is  a  Republican,  and 
takes  an  active  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the 
party.  In  fraternal  life  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  The  un- 
tiring energy  and  application  which  he  has  shown 
in  his  work  has  always  won  for  him  the  confi- 
dence and  esteem  of  his  superiors  and  has  made 
him  one  of  the  popular  public  officials  in  Salt 
Lake  City. 


R.  JOSEPH  S.  RICHARDS  is  the  son 
of  Williard  Richards,  a  native  of 
Massachusetts,  who  was  made  Second 
Counselor  to  Brigham  Young  at 
Winter  Quarters,  near  Omaha,  Ne- 
braska, in  1847.  He  came  with  President  Young 
to  Utah  in  the  fall  of  1847.  I"  1848  he  returned 
to  Winter  Quarters  and  brought  his  family  to 
Salt  Lake  City.  He  afterwards  served  as  Church 
Historian,  was  the  founder  of  the  Deseret  Neivs, 
was  speaker  of  the  Territorial  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives and  immediately  associated  with  the 
history  of  the  Church.  Prior  to  coming  to  Utah 
he  was  associated  with  Joseph  Smith,  the 
Prophet,  and  was  with  him  in  Carthage  jail  when 
he  was  killed.  He  died  in  March,  1854,  at  the 
age  of  fifty-two  years.  The  doctor's  mother 
was  Sarah  (Longstroth)  Richards,  a  native  of 
Lancaster,  England. 

Dr.  Joseph  S.  Richards  was  born  October  the 
4th.  1848,  while  the  family  were  enroute  to 
Utah,  at  a  place  where  Granger,  Wyoming  now 
stands.  He  was  but  twelve  days  old  when  his 
parents  settled  down  on  the  present  site  of  Salt 
Lake  City.  Here  he  grew  to  manhood  and  re- 
ceived a  common  school  education.  He  spent 
several  years  on  a  ranch  as  a  cowboy,  and  in 
1866  he  saw  service  in  the  Black  Hawk  war, 
under  Col.  H.  P.  Kimball. 

In  1867  he  went  to  England  on  a  mission  and 
spent  three  years  in  that  field.  In  1870  he  en- 
tered the  drug  business  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  for 
two  years  during  this  period  he  studied  medicine 
under  Dr.  Nichols,  entering  Bellevue  Medical 
College,  New  York,  in  1873,  ^^d  graduating  with 
a  degree  of  M.  D.  in  March,  1875.  He  at  once 
came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  entered  upon  his 
chosen  profession,  which  he  has  since  followed, 
part  of  the  time  being  associated  with  his 
brother.  Dr.  H.  J.  Richards,  and  also  with  Dr. 
W.  F.  Anderson.  He  was  chief  surgeon  at  the 
Deseret  Hospital,  and  for  the  past  six  years  has 
been  surgeon  for  the  Holy  Cross  Hospital.  For 
several  years  he  was  chief  surgeon  for  the  Utah 
Central  Railroad,  assistant  surgeon  for  the  Ore- 
gon Short  Line  Railroad,  and  at  present  is  sur- 
geon for  the  Consolidated  Street  Railway  and 
Power  Company,  of  Salt  Lake  City.    He  was  at 


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one  time  President  of  the  Salt  Lake  County  Med- 
ical Association,  Vice-President  of  the  State 
Medical  Association  and  is  Medical  Referee  for 
the  National  Life  Insurance  Company  of  i\Iont- 
pelier,  Vermont. 

The  Doctor  is  named  in  the  will  of  the  late  Dr. 
W.  H.  Graves  as  medical  director  of  the  Dr.  W. 
H.  Graves  Latter  Day  Saints  Hospital,  that  is 
being  erected  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

In  1876  he  married  Miss  Louise  M.  Taylor 
daughter  of  Joseph  E.  Taylor,  now  Counselor  to 
President  Cannon.  They  have  had  seven  chil- 
dren, six  of  whom  are  living.  One  son,  Ralph  T. 
Richards,  intends  following  his  father's  profes- 
sion, and  will  graduate  from  the  University  of 
Bellevue  Medical  College,  New  York,  in  1903. 
Dr.  Richards  has  been  a  successful  practitioner, 
devoting  his  time  to  the  study  and  practice  of 
his  chosen  profession  almost  exclusively.  He 
has  been  active  as  an  upbuilder  of  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  in  1898  he  opened  up  the  street  which  was 
afterwards  named  Richards  street  in  his  honor. 
Six  of  his  children  were  born  in  a  house  which 
stood  in  the  center  of  what  is  now  Richards 
street.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church, 
and  is  related  by  marriage  to  President  Joseph 
Smith,  who  married  his  sister. 


OCTOR  A.  C.  :\IACLEAN  has  been  a 
resident  of  Salt  Lake  City  for  the  past 
fourteen  years.  By  careful  study  and 
close  attention  to  every  detail  along  the 
line  of  his  chosen  profession  he  has 
built  up  a  large  practice  in  the  city.  Possessing 
marked  natural  keenness  and  executive  ability, 
and  all  the  advantages  of  a  superior  education 
and  years  of  practical  and  varied  experiences  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  other  fields  before  lo- 
cating in  this  city,  has  well  qualified  him  for 
the  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility  to  which 
he  has  been  frequently  called  since  coming  here. 
He  comes  of  an  old,  sturdy  Scotch  family,  and 
was  born  near  Belleville,  Ontario,  Canada,  June 
22,  1855.     His  father  was  a  native  of  Edinburg. 


Scotland,  and  descended  from  the  Macleans  of 
Drimnin.  His  grandfather  was  a  very  promir 
nent  man.  He  was  Solicitor  of  the  Exchequer 
of  Scotland,  and  an  intimate  friend  of  Sir  Wal- 
ter Scott,  through  whose  influence  he  received  the 
appointment,  at  a  salary  of  five  thousand  pounds 
per  year.  His  ancestors  came  from  the  High- 
land fighting  stock,  and  the  Drimnin  House  was 
an  old  historic  place  of  Scotland.  Our  subject's 
father  lost  his  eyesight  by  an  accident,  and  emi- 
grated to  Canada  about  1837.  On  his  mother's- 
side  Doctor  Maclean  also  comes  of  an  old  Scotch 
family,  her  people  being  the  Campbells  of  Ar- 
tornish,  and  was  born  in  Mull,  in  the  highlands. 

Our  subject  was  the  second  youngest  of  eighty 
children,  and  has  three  brothers  now  practicing 
medicine  in  the  L'nited  States.  He  lived  in 
Kingston,  Canada,  where  he  received  his  prelim- 
inary education,  and  subsequently  entered  the 
University  of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  where 
he  took  a  complete  medical  course,  graduating 
in  1877.  For  three  years  after  his  graduation 
he  was  house  surgeon  at  the  University  hospital. 
In  1880  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Leadville,  Colorado,  where  he  had  a  large  prac- 
tice, and  remained  there  eight  years.  During  this 
time  he  was  surgeon  for  the  Iron  Silver  Mining 
Company,  and  the  Saint  Luke's  Hospital,  and  the 
Denver  and  Rio  Grande  Railway. 

In  1888  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  entered 
upon  a  general  practice,  and  for  eight  years  was 
surgeon  for  the  Saint  ]\Iark's  Hospital.  In  pro- 
fessional life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Salt  Lake 
County  Medical  Society,  the  Rocky  Mountain 
Inter-State  Medical  Society,  the  Utah  State  Med- 
ical Society  (of  which  he  is  President),  and  the 
American  Medical  Association.  He  has  enjoyed 
a  large  practice  here,  and  devotes  the  greater 
part  of  his  time  to  his  profession. 

Doctor  Maclean  was  married  at  Olathe,  Kan- 
sas, to  Miss  Susan  Mariner,  a  native  of  Tennes- 
see. They  have  three  children — two  sons  and 
one  daughter. 

Besides  being  interested  in  mining,  Dr.  Mac- 
lean is  the  owner  ^  considerable  Salt  Lake  real 
estate,  and  is  largely  interested  in  a  cattle  ranch 
in  San  Luis  Vallev,  Colorado. 


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597 


ON.  ORSON  PRATT.  It  is  now  more 
than  twenty  years  since  the  life  work  of 
( )r.';on  Pratt,  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
and  learned  men  in  the  history  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  was  closed;  but  while 
the  earthly  tenement  has  returned  to  the  dust 
whence  it  came,  the  impress  of  a  strong  soul  is  yet 
to  be  found  in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  people 
who  lived  under' the  beneficent  influence  of  a  life 
spent  in  the  loving  service  of  uplifting  and  ben- 
efiting humanity.  Yet  not  alone  upon  his  fellow 
men  has  fallen  the  imprint  of  his  magnetism, 
his  strength  of  character  and  his  wonderful  per- 
sonality; it  may  be  seen  and  felt  wherever  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  is 
known.  The  close  and  confidential  friend  of  the 
Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  he  later  became  one  of  the 
strongest  pillars  of  the  Mormon  Church. 

The  progenitors  of  our  subject  came  to  Amer- 
ica in  the  Seventeenth  century.  The  records  at 
Newton,  since  called  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
show  that  John  and  William  Pratt  owned  land 
in  that  town  as  early  as  1636.  They  are  believed 
to  have  been  the  sons  of  Rev.  William  Pratt,  of 
Stevenage,  Hartfordshire,  England,  but  this  is 
not  authenticated.  In  England  this  branch  of 
the  family  is  traced  back  to  William  de  Pratellis, 
who  came  to  England  from  Normandy  in  the 
•eleventh  century.  William  and  John  Pratt  were 
among  the  colonists  who  located  the  town  of 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  received  their  ap- 
portionment of  land  in  1639.  Orson  Pratt  is  de- 
scended from  William,  who  became  a  member 
of  the  Connecticut  Legislature  and  remained  in 
that  position  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  sessions ; 
also  holding  other  high  official  positions.  The 
parents  of  our  subject  were  Jared  and  Charity 
(Dickinson)  Pratt.  Jared  Pratt  was  born  No- 
vember 25,  1769,  in  Canaan,  Columbus  county, 
New  York.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  born 
February  24,  1776.  She  became  the  mother  of 
six  children — Mary,  Anson,  William  D.,  Parley 
Parker,  Orson  and  Nelson.  The  father  died  No- 
vember 5,  1839,  and  was  buried  a  few  miles  from 
Detroit,  Michigan.  His  wife  died  in  St.  Joseph, 
Missouri,  May  20,  1849,  ^""^  was  buried  in  the 
city  cemetery  there,  and  a  tombstone  erected  to 
her  memory. 


Anson  died  of  cholera  on  May  26,  1849,  ^"d 
was  buried  by  the  side  of  his  mother.  William  D. 
died  in  Salt  Lake  City,  September  15th,  1870; 
Parley  P.  was  assassinated  by  a  mob  near  Van 
Buren,  Kansas,  May  13,  1857,  aged  50  years,  and 
Nelson  died  at  the  home  of  his  son,  Edwin  D.,  in 
Norwich,  Huron  county,  Ohio,  in  1889,  being 
the  last  member  of  the  family  to  die. 

Orson  Pratt  was  born  September  19,  181 1,  in 
Hartford,  Washington  county  New  York.  As 
his  father  was  a  poor  man  and  unable  to  care 
for  his  large  family,  it  became  necessary  for  our 
subject  to  make  his  own  way  in  life  at  a  very 
early  age;  accordingly,  he  started  out  at  the 
age  of  ten  years  and  from  then  until  nineteen 
years  of  age  lived  in  a  number  of  places  and  was 
engaged  in  various  occupations,  gleaning  his 
scholastic  education  here  and  there  as  opportu- 
nity oflfered,  and  being  of  a  studious  and  en- 
quiring turn  of  mind,  became  a  very  apt  scholar. 
\\'hile  his  parents  were  not  professed  Christians 
they  entertained  a  deep  reverence  for  the  scrip- 
tures, and  had  instilled  this  reverence  into  the 
minds  of  their  children,  encouraging  them  to 
read  the  Bible  and  search  out  its  truths  for  them- 
selves. Our  subject  was  of  a  naturally  devout 
nature  and  from  the  autumn  of  1829  to  Septem- 
ber, 1830,  strove  very  hard  to  discover  what 
might  be  the  true  religion.  In  September,  1830, 
some  Mormon  missionaries  came  into  his  neigh- 
borhood, one  of  them  being  his  brother  Parley, 
and  there  preached  the  gospel  of  Mormonism. 
Our  subject  was  convinced  after  listening  to 
them  for  some  time  that  this  was  the  truth  for 
which  he  had  been  seeking,  and  was  accordingly 
baptized,  his  brother  performing  the  ceremony ; 
the  occasion  being  his  nineteenth  birthday.  The 
following  month  he  traveled  over  two  hundred 
miles  to  see  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith,  who  was 
at  that  time  in  Fayette,  New  York.  Here  the 
Prophet  received  a  revelation  concering  the  fu- 
ture career  of  Orson,  and  the  latter  was  or- 
dained an  elder  under  the  hands  of  the  Prophet 
December  30th.  From  this  time  forward,  for 
several  years  his  time  was  spent  as  a  traveling 
missionary,  most  of  the  time  journeying  on  foot 
and  without  money.  He  was  ordained  a  High 
Priest   and  later,  April  26,    1835,   was  ordained 


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an  Apostle.  He  was  married  to  Sarah  Miranda 
Bates,  July  4,  1836,  whom  he  had  baptized  near 
Sacketts  Harbor,  about  a  year  before.  From  this 
time  until  1840  he  moved  about  from  place  to 
place  with  his  family,  and  on  July  4th,  1837,  was 
instrumental  in  releasing  his  brother  Parley  from 
prison  at  Far  West,  Missouri.  In  the  spring  of 
1840  he  left  with  several  of  the  Apostles  for  a 
mission  to  Scotland,  laboring  in  Edinburg  nine 
months,  during  which  time  he  instituted  a  church 
with  over  two  hundred  members  and  published  a 
pamphlet  called  "Remarkable  Visions."  He  re- 
turned to  Nauvoo  in  1841  and  remained  there 
about  a  year,  having  charge  of  a  mathematical 
school  the  greater  portion  of  the  time.  In  the 
spring  of  1843  he  went  on  a  tour  of  the  Eastern 
States,  and  returned  to  Nauvoo  in  the  fall  of  that 
year,  when  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  City 
Council  and  appointed  with  a  number  of  others  to 
draw  up  a  memorial  to  Congress,  and  was  ap- 
pointed to  go  to  Washington  and  present  the 
same.  He  spent  ten  weeks  in  the  latter  city,  and 
during  his  leisure  time  preached  and  baptized 
converts,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  time  cal- 
culating eclipses  and  preparing  an  almanac.  He 
was  absent  from  Nauvoo  at  the  time  of  the  killing 
of  the  Prophet,  but  returned  soon  after  and  in 
the  latter  part  of  1844  entered  into  his  first  ce- 
lestial marriages,  having  two  wives  sealed  to 
him  by  President  Brigham  Young,  who  had  suc- 
ceeded as  head  of  the  Church. 

In  the  summer  of  1845  he  was  called  to  preside 
over  the  branches  of  the  Church  in  the  Eastern 
and  Middle  States,  returning  to  Nauvoo  in  No- 
vember, and  when  the  exodus  occurred  in  Febru- 
ary, 1846,  together  with  his  four  wives  and  three 
small  children,  the  youngest  but  a  few  weeks  old, 
crossed  the  Mississippi  river  and  camped  at 
Sugar  Creek  for  a  number  of  days,  the  thermom- 
eter averaging  twenty-two  degrees  above  zero, 
and  several  snow  storms  occurring.  After  break- 
ing camp  they  proceeded  westward,  camping  a 
short  time  at  (^ach  successive  stopping  place,  the 
weather  continuing  inclement,  and  it  was  with 
difficulty  that  sufficient  food  was  obtained  to 
sustain  life  in  themselves  and  their  animals. 
When  they  arrived  at  a  place  which  was  named 
Garden  Grove  the  leaders  decided  it  wise  to  put 


in  crops  and  open  farms  for  the  benefit  of  the 
poor  and  those  unable  to  continue,  as  well  as  for 
those  following.  Other  camps  were  thus  opened 
up  and  named.  After  the  company  left  Mount 
Pisgah  one  of  Orson  Pratt's  wives,  Louisa 
Chandler  Pratt,  died  of  typhus  fever  and  was 
buried  on  the  plains  of  Iowa.  The  company 
finally  reached  Winter  Quarters,  and  the  folllow- 
ing  spring  our  subject  left  his  family  in  that 
place  and  accompanied  President  Young  across 
the  plains  to  Utah.  The  company  consisted  of 
one  hundred  and  forty-eight  persons  and  the  trip 
was  made  without  particular  incident.  Mr. 
Pratt  and  Erastus  Snow  came  into  the  valley 
ahead  of  the  rest  of  the  party,  having  but  one 
horse,  which  they  used  alternately.  Mr.  Snow 
had  the  misfortune  to  lose  his  coat,  and  while 
he  was  retracing  his  footsteps  searching  for  the 
garment  our  subject  rode  leisurely  ahead  and 
was  the  first  one  to  put  foot  upon  the  site  of  what 
is  now  Salt  Lake  City,  which  was  July  21,  1847, 
three  days  ahead  of  the  first  company.  Imme- 
diately upon  forming  camp  they  set  about  putting 
in  crops.  The  following  day  being  the  Sabbath, 
regular  services  were  held,  Elder  Pratt  preach- 
ing. On  the  succeding  day  (Monday)  they  at 
once  commenced  the  laying  out  of  the  city  and 
the  erection  of  homes  for  their  families,  return- 
ing to  Winter  Quarters  October  31st.  The  fol- 
lowing April  our  subject  was  called  to  go  on  a 
mission  to  England,  to  take  charge  of  the  afifairs 
of  the  Church  in  that  country.  Accompanied 
by  his  first  wife  and  three  children  he  left  Winter 
Quarters  in  May  of  that  year,  returning  at  the 
end  of  three  years  and  brought  his  family  across 
the  plains.  One  child,  Harmel,  was  born  during 
the  journey.  They  arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City 
October  7,  185 1,  and  resided  for  some  time  in 
the  Seventh  Ward.  Elder  Pratt  became  Profes- 
sor in  the  Deseret  University,  now  the  University 
of  Utah,  and  delivered  a  number  of  lectures  on 
astronomy.  In  January,  1853,  he  was  sent  on  a 
mission  to  Washington,  D.  C,  and  from  there 
made  a  trip  to  England,  where  he  published  a 
book  entitled  "Joseph  Smith,  the  Prophet,  and 
his  Progenitors."  He  also  published  a  paper 
in  Washington  which  he  called  the  Seer.  His 
life  from  this  on  was  a  succession  of  missions  to 


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different  parts  of  the  world.  During  this  time 
he  did  much  writing,  devoting  a  large  portion  of 
his  leisure  time  to  the  study  of  astronomy  and 
making  some  important  discoveries.  He  was  the 
author  of  "Pratt's  Cubic  Bio-Uadratic  Eo- 
Uatiom  and  Key  to  the  Universe,"  which  he  di- 
vided into  chapter  and  verses,  with  marginal 
reference  to  the  Book  or  Mormon,  and  Doctrine 
and  Covenants.  He  also  held  a  three-days'  debate 
with  Doctor  J.  P.  Newman  on  the  subject,  "Does 
the  Bible  Sanction  Polygamy,"  in  which  he  van- 
quished his  opponent. 

He  returned  home  from  the  foreign  mission 
field  in  1879,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life 
in  Utah.  During  his  first  mission  to  England 
he  was  the  means  of  22,000  people  embracing  the 
Mormon  faith.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Legislative  Assembly  during  its  first  session, 
and  at  each  successive  session  when  he  was  in 
the  Territory,  and  seven  times  was  chosen 
Speaker  of  the  House.  He  suffered  much  during 
his  later  years  from  diabetes,  which  finally  re- 
sulted in  his  death.  His  last  public  address  was 
given  in  the  Tabernacle,  Sunday,  September  18, 
1881,  which  was  the  last  day  of  his  seventy- 
eighth  year.  He  was  taken  sick  the  follow- 
ing day  and  passed  away  October  3,  1881.  Beau- 
tiful and  impressive  services  were  held  in  the 
Tabernacle,  and  at  the  Legislature  succeeding  his 
death    appropriate    resolutions    were    adopted. 

The  writer  of  this  article  has  attempted  to 
briefly  and  yet  clearly  outline  the  career  of  one 
of  the  most  remarkable  and  beloved  men  in  the 
history  of  the  Mormon  Church.  A  fuller  ac- 
count of  his  teachings,  writings  and  experiences 
may  be  found  in  the  writings  of  his  son  Milando 
Pratt.  He  was  the  last  of  the  original  council 
of  Twelve  Apostles  of  the  Mormon  Church.  He 
was  the  father  of  sixteen  sons  and  sixteen  daugh- 
ters and  at  his  death  left  forty-three  grandchild- 
ren. 

IL.A.NDO  PRATT.  Much  of  the 
vast  wealth  of  Utah  is  hidden  within 
its  hills  and  mountains,  in  the  form 
of  minerals  of  various  kinds,  and  it 
requires  the  ingenuity  and  skill  of 
man   to   successfully   develop   and   convert   these 


minerals  into  legal  tender.  Among  those  who 
have  been  largely  interested  in  the  great  mining 
fields  of  this  inter-mounatin  region,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  deserves  special  mention. 

He  is  the  son  of  Apostle  Orson  Pratt,  and  was 
born  at  Harris  Grove,  about  forty  miles  from 
Winter  Quarters,  in  Pottawatomie  county,  Iowa, 
September  30,  1848.  At  the  time  of  his  birth 
his  father  was  absent  on  a  mission  to  Europe, 
and  on  his  return,  in  1851,  he  brought  his  fam-- 
ily  to  Utah. 

Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  in  the  Salt  Lake 
valley,  and  obtained  such  education  as  the 
schools  of  that  day  afforded,  living  much  the  same 
life  as  did  the  other  sons  of  pioneers,  attending 
school  about  three  months  in  the  year  and  the 
remainder  of  that  time  being  spent  in  working 
on  the  farm  and  herding  sheep  and  cattle.  He 
also  assisted  in  hauling  wood  from  the  canyons 
with  ox  teams.  When  he  was  eighteen  years  of 
age,  before  there  were  any  railroads  in  this  coun- 
try, he  drove  seven  yoke  of  oxen  over  the 'plains 
to  Julesburg,  on  the  Missouri  river,  and  brought 
back  two  loads  of  merchandise  and  seventy-five 
men.  In  1867  he  took  a  sub-contract  from  the 
LTnion  Pacific  railroad  to  grade  a  piece  of  road 
in  Weber  canyon,  and  was  known  as  the  youngest 
contractor  on  the  line.  He  completed  this  con- 
tract, all  under  Apostle  John  Taylor.  He  also 
took  a  contract  under  Messrs.  Benson,  Farr  and 
West,  in  Utah,  on  the  Central  Pacific,  now  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railway. 

After  completing  his  railroad  work  he  entered 
the  mercantile  business  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He 
later  entered  the  employ  of  the  Zion  Co-opera- 
tive Mercantile  Institution,  remaining  there  a 
year,  when  he  turned  his  attention  to  mining  at 
the  head  of  Big  Cottonwood,  but  not  being  suc- 
cessful, he  abandoned  this  and  entered  the  Church 
Historian's  office,  where  he  was  employed  for 
three  years.  While  there  he  met  with  an  acci- 
dent which  deprived  him  of  the  use  of  his  right 
hand  for  clerical  work,  and  he  resigned  his  posi- 
tion, and  was  shortly  thereafter  engaged  by  the 
Singer  Sewing  Machine  Company  to  open  and 
manage  a  branch  office  in  Ogden. 

He  recovered  the  use  of  his   right  hand,  and 


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in  1880  again  entered  the  Historian's  office  in  or- 
der to  assist  his  father,  who  was  faiHng  in  health, 
and  while  there  prepared  the  documents  for  a 
general  history  of  the  Church.  In  1888  he  be- 
came associated  with  his  two  brothers,  under  the 
name  of  Pratt  Brothers,  in  the  real  estate  and 
loan  business,  remaining  in  this  business  until 
1893,  since  which  time  he  has  given  most  of  his 
time  and  attention  to  mining,  and  is  now  Secre- 
tary of  the  Bingham  West  Dip  Tunnel  Company. 
He  is  also  secretary  and  a  director  of  the  Ander- 
son Double  Column  Pump  Company,  and  Sec- 
retary of  the  Salt  Lake  Asphalt  Company,  and 
director  and  Secretary  of  the  Ensign  Gold  Min- 
ing Company. 

In  1870  Mr.  Pratt  was  married  to  Elizabeth 
Rich,  daughter  of  Apostle  Charles  C.  Rich,  who 
was  a  pioneer  to  L'tah  in  1847,  ^nd  who  in  1849, 
in  company  with  Messrs.  Lyman  and  Hanks,  set- 
tled the  San  Bernardino  colony  in  California.  Of 
this  marriage  five  sons  and  two  daughters  have 
been  born,  all  of  whom  have  given  evidence  of 
possessing  great  talent.  The  oldest  daughter  is 
now  Mrs.  Viola  (Pratt)  Gillette,  having  a  na- 
tional reputation  as  a  singer,  and  now  taking 
the  role  of  Prince  Charming,  in  the  "Sleeping 
Beauty  and  the  Beast,"  under  the  management 
of  Klaw  and  Erlanger,  of  New  York.  The  sec- 
ond daughter,  Leonia  De  Armon,  is  now  playing 
in  "Moll,  the  Orange  Girl,"  and  is  an  understudy 
to  the  leading  lady  in  "Mistress  Xell."  Milando 
Pratt,  Junior,  is  in  New  City  filling  a  cler- 
ical position;  Charles  R. ;  Orson  M.,  who  pos- 
sesses a  fine  tenor  voice;  Benjamin,  who  gives 
promise  of  great  musical  ability,  and  Frederick 
Earl,  complete  this  interesting  family  of  chil- 
dren. 

In  politics  Mr.  Pratt  has  always  been  a  Demo- 
crat, and  in  his  younger  days  served  as  Sergeant- 
at-Arms  in  the  Territorial  Legislature,  and  was 
Docket  Clerk  in  the  Legislature  of  1899,  and 
Chairman  of  the  Seventh  District  in  1901.  He 
has  been  an  Elder  in  the  Mormon  Church  since 
he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  in  1873  was  or- 
dained a  High  Priest  by  President  Young,  and 
set  apart  as  a  member  of  the  High  Council,  which 
position  he  still  retains.     He  has  been  for  seven 


years  a  member  of  the  Home  Missionary  Board, 
and  in  1877  was  called  to  perform  a  mission  in 
the  Eastern  States,  laboring  in  New  York,  Penn- 
sylvania, New  Jersey  and  Connecticut.  In  1889 
he  published  the  second  edition  of  the  autobi- 
ography of  his  uncle,  Apostle  Parley  Parker 
Pratt. 

Mr.  Pratt  comes  of  one  of  the  oldest  and 
best-known  families  in  the  Mormon  Church,  and 
during  his  long  residence  in  this  State  has  made 
a  wide  circle  of  friends,  both  in  the  public  and 
private  walks  of  life,  who  respect  and  esteem 
him  for  his  high  integrity  and  sterling  manhood. 


I  SHOP  WILLIAM  THORN,  an  active 
and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  a  resident  of  Utah  for 
more  than  half  a  century,  Mr.  Thorn 
has  contributed  his  full  share  towards 
advancing  the  agricultural  interests  of  his  adopted 
State,  and  has  been  a  valued  factor  in  promoting 
its  growth  along  this  line. 

He  is  a  native  of  Oxfordshire,  England,  where 
he  was  born  October  26,  1815,  growing  to  man- 
hood in  that  country  and  there  receiving  his  edu- 
cation. He  was  a  great  lover  of  horses  and  in 
his  native  land  was  a  trainer  of  running  and 
hunting  horses,  having  hunted  in  many  counties 
in  England  with  the  Queen's  stag  and  fox  hounds, 
and  since  his  residence  in  Utah  has  given  much 
valuable  assistance  in  promoting  the  raising  of 
fine  horse  flesh  in  this  State. 

Mr.  Thorn  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Alormon  Church  in  1849,  and  on  April  23rd 
of  that  year  was  baptized  in  London  by  Elder 
William  Booth.  On  January  9,  185 1,  he  sailed 
from  Liverpool  on  board  the  vessel  George  W. 
Borne,  and  landed  in  New  Orleans,  from  which 
place  he  went  by  boat  to  St.  Louis,  and  from  there 
up  the  Missouri  river  by  boat  to  Council  Bluffs, 
where  he  secured  an  outfit  for  the  journey  across 
the  great  American  plains.  He  spent  some  little 
time  in  Winter  Quarters,  leaving  there  on  July 
1st  of  the  same  year  with  the  train  under  com- 
mand of  Elder  Alfred  Gordon,  and  arrived  in  Salt 
Lake  City  on  October  2,  185 1.    Here  he  found  a 


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small  colony  of  pioneers  and  soon  after  his  ar- 
rival bought  some  property  in  the  Seventh  Ward, 
where  he  has  since  continued  to  reside.  He  began 
farming  in  what  is  now  know  as  Farmer's  Ward, 
but  was  then  called  the  "Big  Field,"  and  where 
he  still  owns  considerable  land.  He  has  always 
made  a  specialty  of  vegetables  and  for  two  years 
in  succession  took  first  prize  at  the  State  Fair  for 
the  best  two-acre  field  of  potatoes,  and  one  year 
secured  first  prize  for  the  best  one-acre  field  of 
turnips. 

He  platted  a  five-acre  lot  and  created  what  is 
known  as  Thorn's  Subdivision  to  Salt  Lake  City: 
He  has  been  very  active  in  everything  pertaining 
to  the  growth  and  development  of  the  city,  as 
well  as  in  Church  circles.  Soon  after  coming  hers 
he  was  appointed  Ward  Teacher  for  the  Seventh 
Ward  and  later  set  apart  as  Second  Counselor  to 
Bishop  Jonathan  Pugmire,  and  on  March  12, 
1865,  when  Thomas  McLellan  was  made  Bishop 
of  that  Ward,  our  subject  was  set  apart  as  his 
Fir.st  Counselor  and  held  the  position  until  De- 
cember 24,  1870,  when  he  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  Ward,  with  Henry  Dinwoodey  and  Thomas 
Woodbury  as  his  Counselors.  When  the  Ward 
was  reorganized  on  June  15,  1877,  our  subject 
was  ordained  Bishop,  with  William  McLachlan 
and  Thomas  Woodbury  as  Counselors,  and  upon 
the  death  of  Thomas  Woodbury  in  1899,  Henry 
Wallace  was  appointed  to  fill  his  place.  Mr. 
Thorn  has  since  been  Bishop  of  this  Ward,  and 
has  devoted  his  time  largely  to  looking  after  his 
arduous  duties,  having  nine  blocks  under  his  jur- 
isdiction. He  has  also  held  the  office  of  High 
Counselor  to  the  Presidency  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stake. 

Bishop  Thorn  was  married  March  23,  1852,  to 
Mrs.  Maria  S.  Merick  and  of  this  marriage  two 
children  have  been  born.  She  died  in  1889.  On 
December  20,  1862  he  married  Sarah  White.  She 
bore  him  eight  children,  four  sons  and  four 
daughters.  Alfred  Charles,  one  of  his  sons, 
served  on  a  mission  to  England  in  1891,  laboring 
there  twenty-six  months,  most  of  which  time  was 
spent  in  London. 

Bishop  Thorn  has  always  been  active  in  en- 
couraging the  promoters  of  the  State  Fairs  and 


was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  County  Agricul- 
tural Society.  He  has  for  a  number  of  years  held 
the  position  of  superintendent  of  the  horse  ex- 
hibits at  the  fairs,  his  knowledge  of  horseflesh 
being  a  valuable  aid  in  this  direction.  Through 
his  long  and  useful  life  the  Bishop  has  always  been 
found  to  be  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  and  now  in 
his  declining  days  is  enjoying  the  fruits  of  a  life 
well  spent  and  filled  with  good  deeds. 


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OCTOR  PEDER  A.  H.  FRANKLIN. 
In  the  development  of  the  mineral  re- 
sources of  L^tah,  and  in  the  location  of 
mines  and  furnishing  of  the  necessary 
financial  assistance  for  their  proper 
workings,  few  men  have  taken  as  important  a 
part,  and  none  a  greater  one,  than  has  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  He  has  perhaps  more  exten- 
sive mining  interests  in  Utah  and  in  the  adjoining 
States  than  any  other  man  in  the  West,  and 
through  the  development  of  these  properties  has 
aided  materially  in  bringing  about  the  present 
prosperity  of  Utah.  He  is  now  President  of  the 
Black  Bird  Copper  Gold  Mining  Company,  which 
controls  large  territory  in  Lemhi  county,  Idaho, 
and  also  in  Beaver  county,  L'tah,  giving  employ- 
ment to  a  large  force  of  men.  This  same  com- 
pany is  also  the  owner  of  vast  mining  properties 
in  the  southern  part  of  Utah. 

Doctor  Franklin  was  born  in  Norway,  at  Thoe- 
tan,  August  8,  1847,  where  he  spent  his  boyhood 
days.  He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  na- 
tive country,  and  at  twenty-two  years  of  age  was 
an  officer  in  the  army  of  Norway.  Two  years 
later  he  emigrated  to  Denmark,  and  secured  em- 
ployment as  civil  engineer  under  the  government. 
He  gave  up  his  career  in  the  army  to  follow  his 
native  bent,  the  study  of  geology,  for  which  he 
had  an  inherent  love.  It  was  one  of  his  greatest 
privileges  when  but  a  small  boy  to  roam  around 
the  hills  and  mountains  of  his  native  land,  search- 
ing for  minerals,  and  making  a  thorough  study  of 


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their  constituent  parts.  While  in  Denmark  and 
in  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  he  be- 
came familiar  with  the  resources  of  Utah,  and 
filled  with  a  desire  to  see  and  investigate  for  him- 
self, left  Europe  and  arrived  in  Utah  in  1873,  at 
a  time  when  the  discovery  of  the  mineral  wealth 
of  this  State  was  but  in  its  infancy,  and  opera- 
tions had  only  begun.  He  was  among  the  first 
to  realize  the  possibilities  of  the  wealth  that  lay 
hidden  in  the  mountains  of  this  State,  and  for 
four  years  he  worked  in  different  mines  as  a  day 
laborer,  securing  employment  in  the  Flagstaff 
and  Ella  mines.  He  was  soon  in  a  position  to 
employ  his  ability  in  the  exploitation  of  mining 
property,  and  became  financially  interested  in  the 
Niagara  Company  of  Bingham,  of  which  he 
continues  President  and  General  Manager.  This 
company  owned  the  old  Spanish  mines  and  old 
Utah  mines,  together  with  a  number  of  other 
valuable  properties.  He  was  President  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  this  company  and  gave  his  per- 
sonal attention  to  the  work  in  this  property  for 
five  years.  These  mines  he  succeeded  in  develop- 
ing and  made  a  paying  investment,  and  they  were 
later  sold  to  the  United  States  Mining  Company, 
and  have  since  fully  justified  the  expectations 
of  their  original  owner.  That  was  the  beginning 
of  Doctor  Franklin's  connection  with  mining 
properties  in  the  West,  and  since  that  time  his 
interests  have  increased  rapidly.  He  is  now  also 
President  of  the  Red  Bird  Gold  Mining  Com- 
pany of  Idaho,  which  controls  vast  mining  inter- 
ests in  that  State.  He  is  President  of  the  Yan- 
kee Consolidated  Mining  Company  in  the  Tintic 
district  of  Utah,  and  holds  a  similar  position  in 
the  Blue  Bird  Copper  Company  in  Beaver  county, 
in  this  State.  His  interest  has  not  been  confined 
to  mining,  but  has  included  all  of  the  industries 
of  Utah  and  Idaho,  which  have  aided  in  the 
building  up  of  the  property  in  these  two  States. 
He  believes  in  the  future  importance  of  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  in  the  future  prosperity  of  Utah,  and  is 
confident  that  in  a  few  years  Salt  Lake  City  will 
have  quadrupled  its  poulation ;  its  importance 
and  prosperity  keeping  pace  with  its  increase  in 
population. 

Doctor  Franklin  has  assisted  many  prospectors 


who  are  today  in  the  position  he  occupied  at  the 
start  of  his  career  in  Utah.  He  is  a  friend  of  all 
this  class  of  men,  and  stands  ready  to  either  give 
them  employment  or  to  purchase  their  prospects 
when  he  is  convinced  that  they  are  of  any  value. 
He  has  a  genial  and  pleasant  manner,  which, 
coupled  with  his  ability  and  integrity,  have  made 
him  one  of  the  most  popular  mining  men 
throughout  the  West.  Doctor  Franklin  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Catherine  Wall,  and  he  has  one 
daughter,  Catherine. 

In  political  affairs  Doctor  Franklin  is  a  believer 
in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  but  his 
business  interests  have  been  too  great  to  permit 
him  to  participate  actively  in  the  work  of  that 
party,  and  he  has  never  held  public  office.  In 
fraternal  life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Elks. 

Some  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  his  operations 
may  be  had  from  the  fact  that  during  the  year 
1 90 1  he  has  spent  over  founteen  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  in  the  purchase  of  mining  properties 
in  Utah,  and  throughout  the  West,  and  expects 
to  spend  half  a  million  dollars  in  the  coming  year 
in  development  work  on  new  mines  which  he  has 
acquired.  His  operations  have  to  a  large  extent 
been  carried  on  in  concert  with  one  of  the  leading 
capitalists  of  Pennsylvania,  John  A.  E.  Dubois, 
who  has  implicit  confidence  in  the  judgment  of 
Doctor  Franklin,  and  who  willingly  loans  his  aid 
in  the  financing  of  his  operations. 

Doctor  Franklin's  career  in  Utah  marks  him  as 
one  of  the  men  who  have  brought  the  mining  in- 
terests of  Utah  to  its  present  importance,  and  his 
success  has  been  achieved  by  his  own  efforts.  He 
is  a  self-made  man,  and  whatever  he  accomplished 
was  accomplished  through  his  own  industry  and 
ability.  He  was  left  an  orphan  at  ten  years  of 
age,  and  has  made  his  own  way  in  life  from  that 
time.  He  was  the  youngest  but  one  of  a  family 
of  five  boys,  and  his  brothers  have  all  made 
successful  careers.  No  matter  what  tasks  Doctor 
Franklin  had  to  perform,  he  brought  to  them  the 
same  energy,  industry  and  application  which  have 
made  his  career  in  greater  projects  such  a  suc- 
cess. He  is  a  resident  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
owns  a  handsome  home  at  No.  11 16  East,  South 
Temple  street. 


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603 


A.  SHERMAN.  The  mineral  wealth 
of  Utah  has  not  been  deposited  in 
any  one  locality,  but  is  found  all 
over  the  State,  and  in  the  Cainp 
Floyd  mining  district,  in  which  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  the  pioneer  operator 
at  Sunshine.  He  has  been  engaged  in  mining 
enterprises  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  and 
is  thoroughly  familiar  with  all  the  different  phases 
of  that  work.  He  is  now  rated  as  one  of  the  suc- 
cessful miners  in  Utah,  and  the  standing  which 
he  has  acquired  in  Salt  Lake  City  marks  him  as 
one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  community. 

W.  Arthur  Sherman,  the  first  son  of  Andrew 
and  Mary  Jane  (Fairchild)  Sherman,  was  born 
in  Bethel,  Connecticut.  The  Sherman  family  is 
one  of  the  oldest  in  the  United  States,  having 
come  to  this  country  in  1634.  From  the  records 
obtainable  it  appears  that  the  family  name  "Sher- 
man" is  undoubtedly  of  Saxon  origin.  Their  lin- 
eage can  be  traced  as  far  back  as  the  middle  of 
the  sixteenth  century,  when  it  is  recorded  that 
Henry  Sherman  married  Agnes  Butler,  and  the 
issue  were :  Edmond,  Henry,  Judith,  John  and 
Robert.  Henry  Sherman,  the  father,  died  in  Ded- 
ham,  England,  in  1589.  His  son,  Edmond,  mar- 
ried Ann  Pillett,  on  April  30,  1560,  and  had  a 
son,  Edmond,  who  married  Ann  Clark,  on  Sep- 
tember 1 1 ,  1 584,  and  they  had  two  sons,  Edmond 
and  Richard.  Their  son  Edmond  married  Judith 
Angier,  May  26,  161 1,  and  they  had  three  sons — 
Edmond,  Samuel  and  John.  Samuel,  the  second 
son  of  this  marriage,  was  born  in  1618,  and  was 
the  founder  of  the  Sherman  family  in  America, 
coming  to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  16,  in 
1634.  He  came  to  this  country  in  company  with 
his  father  and  brother  Edmond  on  the  ship  Elis- 
abeth from  Ipswich,  England,  and  arrived  in  Bos- 
ton in  June,  1634.  His  father  and  his  brother 
Edmond  returned  to  England  in  1636  or  1637, 
and  their  descendants  still  live  at  Dedham.  The 
English  Sherman  family  lived  in  Suffolk  and  Es- 
sex counties,  chiefly,  and  the  principal  family 
of  that  name  in  the  sixteenth  century  were  the 
Shermans  of  Yaxley,  in  the  county  of  Suffolk. 
Edmond  Sherman  was  a  cloth  worker  and  a  man 
of  means.    He  came  to  America  in  1634,  but  only 


remained  for  a  couple  of  years,  returning  again 
to  England.  Reverend  H.  B.  Sherman,  of  Belle- 
ville, New  Jersey,  while  visiting  Dedham,  En- 
gland, found  on  one  of  the  stained  glass  win- 
dows of  the  church,  the  initials  of  Edmond  Sher- 
man, which  recorded  the  fact  that  this  window 
had  been  his  gift,  and  the  records  of  the  church 
also  showed  that  one  of  the  buttresses  of  the 
church  was  erected  at  his  expense.  This  church, 
which,  for  the  main  part,  is  of  the  Tudor  style 
of  architecture,  was  built  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
the  Seventh  (1485  to  1509).  The  grave  and 
monument  of  Edmond  Sherman  still  remain  in 
the  church  yard,  on  the  north  side  of  the  church, 
near  the  door.  In  1599  he  donated  and  gave  to 
the  village  of  Dedham  a  free  school,  for  many 
years  known  as  the  "Sherman  Free  School,"  and 
now  called  "Sherman  Hall."  With  this  school 
he  also  gave  a  house  for  its  head  master. 

The  record  of  Samuel  Sherman  in  America  is 
one  that  has  a  prominent  place  in  the  history  of 
the  settlement  of  New  England.  He  assisted  in 
the  establishment  of  several  towns  in  the  colony 
of  Connecticut,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was 
a  member  of  the  Upper  House  of  the  General 
Court  and  Supreme  Judicial  Tribunal,  besides 
holding  other  offices  of  honor  and  trust.  He  set- 
tled in  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  in  1636,  and 
remained  there  for  about  four  years,  when  he 
removed  to  Wethersfield,  Connecticut,  in  1640, 
or  1641.  He  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors 
of  Stamford,  Connecticut,  and  was  one  of  the 
committee  in  1637  to  declare  war  against  the  Pe- 
quot  Indians,  and  in  Stratford  he  continued  his 
activity  in  public  affairs.  He  is  referred  to  in 
deeds  and  documents  as  "Worshipful  Mr.  Sher- 
man." He  died  April  5,  1700.  Samuel  Sherman 
married  Sarah  Mitchell,  who  was  born  in  En- 
gland in  1 62 1.  By  this  marriage  they  had  nine 
children — eight  sons  and  one  daughter — Samuel 
Theophilus,  Matthew,  Edmond;  John,  the  fifth 
son,  is  the  branch  from  whom  descended  Hon- 
orable John  Sherman  and  General  William  Te- 
cumseh  Sherman,  both  now  deceased;  Sarah, 
Nathaniel,  Benjamin  and  David.  Benjamin,  the 
seventh  son  of  Samuel,  was  born  at  Stratford, 
Connecticut,  March  29,  1662.     He  married  and 


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had  six  children.  From  Kathaniel,  the  fourth 
son  of  Benjamin,  is  descended  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Nathaniel  Sherman,  the  fourth  son  of 
Benjamin,  was  born  at  Stratford,  Connecticut. 
He  married  and  had  three  sons — Nathan,  Phin- 
eas  and  Nathaniel,  and  Nathaniel  had  two  sons — 
David  and  Nathan.  David,  the  first  son  of  Na- 
thaniel, lived  in  Newton,  Connecticut,  and  had 
ten  chlidren — Seth,  Matthew,  Andrew,  Lemuel, 
Ezra,  Hepziba,  Anna,  Hannah,  Abigail  and 
Sarah.  He  died  in  1800,  and  among  the  inter- 
esting records  that  have  been  left  by  him  is  the 
following  extract  from  his  will :  "I  divide  my 
estate  equally  among  my  ten  children,  save  as  to 
Andrew  Sherman,  whose  proportion  shall  be  sev- 
enteen dollars  less  than  each  of  the  others,  and 
this  defalcation  of  said  Andrew's  portion  I  make 
against  him  for  and  in  consideration  of  having 
given  him  a  mechanic's  trade.  I  give  and  be- 
queath to  Seth  ten  dollars  worth  of  land  in  ex- 
cess of  each  of  the  others  as  an  acknowledgement 
that  he  is  my  eldest  son."  Andrew,  the  third  son 
of  David,  was  born  in  Newton  in  1760  and  died 
on  April  21,  1809.  He  had  five  children — Anne, 
Lucretia,  David,  Zalmon  and  Daniel.  His  first 
son,  David,  was  also  born  in  Newton,  July  14, 
1793,  and  died  in  Bethel,  Connecticut,  on  August 
3,  i860.  He  married  Tamar  Beebe,  October  17, 
1815,  who  died  November  14,  i860.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  Ethel,  Andrew,  William,  Lemuel 
and  Jane.  Their  second  son,  Andrew,  was  born 
in  Hrookfield,  Connecticut,  on  April  12,  1820,  and 
was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  hats,  being 
associated  in  that  business  with  his  father.  He 
married  Jane  Fairchild,  daughter  of  Captain  Kiah 
B.  and  Polly  (Hubbell)  Fairchild,  on  October 
26,  1842.  She  died  on  January  29,  i860,  leav- 
ing two  children — Maria  A.,  born  in  Bethel,  Con- 
necticut, September  2,-  1844,  and  W.  Arthur,, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  born  June  6,  1848.  Our 
subject's  father  was  married  the  second  time  to 
Sarah  Blackman,  and  by  this  marriage  had  two 
children — Mary  H.,  born  February  23,  1863,  and 
Frederick  B.,  born  January  3,  1865. 

The  boyhood  days  of  W.  Arthur  Sherman,  the 
oldest   son  of  Andrew   Sherman,   were   spent   in 


Connecticut  and  he  was  educated  in  the  Elms- 
wood  district  schools,  and  later  he  attended 
the  Bethel  Institute,  a  private  educational  in- 
stitution, graduating  from  it  in  1865.  He  then 
turned  his  attention  to  topographical  engineering, 
and  later  to  civil  engineering,  and  continued  to 
devote  his  time  and  attention  to  this  profession 
until  1876,  when  he  moved  to  Pennsylvania  and 
became  identified  with  the  oil  industry  in  Butler 
and  Venango  counties.  Here  he  continued  until 
1881,  when  the  possibilities  of  the  mineral  wealth 
of  the  West  induced  him  to  remove  to  Colorado. 
Here  he  settled  in  Ouray  and  engaged  in  mining. 
He  took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  county, 
and  became  one  of  the  prominent  men.  In  1883 
he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  County  Court  of  Ou- 
ray county,  and  also  Probate  Judge,  serving  on 
the  bench  for  four  years.  After  his  retirement 
from  the  judiciary  he  continued  to  devote  his  at- 
tention to  mining,  and  remained  interested  in 
Colorado  properties  until  1893,  when  he  removed 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  and  became  identified  with  the 
development  of  mining  properties  in  Utah.  In 
addition  to  his  mining  property  he  is  also  largely 
interested  in  the  industrial  resources  of  the  State. 

Mr.  Sherman  was  married  on  February  13, 
1878,  to  Miss  Lizzie  D.  Robinson,  of  Kittianning, 
Pennsylvania,  who  died  on  February  23,  of  the 
following  year.  Of  this  marriage  there  was  born 
a  daughter — Lizzie  D. — who  died  in  .A^ugust  of 
the  latter  year.  He  was  again  married  on  Feb- 
ruary 21,  1882,  to  Miss  Laura  Randolph  Keim, 
daughter  of  General  William  H.  and  Lucy  (Ran- 
dolph) Keim,  of  Reading,  Pennsylvania.  By  this 
latter  marriage  Mr.  Sherman  had  three  children, 
of  whom  two  are  now  living — Rose  Randolph 
was  born  November  28,  1882,  and  died  at  Den- 
ver, Colorado,  on  March  4,  1892;  Andrew  Fair- 
child  was  born  April  2,  1884,  and  Mary  Keim, 
born  May  8,  1887. 

Mr.  Sherman  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  future 
importance  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  in  the  growth 
and  prosperity  of  the  State.  His  residence  on 
East  Brigham  street,  in  the  very  heart  of  the  most 
fashionable  residence  district,  is  one  of  the  hand- 
somest houses  in  Salt  Lake  Citv. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


605 


RSOX  D.  ROMXEY.  The  Taylor, 
Romney,  Armstrong  Company  of  Salt 
Lake  City,  have  for  many  years  been 
une  of  the  most  prominent  and  substan- 
tial business  concerns  in  this  city.  To 
successfully  manage  a  large  mercantile  establish- 
ment and  keep  it  in  the  fore  rank  in  a  great  city 
like  Salt  Lake  requires  men  of  ability  and  long 
business  experience.  That  Orson  D.  Romney  fills 
this  requirement  to  a  high  degree  has  been  thor- 
oughly demonstrated  by  his  long  and  successful 
career  as  Assistant  Manager.Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer of  the  Taylor,  Romney,  Armstrong  Company. 
He  is  well  and  favorably  known  by  the  best  busi- 
ness men  of  this  whole  inter-mountain  region.  His 
connection  in  a  business  way  with  many  of  the 
leading  enterprises  of  the  State  has  brought  him 
prominently  before  all  classes  of  people. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having  been  born 
in  this  city  August  15,  i860,  and  is  the  son  of 
Bishop  George  and  Vilate  Ellen  (Douglass) 
Romney,  a  sketch  of  his  parents  appearing  else- 
where in  this  work.  Mr.  Romne}'  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City 
and  at  the  Deseret  University,  now  the  Univer- 
sity of  Utah.  Upon  completing  his  scholastic  edu- 
cation he  entered  the  employ  of  S.  P.  Teasdale, 
with  whom  he  remained  until  1878,  when  he  be- 
came a  teamster  for  the  company  of  which  he  is 
now  assistant  manager.  He  worked  his  way  up 
to  his  present  resopnsible  position  year  by  year, 
working  for  some  time  as  a  carpenter  and  famil- 
iarizing himself  with  the  branch  of  the  business 
pertaining  to  building,  contracting,  etc.,  and  then 
entered  the  office,  where  he  was  for  a  time  book- 
keeper, and  was  later  made  secretary  and  treas- 
urer. He  filled  these  positions  until  1888,  when 
he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  for  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  his  place  was  filled  for  a  time  by 
his  brother,  George  E.  Just  prior  to  his  return 
in  1892,  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  directors, 
he  was  elected  to  his  present  position,  which  he 
at  once  assumed.  In  his  position  of  assistant 
manager  he  is  nominally  the  head  of  the  firm, 
having  entire  control  of  all  the  business  of  the 
establishment,  which  consumes  his  entire  time. 
On  September  4,  1884,  Mr.  Romney  was  mar- 


ried to  Miss  Emma  F.  Phillips,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam G.  and  Maria  Phillips.  By  this  marrriage 
they  have  had  five  children — Vilate  Ellen;  Ger- 
trude May;  Orson  D.,  Junior;  Melbourne,  and 
William  G.  Mr.  Romney's  home  is  located  at  No. 
3(X)  Third  street,  one  of  the  most  desirable  resi- 
dence portions  of  the  city,  located  in  the  Twen- 
tieth Ward,  where  he  has  lived  since  1869. 

The  Romney  family  is  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  well  known  in  the  Mormon  Church,  as 
well  as  in  this  city,  and  our  subject  has  been 
especially  active  in  his  Church  relations.  In  1888, 
just  previous  to  his  departure  for  Aukland,  Xevv 
Zealand,  where  he  had  been  called  to  serve  in 
missionary  work,  he  was  ordained  a  member  of 
the  Thirteenth  Quorum  of  Seventies.  He  mas- 
tered the  native  language  of  that  country  and 
for  the  first  year  acted  as  traveling  missionary, 
having  jurisdiction  over  a  number  of  districts, 
and  completing  his  labors  at  Wellington,  in  the 
southern  part  of  the  North  Island.  During  this 
time  he  also  presided  over  three  branches  of  the 
European  mission,  and  after  laboring  in  this  field 
for  three  years,  spent  five  months  in  travel.  In 
September,  1891,  in  company  with  H.  S.  Cuttler, 
he  started  home  by  the  way  of  Sidney,  Australia, 
going  from  thence  to  Adelaid,  Ceylon  and  Suez, 
and  from  thence  to  Cairo,  where  he  spent  two 
weeks,  and  after  a  visit  in  Alexandria  crossing 
the  Mediterranean,  and  visiting  the  leading  cities 
of  Italy,  Switzerland  and  France,  crossing  the 
channel  and  visiting  London,  Liverpool,  Edin- 
borough,  Glasgow  and  Belfast,  reaching  Xew 
York  on  January  zj,  1892.  He  was  met  here  by 
his  wife  and  together  they  visited  a  number  of 
the  large  Eastern  cities,  reaching  home  on  Feb- 
ruary 14th.  He  has  been  active  in  Church  work 
in  his  Ward  since  returning  home,  and  is  now  one 
of  the  Seven  Presidents  of  the  Thirteenth  Quor- 
um, and  active  in   Sunday   School  work. 

Mr.  Romney  has  spent  the  greater  portion  of 
his  life  within  the  confines  of  L^tah,  and  his  whole 
interest  has  been  centered  here.  While  his  time 
and  attention  has  been  given  principally  to  the 
business  with  which  he  has  been  connected  for 
so  many  years,  he  has  also  found  time  to  interest 
himself   in   many   other   enterprises    which    have 


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been  for  the  advancement  and  growth  of  the  city 
and  State,  and  besides  his  interest  in  the  company 
of  which  he  is  Assistant  Manager,  also  has  hold- 
ings in  the  Co-operative  Furniture  Company,  in 
which  he  is  a  director ;  the  Oregon  Lumber  Com- 
pany, and  in  the  Amalgamated  Sugar  Company, 
in  which  he  is  a  heavy  stockholder.  He  is 
also  largely  interested  in  much  valuable  real 
estate  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  is  yet  a 
young  man,  but  has  demonstrated  his  ability  to 
successfully  conduct  large  enterprises  and  is 
ranked  as  one  of  the  most  progressive  and  reliable 
business  men  of  the  city.  His  travels  have  tended 
to  make  him  broad  minded  and  liberal,  and  he 
enjoys  the  confidence  and  respect  of  all  who  have 
been  associated  with  him.  both  in  public  and  pri- 
vate life. 


ROFESSOR  EVAX  STEPHENS. 
\Mierever  the  name  of  Salt  Lake  City 
is  heard  there  must  come  a  vision  of  the 
wonderful  Tabernacle  Choir,  whose 
fame  has  gone  abroad  over  the  whole 
civilized  world,  and  which  stands  only  second  to 
the  famous  Welsh  singers  who  received  first  prize 
at  the  World's  Fair,  held  in  Chicago  in  1893 ;  the 
Tabernacle  Choir  receiving  second  prize.  This 
choir  which  at  the  present  time  numbers  over  six 
hundred  members,  claims  as  its  members  some  of 
the  sweetest  singers  the  world  has  ever  heard ;  it 
has  for  years  been  one  of  the  strongest  drawing 
cards  of  the  city,  and  no  tourist  stopping  here  feels 
reconciled  to  leave  without  listening  to  its  music. 
Not  only  is  the  ordinary  tourist  and  traveler 
charmed  and  entertained  by  one  of  the  most  noted 
musical  organization  of  the  present  age,  but  here 
come  the  great  musicians  of  all  lands,  willing 
pupils  at  the  feet  of  these  master  singers.  How- 
ever, the  success  that  has  come  to  these  musicians 
is  due,  not  alone  to  the  individual  voice  nor  the 
large  number  of  trained  voices  swelling  out  in 
grand  unison  of  praise  and  melody,  but  to  the 
master  mind  that  has  molded  and  developed  his 
material  as  the  sculptor  molds  his  clay,  or  the 
artist  portrays  upon  the  canvas  the  picture  which 
he  sees  with  his  mental  vision.     Professor  Steph- 


ens has  given  his  whole  life  to  this  work  and  is 
himself  one  of  the  most  wonderful  musical  pro- 
ducts of  the  nineteenth  century. 

Born  in  Carmarthem,  Wales,  in  1854,  he  spent 
the  first  ten  years  of  his  life  in  that  country,  at- 
tending the  common  schools,  and  in  1864  emi- 
grated to  America  with  his  parents,  crossing  the 
Atlantic  ocean  in  a  sail  ship,  and  making  the  trip 
over  the  great  American  plains  by  ox  team.  The 
parents  of  our  subject,  David  and  Jane  (Evan) 
Stephens,  were  natives  of  Wales,  and  there  be- 
came converts  to  the  Mormon  Church.  They 
came  to  Utah  with  their  family  of  ten  children, 
five  of  whom  are  still  living,  of  whom  our  sub- 
ject is  the  youngest.  The  family  settled  in  Box 
Elder  county,  where  they  remained  four  years, 
engaged  in  farming,  and  later  moved  to  Malad, 
Idaho,  taking  up  land  and  building  a  fine  home. 
Our  subject's  mother  died  when  he  was  nine  years 
of  age,  and  when  he  was  nineteen  years  old  his 
father  passed  away,  and  he  was  left  to  battle  for 
himself.  He  had  attended  the  district  schools  of 
Utah  and  Idaho,  working  on  his  father's  farm  in 
the  summer  and  going  to  school  for  a  few  weeks 
in  the  winter,  and  thus  obtained  all  the  scholastic 
education  he  ever  received,  .^fter  his  father's 
death  he  worked  for  five  years  as  a  section  hand 
on  the  railroad,  and  it  was  at  the  end  of  this 
time  that  his  musical  career  began.  He  had,  early 
in  life  made  up  his  mind  that  whatever  he  did 
would  be  well  done,  and  this  spirit  has  permeated 
all  his  work  since  and  brought  him  signal  success. 
Coming  from  a  country  whose  music  has  for  gen- 
erations led  the  world,  it  was  but  natural  that  he 
should  be  a  passionate  lover  of  music,  and  from 
the  time  when  he  followed  the  plow  on  his  fath- 
farm  his  mind  flowed  in  the  one  channel,  and 
the  music  in  his  soul  sought  expression  in  both 
vocal  and  instrumental  compositions,  one  of 
which.  "Aly  Old  Country  Home,"  was  inspired 
by  the  life  he  led  on  the  farm,  and  which  is  re- 
garded as  one  of  his  master-pieces.  The  most 
wonderful  feature  of  his  music  is  that  he  is  self- 
taught.  He  mastered  the  reading  of  music  by 
his  owai  efforts,  studying  such  books  as  he  could 
get  hold  of,  one  of  the  first  being  a  book  of  Welsh 
songs  belonging  to  his  brother.      He  never  at- 


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tended  but  one  singing  class,  and  that  after  he 
was  well  along  in  his  work,  paying  for  his  instruc- 
tion of  one  full  term  with  a  gallon  of  molasses. 
He  bought  his  first  organ,  a  small,  four-octave, 
with  sixty  bushels  of  wheat,  which  he  raised 
himself  and  hauled  fifteen  miles  by  team. 

At  seventeen  years  of  age  Professor  Stephens 
was  the  director  of  the  local  choir,  and  at  that 
time  his  music  was  sufficiently  good  to  warrant 
it  appearing  in  print.  At  the  age  of  twenty-four 
years  his  friends  induced  him  to  go  to  Logan 
and  give  his  whole  time  to  the  study  of  music, 
which  he  did,  acting  as  organist  and  director  of 
the  Logan  choir,  at  that  time  the  best  Church 
choir  in  the  Territory,  supporting  himself  by  giv- 
ing lessons  in  music.  The  work  he  did  here  at- 
tracted the  notice  of  the  church  authorities,  who 
gave  him  every  encouragement,  and  he  later  took 
up  the  work  on  a  broader  scale,  coming  to  Salt 
Lake  City  in  March,  1882,  where  he  soon  had 
large  classes  and  became  director  of  the  local 
Opera  Company,  which  gave,  under  his  supervis- 
ion such  operas  as  Martha,  the  Bohemian  Girl 
and  Days  of  Regret,  all  of  which  were  received 
with  warm  approval  by  the  music  loving  people. 
He  was  also  organist  of  the  Choral  Society,  an 
organization  composed  of  Salt  Lake  talent,  and 
which  numbered  four  hundred  members.  The 
success  of  this  society  led  up  to  his  being  em- 
ployed by  the  Church  to  take  charge  of  the  Tab- 
ernacle Choir,  which  was  reorganized  and  has 
never  during  the  twelve  years  of  his  leadership 
numbered  less  than  three  hundred  members,  and 
has  now  double  that  number.  The  leaders  of  the 
Mormons  have  ever  believed  in  doing  things  on 
a  large  scale,  and  it  is  but  fitting  that  such  a  choir 
should  be  supported  by  one  of  the  largest  and 
finest  toned  instruments  in  the  known  world, 
which  is  ably  presided  over  by  Professor  John  J. 
McClellan,  a  noted  musician,  whose  biographical 
sketch  will  be  foimd  in  this  work.  This  organ 
is,  in  its  way,  as  famous  as  the  choir,  and  Profes- 
sor McClellan  has  come  into  prominence  through 
the  free  organ  recitals  given  every  week  in  the 
tabernacle,  and  which  are  largely  attended  and 
appreciated  not  alone  by  the  visitors  to  the  city, 
but  also  bv  those  who  make  their  homes  here  and 


whose  occupations  allow  them  leisure  time  to 
spend  in  this  way.  One  of  the  pleasantest  fea- 
tures of  these  recitals  and  song  services  is  the 
fact  that  they  have  the  hearty  support  and  admi- 
ration of  the  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City,  irrespec- 
tive of  religious  creed. 

Professor  Stephens  has  not  only  spent  his  time 
perfecting  the  choir  for  work  in  Church  services, 
but  he  has  also  devoted  a  large  portion  of  his  time 
giving  concerts,  both  at  home  and  abroad.  Ex- 
cept during  the  times  when  they  have  been  in 
special  training  for  some  contemplated  trip,  the 
choir  has  given  at  least  one  grand  concert  in  the 
city  every  winter,  and  its  concerts  have  been  the 
feature  of  the  Church  Conferences  held  here  twice 
every  year.  They  visited  the  World's  Fair  and 
have  been  a  number  of  times  in  California,  their 
last  trip  there  being  made  in  the  spring  of  1902, 
and  have  also  made  a  number  of  trips  into  the  ad- 
joining States.  Their  concerts  thus  far  have 
netted  them  over  fifty  thousand  dollars,  and  they 
are  entirely  free  from  debt.  Professor  Stephens 
also  made  a  trip  to  Paris  during  the  Exposition. 

He  has  traveled  considerably,  both  at  home  and 
abroad,  and  during  a  trip  to  Boston  took  some 
special  instructions  from  Professors  Chadwick 
and  Whittney,  which  was,  however,  more  in  the 
nature  of  a  review  of  work  already  done.  In  1889 
he  spent  several  months  in  Europe,  visiting  Paris, 
London  and  all  the  northern  countries  of  Europe. 
He  is  also  a  composer  of  some  note,  devoting 
much  time  to  Sunday  School  music,  and  also  a 
number  of  songs  and  operas,  which  have  been 
rendered  in  the  Tabernacle.  His  "Hosannah" 
and  "Tempest"  are  the  most  widely  known. 
Among  his  first  compositions  was  "The  Gushing 
lit  the  Rill, "which  he  produced  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen years. 

Professor  Stephens  has  always  been  a  faithful 
and  devoted  member  of  the  Church  in  which  he 
was  born  and  raised,  and  for  which  he  has  labored 
the  greater  portion  of  his  life.  He  has  never  mar- 
ried. He  is  of  a  most  pleasing  personality,  but 
like  all  truly  great  people  very  modest  and  unas- 
suming regarding  his  talents  and  work.  He  un- 
doubtedly stands  at  the  head  of  his  profession, 
and  enjoys  the  respect  and  admiration  of  thous- 


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ands    who    have    been    asslociated    with    him    or 
known  of  his  work. 


AMES  F.  DUNN.  The  supremacy  of 
the  United  States  in  the  commercial 
world  has  been  largely  gained  through 
the  rapid  development  which  has  taken 
place  in  its  industrial  life  and  the  ability 
of  its  citizens  to  successfully  cope  with  and 
subdue  adverse  conditions.  In  all  the  history 
of  the  world  there  has  been  no  more  remarkable 
chapter  than  the  settlement  of  America,  and  its 
growth  from  a  new  and  wild  land  to  the  leader- 
ship of  the  world  in  the  short  space  of  two  cen- 
turies. The  position  it  has  acquired  in  commer- 
cial life  it  also  occupies  in  the  fields  of  invention 
and  the  application  of  the  products  of  the  minds 
of  men  to  the  needs  of  the  people.  Few  inven- 
tions have  aided  so  much  in  the  civilization  of  the 
West  and  the  development  of  its  resources,  as 
has  the  progress  made  in  the  perfection  of  steam 
engineering.  To  the  railroad  is  due  in  a  large 
measure  the  growth  of  this  region,  and  coupled 
with  the  telegraph  it  has  brought  the  West  into 
instant  touch  with  the  financial  centers'  of  the 
East.  The  railroad  era  of  the  United  States  has 
been  the  product  of  the  past  fifty  years ;  from  ^ 
crude  beginning  with  engines  capable  of  a  speed 
of  but  four  miles  an  hour,  iron  rails  spiked  to 
stone  blocks,  and  cars  that  were  but  an  adapta- 
tion of  the  stage  coach  to  an  iron  railway,  it  has 
now  reached  the  highest  point  of  development 
known  to  the  world,  and  its  trains  are  equipped 
with  all  the  comforts  and  luxuries  that  human 
intelligence  can  devise.  Its  rails  are  now  of  the 
heaviest  steel,  laid  on  securely  ballasted  road- 
ways, and  the  engines  are  marvels  of  engineer- 
ing skill,  not  uncommonly  traveling  eighty  miles 
in  the  space  of  an  hour.  No  matter  what  the  de- 
velopment has  been  in  the  roadway  it  has  alway.s 
fallen  to  the  motive  power  department  to  keep 
ahead  of  these  improvements  and  to  furnish  loco- 
motives and  cars  of  a  type  that  will  easily  per- 
form all  the  conditions  which  the  rapid  advance 
of  civilization  demands.  The  locomotive  of  to- 
day  is  a  product  of  evolution,  and  one   which, 


when  compared  with  the  crude  wood  or  coal 
burning  engines  of  the  forties,  seems  to  be  an 
entirely  radical  departure  from  the  first  efforts 
made  to  shorten  distance  and  cheat  time.  The 
work  of  increasing  the  power  and  efficiency  of 
locomotives,  and  at  the  same  time  keep  within 
bounds  the  cost  of  operation,  has  been  a  problem 
which  has  confronted  the  entire  engineering 
world.  The  motive  power  department  bears  the 
same  relation  to  a  railroad  as  the  distribution  de- 
partment does  to  an  army.  To  properly  discharge 
the  duties  of  this  position  requires  a  man  of  un- 
usual ability,  together  with  a  wide  and  varied  ex- 
perience in  all  the  problems  of  modern  railroad- 
ing. The  economical  consumption  of  fuel ;  the 
greatest  results  from  the  operation  of  the  ma- 
chinery, together  with  the  comfort  and  safety  of 
the  passengers,  are  among  the  many  problems 
that  confronts  the  railroad  man,  and  charged  with 
these  cares  and  responsibilities  is  the  man  under 
whose  direction  the  motive  power  of  the  road  is 
supplied,  and  the  pressing  needs  for  swifter  en- 
gines and  modern  cars  successfully  met.  To  the 
position  of  General  Superintendent  of  the  motive 
power  department  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  has 
been  called  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  A  man 
who,  by  his  wide  experience,  has  won  for  him- 
self in  railroad  and  scientific  circles  a  reputation 
of  being  among  the  first  in  his  profession  in  the 
United  States. 

James  F.  Dunn  was  born  in  Onondago  county, 
seven  miles  from  Auburn,  New  York,  in  a  small 
town  called  Skaneattles,  in  1854.  He  remained 
in  the  East  but  six  years,  and  when  that  age  his 
parents  removed  to  San  Jose,  California,  where 
he  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  State.  He  spent  his  boyhood  days 
in  California  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he 
went  to  Sacramento  and  served  his  apprentice- 
ship as  machinist  in  the  shops  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad,  where  he  continued  to  be  em- 
ployed until  1876,  when  he  left  its  service  and  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad 
Company,  serving  as  machinist,  fireman,  en- 
gineer, and  later  foreman  of  the  shops  in  Wyom- 
ing and  Idaho,  and  finally  rose  to  be  Master  Me- 
chanic,  to  which   position   he   was   appointed   in 


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1890,  with  headquarters  at  Pocatello,  on  the  main 
line  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad.  He  contin- 
ued as  Master  Mechanic  of  this  company  until 
March,  1897,  when  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Rail- 
road, which  formed  a  part  of  the  Union  Pacific 
system,  was  taken  out  of  the  general  system,  and 
commands  its  own  officers.  When  this  was  done 
Mr.  Dunn  was  appointed  General  Superintendent 
of  Motive  Power,  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
Road,  with  headquarters  at  Salt  Lake  City,  which 
position  he  has  continued  to  occupy  from  that 
time.  He  has  risen  through  every  stage  of  me- 
chanical work,  from  an  apprentice,  until  now  he 
occupies  the  highest  position  in  the  motive  power 
department,  being  charged  with  the  responsibil- 
ities and  care  of  the  entire  motive  power  and  roll- 
ing stock  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad. 

Mr.  Dunn  is  married,  and  has  two  daughters, 
Edna  and  Margaret. 

In  political  life  he  is  and  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican,  but  has  never  been  a  can- 
didate for  office,  nor  would  he  consent  to  occupy 
a  public  position.  He  has  devoted  his  entire  atten- 
tion to  his  profession,  for  which  he  had  a  strong 
predilection  even  in  his  boyhood  days,  and  one 
cause  of  his  successful  career  is  undoubtedly  the 
fact  that  he  has  devoted  his  energies  to  the  work 
for  which  he  was  best  fitted.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Alta  Club  of  this  city.  He  is  looked  upon  as  one 
of  the  most  substantial  and  influential  men  in  the 
business  life  of  Utah,  and  the  ability  with  which 
he  has  discharged  his  duties  in  the  railroad  field 
has  won  for  him  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  the 
directors  and  stockholders  of  the  company,  and 
has  made  for  him  a  host  of  warm  friends  through- 
out the  State. 


ATTHEW  CULLEN.  The  traveler 
of  today  from  the  vantage  point  of  a 
Pullman  car  in  traveling  over  the 
prairies  and  mountains  of  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  United  States,  views 
with  complacency  the  beautiful  scenery  through 
which  he  travels,  and  marks  with  an  appreciative 
eye  the  work  which  has  been  carried  on  by  the 
men  who  have  settled   in  that  region.     Few  of 


them,  however,  appreciate  the  struggles  and  the 
terrible  work  which  have  been  entailed  in  bring- 
ing the  country  to  its  present  position,  and  in 
making  the  railroads  possible.  The  advances 
which  have  been  made  by  railroad  construction 
throughout  the  West,  has  not  only  brought  the 
far  portions  of  the  country  into  almost  instant 
communication,  but  has  reduced  to  a  minimum 
the  dangers  and  toil  of  travel.  The  traveler  can- 
not appreciate  nor  in  any  way  understand  the 
hardships  suffered  by  the  pioneers  who  made 
their  way  by  ox  team  and  by  hand  cart  from  the 
outposts  of  civilization  across  the  great  Ameri- 
can desert  to  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and,  in  fact, 
all  of  the  inter-mountain  region,  in  the  late  forties 
and  throughout  the  decades  of  the  fifties  and  the 
sixties.  The  tide  of  emigration  which  flowed 
into  the  western  country  upon  the  discovery  of 
gold  in  California,  and  the  discovery  of  precious 
metals  throughout  Montana,  Idaho,  Nevada  and 
all  of  the  inter-mountain  region,  brought  in  its 
train  untold  suffering.  The  barrenness  of  the 
country  and  the  want  of  water  resulted  in  many 
privations,  until  the  farmers  could  till  the  land 
and  reap  crops,  which  were  often  too  meagre  for 
the  demands  made  upon  them.  Through  all 
these  trials,  however,  passed  the  men  who  are 
now  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Utah,  and  of  all 
the  other  western  States,  and  who  by  the  indom- 
itable will,  energy  and  determination  which  they 
displayed,  made  for  themselves  and  for  their 
country  an  imperishable  record  for  courage  and 
endurance.  Passing  through  all  these  trials,  suf- 
fering all  the  hardships  incident  to  the  settle- 
ment of  a  new  country,  taking  hold  of  and  doing 
with  all  his  might  whatever  first  came  to  his 
hand,  and  finally  enjoying  the  triumph  of  a  suc- 
cessful life,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Matthew  Cullen  was  born  in  Ireland,  July  17, 
1840.  He  is  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Catherine 
(Rice)  Cullen.  They,  too,  were  natives  of  Ire- 
land, and  came  to  the  United  States  when  our 
subject  was  about  twelve  years  of  age.  The 
father  followed  farming  all  through  life.  He 
died  in  Oakland,  Maryland,  during  the  Civil 
War,  aged  about  sixty  years,  and  the  mother  died 
in  the  same  place  aged  about  seventy. 


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Our  subject  spent  his  early  life  in  Alleghany 
county,  Maryland,  and  his  scholastic  education, 
such  as  it  was,  was  received  in  the  common 
schools  of  that  State.  He  was  early  forced  to 
earn  his  own  living,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
was  apprenticed  to  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith,  and 
followed  that  occupation  for  three  years.  The 
indomitable  spirit  which  he  displayed  throughout 
his  life  was  demonstrated  by  his  independence  and 
spirit  in  striking  out  from  his  home  at  the  age 
of  seventeen,  in  1857,  and  crossing  the  great 
American  plains  in  that  year,  driving  a  team  as 
far  as  Fort  Bridger,  in  the  spring  of  1858,  and 
later  returned  to  Fort  Laramie,  Wyoming,  for 
supplies,  after  which  he  returned  to  Fort  Bridger 
and  secured  employment  herding  cattle  for  the 
government,  and  later  being  in  charge  of  the 
government  stock  at  what  is  now  Stockton.  He 
continued  in  this  employment  until  May  15.  i860, 
when  he  started  with  the  United  States  army  to 
New  Mexico  under  Colonel  Morrison,  and  in  the 
same  year  left  the  army  and  returned  to  his  home 
in  Maryland.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War 
in  1861,  he  was  appointed  camp-master  and  sent 
to  Oakland,  Maryland,  and  later  to  West  Vir- 
ginia as  wagon-master  of  Gen.  Rosecrans'  army. 
After  the  campaign  in  that  year  he  was  sent  to 
Lebanon,  Kentucky,  and  had  charge  of  the  cor- 
rals there,  being  in  charge  of  the  camp  equip- 
age and  animals  at  the  time  of  the  battle  of 
Mill  Springs.  He  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
Pittsburg  Landing,  being  wagon-master  of  the 
government  property  there,  and  later  chief  wag- 
on-master under  Captain  Bringerhoflf. 

He  then  returned  to  Louisville,  Kentucky  and 
was  employed  in  hiring  men  for  the  government 
and  later  went  to  Nashville,  Tennessee.  He  re- 
mained in  this  section  of  the  country  for  two 
years  as  brigade  wagon-master,  and  then  was 
attached  to  General  Sherman's  army  and  was 
with  the  General  on  his  famous  march  from  At- 
lanta to  the  sea,  having  charge  of  the  wagon  and 
camp  equipage  of  the  First  Division,  Twentieth 
Corps.  He  served  all  through  the  Civil  War  with 
courage  and  ability,  and  at  the  close  returned  to 
his  home  in  Maryland.  His  mother  and  his  sis- 
ter, Mrs.  Rasche,  were  living  just  outside  of  the 


city  of  Hancock  in  that  State.  His  brother  Mich- 
ael had  elisted  with  the  Confederate  forces  and 
was  taken  prisoner  at  Atlanta,  Georgia,  and  sent 
to  Camp  Douglas  prison  at  Chicago.  At  the  close 
of  the  war,  Mr.  Cullen,  after  a  short  visit  at  his 
home  in  Maryland,  went  to  Chicago  and  was  in- 
strumental in  having  his  brother  released. 

In  the  fall  of  1865  our  subject  came  to  Denver 
and  remained  there  only  a  sliort  time,  leaving  at 
once  for  the  mines.  He  secured  employment  in 
the  Bobtail  Mine  and  later  in  the  Clear  Creek 
Mine.  In  the  latter  he  engaged  as  a  placer  miner 
and  remained  in  that  employment  until  the  spring 
of  1867,  when  he  abandoned  mining  ana  took  up 
railroad  contracting.  He  owned  and  operated 
many  teams  and  in  i:he  building  of  the  Union  Pa- 
cific railroad  through  Wyoming  and  Utah,  he 
supplied  a  great  many  teams  for  the  construc- 
tion work  of  that  road,  and  remained  in  these 
two  States  until  the  building  of  the  Wasatch  tun- 
nel, when  he  came  to  that  place  and  sold  all  his 
teams.  He  then  removed  to  Echo,  Utah,  and 
there  he  bought  four  mule  teams  and  made  four 
trips  freighting  from  Salt  Lake  City  to  Echo. 
From  this  time  on  he  has  been  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  development  of  the  resources  of 
the  State,  especially  of  its  mines.  He  has  taken 
a  prominent  part  in  the  building  of  railroads  and 
in  the  development  of  the  railroad  facilities  of 
Utah.  In  those  early  times  he  was  active  in  af- 
fording access  to  and  from  the  mines  both  for 
passengers  and  freight,  and  during  the  excitement 
at  White  Pine,  Nevada,  he  conducted  passengers 
to  the  new  fields.  He  later  hauled  freight  from 
Hamilton  to  Robinson,  Nevada,  a  distance  of 
forty  miles,  and  secured  for  his  services  a  toll 
of  five  cents  a  pound.  He  remained  here  for  up- 
wards of  a  year  at  different  kinds  of  work,  do- 
ing whatever  he  could  to  sustain  himself  and  at 
the  same  time  prospecting  for  ore.  He  left  his 
prospects,  however,  which  haa  not  proved  suc- 
cessful, although  he  had  between  forty  and  fifty 
claims  in  that  vicinity.  He  then  went  to  Silver 
Park  district,  and  in  company  with  Dennis  Ryan, 
as  partner,  carried  on  prospecting  there,  and  later 
went  to  L'tah  together  with  James  C.  O'Neil, 
prospecting.     This  was  the  turning  of  his   for- 


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tune  so  far  as  mining  was  concerned.  They  dis- 
covered the  Star  District  mines  in  Beaver 
county,  Utah,  with  which  our  subject  has  been 
connected  ever  since ;  at  the  same  time  associating 
himself  with  other  mining  projects  in  that  dis- 
trict He  and  Allen  G.  Campbell,  Gus  Byram 
and  Dennis  Ryan  bought  the  Horn  Silver  Mine, 
The  mining  operations  which  Mr.  Cullen  has  car- 
ried on  have  not  been  confined  to  the  limits  of 
Utah,  but  have  extended  over  the  entire  inter- 
mountain  region. 

He  has  also  taken  a  lively  interest  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  has  aided  greatly  in  its  development. 
Fourteen  years  ago  he  built  the  present  building 
occupied  by  the  Cullen  Hotel,  one  of  the  leading 
with  which  they  were  identified  for  many  years, 
hotels  of  the  city,  and  one  which  has  not  only  a 
high  reputation  throughout  the  State,  but  is 
known  all  over  the  country  as  a  first-class  hotel. 
He  also  owns  the  Gault  house  in  Chicago,  one  of 
the  historic  hotels  of  that  city.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Salt  Lake  Brewing  Company,  which 
position  he  has  held  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Cullen  married  in  Beaver,  Utah,  December 
19,  1878,  to  Miss  Emma  J.  Thompson,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  W.  and  Julia  (Fish)  Thompson. 
She  was  a  niece  of  Hon.  Ezra  Thompson,  the 
present  Mayor  of  Salt  Lake  City.  His  wife  was  a 
native  of  Utah,  her  parents  having  been  among 
the  early  settlers  of  this  State.  By  this  marriage 
Mr.  Cullen  has  two  children,  Nellie  M.  and  Julia 
Catherine.     Mrs.  Cullen  died  June  18,  1888. 

Mr.  Cullen  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  and  is  one  of  its  strongest  members  and 
principal  supporters  in  Utah.  He  has  made  his 
home  in  Salt  Lake  City  for  the  past  sixteen  years, 
where  he  owns  a  spacious  and  comfortable  resi- 
dence. 

Mr.  Cullen  is  essentially  a  self-made  man  and 
the  career  which  he  has  made  in  Utah  marks  him 
as  one  of  the  most  successful  men  of  this  region. 
Starting  out  as  he  did  at  the  early  age  of  four- 
teen, with  but  a  limited  scholastic  education,  most 
of  his  knowledge  has  been  derived  from  the  daily 
lessons  in  the  great  book  of  life's  experiences. 
He  has  met  every  difficulty  with  unfaltering  cour- 
age and  unwaverins:  determination.    He  has  suc- 


cessfully surmounted  difficulties  that  would  have 
proved  a  stumbling  block  to  and  daunted  most 
men.  The  career  which  he  has  made  entitles  him 
to  the  front  rank  among  the  pioneers  of  the  State, 
and  throughout  this  region  there  is  no  man  who 
is  held  in  higher  esteem  than  he  is.  His  genial 
and  pleasant  manner,  his  business  ability ;  his  in- 
tegrity and  honesty,  and  his  application  and 
broad-mindedness,  have  made  him  one  of  the 
most  popular  men  in  Utah  and  he  enjoys  the 
friendship  of  a  wide  circle  of  friends. 


HARLES  H.  JENKINSON,  Local 
Treasurer  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
Railroad.  Few  young  men  in  the  rail- 
road service  have  made  a  better  or 
more  satisfactory  record  than  has  Mr. 
Jenkinson.  Nearly  his  entire  business  life  has 
been  devoted  to  some  department  of  railroad 
work,  and  step  by  step  he  has  been  promoted,  un- 
til he  now  holds  one  of  the  most  important  posi- 
tions in  the  railroad  world  in  this  western  country. 
Mr.  Jenkinson  was  born  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  in 
i860,  receiving  his  education  from  the  common 
and  high  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  at  the 
age  of  eighteen  came  West,  locating  in  Logan, 
Utali,  where  he  was  employed  in  the  supply  de- 
partment of  the  Union  Pacific  railroad  for  some 
time,  and  was  later  transferred  to  Pocatello, 
Idaho,  where  he  became  chief  clerk  in  the  office 
of  the  superintendent.  From  there  he  was  sent 
to  Idaho  Falls,  in  the  same  capacity,  and  after  re- 
maining there  for  a  time  quit  the  railroad  service 
and  went  to  Anaconda,  ^^lontana,  where  he  was 
for  a  year  identified  with  one  of  the  leading 
smelters  of  that  place.  Returning  to  Pocatello, 
he  became  Cashier  in  the  National  Bank  of  Idaho, 
filling  that  position  from  1893  to  1895.  In  the 
latter  year  he  again  accepted  a  position  as  chief 
clerk  in  the  Superintendent's  office  at  Pocatello, 
remaining  there  until  1897,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  this  city  and  held  the  same  position 
under  Mr.  E.  E.  Calvin,  until  February,  1901, 
at  which  time  he  was  promoted  to  his  present 
responsible  position  as  local  treasurer  of  the  Ore- 
gon Short  Line  Railroad. 

Mr.   Jenkinson   was  married  in   Anaconda,   in 


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1896,  to  Miss  Mary  A.  R.  St.  Clair,  daughter  of 
W.  P.  P.  St.  Clair,  also  a  prominent  railroad 
man,  who  was  for  many  years  connected  with 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  but  is  at  present  en- 
gaged in  the  same  line  of  work  in  Ohio.  Four 
daughters  have  been  born  of  this  marriage. 

In  political  life  our  subject's  sympathies  have 
always  been  with  the  Republican  party,  but  owing 
to  the  nature  of  his  business  he  has  never  been 
actively  identified  with  the  work  of  the  party, 
nor  sought  or  held  public  office. 

During  the  years  he  has  spent  in  Salt  Lake  City 
Mr.  Jenkinson  has,  by  his  manly  and  upright 
life,  won  many  friends,  not  alone  among  his  busi- 
ness associates  and  employers,  but  in  social  cir- 
cles, where  he  and  his  estimable  wife  are  well 
known  members. 


nOAR  W.  DUXCAX.  The  city  of 
v^alt  Lake  is  distinguished  not  only  for 
its  superb  climate,  location,  extensive 
agricultural  resources  and  mineral 
wealth,  but  also  for  its  resolute  and 
■aggressive  men  of  business,  whose  broad  intelli- 
gence and  enterprise  have  developed  these  forces. 
It  matters  very  little  to  what  extent  a  city  may 
be  so  endowed ;  it  must  also  be  re-enforced  with 
a  financial  system,  a  monetary  organism,  so 
intelligently  and  vigorously  managed  as  to  with- 
stand the  vicissitudes  that  are  inevitable  in  the 
development  of  new  American  cities  of  sucli 
growth  as  Salt  Lake  has  experienced.  In  this 
particular  Salt  Lake  has  been  especially  favored, 
and  prominent  among  the  financiers  who  have  so 
ably  directed  her  affairs  is  Edgar  D.  Duncan. 
He  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  1894  to  assume 
charge  of  the  Xational  Bank  of  the  Republic,  as 
its  Cashier,  which  position  he  held  until  January 
10,  1901,  when  he  resigned  in  order  to  devote  his 
entire  time  'and  attention  to  the  management  of 
his  wide  and  varied  enterprises.  In  the  history 
of  Salt  Lake  City  there  probably  never  has  been 
any  man  who  was  so  closely  identified  with  the 
financial  growth  of  the  city,  and  indeed  of  LUah, 
as  well,  during  the  time  Mr.  Duncan  held  his  po- 
iition  in  the  bank,  as  was  he. 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Spring 
Hill,  Pennsylvania,  December  30,  1846,  and  lived 
there  until  nine  years  old.  His  parents  then  re- 
moved to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  here  their  son 
spent  his  succeeding  years  until  his  removal  to 
Salt  Lake  City  in  1894.  His  early  education, 
such  as  it  was,  was  derived  from  the  common 
schools  of  Dubuque,  but  he  started  on  his  business 
carrer  at  an  early  age,  first  selling  newspapers 
and  doing  well  whatever  came  first  to  his  hand 
and  learning  his  lessons  well  from  the  daily  book 
of  life's  experiences.  He  later  worked  at  pho- 
tography, securing  employment  in  a  studio  in 
Dubuque  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen  started  in 
business  for  himself.  Owing  to  the  Civil  War, 
which  was  then  at  its  height,  the  demand  for 
breadstuffs  was  greater  than  the  supply,  and  Mr. 
Duncan,  realizing  the  opportunities  that  this  state 
of  affairs  presented,  entfered  that  business  under 
the  firm  name  of  Thompson  &  Dimcan,  and  this 
he  followed  during  the  entire  time  that  the  war 
lasted.  The  financial  success  of  this  undertaking 
foreshadowed  his  later  successes  in  life  in  broader 
fields,  and  equipped  him  with  invaluable  experi- 
ence that  he  employed  so  judiciously  in  his  later 
enterprises  that  he  is  now  a  man  of  independent 
wealth. 

.\t  the  termination  of  hostilities  he  disposed  of 
his  interest  in  the  milling  business  and  entered 
the  real  estate  and  banking  business,  in  which  he 
was  signally  successful  and  followed  that  calling 
for  the  thirty  years  he  remained  in  Dubuque. 
He  was  for  many  years  cashier  of  the  Dubuque 
County  Bank  and  was  a  director  in  that  institu- 
tion prior  to  his  election  as  cashier.  He  aided 
materially  in  the  development  of  that  city  and 
held  large  interests  in  many  of  its  more  important 
enterprises  and  by  his  ability  and  integrity  be- 
came one  of  the  leading  men.  not  only  of  his 
home  city,  but  of  the  State  of  Iowa  as  well. 

J.  K.  Duncan,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania  and  carried  on  an  exten- 
sive iron  business  in  that  State  .  Upon  his  removal 
to  Iowa  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  loan 
business  in  Dubuque  and  followed  that  business 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  His  family  were 
among  the  early    settlers    of    Pennsylvania  and 


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were  highly  respected  and  influential  people  in 
their  community.  His  wife,  Anna  (Volephant) 
Duncan,  and  the  mother  of  Edgar  W.  Duncan, 
was  also  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  her  brothers 
were  also  engaged  in  the  iron  business  close  to 
the  establishment  of  her  husband  in  that  State. 
Her  family  were  well  represented  in  the  Civil 
War,  and,  in  addition  to  four  of  her  sons  who 
were  enegaged  in  that  struggle,  she  also  had 
seven  nephews  serving  in  the  Federal  forces,  one 
of  whom  rose  to  the  rank  of  Brigadier  General. 
Of  her  own  sons,  two  were  killed  in  action,  while 
serving  under  General  Sheridan  and  the  other 
two,  who  also  served  on  the  Union  side,  were  so 
shattered  by  the  hardships  they  underwent  as  to 
be  practically  broken  down  at  the  time  they  were 
mustered  out  of  the  service. 

Edgar  W.  Duncan  was  married  at  Fulton,  Mis- 
souri, on  January  14.  1874,  to  Miss  Lillian  J.' 
Lawther,  daughter  of  Hans  Lawther,  who  re- 
cently died  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety  years. 
By  this  marriage  they  have  two  children,  one 
son,  Amedee  W.,  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness, and  who  is  married  and  living  in  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota,  and  one  daughter,  Edna  M. 

During  the  seven  years  that  Mr.  Duncan 
served  as  cashier  of  the  National  Bank  of  the 
Republic,  the  deposits  in  that  institution  were  in- 
creased under  his  administration  from  two  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  to  fourteen  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  an  increase  of  over  seven  hundred 
per  cent.  Its  present  satisfactory  financial  con- 
dition is  due  largely  to  him,  and  he  probably  had 
more  to  do  with  placing  it  on  a  solid  financial 
basis  than  any  other  man  who  has  ever  been  con- 
nected with  it.  His  private  interests  in  Utah  had 
grown  to  such  an  extent  that  he  was  finally 
forced  to  withdraw  from  the  bank  and  give  his 
entire  attention  to  them.  He  is  largely  inter- 
ested in  mining  properties  throughout  the  State 
and  is  also  a  large  holder  of  real  estate  in  Salt 
Lake  City,  and  is  a  firm  believer  in  the  future 
importance  of  this  city.  He  is  one  of  the  largest 
owners  of  houses  here  and  has  done  much  to  sup- 
ply the  demand  for  homes,  which  has  grown  so 
rapidly  within  the  last  decade.  He  is  also  Vice 
President  and  Director  in  the  Salt  Lake  Directory 


Company  and  holds  large  interests  in  other  im- 
portant enterprises,  both  in  Salt  Lake  and 
throughout  the  State. 

In  political  life,  Mr.  Duncan  is  a  believer  in 
the  principles  espoused  by  the  Republican  party, 
but  owing  to  his  active  business  life  has  not  had 
the  time  to  participate  actively  in  the  work  of 
the  party  and  has  never  sought  public  office.  In 
fraternal  life  he  is  a  leading  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  being  now  Supreme  Repre- 
sentative. He  first  associated  himself  with  this 
order  in  1878,  when  he  joined  Apollo  Lodge,  No. 
41.  at  Dubuque,  and  after  filling  the  various  of- 
fices in  tlie  subordinate  lodge,  became  Grand 
Chancellor  of  the  order  in  that  State,  in  1888, 
during  which  time  thirty-two  new  lodges  were 
organized  and  twenty-five  hundred  new  members 
added  to  the  rolls.  During  the  convention  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  at  Dubuque  in  that  year,  Mrs.  Dun- 
can was  made  an  honorary  member  of  the  order, 
a  distinction  never  before  accorded  to  any  woman. 
On  his  removal  to  Salt  Sale  City  Mr.  Duncan  af- 
filiated with  Zion  Lodge,  No.  12,  and  at  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  Park  City,  in  1897 
was  elected  to  the  position  of  Supreme  Represen- 
tative for  a  period  of  four  years.  He  also  holds 
membership  in  the  Workmen's  Order  of  Du- 
buque. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.F. 
and  the  Elks  Lodge. 

Mr.  Duncan  is  essentially  a  self-made  man, 
who  owes  his  present  successful  position  in  life 
to  his  own  eflforts.  Thrown  on  his  own  resources 
at  an  early  age  he  has  successfully  overcome  ev- 
ery obstacle  that  stood  between  him  and  success. 
Some  idea  of  his  character  may  be  gained  from 
the  fact  that  during  the  twenty-one  years  in  which 
he  was  associated  with  Mr.  John  R.  Waller  in 
business  at  Dubuque,  there  was  never  a  cross 
word  between  them,  notwithstanding  the  enor- 
mous business  projects  they  successfully  carried 
to  completion.  The  successful  career  he  made 
in  Iowa  has  been  continued  in  Utah,  and  today 
there  is  not  a  more  widely  known  man  throughout 
the  State  nor  one  who  stands  higher  in  the  confi- 
dence and  esteem  of  the  people  than  does  he,  and 
he  is  easily  among  the  foremost  men  in  the  worlds 
of  business  and  finance  of  Utah. 


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LARENXE  J.  McXITT,  Auditor  of 
the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railway.  The 
tourist  sitting  at  ease  in  the  palatial 
cars  of  the  fast  express,  or  in  the 
less  elaborate  but  equally  comfortable 
coaches  of  the  train  that  bears  him  swiftly  across 
mountain  and  plain,  setting  him  down  at  the  end 
of  a  week's  journey  less  fatigued  than  he  would 
be  from  one  day's  ride  in  an  ordinary  carriage, 
takes  but  little  thought  nor  would  scarce  be  able 
to  comprehend  the  vast  outlay  of  expense  and 
labor  required  in  supplying  him  with  the  almost 
endless  contrivances  for  his  happiness,  comfort 
and  safety.  The  operating  of  a  railroad  has  been 
systematized  to  a  degree  of  almost  absolute  per- 
fection, and  while  its  patrons  complain  often  and 
loud  of  the  amount  of  "red  tape"  to  be  gone 
through  with  before  a  matter  can  be  adjusted,  it 
is  just  this  system  that  enables  the  heads  of  the 
various  departments,  to  without  hesitation  put 
their  hands  upon  the  cause  of  any  difficulty  or 
know  at  a  glance  the  exact  condition  of  the  entire 
system.  There  is  perhaps  no  better  posted  man 
or  one  better  qualified  to  give  opinion  upon 
the  general  and  specific  condition  of  a  road  than 
its  Auditor.  Through  his  hands  must  pass  the  re- 
sults of  the  work  in  every  department,  and  to  him 
the  heads  of  the  road  look  to  see  that  no  man 
in  any  department  is  abusng  his  power  or  author- 
ity in  making  useless  expenditure  or  neglecting 
to  husband  the  resources  already  at  hand. 

Clarence  J.  McNitt  is  a  native  of  Wisconsin, 
being  born  in  Columbia  county.  His  father,  E. 
W.  McNitt  was  a  merchant  in  that  State 
and  a  man  of  considerable  prominence.  He 
served  in  the  Legislature  of  his  State  during  the 
Civil  War,  and  died  some  years  later,  when  our 
subject  was  but  fourteen  years  of  age.  His  wife 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Rhoda  Boutwell.  She 
is  still  living  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  she  came 
with  her  son  a  few  years  ago. 

Our  subject  moved  to  northern  Iowa  when  a 
young  boy  and  is  indebted  to  the  schools  of  that 
district  for  his  education.  He  began  his  railroad 
career  with  the  Milwaukee  and  Saint  Paul  Rail- 
road in  1876,  at  about  the  age  of  nineteen.  He 
remained  with  this  company  about  nine  years,  em- 


ployed in  the  operating  department,  in  numerous 
capacities.  He  then  spent  a  year  in  the  Auditor's 
office  of  the  Omaha  and  St.  Louis  Railway,  and 
from  there  went  to  Omaha,  where  he  accepted  a 
position  in  the  Auditor's  office  of  the  Union  Pa- 
cific Railroad.  Here  he  continued  until  March 
16,  1897,  at  which  time  the  business  of  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  Company  and  the  Oregon  Short 
Line  Railroad  Company  was  segregated,  and  Mr. 
McNitt  was  transferred  to  the  office  of  the  Audi- 
tor of  the  latter  company  at  Salt  Lake,  where  he 
became  chief  clerk  of  the  freight  accounts.  He 
continued  in  this  position  until  June  i,  1901, 
when  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  Acting 
Auditor,  and  June  ist,  1902,  appointed  Auditor, 
which  position  he  still  retains. 

Mr.  McNitt  was  married  in  Council  Bluffs, 
Iowa,  in  1887,  to  Miss  Mary  Cooley,  also  a  native 
of  Wisconsin.  Two  sons  and  one  daughter  have 
been  born  of  this  marriage — Albert,  Helen  and 
Gordon. 

In  politics  he  is  a  believer  in  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party,  but  owing  to  the  nature  of 
his  duties  has  never  actively  participated  in  the 
work  of  his  party.  Koth  himself  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Nitt are  active  members  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  this  city,  and  Mrs.  McNitt  is  prom- 
inent in  the  work  of  the  Sunday  School  and  also 
of  the  different  societies  of  the  ladies  of  the 
Church. 

In  fraternal  circles  IMr.  McNitt  is  a  Mason. 
He  has  his  membership  in  the  Blue  Lodge, 
Knights  of  Pythias  and  Royal  Arcanum,  of  Salt 
Lake  City. 

At  the  present  time  the  Oregon  Short  Line 
headquarters  are  located  in  the  Deseret  News 
Building,  occupying  the  fourth,  fifth  and  sixth 
floors.  Mr.  McNitt  with  his  force  of  eighty 
clerks  occupying  most  of  the  fifth  floor. 

Mr.  McNitt  is  a  gentleman,  genial  and  kindly 
in  disposition ;  a  man  of  high  honor  and  unques- 
tioned integrity.  During  the  few  years  he  has 
resided  in  this  City  he  has  made  a  host  of  friends, 
not  alone  among  his  business  associates  and  the 
members  of  his  Church,  where  he  is  very  popular 
but  in  social  circles  as  well,  and  his  friends  feel 
that  his  recent  promotion  has  been  well  de- 
served. 


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\  MUEL  C.  EWING.  The  past  quarter  of 
a  century  in  Utah  has  produced  no  more 
lirominent  or  successful  business  men 
especially  in  the  hotel  line,  than  Samuel 
C.  Ewing,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Ewing  has  been  in  the  hotel  business  in  Utah 
for  the  past  thirty-five  years,  the  greater  portion 
of  which  time  he  has  been  identified  with  the 
hotel  life  of  this  city,  having  had  charge  of  the 
Cullen  hotel  ever  since  it  was  built  and  open-d, 
in  1887.  This  hotel  is  located  on  Second  South, 
between  Main  and  West  Temple  streets,  and  is 
the  headquarters  for  stock  and  mining  men,  and 
also  a  poular  resort  with  the  traveling  public.  It 
is  a  model  of  convenience  and  comfort,  and  the 
designs  were  drawn  by  Mr.  Ewing,  whose  long 
experience  in  this  business  had  peculiarly  fitted 
him  with  a  knowledge  of  the  requirements  of  a 
first-class  hotel. 

Samuel  C.  Ewing  was  born  on  September  11, 
1838,  in  Pittsburg,  Pennsvlyania,  and  is  the  son  of 
John  P.  Ewing,  a  farmer  residing  near  that  city, 
and  it  was  on  this  farm  that  our  subject  spent  his 
boyhood  days,  obtaining  his  education  from  the 
country  schools.  He  remained  with  his  father 
until  about  twenty-three  years  of  age,  at  which 
time  he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  the 
world.  Possessing  an  adventurous  and  ambitious 
spirit,  he  decided  to  visit  the  Pacific  Coast,  of 
which  he  had  heard  wonderful  accounts,  and  ac- 
cordingly started  for  California  in  1861,  going 
by  the  ocean  route,  and  landing  in  San  Francisco 
late  in  that  fall.  He  remained  there  but  a  short 
time,  and  from  there  went  into  Nevada,  locating 
in  Virginian  City,  then  one  of  the  most  flourishing 
and  noted  mining  camps  in  the  West,  and  at  that 
time  at  the  very  height  of  its  prosperity.  The 
shafts  of  some  of  the  mines  extended  down  into 
the  earth  to  a  depth  of  thirty-two  hundred  feet. 
Mr.  Ewing  remained  there  about  six  years,  en- 
gaged in  mining,  being  most  successful  in  that 
venture.  From  V'irginia  City  he  went  into  the 
White  Pine  country,  in  the  same  State,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  general  mercantile  and  lumber 
business,  again  meeting  with  considerable  suc- 
cess. He  conducted  that  business  for  three 
years    and    in    1871    came    to    Utah,    opening 


up  a  hotel  and  becoming  identified  with  the 
mines  in  Ophir  City,  where  he  remained 
for  three  years  and  from  there  went  to  Alta,  in 
the  Little  Cottonwood  canyon,  engaging  in  the 
same  business.  He  remained  in  Alta  for  four 
years,  coming  from  there  to  Salt  Lake  City  in  the 
latter  part  of  1877.  At  that  time  Salt  Lake  was 
little  more  than  a  country  village,  having  very 
few  nice  residences  or  business  buildings.  Upon 
his  arrival  here  Mr.  Ewing  took  charge  of  the 
old  Salt  Lake  hotel,  which  he  conducted  for  a 
short  time  and  then  became  proprietor  of  the 
Clift  House,  then  the  leading  hotel  of  the  city. 
Pie  conducted  the  Clift  House  for  about  nine 
years,  having  a  large  patronage,  and  building  up 
a  reputation  as  one  of  the  most  competent  hotel 
men  in  the  West.  Salt  Lake  City  had  begun  to 
take  on  metropolitan  airs  during  these  years,  and 
it  became  apparent  to  Mr.  Ewing  that  there  was  a 
demand  for  a  better  class  of  hotel  accommoda- 
tions than  was  afforded  by  the  hotel  over  which 
he  presided.  He  accordingly  persuaded  Mr. 
Matthew  Cullen,  whose  biographical  sketch  ap- 
pears elsewhere  in  this  work,  to  build  the  Cullen 
hotel,  submitting  plans  for  the  same.  Believing 
the  proposition  to  be  a  profitable  one,  Mr.  Cullen 
adopted  both  the  suggestion  and  the  plans,  and 
when  the  structure  was  completed  Mr.  Ewing  as- 
sumed charge  as  proprietor,  in  which  capacity  he 
has  since  remained,  conducting  a  first-class  hotel 
and  keeping  in  touch  with  the  requirements  of  the 
day. 

Mr.  Ewing's  marriage  occurred  in  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  April  20, 
1865,  when  he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss  Le- 
nora  Myers,  a  native  of  Wheeling,  West  Virginia. 
Her  parents  had  moved  to  California  when  she 
was  but  an  infant  and  her  life  had  been  spent  in 
the  West.  Mrs.  Ewing  was  a  lady  of  refinement 
and  culture,  of  a  kindly,  gentle  disposition.  She 
died  in  this  city  in  October,  1901,  mourned  by  a 
wide  circle  of  friends.  They  have  one  child, 
Lulu,  who  married  Geo.  W.  Parks,  one  of  Salt 
Lake  City's  prominent  land  attorneys. 

In  politics  Mr.  Ewing  has  always  been  a 
staunch  Republican,  but  has  never  actively  par- 
ticipated in  the  work  of  the  party,  his  time  being 


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occupied  wholly  by  his  business,  yet  he  has  al- 
ways taken  a  keen  interest  in  the  success  of  his 
party  and  stands  high  with  its  leaders.  He  filled 
a  term  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council  and  was 
acting  in  that  capacity  when  the  present  city  and 
county  building  was  planned  and  constructed, 
and  it  was  largely  through  his  efforts  that  one  of 
the  handsomest  public  puildings  in  the  United 
States  graces  the  city  of  Salt  Lake.  Mr.  Ewing's 
name  may  be  seen  on  the  marble  slab  which  hangs 
in  the  hall  of  the  building,  commemorating  the  of- 
ficials who  were  on  the  Council  at  the  time  the 
building  was  erected.  In  fraternal  life  Mr. 
Ewing  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  and  is 
at  this  time  a  Knight  Templar  and  Shriner. 

The  varied  career  through  which  Mr.  Ewing 
has  passed  has  tended  to  develop  the  best  traits 
of  his  nature,  and  he  is  today  a  most  liberal  and 
broad-minded  man,  hospitable  and  charitable. 
He  has  been  closely  identified  with  the  mining 
industries  of  the  State  for  many  years,  and  owns 
some  valuable  mining  properties  at  this  time. 
He  at  one  time  owned  a  claim  in  the  very  heart 
of  the  since  famous  Silver  King  mine,  which  cir- 
cumstances compelled  him  to  dispose  of.  This 
mine  has  since  produced  several  millions  of  dol- 
lars. 


S.  CA:MPBELL,  Secretary  and  Gen- 
eral Manager  of  the  Utah  Light  and 
Power  Company.  Although  the  people 
of  this  day  and  age  are  so  used  to  the 
advantages  and  benefits  derived  either 
directly  or  indirectly  from  the  use  of  electricity 
in  its  almost  endlessly  multiplied  forms  as  to  take 
both  the  old  and  new  uses  in  which  it  is  daily  be- 
ing put  as  a  matter  of  course,  yet  we  are  still 
mindful  of  the  fact  that  we  owe  almost  all  the 
greater  comforts  and  conveniences  of  our  homes 
and  traveling  facilities  to  this  wonderful  agent, 
and  in  no  other  direction,  perhaps,  is  this  more 
fully  demonstrated  than  in  the  matter  of  street 
railway  locomotion  and  the  electric  lighting  sys- 
tem. While  the  Eastern  cities  are  slower  to  adopt 
improved  methods,  having  to  take  into  considera- 
tion the  expense  of  doing  away  with  present  sys- 


tems, the  cities  and  towns  of  the  newer  West  are 
always  ahead  in  the  matter  of  their  improvements, 
as  when  they  are  in  a  position  to  adopt  better 
conditions,  they  invariably  select  the  very  best  in 
its  particular  line,  and  the  result  is  that  in  the 
matter  of  public  conveniences  a  western  city  of 
comparatively  small  population  assumes  a  most 
metropolitan  air.  It  is  thus  that  Salt  Lake  City 
has  today  one  of  the  most  perfect  and  complete 
systems  of  power  and  light  to  be  found  in  the 
West.  The  men  who  first  promoted  these  in- 
dustries laid  a  broad  foundation  upon  which  the 
succeeding  companies  have  been  able  to  build  up 
what  is  rapidly  coming  to  be  an  almost  perfect 
system,  at  a  comparatively  small  cost,  taking  in- 
to consideration  what  the  outlay  has  been ;  there 
having  been  an  inferior  system  in  use  to  be  done 
away  with. 

The  system  now  owned  and  operated  by  the 
L'tah  Light  and  Power  Company,  of  which  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  Secretary  and  Manager, 
comprises  three  water-power  plants,  eighty  miles 
of  high  tension  transmission  lines,  and  also  light 
and  power  distribution  apparatus  in  and  near  Salt 
Lake  City  and  Ogden,  together  with  one  sub-sta- 
tion for  supplying  the  Salt  Lake  City  Railroad 
and  some  reserve  steam  plants.  It  is  perhaps  true 
that  no  other  city  of  its  size  in  the  United  States 
has  brought  electrically  transmitted  power  to 
such  a  relatively  important  place  as  has  Salt 
Lake  City.  The  development,  while  it  started 
early,  has  been  very  rapid,  the  snow-fed  mountain 
streams  to  the  east  of  the  city  affording  unusual 
opportunities  to  the  hydraulic  and  electrical  en- 
gineer. Although  coal  is  not  excessively  high, 
bringing  from  two  dollars  and  a  half  a  ton  for 
slack  to  four  dollars  and  a  half  for  the  best  lump, 
the  close  proximity  of  water  power  with  high 
pressure  to  the  city  and  its  surrounding  smelter 
and  other  power-consuming  industries,  led,  a 
number  of  years  ago  to  the  erection  of  three  wa- 
ter-power plants,  by  as  many  companies.  The 
Big  Cottonwood  Power  Company  erected  a  plant 
in  the  Big  Cottonwood  canyon,  fourteen  miles 
southeast  of  Salt  Lake  City,  several  years  ago; 
the  Pioneer  Electric  Power  Company  started  its 
plant  soon  after,  in  the  Ogden  canyon,  near  Og- 


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den,  thirty-seven  miles  from  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
the  Utah  Power  Company  the  same  year  built 
a  plant  for  transmitting  power  for  the  Salt  Lake 
City  Railroad,  their  plant  being  also  in  the  Big 
Cottonwood  canyon.  These  different  plants  were 
later  consolidated  under  the  name  of  the  Utah 
Light  and  Power  Company,  and  conducted  as 
one  complete  and  comprehensive  system,  covering 
a  district  extending  north  and  south  about  sixty 
miles,  including  Ogden  and  Salt  Lake  City  and 
a  district  about  sixteen  miles  south  of  the  latter 
place,  including  some  large  smelters. 

During  the  year  past  the  company  has  made 
improvements  aggregating  an  outlay  of  one  hun- 
dred thousand  dollars  and  at  this  time  have  in 
course  of  construction  in  the  Ogden  canyon  a 
large  dam  and  reservoir  which  will,  when  com- 
pleted, give  the  Ogden  plant  a  maximum  capacity 
of  eighty-five  hundred  horse-power.  This  reser- 
voir will  have  a  capacity  of  two  billion  cubic  feet 
of  water.  An  arrangement  has  been  made  where- 
by the  farmers  will  have  an  opportuity  to  use 
this  water,  being  a  long  step  forward  in  the  mat- 
ter of  solving  the  irrigation  problem,  and  making 
the  value  of  the  reservoir  two-fold.  At  present 
the  power  is  transmitted  from  Ogden  at  sixteen 
thousand  volts,  and  from  Big  Cottonwood  canyon 
at  twelve  thousand  volts,  and  it  is  expected  that 
they  will  in  the  near  future  have  made  such 
changes  as  will  enable  them  to  transmit  the  en- 
tire power  at  twenty-eight  thousand  volts.  The 
company  is  also  contemplating  the  erection  of  a 
new  station  in  the  western  part  of  the  city,  which, 
when  completed,  will  replace  the  several  sub-sta- 
tions and  auxiliary  steam  plants  in  Salt  Lake 
City. 

This  company  also  owns  an  extensive  gas  plant 
in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  a  smaller  one  in  Ogden. 
In  Salt  Lake  there  are  about  thirty  miles  of  gas 
mains.  The  works  are  located  in  a  two  and  a 
half  acre  lot  in  the  western  portion  of  the  city, 
where  there  is  every  facility  for  the  delivery  of 
coal.  The  plant  has  a  capacity  of  four  hundred 
thousand  cubic  feet  per  day  and  is  a  mixed  coal 
and  water  plant,  being  so  designed  that  either  or 
both  systems  can  be  used  in  the  manufacture  of 
gas.     It  is  the  intention  of  the  company  to  in- 


crease the  capacity  of  this  plant  to  one  million 
cubic  feet  per  day. 

The  officers  of  this  company  are,  Hon.  Joseph 
F.  Smith,  President;  Colonel  John  R.  Winder, 
First  Vice-President;  Colonel  Thomas  G.  Web- 
ber, Second  Vice-President;  L.  S.  Hills,  Treas- 
urer, who  together  with  Rudger  Clawson,  John 
J.  Banigan,  W.  S.  McCornick,  William  J.  Cur- 
tis and  George  Romney,  form  the  directorate. 
Judge  LeGrande  Young  is  the  company's  general 
counsel,  R.  S.  Campbell,  Secretary  and  General 
.Manager,  and  R.  F.  Hayward,  Electric  Engineer. 

R.  S.  Campbell,  the  subject  of  our  sketch,  has 
been  for  some  time  connected  with  the  above  com- 
pany, and  the  large  and  important  improvements 
that  have  been  already  made  and  are  still  in  con- 
templation or  in  course  of  construction  have  been 
carried  on  under  his  personal  supervision,  and  in 
many  instances  at  his  suggestion.  He  is  thorough- 
ly in  touch  with  all  the  best  methods  of  the  adap- 
tation of  energy  as  applied  to  power  and  lighting 
systems,  having  had  many  years  of  practical  expe- 
rience in  this  business,  and  is  one  of  the  aggres- 
sive and  progressive  citizens  of  Salt  Lake  City. 
While  his  wide  knowledge  makes  his  services 
almost  invaluable  to  his  employers,  he  has  also 
won  their  entire  confidence  and  esteem  by  his 
thorough  and  conscientious  business  methods 
and  his  evident  desire  that  the  best  results  shall 
be  obtained  at  the  least  possible  cost.  He  is  well- 
known  among  the  business  men  of  the  city,  with 
whom  he  is  very  popular,  and  in  social  ilfe  en- 
joys a  wide  circle  of  friends,  being  of  a  most 
genial  and  kindly  nature,  courteous  and  a  true 
gentleman  at  all  times. 


TSHOP  GEORGE  ROMNEY.  The 
vast  work  of  improvement  which  has 
been  going  on  in  Utah  during  the  last 
half  century  has  called  for  men  of  brain, 
energj'  and  perseverance,  as  well  as  de- 
termination, to  transform  this  country  from  a 
wild  and  undeveloped  state  to  its  present  most 
wonderfully  prosperous  condition.  Among  the 
men  whose  history  and  life's  work  has  been  closely 
linked  with  nearly  every  enterprise  that  has  been 


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for  the  betterment  and  development  of  not  only 
Utah  but  of  this  whole  inter-mountain  region, 
Bishop  George  Romney,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
deserves  special  mention.  Over  fifty  years  of  the 
most  valuable  period  of  his  life  has  been  spent 
in  Utah,  and  by  his  long  and  honorable  career  in 
this  State  he  has  won  a  host  of  friends  among 
all  classes  and  creeds,  and  today  is  reckoned 
among  the  most  prominent  and  substantial  citi- 
zens of  the  State. 

He  is  a  native  of  England,  having  been  born 
in  Dalton,  Lancashire,  August  14,  1831,  and  is 
therefore  in  his  seventy-first  year,  as  active  and 
full  of  business  as  when  he  was  a  young  man. 
His  father.  Miles  Romney,  was  a  native  of  the 
same  shire  as  our  subject,  and  became  a  member 
of  the  Mormon  church  in  1837.  He  was  ordained 
an  Elder  and  labored  as  a  local  preacher  in  the 
Preston  Conference.  On  February  27,  1841,  he 
sailed  from  Liverpool  with  his  family  on  the  ship 
Sheffield,  and  after  a  voyage  of  seven  weeks  ar- 
rived at  New  Orleans,  then  traveled  up  the  Mis- 
sissippi river  by  boat  to  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  and 
while  there  acted  as  foreman  of  the  construction 
of  the  Nauvoo  Temple.  At  the  time  of  the  exo- 
dus in  1846  he  moved  his  family  to  Burlington, 
Iowa,  where  they  spent  the  winter.  In  the  fol- 
lowing spring  they  moved  to  Saint  Louis  and 
there  made  preparations  for  the  long  trip  across 
the  plains.  They  left  Saint  Louis  in  March,  1850, 
with  ox  teams  and  six  wagons,  and  arrived  in 
Salt  Lake  City  October  i8th  of  that  year.  Dur- 
ing that  winter  the  family  camped  in  their  wagon 
boxes  on  Temple  Block,  where  one  daughter  was 
born.  In  1856  he  was  called  on  a  mission  to 
England  and  remained  there  two  years.  In  1862 
he  was  sent  to  Dixie  and  had  charge  of  the  wood- 
work on  the  Saint  George  Temple.  He  con- 
tinued to  live  in  that  place  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  May  8,  1877.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Gas- 
kell,  mother  of  our  subject,  also  a  native  of  Lan- 
cashire, England,  accompanied  him  to  America 
and  endured  all  the  hardships  incident  to  the  pio- 
neer women  of  those  days.  She  was  the  mother 
of  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are  still  living. 

Our  subject  was  converted  to  the  teachings  of 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints 


in  his  native  land,  and  baptized  in  September, 
1839.  He  came  to  America  with  his  parents  and 
learned  the  carpenter  trade  at  Nauvoo,  where  he 
worked  on  the  Temple.  He  was  married  in  Saint 
Louis  March  15,  1850,  to  Miss  Jane  Jamison, 
who  bore  him  twelve  children.  She  was  a  native 
of  Scotland,  where  she  became  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  and  emigrated  to  the  United 
States  in  1849.  They  came  to  Utah  in  company 
with  the  Bishop's  parents  and  camped  with  them 
in  their  wagon  boxes  on  Temple  Block  that  first 
winter,  and  it  was  there  their  first  child  was  born, 
on  December  15,  1850,  when  the  snow  was  three 
feet  deep.  Since  then  Bishop  Romney  has  mar- 
ried two  other  wives  and  is  the  father  of  thirty- 
five  children,  twenty-three  of  whom  are  living. 
At  the  time  the  Edmonds  law  came  into  effect  he 
was  among  those  who  were  tried  and  convicted 
of  violation  of  that  law,  and  was  sentenced  to  a 
six  months'  imprisonment,  but  was  released  for 
good  behavior  at  the  expiration  of  five  months. 
His  second  wife  was  Vilate  Ellen  Douglass,  a 
native  of  Lancashire,  England,  who  came  to  Nau- 
voo with  her  parents  when  a  child.  Her  mother 
passed  through  the  exodus  at  Nauvoo  and  en- 
dured the  hardships  there  and  in  the  early  days 
of  Salt  Lake,  where  she  arrived  in  1852.  She 
is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Society  and  is 
the  mother  of  twelve  children.  His  third  wife 
was  Margaret  Thomas,  a  native  of  London.  She 
emigrated  to  America  with  her  mother  and 
brother,  Charles  J.  Thomas,  and  came  to  Utah 
in  1 861.  She  was  married  to  Bishop  Romney  in 
1863  and  is  the  mother  of  eleven  children.  She 
has  been  prominently  identified  with  theatrical  in- 
terests and  was  one  of  the  first  actresses  at  the 
opening  of  the  Salt  Lake  theater,  taking  the  part 
of  "Comeadania"  in  "The  Pride  of  the  Market." 
She  is  a  teacher  in  the  Relief  Society  of  the 
Twentieth  Ward  and  a  member  of  the  Reapers' 
Club. 

Upon  coming  to  Utah  the  Bishop  began  work- 
ing at  his  trade,  laboring  part  of  the  time  on  the 
public  works  where  his  father  was  foreman,  and 
doing  whatever  other  work  he  could  find.  In 
1854  he  entered  into  partnership  with  George 
Price  and  others,  doing  contracting  and  building, 


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and  this  firm  built  many  of  the  early  houses  and 
public  buildings.  In  1856,  when  his  father  wa> 
called  on  a  mission  to  England,  he  took  his  place 
as  foreman  in  constructing  the  woodwork  on  the 
Lion  House  and  all  public  works,  in  which  posi- 
tion he  remained  until  they  were  closed  in  1864. 
In  1857  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Brigham 
Young  as  Captain  in  Major  Blair's  Battalion  of 
the  Nauvoo  Legion,  and  took  part  in  the  Echo 
campaign,  which  lasted  for  several  months.  At 
the  time  of  the  approach  of  Johnston's  army  the 
City  was  practically  deserted,  most  of  the  people 
having  moved  to  Provo,  our  subject  taking  his 
family  with  others,  and  they  remained  there  until 
the  trouble  was  over,  when  they  returned  and  he 
continued  his  work  on  the  public  buildings.  In 
1S64  he  formed  a  partnership  with  W.  H.  Folsom 
and  together  they  built  the  City  Hall,  many  of 
the  stores  and  residences,  and  did  a  general  con- 
tracting business  until  1869,  when  the  firm  was 
enlarged  and  they  organized  what  is  today  known 
as  the  Taylor,  Romney,  Armstrong  Company,  the 
other  members  of  the  firm  at  that  time  being 
George  H.  Taylor  and  Thomas  Lattimer.  Our 
subject  became  the  manager  of  the  firm  and  has 
retained  that  position  to  the  present  day,  through 
many  changes.  The  present  firm  was  incorpo- 
rated in  1 89 1. 

During  his  residence  in  this  city  the  Bishop 
has  been  foremost  in  everything  that  has  tended 
to  build  up  or  improve  the  city  or  State.  He 
has  been  associated  with  many  of  the  large  corpo- 
rations ;  among  other  things  he  has  been  for  the 
past  seventeen  years  a  director  of  the  Zions  Co- 
operative Mercantile  Institution  and  is  now  Vice- 
President,  and  also  Director.  This  is  one  of  the 
largest  establishments  of  the  kind  in  the  entire 
western  country;  a  Director  and  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Consolidated  Wagon 
and  Machine  Company ;  for  several  years  a  Di- 
rector arid  now  Vice-President  of  the  Home  Fire 
Insurance  Company;  a  Director  in  the  Deseret 
National  Bank  and  the  Deseret  Savings  Bank, 
and  also  a  Director  and  one  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  firm  of  Clark,  Eldredge  and  Com- 
pany. He  was  one  of  the  first  to  advance  means 
to  develop  the  beet  sugar  industry  in  Utah,  and 


thus  paved  the  way  for  the  founding  of  the  L'tah 
Sugar  Company.  He  is  also  President  of  the 
Romney  Shoe  Company  and  a  Director  and  Vice 
President  of  the  Oregon  Lumber  Company.  He 
has  also  accumulated  considerable  real  estate  in 
Salt  Lake  City. 

In  politics  Bishop  Romney  is  a  believer  in  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and  has  been 
an  active  worker  in  its  ranks  since  its  organiza- 
tion in  this  State.  He  has  all  his  life  in  Utah 
been  prominent  in  public  affairs,  and  served  two 
terms  in  the  City  Council,  being  elected  in  1882 
and  again  in  1895.  In  1890  he  was  a  delegate  to 
the  Trans-Mississippi  Congress  at  Houston, 
Texas,  and  also  to  the  Congress  at  Cripple  Creek, 
Colorado,  in  1891.  He  is  a  member  of  the  ex- 
ecutive committee  of  the  Congress  which  will  meet 
at  Saint  Paul,  Minnesota,  in  1902.  He  is  also 
an  aggressive  worker  in  Church  circles ;  he  has 
traveled  in  California,  Alexico,  Hawaiian  Islands. 
England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Italy,  France,  Scan- 
dinavia and  Holland.  While  on  his  mission  to 
England  in  1869  he  presided  over  the  Liverpool 
and  London  Conferences.  In  the  Priesthood  he 
has  held  the  offices  of  a  Seventy,  President  of  the 
Quorum  of  Seventies,  High  Priest,  Counselor  to 
Bishop  W.  C.  Bassett,  and  later  Bishop  of  the 
Twentieth  Ward,  succeeding  Bishop  Bassett  in 
1888.  Llis  Counselors  are  George  F.  Gibbs  and 
Joseph  F.  Simmons.  He  is  active  in  all  matters 
pertaining  to  his  Ward,  to  which  he  devotes  a 
large  portion  of  his  time. 


ONORABLE  SAMUEL  W.  STEW- 
ART. A  prominent  member  of  the 
judiciary  of  Utah,  and  one  who  since 
his  occupancy  of  a  Judgeship  in  the 
Third  Judicial  District  of  the  State  has 
proved  by  his  work  to  be  able  and  worthy  to  fill 
that  position,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  When 
the  work  of  this  Judicial  District  was  divided,  to 
Judge  Stewart  was  assigned  the  jurisdiction  over 
the  criminal  division  of  that  court.  The  impar- 
tiality which  he  has  shown  in  the  cases  tried  be- 
fore him,  and  the  able  manner  in  which  he  has  ad- 
ministered justice  and  interpreted  the  laws,  marks 


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him  as  a  capable  lawyer  as  well  as  one  of  the 
most  competent  judges  in  the  State. 

Samuel  W.  Stewart  was  born  in  Draper,  Salt 
Lake  county,  Utah,  May  21,  1867,  and  spent  his 
early  life  on  a  farm.  He  attended  public  school 
in  the  winter  months  and  during  the  rest  of  the 
year  worked  on  the  farm,  earning  means  sufficient 
to  enable  him  to  enter  the  Deseret  University, 
now  the  University  of  Utah.  After  two  year  in 
that  institution  he  was  made  principal  of  one  of 
the  public  schools.  This  vocation  he  followed  for 
three  years  and  earned  a  sum  sufficient  to  pay 
for  his  tuition  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  at 
Ann  Arbor,  graduating  from  the  law  department 
of  that  institution  in  1892.  He  returned  to  Salt 
Lake  City  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  to  which  he  continued  to  devote  his 
time  until  his  election  to  the  Judgeship  in  No- 
vember, 1900.  For  six  years  he  was  the  senior 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Stewart  &  Stewart. 
He  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs 
of  the  State  and  served  in  the  Legislature  from 
1899  to  1901.  In  his  practice  he  was  a  good  ad- 
vocate and  a  safe  counselor.  He  has  now  juris- 
diction over  all  the  criminal  cases  in  his  district, 
but  also  assists  in  the  hearing  of  civil  cases.  He 
has  the  distinction  of  being  the  youngest  District 
Judge  in  L'tah,  and  his  career  has  been  a  success- 
ful one. 

His  father,  Isaac  M.  Stewart,  was  a  native  of 
New  Jersey,  but  came  to  Utah  in  the  early  days 
of  the  settlement  of  this  State,  being,  in  fact,  one 
of  the  pioneers,  reaching  here  in  1852.  Isaac's 
father  died  when  he  was  but  a  lad,  and  he  was 
early  thrown  upon  his  own  resources.  When  he 
arrived  in  the  Salt  Lake  valley  he  was  equipped 
with  willing  hands  and  an  active  and  clear  mind, 
and  with  these  assets  he  made  for  himself  a  suc- 
cessful career  in  the  new  Territory.  He  took  up 
farming  and  stock  raising,  and  grew  to  be  one 
of  the  most  successful  men  engaged  in  that  busi- 
ness. He  realized  the  necessity  of  educating  the 
young  people  and  all  his  life  was  an  earnest  ad- 
vocate of  a  liberal  education.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  County  Court  of  Salt  Lake  county  for 
nine  years,  being  associated  with  Judge  Elias 
Smith,  the  first  Probate  Judge  in  this  county,  and 


with  whom  he  formed  a  mutual  friendship  of  great 
strength  and  endurance.  He  was  one  of  the  early 
members  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  participating  actively  in  its  work,  and 
being  made  a  Bishop  of  that  Church.  He  con- 
tinued in  this  membership  for  thirty-four  years, 
until  his  death  in  1890,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five. 
He  was  the  only  member  of  his  family  who  left 
the  East  and  adopted  this  faith.  His  father,  and 
the  grandfather  of  Judge  Stewart,  was  Biekley 
Stewart,  a  soldier  who  participated  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War.  joining  the  Colonial  forces  at  the 
age  of  fifteen.  The  Stewart  family  were  Quakers 
and  were  among  the  first  settlers  of  the  Eastern 
States,  coming  to  this  country  from  Scotland.  The 
dominant  principles  of  these  peace-loving  people 
were  strongly  shown  in  the  character  and  life  of 
Judge  Stewart's  father,  and  he  has  to  a  large 
extent  inherited  many  of  these  characteristics. 
His  mother,  Elizabeth  (White)  Stewart,  was  a 
native  of  London,  England.  Her  father  died 
when  she  was  quite  young,  and  at  the  age  of  fif- 
teen she  came  to  the  United  States.  She  has  one 
brother,  Barnard  White,  living  at  Ogden,  who  is 
one  of  the  prominent  and  successful  business  men 
of  that  city.  Judge  Stewart  is  a  member  of  a 
family  of  thirteen  children,  there  being  seven  sons 
and  six  daughters.  His  brother,  James  Z.,  has 
also  followed  the  profession  of  the  law,  and  was 
Probate  Judge  of  Cache  county,  Utah,  having 
served  two  terms  in  tTiat  office.  He  has  also  been 
principal  of  the  Brigham  Young  College  at  Logan. 
Another  brother,  Isaac  J.,  is  a  practicing  attorney 
at  Richfield,  Utah.  Joshua  B.  has  devoted  his 
time  and  attention  to  agriculture ;  William  M.  is 
principal  of  the  normal  department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Utah ;  Charles  B.  is  Deputy  City  At- 
torney of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  Barnard  J.  is  also 
an  attorney  in  Salt  Lake  City,  being  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Stewart  &  Stewart.  His  sisters 
are  Mary  A.  Ballantine,  Alice  C.  Stringfellow, 
Elizabeth  Fife,  Eliza  J.  Fife,  Luella  E.  Linsey 
and  Nettie  P.  Stewart. 

Judge  Stewart  was  married  October,  1894,  to 
Miss  Ella  M.  Nebeker,  then  a  prominent  critic 
teacher  in  the  Utah  State  Normal  School,  daugh- 
ter of  George  and  Maria  L.  Nebeker,  who  were 


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among  the  early  settlers  of  Utah,  and  her  father 
was  one  of  the  prominent  men  in  the  affairs  of 
this  city. 

In  political  affairs  Judge  Stewart  has  followed 
the  fortunes  of  the  Democratic  party  with  un- 
wavering loyalty.  He  is  a  faithful  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church  and  takes  great  interest  in  its 
work.  His  impartiality  as  a  judge,  breadth  of 
mind  and  ability  to  readily  grasp  the  salient  points 
of  a  controversy  have  made  his  term  as  a  judge 
one  of  the  most  creditable  of  the  State.  In  pri- 
vate life  his  genial  and  pleasant  manner,  together 
with  his  ability,  have  won  for  him  the  friendship 
and  confidence  of  the  people  with  whom  he  has 
come  in  contact,  and  the  efficient  and  zealous  dis- 
charge of  his  duties  have  brought  him  the  respect 
and  esteem  of  his  fellow  citizens. 


OLONEL  THEODORE  BRUBACK. 
Although  there  has  been  considerable 
development  of  the  resources  of  Utah, 
and  the  mineral  wealth  already  dis- 
closed has  brought  prosperity  to  the 
Slate,  its  development  has  been  made  in  quite  a 
limited  area.  The  possibilties  of  the  southern 
part  of  the  State  have  not  yet  begun  to  be  re- 
alized, and  in  addition  to  the  mineral  wealth 
which  it  undoubtedly  possesses,  there  are  valu- 
able deposits  of  stone  and  other  building  ma- 
terial. Among  the  first  to  undertake  the  develop- 
ment of  this  country  has  been  the  Sanpete  Rail- 
road Company,  of  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch 
is  President.  The  administration  of  the  affairs 
of  this  company  and  the  development  of  the  ter- 
ritory tributary  to  this  road  has  made  him  one 
of  the  most  invaluable  men  in  Utah  and  has 
brought  him  such  a  measure  of  success  that  he  is 
now  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  business 
men  of  the  State. 

Theodore  Bruback  was  born  in  Pittsburg,  .'Mle- 
gheny  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  spent  his  early 
life  in  that  State.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  high  schools  of  Allegheny  county 
and  later  attended  the  Iron  City  College,  gradu- 
ating from  that  instituton  in  1866.  His  family 
were  originally  natives  of  Alsace  Lorraine.  His 
father,  David,  came  to  America  when  but  a  young 


man,  from  Bruback,  a  small  town  in  his  native 
province,  named  after  the  family.  He  engaged 
in  the  iron  business  in  Pittsburg  and  amassed 
considerable  wealth  by  his  ability  and  industry. 
The  mother  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  Anna 
Kunigunda  Dietrich,  was  also  of  German  ex- 
traction, her  parents  being  among  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Pennsylvania. 

Upon  the  completion  of  his  education,  our  sub- 
ject started  on  his  life  work  and  assisted  in  de- 
veloping the  oil  fields  of  Pennsylvania,  in  the 
vicinity  of  Pittsburg.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Reed  &  Co.,  and  engaged  in  the  oil  busi- 
ness in  Pennsylvania  until  1877.  During  his 
business  career  in  Pennsylvania  he  acquired  in- 
terests in  a  great  many  enterprises.  In  some  of 
these  he  was  interested  as  a  capitalist  and  in  some 
as  the  organizer  and  promoter. 

In  1877  the  possibilities  of  the  West  attracted 
his  attention,  and  in  that  year  he  came  to  Wy- 
oming and  engaged  in  the  mining  and  stock  rais- 
ing business.  While  here  he  located  and  developed 
the  "Sun  Rise"  and  "Blue  Jay"  mines,  which  he 
successfully  operated  for  a  number  of  years.  He 
remained  in  Wyoming,  interested  in  all  the  in- 
dustries of  that  State,  for  the  ensuing  eight  years. 
In  1885  he  came  to  Salt  Lake  City  and  became 
interested  in  the  mining  possibilities  of  Utah, 
and  in  addition  to  his  mining  properties  secured 
large  holdings  in  railroads.  The  Sanpete  Valley 
Railroad,  of  which  he  is  now  President,  was  con- 
structed in  1882  and  came  under  Mr.  Bruback's 
control  in  1886.  He  imnTediately  built  large  ex- 
tensions and  converted  it  from  a  narrow  gauge  to 
a  broad  gauge  road.  He  built  a  branch  to  the 
Morrison  coal  mines,  and  later  built  another 
branch  to  the  brownstone  quarries  at  Mount  Nebo, 
which  contains  the  finest  building  stone,  not  only 
in  Utah,  but  in  the  West.  Besides  these  rail- 
road interests  and  his  mining  operations  in  Utah, 
Colonel  Bruback  holds  large  interests  in  mining 
properties  in  Idaho,  Montana  and  Wyoming. 

In  Utah  the  Colonel's  most  valuable  mining 
holdings  are  contained  in  the  property  owned 
and  operated  by  the  Sterling  Coal  and  Coke  Com- 
pany, whose  mines  are  on  Six  Mile  creek,  in  San- 
pete   county,    at    the    terminus  of  the    Sanpete 


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Valley  Railroad,  of  which  company  Colonel  Bru- 
back  is  President  and  General  Manager.  Here 
they  operate  the  most  extensive  coal  mines  in 
the  State,  having  several  thousand  acres.  The 
property  was  located  in  1890  by  men  who  had 
been  practical  coal  miners  all  their  lives,  having 
wide  experience  in  the  collieries  of  Wales.  The 
property  changed  hands  a  couple  of  times  and 
was  then  purchased  by  Colonel  Bruback  in  1893. 
Many  seemingly  insurmountable  obstacles  were 
encountered  in  opening  up  the  vein,  and  a  vast 
sum  of  money  expended  before  the  property  was 
put  upon  a  paying  basis,  but  through  every  dis- 
couragement the  Colonel  never  lost  his  confidence 
or  enthusiasm  in  the  project,  and  has  been  re- 
warded by  finding  himself  the  owner  of  an  almost 
inexhaustable  supply  of  the  finest  bituminous  coal 
to  be  found  in  the  country.  After  the  company 
had  been  formed  and  systematic  work  begun,  an 
immense  body  of  water  was  encountered  after 
they  had  driven  an  incline  tunnel  seven  hundred 
feet ;  of  course,  this  necessitated  work  being  sus- 
pended. With  the  fullest  confidence  in  the  ulti- 
mate success  of  the  mine.  Colonel  Bruback  at 
once  placed  contracts  for  tunneling  into  the  moun- 
tain and  striking  the  vein  some  six  hundred  feet 
below  the  surface,  thus  enabling  them  to  ob- 
tain the  coal  and  at  the  same  time  drain  ofif  the 
water  and  put  it  to  some  practical  use.  They 
did  not  strike  the  vein  they  were  working  to- 
ward until  they  had  tunneled  two  thousand  and 
sixty  feet,  and  although  at  times  the  task  seemed 
hopeless,  and  even  th»  contractors  advised  that 
the  attempt  be  given  up,  the  Colonel  was  not  to 
be  deterred  from  completing  the  project,  nor  was 
his  faith  in  the  feasibility  of  the  plan  to  be  shaken. 
The  tunnel  is  eight  feet  high  and  eight  feet  wide, 
and  the  grade  permits  the  mine  to  be  drained 
in  a  most  satisfactory  manner.  The  stream  of 
water  obtained  is  estimated  to  carry  a  volume 
of  ten  cubic  feet  of  water  per  minute,  and  the 
company  expects  to  derive  a  large  revenue  from 
this  source  alone,  as  the  water  is  of  inestimable 
value  for  irrigating  purposes.  Once  the  quality 
of  the  coal  began  to  be  appreciated  orders  poured 
into  the  office  of  the  company  from  all  the  sur- 
rounding States,  and  the  output  of  this  mine  has 


become  the  standard  coal  in  Utah.  Large  as  are 
the  veins  already  opened,  the  company  feel  that 
their  explorations  are  as  yet  only  in  their  infancy 
and  that  the  property  is  destined  to  become  one 
of  the  largest  wealth  producers  in  this  line  in  the 
West,  in  which  opinion  they  are  backed  by  many 
mining  experts. 

He  was  married  in  Westfield,  New  York,  in 
1886  to  Miss  Jessie  White  McLane,  daughter  of 
Colonel  J.  H.  McLane,  of  Erie  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  has  two  children,  Theodore  and  Jessie 
Elizabeth. 

In  political  affairs  Colonel  Bruback  is  a  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  at  present  holds  the  office  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  on  the  stafi'  of  Governor  Wells.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  Colonel 
Bruback  owes  his  success  entirely  to  his  own 
efforts,  and  the  present  position  that  he  occupies 
in  Utah  has  been  the  result  of  his  untiring  en- 
ergy, industry  and  application.  His  administra- 
tive and  executive  abilities  have  made  successful 
whatever  enterprises  he  has  undertaken,  and  his 
genial  and  pleasant  manners  have  contribut- 
ed greatly  to  his  popularity  throughout  Utah  and 
have  brought  him  the  enjoyment  of  a  large  circle 
of  friends  throughout  the  entire  West. 


LLIAM  H.  BANCROFT.  While 
the  discovery  of  steam  and  the  in- 
vention of  the  locomotive  belong  to 
England,  the  development  of  this 
powerful  adjunct  of  civilization  and 
its  application  to  the  work  of  bringing  closer  to- 
gether distant  points  of  the  earth  and  in  settling 
new  regions  belongs  exclusively  to  America.  The 
Nineteenth  Century  was  a  wonderful  epoch  in 
the  world's  growth,  and  in  the  number  of  in- 
ventions made  to  more  perfectly  perform  the  work 
of  increasing  the  industrial  strength  of  the  na- 
tions, but  no  other  invention  has  accomplished 
so  much  or  aided  so  greatly  as  has  the  locomo- 
tive. The  railroads  of  the  United  States  as  late 
as  1840  were  but  short  lines  operated  in  a  crude 
and  inefficient  manner.  They  were  almost  en- 
tirely located  in  the  extreme  Eastern  States  and 
had  not  grown  to  such  proportions  as  to  entirely 
displace  the  old  stage  coach.    The  slow  means  of 


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C&nal  transportation  were  in  operation  then  and 
remained  in  use  for  several  decades  later.  The 
railroad  of  today  is'  one  of  the  wonders  of  the 
world.  It  has  grown  in  America  from  a  small 
and  crude  beginning-  to  one  of  the  most  powerful 
and  strongly  organized  features  in  the  wonder- 
ful industrial  growth  of  this  country.  The  men 
who  have  spent  their  lives  in  railroad  work  and 
have  developed  the  systems  that  now  gird  the 
United  States  had  to  learn  from  experience.  There 
was  no  guide  for  them  to  follow  and  each  ad- 
vance made  in  the  history  of  railroading  has  been 
accomplished  entirely  by  the  application  of  master 
minds  to  the  solving  of  the  difficult  problems. 
Thoroughout  New  York  and  Pennsylvania  and 
in  the  New  England  States  many  difficult  en- 
gineering problems  confronted  the  early  railroad 
builders,  but  these  were  as  child's  play  to  the 
building  of  the  railroads  from  the  Mississippi 
river  west  to  the  Pacific  coast.  No  traveler  who 
passes  over  the  lines  traversing  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains can  fail  to  be  impressed  with  the  magni- 
tude of  the  work  and  the  tremendous  amount  of 
perseverance  it  required  to  build  the  lines.  The 
building  of  the  railroads  throughout  the  western 
region  has  accomplished  more  for  the  West  than 
any  other  work,  save  that  important  adjunct  to 
•railroad  work,'  the  telegraph.  From  a  system 
where  the  conductor  and  engineer  in  charge  of 
the  train  were  for  the  time  being  its  sole  mas- 
ters, the  development  of  these  wonderful  sys- 
tems has  required  men  of  ability  to  properly  di- 
rect the  multifarious  duties  that  now  fall  to  the 
lot  of  the  governing  head  of  the  railroad.  A 
president  of  a  railroad  company,  a  general  man- 
ager or  a  superintendent  must  be  a  man  who  is 
thoroughly  conversant  with  every  detail  of  rail- 
road work,  and  in  addition  must  have  a  broad 
general  knowledge  of  mankind  and  be  versed  in 
the  financial  affairs  of  the  country.  The  posi- 
tions of  presidents,  general  managers  and  super- 
intendents are  filled  by  a  process  which  is  in 
reality  but  the  application  of  the  doctrine  of  the 
survival  of  the  fittest.  To  reach  these  positions 
requires  long  experience  and  application  of  the 
closest  nature  to  the  grinding  detail  of  every- 
dav  life  of  railroad  work.     In  the  ranks  of  the 


railroads  of  the  country  there  is  no  more  im- 
portant system  than  that  controlled  by  the  Union 
Pacific  Railroad  Company,  and  one  of  its  most 
prosperous  constituent  parts  is  the  Oregon  Short 
Line  Railroad,  whose  operations  are  directed  by 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  in  the  capacity  of  Vice- 
President  and  General  Manager. 

W.  H.  Bancroft  was  born  October  20,  1840, 
at  Newberry,  Ohio,  and  entered  upon  railroad 
work  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  has  been 
connected  with  that  business  throughout  his  life. 
His  first  position  was  as  a  telegraph  operator  and 
ticket  clerk  for  the  Michigan  Southern  Railway, 
with  which  road  he  remained  until  1861,  rising 
through  the  various  grades  to  a  prominent  subor- 
dinate position,  and  in  the  latter  year  left  the 
service  of  this  company  to  accept  a  position  as 
clerk  and  dispatcher  on  the  Erie  Railroad,  which 
he  retained  until  1868.  He  then  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Kansas  Pacific  Railroad  Company  on 
October  20,  1869,  and  remained  with  it  until 
April,  1872,  when  he  was  called  to  take  the  posi- 
tion of  Assistant  Superintendent  of  the  Atchison, 
Topeka  and  Santa  Fe  Railroad,  holding  that  po- 
sition from  May,  1875,  to  1876.  His  experience  in 
railroad  matters  had  brought  him  prominently 
to  the  front  among  the  rising  men  in  his  profes- 
sion, and  secured  for  him  the  Superintendency 
of  the  Saint  Louis,  Lawrence  and  Western  Rail- 
road, which  position  he  held  until  April,  1878. 
He  then  entered  the  employ  of  the  Missouri,  Kan- 
sas and  Texas  Railroad,  as  its  Chief  Dispatcher, 
and  became  connected  with  the  Denver  and  Rio 
Grande  Railroad  on  August  15,  1881,  and  served 
as  Superintendent  of  several  of  its  divisions  until 
July  29,  1886,  when  he  was  appointed  Receiver 
of  the  Rio  Grande  Western  Railroad,  and  from 
that  time  until  June,  1890,  he  served  as  Receiver 
and  General  Superintendent  of  that  road.  He 
became  connected  with  the  L'nion  Pacific  Rail- 
road Company  on  January  15,  1890,  as  General 
Superintendent  of  its  Mountain  division,  which 
position  he  occupied  until  March,  1897. 

When  the  railroads  composing  the  Union  Pa- 
cific system  were  separated  and  operated  under 
their  own  organizations,  in  March,  1897,  Mr. 
Bancroft  was  chosen  on  that  date  to  manage  its 


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operations  as  Vice-President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  Com- 
pany. This  is  one  of  the  most  important  rail- 
roads of  the  West,  and  under  the  able  manage- 
ment of  Mr.  Bancroft  has  developed  into  one 
of  the  most  prosperous  properties  of  its  kind  in 
the  United  States.  The  work  which  it  has  done 
in  developing  Utah,  Oregon  and  Washington 
can  scarcely  be  overestimated.  It  has  opened  new 
territory  and  aided  in  forming  new  settlements 
throughout  all  this  region.  The  force  under  Mr. 
Bancroft's  direction  in  Salt  Lake  City,  where  its 
headquarters  are,  constitute  an  important  factor 
in  the  business  world  of  this  city.  The  career 
which  Mr.  Bancroft  has  made  and  the  success 
which  has  come  to  him  in  the  work  which  he  has 
undertaken  has  made  him  one  of  the  foremost 
railroad  men  in  the  United  States.  He  occupies 
a  high  position  in  the  class  of  men  who  have 
done  more  to  settle  and  civilize  the  great  West 
than  any  other  class  of  men  have  accomplished 
during  the  last  fifty  years.  He  is  well  and  fa- 
vorably known  to  all  the  people  in  the  inter- 
mountain  region,  and  enjoys  a  wide  popularity, 
both  as  a  railroad  man  and  as  a  citizen. 


ILIJA^^I  McMillan.  There  is 
perhaps  no  industry  in  the  United 
States  which  calls  for  men  of 
sounder  business  judgment  or  wider 
experience  than  does  the  vast  and 
intricate  railroad  systems  which  traverse  this 
country,  and  it  is  a  notable  fact  that  a  very  large 
percentage  of  the  men  who  today  operate  and 
control  these  systems  are  men  who  have  begun 
at  the  very  bottom  rung  of  the  ladder,  often  wit'i 
little  education  or  means,  and  by  years  of  persist- 
ent application  and  untiring  energy  have  fought 
their  way  to  the  very  pinnacle  of  success  in  rail- 
road life.  The  manner  in  which  William  Mc- 
Millan, the  subject  of  this  sketch,  worked  his 
way  from  a  poor  boy,  coming  to  a  strange  coun- 
try without  friends  or  means,  to  the  position  of 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Salt  Lake  and 
Los  Angeles  Railroad  and  the  Saltair  Beach  Com- 
pany, is  such  as  to  furnish  a  valuable  lesson  to 
every  ambitious  and  self-supporting  young  man. 


Our  subject  was  born  in  Cumberland,  England, 
August  I,  1852.  His  mother  died  during  his  in- 
fancy and  his  father  emigrated  to  America  and 
settled  in  Pennsylvania,  leaving  his  infant  son 
in  care  of  his  maternal  grandparents,  who  gave 
him  such  a  home  as  they  were  able,  sending  him 
to  the  public  schools,  and  with  whom  he  remained 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  at  which  time 
he  found  employment  with  the  North  Eastern 
Railroad  Company,  of  England,  serving  in  dif- 
ferent departments  until  1879.  Like  many  an- 
other young  man  in  his  native  country,  he  be- 
came imbued  with  a  desire  to  visit  the  wonder- 
ful country  of  America,  believing  it  to  offer  bet- 
ter inducements  for  ambitious  young  men,  and 
in  the  autumn  he  sailed  for  this  country,  reach- 
ing Utah  the  latter  part  of  1879.  He  became 
ticket  and  freight  agent  for  the  Utah  Central 
Railroad  in  1882,  having  charge  of  the  station 
at  Milford,  where  he  remained  imtil  the  summer 
of  1888,  when  he  moved  to  Salt  Lake  City  and 
became  associated  with  the  Salt  Lake  West- 
ern, and  Utah  and  Nevada,  remaining  with  these 
companies  until  they  were  absorbed  by  the  Union 
Pacific,  when  he  became  chief  clerk  in  the  office 
of  the  latter  company  at  Salt  Lake  City.  Here 
he  remained  until  1893,  when  he  became  chief 
clerk  in  the  office  of  which  he  is' now  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.  He  was  also  at  this  time  made 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Saltair  Beach 
Company,  and  has  since  filled  these  postions  with 
efficiency  and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his 
superiors. 

Mr.  McMillan  was  married  in  England  to  Miss 
Agnes  Newton,  by  whom  he  has  six  children : 
Emily  May ;  Clara  E. ;  William,  Junior ;  Agnes ; 
Don  N.,  and  Kyle. 

In  poltical  life  Mr.  McMillan  is  a  staunch  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party 
and  has  been  as  active  in  its  work  as  his  duties 
would  allow.  In  1900  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  State  Legislature.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church,  in  which  he  is  a  faithful  and 
active  worker. 

His  life  while  in  Utah  has  been  such  as  to 
win  for  him  the  confidence  of  those  by  whom  he 
has  been  employed,  and  his  genial  and  pleasant 
manner  has  won  for  him  a  host  of  friends. 


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T.FRED  SOLOMON,  Bishop  of  the 
Twenty-second  Ward  of  Salt  Lake 
Stake  of  Zion.  The  wholesale  boot 
and  shoe  house  of  Solomon  Brothers, 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  of  which  Alfred 
Solomon  was  one  of  the  promoters,  has  long  been 
one  of  the  most  important  business  houses  of  this 
City.  By  close  and  careful  attention  to  business 
Bishop  Solomon  has  built  up  a  most  enviable 
trade,  and  his  house  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
prominent  in  the  State. 

Alfred  Solomon  was  born  September  10,  1836, 
at  Truro,  Cornwall,  England,  and  is  the  son  of 
William  and  Xancy  (Hocking)  Solomon.  He 
spent  the  first  twenty  years  of  his  life  in  his  na- 
tive town,  going  to  school  until  thirteen  years  of 
age,  when  he  learned  the  shoemaker's  trade  of 
his  father.  His  father  employed  a  number  of 
men  and  made  shoes  principally  for  the  miners 
in  the  western  part  of  Cornwall. 

He  became  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the 
Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints  when 
but  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  for  the  next  two 
and  a  half  years  labored  in  the  interests  of  that 
Church,  accompanying  the  Elders  and  preaching 
in  his  own  and  adjoining  towns.  He  met  with 
much  opposition  in  his  father's  family,  only  one 
other  brother,  William,  uniting  with  the  Church, 
and  this  brother  was  married  and  lived  in  an- 
other part  of  the  town.  He  saved  all  his  small 
earnings  and  when  he  had  enough  to  pay  his 
passage  to  America  left  home  on  the  i6th  of 
March,  1857,  going  without  the  knowledge  of  his 
parents,  who  were  much  opposed  to  his  course. 
Leaving  as  he  did  he  had  to  go  without  any  lug- 
gage and  had  only  sufficient  means  for  his  passage 
money.  On  arriving  in  Liverpool  he  discovered 
he  would  have  to  wait  a  few  days  before  the 
steamer  would  sail,  and  an  old  lady  who  was  to 
take  passage  on  the  same  ship  volunteered  to 
pay  his  board  while  they  waited,  in  exchange 
for  his  taking  care  of  her  luggage.  During  his 
stay  in  Liverpool  he  received  a  letter  from  his 
parents,  containing  three  pounds,  which  he  was 
obliged  to  spend  for  clothing  and  other  necessi- 
ties. He  sailed  on  the  steamer  George  Wash- 
ington, which  had  on  board  eight  hundred  and 


seventeen  Mormon  emigrants  and  fourteen  re- 
turning missionaries.  They  arrived  in  Boston  on 
the  20th  of  April,  1857,  and  when  the  company 
was  ready  to  start  two  men  volunteered  to  loan 
our  subject  sufikient  money  to  pay  his  way  to 
Iowa  City,  Iowa.  Upon  their  arrival  at  this 
place  they  found  the  company  would  not  leave  for 
three  weeks,  and  Bishop  Solomon  obtained  em- 
ployment on  the  farm  of  State  Senator  Kirkwood, 
receiving  a  dollar  a  day  for  his  work.  When 
the  time  came  for  the  ox  train  to  start  he  was 
given  an  opportunity  to  drive  the  team  of  Elder 
Jesse  B.  Martin,  who  had  been  appointed  one  of 
the  Captains,  which  he  was  glad  to  accept.  He 
had  earned  sufficient  money  to  pay  back  the 
money  he  had  borrowed  to  pay  his  fare  to  Iowa 
City,  and  while  he  again  started  without  any 
means,  he  was  out  of  debt.  Only  a  portion  of 
those  who  came  over  were  in  this  train,  which 
consisted  of  eighty  wagons,  with  two  or  three 
yokes  of  oxen  to  each  wagon :  the  remainder 
forming  one  of  the  famous  hand  cart  companies. 
On  the  trip  across  the  plains  they  encountered 
immense  droves  of  buffaloes,  which  caused  them 
a  great  deal  of  trouble,  and  during  one  stampede 
caused  by  the  buiifaloes  one  man  and  a  child  were 
killed  and  many  injured.  He  arrived  in  Salt 
Lake  City  September  12,  1857,  six  months  from 
the  time  he  left  home. 

This  was  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  of  John- 
ston's army  and  shortly  after  his  arrival  the  city 
was  placed  under  martial  law.  Most  of  the  men 
had  moved  their  families  into  the  southern  part 
of  the  State  and  there  was  but  little  business 
being  transacted  when  our  subject  came  here. 
He  worked  for  Samuel  Mulliner  at  the  shoemak- 
ing  business  for  a  short  time,  but  being  without 
any  family  was  called  into  active  military  service 
and  in  the  winter  of  1857-58  made  three  trips  into 
Echo  canyon.  On  one  of  these  trips,  it  being  im- 
possible to  penetrate  into  the  canyon  on  account 
of  the  deep  snow,  the  company  had  to  go  by  way 
of  Weber  canyon,  crossing  the  Weber  river  nine- 
teen times  to  reach  Echo  canyon.  He  was  later 
appointed  one  of  the  guards  to  re-enter  the  city 
and  burn  the  houses,  but  peace  being  restored, 
business  was  resumed  in  the  citv  and  he  took 


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charge  of  the  shoe  department  of  Robert  J.  Gold- 
ing.  It  becoming  necessary  to  appoint  special 
poHce  to  look  after  the  safety  of  the  city,  our  sub- 
ject was  one  of  the  number  chosen  by  Mayor  A. 
O.  Smoot  and  served  under  Chief  of  Police  An- 
drew Burt,  and  was  one  of  the  posse  who  went 
with  General  Burton  to  the  Morrisite  Camp  by  or- 
der of  Judge  Kinney  to  arrest  the  Morrisites,  the 
xvlorrisites  having  held  as  prisoners  a  number  of 
people  who  were  not  in  sympathy  with  their  creed. 
He  served  for  three  terms  as  Constable  in  the 
third  precinct.  Pie  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Utah  Artillery  under  Major  Ladd,  and  is  one 
of  the  veteran  artillerymen  of  the  State.  He  was, 
for  three  or  four  years,  a  member  of  the  first 
fire  department  in  Salt  Lake  City,  serving  under 
Chief  Donaldson.  He  was  elected  City  Marshal, 
Chief  of  Police  in  1886,  and  served  four  years 
in  that  capacity  under  Mayor  Armstrong.  In 
1870  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brothers, 
Henry,  William  and  James,  in  the  manufacture 
of  boots  and  shoes.  They  were  the  pioneer  shoe 
manufacturers  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  the  first  to 
introduce  machinery  into  the  manufacture  of 
boots  and  shoes  in  the  Territory  of  Utah.  They 
sold  their  goods  to  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mer- 
cantile Institution  for  a  number  of  years,  until 
that  company  began  manufacturing  boots  and 
shoes  on  their  own  account.  They  then  estab- 
lished the  wholesale  and  retail  business,  which 
has  continued  to  this  time  under  the  name  of  Solo- 
mon Brothers. 

Bishop  Solomon  was  married  June  3,  i860,  to 
Miss  Ellen  Gyde.  He  has  buried  two  wives  and 
is  the  father  of  twenty-four  children,  twelve  of 
whom  are  living. 

On  March  31,  1889,  when  the  Twenty-second 
Ward  was  organized,  he  was  ordained  a  High 
Priest  and  set  apart  as  Bishop  of  that  Ward, 
which  position  he  still  occupies.  On  July  28, 
1891,  he  went  on  a  mission  to  Great  Britain,  go- 
ing by  way  of  Arizona,  where  he  visited  his 
brother  William,  and  then  continued  on  to  New 
York,  and  finally  arrived  in  Liverpool,  visiting 
several  Conferences  in  company  with  President 
Brigham  Young  of  the  European  mission,  and 
was  called  to  preside  over  the  Newcastle  Confer- 


ence, where  he  remained  until  June  13,  1892, 
when  he  took  charge  of  the  Cheltenham  Confer- 
ence, remaining  there  until  January  20,  1893,  at 
which  time  he  was  called  to  Liverpool  to  take 
charge  of  the  European  mission,  President  Brig- 
ham  Young  being  called  home  to  take  part  in  the 
dedication  of  the  Temple.  He  remained  in  Liver- 
pool until  released  by  Apostle  A.  H.  Lund  on 
June  14th,  returning  at  once  to  the  United  States, 
and  visiting  the  W'orld's  Fair  in  Chicago  on  his 
way  home.  Bishop  Solomon  has  also  been  an 
active  worker  in  the  Sunday  School  of  his  Ward, 
having  been  a  teacher  from  1867  to  1889,  and 
was  Superintendent  for  seven  years.  On  July  17, 
1894,  he  was  called  to  labor  in  the  Salt  Lake 
Temple,  where  he  has  continued  up  to  the  pres- 
ent time. 

Bishop  Solomon  has  for  a  great  many  years 
been  a  prominent  man  of  this  city,  both  in  Church 
and  business  circles,  and  has  by  his  own  untiring 
energy,  perseverance  and  honesty  won  a  high 
place  not  only  among  business  men,  but  in  the 
confidence  and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 


E.  C.\LVIN.  No  invention  of  the  Nine- 
teenth Century  and  its  application  to 
the  needs  of  the  people  has  done  so 
much  for  the  development  of  the  coun- 
try, and  especially  of  the  United  States, 
as  has  the  invention  of  the  steam  engine  and  its 
application  to  the  locomotive  trains.  Just  as  the 
East  was  built  up  and  close  communicaton  es- 
tablished between  its  various  centers  of  popula- 
tion and  industry,  so  has  the  West  been  de- 
veloped and  its  resources  utilized  through  the 
great  arteries  which  have  been  built  from  the 
Mississippi  river  to  the  Pacific  coast.  Closely 
identified  with  the  railroads  in  Utah,  and,  nideed, 
throughout  the  entire  West,  has  been  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  He  has  seen  the  pony  mail 
displaced  by  the  stage  coach,  and  the  stage  coach 
displaced  by  the  iron  horse  traveling  on  his  road 
of  steel,  until  now,  what  was  once  a  wilderness 
has  been  converted  through  this  creation  of  man, 
aided  by  natural  resources,  and  has  become  one 
of  the  most  prosperous  portions  of  the  country, 


BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 


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so  that  the  West  is  now  as  close  to  New  York 
as  Washington  was  to  New  York  one  hundred 
years  ago.  He  has  participated  in  the  construc- 
tion and  operation  of  all  the  roads  that  now  af- 
ford easy  communication  with  all  parts  of  the 
great  West  and  the  Pacific  slope.  A  sketch  of 
his  life  must  necessarily  include  mention  of  most 
of  the  ralroads,  from  Texas  in  the  south  to  the 
British  boundary  on  the  north,  and  from  the 
Mississippi  river  on  the  east  to  the  waters  of  the 
Pacific  on  the  west. 

E.  E.  Calvin,  General  Superintendent  of  the 
Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  system,  was  born 
in  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  in  1858,  and  spent  his 
boyhood  days  in  that  city  and  in  its  immediate 
vicinity.  What  education  he  received  he  ob- 
tained from  the  public  schools,  before  the  age 
of  thirteen,  and  when  he  had  arrived  at  that  age 
he  started  in  the  railroad  business,  then  in  its  in- 
fancy. His  first  work  was  as  a  messenger  boy, 
and  his  aptitude  was  such  that  he  was  soon  pro- 
moted to  be  a  telegrapher,  and  shortly  thereafter 
was  placed  in  charge  cf  stations  as  telegraph 
operator,  continuing  in  that  work  until  he  reached 
the  age  of  sixteen.  He  left  the  railroad  service 
and  re-entered  school,  attending  the  public  and 
high  schools  of  Indiana  for  two  years,  returning 
thence  to  railroad  work.  During  this  time  he 
was  employed  in  the  service  of  the  Chicago, 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati  and  Saint  Louis  Railroads, 
popularly  known  as  the  "Big  Four,"  and  was 
employed  by  it  in  various  capacities  and  in  dif- 
ferent localities  until  April,  1877,  when  he  re- 
signed from  that  service  and  entered  the  employ 
of  the  LTnion  Pacific  Railroad  Company  in  Wyom- 
ing, first  as  a  telegraph  operator,  and  later  as 
agent  at  various  places  along  the  line  of  the  sys- 
tem in  that  State.  He  remained  in  active  service 
on  that  road  until  1880.  when  he  entered  the 
coal  department  of  the  Union  Pacific,  as  Superin- 
tendent of  its  mines  at  Grass  Creek,  Utah,  in 
which  position  he  continued  until  June,  1881, 
when  he  returned  to  active  railroad  work,  hav- 
ing charge  of  the  material  for  the  construction 
of  the  Oregon  Short  Line,  with  headquarters  at 
Granger,  Wyoming.  He  continued  in  that  posi- 
tion until  April,   1882.  when  he  was  appointed 


Train  Dispatcher  of  the  Utah  and  Northern  Rail- 
road, with  headquarters  at  Logan,  and  later  at 
Pocatello,  Idaho.  L'pon  the  completion  of  that 
road,  he  was  appointed  Train  Dispatcher  and 
Train  Master  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line,  which 
position  he  occupied  until  June,  1887,  when  he 
resigned  from  its  service  and  entered  the  emplo\^ 
of  the  Missouri  Pacific,  where  he  was  made  Di- 
vision Superintendent  and  continued  to  discharge 
the  duties  of  that  position  until  February,  1891, 
So  signally  had  he  discharged  his  duties  with 
the  Oregon  Short  Line,  and  so  wide  had  been 
his  experience  in  railroad  matters,  that  he  re- 
ceived a  call  from  that  road  to  return  to  its 
service,  and  in  February,  1891,  he  was  made 
Superintendent  of  the  Idaho  division  of  the  Ore- 
gon Short  Line,  and  contnued  to  act  in  that 
capacity  until  June,  1895,  his  headquarters  being 
at  Pocatello.  At  the  latter  date  he  was  made 
General  Superintendent  of  the  International  and 
Great  Northern  Railroad,  with  headquarters  at 
Palestine,  Texas,  and  in  this  work  he  was  em- 
ployed until  1897.  In  that  year  he  returned  to 
the  Oregon  Short  Line  and  took  charge  of  it  as 
General  Superintendent,  which  position  he  has 
held  since  that  time,  discharging  its  responsible 
duties  with  efficiency  and  credit.  His  headquar- 
ters since  his  appointment  as  General  Superin- 
tendent have  been  at  Salt  Lake  City. 

Mr.  Calvin's  father  was  born  in  Ohio,  but  re- 
moved to  Indiana,  where  he  was  a  prominent 
builder  and  contractor.  In  the  Civil  War  he 
served  as  a  private  during  the  entire  period  that 
conflict  raged,  and  died  in  1893,  in  Indiana.  His 
wife,  Asenth  (Pangborn)  Calvin,  was  a  member 
of  the  Conry  family,  and  she  is  still  living  at  the 
old  family  residence  in  Indiana. 

Our  subject  married  in  Wyoming,  in  1881,  to 
Miss  Alida  Mann,  daughter  of  H.  A.  Mann,  a 
native  of  Illinois.  Her  father  was  a  prominent 
railroad  man  and  had  been  born  and  reared  in 
Chicago.  They  have  five  children  :  Nellie ;  Car- 
rie ;  Herbert,  Erminie,  and  Frank. 

In  politics  Mr.  Calvin  has  been  a  staunch  be- 
liever in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party, 
but  throughout  his  life  he  has  never  solicited  or 
held  public  office,  his  time  and  attention  having 


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been  entirely  monopolized  by  his  work  as  a  rail- 
road man,  and  the  prominence  that  he  has  reached 
in  this  great  modern  business  has  been  due  en- 
tirely to  the  industry  and  application  which  he 
has  brought  to  the  accomplishment  of  every  task 
allotted  to  him.  In  social  life  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Jklasonic  order,  having  joined  it  upon 
reaching  his  majority. 

Mr.  Calvin  is  distinctively  a  man  of  the  people; 
self-made  and  self-educated,  he  has  risen  in  prom- 
inence in  railroad  circles  and  in  the  business 
world  by  his  own  ability,  and  the  present  high 
position  that  he  holds  as  General  Superintendent 
of  one  of  the  great  railroad  arteries  of  the  West 
places  him  in  the  front  ranks  of  the  business  men 
of  this  portion  of  the  United  States.  He  is  also 
interested  in  mining,  being  President  of  the 
Checkmate  Mining  Company,  of  Idaho,  which 
has  been  a  very  successful  and  prosperous  mine 
for  the  past  five  years,  during  which  time  much 
valuable  ore  has  been  shipped  in  large  quantities 
from  the  property  at  Pearl,  twenty-three  miles 
from  Boise.  In  Salt  Lake  City  there  is  no  more 
popular  man  than  Mr.  Calvin,  and  the  regard 
in  which  he  is  held  by  his  fellow  citizens  is  not 
confined  to  the  limits  of  this  city  nor  to  Utah. 
He  is  known  as  one  of  the  most  progressive  rail- 
road men  throughout  the  West,  and  one  who 
by  his  great  industry  and  the  zeal  with  wnich 
he  has  discharged  the  duties  allotted  to  him  has 
made  for  himself  a  career  that  stands  foremost 
in  the  railroad  and  business  world.  He  is  now 
recognized  as  one  of  the  best  General  Superin- 
tendents in  the  country,  and  his  genial  and  pleas- 
ant manner  has  won  him  the  friendship  and  es- 
teem of  all  the  people  with  whom  he  has  come 
in  contact  during  his  long  and  varied  services  in 
the  West. 


ILLIAM  J.  HORNE  is  one  of  the 
l)rominent  men  of  Salt  Lake  county 
and  one  who  has  actively  partici- 
pated both  in  the  government  of  the 
city  and  county,  and  in  the  develop- 
ment of  its  resources.  He  has  always  taken  a 
great  interest  in  Salt  Lake  City  and  is  firm  in 
the  belief  that  in  the  years  to  come  it  will  be 
one  of  the  most  important  cities  in  the  West. 
He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  to  which  faith 
his  parents  also  belonged. 

He  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City,  November  the 
1st,  1859,  and  is  the  son  of  Joseph  Home,  a 
native  of  London,  England,  who  came  to  Ameri- 
ca at  the  age  of  eight,  and  settled  in  Toronto, 
Canada,  where  he  lived  until  he  joined  the  Mor- 
mon Church.  He  then  removed  to  the  headquar- 
ters of  the  Church  at  Nauvoo,  Illinois,  and  re- 
mained there  until  they  were  driven  out  from 
that  city  and  from  Illinois,  going  thence  to 
Winter  Quarters,  near  Omaha.  Here  he  resided 
during  the  winter  of  1846,  and  came  to  Salt  Lake 
City  in  the  following  year,  arriving  here  in  the 
middle  of  winter.  His  first  work  in  Utah  was 
farming,  which  he  followed  successfully.  He 
was  also  a  Bishop  in  the  Church  and  was  one  of 
the  Bishops  of  Salt  Lake  City.  He  gave  his 
whole  life  to  the  work  of  the  Church  and  aided 
largely  in  its  development  and  in  bringing  it  to 
its  present  satisfactory  standing.  At  one  tim.e 
he  was  superintendent  of  the  construction  of  the 
Church  buildings  on  Temple  block.  In  1861-62 
he  was  sent  to  the  Missouri  river  by  the  Church 
to  conduct  emigrants  across  the  plains  to  the 
Salt  Lake  valley.  He  did  not  confine  his  work 
to  Salt  Lake  City,  but  participated  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  entire  State,  being  one  of  the 
first  to  open  up  the  southern  territory  at  Dixey, 
Parowan,  and  all  the  southern  settlements.  He 
was  closely  associated  with  President  Cannon  and 
died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-five,  on  April 
the  27th,  1897,  beloved  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him.  His  wife,  Mary  Park  (Shepherd) 
Home,  the  mother  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
New  Castle,  England,  and  came  to  Utah  in  1854. 
Her  father  was  a  sea  captain  and  followed  that 


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business  for  many  years.  Her  mother  died  en 
route  to  Utah,  her  death  occurring  at  Saint  Louis, 
Missouri.  Her  father  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Mormon  Church.  Our  subject's  mother  is  still 
living.  William  Home,  her  son,  spent  his  early 
life  on  his  father's  farm  in  Utah,  and  was  edu- 
cated at  the  public  schools  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
later  attending  the  Deseret  University,  now  the 
University  of  Utah.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he 
started  out  on  his  life  work  and  secured  em- 
ployment as  locomotive  engineer  on  the  railroad. 
This  he  followed  for  nine  years  and  then  turned 
his  attention  to  farming  and  to  commercial  en- 
terprises. 

He  was  married  on  October  the  26th,  1882, 
to  Miss  Lorilla  Little,  daughter  of  Faramorz  Lit- 
tle, who  was  a  prominent  man  of  affairs  in  Utah. 
He  was  Mayor  of  the  city  for  one  term  and  was 
extensively  engaged  in  the  lumber  business,  hav- 
ing also  contracts  for  the  carrying  of  mails,  and 
was  President  of  the  Utah  Southern  Railroad. 
Our  subject  by  his  marriage  has  seven  children, 
two  sons  and  five  daughters.  They  are:  Lorilla; 
Geneve  ;  Annie ;  Feramorz  ;  Ardell ;  William  Wal- 
lace, and  Helen. 

In  political  affairs  Mr.  Home  has  taken  an 
active  interest  and  owes  allegiance  to  the  Demo- 
cratic party.  He  was  Justice  of  the  Peace  of 
Granger  Precinct  of  Salt  Lake  county  for  eight 
years,  and  served  a  term  as  School  Trustee.  In 
business  affairs  he  is  also  Secretary  of  the  North 
Jordan  Irrigation  Company.  In  the  work  of  the 
Church  of  his  choice  he  is  President  of  the  Elders 
in  the  Quorum.  L^pon  the  resignation  of  Honor- 
able Joseph  S.  Rawlins  from  his  office  of  County 
Commissioner  he  was  appointed  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy, and  on  November  the  7th,  1900,  he  was 
elected  for  a  term  of  two  years  to  that  office. 

He  is  one  of  the  progressive  business  men  of 
Salt  Lake  county  and  one  who  has  done  a  great 
deal  to  bring  Utah  to  the  present  position  it  now 
occupies  in  the  ranks  of  the  Western  States.  His 
valuable  services  and  his  zeal  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  of  his  choice  has  won  for  him  the  con- 
fidence and  trust  of  the  leaders  of  the  Church, 
and  he  is  well  and  popularly  known  throughout 
the  county  by  the  people. 


\RL  M.  NEUHAUSEN.  Perhaps  no 
one  feature  of  a  city  does  as  much  to 
make  or  mar  it  as  its  architecture. 
Many  of  the  leading  cities  of  the  world 
are  famed  for  their  beautiful  buildings 
— ihcir  cathedrals,  towers,  palaces,  or  pictur- 
esque ruins,  and  their  fame  attracts  "tourists  from 
every  clime.  Salt  Lake  City  is  rapidly  coming 
to  the  front  in  this  direction,  as  in  many  others. 
Among  the  most  noteworthy  buildings  may  be 
mentioned  the  Sale  Lake  Temple  and  Taber- 
nacle ;  the  latter  not  so  much  on  account  of  its 
beauty  as  from  its  marvelous  acoustic  properties, 
and  the  fact  that  its  mammoth  roof  is  unsup- 
ported by  pillar  and  held  in  place  without  the 
aid  of  nail  or  iron  rod  of  an  description.  Of 
the  later  structures  are  the  city  and  county 
building,  among  the  handsomest  of  the  kind  to 
be  found  anywhere ;  the  public  school  houses,  at 
once  the  admiration  and  wonder  of  visitors ;  the 
Alta  Club  building;  the  Deseret  News  building, 
now  nearing  completion,  and  also  the  Catholic 
Cathedral,  also  nearing  completion;  Saint  Ann's 
Orphanage;  and  in  the  residence  district  the 
mansions  of  a  large  number  of  the  wealthy  min- 
ing and  real  estate  men  of  the  city,  the  most 
beautiful  of  which  is  the  marble  palace  of  United 
States  Senator  Kearns.  Almost  without  excep- 
tion, the  work  on  these  buildings  has  been  done 
by  local  talent,  among  whom  Carl  M.  Neuhausen. 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  pre-eminently  a 
leader,  not  only  in  this  city,  but  throughout  the 
entire  inter-mountain  region. 

Mr.  Neuhausen  was  born  in  Southern  Ger- 
many, October  8,  1858,  and  his  early  life  was 
spent  in  his  native  country,  receiving  his  educa- 
tion from  the  regular  schools  and  from  the  poly- 
technic institutions  of  Germany.  At  twenty-four 
years  of  age,  after  having  mastered  the  funda- 
mental principles  of  his  profession,  he  started 
out  in  life  for  himself.  He  followed  his  vocation 
for  a  short  period  in  Germany,  traveling  about 
the  German  empire  with  a  view  of  perfecting  his 
knowledge  of  German  architecture.  A  the  age  of 
twenty-eight,  being  of  an  adventurous  spirit,  and 
having  determined  to  seek  fields  that  offered  bet- 
ter inducements  and  a  larger  scope  for  the  am- 


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bitions  and  talents  of  a  young  man,  he  came  to 
America.  Upon  his  arrival  in  this  country  he 
settled  in  Minneapolis,  where  he  followed  his 
profession  for  a  number  of  years,  in  the  employ 
of  one  of  the  leading  architects  of  that  city,  and 
assisted  in  planning  and  erecting  many  of  the 
principal  buildings  of  Minneapolis.  Upon  leav- 
ing Minneapolis  he  traveled  for  some  years 
throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada, 
studying  American  architecture,  and  broadening 
his  education  along  this  line.  He  came  to  Salt 
Lake  City  in  February,  1892,  and  has  since  made 
this  his  home.  The  first  three  years  of  his  resi- 
dence here  he  spent  in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Kleet- 
ing,  at  that  time  one  of  the  best  architects  in 
the  city.  Among  the  buildings  which  he  assisted 
Mr.  Kleeting  in  drawing  plans  for  and  erecting 
was  the  Saltair  Pavilion  at  Saltair  Beach,  one 
of  the  noted  bathing  resorts  of  the  world,  about 
eighteen  miles  from  the  city  of  Salt  Lake. 

On  January  i,  1895,  Mr.  Neuhausen  estab- 
lished an  office  for  himself  in  the  same  rooms  he 
now  occupies,  Nos.  528-30,  in  the  Dooly  block. 
Among  his  first  work  was  the  drawing  of  the 
plans  for  the  building  occupied  by  the  offices  of 
the  Oregon  Short  Line  Railway,  which  building 
was  destroyed  by  fire  about  a  year  ago  and  is 
now  rebuilt.  He  also  drew  the  plans  for  the  D. 
F.  Walker  block,  one  of  the  prominent  business 
blocks  of  the  city.  He  has  under  construction 
the  magnificent  home  of  United  States  Senator 
Kearns,  now  completed,  and  which  bids  fair  to 
be  one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  attractive  homes 
in  the  entire  West ;  also  the  home  of  J.  D.  Wood, 
on  Brigham  street,  among  the  finest  residences 
in  the  city.  The  new  Catholic  Cathedral  and  Saint 
Ann's  Orphanage  are  also  his  work:  also  the 
F.  D.  Clift  building,  occupied  by  the  Paris  Milli- 
nery Company,  on  Main  street.  Among  the 
business  buildings  which  are  under  way  are  the 
Hollaran-Brisacker  building,  and  the  Fisher  Hall. 
He  has  also  made  additions  to  the  Holy  Cross 
Hospital  and  the  Harmon  block;  also  built  a 
number  of  terraces  for  A.  H.  Tarbet.  Among 
the  new  buildings  to  be  erected  in  the  city,  and 
which  he  will  draw  plans  for,  may  be  mentioned 
the  .^11  Hollows  College  addition,  to  cost  over 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 


Mr.  Neuhausen  was  married  in  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  to  Miss  Julia  Liblum,  and  by  this 
marriage  has  six  children. 

In  political  affairs  he  has  always  been  a  staunch 
Republican,  but  while  he  is  thoroughly  imbued 
with  a  desire  for  the  success  of  his  party,  he  has 
never  taken  any  active  part  nor  desired  public 
preferment  of  any  kind,  choosing  to  follow  his 
profession.  Religiously  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Catholic  Church,  and  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbia.  He  also  has  his  membership  in 
the  Elks'  lodge  in  this  city. 

Personally  Mr.  Neuhausen  is  one  of  the  most 
genial  and  pleasant  of  gentlemen,  and  while  his 
residence,  in  comparison  with  the  pioneers,  has 
been  of  but  short  duration  in  this  city,  his  straight- 
forward and  honorable  career  has  made  for  him 
a  large  circle  of  friends.  He  resides  with  his 
family  in  a  modern  residence  at  the  corner  of 
First  South  and  Thirteenth  East  streets. 


YRUM  MACKAY.  The  great  stock 
business  and  agricultural  interests  of 
Utah  have  not  been  developed  and 
brought  to  the  high  and  prosperous 
condition  which  they  occupy  today  by 
chance,  but  it  has  taken  men  of  brain,  courage 
and  untiring  energy ;  it  has  taken  a  period  of 
over  half  a  century  and  the  lives  of  many  of  our 
best  men  to  bring  this  country  to  its  present 
wonderful  state.  Among  the  men  who  have 
formed  a  prominent  and  successful  part  in  this 
great  field  of  labor  may  be  mentioned  Hyrum 
Mackay,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Mackay  is  a  native  of  Utah,  having  been 
born  in  Taylorsville  Ward  January  ist,  1854,  and 
is  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Charlotte  (Davis)  Mac- 
kay. Thomas  Mackay  was  a  native  of  Ireland 
and  our  subject's  mother  was  born  in  Wales. 
Thomas  Mackay  came  to  the  United  States  in 
the  early  forties,  settling  at  Nauvoo,  and  wit- 
nessed the  killing  of  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith. 
He  and  the  Prophet  had  been  for  many  years 
close  friends  and  associates,  and  during  their 
leisure  time  used  to  take  part  in  games,  such  as 
jumping,    racing   and    throwing   quoits.  Thomas 


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Mackay  came  to  Utah  with  the  pioneers  in 
1847,  being  one  of  the  first  who  was  associ- 
ated with  Messrs.  Bennion,  Marker,  Tarbet  and 
Fields,  who  in  1849  crossed  the  Jordan  river, 
which  was  at  that  time  called  the  West  Jordan 
river,  and  up  to  that  time  had  never  been  settled 
by  white  men.  They  made  the  first  improvements, 
west  of  the  Jordan  and  here  laid  out  and  built 
for  themselves  homes  and  began  to  till  the  land 
in  its  wild  and  uncultivated  state.  At  first  they 
built  small  adobe  houses  and  cabins  near  the  old 
English  Fort,  where  they  might  be  protected 
from  the  Indians.  Mr.  Mackay  has  built  sev- 
eral residences  in  Taylorsville,  where  he  lived  and 
died.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  building 
and  establishing  of  the  old  English  Fort.  For 
several  years  Mr.  Mackay  followed  farming  and 
later  drifted  into  the  cattle  and  sheep  business, 
especial  attention  Tjeing  given  to  sheep.  He  was 
also  a  close  friend  of  President  John  Taylor, 
who  was  captain  of  the  train  in  which  they  came 
across  the  plains,  and  they  often  met  and  talked 
over  the  scenes  and  incidents  of  that  trip.  Mr. 
Mackay,  like  President  Taylor,  was  a  stern  and 
determined  man,  and  yet  they  always  got  along 
nicely  together.  Mr.  Mackay  had  three  wives, 
our  subject  being  the  first  living  son  of  the  sec- 
ond wife.  Our  subject's  mother  came  to  Utah 
with  the  pioneers  and  died  in  May,  1901. 

.\t  the  age  of  twenty-three  Mr.  Mackay  began 
for  himself ;  up  to  that  time  he  had  never  left 
his  father's  roof.  He  was  married  December  24, 
1877,  to  Miss  Sarah  Ann  Newbold,  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth  Newbold,  and  they  have 
six  children  living :  Leanora ;  Anna  E. ;  Hyrum 
J. ;  Ellen ;  Leonard ;  DeLisle,  and  Anna,  now  Mrs. 
James  Wheeler.  Mr.  Mackay  settled  on  his  pres- 
ent place  the  year  he  was  married.  His  farm 
is  located  on  the  Redwood  road,  just  south  of 
the  old  Taylorsville  Postoffice ;  here  he  has  one 
hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  the  most  valuable 
land  in  Utah  county,  highly  improved.  On  this 
he  first  built  a  one-room  frame  shanty,  in  which 
he  found  the  winters  very  severe.  He  then  built 
a  log  house,  in  which  he  lived  for  one  year,  and 
when  that  became  too  small  to  accommodate  his 
familv  he  Iniilt  a  two-room  brick  house,  and  that 


also  soon  becoming  crowded,  he  made  up  his 
mind  that  he  would  build  a  house  suitable  for 
the  accommodation  of  his  family.  Today  he  has 
one  of  the  most  modern  brick  houses  of  Salt  Lake 
county,  surrounded  by  barns  and  windmills,  and 
fruit  and  shade  trees,  and  it  is  considered  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  places  in  the  county.  Mr. 
Mackay  is  also  the  owner  of  one  hundred  acres 
of  the  old  homestead,  which  lies  nearly  east  of 
his  present  home.  He  took  up  the  business  of 
his  father,  along  the  stock  line,  which  he  has  fol- 
lowed all  through  his  life,  and  has  made  a  suc- 
cess. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  has  always 
been  a  staunch  member  and  believer  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  that  party.  He  was  raised  a  member 
of  the  Mormon  Church  and  has  served  in  the 
different  departments  of  that  denomination.  His 
counsel  to  young  men  and  young  women  is  con- 
sidered valuable,  as  he  has  always  taken  an  ac- 
tive interest  in  their  lives  and  in  their  Mutual 
Improvement  Associations.  He  has  served  on  a 
mission  to  the  old  and  historical  State  of  North 
Carolina,  where  he  remained  eighteen  months, 
mingling  with  the  citizens  of  that  State,  and 
through  his  efiforts  many  good  citizens  were  in- 
duced to  come  to  Utah  and  help  develop  this  new 
country.  While  he  was  absent  on  this  mission 
his  wife  was  taken  sick,  and  upon  hearing  the 
news  he  returned  home  as  fast  as  possible,  but 
she  never  recovered  from  the  illness  and  died  on 
August  25,  1899. 


ISHOP  HEBER  BENNION.  The 
history  of  the  early  pioneers  who 
crossed  the  great  American  plains  un- 
der the  most  difficult  and  trying  con- 
ditions, menaced  by  the  savage  and 
untamed  red  man  and  the  wild  beasts  which 
roamed  at  large,  has  formed  a  chapter  in  the  his- 
tory of  Utah  and  of  this  western  country  which 
can  never  be  stamped  out.  The  members  who 
settled  in  Utah  in  the  early  days  were  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church,  and  in  fact  it  was 
on  account  of  their  faith  in  that  Church  that  in- 
spired them  to  forego  the  comforts  of  life  and 


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endure  the  privations  and  hardships  incident  to 
settling  in  a  new  country,  and  especially  Utah, 
which  at  that  time  was  so  far  removed  from 
the  seat  of  civilization ;  but  the  splendid  record 
which  they  and  their  sons  and  daughters  have 
made  in  this  country  will  be  looked  upon  with 
pride  by  all  future  generations,  as  well  as  by 
their  posterity. 

Bishop  Heber  Bennion,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  in  Taylorsville  Ward,  in  the 
old  English  fort,  November  28,  1858.  He  is  the 
son  of  John  and  Mary  (Turpin)  Bennion,  both 
natives  of  England.  John  Bennion,  the  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  came  to  America  with 
his  wife  in  1842  and  settled  at  Nauvoo,  his 
mother  coming  in  1845,  ^^d  the  family  lived 
there  until  the  exodus  of  the  Mormon  people  in 
1846,  when  they  formed  the  first  train  of  which 
ever  landed  in  Utah,  arriving  here  in  1847.  That 
winter  was  spent  in  the  Old  Fort  in  Salt  Lake 
City,  and  in  the  following  year  the  senior  Ben- 
nion raised  a  crop  on  the  land  which  is  now  oc- 
cupied by  Salt  Lake  City.  In  the  summer  of 
1849  John  Bennion,  his  brother  Samuel,  Thomas 
Mackay,  Mr.  Tarbet,  Mr.  Fields  and  Joseph 
Harker  crossed  the  Jordan  river  and  established 
an  old  fort  known  as  the  "Welsh  Fort,"  located 
close  to  the  Jordan  river,  near  Taylorsville,  and 
began  farming.  They  built  homes  and  had  the 
first  farms  and  made  the  first  settlement  west  of 
the  Jordan  river.  In  1853  they  established  what 
was  known  as  the  old  "English  Fort,"  which  was 
located  west  of  the  Jordan  river,  and  near  Tay- 
lorsville postoffice.  Our  subject's  father  took  up 
government  land  and  continued  in  the  farming 
and  stock  raising  business  the  balance  of  his  life. 
He  was  the  husband  of  three  wives,  and  had 
twenty-three  children,  our  subject  being  the  eld- 
est son  of  the  third  wife,  and  was  born  and  raised 
in  Taylorsville,  where  he  has  spent  all  of  his 
life.  He  early  started  out  for  himself  and  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  the  most  of  his  life  was 
given  to  the  cattle  and  sheep  business. 

He  was  married  in  1885  to  Miss  Susie  Winters, 
daughter  of  Oscar  and  Mary  Ann  (S'tearns)  Win- 
ters, whose  parents  came  to  Utah  in  1852.  Bishop 
Bennion   has    seven   children,   all   of   whom   are 


living:  Ethelyn,  a  student  in  the  college  of  the 
Latter  Day  Saints  at  Salt  Lake  City;  Heber; 
Mary ;  Lucile ;  Helen  ;  Sterling  A. ;  Rulon  O. 

Bishop  Bennion  has  one  of  the  finest  homes 
in  Salt  Lake  county,  lying  west  of  the  Redwood 
road  and  a  little  north  of  the  old  Taylorsville 
postoffice.  This  land  was  all  unimproved  and  in 
a  barren  state  when  Bishop  Bennion  took  hold 
of  it,  and  he  has  by  perseverance,  determination 
and  hard  work  brought  it  up  to  a  wonderful  state 
of  development,  and  at  present  it  is  considered 
one  of  the  best  improved  farms  in  Salt  Lake 
county.  He  has  a  beautiful  brick  residence,  which 
is  substantial  and  large,  and  all  the  outbuildings 
and  barns  are  of  the  best  and  of  the  latest  im- 
provements. Bishop  Bennion  has  also  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  development  of  the  fruit  in- 
dustries of  this  State,  having  one  of  the  finest 
prune  orchards  in  the  countr)',  and  this  year, 
1901,  he  has  raised  and  shipped  over  twelve  thou- 
sand pounds  of  this  commodity  to  the  market. 
His  farm  consists  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
and  while  he  has  taken  an  active  part  in  its  de- 
velopment, he  has  also  been  largely  identified 
in  the  stock  business,  both  cattle  and  sheep,  and 
is  today  one  of  the  leaders  along  this  line,  and 
one  of  the  most  prosperous  and  prominent  farm- 
ers in  Salt  Lake  county. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat  and  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  that  party,  having  served  in  the 
Territorial  Legislature,  and  also  two  terms  since  it 
was  admitted  as  a  State.  For  many  years  he  was 
a  member  01  the  Democratic  county  committee, 
and  also  a  member  of  the  State  central  committee, 
during  which  time  he  was  closely  associated  with 
Judge  Powers.  He  was  a  staunch  supporter  and 
worked  hard  for  the  election  of  Senator  Rawlins. 

He  was  born  and  raised  a  Mormon  and  has  al- 
way  taken  a  prominent  and  active  part  in  the 
affairs  in  this  Church,  having  served  two  mis- 
sions in  the  Northwest  States,  and  has  been  Pres- 
ident of  a  Quorum  of  Seventies.  He  was  made 
Bishop  of  Taylorsville  Ward  in  January,  1890. 
His  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Asso- 
ciation, and  takes  an  active  part  in  all  of  the 
Church  work.  She  has  the  honor  of  being  Presi- 
dent of  the  first  Woman's  Literary  Society  ever 


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organized  in  Taylorsville  Ward.  She  is  a  sister 
of  Heber  J.  Grant's  wife.  Mrs.  Bennion's  grand- 
mother, Rebecka  Winters,  died  of  cholera  when 
crossing  the  plains  to  this  country,  and  was 
buried  on  the  banks  of  the  North  Platte,  in  Ne- 
braska. The  grave  was  marked  by  a  wagon  tire, 
one  of  the  members  of  the  company  inscribing  on 
the  inside  of  the  tire  "Rebecka  Winters."  For 
many  years  the  family  had  lost  track  of  this  grave 
and  only  knew  that  it  was  somewhere  on  the 
North  Platte  river,  until  the  Burlington  railroad, 
which  recently  made  excavations  for  a  branch 
line,  discovered  the  wagon  tire,  noted  the  inscrip- 
tion and  wrote  to  the  President  of  the  Mormon 
Church  for  information  as  to  who  the  party  was ; 
and  in  this  way  the  family  became  acquainted 
with  the  location,  and  since  that  time  the  relatives 
have  erected  a  beautiful  monument  over  the 
grave,  with  the  Salt  Lake  Temple  building  in- 
scribed thereon,  the  Burlington  company  having 
left  the  grave  undisturbed. 

Bishop  Bennion,  by  his  integrity  and  honesty, 
has  built  a  record  and  made  a  success  of  which 
any  man  may  well  be  proud,  and  which  his  pos- 
terity will  always  regard  with  pleasure. 


DWARD  PAYSON  FERRY  has  for  al- 
most a  quarter  of  a  century  been  one 
<jf  the  stalwart  figures  in  the  mining 
industry  of  this  State,  but  more  es- 
pecially of  the  Park  City  district. 
\Micn  he  came  here  the  illimitable  wealth  of  the 
mountains  of  Utah  was  just  beginning  to  be 
realized,  and  but  little  outside  capital  had  been  in- 
vested or  interested.  A  great  change  has  come 
over  the  face  of  the  mining  industry  since  those 
days,  and  Utah  has  forged  to  the  front  as  one 
of  the  greatest  mineral  producing  States  of  the 
West,  her  wealth  as  yet  but  feebly  estimated,  but 
every  year  seeing  more  Eastern  capital  interested, 
and  greater  strides  made  in  investigating  the  hid- 
den treasures  of  mountain-sides.  Without  the 
unwavering  support  of  such  men  as  Edward  P. 
Ferry,  Utah  must  have  remained  in  obscurity 
many  years  yet,  her  riches  unknown  and  her 
progress  crippled.     These  men  have  brought  to 


her  their  wealth  of  brain  power,  and  with  a  cour- 
age in  her  future  greatness  that  has  at  times  been 
sublime,  have  stood  by  every  scheme  put  forth  for 
her  advancement,  giving  of  their  time  and  means, 
and  asking  in  return  nothing  but  that  they  might 
live  to  see  the  fruits  of  their  labors.  Some  of 
them  have  passed  on,  but  a  few  remain,  and 
among  them  none  more  widely  beloved  or  sin- 
cerely honored  than  the  gentleman  whose  name 
appears  at  the  head  of  this  article. 

Edward  Payson  Ferry  was  born  at  Grand  Ha- 
ven, Michigan,  on  April  16,  1837.  His  parents 
were  Rev.  William  M.  and  Amanda  W.  Ferry. 
They  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  in  Ottawa 
county,  ^here  the  father  was  a  noted  Presby- 
byterian  minister,  and  became  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  industrial  development  of  Western 
Michigan.  Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  later  for  a  short  time  attended 
Beloit  College.  He  has  always  been  a  great 
reader,  particularly  upon  historical  and  political 
subjects. 

In  1870  Mr.  Ferry  was  married  to  Miss  Clara 
\'irginia  White.  Five  children  were  born  of  this 
union,  four  of  whom  are  now  living. 

About  1873,  Mr.  Ferry  became  interested, 
through  W.  H.  Howland,  in  mining  interests  in 
Parley's  Park  District,  Utah,  and  among  the  rest 
the  Woodside,  afterwards  famous  as  the  nucleus 
of  the  May  Flower  and  Silver  King  mines,  in 
both  of  which  corporations  Mr.  Ferry  became  a 
heavy  stockholder  and  leader,  not  only  in  the 
management  of  the  mines,  but  in  the  settlement 
of  the  Nerthland  litigation.  It  was  he  who  or- 
ganized the  Crescent  and  later  the  Anchor,  and 
was  also  instrumental  in  organizing  the  Alliance, 
and  prominent  in  its  affairs.  All  these  proper- 
ties were  valuable,  and  except  for  the  serious 
slump  in  silver  in  1892-93,  would  have  been  great 
producers,  even  in  that  great  camp.  Besides 
these  mines  he  has  also  been  associated  with  the 
Boss,  Daly  West,  Quincy  and  others. 

It  was  the  knowledge  of  the  necessity  of  more 
careful  business  methods  in  connection  with  his 
many  mining  interests  which  impelled  Mr.  Ferry 
to  leave  his  Michigan  home  and  take  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Park  Citv,  which  he  did  in   1878.     A 


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peerless  helpmeet  always,  his  loved  and  loving 
wife — anxious  to  have  the  lot  of  him  she  loved 
made  happy,  forsook  her  comfortable  home  in 
Grand  Haven,  and  took  up  her  residence  with  her 
husband  in  Park  City  in  1879.  I*  ^'^^  here  their 
youngest  child  was  born,  in  1880,  and  here  she 
met  her  tragic  death  a  year  later,  while  riding 
along  a  steep  mountain  side  with  her  husband — 
a  habit  which  afi'ordod  her  always  great  pleasure. 

Mr.  Ferry's  Michigan  career  was  one  of  great 
business  and  political  activity,  although  he  al- 
ways eschewed  the  holding  of  ofifice.  He  was 
largely  interested  in  the  lake  carrying  trade  and 
in  the  manufacture  of  lumber ;  he  was  the  man- 
aging partner  of  the  firm  of  Ferry  Brothers,  at 
one  time  one  of  the  largest  firms  of  lumber  mer- 
chants in  the  State.  In  addition  to  these  duties 
he  found  time  to  manage  all  the  political  cam- 
paigns of  his  brother,  Hon.  Thomas  White  Ferry, 
and  was  instrumental  to  a  great  extent  in  plac- 
ing him  in  the  Congress  and  the  Senate  of  the 
United  States,  where  he  served  some  sixteen 
years  with  honor  to  himself  and  satisfaction  to 
his  constituents.  He  was  President  pro  tem  of 
the  Senate  and  acting  Vice-President  during  the 
latter  part  of  President  Grant's  second  admin- 
istration, after  the  death  of  Henry  Nilson.  When 
his  brother  Edward  W.  was  defeated  for  election 
in  the  United  States  Senate,  and  just  before 
Thomas  W.  Palmer  was  elected  to  succeed  him, 
Edward  P.  Ferry  was  offered  the  election  by  both 
factions  of  the  party,  but  his  loyalty  to  his 
brother  prompted  him  to  decline  the  honor.  He 
was,  during  his  active  career,  an  exceptionally 
far-seeing,  able  and  honorable  politician  and 
business  man.  Both  the  Senator  and  E.  P.  Ferry 
were  stalwart  Republicans,  while  the  other  sur- 
viving brother,  William  M.,  is  a  Democrat, 
while  again.  Major  Noah  H.  Ferry,  another 
brother,  a  Democrat  before  the  War,  was  a  Re- 
publican during  that  fearful  conflict,  and  sur- 
rendered his  life  at  the  head  of  his  regiment  in 
the  Little  Round  Top  during  the  second  dreadful 
day  of  Gettysburg. 

E.  P.  Ferry  was  always  an  aggressive  man, 
both  in  business  and  politics — a  tireless  worker,  a 
shrewd  organizer,  he  possessed  to  a  marked  de- 


gree the  elements  which  drew  men  to  him  in- 
stinctively as  a  leader  among  leaders — the  peer 
of  the  West.  When  stricken  with  the  fearful  ill- 
ness which  has  held  him  a  chained  sufferer  for 
over  ten  years,  he  was  planning  the  alignment  of 
the  Republican  party  of  Utah,  rejuvinated  and  re- 
organized out  of  the  discordant  element  of  the 
past,  with  the  fortunes  of  the  great  Republican 
party  of  the  Nation.  That  had  he  remained  in 
possession  of  sound  health  and  all  his  powerful 
faculties  until  the  happening  of  that  happy  event, 
no  one  who  knows  him  questions  for  an  instant 
that  he  would  have  taken  a  very  high  place  in  the 
councils  and  management  of  the  affairs  of  this 
glorious  State.  Remarkably  true  and  steadfast 
to  his  friends,  they  were  always  anxious  to  honor 
him,  and  were  honored  in  so  doing.  JNIr.  Ferry 
took  an  active  part  in  the  political  struggle 
against  the  powers  of  the  Mormon  Church  in 
State  affairs.  He  was  twice  elected  to  the  State 
Legislature  in  Utah,  and  was  the  Liberal  (non- 
Mormon)  candidate  for  Speaker  of  the  House. 
For  several  years  he  was  the  delegate  to  the 
Trans-Mississippi  Congress,  and  always  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  debates.  In  1890,  when  the 
Congress  met  in  Denver,  Mr.  Ferry  was  elected 
Chairman. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  hav- 
ing attained  to  the  degree  of  Knight  Templar  in 
that  institution. 

Those  who  know  and  love  him  most  firmly  be- 
lieve that,  inasmuch  as  he  is  of  a  long-lived  race, 
he  will  be  strong  enough  to  overcome  his  present 
trouble  and  regain  the  possession  of  a  healthy 
body  and  mind,  as  of  yore.  Generous  to  his 
friends,  just  to  his  enemies,  if  he  had  any — 
and  he  was  too  positive  and  pronounced  in  his 
opinion  not  to  have. — always  serene,  respectful 
and  self-respecting,  he  commanded  involuntary 
respect  from  all  who  knew  him.  He  always  was 
a  man  among  men. 


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AXIEL  SBIPER.  Perhaps  no  other 
European  country  has  furnished  so 
many  of  her  noble  sons  to  the  advance- 
ment and  upbuilding  of  the  State  of 
Utah  as  has  England,  and  certainly 
no  people  have  been  more  zealous  in  their  work 
both  for  the  State  and  the  Church  than  have 
those  whose  birth  occurred  in  the  Mother  coun- 
try. Among  those  who  came  here  in  early  life 
and  have  since  devoted  their  time  and  strength 
to  the  work  of  transforming  this  country  into 
one  of  the  loveliest  spots  in  the  western  empire, 
may  be  mentioned  Daniel  Simper,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch. 

Mr.  Simper  was  born  in  Gloucestershire,  Eng- 
land, in  1848,  and  is  the  son  of  T.  W.  and  Eliza- 
beth (Massey)  Simper,  both  natives  of  that  coun- 
try. The  family  became  converts  to  the  Mormon 
religion  and  in  1865  crossed  the  Atlantic  ocean 
and  came  by  rail  as  far  as  Nebraska  City,  Ne- 
braska, where  they  joined  a  train  of  three  hun- 
dred Mormon  emigrants.  This  was  later  aug- 
mented by  a  freight  train  of  two  hundred  wagons 
and  the  entire  company  of  five  hundred  wagons 
made  the  entire  journey  across  the  country 
through  the  Black  Hills,  the  journey  occupying 
two  months.  After  the  Black  Hills  had  been 
passed,  a  returning  missionary,  Professor  Bare- 
foot, caught  up  with  them  and  offered  to  pilot 
some  of  the  party  the  rest  of  the  distance;  ac- 
cordingly Mr.  Simper  and  nine  other  parties  left 
the  main  train  and  reached  Salt  Lake  City  some 
days  ahead  of  the  others,  arriving  on  November 
2,  1865.  After  camping  for  two  days  in  the  city 
they  went  to  Taylorsville  and  made  their  home 
there  for  two  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time 
our  subject,  who  was  then  nineteen  years  of  age, 
moved  to  where  his  home  now  is,  purchasing  thir- 
teen acres  of  land,  and  began  life  for  himself. 
He  has  since  increased  this  until  at  this  time  he 
has  a  fine  farm  of  sixty-eight  acres,  all  under  a 
good  stater  of  cultivation.  This  property  is  lo- 
cated in  the  Grant  Ward.  Here  he  has  built  a 
modern  brick  residence,  and  his  grounds  are  em- 
bellished with  shade  trees,  good  lawns,  flowers, 
etc.  He  also  owns  a  large  stock  farm  of  three 
hundred   and   seventy-eight   acres  "in   the   Provo 


river  valley,  which  he  uses  chiefly  for  the  raising 
of  sheep  and  cattle.  He  also  has  some  stock  on 
his  home  place,  and  a  large  band  of  sheep  in 
Wyoming.  He  has  about  five  thousand  head  of 
sheep,  all  told,  besides  his  cattle,  and  is  one  of 
the  well-to-do  men  of  Salt  Lake  county. 

His  marriage  occurred  in  Salt  Lake  City  in 
1872,  when  he  was  united  to  Miss  Mary  A. 
Panter,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Lane) 
Panter.  Ten  children  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage, all  of  whom  live  in  the  neighborhood  of 
the  parents,  and  some  of  the  boys  work  for  their 
father.  The  farm  is  in  charge  of  the  eldest  son. 
Almost  all  of  his  stock  is  shipped  to  the  eastern 
markets. 

In  politics  Mr.  Simper  is  a  Republican,  but 
owing  to  his  large  and  varied  interests  both  at 
home  and  abroad,  he  has  never  actively  partici- 
pated in  its  work.  Both  himself  and  all  his  fam- 
ily belong  to  the  Mormon  Church. 

One  of  the  features  of  Mr.  Simper's  home 
place  is  a  handsome  outdoor  cellar  built  entirely 
of  granite,  which  was  taken  from  the  chippings 
of  the  stone  used  in  the  erection  of  the  Brigham 
Young  monument  and  was  quarried  in  the  Little 
Cottonwood  canyon. 


HOMAS  W.  DIMOND.  Among  the 
prominent  young  men  of  Salt  Lake 
county  who  have  made  rapid  strides 
along  the  roads  of  a  successful  life  dur- 
ing the  past  twenty  years  in  Utah, 
should  be  mentioned  Thomas  W.  Dimond,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  He  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Crewkerne,  Sommersetshire,  England,  March 
22nd,  1866,  being  in  the  thirty-sixth  year  of  his 
life.  He  has  already  demonstrated  his  ability  to 
handle  and  control  the  large  business  interests  of 
which  he  and  his  brothers  are  connected,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Dimond  Brothers. 

He  is  a  son  of  Henry  J.  and  Elizabeth  (Weber) 
Dimond,  who  were  also  natives  of  the  same  sec- 
tion where  our  subject  was  born  in  England. 
Mr.  Dimond  spent  his  early  life .  in  the  town 
where  he  was  born,  being  educated  in  the  schools 
of  that  section.    At  the  early  age  of  twelve  years 


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he  went  to  work  in  a  factory  where  he  remained 
for  about  one  year.  Not  being  content  with  the 
opportunities  which  England  afforded  to  young 
men,  he  set  sail  for  America  in  the  fall  of  1880, 
and  arrived  in  Utah  that  autumn.  His  first  work 
here  was  on  a  farm,  where  he  and  his  brothers  be- 
came interested  in  the  sheep  business,  which  they 
have  continued  to  follow  successfully  ever  since, 
the  firm  constisting  of  our  subject,  Robert  E., 
and  Walter  A.,  under  the  style  of  the  Dimond 
Brothers  Company. 

While  Mr.  Dimond  makes  his  home  in  Salt 
Lake  county,  most  of  their  stock  interests  are  lo- 
cated in  Wyoming,  where  they  are  largely  in- 
terested in  the  sheep  business.  His  parents  and 
all  the  family  live  in  the  vicinity  of  our  subject's 
home.  William  S.,  the  oldest  brother  came  to 
America  in  1874,  and  resides  in  West  Jordan 
Ward.  During  the  year  1896  Mr.  Dimond  pur- 
chased twenty  acres  of  fine  land  on  what  is  known 
as  Redwood  Road,  east  of  Taylorsville  postoffice, 
and  has  continued  to  improve  and  beautify  his 
place.  In  1898  he  built  a  two-story  pressed  brick 
residence,  which  contains  thirteen  rooms,  besides 
the  basement,  having  all  the  modern  improve- 
inents,  hot  and  cold  water,  etc.,  and  is  one  of  the 
prettiest  homes  in  Salt  Lake  county. 

]\Ir.  Dimond  married  October  14,  1896,  to  Miss 
Nora  Bennion,  daughter  of  S.  R.  and  Mary 
(Banter)  Bennion,  whose  father  is  Bresident  of 
the  Uintah  Stake  of  Zion.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren, Ethel  Lucile,  Thomas  Wayne,  and  Mary. 

In  politics  Mr.  Dimond  has  always  been  in 
favor  of  protection,  and  therefore  has  followed 
the  fortunes  of  the  Republican  party. 

He  is  one  of  the  prominent  and  faithful  mem- 
bers of  the  Mormon  Church,  having  been  bap- 
tized in  that  faith  before  leaving  his  native  coun- 
try. His  family  are  also  members  of  the  same 
church.  Mr.  Dimond  has  served  his  Church  on  a 
mission  to  England,  being  set  apart  October  14, 
1898,  returning  January  2,  1901. 

He  has  also  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  home 
missionary  affairs,  and  is  Superintendent  of  re- 
ligious classes.  Mr.  Dimond  by  his  straightfor- 
ward, conscientious  business  principles  has  won 
the  esteem  and  respect  of  all  who  have  become 


acquainted  with  him,  and  enjoys  a  large  circle  of 
friends,  not  only  in  Utah,  but  in  Wyoming,  where 
he  is  known  as  a  prominent  stock  man. 


OHN  COOK.  Since  his  baptism  in  the 
Mormon  faith  in  England,  on  Decem- 
ber 25,  1850,  John  Cook  has  been  an 
earnest  supporter  of  the  Church,  and  a 
zealous  worker  in  its  interests.  From 
this  time  on  until  1861,  when  he  left  England  for 
America,  he  led  an  active  Church  life,  making 
proselvtes  to  the  Mormon  faith.  He  was  made 
the  Bresident  of  a  branch  of  the  Church  in  Eng- 
land, and  in  January,  1856,  was  called  to  preside 
over  the  Nottingham  Conference,  remaining  its 
Bresident  for  a  period  of  two  years.  He  estab- 
lished pastors  during  1858  and  1859  i"  F-  D. 
Richards'  time,  and  was  himself  pastor  of  three 
Conferences — at  Nottingham,  Derby,  and  Leices- 
ter. In  i860  he  was  in  Liverpool,  from  which 
port  he  sailed  for  America.  He  had  served  five 
years  as  a  missionary  before  he  came  to  the 
United  States.  In  1861  Mr.  Cook  arrived  in 
America,  reaching  Salt  Lake  City  on  the  fifteenth 
day  of  September,  1861,  after  crossing  the  plains 
in  a  wagon  train  under  the  captaincy  of  Ira  H.  EI- 
dredge.  Without  loss  of  time  he  came  on  to 
]\Iill  Creek  Ward,  where  he  built  an  adobe  house 
in  which  he  and  his  family  lived  until  1892.  Then 
he  built  a  substantial  brick  house  and  homestead- 
ed  one  hvmdred  and  sixty  acres.  He  still  retains 
forty-two  acres  of  this  homestead,  and  shade 
trees  have  sprung  up  to  beautify  and  protect  his 
home. 

Mr.  Cook  leans  to  Democracy  in  his  political 
views.  He  has  been  back  in  England  for  two 
years  on  missionary  work,  and  has  devoted  eight 
months  of  his  time  to  similar  work  Th  the  United 
States.  He  has  been  a  High  Briest  in  the  Church 
for  twenty-five  years  and  Bresident  of  the  High 
Briest's  Quorum.  When  Granite  Stake  was  or- 
ganized he  was  made  the  Bresident  of  the 
Quorum. 

John  Cook  was  born  in  Newthorpe,  England, 
on  November  28,  1822.  He  came  of  an  old  and 
honored  family,  and  being  the  oldest  son  he  was 


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called  John,  that  worthy  patronymic  having  de- 
scended from  father  to  first-born  son  for  a  period 
of  three  hundred  years  without  exception.  His 
father  was  John  Cook  and  his  mother  had  been 
a  Miss  Hannah  Severn.  In  1844  he  was  married 
in  England  to  Rachel  ^Marsden,  a  daughter  of 
William  and  Mary  (Wood)  Marsden,  and  five 
children  were  the  fruit  of  this  union,  of  whom 
four  are  still  living.  Of  these  John,  the  eldest, 
lives  at  Ashley,  and  the  other  three,  Elizabeth, 
Eliza  and  Sarah,  at  Provo.  ^lary  Ann,  the  sec- 
ond daughter,  was  married  and  died,  leaving 
three  children.  The  mother  of  these  children 
died  in  1882. 


y[.  MOORE,  the  Vice-president  of  the 
B.  and  O.  Transfer  Company,  and  the 
General  Agent  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Coal  Company  of  Salt  Lake  City,  was 
born  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  in 
1858.  and  there  spent  his  early  life.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  regular  schools  of  that  city,  and  at 
the  age  of  twenty  began  his  career  as  a  school 
teacher,  which  he  followed  for  three  years.  Find- 
ing the  opportunities  in  this  business  limited,  he 
decided  to  turn  his  attention  to  railroad  work, 
and  with  that  end  in  view  learned  telegraphy, 
and  secured  employment  with  the  Chicago,  Burl- 
ington and  Quincy  Railroad  Company  in  Nebras- 
ka, and  served  in  different  places  in  that  State, 
in  various  capacities,  until  1886,  when  he  quit 
railroading  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  S.  K. 
Martin  Lumber  Company  in  Nebraska,  and  re- 
mained with  that  company  for  four  years,  and 
then  accepted  a  position  as  traveling  salesman 
for  the  Howard  Lumber  Company,  with  head- 
quarters at  Omaha,  which  position  he  retained 
for  two  years.  From  the  lumber  business  he 
next  turned  his  attention  to  the  coal  business  and 
secured  a  similar  position  with  the  Henderson 
Retail  Coal  Company,  and  then  entered  the  ser- 
vice of  Hiram  Tidbal!  &  Company,  coal  deal- 
ers, with  whom  he  remained  for  some  time,  and 
then  entered  the  service  of  the  Union  Pacific  Coal 
Company,  with  headquarters  at  Butte,  Montana, 
where  he  remained   for  two  years,  leaving  that 


position  as  a  General  Manager,  to  take  up  head- 
quarters at  Salt  Lake  City,  where  he  has  repre- 
sented this  company  for  the  past  eight  years. 

He  was  one  of  the  principal  organizers  of  the 
B.  and  O.  Transfer  Company,  one  of  the  largest 
cartage  firms  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  one  which 
from  a  small  beginning  has  grown  to  its  present 
proportions  through  the  able  management  of  its 
officers.  Mr.  Moore  has  won  for  himself  an  en- 
viable position  in  the  business  world  of  Salt  Lake 
City  and  has  aided  greatly  in  the  growth  of  the 
city  and  in  the  development  of  the  commercial 
wealth  of  the  inter-mountain  region.  His  in- 
terests are  not  confined  to  the  transfer  company, 
but  include  a  great  many  of  the  more  prominent 
business  establishments  in  this  city.  For  several 
years  he  was  President  of  the  B.  and  O.  Trans- 
fer Company,  and  at  present  is  its  Vice-president. 
He  is  rated  as  one  of  the  most  substantial  citi- 
zens of  the  city  and  one  who  by  his  work  in  the 
Union  Pacific  Coal  Company,  and  in  promoting 
and  establishing  the  transfer  company,  of  which 
he  is  one  of  the  officers,  has  become  one  of  the 
most  influential  business  men  of  L'tah. 

He  married  in  Missouri  on  January  17,  1882, 
to  ]\Iiss  Grace  K.  Butler,  daughter  of  Sadler  But- 
ler, a  prominent  furniture  manufacturer  in  West- 
ern Missouri.  Mrs.  Moore's  family  is  one  of  the 
oldest  in  that  State,  and  one  which  has  been 
prominent  both  in  financial  and  business  circles 
for  a  long  time.  The  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  a  successful  merchant  and  stockman 
in  Missouri,  who  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-four, 
about  twelve  years  since.  His  wife,  Theodosia 
(Williams)  Moore,  and  the  mother  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Virgmia,  and  her 
family  was  one  of  the  old  and  prominent  families 
in  Virginia,  being  among  the  early  settlers  of  the 
Old  Dominion.  By  this  marriage  Mr.  Moore  has 
two  children,  Emmett  and  Roy. 

In  political  life  he  has  always  been  a  staunch 
Democrat,  but  has  been  so  actively  engaged  in 
business  life  that  he  has  never  participated  ac- 
tively in  the  work  of  that  party,  so  far  as  being 
a  candidate  for  office  is  concerned,  and  which  dis- 
tinction he  has  never  coveted  nor  desired.  In  so- 
cial life  he  is  a  member  of  the  Elks  and  of  the 


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Maccabees.  The  career  which  Mr.  Moore  has 
made  for  himself  has  marked  him  as  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  of  this  community,  and  his 
success  has  been  achieved  by  his  own  industry 
and  application  to  his  business.  He  has  never 
depended  upon  any  one  for  any  financial  aid  but 
has  won  his  own  way  by  his  perseverance  and 
merit.  He  is  well  and  popularly  known  in  all 
the  business  world  of  the  inter-mountain  region, 
and  enjoys  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  the 
men  with  whom  he  is  associated,  and  has  a  wide 
popularity,  counting  his  friends  by  the  score. 


HOMAS  M.  SCHUMACHER.  After 
the  roadway  of  the  railroad  is  secured, 
the  tracks  laid,  stations  built  and  the 
motive  power  supplied,  it  may  be  said 
that  the  real  work  of  the  railroad 
starts.  These  are  but  the  accessories  of  the  rail- 
road, without  which  it  cannot  carry  on  its  busi- 
ness. It  of  course  must  first  have  a  roadway, 
motive  power,  rolling  stock  and  the  necessary 
stations  before  it  can  enter  upon  its  business 
career,  but  after  these  have  been  suppliea  there 
is  a  demand  created  for  a  man  who  can  properly 
manage  the  freight  traffic  of  the  road.  In  all  the 
railroads  throughout  the  United  States  the  traf- 
fic is  divided  into  two  general  heads ;  one,  the 
freight  and  the  most  profitable  as  well  as  the 
larger  volume  of  business,  and  the  passenger, 
the  less  profitable,  but  valued  from  the  adver- 
tising it  gives  to  the  road.  The  position  of  gen- 
eral traffic  manager  of  a  road  is  filled  always 
by  the  selection  of  a  man  who  has  been  in  close 
touch  with  the  freight  department  for  a  number 
of  years,  and  who  by  his  experience  and  by  the 
ability  he  has  demonstrated  in  less  responsible 
positions,  shows  himself  capable  of  managing 
and  directing  the  great  resources  of  the  company. 
In  this  position  is  required  a  man  who  is  not 
alone  capable  of  directing  the  movement  of 
freight  and  supplying  the  demand  for  cars,  but 
he  must  also  be  a  man  in  touch  with  the  general 
business  of  the  territory  drained  by  his  road,  and 
conversant  with  the  detail  of  the  everyday  life  of 
the  people  who  constitute  the  patrons  of  the  com- 
pany, as  well  as  thoroughly  versed  in  the  finan- 


cial affairs  of  the  entire  country.  To  be  chosen 
for  such  a  position  is  a  great  tribute  to  the  execu- 
tive and  administrative  ability  of  a  man,  and 
there  is  no  more  responsible  position  in  the  rail- 
road, nor  one  which  if  illy  managed  cripples  the 
company  greater  than  does  an  incompetent  man- 
ager. The  management  of  the  vast  freight  in- 
terests of  the  Oregon  Short  Line  has  been  en- 
trusted to  a  man  who  by  his  previous  experience 
in  railroading  and  in  general  mercantile  life  has 
demonstrated  that  he  is  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
ness men  of  the  West,  and  one  who  understands 
the  railroad  business,  especially  the  movement 
of  freight,  from  Alpha  to  Omega.  The  reputa- 
tion which  he  has  acquired  in  the  discharge  of  his 
duties  has  won  for  him  a  leading  position  in  the 
ranks  of  railroad  men  who  are  charged  with  the 
management  and  movement  of  the  freight  of  the 
great  railroads  of  this  country. 

Mr.  Schumacher  was  born  in  Williamsport, 
Pennsylvania,  in  1861,  but  his  early  life  was  spent 
in  Ohio,  whither  his  parents  had  moved  when  he 
was  quite  young.  He  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  that  State  and  started  out  on  his 
railroad  career  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  securing 
employment  with  the  C.  C.  C.  and  I.  Railroad 
Company  as  a  telegraph  operator  and  clerk  in 
the  freight  department.  He  remained  with  this 
company  from  1877  until  1881,  and  then  entered 
the  service  of  the  Pittsburg,  Chicago,  Columbus 
and  St.  Louis  Railroad,  known  as  the  "Pan  Han- 
dle," now  forming  a  portion  of  the  system  of 
the  Pennsylvania  company.  He  was  employed 
in  its  train  service,  with  headquarters  at  In- 
dianapolis, and  here  he  remained  until  1883.  He 
next  entered  the  employ  of  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton and  Quincy  Railroad,  with  headquarters  in 
East  St.  Louis,  where  he  was  a  clerk  in  the 
freight  department  for  about  one  year,  and  then 
became  connected  with  the  Missouri  Pacific  in 
St.  Louis  as  chief  billing  clerk,  and  later  as 
chief  clerk,  and  remained  with  that  company 
until  1888,  when  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad  Company,  with  head- 
quarters in  St.  Louis.  Here  he  was  employed 
as  chief  clerk  of  that  company's  offices  until  1891. 
He    then     went     to     Omaha     and  assumed     the 


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duties  of  the  position  of  chief  clerk  in  the  general 
freight  department,  remaining  in  that  capacity 
for  three  years.  The  ability  with  which  he  had 
discharged  the  various  duties  entrusted  to  him, 
had  already  won  for  him  a  wide  reputation  as  a 
prominent  railroad  man,  and  from  Omaha  he 
went  to  San  Francisco,  being  the  general  agent 
of  the  Union  Pacific,  which  he  continued  to  be 
until  October  i,  1898,  when  he  left  the  railroad 
service  and  became  the  Vice-president  of  the 
Continental  Fruit  and  Express  Company,  and 
was  also  made  its  general  manager,  with  head- 
quarters in  Chicago.  This  was  one  of  the  im- 
portant express  companies,  and  especially  so  in 
the  movement  of  fruit  to  the  Eastern  markets, 
and  enjoyed  a  large  and  profitable  business  dur- 
ing the  two  years  that  Mr.  Schumacher  was  at 
the  head  of  its  affairs.  He  resigned  his  position 
with  this  company  and  again  re-entered  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  as  its  general 
agent  at  San  Francisco,  where  he  remained  until 
September  i,  1901,  when  he  became  the  Traffic 
Manager  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line,  with  head- 
quarters at  Salt  Lake  City,  which  position  he  has 
held  ever  sinc^ 

In  political  life  our  subject  has  been  a  Repub- 
lican ever  since  the  first  administration  of  Presi- 
dent McKinley,  and  has  since  followed  the  for- 
tunes of  that  party.  He  has  never  participated 
actively  in  politics,  owing  to  the  confining  duties 
of  the  positions  he  has  held,  and  to  the  necessity 
of  devoting  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  his 
railroad  duties.  He  is  a  member  of  the  clubs 
of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has  been  a  popular  club 
man  in  all  the  cities  in  which  he  has  resided  dur- 
ing his  busy  career.  He  is  rated  as  one  of  the 
best  traffic  managers  in  the  railroad  systems  of 
the  United  States,  and  has  shown  marked  ability 
in  every  work  which  he  has  taken  up.  He  en- 
joys a  wide  popularity  throughout  the  country, 
and  with  the  patrons  of  the  Oregon  Short  Line. 
He  is  a  genial  and  pleasant  man,  and  one  who  by 
his  integrity  and  honesty  has  made  for  himself  a 
prominent  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  business  men 
of  the  country.  He  is  well  and  favorably  known 
throughout  Utah  and  the  entire  West,  and  counts 
his  friends  bv  the  score. 


RESIDENT  W.  W.  CLUFF.  Much 
has  been  properly  written  about  the  mar- 
velous growth  and  development  of  the 
State  of  Utah  during  the  comparatively 
short  period  of  little  more  than  half  a 
ceiitur}-.  Fifty-five  years  ago  it  was  a  barren 
stretch  of  land,  given  over  to  the  savage  red  man 
and  the  wild  animals  that  roamed  the  mountains, 
plains  and  valleys,  and  was  almost  wholly  un- 
known to  the  white  man.  Occasionally  some  in- 
trepid hunter  or  trapper,  familiar  with  the  In- 
dian language  and  with  their  habits  of  life, 
camped  for  a  few  weeks  or  months  along  the 
mountain  streams,  but  until  the  leaders  of  the 
Church  established  by  Joseph  Smith,  and  known 
as  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter  Day 
Sain4:s,  or  Mormon  Church,  after  being  driven 
from  State  to  State,  and  city  to  city,  by  the  peo- 
ple opposed  to  their  religion,  finally  decided  to 
leave  all  traces  of  civilization  and  travel  west- 
ward until  they  should  so  far  separate  themselves 
from  all  who  were  not  in  entire  sympathy  with 
them  as  to  secure  for  themselves  immunity  from 
further  persecutions,  and  where  they  might  es- 
tablish homes  and  live  as  their  consciences  dic- 
tated ;  until  this  time  arrived  civilized  man  had 
not  thought  of  planting  his  home  among  the  rude 
and  uninviting  environments  of  the  western  fron- 
tier. However,  with  this  western  movement  a 
new  era  dawned  upon  the  American  people,  and 
a  few  years  after  the  hardy  pioneers  blazed  the 
way  across  the  great  American  desert,  people  be- 
gan to  flock  to  Utah  and  finally  spread  out  into 
other  regions,  and  the  West  has  since  become  the 
Mecca  for  the  ambitious  and  enterprising  men 
and  women  of  all  States.  It  is  not  our  intention, 
however,  to  give  particular  heed  at  this  time  to 
Utah  as  a  State,  but  to  the  Church  which  was 
planted  here  by  the  Mormon  people,  and  which 
has  since  gathered  thousands  upon  thousands  of 
the  poor  and  oppressed  of  every  land  into  her  am- 
ple bosom,  bringing  them  to  a  veritable  land  flow- 
ing with  milk  and  honey,  and  establishing  them 
in  homes  where  they  might  not  only  live  in  com- 
fort and  happiness,  but  also  have  an  opportunity 
to  acquire  affluence  and  high  honors  in  the  mu- 
nicipal government  of  the  State  if  they  so  de- 


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sired.  The  government  of  the  Mormon  Church 
appears  to  an  outsider  to  resemmble  more  a  wheel 
within  a  wheel,  each  doing  its  particular  work 
methodically  and  without  friction,  and  yet  each 
depending  upon  the  other.  The  vast  work  that 
has  been  so  successfully  accomplished  and  which 
is  still  being  carried  on  with  unabated  enthusiasm, 
has  required  men  of  brain  as  well  as  brawn,  and 
it  has  in  many  instances  been  necessary  that  some 
of  these  men  give  their  entire  life  to  the  work  of 
the  Church.  Such  a  man  is  President  W.  W. 
Cluff,  whose  name  heads  this  article. 

He  is  the  son  of  David  and  Betsy  (Hall) 
Cluff,  and  was  born  March  8,  1832,  in  Willough- 
by  Geauga  county,  Ohio.  The  name  of  this  coun- 
ty has  since  been  changed  to  Lake.  The  father 
was  born  in  Durham,  New  Hampshire,  and  was 
by  trade  a  ship  carpenter.  He  moved  to  Ohio  in 
183 1,  and  there  engaged  in  farming.  Having 
become  a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  Mormonism, 
he  moved  to  Kirkland,  that  State,  in  1835.  Here 
the  first  Mormon  Temple  was  erected.  Two 
years  later  the  Saints  moved  to  Far  West,  Mis- 
souri, and  the  Cluff  family  prepared  to  go  with 
them.  However,  when  they  had  reached  Spring- 
field all  the  family,  with  the  exception  of  the 
father  and  one  son,  were  stricken  with  chills  and 
fever,  and  this  necessitated  their  remaining  in 
Springfield  until  the  sick  members  had  recovered. 
They  lived  in  that  city  until  the  Mormon  people 
began  to  gather  in  Commerce,  later  known  as 
Nauvoo,  Illinois,  in  1840,  and  there  joined  them 
and  made  their  home  in  Nauvoo  until  the  exodus 
in  1846,  when  they  went  to  Council  Bluffs.  In 
1850  they  crossed  the  plains  to  Utah,  the  father 
taking  up  a  farm  in  Provo  and  remaining  there 
until  he  had  reached  the  age  of  eighty-four  years, 
when  he  and  his  wife  went  to  Arizona,  where 
four  of  their  sons  were  living,  and  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  their  Hves  in  that  Territory;  the 
father  dying  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight  and  the 
mother  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight.  They  had 
eleven  sons  and  one  daughter ;  she  was  the  step- 
mother of  one  son,  making  twelve  boys  in  the 
family ;  all  of  whom  are  still  living  except  David, 
the  eldest  son,  who  died  Guymas,  Mexico,  on 
the  Gulf  of  California,  with  the  yellow  fever.  Mr. 


Cluff  was  a  natural  pioneer.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  in  Canada,  Ohio,  Illinois,  Iowa, 
Utah  and  Arizona.  He  served  in  the  War  of 
1812.  He  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  abil- 
ity, commanding  the  highest  respect  and  esteem 
of  those  who  knew  him,  as  a  man  of  unimpeach- 
able integrity,  and  after  rendering  valuable  ser- 
vice to  his  Church  and  community  passed  away 
deeply  mourned  by  all  who  had  been  associated 
with  him  through  a  long  and  honorable  life. 

When  the  family  moved  to  Kirtland  our  subject 
was  a  child  of  four  years,  and  attended  his  first 
school  in  Nauvoo,  at  the  age  of  eight  years,  later 
picking  up  what  book  knowledge  was  possible  to 
the  boys  and  girls  of  this  new  land.  He  lived 
at  home  with  his  father  until  1854,  and  in  this 
year  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  received  his  first 
call  for  missionary  work  from  the  Church.  He 
was  sent  to  the  Sandwich  Islands  in  company 
with  eighteen  other  young  men  and  labored  in 
that  field  for  over  four  years.  He  returned  home 
in  1858,  stopping  a  short  time  in  California,  where 
he  met  the  estimable  woman  who  afterwards  be- 
came his  wife.  In  September,  1859,  he  was  called 
to  go  on  a  mission  to  Denmark,  having  his  head- 
quarters at  Copenhagen.  He  applied  himself  to 
mastering  the  Danish  language  and  after  he  had 
succeeded  in  doing  so  was  appointed  traveling 
Elder,  visiting  the  entire  mission  which  comprised 
Denmark,  Sweden  and  Norway,  spending  over 
three  years  in  this  work.  Upon  returning  to 
Utah  he  located  in  his  former  home,  and  on  Octo- 
ber 24,  1864,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Ann  Whip- 
ple, daughter  of  EH  and  Patience  (Foster) Whip- 
ple, early  settlers  in  Utah.  A  full  biographical 
sketch  of  Mrs.  Cluff  and  her  interesting  family 
will  be  found  in  another  part  of  this  work. 

On  the  5th  of  March,  1865,  Mr.  Cluff  was 
again  sent  to  the  Sandwich  Islands,  spending 
eighteen  months  in  missionary  work.  Shortly 
after  his  return  from  this  trip  he  was  called  to 
preside  over  the  settlements  in  Morgan,  Summit 
and  Wasatch  counties  as  Presiding  Bishop,  mak- 
ing his  home  during  this  time  at  Coalville.  In 
1869  he  received  his  second  call  for  missionary 
work  in  Denmark  and  was  sent  to  preside  over 
the  Scandinavian  mission,  his  headquarters  again 


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being  at  Copenhagen.  He  remained  away  two 
years  and  a  half.  Upon  his  return  to  Coalville, 
Summit  Stake  was  organized  and  has  since  been 
known  by  this  name.  It  comprised  all  the  settle- 
ments of  Summit  county  and  western  part  of 
Wyoming.  Bishop  Cluff  was  appointed  Presi- 
dent of  this  Stake,  filling  that  office  until  April 
13,  1901,  at  which  time  he  retired  from  active 
life  and  has  since  spent  his  time  at  home  with 
his  family,  much  of  it  at  their  handsome  home  in 
Salt  Lake  City. 

Almost  his  entire  time  from  1854  to  1901,  has 
been  spent  in  the  active  duties  of  the  Church,  and 
aside  from  his  numerous  missions  he  was  sent  in 
1887  to  make  a  business  trip  to  the  Sandwich 
Islands,  this  trip  occupying  about  two  months. 
Later,  upon  the  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniver- 
sary of  the  introduction  of  the  gospel  of  Mor- 
monism  into  the  Sandwich  Islands,  accompanied 
by  his  wife  and  President  George  O.  Cannon  he 
made  another  trip  to  the  islands,  this  being  his 
fourth  journey  to  that  part  of  the  hemisphere. 

In  politics  the  Bishop  is  a  strong  Democrat  and 
during  the  intervals  of  home  life  has  been  quite 
active  in  political  matters.  In  the  days  when 
Utah  was  a  Territory  he  represented  Summit 
county  six  terms  in  the  Legislature,  two  terms  of 
w'hich  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Council,  the 
last  term  being  its  President.  He  was  also  twice 
a  member  of  the  Territorial  convention  to  adopt 
a  Constitution  for  the  State. 

While  the  most  of  his  life  has  been  spent  away 
from  home,  President  Clufif  has  by  the  nature  of 
his  work  been  brought  into  close  touch  with  the 
leaders  of  the  Mormon  Church,  in  whose  confi- 
dence and  esteem  he  occupies  a  high  place,  and 
has  also  in  his  public  career  been  quite  promi- 
nently before  the  people  of  Utah,  so  that  he  is 
no  stranger  to  the  citizens  of  this  State.  Mrs. 
Cluff  is  known  as  one  of  the  best  business  women 
in  Utah  and  the  entire  family  occupy  a  high  posi- 
tion in  both  the  social,  business  and  religious  life 
of  the  State. 


I  WA 


RS.  ANN  WHIPPLE  CLUFF.  At 
this  age  of  the  world,  an  age  of 
progress,  development  and  advance- 
ment ;  an  age  of  untiring  energy  and 
almost  one  incessant  succession  of 
successes,  it  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  see  and 
read  of  men  who  have  by  sheer  determination, 
perseverance  and  energy  hewed  out  their  destiny 
and  paved  the  way  to  influence,  power  and 
wealth ;  but  it  is  not  so  common  to  read  and  hear 
of  a  woman  who  by  the  same  tactics  has  accom- 
plished the  same  end.  However,  this  is  true  of 
the  life  and  record  of  the  subject  of  this  article. 
But  few  women  in  this  country,  or  in  any  other 
country,  have  a  more  just  and  legitimate  right 
to  be  proud  of  what  they  have  accomplished,  and 
whose  life  and  record  will  redound  through  the 
generations  yet  to  come,  and  whose  posterity  will 
behold  with  more  pride,  than  will  the  lineal  de- 
scendants of  Mrs.  Ann  Whipple  Clufif. 

Born  in  McKeene  county,  Pennsylvania,  near 
the  New  York  line,  when  but  a  young  girl  her 
parents  moved  to  'California,  via  the  Panama 
route,  an  Indian  carrying  Mrs.  Cluff  on  his  back 
across  the  mountains.  They  first  settled  in  Red- 
wood City,  near  San  Francisco,  where  her  father, 
Eli,  and  her  mother.  Patience  (Foster)  Whipple, 
built  their  first  western  home.  In  early  manhood 
Mr.  W'hipple  had  been  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business,  first  in  the  forests  of  Pennsylvania  and 
Ohio,  and  on  coming  to  California,  he  was  the 
pioneer  in  that  business  there,  and  through  his 
efforts  and  business  sagacity  amassed  a  for- 
tune in  the  California  lumber  business.  Af- 
ter spending  a  number  of  3'ears  in  that 
section,  the  family  moved  to  Utah,  settling  near 
St.  George  when  that  was  an  uninhabited  sec- 
tion, in  1858.  Here  Mr.  Whipple  built  the  first 
saw  mill  and  assisted  largely  in  the  upbuilding  of 
that  country,  where  he  resided  until  the  past  few 
years,  since  which  time  he  has  made  his  home  in 
Mexico.  Early  in  the  history  of  the  Mormon 
Church  in  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Whipple  and  his 
wife  had  become  followers  of  that  church,  and 
have  ever  since  been  faithful,  consistent  members. 
Our  subject  spent  her  childhood  days  in  Penn- 
sylvania  and  girlhood   in   California.     Educated 


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at  Santa  Clara  Seminary,  California,  at  the  age 
of  sixteen  years  she  came  to  Utah  with  her  par- 
ents, and  while  living  near  Saint  George  married 
Bishop  W.  W.  Clufif,  in  1864,  having  previously 
met  him  in  California.  Mr.  Cluff  has  for  the 
greater  portion  of  his  life  been  one  of  the  stand- 
bys  in  the  missionary  field  for  the  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  of  Latter  Day  Saints,  and  at  the  time  of 
their  marriage  he  had  just  returned  from  a  for- 
eign missionary  trip  to  Europe,  where  he  had  la- 
bored in  Denmark.  Three  months  after  the  mar- 
riage ceremony  was  performed  he  was  again 
called  on  another  foreign  mission.  Mrs.  Clufif 
was  left  with  but  a  scant  supply  of  food  and 
clothing,  and  with  her  husband  away  on  a  mis- 
sion, the  prospects  for  future  financial  successes 
were  not  of  the  best,  but  having  inherited  a  strong- 
liking  for  business  from  her  father,  she  could  not 
think  of  sitting  idly  down  or  merely  taking  care 
of  her  household  duties.  During  August  her  eld- 
est son  was  born,  and  later  she  worked  making 
gloves,  earning  during  that  season  between  five 
and  six  hundred  dollars,  at  the  same  time  per- 
forming her  household  duties.  This  was  the 
starting  point  of  Mrs.  Clufif's  financial  success. 

Taking  what  money  she  could  spare  out  of  the 
six  hundred  dollars,  she  invested  in  the  Co-opera- 
tive store  at  Coalville.  That  proved  a  success. 
She  next  built  a  frame  house  in  Coalville,  Summit 
county,  and  later  purchased  a  farm  in  that  vicin- 
ity, building  on  that  and  improving  it.  She  next 
built  a  fine  hotel  in  Coalville,  which  is  elegantly 
furnished  throughout,  and  which  would  be  a  credit 
to  a  much  larger  city,  Mrs.  Clufif  part  of  the  time 
giving  her  personal  attention  to  the  running  of 
the  hotel.  She  now  owns  large  property  interests 
in  the  different  parts  of  the  State,  having  a  fine 
vineyard  and  orchard  at  Provo,  Utah  county,  ex- 
tensive property  in  Ogden,  and  of  recent  date  has 
purchased  the  Hoyt  Sherman  home,  an  elegant 
residence  property  located  near  the  State  Univer- 
sity at  No.  201  Douglas  avenue.  Salt  Lake  City. 
All  these  places  Mrs.  Clufif  has  improved  and  fur- 
nished complete.  She  now  owns  the  majority  of 
the  stock  in  the  Co-operative  store  in  Coalville ; 
also  having  a  h^lf  interest  in  the  opera  house  in 
that  town. 


Mrs.  Clufif  has  raised  a  family  of  eight  children, 
three  daughters  and  one  son — W.  W.  Cluff,  Ju- 
nior, traveling  salesman  for  the  Salt  Lake  Hard- 
ware Company,  and  who  married  Edith  Atwood, 
daughter  of  Bishop  S.  F.  Atwood,  of  Kamas ; 
.\nnie  May,  wife  of  Frank  W.  Olsen,  with  the 
Studebaker  company,  of  Salt  Lake  City ;  Lillian, 
wife  of  John  Powlas,  residents  of  Ogden ;  Flora 
N.,  wife  of  Lawrence  Eldredge,  who  resides  in 
Coalville.  Four  sons  died  in  youth.  She  has 
seven  grandchildren. 

In  Church  aliairs  Mrs.  Cluff  has  taken  an 
active  and  prominent  part,  especially  in  the  way 
of  assisting  financially,  giving  freely  of  her  wealth 
to  many  worthy  causes.  She  has  for  many  years 
been  Counselor  to  the  President  of  the  Relief  So- 
ciety of  Summit  Stake,  and  has  for  a  number 
of  years  had  full  charge  of  the  millinery  and 
dressmaking  establishment  conducted  by  that  so- 
ciety, whose  sole  object  is  to  assist  the  needy  and 
relieve  the  poor,  and  in  these  departments  has 
been  an  indefatigable  worker.  Mrs.  ClufT's  finan- 
cial success,  it  might  be  said,  has  been  accom- 
plished practically  through  her  own  efforts. 
While  her  husband,  Bishoff  Cluff,  has  assisted  in 
every  way  he  could,  yet  most  of  his  life  has  been 
spent  away  from  home  in  the  interests  of  the 
Church. 


ISHOP  HARRISOX  SPERRY.  Much 
has  been  written  in  the  past  and  much 
will  be  written  in  the  future  of  the 
early  pioneers  who  settled  in  Utah  for 
the  purpose  of  reclaiming  it  from  a  wild 
and  barren  waste  to  a  prosperous  and  high  con- 
dition of  civilization  and  advancement,  but  it  is 
a  question,  notwithstanding  all  that  has  been  told 
and  written  along  this  line,  whether  the  future 
generations  will  fully  understand  and  realize  what 
this  sturdy  branch  of  the  human  family  passed 
through  in  paving  the  way  of  civilization  in  this 
new  and  at  that  time  far  remote  section  of  the 
country.  The  hardships  endured,  the  obstacles 
overcome  by  the  pioneers,  can  never  be  fully  told 
or  understood.  Among  the  men  who  settled  in 
Utah  in  1847  ^"d  who  has  passed  through  many 


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of  the  trying  scenes  incident  to  settling  in  this 
new  country,  Bishop  Harrison  Sperry  deserves 
special  mention. 

He  was  born  in  Trumble  county,  Ohio,  in  1832, 
and  is  the  son  of  Joy  Sperry,  a  native  of  New- 
York  State.  Mr.  Sperry  was  a  pioneer  settler  of 
Trumble  county  and  from  there  moved  to  Han- 
cock county,  Illinois,  in  1843,  locating  at  Lay- 
harp,  and  there  became  a  member  of  the  Mormon 
Church.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  but  also 
followed  farming.  At  the  time  of  the  exodus  of 
the  Mormon  people  in  1846  he  started  with  his 
family  for  Highland  Grove,  his  wife  dying  at 
Mount  Pisgah.  After  burying  his  wife  Mr. 
Sperry  continued  his  journey  and  died  at  High- 
land Grove  on  New  Years  day,  1847.  His  son 
Aaron  also  died  there,  their  deaths  being  the  re- 
sult of  the  hardships  and  exposure  endured. 

The  children  thus  left  orphans,  William, 
Charles,  Betsy  and  our  subject,  proceeded  to 
Winter  Quarters  and  left  there  with  an  ox  train 
under  command  of  Erastus  Snow,  J.  M.  Grant 
and  Alessrs.  Noble  and  Gates,  the  two  latter  hav- 
ing charge  of  fifty  wagons  each.  After  enduring 
many  hardships  the  company  reached  Salt  Lake 
City  October  16,  1847.  On  reaching  here  the  lit- 
tle family  camped  at  the  old  fort  and  the  boys  at 
once  began  work  building  adobe  houses.  During 
the  winter  they  were  compelled  to  kill  many  of 
their  oxen  for  meat,  and  in  the  spring  dug  sago 
and  thistle  roots,  which  was  their  principal  means 
of  subsistence,  and  occasionally  obtaining  a  little 
wild  game.  Our  subject  witnessed  the  survey- 
ing and  laying  out  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and  during 
1848-49  he,  with  his  brothers  and  Samuel  Miller, 
took  contracts  for  herding  cattle  on  the  Big  Cot- 
tonwood. They  were  attacked  by  Indians  at  one 
time  while  engaged  in  this  avocation,  but  their 
lives  were  saved  through  the  guns  in  the  hands 
of  the  Indians  failing  to  discharge,  and  the  party 
was  able  to  hide  in  the  brush,  owing  to  the  dark- 
ness. In  the  morning  it  was  discovered  that  about 
two  hundred  head  of  cattle  had  been  driven  off 
by  the  marauders.  A  pursuing  party  was  at  once 
sent  out  and  recovered  what  cattle  had  not  al- 
ready been  killed.  Bishop  Sperry  also  partici- 
pated in  the  Indian  troubles  at  Prove,  in   1849, 


being  a  volunteer  under  a  regular  United  States 
officer,  and  served  in  that  campaign  until  the  In- 
dians were  driven  to  the  mountains. 

In  1855  he  was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Mosley. 
daughter  of  William  Mosley,  who  died  in  Illinois. 
The  daughter  came  to  Utah  with  her  mother  and 
other  members  of  the  family  in  1848.  JNIrs.  Sperry 
died  in  1862  and  the  Bishop  married  her  sister, 
Susan  M.  Mosley.  He  is  the  father  of  twenty- 
two  children,  eight  of  whom  are  now  living,  and 
husband  of  three  wives.  His  third  wife  was  Ellen 
M.  Butterworth,  and  like  most  of  his  old  asso- 
ciates he  served  six  months  in  the  penitentiary  for 
what  they  believed  to  be  right.  His  son  Charles 
served  on  a  mission  to  the  Southern  States,  and 
another  son,  George,  is  now  in  England  on  a  mis- 
sion, laboring  in  the  Birmingham  Conference. 

Bishop  Sperry  was  baptized  into  the  Mormon 
faith  at  the  age  of  ten  years,  in  Hancock  county, 
Illinois.  He  was  ordained  a  Deacon  when  a  mere 
boy  and  soon  after  arriving  in  Salt  Lake  became 
a  teacher  under  Bishop  Benjamin  Brown,  of  the 
Fourth  Ward.  He  was  ordained  a  Seventy  early 
in  the  sixties  and  later  a  High  Priest  and  set 
apart  as  Second  Counselor  to  Bishop  Brown,  later 
becoming  First  Counselor  to  Bishop  Jenkins,  the 
successor  of  Bishop  Brown,  whom  he  succeeded 
on  May  20,  1875,  ^"d  has  since  presided  over  that 
Ward  and  all  its  auxiliary  branches.  During  the 
time  he  has  held  this  office  there  have  been  many 
changes  in  the  Ward,  and  a  number  of  prominent 
men  of  the  City  have  been  associated  with  him  at 
different  periods  as  his  Counselors.  He  has  al- 
ways been  prominent  in  Sunday  School  work 
and  organized  the  Young  Men's  Mutual  Improve- 
ment Association  in  his  Ward. 

At  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  became  in- 
terested in  farming  and  has  since  owned  a  number 
of  pieces  of  land,  the  most  of  which  he  sold,  and 
is  at  this  time  interested  in  ranching  and  stock 
raising  in  Tooele  county,  though  he  makes  his 
home  in  this  City,  where  he  purchased  property  in 
the  early  fifties. 

Bishop  Sperry  is  a  self-made  man ;  he  began 
at  the  very  foot  of  the  ladder,  and  the  high  rank 
which  he  has  since  taken  among  the  business  men 
of  this  localitv  has  been  won  bv  his  own  unaided 


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efforts.  He  stands  high  in  the  esteem  not  only  of 
the  leaders  of  his  Church,  but  with  all  with  whom 
he  has  come  in  contact  through  a  long  and  hon- 
orable life. 


ACKSOX  R.  ALLEN.  The  live  stock 
business  has  been  handled  more  or  less 
in  Utah  ever  since  the  pioneers  settled 
in  this  country.  However,  until  the  last 
few  years  it  has  been  of  an  inferior  grade. 
the  thoroughbred  grade  of  stock  being  very 
scarce.  Mr.  Allen,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  among  the  first  to  recognize  the  great  need  of 
improvement  along  these  lines,  and  by  his  untiring 
efforts  he  has  accomplished  more  in  building  up 
and  improving  the  live  stock  business,  both  cat- 
tle and  sheep,  than  almost  any  other  man  in  Salt 
Lake  county. 

Mr.  Allen  is  a  native  son  of  Utah,  having 
been  born  in  Draper  Ward  December  31,  1870, 
and  while  he  is  comparatively  a  young  man,  he 
has  demonstrated  his  ability  to  handle  and  con- 
trol the  stock  business  in  a  manner  that  would 
do  credit  to  a  man  of  more  mature  years.  He 
is  the  son  of  Andrew  Jackson  and  Louisa  (Rog- 
ers) Allen.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky, being  born  in  1818,  and  his  mother  was 
born  in  Glostershire,  England.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  whose  name  was  James  Andrews 
Allen,  was  also  a  native  of  Kentucky,  this  being 
one  of  the  old  Kentucky  families.  Our  subject's 
father  came  to  Utah  in  1847  ^"d  was  married  in 
the  Temple.  Our  subject  is  one  of  four  brothers 
of  his  father's  last  family,  being  the  oldest  of  the 
children.  The  Senior  Mr.  Allen  died  in  July, 
1884,  and  his  wife  still  lives  and  makes  her  home 
with  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Andrew  J.  Allen 
was  a  stock  man  all  his  life  and  he  took  an  active 
part  in  the  work  of  the  Mormon  Church  also. 
Our  subject's  early  education  was  derived  from 
the  schools  of  Salt  Lake  City  and  county  and  he 
later  graduated  from  the  University  of  Utah,  in 
the  class  of  1890.  After  his  graduation  he  took 
up  book-keeping  in  the  office  of  the  Pioneer 
Smelting  Company  at  Sandy,  but  only  followed 
this  for  a  short  time.    He  was  later  in  the  County 


Recorder's  office  about  two  years  and  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  Draper 
schools  for  a  couple  of  years.  In  the  fall  of  1890 
he  took  up  the  blooded  stock  business,  which  he 
has  followed  successfully  ever  since.  He  is  in- 
terested in  both  sheep  and  cattle,  dealing  prin- 
cipally in  the  Short  Horn  cattle  and  Cotswold 
sheep.  Aside  from  dealing  in  fancy  stock  he  also 
does  a  general  stock  business,  ranging  most  of  the 
time  in  Utah.  In  the  company  with  which  he  is 
identified  all  three  of  his  brothers  are  also  inter- 
ested and  it  is  known  as  Allen  Brothers'  Stock 
Company.  The  ranch  is  known  as  the  Excelsior 
Stock  Farm.  They  have  seven  different  places, 
six  being  in  the  vicinity  of  Draper  and  one  at 
Charleston,  in  Wasatch  county.  In  1890  Mr. 
Allen  built  a  splendid  brick  residence,  which  con- 
tains thirteen  rooms,  being  located  one  mile  south 
of  the  Draper  postoffice,  and  he  has  on  this  place 
some  fine  barns  and  all  of  the  modern  improve- 
ments. It  is  today  recognized  as  one  of  the  finest 
places  in  Salt  Lake  county. 

In  December,  1891,  ]\Ir.  Allen  led  to  the  mar- 
riage altar  Miss  Matilda  C.  Day,  daughter  of 
Henry  Day,  one  of  the  pioneers  to  Utah.  By  this 
marriage  four  children  have  been  born — Leona 
C,  Ruth  L.,  James  H.  and  Mary  D. 

In  politics  Mr.  Allen  is  a  Democrat  but  has 
never  desired  nor  sought  public  office.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Latter 
Day  Saints,  as  is  also  his  wife  and  family,  and 
they  have  all  taken  an  active  part  in  the  Church 
work  in  Draper,  Mr.  Allen  being  an  Elder  in  the 
Church. 


OXORABLE  JOSEPH  KIMBALL, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  business  men 
of  Utah,  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
December  22,  1851.  He  is  a  son  of 
Apostle  Heber  C.  and  Presendia  La- 
throp  (Huntington)  Kimball.  Few  men  have 
taken  a  more  active  part  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  or  in  the  development  of  Utah  than  has 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  is  rated  as  a  very 
active  business  man  of  the  inter-mountain  region 
and  has  become  one  of  the  most  popular  men  of 


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Utah,  both  by  his  public  service  and  by  his  in- 
tegrity as  a  business  man.  He  spent  his  boyhood 
days  in  this  City  and  was  educated  in  its  leading 
schools,  attending  Morgan's  Business  College  and 
later  entering  the  Deseret  University.  He  re- 
moved from  Salt  Lake  to  Meadowville,  Rich 
county,  in  1871,  and  served  as  Bishop  of  that 
Ward  until  his  removal  to  Cache  county  in  1890, 
from  which  section  he  was  elected  as  a  represen- 
tative in  the  second  Utah  Legislature.  He  has 
been  in  public  life  for  a  number  of  years..  The 
first  public  office  he  held  was  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  of  Rich  county,  which  he  held 
from  1878  until  August,  1884,  when  he  was 
elected  Probate  Judge  of  that  county.  In  the 
election  which  took  place  on  March  3,  1885,  he 
was  chosen  a  member  of  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives of  the  Territorial  Legislature,  from  the 
district  that  comprised  the  counties  of  Cache  and 
Rich.  When  his  term  expired  in  1887  he  was 
again  elected  Selectman,  which  position  he  held 
until  1889,  when  he  was  re-elected.  He  was 
elected  a  delegate  to  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion from  Rich  county  in  1882,  and  was  also  sent 
to  the  Trans- Alississippi  Congress  at  Ogden,  as  a 
representative  from  Rich  County.  He  has  been 
widely  interested  in  the  development  of  the  agri- 
cultural resources  of  the  State,  and  has  also  been 
actively  interested  in  stock-raising  and  in  mining. 
He  was  one  of  the  chief  promotors  and  was  after- 
wards President  and  Director  of  two  different 
irrigation  companies  in  the  southern  portion  of 
Bear  Lake  valley.  He  is  now  prominently  identi- 
fied with  several  mining  properties  in  La  Plata 
and  Bear  Lake  and  is  President  and  director  in 
many  of  the  companies  whose  properties  are  lo- 
cated in  those  districts.  He  was  President  of  the 
Logan  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  in  the  Mor- 
mon Church  is  one  of  the  Bishopric  of  the  First 
Ward  of  Logan. 

Mr.  Kimball  was  married  on  October  30,  1870, 
to  Miss  Lathilla  Pratt,  daughter  of  Apostle  Orson 
and  Mary  Ann  (Merrill)  Pratt,  and  by  this  mar- 
riage has  thirteen  children,  eight  sons  and  five 
daughters — Joseph  Raymond,  Louie  Presendia, 
Florence,  Earnest,  Orson  Heber,  Alma,  Clark, 
Ethel  Beatrice,01iver,  Naomi  Pearl,  Reba  Geneve, 


Willard  Lathrop,  and  Pratt.  Of  these  children 
six  are  now  living  in  Canada.  Louie  Presendia  is 
now  the  wife  of  L.  C.  Pond,  and  she  labored 
with  her  husband  on  a  mission  in  Tasmania  for 
three  years.  She  is  President  of  the  Ladies'  Mu- 
tual Improvement  Association  of  the  Pocatello 
Stake,  Idaho.  Florence  is  now  the  wife  of  Wil- 
liam J.  Hyde,  of  Baker  City,  Oregon.  He  served 
three  years  in  Germany  on  a  mission. 

The  Kimball  family  is  of  old  Revolutionary 
stock,  our  subject's  forefathers  having  been  en- 
gaged in  all  the  wars  which  took  place  in  Amer- 
ica from  1634  to  the  last  conflict  with  Great 
Britain,  and  the  Kimball  family  have  been  rep- 
resented in  the  War  with  Mexico,  the  Civil  War 
and  in  all  the  Indian  troubles  on  the  western 
frontier,  and  in  the  Spanish-American  war. 

Mr.  Kimball  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
development  of  Utah  and  in  the  work  of  the 
Church,  and  he  is  today  one  of  the  leading  busi- 
ness men  of  the  inter-mountain  region,  and  has 
proved  himself  to  be  a  faithful  public  officer  and 
one  who  has  not  only  a  great  faith  in  the  future 
prosperity  of  Utah  and  of  Salt  Lake  City,  but 
who  has  been  a  constant  worker  for  their  suc- 
cess. 


HOMAS  H.  HILTOX.  In  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  affairs  of  a  city  there  is 
perhaps  no  more  responsible  position 
than  that  of  Chief  of  Police.  The  re- 
.sponsibilities  of  this  position  have  been 
cartd  for  and  the  arduous  duties  satisfactorily 
discharged  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Thomas  H.  Hilton  was  born  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
on  December  the  6th,  1870,  and  has  spent  most 
of  his  life  -within  the  confines  of  this  city.  He 
was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  the  city 
and  at  the  University  of  Utah.  His  first  work 
was  in  the  Tithing  office  of  the  Mormon  Church 
in  this  city,  and  he  served  also  four  years  in  the 
grain  department  of  that  Church,  and  for  some 
time  attended  to  his  father's  financial  affairs  in 
the  meat  market,  being  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  company  of  which  his  father  was  the  head. 
In  May,  1892,  he  was  called  to  go  on  a  mis- 
sion  for  the   Church   and   was  absent   for  three 


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years,  spending  that  time  in  the  Samoan  Islands, 
where  he  presided  over  the  affairs  of  the  Church 
for  one  year. 

Mr.  Hilton  was  married  on  December  the  4th, 
1888,  to  Miss  Sarah  McMurrin,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph McMurrin,  who  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Mormon  Church  and  had  been  actively  identi- 
fied with  it  for  years.  He  was  Counsel  to  the 
Bishop  of  the  Eighth  Ward  for  a  long  time.  He 
was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  to  come  to  Utah 
and  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  merchants 
of  the  State.  His  son,  Joseph  W.  McMurrin,  is 
now  one  of  the  Seven  Presidents  of  the  Seventies. 
The  father  of  our  subject,  David  Hilton,  is  still 
living  in  Salt  Lake  City.  He  was  born  in  Lees, 
Lancastershire,  England,  and  now,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-one,  is  hale  and  hearty,  and  enjoys  fine 
health.  He  joined  the  Church  in  England  and 
emigrated  with  the  first  converts  to  Utah,  and 
has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  work  of  the 
Church  throughout  his  life.  He  has  followed 
butchering  a  great  part  of  his  life,  but  for  the 
past  iew  years  has  retired  from  active  business. 
He  is  one  of  the  Seventies  in  the  Church  and  for 
a  period  covering  more  than  twenty  years  he  was 
in  the  Tithing  office.  His  life  has  been  of  such 
a  character  that  now  in  his  old  age  he  enjoys  the 
friendship,  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  the  peo- 
ple with  whom  he  came  in  contact  from  the  time 
he  came  to  Utah,  in  1852,  to  the  present  time. 
The  mother  of  our  subject,  Mary  Ann  (Affleck) 
Hilton,  was  also  a  native  of  England,  and  lived  to 
a  good  old  age,  dying  in  Salt  Lake  City  on 
October  the  i8th,  1901. 

Shortly  after  the  return  of  our  subject  from 
his  missionary  work,  he  was  appointed  to  a  po- 
sition in  the  Police  Department,  and  in  April, 
1899,  he  was  made  Chief  of  Police,  which  posi- 
tion he  filled  with  credit  to  himself  and  satisfac- 
tion to  the  people.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
had  the  distinction  of  being  the  youngest  Chief 
of  Police  in  the  United  States.  He  resigned  the 
position  of  Chief  of  Police  May  the  6th,  1902,  and 
was  immediately  appointed  Deputy  Internal  Rev- 
enue Collector  for  the  .District  of  Montana,  with 
headquarters  in  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah.  Mr.  Hilton 
is  a  man  of  fine  appearance ;  tall  and  well  built. 


His  genial  and  pleasant  manners  have  made  him 
one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  Salt  Lake  City, 
and  his  standing  with  the  people  throughout  the 
State  is  not  excelled  by  any  other  citizen  of  this 
Citv. 


ANIEL  SPENCER,  Deceased.  In  the 
work  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ 
of  Latter  Day  Saints  there  have  been 
many  men  who  have  taken  a  promi- 
nent part  and  who  have  spent  their  lives 
in  its  service,  but  to  the  first  members  of  this 
Church  and  to  those  who  emigrated  from  the 
East  to  Utah,  much  of  the  credit  of  its  present 
standing  is  undoubtedly  due.  In  all  organiza- 
tions the  hardest  and  greatest  tasks  are  in  their 
successful  launching  and  in  the  promulgation  of 
the  principles  which  they  must  follow.  This  is 
especially  true  of  religion  and  the  Herculean  ef- 
forts which  the  early  members  of  the  Mormon 
Church  made  mark  this  movement  as  one  of  the 
most  wonderful  efforts  ever  made  by  men.  The 
history  of  its  rise  and  growth  in  the  eastern  part 
of  the  United  States  and  the  banishment  of  its 
members  from  Illinois  and  Missouri,  and  their 
westward  journey  across  the  great  plains  of 
America  to  an  unknown,  uncivilized  and  barren 
land,  forms  one  of  the  most  striking  chapters  in 
the  history  of  the  United  States.  The  faith  they 
had  in  their  religion  and  the  confWence  they  re- 
posed in  their  leaders,  has  never  been  excelled  by 
any  other  movement  that  has  taken  place  in  the 
history  of  the  world.  From  a  barren  land,  entirely 
cut  off  from  communication  with  civilization, 
surrounded  by  hostile  Indians  and  encompassed 
with  dangerous  natural  conditions,  they  have 
built  out  of  the  wilderness  a  State  that  now  stands 
foremost  in  the  ranks  of  the  western  sovereignties 
of  the  United  States.  There  can  be  but  little 
question  that  had  the  Mormons  not  taken  up  their 
residence  in  the  great  Salt  Lake  Valley  and  set- 
tled and  populated  Utah,  it  would  now  be  in  a 
less  stage  of  advancement.  To  them  is  due  the 
founding  and  growth  of  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
while  they  opposed  at  first  the  developnrent  of 
the    mineral   resources    of   Utah,   thev    are   how 


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heart  and  soul  in  the  work  of  bringing  the  State 
to  the  highest  possible  position,  both  in  prosperity 
and  in  finances.  Among  the  leaders  of  this  or- 
ganization, and  one  who  gave  up  his  home  and 
his  property  and  journeyed  with  them  to  a  far 
land  for  what  he  expressed  as  a  similar  desire  to 
that  entertained  by  his  Pilgrim  forefathers — the 
observance  of  a  religion  according  to  the  dictates 
of  his  own  conscience — was  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

Daniel  Spencer  was  one  of  the  family  of  eleven 
children  of  Daniel  and  Chloe  (Wilson)  Spencer, 
He  was  born  July  20,  1794,  at  West  Stock- 
bridge,  Berkshire  county,  Massachusetts.  The 
Spencer  family  was  descended  from  one  of  the 
oldest  families  of  that  State.  His  father  had 
served  throughout  the  Continental  army,  enlist- 
ing at  the  age  of  sixteen  and  remaining  with  it 
until  the  surrender  of  Cprnwallis  at  Yorktown. 
He  was  a  son  of  Peter  and  Ruth  (Emmons) 
Spencer.  His  father  was  a  descendant  of  Ger- 
ard Spencer,  who  settled  at  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts, in  1662,  and  whose  daughter,  Mahitable, 
married  Daniel  Cone,  who  was  the  first  Cone  to 
settle  in  America.  The  site  of  Hadam,  Con- 
necticut, was  purchased  from  the  Indians  in  1662, 
and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  Gerard  Spencer,  Daniel 
Cone  and  a  company  of  twenty-two  others 
founded  the  settlement  there.  Gerard  Spencer's 
ancestors  were  numerous  in  Bedford.  England. 

The  boyhood  days  of  our  subject,  Daniel 
Spencer,  were  spent  on  his  father's  farm,  but 
owing  to  the  size  of  the  family  and  the  neces- 
sity for  having  every  available  hand  aid  in  its 
sustenance,  our  subject  was  early  to  work,  and 
at  the  age  of  twelve  years  was  engaged  in  freight- 
ing marble  with  teams  to  Hudson,  a  distance  of 
about  thirty  miles  from  his  home.  Two  years 
later  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  his  father's  farm 
and  discharged  the  duties  with  credit  that  fore- 
shadowed his  future  success  in  the  business 
world.  At  an  early  age  he  was  imbued  with  a 
desire  to  become  a  merchant  and  carry  on  busi- 
ness for  himself,  and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Joseph  Cone,  of  Harrowis- 
ton,  Lichfield  county,  Connecticut,  and  was  en- 
trusted by  him  with  a  team  and  wagon  loaded 


with  merchandise  to  sell  in  North  and  South 
Carolina.  He  had  agreed  with  his  father  that  in 
consideration  to  his  consenting  to  his  entering 
this  employment  he  would  pay  him  the  first  one 
hundred  dollars  that  he  could  save  from  the  work. 
He  worked  for  two  years  for  Mr.  Cone  and  then 
entered  on  business  for  himself  and  soon  had 
several  of  his  brothers  engaged  in  selling  mer- 
chandise in  North  and  South  Carolina,  and  in 
Georgia  and  Alabama.  The  winters  of  these 
years  were  spent  in  the  south  and  in  the  sum- 
mer the  caravans  journeyed  through  the  New 
England  States.  The  enterprise  was  a  great  suc- 
cess and  our  subject  was  enabled  not  only  to 
pay  the  one  hundred  dollars  that  he  had  prom- 
ised to  his  father,  but  was  able  to  help  him  still 
further.  This  business  he  followed  until  1820, 
when  he  opened  a  mercantile  establishment  in 
his  native  town  in  co-partnership  with  Charles 
and  Bilson  Boynton,  the  latter  two  being  silent 
partners.  It  was  the  intention  of  our  subject  to 
own  the  entire  store  and  with  that  end  in  view  all 
of  his  salary  as  manager  that  he  could  spare,  to- 
gether with  the  profits  from  the  business  that  be- 
longed to  him,  he  turned  into  the  store.  It  was 
during  the  life  of  this  partnership  that  he  be- 
came a  convert  to  the  teachings  of  the  Mormon 
Church,  and  not  long  after  this  occurred  his  two 
silent  partners  took  advantage  of  the  bankrupt 
law,  and  Mr.  Spencer  lost  considerable  money 
through  their  action. 

Mr.  Spencer's  mother  and  father  were  devout 
members  of  the  Baptist  Church  and  reared  their 
family  in  a  truly  religious  manner,  imbuing  them 
with  a  sense  of  justice  and  right,  and  the  fear 
of  God.  Their  son,  however,  never  embraced 
that  faith,  and  after  much  thought  journeyed  to 
his  brother  Orson,  who  at  that  time  was  a  Close 
Communion  Baptist  minister,  by  whom  he  was 
baptized,  but  failed  to  become  a  member  of  that 
Church.  His  first  meeting  with  the  Mormon 
Church  was  during  the  winter  of  1838,  when  he 
met  a  ^lormon  Elder  on  the  streets  of  his  town, 
who  was  endeavoring  to  secure  a  place  to  preach. 
Being  Chairman  of  the  School  Board,  Mr.  Spen- 
cer endeavored  to  secure  the  school  house  for 
him,  and  after  a  considerable  opposition  the  Elder 


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was  permitted  to  hold  his  services.  The  meeting 
was  largely  attended  by  members  of  the  different 
churches,  but  none  of  them  cared  to  entertain  the 
missionary  and  Mr.  Spencer  invited  him  to  his 
home.  This  visit  was  followed  by  another,  after 
a  lapse  of  a  month,  and  then  he  preached  in  the 
Presbyterian  meeting  house,  being  entertained  at 
the  home  of  Mr.  Spencer.  He  left  with  the  latter 
some  works  on  Alormons,  and  from  these  Mr. 
Spencer  dated  his  first  interest  in  this  new  re- 
ligion. He  became  convinced  of  the  truth  of 
those  doctrines  and  was  baptized  shortly  after, 
being  the  only  one  of  his  town  to  accept  the  new 
religion.  Pie  was  afterwards  ordained  an  Elder 
and  preached  considerably  in  Berkshire  county, 
Massachusetts.  Plis  action  in  joining  this  re- 
ligion estranged  him  from  his  parents  and  from 
his  family,  who  expressed  a  desire  to  have  nothing 
more  to  do  with  him.  Notwithstanding  this, 
however,  he  later  baptized  his  brother,  who  after- 
ward became  an  Elder,  and  brought  his  father  and 
mother  with  him  to  Xauvoo,  the  headquarters  of 
the  Church.  The  opposition  which  this  new  re- 
ligion met  with  at  its  beginning,  was  exemplified 
in  the  case  of  Mr.  Spencer,  and  the  people  in  ad- 
dition to  advising  him  of  the  perils  he  was  about 
to  undertake,  at  the  same  time  tried  to  secure 
his  property  at  the  smallest  cost  possible  to  them- 
selves. The  business  education  which  Mr.  Spen- 
cer had  acquired  in  his  various  enterprises  stood 
him  in  good  stead  and  he  was  able  to  enter  into 
negotiations  for  the  transfer  of  his  property  that 
netted  him  a  considerable  profit,  which  he  in- 
vested in  broadcloth  and  satinet,  and  shortly  after 
left  with  his  brother  Hyrum,  Daniel  Hendricks 
and  their  families  in  teams  for  Nauvoo,  Illinois, 
and  in  that  manner  performed  the  long  journey 
from  West  Stockbridge,  Berkshire  county,  Mas- 
sachusetts, to  Salt  Lake  City,  as  long  an  over- 
land trip  as  has  ever  been  made  by  any  of  the 
people  who  emigrated  to  the  West. 

On  January  21,  1823,  Mr.  Spencer  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Sophronia  E.  Pomeroy,  daughter  of 
General  Grove  Pomeroy,  member  of  the  State 
Assembly  of  Massachusetts  in  the  year  1801-02, 
and  by  this  marriage  had  one  son,  Claudius  Vic- 
tor.   She  died  on  October  5,  1832.    A  little  over 


two  years  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  he  mar- 
ried Sarah  Lester  Van  Schoonoven,  and  by  her 
had  four  children,  two  sons  who  died  early  in 
life,  and  two  daughters,  Amanda  (also  dead)  and 
Mary  Leone  Chambers,  of  Salt  Lake  City.  His 
family  journeyed  with  him  and  other  members  of 
the  wagon  train  which  he  headed  from  Massachu- 
setts, and  safely  arrived  at  Nauvoo.  Here  Mr. 
Spencer  at  once  set  to  work  to  provide  a  suitable 
home  for  them,  and  secured  a  considerable  amount 
of  government  land  adjoining  Nauvoo,  fenced  and 
improved  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
distant  six  miles  from  the  city,  erected  a  two- 
story  brick  house  and  also  an  extensive  barn  and 
out-houses.  Here  he  remained  until  the  expul- 
sion of  the  members  of  that  Church  from  the 
city. 

He  had  already  become  one  of  the  trusted 
members  of  the  Church  and  one  of  its  leaders, 
and  in  1842  was  called  to  go  on  a  mission  to 
Canada,  and  in  the  ne.xt  year  performed  a  similar 
duty  to  the  Indian  Nation.  In  1843  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  City  Council  of  Nauvoo, 
and  in  the  following  year  by  the  vote  of  its  Coun- 
cil was  elected  its  Mayor,  and  held  that  office  un- 
til the  Charter  was  repealed.  This  same  year  he 
was  sent  on  a  mission  to  Massachusetts.  He  re- 
turned in  February,  1846,  shortly  after  the  killing 
of  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  and  his  brother  Hyrum, 
and  in  February  of  that  year  he  with  many  others 
were  forced  to  flee  from  Nauvoo  across  the 
frozen  Mississippi  and  take  refuge  in  the  wilds 
of  Iowa.  The  hardships  and  exposures  which 
this  flight  entailed  caused  the  death  of  many 
members  of  the  Church,  and  among  them  was  the 
wife  of  his  brother  Orson.  The  compulsory  ex- 
odus was  also  the  cause  of  the  death  of  Mr. 
Spencer's  wife  Mary,  who  weakened  under  the 
hardships  imposed  by  the  journey  and  was  buried 
by  the  side  of  the  road.  In  the  panic  stricken 
flight  of  the  members  her  grave  was  unmarked, 
and  to  this  day  none  of  her  kindred  know  her 
last  resting  place.  From  Iowa  the  exiles  fol- 
lowed the  Indian  trails  to  Council  Bluffs,  most 
of  the  time  camping  in  close  proximity  to  the  In- 
dians, and  being  by  them  most  hospitably  re- 
ceived.     During    the    winter    of     1846-47   they 


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camped  on  the  banks  of  the  Missouri  river,  and 
during-  this  time  our  subject  acted  as  Bishop. 
This  settlement  on  the  Missouri  river  is  one  of 
the  most  striking  feats  of  endurance  ever  per- 
formed by  the  American  people.  The  trials  and 
hardships  were  such  as  to  test  the  very  essence 
of  manhood  and  womanhood,  and  the  trials  were 
not  only  heroically  met,  but  the  patience  and  trust 
of  the  people  served  to  mitigate  the  hardships  and 
to  make  them  stronger  than  ever  in  their  faith. 
Bishop  Spencer  was  practically  in  command  of 
the  camp  and  fitted  out  the  first  pioneers  who 
came  to  Salt  Lake  City  from  that  place.  They 
were  Francis  Hoggs,  Elijah  Newman  and  Levi 
Kimball,  who  arrived  on  the  present  site  of  Salt 
Lake  City  on  July  25,  1847.  They  made  the 
trip  with  two  yoke  of  oxen,  wagons,  provisions 
and  seed  grain  and  farming  tools,  and  these  oxen 
were  the  first  to  draw  a  plow  through  the  soil  in 
the  Territory  of  Utah.  After  the  leaving  of 
these  pioneers,  the  company  was  organized  into 
one  hundred  and  started  West  in  June  of  that 
year,  with  Ira  Eldredge  as  Captain  of  fifty.  They 
followed  the  Indian  and  trappers'  trails,  which 
led  to  the  North  Fork  of  the  Platte  river,  en- 
countering on  their  way  many  novel  and  oft-times 
dangerous  experiences.  The  company  reached 
Salt  Lake  City  on  September  23,  1847,  and  was 
the  first  Eastern  emigration  company  organized 
in  June  at  Elk  Horn  to  reach  the  valley,  and  to 
move  into  what  was  known  as  the  "Old  Fort." 
Upon  his  arrival  here  Bishop  Spencer  engaged  in 
farming  and  in  the  various  enterprises  that  are 
indispensible  to  the  life  of  a  new  community,  and 
at  one  time  formed  a  partnership  with  Jacob 
Gates,  Jesse  Little  and  his  eldest  son,  Claudius 
v.,  for  the  operation  of  a  ranch  in  Rush  valley. 
This  they  operated  until  the  arrival  of  Johnston's 
army,  when  they  were  forced  to  vacate  it. 

Bishop  Spencer  was  a  firm  believer  in  the  doc- 
trine of  plural  marriages,  and  in  addition  to  the 
wives  already  mentioned,  he  was  married  to  Emily 
Thompson,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Jared  and 
John  D.  (a  sketch  of  the  latter  appears  else- 
where in  this  volume),  and  four  daughters,  Au- 
relia,  Sophia,  Emma  and  Josephine.  This  mar- 
riage he  followed  by  another  on  December  27, 


1856,  to  Miss  Sarah  Jane  Gray,  who  bore  him 
three  sons,  Orson,  Mark  and  Grove,  and  one 
daughter,  Sophronia.  He  also  married  Elizabeth 
Funnell  and  by  her  had  four  daughters,  Georgi- 
ana,  Chloe,  Elizabeth  and  Cora,  and  one  son, 
Henry  Wilson  Spencer,  who  was  named  in  mem- 
ory of  Judge  Wilson  of  Richmond  Hill,  New 
York, who  had  married  our  subject's  sister, Electa, 
who  was  the  mother  of  Marcus  Wilson,  the  author 
of  the  Wilson  series  of  school  books.  Our  sub- 
ject was  also  married  to  Mary  Jane  Cutcliffe, 
and  by  her  had  three  daughters,  Lydia,  Elvira  and 
Amelia,  and  one  son,  Samuel  G.  Spencer,  whose 
sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work. 

The  prominent  part  which  Bishop  Spencer  had 
taken  in  the  work  of  the  Church  brought  him  the 
confidence  and  trust  of  its  leaders,  and  on  Febru- 
ary 7,  1849,  1''6  was  appointed  President  of  the 
Salt  Lake  Stake,  and  at  the  General  Conference 
on  September  6th  of  the  following  year,  was  ap- 
pointed with  Edward  Hunter  and  Willard  Snow 
as  a  committee  charged  with  the  business  of 
gathering  funds  for  the  poor.  Two  years  later  he 
was  appointed  to  go  to  Europe  on  missionary 
work,  and  arrived  there  on  December  20,  1852. 
On  May  14th  of  the  following  year  he  was  ap- 
pointed First  Counsellor  to  the  President  of  the 
British  Mission,  and  in  this  work  he  remained 
until  his  departure  for  America  on  March  15, 
1856,  when  he  was  appointed  the  agent  in  the 
United  States  to  forward  the  through  emigration 
of  the  members  of  the  Church  to  Utah,  with  out- 
fitting points  at  Iowa  City  and  Florence.  He 
arrived  in  Salt  Lake  City  on  October  4,  1856,  and 
resumed  his  duties  as  President  of  the  Salt  Lake 
Stake.  He  was  also  prominent  in  the  political 
affairs  of  Utah  and  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Territorial  Legislature  in  1851-52  and  from  1856 
to  1859,  and  later  served  in  the  City  Council 
of  Salt  Lake  from  1861  to  1865,  inclusive. 

Our  subject  died  at  the  ripe  age  of  seventy- 
five,  on  December  8.  1868,  in  Salt  Lake  City,  after 
a  life  that  was  crowded  full  of  the  most  stirring 
events  of  one  of  the  most  remarkable  epochs  in 
American  history.  He  was  a  very  prominent 
man  in  the  Church  to  which  he  owed  allegiance, 
and  was  active  in  building  up  the  resources  of 


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Utah  and  Salt  Lake.  He  has  made  such  a  career 
in  his  life  that  any  attempt  to  write  a  history  of 
Utah  without  a  reference  to  him  would  be  but 
imperfect.  He  was  essentially  of  the  pioneer 
type  that  has  so  successfully  overcome  every  ob- 
stacle that  stood  in  the  pathway  of  the  settlement 
and  civilization  of  the  West.  To  men  of  his 
type  is  due  in  a  large  degree  the  present  develop- 
ment of  the  inter-mountain  region  and  its  trans- 
formation from  a  wilderness  to  a  prosperous  and 
fruitful  region. 


ENJAMIN  MEEK.  Few  young  men 
have  been  more  closely  identified  with 
Salt  Lake  county  than  has  Benjamin 
Meek.  He  is  a  native  son  of  Utah, 
having  been  born  in  Kaysville,  Davis 
county,  on  September  7,  1866,  and  his  whole  life 
has  been  spent  in  Davis  and  Salt  Lake  counties. 
He  is  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Louise  (Rodgers) 
Meek.  His  parents  were  both  natives  of  England, 
where  they  were  married,  and  had  one  daughter 
and  two  sons  born  to  them.  The  two  boys  died 
in  childhood  in  their  native  land.  Anna  is  now 
Mrs.  Jack  of  Salt  Lake  City.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Meek  emigrated  to  America  and  in  1866  started 
across  the  plains  for  Utah,  but  while  en  route  to 
this  place  Mr.  Meek  died  and  was  buried  on  the 
plains.  Mrs.  Meek  continued  the  journey  alone 
with  her  little  daughter,  having  but  very  little 
means,  and  a  few  months  after  her  arrival  here 
our  subject  was  born.  His  mother  later  mar- 
ried Andrew  Jackson  Allen,  a  sketch  of  whom 
appears  elsewhere  in  this  volume.  By  this  mar- 
riage Mrs.  Allen  had  four  children.  Mr.  Allen 
settled  at  Draper,  about  a  mile  east  of  the  post- 
office,  and  it  was  here  our  subject  grew  up  and 
received  such  education  as  his  step-father  was 
able  to  give  him.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
began  life  for  himself,  working  for  two  years 
on  a  farm  and  then  went  to  herding  sheep.  He 
saved  all  the  money  he  could  from  his  earnings 
and  invested  from  time  to  time  in  sheep  until  he 
became  the  owner  of  a  nice  flock.  Later  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  A.  J.  Nelson,  and  this 
partnership   lasted   for   twelve   years,   the   flocks 


being  ranged  in  Utah  and  Idaho.  He  bought  his 
present  home,  which  is  located  just  east  of  the 
postoffice  at  Draper,  in  1897,  and  in  1899  built 
a  beautiful  and  commodious  two-story  brick 
house,  there  being  twelve  rooms  in  the  house. 

He  was  married  on  April  13,  1892,  to  Miss 
Oleivia  A.  Nelson,  daughter  of  P.  A.  and  Oleivia 
Nelson,  and  by  this  marriage  has  had  three  chil- 
dren, Benjamin  A.,  Virginia  O.  and  Jerold  R. 

In  politics  our  subject  is  a  Republican  and  a 
strict  party  man.  Owing  to  his  large  business 
interests,  however,  he  has  never  taken  part  in 
ihe  work  of  his  party  to  the  extent  of  seeking  or 
holding  office,  but  has  confined  his  attention  to 
his  home  interests.  He  has  had  an  unusually  suc- 
cessful business  career  and  in  addition  to  his 
large  holdings  in  live  stock  is  also  interested  in 
the  M.  and  M.  Mercantile  Company,  one  of  the 
large  concerns  of  Draper,  of  which  he  is  Presi- 
dent, and  is  also  interested  in  the  Draper  Live 
Stock  Company,  and  in  the  creamery  business. 
The  example  he  has  set  to  the  young  men  of 
L'tah  who  are  but  just  entering  upon  their  busi- 
ness life  is  one  worthy  of  emulation.  Starting  in 
life  an  orphan  he  has  by  his  own  industry  and 
perseverance,  as  well  as  strict  attention  to  the 
duty  in  hand,  and  by  an  upright  and  honest  life, 
attained  a  high  business  standing,  and  is  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  staunch  men  of  his  com- 
munitv.  He  and  his  family  are  believers  in  the 
doctrines  of  the  Mormon  Church  and  active  in 
its  service,  he  being  an  Elder  and  Mrs.  Meek 
a  member  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  Societv. 


MARLES  H.  ROBERTS  is  a  native  of 
England,  having  been  born  in  Stafford- 
shire on  July  5,  185 1,  and  the  first 
eleven  years  of  his  life  being  spent  in 
that  country.  He  is  the  son  of  Reuben 
and  Catherine  (Smith)  Roberts.  Reuben  Rob- 
erts was  a  carpenter  and  followed  that  trade  in 
England,  but  after  coming  to  Utah  took  up  farm- 
ing, which  he  continued  up  to  the  time  of  his 
licath  in  1876.  He  came  with  his  wife  and  three 
children  in  1862,  making  the  journey  across  the 
great  American  plains  by  ox  team,  in  the  train 
commanded  by  Captain  Homer  Duncan,  whom  he 


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joined  at  Florence,  on  the  Missouri  river.  Upon 
reaching  Utah  Air.  Roberts  at  once  went  to 
American  Fork  and  took  up  a  farm,  where  he 
continued  to  reside,  and  where  his  widow  is  still 
living. 

Our  subject  grew  to  manhood  on  his  father's 
farm,  obtaining  his  education  in  the  schools  that 
then  e.xisted  in  the  community  where  he  lived. 
He  was  elected  Marshal  of  y^merican  Fork  City, 
Utah,  in  1884,  and  held  said  office  for  four 
years.  In  1889  he  went  to  Bingham  and 
established  a  general  merchandise  business,  whicn 
he  carried  on  until  1895,  when  a  disastrous  fire 
swept  away  every  business  place  in  town,  as  well 
as  a  large  portion  of  the  residence  district.  In 
the  following  year  he  built  the  hotel  known  as 
Hotel  Roberts,  and  which  is  the  best  hotel  in 
Bingham  canyon. 

Mr.  Roberts  was  married  at  American  Fork  in 
1872  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Shelley,  daughter  of  James 
and  Mary  Shelley,  who  came  to  Utah  in  the  early 
days,  Mrs.  Roberts  being  born  and  raised  in  this 
State.  Ten  children  were  born  of  this  marriage, 
five  of  whom  are  still  living.  They  are :  Reuben 
A.,  Oliver  J.,  Charlotte  R.,  Maude  S.  and 
Ethel  E. 

In  political  life  Mr.  Roberts  is  a  believer  in 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  and  has 
been  active  in  public  affairs  in  his  community. 
He  was  elected  County  Commissioner  in  1894 
and  it  was  during  his  term  of  office  that  the 
bridge  across  the  Jordan  river  at  Gale  was  con- 
structed, and  the  finishing  of  the  County  and 
City  building.  He  has  for  many  years  been 
postmaster  at  Bingham,  which  is  a  money  order 
station,  issuing  both  home  and  foreign  orders. 
He  received  his  first  appointment  as  postmaster 
in  1892,  resigned  it  in  1894,  and  being  re-ap- 
pointed in  1898,  since  which  time  he  has  con- 
tinued to  act  in  that  capacity.  In  social  life  he  is 
a  member  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  having  his  mem- 
bership in  Bingham  Lodge  Number  10.  Mr. 
Roberts  and  his  family  are  all  members  of  the 
Mormon  Church  and  active  in  its  work.  By 
those  who  know  him  he  is  regarded  as  a  genial 
and  pleasant  man,  and  commands  the  respect  and 
esteem  of  all  his  associates. 


ILLIAM  C.  ALLEN  came  to  Utah 
with  his  parents  when  but  a  mere 
child,  they  being  among  the  early 
pioneers  to  settle  in  this  State.  His 
whole  life  has  practically  been  spent 
in  I'tah  and  the  greater  portion  of  it  in  Salt  Lake 
county.  He  has  not  only  been  an  eye  witness  of 
the  great  changes  and  developments  which  have 
taken  place  in  this  new  country,  but  he  has  per- 
formed his  part  faithfully  and  well  in  assisting 
to  bring  Utah  from  a  wild  and  barren  waste  to 
its  present  prosperous  condition. 

William  C.  Allen  was  born  in  Calloway  county, 
Kentucky,  February  14,  1843,  ^nd  is  the  son  of 
Andrew  Jackson  Allen,  who  was  born  September 
5,  1818,  at  Sommerset,  Polaski  county,  Ken- 
tucky. Our  subject's  mother  was  a  Miss  Delilah, 
who  was  born  May  6,  18x9,  in  Murray,  Illinois. 
Our  subject  was  the  second  child  and  eldest  son 
of  a  family  of  fourteen  children,  seven  of  whom 
giew  to  maturity,  and  of  this  number  two  sons 
and  three  daughters  are  now  living.  Andrew  J. 
Allen  came  to  Utah  with  his  family  in  company 
with  other  pioneers  under  Captain  Abraham  O. 
Smoot,  and  almost  immediately  on  reaching  Utah 
settled  in  Mill  Creek  Ward,  where  they  re- 
mained for  a  short  time  only,  when  they  removed 
to  Draper,  which  at  that  time  was  just  being  col- 
onized, and  where  W.  C.  Allen  now  lives,  a  little 
south  of  the  postoffice,  and  there  the  Senior  Mr. 
Allen  spent  the  balance  of  his  life.  He  had  early 
become  a  member  of  the  Mormon  Church  in 
Kentucky,  and  throughout  his  life  was  a  consist- 
ent follower  of  that  faith.  He  died  July  18,  1884, 
his  wife  having  died  on  December  5,  1869.  They 
are  buried  side  by  side  in  the  cemetery  at  Draper. 
William  C.  Allen  was  only  a  boy  of  nine  years 
when  his  family  came  to  this  vicinity.  His  edu- 
cation was  received  in  an  old  adobe  school  house 
which  his  father  had  assisted  in  building  and 
which  was  used  jointly  for  school  and  church  pur- 
[/Oses.  His  education,  however,  was  limited,  he 
only  being  able  to  attend  a  few  weeks  in  winter, 
and  then  only  when  the  weather  was  too  severe 
for  him  to  work  outside.  He  remained  at  home 
with  his  parents,  assisting  on  the  farm,  hauling 
wood   and   timber,   and   doing   all   the   kinds   of 


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work  which  a  boy  is  called  upon  to  do  in  his 
early  life. 

At  twenty-four  years  of  age,  January  12,  1867, 
he  led  to  the  marriage  altar  Miss  Lovina  Jane 
Smith,  daughter  of  Absolom  W.  and  Amy  E. 
(Downs)  Smith.  The  marriage  ceremony  was 
performed  by  the  late  President  Wilford  Wood- 
ruff. The  Smith  family  came  to  Utah  in  1852, 
Mrs.  Allen  being  born  in  Pottawatomie  county, 
Iowa,  while  the  family  were  en  route  to  Utah. 
As  a  result  of  this  marriage  fourteen  children 
have  been  born,  twelve  of  whom  are  still  living. 
Tney  are:  William  S.,  the  oldest;  Andrew  W., 
Delilah  L.,  who  died  in  infancy ;  Joseph  E., 
Adella  M.,  Rial  C,  Absalom  Lewis,  who  was 
drowned  at  the  age  of  fourteen ;  Earl  S.,  Wilford 
J.,  Maggie  A.,  Hyrum  B.,  Alda  P.,  Anna  P.,  and 
Eva  M.  The  two  oldest  daughters  are  now  mar- 
ried, Adella  being  Jvlrs.  William  Walker,  of  East 
Jordan,  and  Maggie  now  Mrs.  Robert  Dansie,  of 
Riverton.  Three  of  the  oldest  sons  are  partners 
in  the  sheep  business  and  all  reside  in  Salt  Lake 
county. 

Soon  after  Mr.  Allen  married  he  settled  at  his 
present  home,  which  is  located  one-half  mile  south 
of  the  postoffice.  He  has  his  place  well  improved 
and  has  a  splendid  brick  residence.  His  farm  is 
considered  one  of  the  best  improved  places  in 
Salt  Lake  county. 

In  politics  Mr.  Allen  has  always  been  identified 
with  the  Democratic  party.  For  years  he  has 
served  as  road  supervisor,  as  well  as  school  trus- 
tee. He  has  taken  a  prominent  and  active  part 
in  everything  which  has  tended  to  build  up  and 
improve  this  county.  '  He  was  raised  in  the  Mor- 
mon faith  and  has  ever  been  a  consistent  and 
faithful  member  of  that  Church.  For  nine  years 
he  served  as  Bishop  of  his  Ward  and  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  the  Sunday  School  and  in 
everything  that  pertains  to  Church  affairs.  In 
1876  he  was  called  by  the  heads  of  the  Church  to 
serve  on  a  mission  and  assist  in  colonization  work 
in  Arizona,  serving  eight  years  in  that  capacity 
and  filling  the  position  of  Captain  of  the  Coloniza- 
tion Mission.  He  also  assisted  in  colonizing 
Saint  Joseph,  on  the  Little  Colorado.  During  the 
early  scenes  and  troubles  when  Johnston's  army 


landed  in  Utah,  our  subject's  father  was  called 
upon  to  serve  as  guard  for  the  protection  of  the 
]\Iormon  emigrants,  and  our  subject  served  in 
the  same  capacity  during  the  Indian  troubles  in 
1862.  Soon  after  Mr.  Allen  returned  from  his 
missionary  tour  in  Arizona  he  was  called  by 
President  Brigham  Young  to  make  a  trip  east 
for  the  purpose  of  marking  out  a  more  direct 
route  to  Arizona  from  what  they  had  formerly 
been  traveling,  in  order  to  save  much  of  the 
hardships  and  destitution  which  the  Mormons 
were  subject  to  in  following  the  old  trail.  Mr. 
Allen  was  sent  on  this  mission  in  company  with 
others,  he  being  at  the  head  and  having  charge 
of  the  work.  Upon  returning  from  this  trip  he 
was  appointed  First  Counselor  to  Lot  Smith, 
who  was  at  that  time  President  of  the  Stake. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father  our  subject  re- 
turned to  the  old  home,  having  been  appointed  in 
the  will  as  executor  of  the  estate.  Mr.  Allen  en- 
joys the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  of  his  neigh- 
bors and  those  who  have  been  associated  with 
him,  both  in  public  and  in  private  life.  Mr.  Allen 
is  proud  of  the  family  record  as  defenders  of  their 
country,  not  only  in  his  and  generations  past, 
but  also  of  the  generation  who  was  called  to  put 
their  shoulders  to  the  guns  in  the  latest  troubles, 
and  is  particularly  proud  of  being  an  uncle  of 
Ensign  Pearson  of  Manila  fame,  whose  bravery 
and  meritorious  conduct  will  be  recounted  in 
American  historv  for  all  time  to  come. 


ION  CO-OPERATIVE  MERCAN- 
TILE INSTITUTION.  In  review- 
ing the  history  of  any  State  there  are 
always  a  few  institutions  that  should 
stand  out  in  collossal  grandeur  above 
other  establishments  of  kindred  nature,  by  vir- 
tue of  their  owners  or  promoters  possessing  su- 
perior business,  literary  or  professional  ability, 
bending  their  combined  energies,  time  and  wealth 
in  the  single  effort  to  build  up  and  perpetuate 
either  their  own  names,  or  to  commemorate  some 
notable  event  in  the  history  of  their  common- 
wealth. Such  an  institution  is  the  above,  founded 
during  the  early  days  of  the  history  of  the  Mor- 


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mon  Church  in  Utah,  by  the  first  President, 
Brigham  Young,  and  from  a  very  small  begin- 
ning,— its  object  being  more  to  extend  still  further 
the  protecting  care  which  the  Church  has  ever 
exercised  over  those  within  her  folds,  giving  its 
financial  aid  and  encouragement  to  those  whose 
means  were  scarcely  large  enough  to  justify  their 
engaging  in  business  alone,  and  through  the 
wise  administrations  of  a  head  composed  of  men 
thoroughly  versed  in  all  the  intricacies  of  various 
commercial  enterprises,  avoid  the  possibility  of 
failure,  which  must  come  to  the  individual  of  in- 
experience and  small  means — from  this  has 
sprung  an  enterprise,  the  like  of  which  is  not  to 
be  found  in  the  entire  West,  and  it  is  doubtful 
if  its  counterpart  exists  anywhere  in  the  United 
States. 

A  just  conception  of  the  vast  operations  of  this 
institution  is  a  difficult  matter  for  an  outsider  to 
grasp ;  it  being  necessary  for  one  to  become  fa- 
miliar with  the  inner  workings  of  this  mam- 
moth undertaking  in  order  to  be  able  to  prop- 
erly appreciate  them.  Like  all  matters  in 
which  the  Mormon  Church  has  any  interest,  the 
affairs  of  the  Zion  Co-operative  Mercantile  In- 
stitution are  conducted  in  a  most  thorough  and 
systematic  manner,  and  it  is  run  strictly  on 
business  principles.  The  concern  does  an 
extensive  trade  throughout  Utah  and  many  of 
the  adjoiniing  States  ,  both  in  a  wholesale 
and  retail  line.  They  handle  boots,  shoes, 
clothing,  men's  furnishings,  dry  goods,  groceries, 
hardware  and,  in  fact,  almost  everything  that  the 
citizens  of  any  community  might  need.  The  busi- 
ness is  conducted  in  an  immense  three-story  build- 
ing, which  has  been  extensively  repaired  this  year, 
several  thousand  dollars  having  been  spent  in  ren- 
ovations and  additions;  new  plate  glass  windows 
being  placed  in  the  front,  and  additional  room 
being  added.  The  wholesale  departments  are  sys- 
temized  and  conducted  under  different  heads, over 
which  a  special  manager  presides,  they  in  turn  be- 
ing accountable  to  a  General  Superintendent. 
Among  these  departments  are  to  be  found  the 
Wholesale  Dry  Goods;  Groceries;  Carpets;  No- 
tions; Hardware,  etc.  In  addition  to  this,  the 
concern  does  a  large  manufacturing  in  the  line 


of  boots,  shoes  and  clothing,  and  gives  employ- 
ment to  a  small  army  of  men,  women  and  boys. 

While  they  do  a  large  and  extensive  wholesale 
trade,  their  retail  trade  is  equally  important,  and 
through  its  numerous  branch  houses  reaches  al- 
most every  home  in  the  State,  as  well  as  many 
in  adjoining  States  where  they  have  branch  es- 
tablishments. The  largest  of  these  is  located  in 
Ogden,  which  was  organized  in  1868,  the  same 
year  as  the  main  house  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and  has 
grown  3'ear  by  year  until  it  now  occupies  a  high 
rank  among  the  business  institutions  of  that  city. 
It  occupies  a  four  story  and  basement  building  lo- 
cated on  the  corner  of  Twenty-fourth  and  Wash- 
ington streets,  and  gives  employment  to  forty  peo- 
ple, John  Watson  being  Manager.  The  other 
principal  branch  establishments  are  located  at 
Provo  and  Logan,  Utah,  and  Idaho  Falls,  Idaho, 
although  there  are  a  number  of  smaller  establish- 
ments scattered  throughout  the  different  towns 
of  Utah,  which  are  controlled  by  the  parent 
house  at  Salt  Lake.  The  Salt  Lake  house  has 
about  five  hundred  people  on  its  payrolls,  and  it 
is  estimated  that  it  does  several  million  of  dollars 
worth  of  business  each  year.  It  has  been  one  of 
the  most  potent  factors  in  Utah  in  the  rapid  de- 
velopment of  the  State  and  the  encouragement 
of  its  industrial  life,  affording  a  ready  market 
for  the  produce  of  the  farmer,  and  supplying 
him  in  turn  with  all  the  necessaries  and  many  of 
the  luxuries  of  life  at  the  lowest  possible  cost. 
Expert  buyers  make  eastern  trips  twice  a  year, 
and  thus  the  house  is  kept  in  touch  with  the 
world's  progress  in  its  particular  lines  and  is 
thoroughly  up-to-date  in  all  particulars,  having 
among  its  immense  stock  fabrics  which  may  af- 
ford the  millionaire  or  the  laboring  man  a  wide 
field  of  selection.  So  well  and  carefully  are  the 
details  of  this  mammoth  house  watched,  that  the 
expense  has  been  reduced  to  a  minimum  and  the 
stock  pays  a  high  dividend  to  the  holders.  Dur- 
ing one  time  or  another  in  its  history  probably 
almost  every  business  man  of  note  in  the  State 
has  been  identified  with  this  institution,  and  at 
this  time  among  its  executive  officers  are  to  be 
found  such  men  as :  Joseph  F.  Smith,  President ; 
George    Romney,    \'ice-President ;    Thomas    G. 


654  BIOGRAPHICAL    RECORD. 

Webber,  Secretary  and  General  Manager,  and  A.  Alclntyre,  Reed  Smoot  and  Thomas  G.  Webber. 

W.    Clavvson,    Treasurer.      The    Directors    are:  Col.  Webber  has  been  associated  with  the  con- 

Heber  J.   Grant,  John  R.  Winder,   Henry  Din-  cern  since  1869,  and  General  Superintendent  since 

woodey,  P.  T.  Farnsworth,  John  Henry  Sniith,  1888,   which   fact  alone   speaks   volumes   for  his 

F.   M.   Lyman,   Anthon    H.    Lund,   William    H.  fitness  for  the  responsible  position. 


INDEX 


A 

Anderson,  Edward  H 74 

Armstrong,   William  F 90 

Armstrong,   Francis 140 

Atwood,  Walter   H 240 

Asper,  George  W  242 

Andrus,  Milo 268 

Ashton,  Edward  T 300 

Adams,    Rufus..., 402 

Anderson,  Charles  L 40!) 

Anderson,  Gustav 417 

Atwood,  William 450 

Ashby,    Benjamin 520 

Anderson,  James  H 543 

Ashton,  Brigham  VV 544 

Alston,  Thomas 550 

Atkins,  Bishop  Thomas,  Jr 574 

Allen,  J.   R 644 

Allen,  William  C 651 

Bartch,    Hon.  Geo.  W 29 

B 

Burton,  Bishop  Robt.  T 61 

Bennett,  Judge  Chas.  W 153 

Bennion,  Hjrum 155 

Berger ,   Christian 156 

Brown,  Homer ....159 

Brady,  Marion  H 161 

Brinton,  J.  H 166 

Bishop,  Capt.  F.  M 176 

Bowman,  Judge  John  M 205 

Barthel,  Gustave  J 212 

Birch,  Richard 263 

Barratt,  I.  N 2S2 

Best,  Alfred 315 

Beatie,  Bishop  W.   J 316 

Bowen,    Harry 319 

Bennion,    Edwin 322 

Brown,  Dr.  W.   M .370 

Barnes,  John  R 385 

Bennett,   John 389 

Bascom,    Dr.  F.  S 400 

Barlow,    Israel 404 

Benedict,  Dr.  C.  M 47 

Beer,  Dr.  William    F 426 

Bitner,  Breneman  B 427 

Bodily,  Joseph 431 

Blood,    William 433 


Barton,  Bishop  Peter  435 

Bennion,  Samuel  H 440 

Benson,  Andrew  G 461 

Booth,  Hyrum  E 462 

Barrus,  Ruel 463 

Brown,  Henry   W 481 

Brinton,    Samuel 492 

Boyden,  John 497 

Benson,  John  P 512 

Brown,  H.  W .529 

Bringhurst,  John  B 560 

Bringhurst,  Louis 569 

Bringhurst,  Robt.  P 561 

Bateman ,  Samuel -570 

Bringhurst,  Samuel 574 

Burton,  William  S .585 

Bruneau,  Ammon  J 592 

Bruback,  Col.  Theodore 621 

Bancroft,  William  H 622 

Bennion,  Bishop   Heber 631 


Chipman,  Hon.  James 60 

Chisholm,  W.  W 107 

Cannon,  John  M 112 

Carlisle,  Richard  M 149 

Caskey,  Prof.  Robt.  J 1.51 

Casto,  Bishop  Santa  A 157 

Calder,   George 165 

Cannon,  Pres.  Angus  M 170 

Coleman ,   George 175 

Cannon,  Lewis  T 194 

Callister,  Edward  H 194 

Cunningham,  J.  A 223 

Cherry,   Judge  A.  N 237 

Crismon,  Charles,   Jr 243 

Cain,  Joseph 251 

Crismon,  George 2.57 

Clawson,  Spencer 286 

Christophersen,   M 289 

Colbath,  Lemuel  U 303 

Cannon,    Hon.  George  M 330 

Child,  William  H .333 

Cumraings,  Bishop  J.  D 353 

Cahoon,  John  P 356 

Carpenter,  John  W 360 

Cleveland,  George   W 383 


3 

Cannon,  Pres.  Geo.  Q 39 

Clark,  John  W 401 

Clawson,  Dr.  T.  A 407. 

Cannon,    Dr.  W.  T 410 

Corbridge,  William  H 415 

Cook,  David 440 

Cannon,  Mrs.  Sarah  J 470 

Calder,  David   G 482 

Chisholm,  J.  E 494 

Capson,  John  C 502 

Carlisle,  James  S .531 

Cannon,  Martha  H.  M.  D .545 

Christensen,  D.  H 5.54 

Craner,  George ,563 

Clegg,  Benjamin 564 

Clegg,  Peter 582 

Clayton,  Col.  Nephi  W .590 

Campbell,  R.  S 616 

Calvin,  E.  E 626 

Cook,  John (536 

Cullen,  Matthew 609 

Clufif,  President  W.  W 639 

Cluff,  Mrs.  Ann  W 641 


Dixon,  John  DeGray 77 

Donnellan,  Col.  J.  W 99 

Dow,  George  N 101 

Downey,    Major  Geo.  M 103 

Drake,  Horace 115 

Donahue,  Mrs.  Mary 120 

Diehl,  Judge  Chris.  B 207 

Day,  Orson ,336 

Dinwoodey,  Henry 379 

Dibble.  Philo 367 

Dawson,  Alexander 368 

Duerden,    Richard 422 

Day,  David 425 

Drake,  Hyrum 448 

Droubay,  Peter  A .551 

Dalton,  Edward  560 

Dimond,  Robert  E 566 

De  La  Mare,  Philip 572 

Dimond,  Walter  A .591 

Dunn,  James  F 608 

Duncan,  Edgar,  W 612 

Dimond,  Thomas  W 635 


INDEX 


E 

Egan,  Capt  Timothy 184 

Eldredge,  Alma 200 

Evans,  Richard  J 301 

Eldredge,  James  A 305 

Ellison,  John 40(i 

Egan,  Richard,  E 419 

Ellison,  E.    P 43<J 

Erekson,  Norman  W 457 

Evans,  E.   P 499 

Ellison,  Elijah    E 505 

Eddington,  \V.  J 524 

Eldredge,    Horace   S 535 

Eichnor,  Dennis  C 547 

England,  John 5(J7 

Eldredge,  Joseph  U.    Sr 581 

Ewing,  Samuel  C 615 

F 

Ferry,  Col.   Wm.  M 87 

Ferguson ,  Barlow Ill 

Ferry,  Col.   Edward  S 123 

Farrell,  James 137 

Freeze,   James  P 146 

Farrington,   John 154 

French.  Dr.  O.  W 249 

Frazier,  Marion 252 

Ferry,  W.    Mont 281 

Francis,  Judge  Samuel .302 

Frick,  Judge  Joseph  E 307 

Fisher,  Judge  John 311 

Ford,  John,  Jr 320 

Ford,  James  H 365 

Flinders,  John  T 416 

Free,  Preston  S 437 

France,  Joseph 525 

Fisher,  James  M.,  Jr 532 

Forrester,  Robert 548 

Franklin,  Dr.  P.  A.  H 601 

Ferry,  Edward   P 633 

G 

Goodwin,  Judge  Chas.  C 66 

Geddes,    Theron 1.39 

Gates,    Dr.  C.  W 151 

Gorden,   Peter 178 

Gibson,  George  J 186 

Grant,   Apostle  H.  J 291 

Gabbott,  John 323 

Gardner,  J.  P 424 

Griffiths,  Jacob  H 430 

Green,  C.  S 483 

Giles,  Bishop  William 488 

Giles,  Joseph 494 

Godfrey,  James 506 

Garrison,  Dr.  C.  M 514 

Gabbott,  Amos  S 533 

Gowan,   Judge    Hugh  S 579 

Gillespie,  John 588 


H 

Hall,  Judge  William  C 68 

Harrington,   Daniel.. 119 

Hatch,   Orin 121 

Henderson,  Horace    W 124 

Helm,  Andrew  [) 150 

Hoffman,   Frank 192 

Hines,  Frank  L 193 

Holmes,   Mrs.  Susanna  B.  E 211 

Hall,  J.  K 218 

Hatch,  Stearns 215 

Hill,  Captain  J.  E 228 

Hoyt,  John  B 235 

Hemenway,  Lachoneus 263 

Hortin.John 272 

Hixson,  Frank 274 

Hillam,  Rodney 284 

Holbrook,  Joseph  L 287 

Heath,    Hon.   Perry  S 299 

Harris,  Bishop  M.  F 312 

Harper,  Charles   A 317 

Holt,  John 332 

Harker,  Henry 337 

Harman,  Benjamin  M 339 

H^lm,    Abraham 343 

Huffaker,    Simpson  D 358 

Harman,   Robert 363 

Hess,    David 366 

Hosmer,  Dr.  A.   J 399 

Hamilton,   J.  D.  C 405 

Hansen,  Jens 410 

Hunter,   Jacob 429 

Hatch,  Gilberts 435 

Hatch,  JohnE 439 

Holbrook,  Jos.  J 442 

Hess,  John  W 443 

Hemming,  William 465 

Hale,  Aroet  L 466 

Hill,  S.   H 474 

Howe,   Richard 486 

Hamilton,  Bishop  J.  C 489 

Haigh,  William   H 502 

Helm,    Marshel 508 

Hatch,  Ephraim 515 

Hatch,   Philander 516 

Hill,  William  H .521 

Heiner,  Daniel 522 

Hill,   Alexander  H 527 

Heywood,    Benj.  B 542 

Harding,    Thomas  553 

Hickman,  J.  B 579 

Hickey,  John 593 

Home,  William  J 628 

Hilton,   Thomas  H 645 

I 

Ivers,  Hon.  James 132 


J 

Jack,  James 9,5 

Jennings,    William 105 

James,   John 174 

Jones,  Bishop  George  R 201 

Johanson,  James 219 

Jensen,  N.  D .397 

Jefferies,  William 459 

Johnson,  Charles 467 

Johnson,  Alexander 468 

Jennings,  H.  P 511 

Jenkinson,  Chas.  H 611 

K 

Kearns,  Hon.  Thomas 27 

Kimball,  Pres.  Heber  C 82 

Kimball,  Pres.  J.  G 206 

Kramer,    F.  R 270 

Kaighn,  Col.  Maurice  M 314 

Kimball,  Solomon  F 346 

King,  Judge  W.  H 386 

Keogh,  Dr.  P.  S 415 

Kippen,  James 441 

Keith,  Hon.  David 586 

Kimball,  Hon.  Joseph 644 

L 

Lund,  Pres.  Anthon   H 20 

Lambert,  George  C 116 

Love,  Stephen   H 185 

La vagn ino ,  Giovan n i 214 

Lochrie,  Judge  Peter 217 

Lee,  W.   A 225 

Lyons,  Oscar  F 260 

Lucretia,  Sister   M 300 

Lockhart,  J.  M 310 

LeCompte,  Dr.  E.  P  313 

Labrum,  John  G 318 

Lambert,  Richard  F 3.57 

Lambert,    Dan 362 

Lemmon,    Washington 376 

Lunn,  Daniel 392 

Leonard,  Bishop   Abiel 539 

Lynch,  John  C 555 

M 

McMaster,   Alexander 125 

McMurrin,  Pres.  Jos.  W 126 

McDonald,  Francis 183 

McClellan,  Prof.  J.  J 233 

McCornick,  W.  S 275 

Mclntyre,  William  H 397 

McMillan,  Henry  G 454 

McLaws,  John 552 

McLaughlin,  David  C 577 

McNitt,  C.  J 614 

McMillan,  William 624 


INDEX 


Miner,  Hon.  James  A 25 

Marshall,  Judge  Thomas 36 

Moyle,  James  H G3 

Musser,  Bishop  A.  M 72 

Moyle,  O.  W 147 

Mabey,  Joseph  T 169 

Moss,  Daniel 179 

Miller,  M.  M 186 

Mackay,  John 249 

Maxwell,  R.  W 255 

Marchant,  John  A 269 

Maxwell,   Bishop  Arthur 270 

Miller,  Bishop  Reuben 290 

Miller,  James  R 294 

Miller,  Reuben  P 295 

Miller,  Melvin   M 296 

Miller,  Chiliou   L 297 

Miller,  David  L 298 

Mathis,  W.  D 308 

Muir,  J.  D 324 

Moss,  John   H 384 

Milner,  John 398 

Moss,  William 403 

Morris,  Bishop  Elias 456 

Morris,  Nephi  L 458 

Milner,  Stanley  B 471 

Moore,  George 500 

Murphy,  Jesse  E 513 

Mackay,   John  C 571 

Maclean,   Dr.  A.  C 596 

Mackay,  Hyrum 630 

Moore,  J.  M 637 

Meek,  Benjamin 650 

N 

Nelson,  Prof.  Joseph 108 

Nelden,  W.  A 129 

Naylor,  George   H 146 

Newman,  Thomas  S 181 

Newman,   Joseph  P 182 

Nelson,  William 208 

Nielsen,  Judge  Chas.  M 224 

Nipper,  Thomas  J 304 

Nystrom,  J.  O 332 

Nalder,  S.  H 352 

Nelson,  Jens 432 

Needham,  William  A 477 

NeflF,   Amos  H 503 

Nelson,  A.  C 541 

Neuhausen,   Carl  M 629 

O 
Odell,  George  T 557 

P 

Powers,  Judge   Orlando  W 45 

Preston,  Bishop   William  B 69 

Penrose,  Hon.  Charles  W 75 

Pyper,  George  E 94 

Pratt,  Dr.   Romania  B 163 


Panter,  William  J 182 

Pyper,  Alexander    C 210 

Parker,   W.   E 226 

Park,  John  D 237 

Palmer,    O.   A 267 

Parker,     Abraham 306 

Pixton,     Elizabeth 327 

Pixton,    Willard 329 

Pixton,  Robert 329 

Parker,  Smith 334 

Park,  Hugh  D 345 

Pack,  Ward  E 348 

Parrish,  Joel 364 

Pace,  Patriarch  Edwin 372 

Peart,  Jacob 452 

Parkinson,   Chas.    G 464 

Prout,    H.  B 477 

Park,     Boyd 478 

Park,  Col.   Samuel  C 480 

Parker,  William 484 

Paskett,  John  C 523 

Pike,  Robert 528 

Park,  Andrew  D 530 

Pugh,    Enoch  R 534 

Park,  William  D 537 

Parker,  Samuel   H 568 

Pratt,   Hon.  Orson 597 

Pratt,  Milando 599 

R 

Richards,  Hon.  Franklin  S 31 

Richards,    Franklin    D 91 

Roberts,    Hon.    B.  H 96 

Reiser,   Albert  S 114 

Rood,    C.  L 136 

Read,   Walter  P 143 

Rhoades,   I.  0 148 

Romney,    George,  Jr 152 

Reynolds,    Rabbi  L.  G 180 

Rhead.  James  B 198 

Rasband,   Bishop  Fred 252 

Romney,    Miles  A 253 

Randall,    O.  H 265 

Richards,   Bishop  Wm.  P 322 

Rich,  John   H 326 

Rider,  John 354 

Rawlins,  Bishop  Jos.  S 361 

Roueche,   Thomas  F 388 

Jlichardson,    John 4,56 

Roberts,  George 487 

Rampton,  Henry 517 

Root,  Dr.  E.  F 550 

Richards,  H.  P 565 

Rice,  Windsor  V 583 

Richards,  Dr.  J.  S 595 

Romney,   Orson  D 605 

Romney,  Bishop   George 617 

Roberts,  CharlesH 650 


S 

Smith,  Pres.  Joseph  F 13 

Smith,  Apostle  J.  H 37 

Snow,  Pres.   Lorenzo 40 

Snyder,   Wilson   1 53 

Spence,    W.  C 98 

Smith,  John  S 113 

Stewart,  John  J 145 

Smith,  Mrs.  B.  W 168 

Sweet,  F.   A 191 

Sutherland,    John 196 

Spiker,   John  A 207 

Smith,   James  F 219 

Smith,  Louis  W 222 

Spencer,   Samuel  G 227 

Shurlleff,   Harrison  T 2.39 

Spencer,  Hiram  T 246 

Snow,  Alviras  E 254 

Sheets,  Bishop  Elijah  F 261 

Shafer,  John   266 

Secrist,  Jacob  M 293 

Smith,    Jesse  M  298 

Silver,  William  J 335 

Spencer,  Charles   H 338 

Silver,  John  A  341 

Silver,  Joseph  A 347 

Smith,  Thomas   J 352 

Silver,  Hyrum  A 359 

Smith,  William  B 369 

Steed,  Thomas 371 

Stevenson,    George  V 373 

Stewart,  Hyrum 412 

Stauffer,  Dr.  Fred 414 

Snow,  Frank   R 468 

Smith,    William 473 

Scott,  George   M 476 

Stonebraker,  John  P 491 

Swaner.  William  G 491 

Sargent   Bishop  Wm 495 

Scott,  Walter 501 

Shulsen,     Andrew 509 

Smith,  John  J 510 

Stoker,  Bishop   David 517 

Streeper,  William  H 519 

Sheffield,  Heber  J 526 

Strasburg,  Louis 540 

Scanlan,  Bishop  L 569 

Shields,  Robert  M 581 

Sheets,  George  A 595 

Sherman,  W.    A 603 

Stephens,  Prof.   Evan 606 

Stewart,  Judge  Samuel  W 619 

Solomon,  Bishop  Alfred 625 

Simper  Daniel 635 

Schumacher,  T.  M 638 

Sperry,    Bishop  Harrison 642 

Spencer,  Daniel 646 


INDEX 


Thomas,  Hon.  Arthur  L 23 

Tibbals,  WillUm    H 71 

Thorup,  John  T 162 

Tanner,  Judge  H.  S 197 

Thompson,  J.  Walcott 204 

Tonks,   William 213 

Thomas,  Hon  J.  J 236 

Tanner,  Stewart  T 247 

Tollerton,  W  J 264 

Taylor,  Joseph  E _ 285 

Turner,   Charles 325 

Tufts,  Don  C 340 

Timmins,  William  G 350 

Taylor,  John 374 

Taylor,George  H 413 

Thompson,  Hon.  Ezra 453 

Thurston,    John 496 

Tate,  John   W 578 

Thorn,  Bishop  Wm 600 

U 


Ore,    Robert 420 


Vernon,  ] nu  -s.. 


..250 


W 

Wells,  Governor  Heher  M 11 

Winder,  Pres.  John  R 17 

Walker,  Matthew  H 35 

Wells,  Pres.  Daniel  H 51 

Wood,  J.D 79 

Wilkes,  Major  Edmund 89 

Wallace,  George  Y 104 

Whittemore,   Hon.  C   0 110 

Winder,  John  R.,  Jr 122 

Welch,  Thomas   R.  G 167 

Woodruff,  Pres.  Wilford 187 

Woodruff,  Mrs.  Emma  S 190 

Wight,  L.  B 216 

White,    Edward 221 

Weiler,    Elijah  M 229 

Woodruff,  Asahel  H 232 

Wright,  Joseph  A 233 

Wilkins,  Oscar 241 

Wright,  F.  H 255 

Wilson.  C.  M.,  M.D 259 

Walker,  Stephen 271 

Woodruff,    Apostle  A.  O 273 

Wells,  Pres.  Rulon  S 277 

Williams,  Wra.   N 279 

West,  Bishop  Jabez  W 288 

Welsh,  Henry 307 

Warburton,    Bisliop  Jcs .344 

Webster,  George 351 

Wood,  John 358 

Wells,  Mrs.  Emmeline  U .377 


Wimmer,  Thomas  G .' 382 

Webb,   Edmund 391 

Wrathall,  James  L 422 

Wooton,   Charles  R 428 

Wheelfr,  Henry  J 428 

Wood,  John 446 

Waddoups,   Thomas 447 

Williams,  Daniel 449 

Worthington.  James  M 458 

Wells.  Melvin    D 469 

Wanless,  Will  F 480 

Williams,E.  H.; 487 

Waldron,  G.  W 498 

Webb,  Edward 507 

Williams,  Joseph 554 

Welby,  A.  E 584 

Whitehouse,  Franklin 588 


Young,  Pres  Brigham 1.30 

Young,  Apostle  Brigham 133 

Young,     Joseph 141 

Young,  Major  Richard  W 202 

Young,  Robert 2.0 

z 

Zane,  Hon.    Charles  S 55 

Zion  Co-op.    Merc.  Inst 652 


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